Daisy Bates: ' The Great White Queen of the Never Never' by Salter, Elizabeth - 1971

Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. acknowledgements, introduction by author, selected bibliography and index. Orange coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with 34 black and whites photographs throughout the text. There is a double page map at the beginning of the text, of Australia. Black coloured cloth boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the free front end paper and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Light age toning of the internal text. Black-and-white photographic dustwrapper, of Daisy Bates, with white and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Rubbing to the other dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. There is a triangular crease that encompasses three quarters of the rear dustwrapper panel. The biography of Daisy Bates who was known as the West Australian aborigines as Kabbarli -- grandmother, and who for over 50 years, lived with and fought for a people who were reviled and ignored at that time.  Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XX, 266 pages, . Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australiana; Aboriginal -- Australia; Anthropology ; Australia; Local History -- Western Australia. ISBN: 0207122717. ISBN/EAN: 9780207122712. Inventory No: 0108714. . 9780207122712