DEVANEY, James

The Vanished Tribes (and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks) [WITH Scarce Dust Jacket]

Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1929. R. Wenban. Second Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. 246. Frontis. painting. Illustrated with black & white halftone Wenban painting reproductions. Blue-green cloth, titles stamped in dark blue on the spine and in borders on the cover: light foxing to edges, endpapers age toned, ffep penciled former owner name and address in Hawksburn [Victoria, Australia] dated 22/6/1931. In the color illustrated dust jacket with publisher's advertising printed recto: spine head moderately chipped, closed tear to rear panel. Very Good / Good. Item #6678

From the jacket blurb: "This book definitively puts the aboriginal into Australian literature. In arresting tale after tale we see the aboriginal before the coming of the whites - as he lived and loved and fought and died." Scarce dust jacket now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Price: $100.00