Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 [first and only edition]. The map is neatly signed by the author. Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga in June-October 1940. He was eighteen... More about An Australian Youth among Desert Aborigines. Journal of an Expedition among the Aborigines of...

Melbourne, Nelson, 1985. More about Donald Thomson's Mammals and Fishes of Northern Australia. Edited and annotated by Joan M. Dixon...

Melbourne, Georgian House, 1950 [facsimile edition]/ 1789. Nuber 600 of 1000 copies. The first publication in the publisher's Australiana Facsimiles series. More about The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

Sydney, Ure Smith, 1964 (first edition). A related newspaper article on Percy Trezize's discovery of Aboriginal art galleries is loosely inserted. More about Australian Aboriginal Art

Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens Limited, 1948. Signed by the author on the title page (with a neat line through his printed name). More about Brown Men and Red Sand. Wanderings in Wild Australia

Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976. With the ownership signature of the Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope (1920-2018), Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus, 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' (LCA obituary). The book contains, in rewritten form... More about Tribes and Boundaries in Australia

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1964. A period newspaper cutting on Yirawala is loosely inserted. The old, 'whether practised by the natives in the distant past or in our own time' and the new, 'as taken up by contemporary white Australians working on paintings and designs for murals, pottery, textiles, book... More about Old and New Australian Aboriginal Art

Adelaide, Rigby, 1962. Signed by the author on the title page. Vic Hall (1896-1972) was an Australian writer. 'Wounded in one eye during the first Darwin air raid on 19 February 1942, this brought on total blindness by 1954, bringing his career as a painter to an end.' (rear flap). More about Namatjira of the Aranda

Milton, Jacaranda, 1969. More about West of the Darling

Adelaide, Diocese of Carpentaria, 1947. By horse from Laura (67 miles from Cooktown) to Charlotte Waters, via Camooweal, Darwin, Tanami. More about The Strenuous Saint. Being an Account of the Longest Journey of William Magney Wilkinson, Mission...