Desert People a Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia by Meggitt M J (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xix / 348 pp bw photos and maps, brown close gilt titles. Appears to be rebound with old spine laid over new, new cloth clean and sound, spine faded, EX Library usual marks, general reading wear to pages, dust wrapper worn with edge wear and tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. pp.xx+348. 21.5cm. 16 black and white photographic illustrations. Location map. Tables. Bibliography. Index. hard cover in worn and repaired dust jacket. 'Nolan' in ink on front end paper (thought to be the artist Sidney Nolan). A good copy.

22.0 x 14.0cms 348pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This book deals with Walpiris' history contacts with the invaders internal groupings and economic political and religious significance. It covers their family & kinship systems; sexual & educational practices; social & cultural institutions. It exmines their prospects in the light of Canberra's plan to assimilate them into European society.

8vo; pp. xix, 348; 16 b/w. photographs, bibliography, index; original wrappers, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Australian edition: 348 pages. Illustrated, a small bookseller's label, lightly stained lower front edge, small tears on back of dust jacket.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xix, 348pp, index, bibliography, bw ills, diagrams, map. Tan cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed, even toning to page edges. Ethnography of the Walbiri Aboriginal people of Central Australia dealing with the tribe's history, contact with European settlers, relationships with neighbouring tribes, internal groupings and their economic/political/religious significance, family and kinship system, and sexual and educational practices. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reissue. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original brown boards (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced $7.50 (slightly rubbed & nicked); pp. xx, 348, with illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Revised Edition. Heavy, sturdy book, quality peach cloth, bright red lettering on spine, ink owner's name at top of first front end paper, 348 pages including some maps and two glossy photo sections. DJ beneath mylar has tiny nick near bottom front tip, microtear at top back edge, very slight surface wear to top back tip, worn along most of back bookfold edge, light brown spotting to top of inside back flap, ink name on first front end paper. Near Very Good DJ/Near Very Fine book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition (Unstated). 348 pages; B&W photographs. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Light foxing to the top exterior edge of textblock. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

348 pp including index, b&w photographic plates, fine copy in very good, illustrated d/j. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Endpapers lightly foxed. Jacket rubbed at extremities, a couple of tiny perforations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original brown boards (occ. spotting & offsetting, prev. owner's name to FFE) in dustwrapper priced 52s. 6d. (a little rubbed & frayed, slightly marked); pp. xx, 348, with illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First edition. 348pp, ills. Orig. cloth & worn, ruffed dj.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1974. 8vo. Orig. illust. stiff wrapper a little worn. xiv 338pp. With maps tables b/w plates and diagrams. NOTE: A complete ethnography of an Aboriginal tribe. This study of the Walbiri of Central Australia describes at first hand a way of life that was still in the 1950s largely autonomous.

(Sydney 1962). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In worn dustjacket (xx,348pp.). With 8 full-page plates, 7 text-diagrs., and map. 1st edition. Contents fine.