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London: Ward Lock, 1966. 168pp., sketched, b/white, art-illustrations throughout by Dora Shakell: frontispiece, title-page and text. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, nominally acidic. Colour-art illustrated [B.S.Biro], loose-plastic protected dustjacket price-clipped and lightly edgeworn. Juvenile adventure fiction, set in remote North West Australia, finds Ross Martin, a young Englishman in transit to live with unknown relatives. The plane carrying his uncle, cousin Harry and himself cras... more information

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Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Rigby Heinemann, 1995. 32pp., intext colour plates throughout. Saddle-stitch staplebound. Booklet clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped. Produced with the upper primary school student in mind, this book shows how the work of Australian Aborigional desert artists, has adapted to an ever-changing world, but still keeps its links with the ancient traditions. Contents in concise chapters. Booklet weight approx. 120g. PLEASE ... more information

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Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia: IAD Press, 1998. vi, + 42pp., revised reprint. B/w locality map, intext sketch illustrations [Julie Jones]. Book clean, square. Staples firm, leaves clean. Art-illustrated [Louise Wellington] card wrapper nominally edgeworn and finger marked, sticker ghost on rear. First published as a resource book with accompanying slides [now unavailable], this booklet examines traditional food categories of the 'Anangu' [Pitjantjatjara] Aboriginal people of Central ... more information

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Mount Molloy, Queensland: Author [Lloyd Nielsen], 1997. 72pp., intext illustrations throughout, mostly in full colour, but several archival halftone plates in b/white. Staplebound. Book clean and tight. Leaves clean. Illustrated [art and photographic] card wrapper undamaged. An 'Aboriginal Culture Heritage Award' sticker affixed [but removable] on front. Self-taught, but never-the-less a leading ornithologist, naturalist, wildlife photographer and artist, Lloyd Nielsen takes us on a breath-taking t... more information

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Templestowe, Victoria, Australia: Red Hen Enterprises, 1992. Unpaginated [32 pages]. Intext, art-illustrated throughout; several in colour, most in b/white: artwork by Andrea Cameron and Denise Corboy. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Art-illustrated boards nominally shelfworn only. Concise, general inscription ('Best Wishes'), signed by author on ffep., otherwise leaves clean. No dustjacket. " 'The Beginning Of The Law' is a story of epic journey by heroic ancestral figures to find... more information

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Cowandilla, South Australia: Pounds Printing and Publishing, 1991. 96pp., story locality map and b/white intext sketch-art [D.L.A.] illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art [superimposed over photograph] card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. The story tells of the mythology of the Australian Aboriginal tribes at the time of the conquest by the white man, including the in-fighting of the nomadic tribes and the slaying of aboriginals by the whiteman...Our heroine is Tuk,... more information

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Melbourne, Australia: Scribe Publications, 1997. xvi, + 288pp., black, line-drawn frontis map. Book clean, slightly canted. Spine firm. Author signature, festival place and date to title page, smallest amount of loss to lower edge of four pages, slight browning to leaves, else very good. Art-illustrated (Montage of portrait of William Buckley by an unknown artist; and 'First Settlers Discover Buckley' -detail- by F. Woodhouse, both c. 1861) card wrapper minimally edgeworn and scuffed. Re-issued wit... more information

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South Fremantle, Western Australia: University of Notre Dame Australia, 1996. 320pp., subject-portrait colour-frontispiece. Intext illustrated sections: Colour and b/white halftone plates, comprising artwork, streetscapes, maps, plans, portraits and more. Book clean and square. Spine firm. A loosely inserted erratum slip inserted betwixt pages 10 and 11, otherwise leaves clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper bumped on foredge corners, and slightly splayed. The majority of biographies of 'women religious&... more information

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: City of Melbourne Indigenous Arts Program, Arts & Culture Branch, 2008. 138pp., illustrated throughout in colour and b/white; photographic, art and facsimile. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves pristine. Art-illustrated self-cover without a conventional title page. Warning: This publication mentions and includes images of some people who are now deceased, whom, tragically, includes the primary author. Highlights the indigenous arts and culture throughout Melbourne'... more information

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Lees Summit, MO, USA: M Co., 1991. 165pp., intext, b/white sketch illustrations throughout by Carri Garrison. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated (as text) limp wrapper has a convoluted, nondescript inscription on front wrap, together with another signature, a promotional sticker affixed to front. Nominal edgewear. An American women experiences life with an Australian Aboriginal tribe during a walkabout in the blazing outback desert. 30 chapters. Book weight approx. 220g. PLEAS... more information

