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Alice Springs: Nganampa Health Council, 1993. In the past we were happy and free from sickness; and in the future we will become strong and healthy again. viii, 88pp, catalogue, col ills, map. Black cloth in jacket. Text in both English and Pitjantjatjara. An Anangu concept of health. The paintings reflect the desert landscape, and define the complexities of modern… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Rigby, 1976. Unpaginated (approx 30pp), col ills. Pictorial glossy boards. Light rubbing to board edges. Australian Aboriginal artists - particularly the Namitjiras but also several others- with their works shown in full colour.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. Small 4to.

Alice Springs: Jukurrpa Books, 2001. xvi, 88pp, bibliography, appendices, glossary, num col ills. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover, bottom front corner creased. Aboriginal textiles from Ernabella in South Australia to the Tiwi Islands of the top end including a broad sweep of styles encompassing handpainted silks and subtle batiks.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Broken Hill.: Pro Hart art Sales, 2014. 212pp, index, bibliography, appendices, num bw & col ills, pictorial endpapers. Pictorial boards with black cloth spine. As new.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Sydney: Macmillan Australia, 1990. ix, 102pp, index, bibliography, chronology, bw ills, colour plates. Blue cloth in jacket. Some quite heavy foxing on first/last few pages, gift note on front free endpaper. The first major collection of Namatjira's paintings to be published.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong 4to.

Melbourne: Macmillan, 2013. HEAVY. 240pp, endnotes, num bw & col ills. Pictorial boards in jacket. Bumped at bottom corner, lightedge wear to jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1967. Blue cloth with bw pictorial jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, slight offsetting from front flap to front free endpaper, price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

Sydney: Harper Collins Publishers., 2009. HEAVY. 432pp, index, endnotes, chronology, discography, hundreds col ills. Or pictorial boards with jacket that expands to a poster. 'Autographed First Edition" sticker to front otherwise as new. SIGNED by Reg Mombassa on title page. Christopher O'Doherty, aka Reg Mombasa, enters the Australian consciousness as a member of the iconic band Mental… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Rigby, 1974. Unpaginated (approx 60pp), bw ills (full page), pictorial endpapers. Black boards titled in silver, with clear plastic jacket. Jacket a little rubbed. Foxing to endpapers, prelims, edges and margins. SIGNED edition limited to 1000 copies of which this #306. Emanuel's drawings of the historic Rocks area of Sydney.. Signed & Numbered By Artist.. Signed Limited Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1920. 33pp text; 58 tipped in col plates, col frontis portrait. Blue cloth in jacket with laid on col illustration. Jacket in 2 pieces with much of the spine missing, and generally worn. Offset toning to endpapers, some surface silverfishing to cloth. All plates present and in nice condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Poor. 4to.… Read more about this item

Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994. 52pp. Black and white card with black cloth tape spine. A little foxing to cover, brief gift note on title page. Australian colonial artist Conrad Martens' diary of his voyage to Australia in the second quarter of the 19th century.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Honiara, Solomon Islands.: H.C.C. Ltd., 1982. 30pp, map, bw ills. Cream & brown pictorial card. Very slight edge wear to cover. Solomon Islands art and artifacts including carved wood, turtleshell and clamshell; woven baskets, tapa cloth; fishing tools and more. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1971. 52pp, 7 tipped in col plates. Full brown leather, titled in gilt and with gilt-blocked Blackman design to front. Presented in yellow & black slipcase. Minor foxing to top edge. Deluxe edition limited to 100 copies of which this #11. SIGNED by both Alvarez and Blackman on the limitation page.. Signed by Author… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Sue Heysen, 1991. 86pp, bw & 10 col ills. Pictorial boards. Minor foxing to top edge. SIGNED by author on title page. A collection of charming and unusual stories told to the author by David Heysen, oldest son of Hans Heysen. The Cedars was the family home situated near Hahndorf, South Australia. Contents in three parts- early days of… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1974. HEAVY. 168pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills, pictorial endpapers. Black cloth in jacket. Several short tears to jacket, jacket chipped at top spine, light foxing to page edges, brief gift note on front free endpaper. How Europeans saw indigenous Australian from 1770 to 1970 and how this was set down in pencil, ink or paint.. First… Read more about this item

Sydney: Craftsman House, 1991. HEAVY. x, 228pp, index, exhibition list, bibliography,134 col ills, 62 bw ills, notes. Or pictorial card. Faded on spine, foxing to edges and prelims, occasional pencil notes/lines, a few pages turned/creased at top, a couple of pages unopened/uncut. Comprehensive monograph on Australian artist, John Olsen.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Folio.

Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1974. HEAVY-will require additional postage to most destinations. 196ppindex, bibliography, footnotes, 94 tipped in col plates. Burgundy cloth in pictorial card slipcase. Slipcase with minor wear and a little wrinkling of laminate. Some foxing to book. Includes Louis Abrahams, Julian Ashton, Rupert Bunny, Charles Conder, Wmanuel Phillips Fox, Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Arthur Streeton, and Walter… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 162pp, index, list of works cited, bibliography, notes, num bw & some col ills, map. Cloth boards in jacket. Ex-library with expected stamps, bar codes, labels etc (inc Cancelled stamp).Boards edges rubbed. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to. Ex-Library.

Melbourne: Brolly Books, 2016. 44pp, references, map, col ills (many full page), pictorial endpapers. Pictorial glossy boards. An introduction to the life and work of late 19th/early 20th century Australian artist Ellis Rowan. Her mission was to record the exotic beauty of the native plants, flowers and birds she saw around her. Best known for her flower paintings this book… Read more about this item

Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2003. 64pp, bibliography, col & bw ills. Pictorial card with integral flaps. Near new. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name. Barak, Ngurungaeta (headman) of the Wurundjeri and Tooterrie people was a sophisticated artist leaving an indelible record of his culture in a corpus of some 50 surviving drawings.. First Edition. Soft… Read more about this item