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ABORIGINAL ARTS BOARD The. Oenpelli Bark Painting profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. illus. col. title-page, map, & e/papers; pub. Sydney Ure Smith 1979 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.160. Fine. Price: $75.00
ABORIGINES-OUR illus. with several b/w. plates t/out. Some full page pub. and prepared under the authority of the Minister for Territories for use by the National Aborigines' Day Observance Committee and its associates in connection with the celebration of National Aborigines' Day in Aust. 12th July, 1957 or. brn.blk. white pict.wps.12mo. pp.unnumbered (32) fine. added: 12 numbered cards `Assimilation of Our Aborigines.' all fine. Price: $30.00
AMADIO NADINE and RICHARD KIMBER Wildbird Dreaming. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia. illus. with map, frontis. & profusely illus. with plates t/out. 28 full page & col. pub. Melb. Greenhouse Pub. 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144. a very fine copy. Price: $55.00

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ARLALTYEWELE PMERE Dick Leichleitner Japanangka Pam Nathan. Settle Down Country. A Community Report for the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. illus. with 10 full page plates t/out. pub. Vic. Kibble Books 1983 p/b. 8vo. pp.206. slightly water stained otherwise very good copy. Price: $15.00
ART Of The First Australians. Catalogue. An exhibition of Aboriginal Paintings, sculpture and artifacts of the past two-hundred years. profusely illus. with plates t/out. pub. Syd. N.S.W. Australian Exhibit Organization & Aboriginal Arts Board. nd.197-? or.illus.wps. 4to. pp.80. Price: $35.00
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART Bark Paintings, Carved Figures, Sacred and Secular Objects. An Exhibition arranged by the State Art Galleries of Australia. 1960-61. illus. with col. frontis. & 10 full page plates t/out. np. (1961) cr.4to. pp.36, fine copy. Price: $30.00
AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal Culture. An exhibition arranged by the Australian National Committee for Unesco. Re-print cat. of exhibition held in 1953 which traveled overseas. illus. with 23 full page plates t/out. pub. Melbourne 1968 or.illus.wps. 18mo.obl. pp.48 very good copy. Price: $20.00
ABORIGINAL Culture Abroad (Australia) Pty. Ltd The Teaching Stones Of The Outcast Tribe profusely illus. with plates t/out. full page & col. pub. Aboriginal Culture Abroad (Australia) Pty. Ltd WA Wembley 1988 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.160. The teaching stones, despite their simple form, have a deep inner significance which escapes the uninitiated observer. Shows the traditional way of life and religious customs which are observed to this day through the secret teaching. Dustwrapper little faded to spine else v/good copy. Price: $55.00

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BAGLIN DOUGLIS & DAVID R. MOORE People Of The Dreamtime. The Australian Aborigines. with e/paper illus. & profusely illus. with col. & b/w. plates t/out. pub. N.Y. Walkey Weatherhill 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.136. a very good copy. Price: $50.00 Convert Currency

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BAKER D. W. A. - The Civilised Surveyor. Thomas Mitchell and the Australian aborigines. illus. with b/w. illustrations, maps pub. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997. illustrated stiff paper wps. p/b. cr.8vo. pp.XV. 214 Surveyor General of New South Wales: his four voyages of inland exploration 1831-1832, 1835, 1836 and 1845-1846, his contacts and behaviour with aborigines. Very good copy. Price: $35.00
BARAK WILLIAM (Judith Ryan & Carol Cooper Murphy-Wandin) Remembering Barak profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. exhibition checklist, pub. Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, 2003 original stiff wrappers with French flaps 4to. pp.64. William Barak, the Yarra Yarra chief (1820s-1903), was one of the 19th century Aboriginal artists who used the new materials and produced 50 or more works that communicated aspects of his culture for Europeans. This exhibition catalogue, with an extensive introductory essay, 'celebrates the memory of a remarkable Aboriginal leader, a man whose troubled but dignified life bridged two very disparate cultures and whose art has not only survived but strengthened over this past century. As mint copy. Price: $30.00
BARRETT CHARLES & Robert Henderson Croll Art Of The Australian Aboriginal. With a Foreword by A.P. Elkin. illus. with one colour illustration Mount Sonder, Macdonnell Ranges, Central Australia from the painting by Albert Namatjira and thirty two black and white plates (Totems, cave and bark paintings and rock carvings, etc.). pub. Melbourne The Bread and Cheese Club or. stiff textured grey card wrappers. 4to. pp.94 plus 32 plates and a colour frontispiece. Crease to front card wrapper, red pen number to title page, wrappers, sl. rubbed, otherwise clean. Bright and unmarked inside. Price: $200.00
BARRETT CHARLES Blackfellows Of Australia. illus. with plates t/out. some full page pub. Melb. Pictorial Newspapers, A Sun Book or. (portrait of two aborigines to front wrapper) b/w. wps. cr.4to. pp.42. almost fine copy. Price: $45.00 Parcel Costs

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BARRETT CHARLES Piccaninnies profusely illus. with sepie tinted plates t/out. some full page pub. Melbourne Lawrence Kay, Herald and Weekley Times, n.d. c.1945 or. sepia pictorial wrappers 4to. tall pp.48 Includes chapters on "Children of the Mia Mias", 'On the Mission Stations', 'On the Beach', 'Picaninnies at Play', 'Natives at home on the Roper River, Northern Territory', 'Where they Live", 'School's In - at the Hermannsbury Mission', 'Primitive Art and Artists', 'Bush Tucker', 'Blackfellow fairy tales' Almost fine copy. Price: $60.00
BARRETT CHARLES The Bunyip. And other mythical monsters and legends. illus. with 24 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. 1946 or. brown cloth backed red boards cr.4to. square pp.120. Almost exclusively of aboriginal interest, with considerable North Australian content. Boards little faded to edges else good copy. Price: $65.00
BARRETT CHARLES White Blackfellows. The Strange Adventures of Europeans who Lived among Savages. with frontis. & 22 full page plates t/out. text illus. pub. Melb. Hallcraft Pub. 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.262. fine in the torn d/w. Price: $45.00
BARRETT C.L. & A.S. KENYON Australian Aboriginal Art. illus. with plates t/out. pub. Melbourne (Nat. Mus. Victoria). 1950 or. illus. wrappers. 8vo. pp.40 fine. Price: $20.00
BASEDOW H. - Knights of the Boomerang. Episodes from a Life Spent Among the Native Tribes of Australia. illus. with fronts., and 16 full-page plates. pub. Sydney 1935 2^nd ed. or.cl. cr.8vo.pp.240. very good copy, sl. foxing to edges. Price: $115.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
BATTARBEE REX Modern Australian Aboriginal Art. illus. with col. frontis. 20 full page col. plates t/out. & 12 full page b/w. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1951 or. brown cloth roy.4to. pp.VIII.56 text plus 33 plates (including 21 colour reproductions of watercolours). Name blacked out on front free e/paper else fine. Price: $135.00
BATTARBEE REX Text by T.G.H. Strehow. Rex Battarbee. Artist and founder of the Aboriginal Art movement in Central Australia. Text by T.G. H. Strehlow. illus. with col. frontis. many plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Syd. The Legend Press 1956 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.48. Slight water damage to top of rear board else very good. Signed "Rex Battarbee "Mara-Mara" N.T." on half title page. Price: $145.00
BATTARBEE REX Text by T.G.H. Strehow. Rex Battarbee. Artist and founder of the Aboriginal Art movement in Central Australia. Text by T.G. H. Strehlow. illus. with col. frontis. many plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Syd. The Legend Press 1956 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.48. Near fine copy. Price: $125.00
BATES DAISY Passing Of The Aborigines. illus. with frontis. & 11 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Murray 1949 or.brn.cl. 8vo. pp.XVIII.254. Price: $40.00
BATES DAISY Tales Told To Kabbarli. Aboriginal Legends collected by Daisy Bates. Retold by Barbara Ker Wilson. illus. with drawings t/out. by Harold Thomas pub. Sydney Angus and Robertson 1972 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.VI.102. Fine copy. Price: $35.00
BATTY JOYCE D. Namatjira. Wanderer Between Two Worlds. illus. with col. frontis. & 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hodder & Stoughton 1963 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.158. almost fine copy. Price: $150.00
BENJAMIN ROGER Icons Of The Desert. Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & many col. supplement in back pocket; pub. U.S.A. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; or. dec. laminated boards 4to.oblong pp.192. Catalogue of exhibition organised by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University Jan.10^th to April 5 2009. The art of Papunya has a continuity with mark-making, song cycles, and storytelling that precedes the invention of cuneiform writing in the Fertile Crescent or hieroglyphics in Egypt. The men who made these paintings adapted their art to changing conditions, reasserting the oldest continuous culture in the world. As mint copy. Price: $75.00
BERNDT CATHERINE H. Arranged & translated by. Land Of The Rainbow Snake. Aboriginal Children's Stories and Songs from Western Arnhem Land. illus. with dwgs. t/out. Djoki Yunupingu pub. Syd. John Ferguson Aust. Children's Classics or. grey bds. snake medallion adhered to f/bd. dec. spine 8vo. pp.116. Price: $40.00
BERNDT RONALD M. Three Faces Of Love. Traditional Aboriginal song-poetry. illus. with 22 full page col. plates of dwgs. by Aborigines t/out. pub. 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.XIV.130. Price: $35.00
BERNDT R.M. and E.S. PHILLIPS Ed. by. - The Australian Aboriginal Heritage. An introduction through the arts. Profusely illus. with both col. and b/w plates, and maps. pub. Sydney Ure Smith 1973 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.320. Two errata slips tipped-in. fine copy. Price: $125.00
BERNDT R.M. Kunapipi. A Study of an Australian Aboriginal Religious Cult. with e/paper maps & illus. with frontis. & full page plates t/out. 10 text fig. pub. Melb. & N.Y. International Uni. Press 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXXII.224. Sl chipped d/w. else fine. Price: $300.00

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BERNDT RONALD & CATHERINE From Black To White In South Australia. illus. with frontis. & 4 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.314. Price: $135.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
BERNDT RONALD M. - Djanggawul. An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land. illus. with 17 pages of plates (29 illus.), 1 double-page map, glossary, general index; pub. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320. fine copy. Price: $250.00
BERNDT R.M. & C.H. The World Of The First Australians. Aboriginal Traditional Life: Past and Present. illus. with full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1985 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XXIV.608. Price: $90.00
BERNDT RONALD M. Love Songs Of Arnhem Land. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. U.S.A. Uni. of Chicago Press 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.244. Price: $55.00
BERNDT R.M. and C.H. The First Australians. illus. with 44 full page plates t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Ure Smith 1952 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.152. The result of 20 years of fieldwork. Dustwrapper little chipped & closed tear otherwise very good. Price: $30.00
BERNDT R.M. and C.H. The First Australians. illus. with 44 full page plates t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Ure Smith 1974 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.152. New Revised Enlarged ed. The result of 20 years of fieldwork. Fine copy. Price: $35.00
BERNDT R.M. and C.H. Berndt Aboriginal Man In Australia. Essays in Honour of A. P. Elkin. illus. with 50 b/w. photos, plates and 29 pages of Aboriginal music; graphs, tables, bibliography index; pub. Sydney, Angus and Robertson 1965 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.492. Errata slip tipped in. Slight shelf wear else fine. Price: $150.00

