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Pan, 1999. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1968. Octavo, xx, 116 pages with 12 illustrations and 65 pages of plates (7 in colour, one folding). Cloth slightly marked; front free endpaper rubbed (where a pencilled signature has been erased); a few minor signs of use and age; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper slightly rubbed. The outcome of Mountford's '1960 journey into the north-west of central Australia, which included 300 miles of difficult and totally untravelled territory ... the only complete record in Australian literature of an entire aboriginal myth' (dustwrapper blurb). Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976), anthropologist and photographer.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1968. xix, 116pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills (inc one folding). Jacket price clipped with small chip to bottom left front corner. Material gleaned from Mountford's 1960 journey into north-west central Australia. The arduous journey was made because knowledge of the totemic routes, of which the Myth of Jarapiri is only one, was rapidly disappearing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1968. Octavo, xx, 116 pages with 12 illustrations and 65 pages of plates (7 in colour, one folding). Cloth lightly bumped at the corners; last gathering (pages 105-116) creased before binding (a production flaw); an excellent copy with the slightly chipped and torn dustwrapper. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Lady Pauline and Sir | A. Grenfell Price | with much gratitude and | appreciation | fr[om] | Charles P. Mountford'. The outcome of Mountford's '1960 journey into the north-west of central Australia, which included 300 miles of difficult and totally untravelled territory ... the only complete record in Australian literature of an entire aboriginal myth' (dustwrapper blurb). Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976), anthropologist and photographer; Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist.