The Native Tribes of Western Australia edited by Isobel White from the library of Frank Thompson

Daisy Bates’ study of the traditions of the Southwestern Aborigines; Bates compiled a large and chaotic manuscript based on her time spent as a pioneering field anthropologist, learning from the last full-descent survivors of tribes such as the Bibbulmun; she lodged her papers with the National Library in 1941; here Isobel White has heavily edited the notes into a publishable manuscript; includes a lengthy introduction, with a short biography of Bates; b&w plate illustrations, illustrated endpapers; from the library of Frank Thompson, signed by Thompson; Frank Thompson is a legendary figure in Australian publishing, for his career at the University of Queensland Press, which he transformed from an academic press to a publisher of poetry and literature, publishing first poetry collections of David Malouf and Michael Dransfield, amongst others; Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly sunned to spine, o.w. Very Good.