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Ensay, Victoria, Australia: Ngarak Press, 1992. 48pp., intext halftone plate illustrations throughout. Staplebound format. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper has sticker abrading on rear, plus a small area of biopredation on front. An interesting, but concise, examination of a significant number of place names in the area of South Gippsland, Victoria. Contents include: Prelims., Intro., Notes on Aborigines, Eastern, Western, Central, Biblio., Index, more. Booklet weight approx. 90g. PLEASE NOTE: LI... more information

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Text Publishing Company, 1999. 349pp., two-page b/white map, plus unpaginated (eight page) section; colour art, and b/white photographic illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, slight uniform tanning. Art-illustrated ('Part of the Harbour of Port Jackson, and the Country between Sydney and the Blue Mountains', James Taylor, 1823) card wrapper minimally edgeworn only. "Sydney was born as no other city before it: 1500 souls - both convicts and thei... more information

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Australia: Viking, 2000. xi, + 285pp., b/white chapter heading halftone illustrations, plus 8 page, b/white and colour, photographically illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, slightest of browning to textblock head. Art and photographically-illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Aboriginal John Moriarty's "search for his place in the world-a search that has taken him from his 'Saltwater people' on the Gulf of Carpentaria to heading an internationally... more information

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Adelaide, Australia: Omnibus Books, 1988. ix, + 142pp., colour and b/white art illustrations by Maire Smith throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves pristine. Gloss, illustrated boards undamaged. Art-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket nominally edgeworn and bumped only. Works by established poets, as well as young professional poets, and children themselves, combine to make this anthology of more than ninety poems. An impressive group of contemporary Aboriginal poems closes the an... more information

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Cobram, Victoria: [Gedye's Offset Printers]. No publication date [1976]. 135pp. Intext, b/w candid and historic illustrations throughout. Book clean. Staples firm. Slight fingermarks on several pages, else leaves clean. Two-tone, art illustrated [by author] card wrapper mildly sunned on spine, else good. The story of the first 100 years of European settlement of Katamatite, in rural north-central Victoria. Chapters include: Aborigines, Early settlers, Development, Farming [1st 60, last 40 years], Medic... more information

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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1979. xiv, + 288pp., unpaginated [2 x 8 page] archivally-illustrated, b/white halftone plate sections, plus intext sketch-illustrations and line-drawn maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated ('Countryside at Northam' [detail], Dulcie Armstrong) loose-plastic protected dustjacket lightly edgeworn. An interesting local history of Northam, situated 100 kilometres [60 miles] by road east ... more information

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Sydney: Dymocks Book Arcade, 1948. Original green cloth hardcover. 213pp. Book clean. Spine firm, but mildly cocked. Backstrip lightly bumped on head and heel. Leaves clean, albeit slightly acidic. Art-illustrated (Anne Drew) loose-plastic protected dustjacket edgeworn and abraded, lightly soiled, and has a match-head size nip on illustration. An Australian colonial adventure, very loosely based on fact, is the story of two boys who were being transported as convicts to the penal colony at Brisbane. Wrecke... more information

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Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia: Bruce Sims Books, 2002. 198pp., b/white map. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, slight browning to edges. Art-illustrated (Lin Onus) card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Before returning to England to bring back a wife, Captain Caleb Mathews and his crew are based on Sea Elephant Island, with three abducted Bunurong women. His attraction for Belle, one of the Bunurong women, haunts him . . . Contents include: 7 chapters, Acks., Families of the Ocean, Map, Gloss... more information

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Dee Why West, N.S.W., Australia: Lansdowne Press, 1977. 127pp., illustrated throughout: colour and b/white plates. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn only. First published by Lansdowne Press in 1971, this is a representative collection of the work of some of colonial Australia's best artists, and their Aboriginal contemporaries. The names of many of the artists presented will come readily to mind . . . Book weight approx. 410g. PLEASE NOTE: LIS... more information

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Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Ure Smith, 1974. 152pp., unpaginated halftone plates throughout; b/white and colour (which includes several with a slightly misprinted image). Intext map and sketch-art illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain green boards minimally bumped on upper foredge corner. Leaves unmarked. Pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edgeworn and nipped. Two distinct aspects of Aboriginal life form the basis ... more information

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