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BERNDT RONALD M. & CATHERINE H. BERNDT with JOHN E. STANTON Aboriginal Australian Art. A visual perspective. Profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. 2 maps pub. Melb. Methuen 1988 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.176. Price: $60.00
BESWICK Aboriginal Reserve. Welfare Branch, N.T. Admin. illus. with 2 full page plates & map pub. N.T. (type-written notes) nd.196-? or. lt.blu. blk.ltg. wps. Stapled together 4to. pp.20 single-sided. Price: $25.00
BEVERIDGE PETER The Aborigines Of Victoria & Riverina pub. Melbourne M. L. Hutchinson 1889 1st. ed. or. maroon cl. 12mo. pp.192. Beveridge observed the manner and customs of the tribes that occupied the Lower Murray and Riverina Districts between 1845 and 1868, when they had little contact with Europeans. He lived on Tyntyndyer, near Swan Hill, acquired their languages and employed them on his station during the goldrushes. Little faded gilt lettering to front board, closed tear to cloth lower and top of spine at front board, else very good clean copy. Rare. Price: $1,000.00
BIRCH BRUCE A First Dictionary of Erre Mengerrdji Urningangk Three languages of the Alligator Rivers of North Western Arnhem Land NT. pub. Northern Territory Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corp. 2006 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.126. CD disk under rear flap. Fine. Price: $55.00
BLAINEY GEOFFREY Triumph Of The Nomads. A History of Ancient Australia. illus. with e/paper maps. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1976 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.285. Blainey presents an original and refreshing examination of the Aboriginals' early complex society and it economic structure. Very good copy. Price: $40.00
BLAKE BARRY J. Australian Aboriginal Languages. A General Introduction. published Sydney Angus & Robertson 1981 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.138.a fine copy. Price: $30.00
BOZIC SRETEN in conjunction with ALAN MARSHALL Aboriginal Myths. profusely illus. with full page col. plates t/out. pub. Melb. Gold Star Pub. 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.144. Price: $30.00

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BOYES M. KING Patterns Of Australian Culture. Then and Now. illus. with frontis. & several plates, dgms. t/out. pub. Syd. McGraw Hill 1977 p/b. 8vo. pp.176. Price: $20.00
BREEDEN STANLEY - Uluru. Looking After Uluru-Kata Tjuta - The Anangu Way profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page and col. pub. Sydney. Simon & Schuster. 1994 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.210. Price: $50.00
BREEDEN STANLEY and Belinda Wright. - Kakadu. Looking After The Country - The Gagudju Way. profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page and col. pub. Sydney, Simon & Schuster, 1989 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.208 4to. fine. Price: $40.00
BRODY ANNE MARIE - Kunwinjku Bim. Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the Collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board. . Illustrated in color and b/w. pub. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria 1984 original illustrated wrappers, 4to. pp.80 fine copy. Price: $50.00
BRUNATO MADALEINE Worra And Legends Of The Booandiks. (Juvenilia) illus. with full page col. plates by C. Dudley Wood pub. Adel. Rigby 1977 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. vr.4to. pp.36. Price: $30.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
BURGER ANGELA Neville Bonner. A biography. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.170. Price: $30.00
BUKU-LARRNGAY MULKA Centre Saltwater - Yirrkala Bark Paintings Of Sea Country. National tour. 1999-2000 illus. with plates t/out. mostly full page & col. pub. Sydney Jennifer Isaacs Publishing, 2000 in Association with Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.112. Yirrkala is a key centre in east Arnhem Land for maintaining the tradition of painting on bark. The work of 47 Yolnu artists. Price: $45.00
CALDER J.E. Some Account Of The Wars, Extirpation, Habits, &c., Of The Native Tribes Of Tasmania. pub. Hobart Fullers Pub. First pub. in 1875 this facsimile ed. 1972 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.116,IV. Fine copy. Price: $60.00
CAMPBELL A.H. and L. Cameron, J.A. Keats, M.W. Poulter, B. Poulter The Aborigines and Torres Islanders of Queensland. pub. Brisbane: Western Suburbs Branch United Nations Association: 1958 or. light orange wrappers, 8vo. pp. 64. Fine copy. Price: $35.00
CARUANA WALLY Ed. Windows On The Dreaming. Aboriginal Paintings In The Australian National Gallery. illus. with over 100 colour plates, pub. Sydney Australian National Gallery & Ellsyd Press, 1989 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.184. Aboriginal painters whose work is represented in the collection of the Australian National Gallery in Canberra. Artists include amongst others: Philip Gudthaykudthay, Jimmy Wululu, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Rover Thomas. Galarrwuy Yunupingu writes on the Black White/Conflict. George Milpurrurru writes on bark painting. Luke Taylor writes on the figures of power in West Arnhem Land painting; John Mundine writes on Central Arnhem Land; Howard Morphy writes on North East Arnhem Lamnd; Margaret Brandl writes on Groote Eylandt, the Tiwi and Wadeye. Anthony Forge writes on Desert art; Kim Akerman writes on recent developments in the East Kimberley. Beata Tworek-Matuszkiewicz writes on the techniques and conservation of bark painting. Very fine. Price: $65.00
CATO NANCY Mister Maloga: Daniel Matthews and his mission, Murray River, 1864-1902. illus. with numerous b/w. plates t/out. some full page, Maps, Bibliography Index. maps on endpapers; pub. University of Queensland Press,St Lucia, 1976 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.422. God's Work amongst the Aboriginals in the late 1800s. Fine. Price: $55.00

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CHALOUPKA GEORGE - Journey In Time. The 50, 000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal Rock Art of Arnhem Land. illus. with 276 colour photos many full or double page, pub. Sydney, Reed 1997 or.cl. d/w. folio pp.256, "Most authoritative book ever published on the subject...written & illustrated with permission of Gagudju people, traditional owners of the land" short close tear to top of d/w at spine else fine copy. Price: $150.00
CHASLING WILBUR Yulengor. Nomads Of Arnhem Land. illus. with frontis. frontis. e/paper maps & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. The Epworth Press 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174. Price: $65.00
CLARK IAN Scars In The Landscape. A Register of Massacre Sites in Western victoria 1803-1859: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Report Series. illus. with maps and b/w. photos pub. Canberra Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 1995 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.X.200. Very fine. Price: $40.00
CLARKE MAVIS THORPE Pastor Doug. the Story of an Aboriginal Leader. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melbourne Lansdowne Press 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. inscription front free e/paper otherwise nearly fine. Price: $40.00
CLARK MAVIS THORPE - The Boy From Cumeroogunga The Story of Sir Douglas Nicholls Aboriginal Leader illus. with 11 plates t/out. pub. Sydney. Hodder & Stoughton. 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.180 Biography of Aboriginal who was a champion VFL footballer, pastor and Governor of South Australia. Price: $40.00
COLE KEITH The Aborigines Of Arnhem Land. with e/paper maps & 24 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1979 1st.ed. or. grey cl. white ltg. to spine 8vo. pp.XII.298. Price: $40.00
COOPER H.M. - Australian Aboriginal Words and Their Meanings. pub. Adelaide, South Australian Museum, 1962 or. illus. wrapper roy.8vo. pp.32. Price: $30.00
COUTTS PETER J. F. and D. C. WITTER Eds. A Guide To Recording Archaeological Sites In Victoria. pub. Melbourne. Ministry for Conservation. 1st ed. 1977. or. dark orange card covers, black illus. to front cover, 4to. pp.XII.80 Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey, no. 3. (Special Issue) fine. Price: $45.00
COUTTS P. J. F. Aboriginal Prehistory In North Western Victoria. illus. with plates, maps, diagrams; pub. Melbourne, A Special Publication of the Victorian Archaeological Survey Nov. 1977. or. white card covers, black illus. to front cover, black tape to spine; 4to. pp.38.fine. Price: $30.00
COUTTS P. J. F. and D.F. Witter Ed. by. A Guide to Recording Archaeological Sites In Victoria. illus. with plates, maps, diagrams; pub. Melbourne, Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey, no. 3. (Special Issue) Nov. 1977. or. white card covers, black illus. to front cover, black tape to spine; 4to. pp.80.fine. Price: $45.00
COUTTS P. J. F. & Frank, R. K. & Hughes, P. - Aboriginal Engineers Of The Western District, Victoria illus. with plates, maps, fold out plans; pub. Melbourne, Ministry for Conservation, Melbourne, 1978. Records Of The Victorian Archaeological Survey - Number 7. . or. dark orange card covers, black illus. to front cover, 4to. pp.VI.48. very good copy. Price: $35.00
COUTTS P.J.F. Ed Excavations: D.C. Witter & S. Simmons . The Victoria Archaeological Survey Activities Report 177/78 The Keilor Archeological Project. The Keilor Excavations. First Season 1977/78. Interim Report on the Keilor Excavation May 1978. illus. with maps, fold out plans; pub. Melbourne, Victorian Archaeological Survey, Ministry for Planning and Environment: Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey Number 8 July 1978 . or. dark orange card covers, black illus. to front cover, 4to. pp.VI.68. fine. Price: $40.00
COUTTS P.J.F. Ed. P. Henderson & R.L.K. Fullagar. A Preliminary Investigation Of Aboriginal Mounds In North-Western Victoria. illus. with plates, maps, fold out plans; pub. Melbourne, Victorian Archaeological Survey, Ministry for Planning and Environment: Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey Number 9 August 1979 . or. dark orange card covers, black illus. to front cover, 4to. pp.VI.116. fine. Price: $55.00

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COUTTS P.J.F. Readings In Victorian Prehistory. Volume 2: The Victorian Aboriginals 1800 to 1860. illus. with many plates, reproduced early photos of Victorian aboriginals; diagrams, maps, pub. Melbourne, Victorian Archaeological Survey, Ministry for Conservation, vic. May 1981; or. dark moss green, pictorial card covers, roy.4to. oblong pp.280, printed in double column. Very good condition. Price: $150.00
COUTTS P.J.F. & M. Lorblanchet. With contributions by L. Cochrane, P. Macumber, B. Gott, R.V. Smith, D.C. Witter. Aboriginals And Rock Art In The Grampians, Victoria, Australia. Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey Number 12 May 1982. illus. with plates, diagrams, maps, drawings; pub. pub. Melbourne, Victorian Archaeological Survey, Ministry for Conservation 1982; or. cream orange pictorial card covers, roy.4to. oblong pp.200. Price: $100.00
COUTTS P.J.F. Ed. by. - Coastal Archaeology In South-Eastern Victoria. illus. with 2 full page plates, diagrams, tables, maps, pub. Melbourne, Victorian Archaeological Survey, Ministry for Planning and Environment: Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey Number 14 Feb. 1984. or. dark orange card covers, black illus. to front cover, 4to. pp.XVI.356. fine. Price: $75.00
COWAN JAMES Text Colin Beard Photographs. Sacred Places In Australia. pub. Syd. Simon & Shuster 1991 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.232. Includes Carnarvon Gorge, Central Queensland-Herring Bone Country, Pilbara, Western Australia-Depuch Island, Western Australia-The Bungle Bungles, Western Australia-Katherine, Northern Territory-Goose Camp, Northern Territory-Hasst Bluff, Northern Territory-Tanami Desert, Northern Territory-Uluru, Northern Territory-The Olgas, Northern Territory-Mootwingee, New South Wales. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else fine. Price: $55.00

