The Native Tribes of Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938 (facsimile edition with additional material)/ 1899.
Octavo, xxiv, 671 pages with 12 line illustrations of churingas, a map and 130 illustrations (mainly after photographs) plus 2 folding maps, 3 folding charts and 4 folding colour plates.
Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities and slightly bumped at the bottom corners; edges slightly marked; an excellent copy.
A superior early facsimile reprint of Spencer and Gillen's classic first publication, with a four-page preface by Sir James George Frazer new to this edition (and the typo on page 570 has been corrected; the tassel is no longer 'public'). Provenance: the archaeologist Graeme Pretty (1940-2000), with his signature at the foot of the front free endpaper.
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