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-pictorial cloth a little marked, bumped and rubbed; endpapers discoloured (as often); edges a little foxed, with scattered foxing throughout; a very good 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: pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), with his small ownership label on the front free endpaper (and the contemporary ink signature of an earlier owner, J. Kenneth Clark).
Item #140488
Price (AUD):
$650.00