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COWAN JAMES Balgo Hills. Aboriginal Paintings. Poster Book. illus. with 12 full page poster size plates in col., pub. Syd. Craftsman House 1994 or. stiff card, folio pp.32. Price: $40.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
CRAWFORD I.M. Art Of The Wandjina illus. with frontis. maps, text drawings, b/w. photos col. photos some full page (128), pub. Melbourne Oxford University Press, 1968 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144. Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Kimberley, Western Australia. Fine. Price: $350.00
CRUMLIN ROSEMARY and ANTHONY KNIGHT Aboriginal Art And Spirituality. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Melb. Collins or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.150 Price:$55.00
CURR EDWARD M. The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place Of Landing In Australia, And The Routes By Which It Spread Itself Over That Continent. illus. with tables, Vol.I, frontis. 14 plates, Vol.II 2 plates, (17 plates (litho) in all some of them reproduced from Brough Smyth's The Aborigines of Victoria.). Vol.IV has coloured folding map in pocket at rear, pub. Melbourne. John Ferres. Volumes 1 to 3 rebound in 1/2 leather, glt. raised bands, glt. titled; volume 4 half leather glt to front board; Volumes 1 to 3 are octavo and volume 4 folio 1886-87 Four Volumes pp.425, pp.501, pp.710 & pp.45. The author travelled Australia extensively. Much of the book is in the form of contributions from other writers. Some of these writers are Matthew Flinders, Dom Salvado, Frank Jardine, Edward John Eyre, J F Gillen, R E Warburton, Alfred Howitt, George Taplin, Edward Palmer, W O Hodgkinson, R Christison, William Ridley, William Landsborough, & Daniel Bunce. Contains many examples of words and vocabulary from all parts of the continent. A valuable pioneering work which helped preserve many native words which may otherwise have been lost. Very fine and attractive set, complete. Price: $2,500.00
DARGIN PETER Aboriginal Fisheries Of The Darling-Barwon Rivers Foreword by B.H. Watts. with photos, maps and illus. pub. NSW Brewarrina Historical Society Brewarrina 1976 1st. ed. or. black leatherette oblong 4to. with gilt lettering, & plastic d/w. pp.VI.74. This Numbered First Edition limited to 250 copies, this being No. 225, fully signed by Peter Dargin and Margaret Congleton. Fine. Price: $200.00
DAVIS STEPHEN Above Capricorn: Aboriginal biographies from Northern Australia illus. with full colour photos. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1994 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.114. Ten Aboriginal people tell their stories. Fine copy. Price: $30.00
DAWSON JAMES Australian Aborigines. The Language and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. illus. with 2 photo plates & fold-out document (facsimile of the Batman "treaty"); first pub. 1881 this facsimile edition Canberra 1981 Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, or. dark green cl. stamped gilt illustration of aboriginal with spear on front cover, gilt title, clear acetate d/w. cr.4to. pp.VIII.112,103. Very fine. Price: $250.00
DAY BILL Bunji A Story Of The Gwalwa Daraniki Movement illus. with black & white plates t/out. pub. Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press 1994 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.158. A story of the land rights battle of the Larrakia people for Kulaluk, near Darwin, in the 1970s, as seen through the eyes of Bill Day, founder and editor of Bunji, a local black rights newsletter of the time. Day draws on articles and cartoons from Bunji to illustrate his story and to help him bring to vivid life the characters involved. Price: $30.00
DEAN BETH and VICTOR CARELL Dust For The Dancers. With e/paper maps & 18 full page plates t/out. 4 col. pub. Syd. Ure Smith 1956 or. red cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.214. v/good copy. Price: $50.00
DIXON BOB Searching For Aboriginal Languages. Memoirs of a Field Worker. illus. with e/paper maps col. frontis. & several text plates t/out. pub. Qld. Uni. of Qld. Press 1984 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.334. Price: $45.00
DOCKER E.G. Simply Human Beings illus. with 16 b/w plates, index; illustrated endpapers pub. Brisbane, Jacaranda Press 1964 1st. ed. original grey cloth boards 8vo. pp.260 sl. rubbed to rear board else very good copy. Price: $30.00

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DRYSDALE INGRID & MARY DURACK The End Of Dreaming. illus. with e/paper maps & 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXII.194. Price: $40.00
DUGUID CHARLES The Future Of The Aborigines Of Australia. address by Charles Duguid. illus. with one b/w. photo in text. pub. Adelaide, Presbyterian Church of Australia Nov. 16 1941 original grey stiff stapled wrappers 8vo. pp.20. Last page blank. Pamphlet issued by the Aborigines Department, Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Australia containing the text of an address by Charles Duguid to the National Missionary Council of Australia (South Australian Branch). Duguid, a moderator of the Presbyterian Church, was an enlightened crusader for the Aboriginal cause, the founder of the Ernabella mission where children were taught in their own language, and one of the founders of the FCAA (Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement). Near fine. Price: $45.00
DUTTON GEOFFREY White On Black. The Australian Aborigine Portrayed in Art. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1974 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.168. Price:A$110.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
EDWARDS R. Comparative Study Of Rock Engravings In South And Central Australia. Reprinted, with original page numbers, from " Transactions Of The Royal Society Of South Australia," Vol. 90 (1966) illus. with ; 1 table, 1 map illustration, 2 pages b/w. plates, acknowledgements, references; np. or. cream stiff wrappers. cr.4to; pp.34 to 38. Fine. Price: $20.00
EDWARDS ROBERT Aboriginal Bark Paintings. with e/paper maps & profusely illus. with col. plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1976 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.32. Price:$45.00
EDWARDS ROBERT Aboriginal Bark Canoes. Of the Murray Valley. with illus. e/papers frontis. & plates t/out. some col. pub. Adel. Rigby 1975 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.80. Price: $35.00
EDWARDS ROBERT (Ed.) The Preservation Of Australia's Aboriginal Heritage. Report of National Seminar on Aboriginal Antiquities in Australia, May, 1972. illus. With 22 full page plates t/out. & one map pub. Canberra Aust. Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1975 (Aust. Aboriginal Studies No.54) p/b. roy.8vo. pp.VIII.238. Price: $35.00
EDWARDS ROBERT Ed. by Aboriginal Art In Australia with index, colour and b/w. illus. pub. Sydney; Ure Smith, 1978 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.72. Essays on Aboriginal art, ranging from anthropology to copyright law, some are written by indigenous contributors. Chapter headings are: 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 & preservation of rock art; the Aboriginal Arts Board; Aboriginal copyright. Price: $35.00
EGAN TED Justice All Their Own. The Caledon Bay and Woodah Island Killings 1932-1933. illus. with 63 plates and 5 maps pub. Melbourne University Press 1996 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXVI.244. Inscribed dated 2000 and signed by the author on title page and recipient on free e/paper. Very fine. Account of the murder of 8 White people by Aborigines in Arnhem Land in the 1930s and the subsequent delivery of justice to the Aboriginal community. Price: $95.00
ELLIS ROBERT & Jean A. Ellis. Aboriginal Australia Past and Present. profusely illus. with b/w. plates t/out. some full page, drawings, map, dec. e/papers; pub. Sydney Shakespeare Head Press or. pictorial laminated boards 4to. pp.192. A general overall coverage of traditional and transitional Aboriginal life plus a special section concerning the contemporary situation, previously published as The Aboriginal Australians : an educational series for secondary school students. Fine copy. Price: $25.00
ELLIS CATHERINE Aboriginal Music. Education for living. Use of tribal music for an education medium. illus. with 2 plates, diagrams; pub. Qld. Uni. Of Qld. Press limp 8vo. pp.XIV.236. Price: $30.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
ENDACOTT SYDNEY J. Australian Aboriginal Words and Place Names and Their Meanings pub. Melbourne. Georgian House. 1955 ed. or. stiff wrappers 8vo. tall, pp. 64. 3000 words from aboriginal tongues that may appeal as place names. Price: $25.00

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EVANS NICHOLAS Louise Martin-Chew, Paul Memmott, The Heart Of Everything. The Art and Artists of Mornington & Bentinck Islands. profusely illus. with col. plates t/out. some full page pub. Vic. McCulloch and McCulloch 2008 original illus. wrappers 4to. pp.100. Condition as mint. Price: $45.00
FEW FRANK and BETTY The Stone-Axe Maker illus. with pub. Adelaide Rigby "Alcheringa" Series 1966 1st. ed. or. pictorial boards 4to. pp.48 Photos describe for a juvenile readership the traditional methods used by Aboriginal Australians to make a stone-axe. This the second in the TV series, 'Alcheringa.' Fine. Price: $25.00
FLOOD JOSEPHINE The Riches Of Ancient Australia. A Journey into Prehistory. profusely illus. with plates, maps, diagrams t/out. pub. Qld. Uni. Press 1993 p/b. cr.4to. pp.XX.374. An Indispensable Guide for Exploring Prehistoric Australia Fine. Price: $50.00
FLOOD JOSEPHINE Archaeology Of The Dreamtime. The Story of Prehistoric Australia and Her People. illus. with plates, drawings, diagrams, t/out. 12 col. pates, pub. Syd. Collins 1987 p/b. pp.288. fine. Price: $35.00
FLOOD JOSEPHINE Rock Art Of The Dreamtime. Images of Ancient Australia. illus. with colour and b/w photographs and many drawings, maps, tables, notes, glossary, pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson, 1997 or. card wrappers, (paperback), cr.4to. pp.372. A detailed study of historic Australian Aboriginal rock paintings and drawings. Fine. Price: $45.00

FLYNN FRANK Distant Horizons. Mission Impressions illus. with thirty-five b/w plates and four maps, endpaper maps. pub. Sydney Sacred Heart Monastery 1951 or. maroon cl. 8vo. pp.102. Father Flynn was a missionary in Central & Northern Australia. He describes his journeyings about the top end and centre of Australia between 1942-1946. His travels in the Northern Territory, visiting Aboriginal missions. Inscribed "Best Wishes Frank Flynn M.S.C. 1954" Price: $40.00

GALLAGHER NAN - (Editor) A Story To Tell. The Working Lives of Ten Aboriginal Australians. illus. with plates throughout, some full page pub. Melbourne, C ambridge University Press. 1992 Paperback. 8vo. pp.170 Aborigines from different parts of Australia give an account of their working lives. Presentation copy signed by Nan. Price: $30.00
GARTRELL MARJORIE Dear Primitive. A Nurse among the Aborigines. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.122. Price: $35.00
GILL WALTER Petermann Journey Searching for a forgotten tribe. illus. with16 full-page plates, and end-paper maps. pub. Adelaide Rigby 1968 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.184 An expedition in search of a forgotten tribe of Aborigines. Slight bump to rear board else fine. Price: $55.00
GORDON HARRY The Embarrassing Australian. The story of an Aboriginal Warrior. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Lansdowne 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.172. Price: $25.00
GOULD RICHARD Yiwara. Foragers Of The Australian Desert. with illus. e/papers 28 full page plates t/out. & text dgms. pub. N.Y. Charles Scribner's Sons 1969 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. Price: $65.00
GRASSBY AL and MARJI HILL Six Australian Battlefields. The black resistance to invasion and the white struggle against colonial oppression. A controversial look at Australia's bloody past. illus. with 52 full page b/w. plates, maps t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1988 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.324. Price: $65.00
GREENWAY JOHN Down Among The Wild Men. The Narrative Journal of Fifteen Years Pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert. illus. With several plates t/out. some full page, 2 maps. pub. Melb. Hutchinson 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.362. Price: $65.00

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GRIBBLE E.R. Rev- Forty Years With The Aborigines. illus. with portrait, and 19 full-page plates pub. 1930 Sydney Angus & Robertson 1930 1st ed. sm. 8vo. or. blue cl. pp.VIII.228 lacks f/free e/paper , very sl. browned to spine, signature to title page. otherwise very good copy. Price: $150.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
GRIBBLE E.R.B. The Problem Of The Australian Aboriginal. illus. with 4 plates. pub. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1932 1st. ed. or. aqua. cl. 12mo. pp.XVI,158,4,XVIII (book catalogue). Contains a lifetime's experience among the Aboriginals of Australia. As a child Mr Gribble lived with them on the Murrumbidgee ..., and as youth and man, on the Gascoyne River and in the East Kimberley, WA; in South Western Queensland; and near Cairns and on the Gulf of Carpentaria in North Queensland. Price: $175.00
GULPILIL DAVID The Birirrk: Our Ancestors of the Dreaming illus. with pictorial end papers, colour photographs throughout, pub. Melbourne L & S Publishing, 1983 or. boards d/w. 4to. pp. 32 The story of the Birirrk, the spirits who live in the rocks, hills, rivers and waterholes, who taught Gulpilil's ancestors to hunt, make fire and other secrets of life. Price: $30.00
GUNN R.G. The Cave Of Ghosts. Aboriginal Rock Art Site (Site 73242/016) illus. with 24 full page plates numerous figure drawings, maps; pub. Melbourne Ministry for Environment, June 1983 Victorian Archaeological Survey Occasional Reports Series. Number 12; or. light grn. stiff illus. wps. black binders tape to spine; 4to. pp.76. Fine copy. Price: $55.00
HAGLUND LAILA The Broad Beach Aboriginal Burial Ground. An Archaeological Analysis. profusely illus. with dwgs., plates, 12 maps, 110 illus. e/paper maps pub. Brisb. Uni. of Qld. Press 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.118. Price: $65.00

