Broome: Through the Lens of Master Photographer Fernande Kuypers
Broome: Broome Historical Society, 2002. Oblong, wraps, b&w photographs, pp 112. Traces of water damage to last few pages, good condn.
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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.
Pearls of Broome and Northern Australia
Perth: The Author, 1994. Royal 8vo, pp. 84, colour plates, stiff wraps, v.g. History and anecdotes of pearls and pearling days in Broome.
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.....
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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