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ANNABELL Ross
The Uranium Hunters

G ex-library with stamps and slips and shelf mark to spine in white ink

$9 C/B [AUS 43]

Rigby 1971 first edition hardcover, 172pp + plates. Uranium and other radioactive minerals prospecting in the Australian outback. ISBN 0851791522


anon
Wyong and Upper Lakes Tourist Directory Autumn 1969

VG newsagent stamp to cover

$5 B/$5 international [AUS 11]

Central Coast Tourist Directories 1969 stapled wrappers, cover title is 'Wyong, Toukley, Budgewoi and Upper Lakes' 32pp + covers, includes adverts , maps, photos, newsprint stock paper.


BATESON Charles
Dire Strait, a history of Bass Strait

VG VG light edge wear to DW

$15 B/C [AUS 27]

Reed 1973 first edition pictorial hard cover 4to, 112pp well illustrated with full colour full page photographs as well as historic paintings etc. ISBN 0589071165 BHP



BLAINEY Geoffrey  Mines in the Spinifex The Story of Mount Isa Mines
VG+ but DW G+ with chipping and loss to spine ends and edges, name to fep $10 C/C A&R 1960 first edition hard cover, 242pp + plates, australian mining history of Mt Isa mines and surrounds [# 683 aushst]
CALWELL A A (Australian Minister for Immigration)
A Handbook for the New Australian, Victorian Edition.

VG- 3 small pen scribbles to cover, rubbed spine.

$8 B/ $5 international [AUS 41]

A E Keating & Cond (errata dates to circa 1950) stpaled wrappers, colour cover with colour maps to inside cover, 80pp with photographs throughout. Wide range of information pertaining to Australian beauracracy and social customs, seems to be pitched at mainly British immigrants.


CAREY Hilary
Truly Feminine, Truly Catholic; a history of the Catholic Women's League in the Archdiocese of Sydney 1913-87

VG VG light crease to DW, inscr to half title

$15 C/C [AUS 6]

New South Wales University Press 1987 first edition, hardcover x 218pp B&W photos, errata slipped in. ISBN 0868402583


CARTER Jeff
People of the Inland

VG VG lacks fep otherwise near fine in same price clipped DW.

$10 C/C [AUS 47]

Rigby 1966 first edition hardcover, 295pp + plates. The men and the women of the Australian outback, both black and white and the lives they lead.


CASEY Gavin & MAYMAN Ted
The Mile that Midas touched, the story of Kalgoorlie.

VG VG unclipped DW light edge wear, lamination starting to lift at upper joint.

$40 C/B [AUST 33]

Rigby 1964 first edition hardcover, 236pp + plates. Western Australian gold mining town of Kalgoorlie. A history of the town and the mining activity thereabouts.


CLARKE Peter
Hell and Paradise, the Norfolk- Bounty- Pitcairn Saga

VG VG

$25 C/D [AUS 26]

Viking 1986 first edition cloth 4to, 189pp fully illustrated in colour and line. History of the island settled by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian concubines, and the convict island where Australia's worst were sent. ISBN 0670815217


ENRIGHT W A
Maitland 1863-1963

VG- tape stain to cover

$20 B/C [AUS 15]

Oswald Ziegler Publications 1963 first edition pictorial hardcover, 80pp with colour and b&w photos, on the front cover a vertical area of brown residue left by long gone sellotape that has lifted some of the surface of the district coat of arms is the only fault. a centennial history work on the Australian city of Maitland.


FERRES Arthur
His First Kangaroo

G+ upper joint split bottom 3/4, corners frayed, some minor spotting to soime pages.

$20 C/C [AUST 34]

Blackie undated, 288pp +6 plates by Percy F S Spence and 32pp adverts, green decorated cloth with Kangaroos in the sunset. Late Victorian Australian young adults fiction.



GUTH Henk
Alice Springs as it was in old photographs

FN

$20 B/B [AUS 13]

Privately published June 1985 first edition card wrappers, 147pp of sepia historic photos from 1870 upto 1960s.


HARTLEY Wesley
Methodism in the Municipality of Randwick 1858-1973

VG light soiling and fading to wraps.

$8 B/$5 international [AUS 36]

Randwick 1973 stapled sheets in card wrapper, 47pp. Includes B&W photos. Australian Church history.


HILL Ernestine
The Territory

VG small chip fore edge of frontis

$15 C/C [AUS 4]

A&R 1951 first edition cloth, 454pp very tidy copy without DW.


HILL Ernestine
The Great Australian Loneliness

G rubbed cloth, lightly foxed throughout, mainly to margins, binding open at frontis, name to fep.

$15 C/C [AUS 48]

Jarrolds 1937 buckram 8vo, 334pp +64pp adverts, plates and map end papers. A journalists reports of travel about the entirety of Australia, from coast to 'red centre', tropics to the south.


