Forty Years with the Aborigines
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1930. The author was 'Protector of Aborigines of Queensland for sixteen years and Protector of Aborigines, Western Australia, sixteen years' (from the title page). More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1930. The author was 'Protector of Aborigines of Queensland for sixteen years and Protector of Aborigines, Western Australia, sixteen years' (from the title page). More
Adelaide, The Author, [circa 1960?]. Signed and dated (19 October 1996) by the author, who spent over twenty years as patrol padre of the Methodist Inland Mission in the Northern Territory. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1973. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 30, Social Anthropology Series Number 5. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1973. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 30, Social Anthropology Series Number 5. More
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1954/ 1907. Number 603 of 1000 copies signed by the author (as 'Jeannie Gunn'). More
London, Allenson, 1938. Of considerable Australian interest. "The writer regrets that his MS. was in the hands of the publishers before he was able to consult Sir James Frazer's most recent work on the subject of Totemism, viz. 'Totemica'" More
Wien [Vienna], Verlag Herold, August 1950. Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität Wien, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Number 1. The text is in German ('On individual and gender totemism in Australia'). More
Adelaide, Printed at the Hassell Press for the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1930. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975. With the later colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 58, Prehistory and Material Culture Series Number 8. More
Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1936. This is Anthropology Leaflet Number 32 from the series published by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chigaco. More
Bethlehem, Interprovincial Board of Christian Education, Moravian Church in America, 1983 (second edition)/ 1967. Not stated as such, but from the collection of Reverend Bill Edwards, and with his occasional emphases. More
Perth, Imperial Printing Company, 1933. The author wrote from personal experience dating back to the 1860s. Provenance: 'Mrs W.A. Norman | Mitcham' is written in ink on the first (blank) page; the Normans had a lengthy connection with Mitcham, and William Ashley Norman compiled the history of the suburb, published..... More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development Inc./ Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979 (revised)/ 1974. An introduction to kinship and relationship terminology. More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development Inc./ Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979 (revised)/ 1974. An introduction to kinship and relationship terminology. More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1977 (second edition)/ 1974. An addendum, the entirety of page 9, is loosely inserted. More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1992 (third edition)/ 1977 (second edition)/ 1974. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1976. More
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1984. Signed by the author on the title page. Not least, nine pages on the Lutheran missions at Kopperamanna and Killalpaninna. Loosely inserted are a printed invitation to the book launch and a short autograph card signed by the author repeating the invitation. More
[Norderstedt], Missionswerk in Niedersachsen, Hermannsburg, [2000]. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author, and with a loosely inserted inscribed Christmas gift card dated (18 December 2000) also signed by the author to Australian wheat breeder A.J. 'Tony ' Rathjen. Text in German. Pages 445-490; apparently extracted from: Lüdemann, Ernst-August..... More
London, Robert Hale, 1957. Inscribed by the author 'All the best from your Northern Territory friend, Bill Harney, Ayes [sic] Rock NT Ranger, 59'. With a Foreword by Professor A.P. Elkin. More
[Darwin, Government Printer, 1970 (reprint)/ 1968]. 'The Rock and the area around it is rich in Aboriginal mythology and it is fitting that Bill Harney should have collected and recorded the legends surrounding the sites and the prominent features of the Rock itself'. Harney was the 'Keeper' of the Rock..... More
Melbourne, Novalit, 1975. More
Canberra, Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 2003. Terra Australis series, Number 19. More
Alice Springs, IAD Press, 1994. Provenance: Reverend Bill Edwards, late of Ernabella, with his ownership sticker on the title page. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1970 (second, expanded, edition)/ 1942. 'This authoritative contribution to the study of colonial policy and Australian history in the nineteenth century has been much in demand since its first appearance in 1942. It offers to the social anthropologist and others an account of seventy years of..... More