Three Faces of Love. Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry
West Melbourne, Nelson, 1976. An abridged version of 'Love Songs of Arnhem Land'; however, the plates are reproduced here in colour. More
West Melbourne, Nelson, 1976. An abridged version of 'Love Songs of Arnhem Land'; however, the plates are reproduced here in colour. More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press (for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies), 1970 (first edition). More
Sydney, Ure Smith, 1964. Contributors include Ronald M. Berndt, A.P. Elkin, C.P. Mountford, Frederick D. McCarthy, T.G.H. Strehlow and J.A. Tuckson. More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1979. In the Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series. Another copy we have handled was one of only 300 copies; the half-title of this copy neither has the printed limitation details nor the number-stamp. More
Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1954. More
East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 1970 (first American edition)/ 1970 (first published in Australia by Ure Smith). 'The Gunwinggu of Western Arnhem Land, one of the few matrilineally-oriented societies of Aboriginal Australia'. More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts in association with Ure Smith, 1973. More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
Sydney, New Holland, 1999. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition). One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. More
Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1993 [first Canadian edition]/ 1993. One of the Miegunyah Press series, first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1920. This issue contains numerous other papers, unrelated but of considerable interest, including some by eminent scientists such as Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson ('Observations on the Physiology of the Fly's Intestine', 13 pages), and Professor Frederic Wood Jones ('The External Characters of Pouch Embryos of Marsupials', 13 pages..... More
[No Place, No Publishers, presumably The Authors], 1997. More
London, Macmillan & Co, 1945 (second impression)/ 1945. With the ownership signature of Professor Charles Jury on the front free endpaper. More
Rome, Collegio San Clemente, 1977 and 1978. The first volume is inscribed 'Finalmente! 23.xi.1977. San Clemente, Roma' by its sole author, scholar and palaeographer Leonard Eugene Boyle OP OC, later Prefect of the Vatican Library (1984-1997). More
Amsterdam, Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (first volume) and Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1931, 1934 and 1942. Important monographs on yeasts; the text is in German. Provenance: Dr Lance Walters (Chief Brewer at the South Australian Brewing Co. from 1944 to the 1980s), with his signature in the cloth-bound volumes, and his ink..... More
Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1977. A few Art Gallery of SA stamps. More
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1874. The only published book of poetry by this important South Australian novelist; the title work, of 130 pages, is subtitled 'A Chronicle of the Burke and Wills Expedition'. More
Adelaide, Lothian (for Robert Hale, London), 1945 (first Australian edition)/ 1943. More
Pretoria, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Relations, 1964. 'In each lecture emphasis was laid on the family group which, of course, will differ in its composition and the responsibilities of the various members of the family when viewed in terms of different regions and countries. The lectures cannot..... More
Norwich, Geo Books, 1986. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label (crossed out in ink) of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). La Cotte De St. Brelade is 'the largest and most productive cave or rock-shelter site in the British Isles [and] was originally made famous..... More
Toowoomba, The Author, 1998. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. An anthology of traveller's tales from Africa and Australia to Russia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. More
Canberra, Phytoglyph Press, 1985 and 1987. Volume 1 is number 50a in an edition of only 50 copies plus 'a print overrun of 20 copies'; Volume 2 is number 165 of an edition of 300. An explanatory slip, and the original purchase receipts, are loosely inserted. [2 items]. More
Scarsdale, John W. Barnes, 1976. More