Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2007. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, map, pp 301. Fine condition. 'This book is a product of a whitefella's desire to see justice brought to those whom Autralia's justice system has so far failed: the blackfellas. It is an attempt to present a history that embraces.....
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press/Miegunyah Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp xlviii, 232. Near-fine in like d.j. David Unaipon was an early Aboriginal political activist, scientist, writer, preacher and inventor. In the 1920s he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia, but when the.....
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, map, pp xxii, 234. Foxing to top edge and minor edgewear top edge of dustjacket. Near-fine in like d.j. Examines how graphic forms are used by the Walbiri people to create a poteniially unlimited set of specific.....
Richmond (Vic.): Greenhouse, 1988. 1st ed., quarto, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp.256, colour illus., maps, previous owner's inscription, small markings rear d.j. Near-fine condition in like dust-jacket. Traditional bush medicines based on Aboriginal knowledge. Details of over 80 plant species used in the preparation of medicine arranged in alphabetical series.....
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1990. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, map, pp xvi, 147, remains of sticker to front. Very good condition. The first collection of its kind, in an amazing diversity of styles. Selections here are from four distinct Aboriginal language groups of North Queensland, Central Australia, Arnhem.....
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 296. Pencilled annotations to one page. Very good condition. Covers a wide range of musical styles, artists, and contemporary issues. Includes a discography listing all the artists referred to and their recordings, and rare photos...
Halls Creek: Kimberley Language Resource Centre, 2010. 1st ed., Royal octavo, wraps, colour plates, b&w illus, pp 188. Previous owner's signature. Near-fine condition. Prepared by the Jaru elders, this book preserves and promotes the Jaru names and uses of over 400 plants and animals from Jaru country in the Kimberley.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xvii, 329. Near-fine condition. The significance and symbolism of Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on fieldwork conducted among the Yolngu people of Northeast Arnhem Land, Morphy explores the graphic representatation of traditional knowledge in Yolngu art.
Melbourne: Heinemann, 1993. Octavo, wraps, 32 b&w plates, pp 422. Occasional pencil annotations (to pp. 139-145, table of contents, bibliography). Very good condition. A gathering of over 70 Aboriginal voices recounting their memories. Australia's first national black oral history. Illustrated with photographs.
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, b&w plates, pp xiii, 221. Near-fine condition. The talented black cricketeres who toured England in 1868 have become one of Australia's enfuring sporting legends. Former Test player Ashley Mallett has dramatically reconstructed this important pioneering tour and also included.....
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1996. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xxiv, 367, remains of sticker to rear inner wrap. Near fine condition. Uncommon. The Dyirbal people of the Cairns rainforest region in North Queensland have a rich heritage of song poetry. This pioneering study examines the words and.....
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xxv, 244. Near fine condition in lightly edgeworn d.j. Examines the clash between Aboriginal justice and the white justice system, including the disturbing consequences of the impostion of the British justice system.
Broome: Magabala Books, 1993. Royal 8vo, pp. xxii, 226, Index, colour and b/w ills., original pictorial wrappers over illustrated card covers. Near-fine condition. The sacred sites and stories of the Kimberley. (Title on cover underneath dustjacket: Yorro Yorro: Aboriginal Creation and the Renewal of Nature : Rock Paintings and Stories.....
NSW: Rosenberg, 2007. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus, pp 119. Very slightly rubbed to the bottom edge. Near-fine condition in like d.j. An overview of indigenous relationships to plants in Aboriginal Australia, including: insights into Aboriginal culture through looking at the roles of plants in language, ritual.....
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996. Octavo, stiff wraps, b&w illus, maps, pp xxiv, 421. Fine condition. A bold account of Aboriginal responses to invasions and dispossession in NSW, told through the words of many of the key activists.
London: Routledge, 2004. 1st ed. thus, octavo, wraps, b&w illus, map, pp xlii, 294. Near-fine condition. Phyllis Kaberry was the first Australian woman to be recognised as a fully trained and qualified anthropologist. and the first anthropologist to examine and understand the fullness of Aboriginal women's lives. Kaberry's Kimberley fieldwork.....
Sutherland (NSW): Albatross, 1990. Large octavo, stiff wraps, b&w illus, pp 956, Pencilled annotations to small section pp 435 - 450. Binding creased and just starting internally at halfway point, o/w v.g. In-depth study of missionaries in Australia since first setlement. Includes chapter on Western Australia.
Perth: Native Welfare Council, n.d. ( 1939). 1st ed., small octavo, pp.28, illustrated with b&w photographs (dated 1939), light creasing to upper cnrs., some marking to original paper wraps with small hole in margin to cover, contents clean. Very good condition. Scarce Articles most likely written by Sir Paul Hasluck.....
Adel. Rigby, 1968. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour photo frontis, b&w plates, colour plates (including one folding), maps, pp xix, 116. Closed tears to rear panel of dustjacket, repaired. Scarce. 'Winbaraku' is the result of research carried out by Mountford on his 1960 journey into the north-west of.....
Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications, 1988. Photography by Barry Skipsey. 1st edition, quarto, pp. 144, colour photos, original boards,lightly rubbed, some sunning to d.j. Presentation inscription, signed by the author (Nadine Amadio) and aboriginal artist, Charlie Tjapangati. Very good condition. Aboriginal artworks of the Papunya School.
Perth: University Of Western Australia Press, 1983. 1st ed., oblong quarto, pp xx, 244, b&w plates and family trees, sepia pictorial title-page, contents clean, dust-jacket in proteced glassine. Near fine condition. This book provides an insight into the lives of the Aborigines (Nyungar) in South-West Western Australia. Documents events and.....