HILLIER Rob
A place called Paddington

VG VG publisher applied label to title crediting the editor as Jannie Southan

$15 B/C [AUS 14]

Ure Smith 1970 first edition hard cover, 96pp mainly B&W photos of famous places and people in Sydney's suburb of Paddington inthe late 1960s period. ISBN 0725400234 bohemian sydney artists architecture


LITCHFIELD lois
Marree and the tracks beyond in black and white, commemorating the Centenary of Marree 1883-1983

VG minimal rubbing

$25 C/C [AUS 18]

Privately Published 1983 second printing laminated pictorial covers,x 198pp, photographic illustrations throughout. ISBN 0959173900 Kujani tribal territory aboriginal


MADIGAN C T
Crossing the Dead Heart

G ex library stamps, plates, shelf mark etc

$15 B/B [AUS 5]

Georgian House 1946 first edition, cloth 171pp + plates and folding map, complete and tidy but for the library additions, the Simpson Desert Expedition of 1939


MILLS Jenny
The Timber People a history of Bunnings Limited

VG VG

$20 C/C [AUS 9]

Bunnings Ltd 1986 first edition hardcover, xii 296pp, B&W photos, ISBN 0958910804 western australia timber and hardware merchants company history



NILAND D'Arcy & Leslie Raphael  Travelling Songs of Old Australia including complete words and music, guitar chart and illustrated annotations
VG aged paper stock, dust soiled wraps $20 B/A Horwitz 1966 first edition stapled wraps, 39pp. Folk songs and ballads. [# 1165 australia]
NUCOLORVUE
THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS OF AUSTRALIA in Natural Colour

VG

$5 B/$5 international [AUS 12]

Nucolorvue undated 1960s Enlarged Revised Edition photographic stapled card wrappers, 32pp, full colour throughout, booklet produced to promote the hydro electric scheme, includes photos of the construction etc.


POLLACK Michael
Sense and Censorship, commentaries on censorship violence in Australia

VG VG

$30 C/D [AUS 22]

Reed 1990 first edition hardcover, 399pp with illustrations. Twelve prominent Australian writers who struggled with censorship are treated by the author. Edward Smith Hall/ Charles Harpur / J F Archibald / Miles Franklin / Henry Boote / Norman Lindsay / Brian Penton / Frank Hardy / Dorothy Hewett / Terry Hayes / Chris Masters / Brian Toohey. ISBN 0730102696 australian literature


R.A.A.F. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE DIRECTORATE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
RAAF Log The R.A.A.F. at war

VG hinges loosening but unbroken, minimal foxing to frontis

$45 C/C [AUS 16]

RAAF Australian War Memorial 1943 cloth 4to, 200pp line drawings and colour plates, dec endpapers, a morale piece issued during the war.


RABONE Harold R
Lord Howe Island It's Discovery and Early Associations 1788-1888.

VG a few minor spots to some margins.

$10 B/$5 international [AUS 50]

Australis 1972 edition wrappers, 54pp + plates. Probably intended for visitors to the island as a guide. History and gazetter of the islands places and resources. Reprint of 1940 edition. Slipped in is a three page letter from a resident of the island.


SHARLAND Michael
Stones of a Century

VG- VG- slight faint watermark top edge of a few pages at front, wear to spine ends DW sunned spine with loss of title and some staining to spine ends, tape rust to fold in flaps, closed edges dusty

$30 C/C [AUS 23]

OBM Hobart 1969 second edition cloth, xii 78pp + plates. many photographs of the architectural antiquities of Tasmania, beautiful Georgian buildings etc. Internally tidy copy. Australian architecture historic buildings photographic Tasmania


SMITH P R illustrated by B Biro
The Story of Australia

VG- G foxed endpapers and prelims, offset tape stains to boards (minor), light bumping to bottom edge of boards. DW tape stains to verso and tape residue to spine and fore edge folds where tape has dried and flaked off, better than it sounds!

$15 B/B [AUS 37]

Ernest Benn 1959 first edition hardcover 4to, 64pp. Illudtrated throughout and to DW by Biro. An intorduction to Australian history and culture. part of the Stories of the Commonwealth series.


WEBBY Elizabeth
Early Australian Poetry, an annotated bibliography of original poems published in Australian newspapers, magazines and almanacks before 1850

VG VG DW minimal wear

$20 C/D [AUS 21]

Hale & Iremonger 1982 first edition cloth, 334pp + plates. ISBN 0908094914 poetry literature australian georgian victorian ephemera


WHITE J W R
Morgan Centenary 1878-1978 Commemoration Book

VG

$20 B/C [AUS 19]

Morgan Centenary Committee 1977 first edition limited to 3000 copies, laminated pictorial boards, 136pp illustrated with b&w photos throughout. ISBN 0959636102


WILSON H H
Gateways to Gold

VG G torn and chipped DW, inscr half title

$10 C/B [AUS 8]

Rigby 1969 first edition hardcover 169pp + plates, DW chipped top and bottom edges and split to folds, covers the Murchison (Australia) goldfields. gold mining prospecting


WILSON H H
Westward Gold !

VG VG sunned spine to DW and book otherwise tidy.

$25 C/B [AUST 32]

Rigby 1973 first edition hardcover, 185pp +plates. Western Australian goldrush centred on Perth at the turn of Twentieth Century. Gold and Opal mining. ISBN 0851794920

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