Economic structure and the ceremonial exchange cycle in Arnhem Land. (With an autograph note signed by Thomson)

Melbourne : Macmillan & Co., 1949. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered burgundy boards (pristine) in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed, front panel with tiny tear at top edge); front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of Australian archaeologist Isabel McBryde, dated 1950; pp. [vi], 106, with numerous b/w photographic plates, and 2 folding maps at rear; a fine copy, with an autograph note signed by Thomson mounted on the verso of the rear free-endpaper, which reads ‘Dear Isobel [sic], Thank you for your letter. I am sorry to have been so slack answering – need glasses and have been waiting months. The book is with my compliments. Donald Thomson’.