Savage Life in Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924.
Octavo, xii, 184 pages plus 90 plates (on 41 pages) and a folding map (325 × 275 mm).
Gilt-decorated cloth lightly marked and rubbed, with the spine slightly tanned; edges a little foxed and slightly marked; free endpapers tanned (as often); an excellent copy.
The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours (east of Lake Eyre) ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in aborigines' haunts ... Above all an incalculable debt of gratitude is due to Sir Baldwin Spencer, who not once, but several times, read through and corrected the manuscript' (author's preface). Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton, with his ownership signature (February 1996) in ink on the front free endpaper.
Item #140487
Price (AUD):
$900.00