The Drowning Dream
Perth: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998. Octavo, wraps, 2 b&w maps, pp. 264, very good condition. Novel set in Broome. Mystery, romance and deep-sea pearling.
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Shark Bay Through Four Centuries 1616 to 2000
Perth: Shark Bay Shire, 1999. 1st ed., quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pp 415. Light creasing to spine. Very good condition. Very detailed history of the Shark Bay Region, from the days of the first recorded European landing in Australia and discussing early exploration, shipwrecks, Aborigines, pearling, etc.
The Pearl Fishers: A Story of St Francis Xavier
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Cl dec bds, no date, a reprint circa 1930, one b&w plate, pp. 245. Decorated cloth boards show a galleon, a group of Japanese and a priest, in dark blue on light blue. Spine shows a storm on a tropical island. School ink stamp on.....
Forty Fathoms Deep, Pearl Divers and Sea Rovers in Australian Seas
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937. 8vo, pp. x, 343, x, b/w frontis, b/w plates, front endpaper maps. Original green cloth boards. Some creasing to spine, small tear between the front endpapers. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition. Includes numerorous photographs of pearling, divers, pearl luggers, Broome, etc.
The Book of the Pearl, The History, Art, Science and Industry of the Queen of Gems [1908]
London: Macmillan, 1908. 1st UK edition, quarto, original white buckram cloth with gilt decoration, col frontis with tissue guard, many plates (some in colour), maps, pp xix, 548. Very slightly darkened to edges of boards, minor foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean and in near-fine condition. First edition, first issue of.....
The Bulletin, Wednesday, November 20, 1957 - Volume 78 - Number 4058
Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Company, 1957. Small 4to, pp. 60, b/w ills., pages yellowed particularly edges, pink paper wraps, stapled spine, edges yellowed, ink note to reart top edge, 6cm tear rear top edge but intact. National Australian Newspaper. Includes story 'Pearls Before a Tortoise' by Stuart McDonald...
The Young Pearl Divers, A Story of Australian Adventure by Land and Sea
London: John MacQueen, ( 1901). Illus. H. Burgess. 1st UK ed., 8vo, original pictorial cloth boards, school prize (1905) gilt vignette embossed rear board, b&w frontis, b&w plates, pp 256 plus viii pp publisher's catalogue bound in. N.d., [1901]. Boards rubbed to extremities and fraying along edges of spine, front.....
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