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Independently published, 2021-05-10. Paperback. Used: Good.

Independently published, 2021-05-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: F W Preece and Sons. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Spine sunned. Sporadic foxing. 1929. Second impression. Illustrated hardback board cover with pictorial inset. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xx, 422pp. B/w photographic plates. .

Adel. F.W.Preece & Sons., 1929.. (2nd imp) Or.cl. (a little flecked & worn) 422pp. (a little foxing) Col. front. & b/w plates. Scarce. Greenway 716.

Adelaide; F. W. Preece and Sons; 1925.. First Edition; Thick Demy 8vo; pp. xx, 422; colour frontispiece, 55 pages of b/w. plates, 57 text figures, bound in later maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine, some mild foxing to first few pages, good copy.

London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914. Very Good. London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914. Quarto, pages 195-211 with 2 illustrations plus 17 pages of plates (12 with captioned tissue overlays). Contemporary buckram slightly rubbed, bumped, marked and sunned; mild signs of age and use; an excellent copy. The volume contains another 22 articles, including Daisy M. BATES: A Few Notes on some South-Western Australian Dialects (pages 65-82); R.J.A. BERRY and others: The Craniometry of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (pages 122-126); Elsdon BEST: Ceremonial Performances pertaining to Birth, as performed by the Maori of New Zealand in Past Times (pages 127-162); Reverend W.G. IVENS: Native Stories from Ulawa (Contrariété Island, Solomon Islands) [text in Ulawa and English] (pages 163-194); and W.J. PERRY: The Orientation of the Dead in Indonesia (pages 281-294). Provenance: Dr Ian Keith McGill, Western Australian academic and antiquarian… Read More

F.W. Preece and Sons. Adelaide. 1925 (Ist Edition). 8vo, XXXI, 405pp + index. Hardcover, original cloth, some fading to spine; text in vg cond. A highly regarded and early authorative anthropological reference covering customs, beliefs and legends as well as the impact of white settlement. Col frontis and 146 other illus.