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| Noonuccal, Oodgeroo: Australian Legends and Landscapes
Book Number: 519
Bow Books 1980 A wonderfully exciting selection of Aboriginal legends by the highly acclaimed writer Oodgeroo Noonuccal with photographs by Reg Morrison.Fine in d/w. 4to. 207 pp. Bow Books 1980.
Keywords: Australian aboriginal history legends outback
Price: $35.00 |
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| A. J. Marshall: The Black Musketeers - The Work and Adventure of a Scientist on a South Sea Island at War and in Peace.
Book Number: 651
Great Britain 1937 Excellent copy with no d/w. Illustrated with b&w photo's.
Keywords: New Hebrides, Jungle, natives, warrior, village, tidal wave, pidgin, savage, primative,
Price: $50.00 |
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| LOOBY, K. AND D. CAMPBELL.: The History of Australia.
Book Number: 1075
1976 (Sydney) 1976 Drawings by K. Looby. Songs and Poems by D. Campbell. . Roy.8vo. Oblong. Or.illust.wrapper. (chipped). Unpaginated. With frontisp., and 50 full-page b/w illusts. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. 1st ed.
Keywords: An artists look at Aboriginal history and myths up to the coming of the British to Australia
Price: $30.00 |
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| ROUGHSEY, Dick: MOON AND RAINBOW The Autobiography of an Aboriginal
Book Number: 1242
Sydney. Reed. 1971. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Illustrated. Excellent copy in same d/w. first.
Keywords: Autobiography of Aboriginal artist from Mornington Island
Price: $40.00 |
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| SIMPSON, Colin.: ADAM IN OCHRE. Inside Aboriginal Australia.
Book Number: 1981
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1951. First Edition; e/p illusts., 24 b/w photos, 5 col. photos, text line drawings, map; cloth, d/w shelf worn, unclipped; very good condition. The first book to report upon the fascinating searches and discoveries of Arnhem Land
Keywords: Expedition organised by the National Geographic Society of America and the Commonwealth Government of Australia, including Kakadu and Melville Island.
Price: $35.00 |
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| ASTLEY, THEA.: A Kindness Cup.
Book Number: 2133
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson Australia, 1974. 1st edn. 8vo. Good copy in torn d/w. "Murderous brutality unpunished, so long ago; a pilgrimage to seek retribution, twenty years too late." This novel recalls a tragic incident, the death of an Aboriginal girl, Kowaha, who hurled herself with her baby in her arms from the scarp of rock known as 'The Leap'.
Keywords: Literature and Poetry Australiana Australia
Price: $15.00 |
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| Ryan, J./G. Bardon, essay.: MYTHSCAPES - Aboriginal Art of the Desert
Book Number: 2586
National Gallery Victoria. 1989 59 colour plts most full-page with captions incl.fold-out ills lge 4to gatefold card soft mint. Important and valuable work. Scarce
Keywords: TRIBAL ABORIGINAL
Price: $60.00 |
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| BRODSKY, Isadore.: Bennelong Profile. Dreamtime Reveries of a Native of Sydney Cove.
Book Number: 2595
University Co-Operative Bookshop, 1973. Embossed dec. cover with gilt in protective dj. B/W plates. Signed by the author & numbered 150. Examines the life of Bennelong, an Aboriginal, & the founding of the British colony at Port Jackson in Sydney Cove in 1788. Rough cut pages
Keywords: 18th eighteenth century history historical australia colony aborigine aboriginal bennelong new south wales colonial sydney
Price: $55.00 |
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| Isadore Brodsky: Bennelong Profile. Dreamtime Reveries of a Native of Sydney Cove.
Book Number: 2596
University Co-Operative Bookshop, 1973. Embossed dec. cover with gilt in protective dj. B/W plates. Signed by the author & numbered 1182. Examines the life of Bennelong, an Aboriginal, & the founding of the British colony at Port Jackson in Sydney Cove in 1788. Rough cut pages.
Keywords: 18th eighteenth century history historical australia colony aborigine aboriginal bennelong new south wales colonial sydney
Price: $45.00 |
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| McCARTHY, Frederick D: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL DECORATIVE ART
Book Number: 2989
Trustees of the Australian Museum. Sydney. 1966 7th ed. 4to. Or.illust.wrappers. 60pp. Col. & b/w illusts.
Keywords: tribal art, clan art, weapons, sculpture, ritual,
Price: $20.00 |
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