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GRIBBLE, E.R.B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer), Reverend, 1868-1957
The problem of the Australian Aboriginal
$400.00 AUD
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1932. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, printed dustjacket (spine browned, edges chipped with short tears), pp xi, 157, xviii publisher’s advertisements, illustrated with 4 black-and-white photographic plates (including frontispiece portrait of Indigenous clergyman James Noble); light foxing to first and last few leaves and edges; else a very good first edition copy, scarce in the dust jacket.
Gribble was a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. This volume is based on his experiences as an Anglican missionary in the Gascoyne River and East Kimberley regions of Western Australia, and in southwestern and Far North Queensland.