The Lost Children: thirteen Australians taken from their Aboriginal families tell of the struggle to find their natural parents
Sydney: Doubleday, 1997. Paperback, b&w illus, pp xxv, 198. Very good condition.
Sydney: Doubleday, 1997. Paperback, b&w illus, pp xxv, 198. Very good condition.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1975. Reprint, octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, colour plates, illus endpapers, pp 80. Top edge of dustjacket worn. Very good condition in like d.j. Copiously illustrated study of the making and use of bark canoes.
NSW: Social Science Press, 1993. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pp viii, 121. Near-fine condition. A study of traditional Aboriginal society. Chapters include prehistory, the Dreaming, economic, social and political organization, religion, communication, and art. Intended for senior secondary and early tertiary students.
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.
St Lucia (QLD): University of Queensland Press, 1977. 8vo, original cloth boards, dutstjacket, map, endpaper maps, pp 185. Boards lightly rubbed, very good in like d.j., protected. A study of Aboriginal medicine men.
St Lucia (QLD): University of Queensland Press, 1977. Octavo, original cloth boards, dutstjacket, map, endpaper maps, pp 185. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Gift inscription half-title page. Very good condition in very good d.j. A study of Aboriginal medicine men.
St Lucia (QLD): University of Queensland Press, 1999. Octavo, wraps, pp xiv, 277. Crease to rear cover, very good condition. Race relations in Australia.
Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2010. Royal octavo, stiff illustrated wtaps, pp xiv, 372. Fine condition. Edward John Eyre´s 'Manners and Customs of the Australian Aborigines and the State of their Relations with Europeans' was first published in 1845, less than ten years after the establishment.....
Adelaide: Rigby, 1966. Royal octavo, original photographic illustrated boards, b&w plates, unpag. (48 pp). Near-fine condition. Photographic account of an Abriginal family making stone tools, with b&w photograph and story on each facing page.
Canberra: Curriculum Development Centre, 1982. Large 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, colour plates, pp 276. Very good condn.
Doubleview (WA): Western Australian College of Advanced Education, 1986. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 52. Near-fine. The first ten years of Aboriginal Education support networks, known as "the enclave". Includes photographs and biographical details of many of the members.
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1972. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp xii, 283. Previous owner's stamp ffep, very good in like d.j.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1983. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 175, creasing to front lower cnr and light creasing to pages otherwise very good condn.
Paris: Librairie Orientale & Americaine, ( 1906). 1st ed., text in French, octavo, pp.cxvi, 188, (i, advert), last two leaves tanned and clipped, small map of Australia (p.xi) book-plate of D'Arcy Ryan (Western Australian anthropologist), presentation inscr. ' a P. Mille, hommage de l'auteur', signed by author (A. van Gennep).....
Sydney: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1977. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 305, previous owner's signature title page, o/w very good condn.
Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1978. Illus Reg Robinson. Roy 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 55. Previous owner's ex-libris stamp title page, o/w near-fine condn.
Subiaco (WA): Human Sciences Research, 1979. Roy 8vo, pp x, 59. Near-fine condition Reference work for hospital staff and medical workers in Western Australia. Ngaanyatjarra, Wangkatja, Pitjanytjatjarra languages. Scarce.
Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Warburton Community Council, 1979. Obong 8vo, wraps, colour illus, pp 56. Compliments slip of the Australia Council loosely inserted. Near-fine condn.
Perth: Aboriginal Teacher Education Program. 4to, wraps, b&w illus, pp 31 (recto side only). Very good condn. Illustrated pre-reading booklet for the people of the Warburton Ranges area.
Perth: Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Mount Lawley Teachers College for the United Aborigines Mission. 4to, wraps, b&w illus, pp 31 (text on recto only). N.d. (1970s). Previous owner's signature on top edge of front wrap, o/w very good condn. "This is a pre-reading booklet designed for the Ngaanyatjarra speaking people.....
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.
Melbourne: Wakefield Press, 2017. 1st ed., quarto, textured cloth boards, dustjacket, colour photographs, b&w photographs, pp 280. Fine condition (new). A collection of early photographs, many previously unpublished, focusing on Indigenous Australians. Photographs by Ernest Lund Mitchell, Nicholas Caire, Charles Kerry, Charles Scott, Maxine Studios (Kalgoorlie), Charles Bayliss and others.....
Cottesloe: Focus Education Services, 1984. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, maps, pp I, 238. Small pencil marks in the margins of the Notes section, o/w near-fine condition. The history of Nyungar and coloniser conflict and the impact colonisers had on Nyungar society.
Cottesloe: Focus Education Services, 1984. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, maps, pp I, 238. Signed by the author, and with date inscribed in year of publication. Small mark edge of textblock. Near-fine condition. The history of Aboriginal and coloniser conflict.
Victoria Park: Hesperian Press, 2011. 1st ed., royal octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xvi, 212. Near fine condition. Oombulgurri in the east Kimberley "emerged from the remnants of a Christian mission [the Forrest River mission] to become one of the first independent Indigenous communities in Australia."