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There are 37 books in this catalogue.
Alone On The Soaks: The Life & Times Of Alec Kruger
Kruger, Alec & Gerard Waterford
Book Number: 68133
ISBN: 9781864650785
Publisher: IAD Press, Alice Springs 2007.
8vo. softcover. 342pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $15.00


Desert Art - Desart the Aboriginal art and craft centres of Central Australia
Nugent, Mary-Lou
Book Number: 68011
ISBN: 1864650044
Publisher: Jukurrpa Books 1998
4to. Softcover. 80pp. colour illus. Very good. Foreword by Inawinytji Williamson and Gatjil Djerrkura. Contents includes, What are Aboriginal art and craft centres?, Ali Curung Women's Centre, Anyinginyi Congress Arts and Cultural Gallery, Enrabella Arts Inc., Hermannsburg Potters, Ikuntji Women''s Centre, Iwantja Arts and Crafts, Jukurrpa Artists Corporation, Julalikari Council, Kaltjiti Arts and Crafts, Keringke Arts, Maruku Arts and Crafts, Papunya Tula Artists, Titjikala Women's Centre, Warburton Arts Project, Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association, Wrumpi Arts, Yurrampi Crafts, Contact List. Map Showing Location of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres.
Price: $18.00


Certain Stone Implements of the Scraper Family Found Along the Coast of New South Wales. A Brief Enquiry Concerning the So-called "chipped Back Knife"
Towle, C. C.
Book Number: 67761
ISBN: 
Publisher: Privately Printed 1930.
8vo. stapled wraps. 16pp. + 7 b/w plates. Very good, crease on top corner. Linnean Society stamps on cover.
Price: $25.00


The Stolen Children their stories
Bird, Carmel Edited by
Book Number: 47313
ISBN: 
Publisher: Random House 1998
8vo. Paperback. 188pp. Good+. Including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.
Price: $8.00


The White Men: The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man
Blackburn, Julia
Book Number: 67537
ISBN: 085613399x
Publisher: Orbis, London 1979
Large 8vo hardcover 192pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good, light foxing. / very good d/w with
Price: $12.00


Old Man's Story. The last thoughts of Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie
Neidjie, Bill as told to Mark Lang
Book Number: 66997
ISBN: 9781922059949
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2015
8vo. softcover. 200pp. colour illus. Near Fine.
Price: $20.00


The Land That Waited
Harris, Max & Forbes, Alison
Book Number: 66263
ISBN: 0701804416
Publisher: Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 1971
Oblong 4to. hardcover. 114 b/w illus. + list of illustrations by David Thomas. Very good, some foxing to endpapers & edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Letters of T S Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925
Eliot, T. S. edited by Valerie Eliot & Hugh Haughton
Book Number: 65839
ISBN: 9780571140817
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London, 2009.
8vo. hardcover. 878pp. index. Very good. Good d/w rubbed on rear panel.
Price: $15.00


The Devil of the Vault: A life of Guy Fawkes
Simons, Eric N.
Book Number: 65752
ISBN: 
Publisher: Frederick Muller, London, 1963.
8vo. hardcover. 255pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, some light foxing. / Good d/w with tear and rubbing on top edge.
Price: $12.00


The New Yorker Book of The 40s. The Story of a Decade
Finder, Henry & Harvey, Giles (editors)
Book Number: 65747
ISBN: 9780434022410
Publisher: Heinemann, London 2014.
8vo. hardcover. 696pp. Very good, light foxing. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture
Gascoigne, John
Book Number: 65734
ISBN: 9780521450775
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1995.
8vo. hardcover. 324pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $30.00


Endless Path: Dreamtime
Storm, Rachel
Book Number: 65232
ISBN: 9781844519743
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, London, 2007.
Square 8vo. softcover. 380pp. colour illus. Very good+.
Price: $20.00


Three Faces Of Love: Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry
Berndt, Ronald
Book Number: 65207
ISBN: 0170051080
Publisher: Nelson, Melbourne 1976.
Oblong 8vo. hardcover. 130pp. colour illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $20.00


Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice
Beresford, Quentin
Book Number: 64820
ISBN: 0855755024
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006.
8vo. softcover. 374pp. index, b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $18.00


A People's History of Portland and District: Section Two: William Dutton and the Sealing and Whaling Industries
Wiltshire J. G.
Book Number: 64798
ISBN: 
Publisher: E. Davis & Sons Portland 1976.
8vo. stapled wraps. 52pp. Very good, small bump to top corner.
Price: $25.00


Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present.
Hinkson, Melind
Book Number: 64740
ISBN: 0855753706
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra 2001.
8vo. softcover. 174pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine.
Price: $25.00


