Seed of the Coolibah. A History of the Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka People
Adelaide, The Author, 2003. More
Adelaide, The Author, 2003. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2014. More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during the Second World War. There is a lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper from 'Des C. Smith, Chaplain, 43 Batt. RSAR, 1967 - ?, 10/9/72'. Text on the both flap of the..... More
Corella, The Degener Timms Publications, 2000. The story of the restoration of a locomotive in Gympie, Queensland. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, [1976]. Offered together with a companion volume by the author from the same publisher: 'Nanna's Travels and Stories of the Outback' (1977; 99 pages with numerous illustrations; pictorial paperred boards; a fine copy). An 'insight into pioneering days in the outback cattle country in Australia' (foreword);..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2020. 'Biting the Clouds - a euphemism for being stoned on opium - combines historial, personal and cultural imagery to reclaim the Badtjala story from the colonisation narrative' (rear cover blurb). The Badtjala are indigenous to K'gari (Fraser Island). More
Dedicated 'To His Worship The Mayor and the Aldermen of Warwick, England, from the Mayor and the Aldermen of Warwick, Queensland'. All photographs are captioned (mainly in the negative). Scenes of and in the town (193 Ă— 243 mm) are 'Warwick from Free Stone Ck. Road'; 'Warwick from Waterworks'; Warwick..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 208; one of 500 copies (and only 425 thus). A few sheets of related ephemera are loosely inserted. Surprisingly, this is the first time this important work has been reprinted. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 208; one of 500 copies (and only 425 thus). Surprisingly, this is the first time this important work has been reprinted. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1848. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220. This copy is number 7 of only 99 numbered copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of 600 copies; with the prospectus and original purchase receipt loosely inserted. The 14-page..... More
Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast City Gallery/ The Arts Centre Gold Coast, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. More
[Townsville], James Cook University of North Queensland, 1990. Provenance: With the Canberra ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. Number 10 in the Studies in North Queensland History. More
[Banksia Beach], The Author, 2012. 'Of seventy plus Simpson Desert crossings, these are my six most memorable' (caption for map 2). More
South Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1994. More
South Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1994. More
Canberra, National Museum of Australia, 2012. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. With the small ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 208; one of 500 copies (and only 425 thus). Surprisingly, this is the first time this important work has..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 [facsimile edition]/ 1848. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220; one of only 501 copies thus. The 14-page introduction by Valmai Hankel and Valerie Sitters is new to this edition; publisher's brochure is loosely inserted. More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1849. With the ink ownership details (National Museum, 20 January 1997) and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. One of the Les Hiddins series of facsimiles; the six-page introduction by Hiddins and three of the plates are new..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile)/ 1861. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies. More
Adelaide, The Author, 2003. More
Sydney, Australian Museum, 1993, 1996 and 2003. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Numbers 10, 12 and 17. Dr Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), 'physician, anthropologist and protector of Aborigines [the first northern protector of Aboriginals] ... published eighteen ethnographic bulletins, based on his official reports, on various aspects of Aboriginal..... More
Charters Towers, 'Presented to the Charters Towers Patriotic Committee, by the Staff and Proprietary of "The Northern Miner"', 1915. An advertisement for the souvenir appeared in the local paper, 'The Northern Miner' on Thursday 2 September 1915: 'Patriotic Day Souvenir.... To be sold for one shilling each.... a rare production..... More
Sydney, B. Jackson & Co., [1919]. Unusually, the biographical entries in the book are grouped together by the places the men came from (although this is useful in a parochial sense), and there are many family groups. With very few exceptions, all the men commemorated here appear to come from..... More