Perth, United Aborigines Mission - Language Department, (1959). Loosely inserted are a supplementary Pronunciation Sheet (one page quarto, produced in the later 1960s) and a receipt signed by the author. More about Illustrated Topical Dictionary of the Western Desert Language. Warburton Ranges Dialect, Western...
London, Cassell, 1960. More about Fair Dinkum
New York, Dover, 1968 [facsimile edition]/ 1899. More about The Native Tribes of Central Australia
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1956. The editor's preface is instructive. Dr Brauer completed his manuscript in 1947, having spent over 25 years on it, but it remained unpublished on his death in 1949. Pastor Strelan was tasked with reducing the manuscript to one-third of its length; the complete original work... More about Under the Southern Cross. History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia
Nambour, Caboolture Historical Society, 1974 and 1977. More about Pioneer Days. Stories and Photographs of European Settlement between the Pine and the Noosa...
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966. Provenance: Mary Campbell (Mollie) Dawbarn (1902-1982), biochemist and nutritional physiologist, with her signature; later, 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). More about The Relations between the Settlers and Aborigines in South Australia, 1836-1860
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. The ownership signature and address of Frederick Roy Vyse (1895-1957) are written in ink on the front flyleaf of each volume. His collection of Aboriginal artefacts was said to be the best outside the South Australian Museum: 'he knew the history and meanings of... More about The Arunta. A Study of a Stone Age People
Sydney, Australasian Publishing Company, 1945 (first edition). A pioneering work; essentially an Australia-wide survey of the making and powers of Indigenous medicine-men. Based on the John Murtagh Macrossan Memorial Lectures for 1944. More about Aboriginal Men of High Degree
New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1968 (emended edition)/ 1947. 'Minor emendations by the author have been incorporated in this reprint'. More about Aranda Traditions
London, SPCK (for the National Missionary Council of Australia), 1935. The bulk of the work is by the editor, with lengthy contributions (25 pages each) by A.P. ELKIN (Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal) and J.W. BLEAKLEY (The Aborigines - Past and Present Treatment). Reverend John Stafford Needham (1875-1942) was, for... More about White and Black in Australia
Milsons Point, Knopf/ Random House, 2002. More about Broken Song. T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession
Milsons Point, Knopf/ Random House, 2002. More about Broken Song. T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession
Sydney, Australian Board of Missions, 1933. 'In his former books the author deals largely with the customs, rights, implements and habits of this interesting people, describing at length his own unique contacts with them during experiences extending over forty years. In the present work the author records for all time... More about A Despised Race. The Vanishing Aboriginals of Australia
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1969. The account of the last journey, in October 1922, of the author's desperately ill father, the Reverend Carl Strehlow, overland from Hermannsburg to the railhead at Oodnadatta; Horseshoe Bend was where he died and was buried. The author, who made the trip with his father... More about Journey to Horseshoe Bend
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1947. Provenance: the front flyleaf carries the early ownership details 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). More about Aranda Traditions
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1971. The detailed four-colour map of Aboriginal Central Australia is based on information from Strehlow's field note books, 1932-1969; an extensive index is printed on the verso. 'The first complete account of the poetic heritage of the aboriginal people of Central Australia; an analysis of aboriginal... More about Songs of Central Australia
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1960. More about European Vision and the South Pacific
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979. AIAS New Series Number 3. More about Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York. An Ethnographic Reconstruction based on the 1848-1850...
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1993 (second impression)/ 1990. More about The Riches of Ancient Australia. An Indispensable Guide for Exploring Prehistoric Australia
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2009 (first edition). More about Possession. Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
Balmain, Quadrant Books, 2016. 'The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain 'sovereignty' and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states ... recognition will not make our nation complete; it will divide it permanently'. More about The Break-up of Australia. The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition
Honolulu, The University of Hawaii, 1974. 'The data reported in this book were gathered in the course of a series of expeditions, extending over some ten years, to remote communities' (including Yuendumu, Kalumburu, Lake Nash and Mornington Island). More about Medicine is the Law. Studies in Psychiatric Anthropology in Australian Tribal Societies
Ringwood, Viking, 1999 (first edition). More about Why Weren't We Told?
Ringwood, Viking Penguin, 2001 (first edition). More about An Indelible Stain? The Question of Genocide in Australia's History