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HALL VIC Dreamtime Justice. with e/paper maps & 16 full page plates t/out. published Adelaide Rigby 1962 1st.ed. or.cl.d/w. 8vo. pp.160. a fine copy. Price: $35.00
HARDY BOBBIE The World Owes Me Nothing. The true story of an Australian Aboriginal's struggle for identity. illus. with map & 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.198. Price: $35.00
HARDY BOBBIE Lament For The Barkindji. The Vanished Tribes Of The Darling River Region. illus. with e/paper maps, 20 full page plates throughout pub. Adel. Rigby, 1976 1st ed. or. boards 8vo. pp.246. Felt pen mark on page 227 else very good copy. Price: $50.00
HARDY FRANK The Unlucky Australians. Story behind the Aboriginal Stockman strikes of 1966-67. with e/paper maps, frontis. & several text dwgs. by author, 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Nelson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.258. Price: $40.00
HARNEY W.E. Taboo. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. 1944 or. orange cl. . 8vo. pp.210. Bill Harney's earliest writings of his close bonds with the people of Central Australia, his awareness of the 'clash of cultures', his respect for them & his sadness that 'victory' would inevitably go to the more powerful. "Taboo" relates legend and fact, and introduced by distinguished anthropologist Professor Elkin, Light edgewear, previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, very good copy. Price: $90.00
HARNEY W.E. Life Among The Aborigines. illus. with frontis. & 20 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Robert Hale 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.220. Harney lived in the Northern Territory for nearly 60 years. Patrol officer, miner, cattleman, a fine bushman and guide/adviser to scientific expeditions, he was a fierce compatriot of Aborigines. He helped record their songs, rituals and cave art. Signed by Bill Harney. " ..Greetings from Bill Harney Ayers Rock NT 15/4/62.." Closed tear to d/w. else v/good. Price: $45.00
HARNEY W.E. (BILL) Tales From The Aborigines. illus. With full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Robert Hale 1959 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.190. Slightly spotty to edges else very good. Price: $40.00
HARRIS STEWART "Its Coming Yet." An Aboriginal Treaty within Australia, between Australians. illus. with plates pub. Canberra 1979 1st.ed. or.wps. 8vo. pp.98. Price: $20.00
HART C.W.M. and ARNOLD R. PILLING The Tiwi Of North Australia. Case studies in cultural anthropology. illus. with map & 3 plates pub. N.Y. 1966 or. stiff wps. 8vo. pp.116. Price: $25.00

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HEALY J.J. Literature And The Aborigine In Australia. pub. Queensland. Uni. of Qld. Press 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.306. Price: $45.00
HEALY JOHN P.P. - Aboriginal People Of Australia. pub. Melb. Pellegrini & Co. 1948 or. light blue cl. 8vo. pp.112. Price: $45.00
HILL ERNESTINE Kabbarli. A personal memoir of Daisy Bates. illus. with frontis. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174. Price: $50.00

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HILL MARJI and ALEX BARLOW Ed. by. Black Australia. An annotated bibliography and teacher's guide to resources on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. pub. Canberra Aust. Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1978 or.illus.wps. 4to. pp.200. Price: $30.00
HILLIARD WINIFRED The People In Between. The Pitjantjatjara People of Ernabella. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. 8 col., 4 maps pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254. Price: $55.00

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HODGKINSON FRANK Kakadu And The Arnhem Landers. profusely illus. with col. drawings/paintings by Frank Hodgkinson t/out. some full page mostly col. text in hand-written script pub. Sydney Kevin Weldon Pub. 1987 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.304. Price: $65.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
HOLMES SANDRA LE BRUN Yirawala. Painter of the Dreaming. profusely illus. with plates t/out. 84 full page & col. pub. Syd. Hodder & Stoughton 1992 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.160 Price: $75.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
HORNER JACK Vote Ferguson For Aboriginal Freedom. A biography. History of racial politics between the years 1900 and 1950. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Australia & New Zealand Book Co. 1974 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.208. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. Price: $35.00

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HOWARD MICHAEL Ed. Aboriginal Power In Australian Society. pub. Uni. of Qld. Press 1982 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. v/fine. Price: $30.00
HULSBERGEN RODERICK The Aborigine Today. illus. with photo plates all in col., depicting the aborigine of the 20th century in his own country environment, e/paper illus. pub. Syd. Paul Hamlyn 1971 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.160. Price: $25.00
IDRIESS ION L. Our Living Stone Age. illus. with col. frontis. & 56 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XX.224. neat inscription to f/free e/paper, sl. shelf wear, else almost fine copy. Price: $160.00
IDRIESS ION L. Our Stone Age Mystery. illus. with 44 full page plates t/out. & 2 col. maps pub. Lond. Angus & Robinson 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XVI.200 Torn d/w. lacks large piece to front of d/w. closed tears to rear of d/w. also small gift inscription to top of title page, Price: $150.00
IDRIESS ION L. The Vanished People. illus. with e/paper maps, frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. text dgms. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.210. sl. shelf wear to lower spine, minor silverfish spotting, d/w. sl.chipped and detached at return on rear board. A very good copy otherwise. Price: $65.00
INGAMELLS REX Aranda Boy. An Aboriginal Story illus. by Leong Pak Hong. pub. Lond. Longmans Green and Co, 1958 or. illus. wrappers with brown lettering and brown illustration on front cover cr.8vo. pp.160 The story of Gurra, a boy of the Arandas of Central Australia. Good copy. Price: $40.00
ISAACS JENNIFER Compiled and Ed. by. Australian Dreaming 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Sydney, Lansdown Press 1980 or.cl. d/w. folio. pp.304. inscription to f/free e/paper else fine copy. Price: $70.00
ISAACS JENNIFER Australia's Living Heritage. Arts of the Dreaming. profusely illus. with photo plates t/out. by Reg Morrison many full page, all col. pub. Syd. Lansdowne Press 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.272. Price: $60.00
ISAACS JENNIFER Bush Food. Aboriginal Food And Herbal Medicine. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page many col. Includes table of plant foods, offering botanical name, common name, region, and the use, and table of herbal medicines similarly delineated, endnotes, bibliography and index. pub. N.S.W. Weldon Pub. 1989 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.256. Fine copy. Price: $85.00
ISAACS JENNIFER Australian Aboriginal Paintings. profusely illus. with photo plates t/out. by Reg Morrison & Claude Coirault many full page, all col. pub. Syd. Lansdowne Press 1995 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.192. Price: $65.00

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ISAACS JENNIFER Aboriginality. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings & Prints. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Qld. Uni. Press 1992 or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.144. Price: $50.00
ISAACS J. Spirit Country. Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art. profusely illus. with plates throughout, mostly full page and col. 3 full-page col. maps pub. Melbourne Hardie Grant Books, 1999 or.illust.limp boards 4to. pp.XVI.240 Price: $60.00
JAMES DIANA Painting The Song. Kaltjiti artists of the Sand Dune Country. profusely illus. with col. plates t/out. some full page, pub. Vic. McCulloch & McCulloch 2009 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.172. As mint. Price: $60.00
JENKIN GRAHAM Conquest Of The Ngarrindjeri. History of the aboriginal people of the Lower Murray Lakes in South Australia. illus. with map, & many plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby. 1985 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.300. Price: $55.00

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JOHNSON VIVIEN Lives Of The Papunya Tula Artists. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Alice Springs IAD Press 2008 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.400. Includes exhibitions consigned by Papunya Tula artists. "Illustrated with numerous candid photographs & key artworks, this book charts the historical landscape of the Papunya Tula artists, revealing a collecting creative achievement of rare genius." Artists involved in the Movement from the 1970s to the present, with their lives and work documented by the author, who has worked with them for 25 years. Mint copy. Price: $120.00
JONES F. LANCASTER - The Structure And Growth Of Australian's Aboriginal Population. illus. with map, tables pub. Canberra A.N.U. 1970 (Aborigines in Australian Society 1) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VI.44. Price: $30.00
KEARNEY G. E. P. R. De Lacey, and G. R Davidson, The Psychology Of Aboriginal Australians. with tables, diagram; pub. Sydney John Wiley and Sons, 1973 or. dull yellow stiff wrappers, 8vo. pp.446 including index, very good copy. Price: $25.00
KENNY JOHN (editor) Bennelong, First Notable Aboriginal. illus. with b/w. plates t/out. pub. Sydney Royal Australian Historical Society 1973 or. stapled pamphlet 8vo. pp.76. A report from original sources arranged by John Kenny. Very good copy. Price: $20.00
KNGWARREYE EMILY Paintings. The contributors are Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, and Janet and Donald Holt. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Syd. Craftsman House 1998 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to.obl. pp.204. Fine copy. Price: $650.00
LAMILAMI REVEREND LAZARUS OBE Lamilami Speaks. A Cry Went Up. A Story of the People of Gouburn Islands, North Australia. illus. with 28 full page plates t/out. 3 maps pub. Syd. Ure Smith 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. dw. 8vo. pp.X.274. Lazarus Lamilami is an aboriginal man of the Maung linguistic group of Western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. After attending missionary school, Lamilami became a missionary, then faced the crucial issue of many persons of aboriginal descent - the dilemma of remaining an aboriginal in a cultural sense and not just being one in a physical sense. Prior owner’s name to e/paper crease to d/w. else fine. Price: $60.00
LAMSHED MAX - `Monty' The biography of C.P. Mountford one of Australia's best known anthropologists. illus. with 30 plates pub. Adel. Rigby 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. Price: $40.00
LAVERTY COLIN and Elizabeth. (Compilers) Beyond Sacred. Recent Paintings From Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities. the Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Melbourne Prahran, Hardie Grant, 2008 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. (dustwrapper which unfolds to reveal a large colour print on the verso (visible in part through the numerous small uniform-sized holes in the bottom half of the front panel) roy.4to. pp.VIII.354. The 'most important collection of indigenous art in Australia'. It includes the work of such luminaries as Rover Thomas, Emily Kngwarreye, John Mawurndjul and essays by Howard Murphy, Will Owen, Nicke Water;low, Judith Ryan. The section headings are: essays; art of the Central, Western & Northern Districts; art of the Kimberley; art of the North, including Arnhem Land. As mint copy. Price: $120.00
LAWLOR ROBERT - Voices Of the First Day. Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime. profusely illus. with plates, dwgs. dgms. t/out. some full page & col. pub. U.S.A. Vermont Inner Traditions Int. 1991 or. col. dec. stiff wps. 4to. pp.XVI.414. neat inscription f/free paper else fine. Price: A$55.00 .Convert Currency

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LAYTON ROBERT - Uluru. An Aboriginal History of \line Ayers Rock. illus. with places, diagrams, some full page and col. pub. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1986 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to.obl. pp.140. fine. Price: $45.00
LESLIE DONNA Aboriginal Art. Creativity and Assimilation. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & mostly col. index, bibliography, pub. Melbourne MacMillan Art Pub., 2008 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.320. Donna Leslie, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, sets out to demonstrate how Aboriginal art has questioned the 'assimilations' policies which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her rigorous and sustained argument, supported by an impressive array of important visual images, reveals an extensive grasp of issues relating not only to the practice and history of art, but also in fields of anthropology, ethnology and sociology. History of Aboriginal art from an Aboriginal perspective. As mint copy. Price: $100.00
LESTER YAMI The Autobiography of Yami Lester illus. with pub. Northern Territory Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development Publications, 1995 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.186. Previous owner's book plate on front wrapper, else fine. Price: $25.00

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LETHBRIDGE Dr. H.O. - Collected and Translated by. Two Australian Aboriginal Songs. Arr. For two parts. 1. Maranoa Lullaby 2. Jabbin Jabbin. Arranged by Arthur S. Loam. Sheet music, pub. Melbourne, Allens & Co. P/L. nd. c.1940 or, paper wrappers, cr.4to. folded, 4 pages, two holes in margin, where sheet music was held in a folder, else fine. Price: $50.00
LOCKWOOD DOUGLAS - I, The Aboriginal. illus. with 23 plates pub. Adelaide Rigby 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. slightly worn d/w.Price: $45.00
LOCKWOOD DOUGLAS - We, The Aborigines. illus. with many photo plates t/out. pub. Melb. Cassell 1963 1st.ed. or.illus.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.260. fine in the chipped d/w. Price: $50.00
LOCKWOOD DOUGLAS - The Lizard Eaters. with e/paper maps & 24 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Cassell 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.172. d/w. sl. sunned to spine. Price: $35.00

