Grant's Bookshop

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    Antiquarian Art Australiana Ephemera Literature Literature: Australian

Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshop

Established 1917

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Highlights

Aboriginal Women, Sacred and Profane
$750
KABERRY, Phyllis. Aboriginal Woman, Sacred and Profane. With an Introduction by Professor A.P. Elkin. A study of the Aboriginal women of Australia. London, Routledge, 1939. 8vo. xxxii+294. B/w frontispiece and illustrations, map and bibliography. Original bright cloth in dustwrapper (some slight repairs) but an impressively fresh, near fine copy. First edition. The first major anthropological study of Aboriginal women.
Songs of Central Australia
$6550
STREHLOW, T.G.H. Songs of Central Australia. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1971. 4to, liv+776 pp. Colour frontispiece, musical notations, large folding colour map in rear pocket. Original boards in dustwrapper (minimally rubbed at head of backstrip). A near fine copy. One of only 500 copies printed, "The Author has set out on a task never before attempted...the analysis of Aboriginal songs as a fully-developed oral literature".
The Last of the Tasmanians
$1400
3. BONWICK, JAMES. The Last of the Tasmanians; Or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land. With numerous illustrations and colour engraving. London, Sampson Low, 1870. 8vo; pp. viii, 400 + 16 (book catalogue); colour frontispiece, 2 other f/p. colour plates, 15 b/w. f/p. plates, a folding map of Tasmania; original green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt. Some light foxing to prelims, (including to the tissue-guard to the frontispiece), an otherwise excellent bright copy. First edition of one of Bonwick's most important works.