SPENCER, Baldwin and F J & Gillen. The Native Tribes of Central Australia. London: Macmillan, 1899 1st edition. Original cloth rebacked with the original spine laid down. Complete with Black and white illustrations and 2 large fold out maps and four fold out colour plates. Minimal foxing. Pasted on the front endpaper is a bookplate of Alexander Patience. Tipped in is a handwritten letter from J G Frazer (Of Golden Borough fame). In this letter he suggests that the Aboriginal race will be extinct. Perhaps the most important Australian Aboriginal anthropological work ever written. It was published in a very dark age to race relationships.