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LONG J.P.M. - Aboriginal Settlements. A Survey of Institutional Communities in Eastern Australia. illus. with several maps t/out. pub. Canberra Aust. National Uni. 1970 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.226. fine copy. Price: $45.00
LOW TIM Bush Tucker. Australia's Wild Food Harvest. profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page and many col. Wild food nutrients, bibliography, index of scientific names, index of common names; pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1989 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.234. Fine. Price: $75.00
LOW TIM Bush Medicine A Pharmacopoeia of Natural Remedies. profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page and many col. pub. Sydney. Collins/ Angus & Robertson. 1990 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. 238. Aboriginal bush remedies collected from the diaries and journals of explorers, pioneers and early naturalists as well as from people who still practise bush remedies and the author's own knowledge of the bush. Fine. Price: $70.00
LOWE PAT and JIMMY PIKE - Jilji. Life in the Great Sandy Desert. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. one map pub. W.A. Broome 1990 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.148. Price: $45.00
LYCETT J. The Lycett Album. Drawings of Aborigines and Australian Scenery with commentary by Jeanette Hoorn. illus. with 20 full-page colour plates pub. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1990 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. oblong pp.30 of text & 20 full colour. Album of watercolours dating from 1820s purchased at Sotheby's London 1972 sale. Very fine. Price: $45.00
McCARTHY F.D. - Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Aust. Museum 1956 or.illus. blk. red & yell. wps. cr.4to. pp.52. Price: $20.00
McCARTHY F.D. Australian Aboriginal Rock Art. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Aust. Museum 1967 or.illus. blk. red & yell. wps. cr.4to. pp.72.. Price: $35.00
McCARTHY FREDERICK D. - Australia's Aborigines. Their life and Culture. illus. with frontis. & 47 full page plates t/out. some col. pub. Melb. Colorgravure 1957 original slip-case numbered limited edition of which this in No.218. 4to. pp.200. glt leather inserts to front bd. and spine. Almost fine copy, slipcase very sl. flecked. $350.00
McCOURT TOM Aboriginal Artefacts profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. maps, plans, index; pub. Adelaide Rigby 1975 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. X.154. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, short closed tears to d/w. else fine. Price: $60.00

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McKENZIE MAISIE Mission To Arnhem Land. illus. with 32 full page plates t/out. pub. Adelaide Rigby 1976 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.260. a very good copy. Price: $35.00
McNALLY WARD The Angry Australians. Research into the neglected status of aboriginal equality. illus. with text plates t/out. pub. Melb. Scope Pub. 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.112. sl. torn f/free e/paper, fine otherwise. Price: $30.00
McNALLY WARD Goodbye Dreamtime. pub. Melb. Nelson 1973 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.162. Price: $25.00
MacFARLANE IAN & Myrna Deverall, (compilers) with Jim Berg My Heart Is Breaking. A Joint Guide to Records about Aboriginal People. From the records about Aboriginal people in the Public Record Office of Victoria and the Australian Archives, Victorian Regional Office - consisting the official documents of government administration of the original inhabitants of Victoria from 1939 until 1975 illus. with b/w plates, bibliography, index. pub. Canberra Australian Government Publishing Service 1993 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.192. Fine. Price: $45.00
MALONE PETER In Black & White And Colour A Survey of Aborigines in Australian Feature Films illus. with 4 full page plates t/out. notes, index, pub. Melbourne The Author 1987 NT Jabiru, Australian Nelen Yubu Missiological Unit Series No.4; or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.156. Price: $30.00

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MAMAA DULWAN - Gwion Gwion. Secret Pathways Of The Ngrinyin Aboriginal People Of Australia. In three languages German, French, English; profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Germany Konemann 2000 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.334. a very fine copy. Price: $65.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
MARSHALL ALAN Ourselves Writ Strange. e/paper maps 19 illus. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320. Meetings and life with the aborigine's of Australia. Account of Marshall's travels in predominantly aboriginal country as he 'takes us into Australia's unknown areas in the North, to the tiny islands of Torres Strait, to remote mission stations' Fine in sl. torn d/w. Price: $35.00
MARSHALL ALAN Ourselves Writ Strange. e/paper maps 19 illus. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320. Meetings and life with the aborigine's of Australia. Account of Marshall's travels in predominantly aboriginal country as he 'takes us into Australia's unknown areas in the North, to the tiny islands of Torres Strait, to remote mission stations' Slightly shelf worn d/w. else near fine. Signed by author. Price: $55.00
MARSHALL ALAN These Were My Tribesmen. illus. with 24 full page plates t/out. e/paper maps pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1965 or. green cl. 8vo. pp.214. Keeping his ears open for a good yarn, Marshall roams among the aborigines of Cape York, the Torres Strait Islands and Arnhem Land. His anecdotes range from the hilarious to the poignant. First published in 1948 as "Ourselves writ strange". An account of time spent with remote Aboriginal people. Very good copy in the edger worn d/w. Price: $30.00
MARSHALL ALAN People Of The Dreamtime. with 35 full-page and text black/white illustrations by Lesbia Thorpe. pub. Melb. F.W. Cheshire 1952 1st. ed. or. boards d/w. 8vo. pp.90. interpretation of 20 Aboriginal myths and legends. Slightly sunned to spine else very good. Dustwrapper slightly chipped top of spine, two short closed tars otherwise near fine. Price: $60.00
MARSHALL ALAN Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr, People Of The Dreamtime. with frontis. & 20 full page dwgs. by Lesbia Thorpe pub. Melb. Hyland House 1978 or.illus. bds. 8vo. pp.104. A collection of simple tales told to the author by the people of Arnhem Land, and retold in the form of verse, illustrated with 20 colour paintings by the Aborigine Artist Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr. Fine copy. Price: $35.00
MARSHALL ALAN Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr, People Of The Dreamtime. with frontis. & 20 full page dwgs. by Lesbia Thorpe pub. Melb. Hyland House 1978 or.illus. bds. 8vo. pp.104. A collection of simple tales told to the author by the people of Arnhem Land, and retold in the form of verse, illustrated with 20 colour paintings by the Aborigine Artist Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr. Free endpapers have been signed by the author and Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr. Fine copy. Price: $95.00
MASSOLA ALDO Journey To Aboriginal Victoria. illus. with 32 full page plates throughout pub. Adel. Rigby Ltd, Australia, 1969 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.196. A region-by-region historical account of the Victorian aboriginal tribes, variously exterminated or 'civilised' within four decades of white settlement. Fine copy. Price: $75.00
MASSOLA ALDO Aboriginal Mission Stations In Victoria Yelta, Ebenezer, Ramahyuck, Lake Condah. illus. with 8 b/w photographs; Index, Bibliographies, Appendicis; pub. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1970 1st. ed. or. black cl. gilt titles on spine 8vo. pp.120. Traces history of four Victorian mission Stations and an account of the relations between white men and aborigines in Victoria during the last century. Very good copy. Price: $40.00
MASSOLA ALDO Compiled by. Bibliography Of The Victorian Aborigines. From the Earliest Manuscripts to 31 December pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press 1971 or.cl. d/w. 4to.pp.96. fine sl. rubbed d/w. Price: $75.00
MASSOLA ALDO Coranderrk - A History of the Aboriginal Station profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page, maps, tables, illustrated end-papers, index, bibliography, pub. Vic. Kilmore, Lowden Publishing Co., 1975. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XII.110. Very fine. Price: $100.00
MATHEWS JANET Totem And Taboo Aboriginal Life and Craft b/w. illustrations by Walter Stackpool, pictorial endpapers. or. colour pictorial laminated boards, d/w. 4to. pp.112. The second volume in a series of books aimed at covering every aspect of the life and craft of the aborigines. Slightly faded to spine else near fine. Price: $35.00
MATHEW JOHN Eaglehawk And Crow. A Study of the Australian Aborigines including an Inquiry into their Origin and a Survey of Australian Languages. pub. London, David Nutt and Melbourne, Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1899 (with 'Melville, Mullen & Slade' at the foot of the spine). or. maroon cl. 8vo. pp.288.XVI, with tables plus 5 pages of plates and a small folding map. Pages rough-cut. Inscription to front free e/paper Lake Tyres Aboriginal Stn. Very slight foxing to e/papers else near fine copy. Price: $475.00
MATTINGLEY CHRISTOBEL Survival In Our Own Land. 'Aboriginal' Experiences in 'South Australia' Since 1836 Told By Nungas and Others illus. with 2 maps, 332 b/w. illustrations photo plates & pictorial end-papers, pub. Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992 revised ed. Published in association with the Aboriginal Literature Development Assistance Association Inc.or. pictorial card covers 4to. pp.XVI.338. Fine. Price: $75.00
MAWURNDJUL JOHN Rarrk' Journey Through Time in Northern Australia. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Adelaide Crawford House 2005 1st. ed. or. card wrappers 4to. (paperback) pp.240. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum Tinguely, Basel and the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, September 2005 - June 2006. Very fine. Price: $85.00
MILLER MARY DURACK In assoc. with Florence Rutter. Child Artists Of The Australian Bush. illus. with 30 full page b/w. plates t/out. & 4 col. pub. Syd. Australasian Pub. Co. 1st.ed. or.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.120. lacks f/free e/paper otherwise fine. Price: $65.00

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MILLISS ROGER Waterloo Creek. The Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British Conquest of New South Wales. illus. with e/paper maps, frontis. & several plates t/out. pub. Melb. McPhee Gribble 1992 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XXVI.970. Price: $125.00
MITCHELL S.R. The Woodworking Tools Of The Australian Aborigines. pub. nd. c. 1950’s? Extracted from the Royal Anthropological Institute Journal, Volume 89 Part II pages 191 to 199. 4to. pp.10. Disbound. Note: this is an extracted article from the collected volume, not an offprint or reprint. Fine. Price: $30.00
MITCHELL S.R. Comparison Of The Stone Tools Of The Tasmanian And Australian Aborigines. from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1955. Vol. 85, parts I & II, or. wrappers 4to. pp.131-139. Appendix, References. Disbound. Fine. Price: $30.00
MITCHELL S.R. Aboriginal Stone Artefacts From The Northern Territory. Reprinted from Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria Melbourne No.21 Issued 6^th August 1957. illus. with 4 pages of drawings of stone tools; pub. Melbourne Govt. Printer nd. c.1957 or. grey wrappers, 4to. pp.65-72. Fine. Price: $35.00
MITCHELL S.R. An Aboriginal Bone Industry. Reprint from Mankind, Vol. 5, no. 5, Feb. 1958. illus. with 2 b/w. plates; References. np. 1958, or. wrappers 4to. pp.193-199. Fine. Price: $30.00
MONTAGU ASHLEY Coming Into Being Among The Australian Aborigines. The Procreative Beliefs of the Australian Aborigines. illus. with 4 dgms pub. Lond. Routledge & Kegan 1974 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.426. Price: $85.00
MOORE DAVID R. Islanders And Aborigines At Cape York. An ethnographic reconstruction based on the 1848-1850 `Rattlesnake' Journals of O.W. Brierly and information he obtained from Barbara Thompson. illus. with several plates t/out. some full page pub. Canberra Aust. Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 1978 or.illus.wps. 4to. pp.XII.340. fine. Price: $45.00
MOORHOUSE MATTHEW A Vocabulary, and Outline of the Grammatical Structure of the Murray River Language. Spoken by the Natives of South Australia, from Wellington On the Murray, As Far As the Rufus. pub. The Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile editions No.41 of the 1816 original edition; or. green faux leather 8vo. pp.64. Fine. Price: $150.00
MORPHY HOWARD and Margo Smith Boles (editors) Art from the Land. Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. University of Virginia Charlottesville or. card wrappers 4to. square (paperback) pp.VI.266. Very fine. Price: $75.00
MOUNTFORD C.P. The Art Of Albert Namatjira. illus. with frontis. plates t/out. many col. & full page pub. Melb. Bread And Cheese Club 1944 or. red bds. d/w. 4to. pp.80. Dustwrapper has triangle piece torn from front pane across the top ab. 10 x 5cm. Dulled gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else fine copy. Price: $95.00
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. Brown Men And Red Sand. Journeyings in wild Australia. with e/paper maps col. frontis. & 58 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Robertson & Mullens 1949 or.orng.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.184. Dustwrapper little chipped and shelf worn else very good copy. Price: $30.00
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. Ayers Rock Its People, Their Beliefs and Their Art. illus. with coloured end-papers 4 coloured plates, 106 b/w. plates, 43 figures of which 3 are fold-out sheets of several cave painting figures, bibliography, index, pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1965 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.208. Light edgewear to d/w., else fine. Price: $135.00

