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New York: Scribner, 2010. viii, 468pp, index, sources, notes, bw ills. Or cloth backed boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket, prev owner bookplate on front pastdown. Explores the prohibition era from 1920-1933 when the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution restricted the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Westport, CN: Praeger, 1995. xvii, 120pp, index, bibliography. Blue cloth, no jacket. Prev owner name stamps on edges and endpapers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: New York University Press, 1986. xi, 198pp, index, references, tables/graphs. Green cloth, no jacket. Sticker shadow to front, prev owner name stamp to edges. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Sydney: The Federation Press, 1995. xviii, 314pp, index, references. Card covers. Prev owner stamp on title page and page edges. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific, 1977. 72pp, index, bibliography, appendix, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. Crease at bottom front corner, possibly glued at contents page.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Auckland: Polynesian Press, 1980. 140pp. Pictorial orange card. Light rubbing and edge wear, light foxing to edges, red remainder line on bottom edge. Collects, translates and explains some 560 Samoan proverbial expressions.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Suva: Government Press., 1972. ix, 195pp, vocabulary, diagrams, exercises. Brown cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, slightly edge worn, spine faded. Bookseller stamp inside fornt cover, some toning to endpapers, foxing to page edges.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: National Temperance Society & Publication House, 1886. 411pp, index. Brown cloth, no jacket. Ex- library of the QueenslandTemperance League with their stamps to front endpaper and title page, round paper label to spine. Lacks front free endpaper. . . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press., 1993. xviii, 226pp, references, maps, bw ills. Or card. Light foxing to top edge, rub mark on front free endpaper. A series of studies of aspects of language and culture in different parts of Aboriginal Australia.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies., 1978. xii, 297pp, bibliography, tables, map. Slight edge wear to cover, minor foxing to top edge. The Ngandi language was probably ony spoken fluently by about 6 people at the time of writing. Most spoke other languages such as Nunggubuyu, Ngalakan, Ritharngu or Alawa in addition to Pidgin English. Since they were scattered at… Read more about this item

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies., 1976. xi, 314pp, maps, referemces. Light gray card. Very slight edge wear to cover, light foxing to top edge. Papers on various indigenous languages from Cape York, Queensland. Includes one paper on Roth's peninsular vocabularies.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies., 1984. xiv, 664pp, index, bibliography, appendix. Slightest of edge wear to cover, minor foxing to top edge. The Nunggubuyu language is spoken by some 2-300 people formerly hunter gatherers on the Arnhem Land coast opposite Groote Eylandt. The majority of the Nunggubuyu people were settled at Numbulwar Mission in 1952. Sections include: Segmental phonetics/phonology;… Read more about this item

Redfern, NSW: Tribal Warrior Association, 2018. 68pp, col ills, map. Pictorial spiral bound card. A cultural history and language textbook for the Coastal Sydney language. Exercises on the left hand pages and the story of language on the right.. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Fine. Oblong 8vo.

Sydney: Mandarin, 1997. ix, 254pp, index, appendices, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. Light even toning to page edges. The author took a job as a patrol officer in the Northern Territory in the late 1950s. He looks back with rare and often shocking honesty at his travels through the NT and his encounters with tribal Aborigines, hardened drovers, cattle barons… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Sydney J. Endicott, 1925. 48pp, bw ills. Red cloth, no jacket. Spine faded, a few minor marks to cover, frontis detached but present, moderate foxing. Scarce early edition of this little booklet. Illustrations of bw portraits of Indigenous individuals (unnamed).. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo.

Sydney: New Holland, 2010. 281pp, references, bw ills. Pictorial card. Near new. When police are protecting drug dealers and paedophiles, someone has to act. A true story. Police corruption in New South Wales.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986. xv, 372pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by then Chief Commissioner of Victorian Police, Mick Miller. . Signed by Police Chief Commissioner.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Dundee: William Middleton, 1846. [title continues: A description of the marine steam-engine and notice of the screw propeller: with short practical treatises on the various branches of marine insurance and average, and general information in regard to maritime affairs]. viii, 408pp, appendices, bw line drawings in text, 2 folding plates. Brown cloth with leather spine and corners (half leather) titled… Read more about this item

London: George G Harrap, 1933. 259pp, index, corrigenda. Maroon cloth, no jacket. Spien faded, 2 small bookseller labels inside front cover, page edges evenly toned, a little foxing to prelims. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.

Melbourne: Sid Harta Publishers, 2018. xii, 239pp, endnotes, appendices, chronology, bw ills. Pictorial card. Near new.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.