The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)

Adelaide : F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s purple cloth, upper board with gilt-stamped device depicting Wandjina spirit, spine lettered in gilt (a little sunned), colour frontispiece plate, pp xx, 422, illustrated with 55 photographic plates and line drawings in the text; edges slightly foxed, a very good copy. Loosely enclosed : the original publisher’s printed prospectus of 8 pages, and the upper panel and spine of the dustjacket, both very well preserved.

Explorer, anthropologist and geologist Herbert Basedow’s major survey of the Indigenous cultures of northwest Western Australia and North and Central Australia, incorporating research material and photographs from his own expeditions.

Provenance:

Charles R. J. Glover, his armorial bookplate to front pastedown.