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MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. Australian Aboriginal Portraits. illus. with frontis. & 38 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.90. sl. Stain to d/w. otherwise fine. Price: $75.00
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. The Aborigines and their Country. illus. with mainly b/w. and some colour photos pub. Rigby Adelaide 1969 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144. Mainly photographic study of South Australian and Northern Territory Aborigines. sl. chipped d/w. otherwise fine. Price: $55.00 Parcel Costs
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. The First Sunrise. illus. with col. dwgs. mostly full page by Ainslie Roberts. pub. Rigby. 1983 or.cl. d/w. cr. 4to. pp.80. lacks f/free e/paper. Price: $25.00
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. Before Time Began. Legends of the Dreamtime. illus. with numerous colour illustrations throughout; pub. Melbourne Thomas Nelson, 1976 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.96. Retelling of 23 aboriginal myths and art-the bark paintings are by the Tiwi of Melville Islands, the finger paintings by members of Pitjanjara and Junkanjara tribes, of the Mann and Musgrave Ranges. Very good copy. Price: $45.00
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. Nomads Of The Australian Desert. illus. with frontispiece map, 737 b/w illustrations, 12 full-page colour plates, one of which is large fold out plate, 33 figures, bibliography, epilogue, index. pub. Adelaide Rigby 1976 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. (dustwrapper shows a fine example of Mountford's photography of a gathering of Aboriginal men) 4to. pp.628. Study of the Aborigines of the Mann and Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South, Central and Western Australia. The secret and sacred rites of the Aborigines are herein recorded, as a consequence significant portion of the edition was suppressed and the publication was withdrawn; therefore few copies remain in circulation. Dustwrapper spine a little faded, otherwise near fine copy. Price: $1000.00
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. The Dreamtime. Australian Aboriginal Myths illus. with col. dwgs. mostly full page by Ainslie Roberts. pub. Rigby. 1978 or.cl. d/w. cr. 4to. pp.80. fine. Price: $25.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. The Dawn Of Time. illus. with col. dwgs. mostly full page by Ainslie Roberts. pub. Rigby. 1969 or.cl. d/w. cr. 4to. pp.80. d/w. crinkled . Price: $25.00

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MOUNTFORD CHARLES P. Legends Of The Dreamtime. Contains: The Dreamtime The Dawn of Time & The First Sunrise. illus. with col. dwgs. mostly full page by Ainslie Roberts. pub. Rigby. 1980 or.cl. d/w. cr. 4to. pp.224. Price: $40.00
MULVANEY D.J. Cricket Walkabout. The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on tour 1867-8. with illus. e/papers & 10 plates, one map pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.112. Price: $40.00
MULVANEY D.J. The Prehistory Of Australia. illus. with 80 plates pub. Lond. Thames & Hudson 1969 1st.ed. (Ancient People and Places Series) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.276. fine in the sl. sunned d/w. Price: $60.00

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MULVANEY D.J. and J. GOLSON Aboriginal Man And Environment In Australia. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. charts, maps. pub. Canberra A.N.U. 1971 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XX.390. Price: $125.00
MULVANEY JOHN and J.H. Calaby. So Much That Is New. Baldwin Spencer, 1860-1929. illus. with 4 colour plates, 64 plates, 5 maps and drawings, abbreviations, bibliographical notes, index, pub. Melbourne University of at the University Press, 1985 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.492. Biography of Baldwin Spencer, father of Australian zoology and the great Australian scientist and anthropologist. This biography by the pioneer of Australian archaeology is a landmark work of scholarship and appreciation. Fine copy. Price: $100.00
MUNDINE DJON The Native Born. Objects and Representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Bula'bula Arts Sydney nd. 2000 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.244 . A fine copy. Price: $125.000

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NAMATJIRA ALBERT Nadine Amadio Compiled & Ed. by. Albert Namatjira. The Life and Work of an Australian Painter. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. select bibliography, index; pub. Melb. Macmillan 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to.obl. pp.102. Albert Namatjira, an Aranda Aboriginal, had eight weeks tuition on watercolour painting from Rex Battarbee during one of Rex's expeditions into Central Australia. With this meagre knowledge Albert Namatjira was able to make an extraordinary cultural transition to master the techniques of western landscape painting. Fine. Price: $95.00
NANNUP ALICE When The Pelican Laughed. Oral history written by Lauren Marsh & Stephen Kinnane. illus. with 5 text plates pub. W.A. Freeemantle Arts Centre Press 1992 or. stiff, card wrappers, cr.8vo. pp.224. Price: A$30.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
NEIDJIE BILL with Stephen Davis and Allen Fox. - Kakadu Man. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page all col. e/paper illus. pub. N.T. Resource managers 1986 or.cl. d/w. c r.4to. pp.96. Inscription to front free e/paper else fine copy. Price: $35.00
NELSON MICHAEL JAGAMARA (Paintings) Text by Vivian Johnson. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Syd. Craftsman House 1997 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to.obl. pp.168. Price: $85.00
O'CONNOR RORY The Kombumerri Aboriginal people of the Gold Coast. with a foreword by Neville Bonner. illus. with b/w. and colour plates, some full page; Self Published Gold Coast. 1997 or. illustrated laminated boards 4to. pp.80. Fine. Price: $65.00
O'FERRALL MICHAEL A. Keepers Of The Secrets. Aboriginal art from Arnhem land in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. profusely illus. with over 150 colour illustrations of major Arnhem land bark paintings and sculptures in the the Art Gallery of W.A.; glossary, bibliography, Artist index. pub. Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia 1990 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.136. Covering a period of four decades, the works of over 80 leading artists from the main regions are introduced. The artists represented include Banduk, Dawidi, Djawa, Wandjuk and many more. Published to coincide with the Exhibition 'Keepers Of The Secrets' 18^th Oct. -10^th Feb. 1991. Fine. Price: $200.00
PARKER K. LANGLOH Australian Legendary Tales. Being the two collections, Australian Legendary Tales & More Australian Legendary Tales collected from various tribes. The collections were first published in 1896 and 1898. With many text illus. by Rex Backhaus-Smith pub. Syd. 1978 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.192. Price: $30.00
PARKER K. LANGLOH Australian Legendary Tales Selected and edited by H. Drake-Brockman illus. with b/w. drawings by Elizabeth Durack illustrated endpapers, pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1959 or.cl. d/w. roy8vo. pp.XIV.237. Langloh Parker's collection was first published in 1896. Fine copy in the dustwrapper which has a closed tear to the spine. Price: $30.00

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PEPPER PHILLIP In Collaboration with Tess De Araugo. The Kurnai Of Gippsland. What Did Happen to the Aborigines of Victoria Volume 1. profusely illus. with b/w. plates t/out. maps, line illustrations throughout, map on end-papers, index pub. Melbourne Hyland House, Melbourne, 1985 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.322. Rare documentation of the Kurnai People & Victorian Aborigines. Dustwrapper spine faded, else very fine copy. Price: $225.00
PETERSON NICOLAS and MARCIA LANGTON Ed. by. Aborigines, Land And Land Rights. illus. with 10 plates some full page & numerous plans, dgms. & maps pub. Canberra Inst. Of Aboriginal Studies 1983 p/b. roy.8vo. pp.468. Price: $30.00
PLOMLEY N. J. B. Editor. Jorgen Jorgenson And The Aborigines Of Van Diemen's Land. being a reconstruction of his �lost' book on their customs and habits, and on his role in the Roving Parties and the Black Line. illus. with colour frontispiece, large colour folding map at rear,1 full-page map,9 b/w. plates, 2 appendices, notes and references, bibliography, index; pub. Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1991 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.164; fine copy. Limited to 1000 copies. Price: $65.00
PRESLAND GARY An Archaeological Survey Of The Melbourne Metropolitan Area. illus. with 4 full page plates t/out. maps. pub. Melbourne Ministry for Planning and Environment, 1986 Victorian Archaeological Survey Occasional Reports Series. Number 15; or. light grn. stiff wps. Black binders tape to spine; 4to. pp.140. Fine copy. Price: $40.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
PRESLAND GARY An Archaeological Survey Of The Site Of The Mitchell River Dam. illus. with maps, graphs; pub. Melbourne Ministry of Conservation, 1981 Victorian Archaeological Survey Occasional Reports Series. Number 7; or. light grn. stiff wps. black binders tape to spine; 4to. pp.44. Fine copy. Price: $25.00
PRESLAND GARY Ed. By. Journals of George Augustus Robinson January-March 1840. illus. with folding map black and white illus.; pub. Melbourne Ministry of Conservation, Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey Number 5, 1977. Extracts of manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library Sydney. or. orange stiff wps.; 4to. pp.VI.104. Fine copy. Price: $35.00
QUEENSLAND Art Gallery Floating Life. Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art. profusely illus. with col. plates t/out. many full page pub. Brisbane Art Gallery Held at Gallery of Modern Art 1^st Aug. 18^th Oct 2009 original stiff pictorial wrappers 4to. pp.158. Highlights the continuing importance of fibre within Aboriginal culture and the extraordinary inventiveness of the artiists exploring the medium. Condition as mint. Price: $50.00
RAE-ELLIS VIVIENNE Black Robinson. Protector Of Aborigines. George Robinson is renowned for his claims to have Christianized and civilized the Tasmanian Aborigines in the 1830's. illus. with frontis. & 14 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.308. Price: $45.00
REECE R.H.W. Aborigines And Colonists. Aborigines and Colonial Society in New South Wales in the 1830's and 1840's pub. Syd. Uni. Press 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254. f/free e/paper cut. Price: $35.00
REED A.W. Aboriginal Place Names And Their Meanings. pub. Syd. Reed 1967 1st.ed. or.dec.cl. 12mo. pp.144. Price: $25.00

