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Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Canberra, National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. Oblong quarto, vi, 218 pages with a map and numerous illustrations from photographs by Herbert Basedow. Quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards; boards slightly scuffed and scratched; an excellent copy. Exhibition catalogue containing hundreds of rarely-seen Basedow images. Not… Read more about this item

Sydney: The Legend Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, The Legend Press, 1956. Quarto, 48 pages with 17 colour plates (including two by Albert Namatjira). White-pictorial black cloth slightly flecked; free endpapers a little tanned; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed and marked.

Brisbane: University of Queensland Art Museum, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Brisbane, University of Queensland Art Museum, 2000. Quarto, 152 pages with many illustrations (78 in colour). Papered boards unevenly sunned and slightly bumped and rubbed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper unevenly sunned (particularly on the rear panel), and slightly rubbed. A presentation… Read more about this item

Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2010. Small square quarto, x, 258 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Colour-pictorial card covers; extremities slightly creased; an excellent copy.

Adelaide: Openbook Australia, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide, Openbook Australia, 2005. Oblong foolscap folio, 64 pages with numerous illustrations from watercolours. Stapled colour-pictorial card covers with flaps; a fine copy. 'Albert Namatjira's life and family, and how he became a famous artist, expressed through the eyes of the school children from Hermannsburg (Ntaria), Ipolera and Red Sand… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978. Quarto, 180 pages with 91 illustrations (73 full-page, 6 in colour) by Edward Steichen. Gilt-lettered cloth; top edge a little foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned about the spine.

London: The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2007 (second impression)/ 2006 (first thus). Octavo, xxviii, 384 pages plus numerous plates. Gilt-decorated cloth; a fine copy in the near-fine colour pictorial slipcase. With an introduction by Ron Powers. 'This edition follows that of the 1984 Viking Penguin edition, including the previously suppressed passages, with minor… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1977. Quarto, 119 pages with 2 maps and numerous illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers a little sunned about the spine; extremities slightly rubbed; a couple of slight surface tears to the front cover (due to incautious removal of a small price-label); a very… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2005. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2005 (sixth impression)/ 2000. Octavo, 335 pages plus 17 pages of plates (9 in colour). Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in the fine slipcase.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1962. Quarto, 55 pages plus 27 plates (5 in colour). Cloth; free endpapers a little tanned; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little creased and torn with slight loss. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. Vic Hall (1896-1972) was… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963 (second issue, with plain endpapers and all plates in black and white). Quarto, approximately 288 pages with 249 illustrations from photographs (most full-page). Papered boards a little rubbed; text block a little tanned; top edge slightly foxed; a… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2005. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2005/ 1988 (revised and with an introduction)/ 1939. Quarto, 264 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Quarter cloth and colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in the excellent slipcase (slightly scuffed and bumped). With a preface and introduction by Martin Kemp.

Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1848. Octavo, [xvi], xvi, 438 pages with 11 illustrations (including the title page vignette) plus 12 plates and 7 maps (4 folding). Quarter calf and cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in gilt and… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2007 (third impression)/ 2006 (first thus). Octavo, xxvi, 230 pages plus 13 pages of plates (some in colour). Quarter cloth and decorated papered boards; a fine copy in the lightly rubbed slipcase. Introduction by Robert McCrum, afterword by John Simpson.

Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2001. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2001 (first thus)/ 1858 to 1863. Octavo, xxxvi, 396 pages with a frontispiece portrait plus a large folding map. Quarter calf and cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in black on the front cover;… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Rigby, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. Quarto, [32] pages with 35 colour plates. Colour-pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed; endpapers very slightly torn; ink ownership signature; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased and sunned with a few short closed tears (repaired). Signed in ink by Rex and Bernice Battarbee on… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 2005 (second impression)/ 2004. Quarto, xx, 539 pages plus 29 plates (many full-page) and a loosely-inserted colour folding map of Burton's route. Gilt- and black-pictorial cloth; tinted top edge a little unevenly faded; bottom edge lightly marked; an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed slipcase. Introduction… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1962/ 1838. Octavo, [ii] (new preliminaries), [iv] (versos blank), iv-31 pages plus a folding map of the fledgling colony. Synthetic cloth; front cover lightly scored; free endpapers tanned; an excellent copy. Peade SA34: one of only 91 copies. This was one of… Read more about this item

Doylestown: Horizon Press for the Bucks County Historical Society, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Doylestown, Horizon Press for the Bucks County Historical Society, 1974. Quarto, 112 pages with 86 full-page illustrations from photographs by Aaron Siskind. Gilt-lettered cloth slightly rubbed; top edge slightly foxed; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper slightly creased and with… Read more about this item

[No Place: No Publisher, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. [No Place, No Publisher, circa 1997]. Foolscap folio, [2] (preliminaries), [169] leaves, printed rectos only, comprising a xerographic facsimile of a manuscript notebook with numerous diagrams. Plastic comb bound card covers; extremities a little creased; a very good copy. 'This book is a copy of the notebook kept… Read more about this item