[Kangaroo Island]. CAWTHORNE, W.A.

The Kangaroo Islanders. A Story of South Australia before Colonization, 1823

Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., [1926].

Small octavo, viii, 122, [2] (advertisements) pages with an illustration and a map.

Flush-cut pictorial cloth; a near-fine copy.

The first edition in book form; written 'about the year 1854 under the title of The Islanders (it) appeared first in serial form in a journal called The Illustrated Adelaide Post' (established in 1867 by the author). A work of fiction but 'Probably the most grimly realistic story written in South Australia in this period' (Depasquale).

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