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RICKETTS WILLIAM [Text: T. G. H. Strehlow, Atiranturka; Foreword, Lindsay H. S. Thompson] A Living Voice Of The Living Bush illus. with 16 coloured illustrations of his work , some full page pub. Melbourne Mclaren & Co. Pty. Ltd. For the Forests Commission of Victoria 1965 or. textured clay-colored card wrappers; (pp. unpaginated approx.20) A pictorial record of the aboriginal sculptures in the Ricketts Sanctuary on Mt Dandenong. Almost fine. Price: $30.00
ROBERTS MELVA JEAN Dreamtime Heratige. Australian Aboriginal Myths. illus. with paintings by Ainslie Roberts, full page plates t/out., drawings, pub. Adel. Rigby 1982 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.80. Price: $25.00
ROBERTS AINSLIE and CHARLES P. MOUNTFORD Legends of the Dreamtime. Australian Aboriginal Myths. illus. with 96 colour plates and many b/w plates and line drawings. Sydney International Limited Editions 1980 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.224 The aboriginal myths in this volume give a glimpse into the Dreamtime of the people who lived in Australia for many years before the appearance of the white man. Price: $45.00
ROBERTS AINSLIE (Paintings) Charles E. Hulley text. Ainslie Roberts And The Dreamtime. The Aboriginal Heritage. profusely illus. t/out. many full page col. plates & text illus. pub. Melb. Dent P/L 1988 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144. The life and work of Ainslie Roberts, Australian artist whose art is based on mythology of the Australian Aborigines. Near fine copy. Price: $45.00
ROBERTS AINSLIE Text by Charles P. Mountford. The Dreamtime Book. Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings. profusely illus. t/out. with full page col. plates & text illus. pub. Adel. Rigby 1974 or.cl. d/w. folio pp.176. 79 of myths and paintings which the collaborators have selected from 'The Dreamtime' (1965); 'The Dawn Of Time' (1968) and 'The First Sunrise' (1970) as well as three new myths and several black and white drawings. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. Price: $55.00
ROBERTS AINSLIE (Paintings) Text by Melva Jean Roberts. Dreamtime. The Aboriginal Heritage. profusely illus. t/out. many full page col. plates & text illus. pub. Adel. Rigby 1981 or.cl. d/w. folio pp.144. A companion volume to 'The Dreamtime Book', planned with Charles Mountford (who died in 1976) and completed by the artist's wife who "took up the task of collecting and adapting the myths". With 24 new paintings and 42 enlarged from the four smaller format books in the series. Near fine copy. Price: $60.00
ROBERTS DALE Wanari's Dreamtime profusely illus. with about 40 col. drawings t/out. some full page by Ainslie Roberts of ‘Dreamtime’ series. Contains 29 illustrated myths. pub. South Australia, Art Australia 1989 1st. ed. or. illustrated boards 4to. pp.34. Wanari is a small Aboriginal boy known to all as 'Dusty'. He lives with his family on a cattle station in Central Australia. His uncle takes him camping in the bush and there he learns - through his adventures and the sights and sounds of the outback - the stories and Aboriginal myths which have been passed down for generations. Aboriginal Myths for Children. Neat child's name inside front cover else fine. Price: $30.00
ROBERTSON WILLIAM Brin-ga's Coo-ee Talks A collection of Lecturettes about early experiences among the Aborigines of Australia delivered from a Wireless Broadcasting Station. Forword by anthropologist Basedow; glossary & index. illus. with frontis. & 18 full page plates t/out. map, pub. Sydney Angus and Robertson, 1928 1st.ed. or. green cl. 8vo. pp.XX.198. Robertson was 'Brin-ga" and Cooee Talks was - the original 2BL. Those lectures, constituted a major connection between White and Black Australia as Brin-ga broadcast the stories of his personal encounter with Aborigines portrayed with dignity, humanity and respect, stressing the importance of creating a role for them in developing northern Australia, when it was widely believed "the Aborigines of Australia are fast vanishing." Slight flecking to rear and to spine, else good copy. Price: $75.00
ROBINSON G. A. Journals of - January to March 1840. Gary Presland, (Ed. & Intro.) illus. with 8 full page plates, one folding map at rear, pub. Ministry for Conservation, Melbourne, 1977. Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey, Number 5, July 1977 original orange, printed card covers, 4to. pp.V.98. Extracts of manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney and published with their permission. Price: $55.00
ROBINSON G. A. Journals of - May to August 1841. Gary Presland, (Ed. & Intro.) illus. with 8 pages b/w plates, one folding map at rear, appendices, pub. Ministry for Conservation, Melbourne, 1980. Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey, Number 11, October 1980 original printed card covers 4to. pp.VI.202. Extracts of manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney and published with their permission. Price: $95.00
ROBINSON ROLAND - The Feathered Serpent. The Mythological Genesis and recreate ritual of the aboriginal tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia ; the Kuppapoingo, Jumbapoingo, Birrikilli, Miarr-Miarr and Leleagulawulmirree tribes at Milingimbi; the Murinbata and Djamunjun tribes of Port Keats; The Djauan and Ngalarkan tribes at the Roper River; and the Arranda, Luritja and Pitjantjara tr ibes of the centre; chanted and translated by the old-men of the tribes. A foreword by T. G. H. Strehlhow. illus. with map & 4 coloured plates reproduced bark paintings (silk screen?), text illus. pub. Edwards & Shaw 1956 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.88. fine in the torn d/w. Price: $125.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
ROBINSON ROLAND text. The Australian Aboriginal In Colour. illus. with col. photo plates t/out. many full page by Douglass Baglin pub. Syd. Reed 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.112. Price: $55.00

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ROHEIM GEZA - The Eternal Ones of the Dream. illus. with 4 full-page plates, text-illus., and double-page map. pub. New York International Uni. Press n.d. (1945) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.2.XIV.270 A psychoanalytic interpretation of Australian myth and ritual. Lacks title page else very fine copy. Price: $175.00
ROPER TOM Ed. Aboriginal Education. The Teacher's Role. pub. Melb. Nat. Union of Aust. Uni. Students 1969 or.yell. wps. pp.XVI.236. Price: $25.00
RORABACHER LOUISE Ed. by. Aliens In Their Land. The Aborigines in the Australian Short Story. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.242. Price: $45.00
ROSE LYNDON People In The Sun. The Native People of Australia and the Islands of the South West Pacific. illus. with maps, photo plates by Ronald Rose pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. 4to. pp.94. Price: $45.00
ROSE MICHAEL - (Editor) For The Record 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism pub. Sydney. Allen & Unwin. 1996 Paperback cr.8vo. pp.219. Examples of Aboriginal journalism from both Aboriginal and mainstream publications. Price: $25.00
ROSE RONALD Living Magic - The Realities Underlying The Physical Practices And Beliefs Of Australian Aborigines. illus. with 7 full page b/w. photographic plates, pub. London Chatto and Windus, 1957 or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.222 previous owner's name on f/free e/paper, annotations on rear e/paper, else fine copy. Price: $45.00
ROUGHSEY DICK Moon And Rainbow. The autobiography of an Aboriginal. (Aboriginal artist, Mornington Island Gulf of Carpentaria) illus. with 16 full page coloured plates t/out. text plates, e/paper maps, pub. Syd. Reed 1971 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.168 A very fine copy. Price: $125.00 Convert Currency

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RYAN JUDITH Spirit In Land. Bark Paintings From Arnham Land. Catalogue of exhibition held in the National Gallery of Vic. profusely illus. with full page plates t/out. mostly col. pub. Melb. National Gallery of Victoria 1990 or. illus. black and brown wps. Aboriginal design) 4to. pp.120. Price: $50.00
RYAN JUDITH - Paint Up Big- Warlpiri Women's Art of Lajamanu illus. with full page plates throughout, pub. Australia: National Gallery of Victoria, 1990 1st ed. original col. wrappers (Aboriginal design) 4to. pp.80. fine. Price: $45.00
RYAN JUDITH - Mythscapes: Aboriginal Art of the Desert. pub. Melbourne 1989 From the National Gallery of Victoria. or. illus. wrappers cr.4to. pp.104. Profusely illus. with col. plates of which 1 is fold., b/w. illus., and 1 map. Fine copy. Price: $45.00
RYAN JUDITH & Kim Akerman, Images Of Power Aboriginal Art of Kimberley. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria 1993 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.132. Very fine. Price: $75.00
RYAN JUDITH Raiki Wara. Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. bibliography, glossary; pub. Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria Australia 1998 original stiff wrappers 8vo. pp.132. Raiki Wara surveys the history of textile production across Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait. it covers the work of major textile aboriginal communities as well as contemporary work from the likes of: Koori, Murri, Nyungar and Torres Strait Islanders. As mint. Price: $40.00
RYAN JUDITH Land Marks profusely illus. with col. plates t/out. some full page 2 maps pub. Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria 2006 original stiff wrappers 4to. pp.144. Land Marks identifies ground-breaking moments in history of indigenous Australian art; It acknowledges some of its great masters of painting and sculpture. A catalogue of an exhibition that showed at NGV from Feb - Jun 2006. As mint. Price: $50.00
RYAN JUDITH Across The Desert. Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia. profusely illus. with col. plates t/out. some full page; biographies, checklist & chronology. pub. Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, 2008 original stiff illus. wrappers 4to. pp.168. Accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia displaying batik textiles and garments by that nation's aboriginal artists. Text highlights the work of women in five communities-Ernabella, Fregon, Utopia, Yuendumu, and Kintore-and address the cultural and aesthetic currents that combined to initiate the practice of batik in the 1970s. Catalogue from an exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, 10 October 2008 to 1 February 2009. Mint condition. Price: $50.00
RYAN LYNDALL The Aboriginal Tasmanians. illus. with 31 Illustrations and 44 maps in text. pub. University of Queensland. St. Lucia. 1982 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.316 This is the first comprehensive regional study of Aboriginal-European relations from 1800 to the present day. Fine copy. Price: $50.00
SALTER ELIZABETH Daisy Bates. The Great White Queen of the Never Never. illus. with 20 full page plates t/out. one map pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1973 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.266. fine. Price: $45.00
SCHAPPER H.P. Aboriginal Advancement To Integration. Conditions and Plans for Western Australia. illus. With folding map at rear pub. Canberra A.N.U. 1970 (Aborigines in Australian Society 5) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXII.196. Price: $40.00
SCHULE A. North-West Australian Rock Paintings illus. with 71 b/w. plates pub. Melbourne Nat. Mus. of Victoria, 1956 No.20 original stiff grey wrappers 4to. pp.57 text 71 plates. In 1938 with the Frobenius Expedition to this part of Australia these amazing "modern" rock paintings were found of the Kimberley tribes from primeval times and it's the first time all these picture galleries are described and depicted. Small chip lower spine else near fine. Price: $150.00
SEXTON Rev. J H . President of the Aborigine's Friends Assoc. South Australia. Australian Aborigines. illus. with frontis. & 34 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Aborigine's Friends Assoc. South Australia. nd.1945? or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.136. two small closed tears to d/w. else fine. Price: $95.00

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SHARP IAN G. and COLIN M. TATZ Ed. by. Aborigines In The Economy. Employment, Wages and Training. illus. with e/paper maps pub. Brisb. Jacaranda Press with Centre for Research into Aboriginal Affairs Monash Uni. 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.382. Price: $30.00
SHARP NONIE Footprints Along The Cape York Sand Beaches illus. with13 b/w plates, index, maps; pub. Canberra Aboriginal Studies Press1992 or. card wrappers, (paperback), roy.8vo. pp.III.238. Concerns the seafaring Aboriginal people of Northern Cape York Peninsula and the Kaurareg, who inhabit the Prince of Wales group of islands in North Queensland. Documents the process by which the people of the Cape York region either died or were forced to move away from their lands to another country. Slightly faded to spine else fine. Price: $35.00
SILBERBAUER GEORGE B. Hunter & Habitat In The Central Kalahari Desert. illus. with several text plates t/out. pub. U.K. Cambridge University Press 1981 p/b. 8vo. pp.330. Price: $30.00
SIMPSON COLIN Adam In Ochre. Inside Aboriginal Australia. with e/paper illus. frontis. & 17 full page plates t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1952 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. fine in the chipped d/w. Price: $30.00
SIMPSON COLIN Adam In Ochre. Inside Aboriginal Australia. with e/paper illus. frontis. & 17 full page plates t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1952 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. Signed by author on half title page. Fine in the chipped d/w. Price: $40.00
SMITH BERNARD The Spectre Of Truganini. 1980 Boyer Lectures. pub. Sydney Australian Broadcasting Commission. 1980.or stiff wrappers 8vo. pp.56 very good condition. Examines such questions as what ways have Aboriginal people responded to the dispossession of their lands and the disruption of their traditional culture. Price: $25.00
SMITH HEIDE .- Tiwi. The Life and Art of Australia's Tiwi People. The Life and Art of Australia's Tiw i People. The author/photographer was commissioned by the Tiwi Land Council to produce a collection of photographs for a book, recording their people for history, the result is a stunning record of the people of Bathurst and Melville islands reproduced on quality art paper accompanied by an extensive essay. illus. with 168 full page b/w and colour plates, map, pub. Sydney Habit Press. 1996 or. card cover; 4to. pp.224; mint condition. Price: $45.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
SMITH LAURAJANE The Berwick-Packenham Corridor Aboriginal Archaeology. Occasional Report No.45. illus. with maps, 5 pages of photo plates at rear, tables, pub. Departmant of Conservation & Enviromant 1991, Victorian Archaeological Survey; or. orange and black pictorial card covers, black taped binding, 4to. pp.154. (photocopied report) Fine. Price: $45.00
SMITH PATSY-ADAM No Tribesman. with e/paper maps & many plates t/out. published Adelaide Rigby 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.168 clear plastic adhered to d/w. Price: $45.00

