Daisy Bates by Salter, Elizabeth - 1972

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 580 g.; XX, 268 pages, last two pages blank, intentionally, acknowledgements, introduction by author, select bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with a double page map of Australia at the beginning of the text and two inserts of eight pages each of contemporary black and white photographs. Pale orange coloured boards with ochre coloured illustration to the front panel and ochre colour titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and black titles to the front panel and yellowing white titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of Daisy Bates to 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. Loosely inserted into to the book are 2 newspaper clippings. The dust jacket has a couple of thumb nail tears in the left-hand gutter of the front panel, slight loss of colour to the spine section, and a tear of about 1 inch to the bottom of the front fold over crease. Internally clean, no annotations, no damage to describe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Aboriginal; Australia; Sociology & Culture. Inventory No: 0282075. .