Legend & Dreaming. Legends of the Dream-time of the Australian Aborigines as related to Roland Robinson by men of Djauan, Rimberunga, Mungarai-ngalarkan and Yungman tribes of Arnhem Land;

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Limited edition

illustrated from paintings of the legendary figures made by the narrators in earth colours and charcoal . Sydney : Edwards Shaw, 1952. First edition. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), publisher s gilt lettered cloth-covered boards (foxed), in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at edges and corners, inner panels foxed); pp. 45, folding frontispiece plate, plus 2 full-page bichrome illustrations and numerous smaller b/w illustrations and photographic plates, map; foreword by Professor A.P. Elkin; a good copy.

• Binding: Hardcover

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