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SMYTH R. BROUGH - The Aborigines of Victoria: With Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of other Parts of Australia and Tasmania. Compiled from various sources for The Government of Victoria. illus. with black and white illustrations in text throughout, 2 folding maps, in rear of vols. 16 plates, numerous illustrations, index. pub. London. John Ferres, Government Printer. 1878. 2 volumes. Volume I: pp.LXXII.483. Volume II: pp.VI.456, Modern blue cloth binding lettered in silver on the spine, two folding maps are in facsimile. The author was secretary of the Board in Victoria for the Protection of the Aborigines. a very good set Price: $1,500.00
STANNER W. E. H Helen Sheils, (Ed) Australian Aboriginal Studies: A Symposium of Papers Presented at the 1961 Research Conference pub. Melbourne, map e/papers, tables, references, bibliographies, index. pub. Melbourne Oxford University Press (for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies), 1963 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.506 Includes papers by A. P. Elkin, D. J. Mulvaney, Catherine H. Berndt, Norman Tindale, Ronald M. Berndt, T. G. H. Strehlow. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. Price: $65.00
STANNER W.E.H. After The Dreaming. Black and White Australians -An Anthropologist's View. The Boyer Lectures 1968. pub. Syd. ABC 1968 or.ornge. illus.wps. 12mo. pp.64. Price: $25.00
STUART DONALD Yandy. pub. Melbourne Georgian House 1959 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. dust wrapper illustrated by James Wigley 8vo. pp.VIII.158. Documentary novel set in northern W.A. on the question "Can the aborigines earn the status of full citizenship in White Australia?", Stuart tells the story of the strike in 1946 of aboriginal station hands in the north west of Western Australia which is the first opposed by police and squatters. Dustwrapper is sl. chipped, 'Specimen stamp' to f/free e/paper else v/good. Price: $30.00
STUBBS DACRE Prehistoric Art Of Australia. Pictorial presentation and introduction to the rich art and cultural heritage of the Australian Aboriginal. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & coloured pub. Melbourne Macmillan 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.112. Price: $60.00
SUTTON PETER Ed. by. Dreamings. The Art of Aboriginal Australia. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Melb. Viking Books 1989 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.XIV.266. Price: $95.00

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SYKES ROBERTA B. Black Majority. An analysis of 21 years of Black Australian experience as emancipated Australian citizens. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hudson Pub. 1989 p/b. 8vo. pp.XII.238. Price: $20.00
TAFT RONALD JOHN L.M. DAWSON & PAMELA BEASLEY Attitudes And Social Conditions. illus. with map, tables pub. Canberra A.N.U. 1970 (Aborigines in Australian Society 2) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VI.190. $45.00

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TERRY MICHAEL War Of the Warramullas. The Warramullas were the last to battle the white invaders in Central Australia. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1974 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.172. Price: $65.00 Convert Currency Parcel Costs
THOMAS NORTHCOTE W. Kinship Organisations And Group Marriage In Australia. pub. Melb. Cambridge Uni. Press 1966 or.cl. 8vo. pp.164. fine. Price: $75.00
THOMAS W.E. Some Myths And Legends Of The Australian Aborigines. with frontis. & 5 full page b/w. plates t/out. illus. by R. Wenban pub. Melb. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. nd.193-? or. red illus. cl. backed bds. 12mo. pp.76. Price: $30.00
THONEMANN H.E. Tell The White Man. The life story of an Aboriginal Lubra. Story of Buludja an Aboriginal woman of the Mungari Tribe. illus. with e/paper maps & plates pub. Syd. Collins 1949 or.cl. 8vo. pp.190. very sl. sunned, good clean copy. Price: $85.00
TJAPALTJARRI CLIFFORD POSSUM The Art Of. Tex by Vivien Johnson profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Syd. Craftsman House 1996 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to.obl. pp.178. Fine. Price: $85.00
TJAPALTJARRI CLIFFORD POSSUM The Art Of. Text by Vivien Johnson illus. with . with 10 maps or diagrams, numerous illustrations (many in colour) and 63 colour plates. pub. Basel, Gordon and Breach Arts International, 1994 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to.obl. pp.178. Signed boldly and in very large letters in fine dark blue felt-tipped pen by the artist on the front free e/paper. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (c.1932-2002), 'one of the truly visionary Australian artists of the twentieth century.... [He] was an expert wood-carver and took up painting long before the emergence of the Papunya Tula School in the early 1970s. When he joined this group of "dot and circle" painters early in 1972 he immediately distinguished himself as one of its most talented members and went on to create some of the largest and most complex paintings ever produced' (Art Gallery of New South Wales website, December 2006). A fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Price: $650.00
TJAPALTJARRI CLIFFORD POSSUM Text by Vivien Johnson profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & all col. pub. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 2003, or. colour pictorial papered boards; roy.4to. pp.256. published in conjunction with a national touring exhibition, October 2003 to October 2004. Signed boldly and in very large letters by one of his daughters Gabriella Possum Nungucery on page143. A fine copy. Price: $125.00
TRAVERS ROBERT The Tasmanians. The Story Of A Doomed Race. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. notes on sources, index; pub. Melb. Cassell 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. dw. 8vo. pp.244. d/w. sl. faded at spine else fine. Price: $40.00

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TREZISE P.J. Quinkan Country. Adventures in Search of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York. with e/paper maps, frontis. & 22 full page col. plates t/out. text illus. pub. Syd. Reed 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.154. Price: $75.00
TREZISE PERCY Dream Road. A Journey of Discovery. A unique insight into Aboriginal culture, legends and rock art. illus. with many plates t/out. 24 full page & col. 2 maps. pub. Syd. Allen & Unwin 1993 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.206. Price: $45.00
TUCKER MARGARET If Everyone Cared. Autobiography of Margaret Tucker M.B.E. illus. with 32 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Ure Smith 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.206. inscribed and Signed by Margaret Tucker. Price: $150.00
TURNBULL CLIVE Black War. The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.274. v/good copy in sl. worn d/w. Price: $95.00
TURNER ROBERT - Real Australian Jungle Stories. Legends of the Aborigines. illus. with text decorations, pub. Northwood Press, Camperdown, NSW 1936. or. illustrated card wrappers (photo of Oolamungra the Rain-maker of Lake Nash) 8vo, pp.64 wrappers overlapped at edges; sl. silverfished to front wrapper else very good. Price: $55.00
TURNER VIOLET E. "Ooldea" Story of the Founding and Development of the Ooldea Mission for Aborigines in Western Australia. pub. Melb. S. John Bacon 1950 or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.178. lacks f/free e/paper, fine. Price: $60.00
TWENTIETH Century Aboriginal Art A Myriad of Dreaming profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & all col. pub. Melbourne Malakoff Fine Art Press 1989 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.138. Fine. Price: $55.00
von BRANDENSTEIN C.G. & A.P. Thomas. Taruru, Aboriginal Song Poetry from the Pilbara. pub. Adelaide Rigby or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.92. Contains a selection, translation and annotation of songs composed by aborigines of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Eighty songs have been selected for this text, presented in their original languages and explanatory notes. Fine. Price: $35.00
WAKERLEY DORA The Storm Lantern's Travels: Missionary work Amongst Australian Aborigines illus. with b/w. plates and maps. pub. Melb. United Aborigines Mission 1990 or. black cl. 8vo. pp.213. Fine. Price: $30.00

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WALLACE PHYL & NOEL Children Of The Desert. Profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Melb. Nelson 1968 1st.ed. or.brn.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.64. Price: $30.00
WALSH GRAHAME L. Australia's Greatest Rock Art Profusely illus. with col. plates, text illus. and maps. pub. New South Wales Bathurst E.J. Brill / Robert Brown & Associates, 1988 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. oblong pp.312. Grahame Walsh was the world's leading expert on Australian pre-historic rock art. He criss-crossed the remote vastness of Australia in search of pre-historic rock art, paying particular attention to the unique Bradshaw Paintings. Price: $1,500.00
WANDERER Aboriginal Stories And Legends Of the Northern Territory. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. in green ink, pub. N.T. Alice Springs nd.194-? or. beige and green illus. wrappers cr.8vo. pp.32. Printed in double column. Stories and reminiscences. very good copy. Price: $35.00
WARLUKURLANGU ARTISTS Yeundumu Doors Kuruwarri. illus. colour paintings and black & white line drawings, maps, bibliographical references pub. Canberra Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1987 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.144. Text is in both the original Warlpiri language and English translation. Explores the complex relationship between paintings, stories and Dreamings. The first painting in the book is of the Young Boys' Dreaming. The book proceeds through 29 other paintings including such Dreamings as Yam, Witchetty Grub, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Honey Ant, Rain and Milky Way, and ends with old man Possum. The Warlukurlangu Artists painted the representation of their Dreamings on the doors of the Yuendumu School in the Northern Territory. Fine. Price: $50.00
WEBB Rev. T.T. - The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land. illus. with map, pub. Spectator Press Melbourne 1934. or. printed wrappers; 8vo pp.40 A Methodist lecture. A fine copy. Very scarce. Price: $95.00
WEBB T.T From Spears to Spades illus. with b/w. plates t/out. some full page; pub. Melbourne: The Book Depot, 1944 Second edition, original beige wrappers with title repeated on front cover, 12mo. pp.80, An account of the Aborigines of Arnhem Land by a former Chairman of the Methodist Mission to the Aboriginals of North Australia. Price: $60.00
WELLS ANN E. Tales From Arnhem Land. illus. with drawings in sepia tone & b/w. some full page by Margaret Paice, e/paper drawings; pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1959 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.98. neat inscription to f/free e/paper else fine. Price: $60.00
WEST MARGIE K. C. Editor The Inspired Dream Life as Art in Aboriginal Australia illus. with 92 colour plates including frontis. pub. Brisbane Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory in association with the Queensland Art Gallery for World Expo 88, 1988. Or. stiff card wrappers, 4to. pp.112. Fine. Price: $45.00
WILLEY KEITH When The Sky Fell Down. The Destruction of the Tribes of the Sydney Region 1788-1850s. illus. with 10 full page plates t/out. two col., one map pub. Syd. Collins 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.232. Price: $45.00
WILLSTEED THERESA (ed) Hetti Perkins And Margie West (Curatorial Editors) One Sun One Moon Aboriginal Art in Australia. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007 1st. ed. or.cl. title blind stamped, d/w. roy.4to. pp.368. Description and record of Aboriginal artists, including discussion of regional art and interviews with artists. As mint copy. Price: $125.00
WILLMOT ERIC Pemulwuy. The Rainbow Warrior. (novel) illus. with 2 maps pub. Sydney Weldons 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.pp.310. fine. Price: $35.00
WILSON GRAHAM J. - Pilbara Bushman. The Life Experience of W. Dunn. illus. with frontis. (portrait) and maps text plates t/out. pub. W.A, Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1989 1st ed. or laminated pictorial papered boards 8vo. pp.90 Signed by the author; and W. Dunn, fine copy. Price: $75.00
WILSON PAUL Black Death, White Hands illus. with b/w. plates t/out. pub. Sydney Allen & Unwin 1982 or stiff wrappers 8vo. pp.150, index. Price: $20.00
WONGAR B. Karan. (novel). pub. Melb. Macmillan 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.248. v/fine. Price: $35.00
WYCLIFFE Bible Translators. Australian Aborigines Branch. Jesusandamunku Jawun-karranka. Preliminary translation of the Acts of the Apostles into the Gugu-Yalanji language. Approximately five hundred people speak gugu-Yalanji on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula between Mossman and Cooktown. illus. with b/w. dwgs. t/out. pub. Wyncliffe Bible Translators 1972 or. ornge. & blk. illus.wps. blk.cl. binding to spine cr.8vo.obl. pp.340. sl. stain to rear wrapper otherwise fine. Price: $125.00 Parcel Costs

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