Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1986. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, maps, pp 334. Dustjacket worn and fraying to top edge. Presentation copy (to Western Australian anthropologist), signed by the author. Very good condition in good d.j. The Pintupi - a hunting-and-gathering people of Australia's Westen Desert - were.....
![Item #100726 White Man Got No Dreaming. Essays 1938-1973 [Signed]. W. E. H. Stanner](/pictures/thumb/100726.jpg?v=1675332039)
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, illustrations from photographs, illus endpapers, pp xv, 389. Errata slip loosely inserted. Presentation inscription from "W.E.H." (Stanner), half-title page. Previous owner's signature (from the library of Western Australian Anthropologist) Dustjacket sunned to spine with some frayng.....
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, 1981. Quarto, cloth boards, b&w illus, pp ix, 345. Presentation inscription, signed by the author (to Western Australian anthropologist). Very good condition. Anthropological study of the cosmology of the Ikwaye people of Papua New Guinea. Thesis submitted for a PhD at the Australian National University...
London & Edinburgh: Collins' Clear-Type Press, c. 1905. Octavo, original cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration, spine decorated in gilt, 7 colour plates (including frontis), pp 346. N.d., c. 1905. Gift inscription front free endpaper (dated 1909). Small nick in cloth at top edge of spine has been restored with new.....
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 20181. George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley (Artists). 1st ed., quarto, original boards, dustjacket, colour plates (some folding), b&w plates, pp ix, 201, ribbon-marker. Near fine in like d.j. Explores the life and work of George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley. The two artists, born in the.....
London: Freedom Press, 1954. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w frontis plate, pp 269. Very good condition in good d.j. Analysis and criticism of the Russian Revolution by the Russian anarchist 'Volin', who lived in exile.
Chicago: American Library Association, 1971. Octavo, wraps, pp xib, 142. Very good condition. An introduction to the history of jazz, with bibliography.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 496. Some fading to dustjacket. Very good condition in good d.j. Analysis of Marxism by a Soviet philosopher.
London: Thomas Nelson, c. 1910. Octavo, original cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt decoration, b&w frontis plate, b&w plates, pp 247, iii. School prize plate front free endaper. Very good condition. Short stories for children by a Norwegian-American author.
London: Book Club Associates by arrangement with Hamlyn, 1983. Original cloth boards with gilt, dustjaclet, colour plates, b&w illus, pp 1064. Near-fine condition in very good d.j. [Heavy book] Classic cookery book, first published in 1938. This revised and updated edition has more than 8,500 recipes, 47 colour plates, over.....
Perth: Ministry of Education, 1991. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, pp vi, 378. Previous owner's stamp front free endpaper, fading to rear of d.j. and spine. Includes signed letter from the author to the previous owner (Western Australian anthropologist). Near-fine condition in like d.j. Describes.....
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. 1st ed., pp.xiv, 162 pages, col & b&w plates and illus., wraps. Previous owner's stamp halftitle page, creasing to upper cnrs. Near-fine condition. The author, a curator at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, examines drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Main.....
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 1999. 1st ed., square quarto, pp.216,, profusely illustrated with colour & b&w plates, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Near-fine condition in like d.j. A stunning and emotive book, charting the photographic history of Indigenous Australia from the first photographs by Douglas T. Kilburn in 1847 through to the.....
Perth: Centre for Migration and Development Studies, University of Western Australia, 1995. Royal 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, colour plate, bibliography, pp. (xvii) 421. Near-fine condition. Detailed history of Rottnest, from its discovery by 17th century Dutch navigators to its time as a prison to its development as a holiday island.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Quarto, original cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus, pp viii, 156. Lightly rubbed dustjacket. Fine condition in near-fine d.j. Photographs of the National Herbarium of New South Wales at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Full-page colour photographs with introduction and botanical notes.
![Item #100695 War and Peace [India Paper Edition]. Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude, Louise,...](/pictures/thumb/100695.jpg?v=1674889223)
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. India paper edition, octavo, 3 volumes in one (all 15 books and 2 epilogues), pp.xxviii,1352, colour endpaper maps, award plate (Perth College) to ffep, original red gilt titled cloth boards with the crest of the college gilt blind-stamped to front board, repairs to upper spine.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1923-1928. Various editions, octavo, 7 Volumes: Vol I: (1925), 9th ed., pp.lxviii, 464; Vol II: (1925), 9th ed., pp.xiv, 570; Vol III: (1925), 8th ed., pp.xiii, 508; Vol IV: (1925), 6th ed., pp.xiii, 546; Vol V: (1923), 5th ed., pp.xv, 543; Vol VI: (1925), 7th.....
![Item #100682 The Decameron [Brentano's New York]. Giovanni Boccaccio](/pictures/thumb/100682.jpg?v=1674992713)
London: Gibbings & Co, 1914. (Illustrations after Gravelot). 4 volumes (complete), octavo, half-leather bindings, decorated and titled in gilt to spine, raised bands, engraved illus title page and frontis plate each volume, b&w plates engraved each volume, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp xxxii, 250; ix, 342; x, 356; ix.....
Darlington: Serendipity, 2007. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, 2 maps, pp xiii, 247. Signed by the author to title page with a presentation inscription from author front free endpaper. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Discusses the medical practices brought by the surgeons of the East India Company and.....
![Item #100648 The Songlines [Signed by the author]. Bruce Chatwin](/pictures/thumb/100648.jpg?v=1674641834)
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1987. Full leather binding decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, colour frontis plate, colour dec chapter headings. Includes a preface by the author not included in the trade edition. Signed by the author. Privately printed and signed for members of the Signed First Edition Society.....
Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2005. 1st ed., quarto, wraps, pp v, 239. Previous owner's stamp. Near-fine condition. Explores pressing issues confronting both Australia's Indigenous Peoples and Australia as a nation, with contributors from a range of disciplines and experiences. Sections include History of Initiatives, Indigenous Disadvantage, Economic Futures, and Education.....
Nedlands: University of Western Australia (Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education), 1997. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pp 195. From the library of Robert Tonkinson with his stamp. Near-fine condition. The Aboriginal community at Balgo in the remote north-east desert of Western Australia has retained a high level of traditional.....
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pp vii, 183. Previous owner's stamp first blank page. Near-fine condition. A study of the music of a group of nomads in the western desert region of central Australia, It is the first detailed account of the music of.....
NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1996. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, endpaper maps, pp 398. Near-fine condition in very good d.j., protected. The Horn Expedition to central Australia of 1894 set out to investigate the geology, the plants and animals, and the native peoples of central Australia.....
Sydney: Weldon, 1987. 1st ed., quarto, pp. 256, Index, colour ills., decorated endpapers, pictorial boards, dustjacket. Gift inscription ffep/ Very good condition in like d.j. Traditional foods and natural medicines of Australian aboriginals.