The Passing of the Aborigines
BATES, Daisy
With a Foreword by Sir George Murray and an Introduction by Arthur Mee. [Second Australian Edition].
BRIGHT, CLEAN XL COPY
Published: John Murray, [1947]
Stock code: 19983
Price: £30.00
8vo., Second Australian Edition, with frontispiece, 16 plates on 11 and a double map in red on blue stock, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original terracotta cloth, covers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy.
Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small blind stamp on title. Daisy Bates's classic account was first published by Murray in 1938; with the first Australian edition following in 1944. This edition was set up, printed and bound for Murray by the Specialty Press of Melbourne.