Fraser, John Foster: Quaint Subjects of the King , London: Cassell and Company, 1909

Hardback, first edition, good tight condition, no dust-jacket, publisher's original blue clothboards with red blocking to front and (faded) spine - b/w photo to front, 304 pages including index plus 4 pages Cassells Colonial Library, 68 full page plates from photographs including tissue guarded frontis, some light foxing throughout otherwise clean and tight, small sticker 'Gilmour's Bookshop an Antiques, Sydney' to front paste-down, small neat ink gift dedication dated 1924 to ffep. Contents: 1) The Kachins and Chins of Upper Burma; 2) Men of the Mangrove Swamps; 3) Desert Tribes of Australia; 4) The Trade of Thief; 5) Savage Doctoring; 6) Some People of Malay; 7) A Warrior Nation; 8) Dancing Girls; 9)The Lone Lands of the North; 10) Man-Eaters of New Guinea; 11) Many Ways of getting a Breakfast; 12) The Queensland 'Blackfellow'; 13) The Land of Women's Rights; 14) Juju and Fetich; 15) The Toga Dairy Worshippers of Southern India; 16) Savage Children; 17) Head Hunters at Home; 18) Some (Book ref. 2076)  £28.00

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