Art of the Australian Aboriginal (signed copy)

A$200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed · Limited edition

With a foreword by A. P. Elkin. Melbourne : The Bread and Cheese Club, 1943. Quarto, lettered wrappers, illustrated dustjacket (chipped, with loss to upper portion of upper and lower panels, printed title label applied to spine), related news clippings pasted on to dedication leaf, pp. 94, illustrated, internally clean, a very good copy, SIGNED by both the authors Robert Croll and Charles Barrett on the endpaper. The book is dedicated to Albert Namatjira and reproduces a number of his paintings. An early survey of indigenous Australian art. Scarce in the jacket signed by the authors.

• Binding: Hardcover

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