Legend & Dreaming: Legends of the Dream-Time of the Australian Aborigines, by men of (four) tribes of Arnhem Land.
Robinson, Roland. (As told to).
Book Number: 64639
ISBN: 
Publisher: Edwards & Shaw, Sydney, 1967.
Oblong 8vo. hardcover. 68pp. b/w illus. Very good, page edges toned. / Good d/w with small tear and crease on rear panel(repaired).
Price: $15.00


The Observation of Savage Peoples
Degerando, Joseph-Marie; Moore, F.C.T.
Book Number: 64131
ISBN: 
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1969.
8vo. hardcover. 123pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine. / Very good+ clipped d/w.
Price: $18.00


Shadows of Utopia
Jurgensen, Manfred; paintings by Cynthia Breusch.
Book Number: 63752
ISBN: 0908140851
Publisher: Rockhampton. University of Central Q. Press. 1994 1st ed.
4to. hardcover. 140pp. + colour plates. fine. / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Politics of Prejudice
Stevens, Frank
Book Number: 62707
ISBN: 0909188416
Publisher: Alternative Publishing, Australia, 1980.
8vo. softcover. 182pp. index, b/w illus. Good, stain on edge of first few pages.
Price: $8.00


Aboriginal Words of Australia
Papps, E. H. Illustrated by
Book Number: 62711
ISBN: 0140243224
Publisher: Penguin, Australia, 1995.
8vo. softcover. 144pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, small stamp on fep.
Price: $8.00


Ju-Ju and Justice in Nigeria
Hives, Frank - Gascoigne Lumley
Book Number: 52734
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Bodley Head, (1930). 1st ed.
photos, map, index, xi, 254p. plus (6)p. adverts. Red cloth. Faded dj. 22cm. Minor foxing.18 illustrations, po name and stamp on a couple of pages, includes a list on fep of other reading.
Price: $30.00


Aboriginal Art in Australia
Edwards, Robert - Edited by
Book Number: 58025
ISBN: 072540406x
Publisher: Ure Smith 1978
4to. Hardcover ind/w. Very good. Illustrated in colour and b&w. Contents includes Creativity in the Aboriginal Past, Australian Aboriginal Material Culture, Aboriginal Art as Art, Art of Arnhem Land, Art of the Western Desert, Tiwi Designs, Deterioration and Preservation of Rock Art, The Aboriginal Arts Board, Aboriginal Copyright. Index.
Price: $16.00


Above Capricorn: Aboriginal biographies from Northern Australia
Davis, Stephen
Book Number: 32400
ISBN: 0207180008
Publisher: Sydney, NSW Angus & Robertson 1994
Small 4to hardcover 113pp colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


Aliens in Their Land: The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story
Rorabacher, Louise E. (ed.)
Book Number: 36927
ISBN: 
Publisher: Chesire 1968
8vo. hardcover. 242pp. very good, owner's inscription on fep. /very good d/w.
Price: $8.00


Aligator Rivers Study a Review Report of the Alligator Rivers Region Environmental Fact Finding Study
Christian, C. S. and Aldrick, J. M.
Book Number: 59179
ISBN: 0642017689
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1977.
Large 8vo. softcover. 174pp. colour & b/w illus. fold-out colour map. Very good.
Price: $20.00


Content To Lie in the Sun.
Harney, W.E.
Book Number: 58506
ISBN: 
Publisher: Robert Hale Limited, London, 1958.
8vo. hardcover. 208pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


All About Boomerangs
Hawes, Lorin and Mary Hawes
Book Number: 57509
ISBN: 0600073777
Publisher: Paul Hamlyn 1975
4to. Hardcover in d/w. 72pp. Near fine, small tear to top of d/w near spine. Signed by Larin Hawes, inscribed to Olivia. Small taped in letter by Hawes to Miss Newton-John, introducing himself and his boomerangs to her. Contents includes Facts and Fallacies, Boomerangs and Related Throwing Sticks in History, What a Boomerang is and why it comes back, How to throw a Boomerang, Boomerang Safety, Advanced Techniques, Records and Performances, Boomerang Construction, A Potpourri of Various Designs. Index.
Price: $15.00


The Call of the Didjeridu
FranCo (Francis Collie
Book Number: 57501
ISBN: 9782953949216
Publisher: Self Published by Author 2011
8vo. Softcover. The DIDJERIDU… Didjeriwhat ? Where does it come from ? The Aborigines… who are they ? That's not a musical instrument… is it ? How does it work ? Where can I put my hands on one ? Is it possible to craft it myself ? How do you breath in and out at the same time ? And how do you produce all these strange noises simultaneously ? Didier heard the Call of the Didjeridu. Along with his cunning dog Ridoo, he will find the answers to all those questions through his different encounters.
Price: $10.00


The Survival Dreaming (Enduring Values from Australia's Aboriginal Culture.) [UNABRIDGED]
McCloy, Peter
Book Number: 37558
ISBN: 0646235745
Publisher: Australian Print Group 1995
8vo softcover 146pp very good. Signed by author.
Price: $10.00



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