Pacific Profiles. Volume Ten: Allied Fighters – P-47D Thunderbolt Series. Southwest Pacific, 1943-1945
CLARINGBOULD, Michael John Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. Small quarto, 108 pages with numerous illustrations (including 94 colour aircraft profiles and a colour map). Colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy.- $26
- $26
Margaret Olley
PEARCE, Barry Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales/ The Beagle Press, 2012. Quarto, 128 pages with numerous illustrations (78 in colour, from paintings by Margaret Olley). Papered boards; extremitie slightly rubbed and bumped; an excellent copy with the lightly creased and rubbed dustwrapper. With contributions by Barry Humphries, Jeffrey Smart and Christine France. Some related ephemera is loosely inserted (including the 4-page catalogue for the artist's 1990 exhibition at Greenhill Galleries). Published to accompany the exhibition of Olley's work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 October 1996 - 5 January 1997.- $69
- $69
Hell’s Airport and Lasseter’s Lost Legacy
[Lasseter's Reef]. COOTE, Errol Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1981 ('third and edited edition')/ 1934. Octavo, 142 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map. Colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; laminate lifting at the top corner; ink ownership details; a very good copy. 'Account of author's exploits as a member of Harold Lasseter's gold prospecting expedition 1930-31 [with] reference to Aranda, Luritja, Eumos and Wongapitcha (Pitjantjatjara) people in text and photograph captions' (Trove). Foreword by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.- $52
- $52
Tom Downer’s Legacy. The Story of the State Horse-Drawn Vehicle Collection of the National Trust of South Australia
COUCH-KEEN, Glenda Springton, The Author, 2002. Quarto, [vi], 55 pages with numerous illustrations plus several pages of colour plates. Laminated papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper very slightly creased. One of 1000 copies.- $34
- $34
Paris ‘Regard de Côté’
WHITELEY, Brett Paddington, Australian Galleries Pty Ltd, 1990. Oblong quarto, 71 pages with 67 full-page illustrations by the author. Colour pictorial card covers with flaps; covers slightly rubbed; contemporary ink ownership signature; an excellent copy. 'A series of gouaches, drawings and photographs made between June and July 1989. The only ground rule was to try and produce one work a day, for 60 days. I rented an apartment in the Rue de Tournon and set out immediately on this adventure of side glances, these split-seconds of scribble.' - Brett Whiteley, 1990' [Pamela Williams, Australian Financial Review, 24th July 1992].- $41
- $41
Boston, Mitchell and Liberator in Australian Service
WILSON, Stewart Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992. Quarto, 155, [2] (advertisements) pages with numerous illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards; corners a trifle rubbed; a near-fine copy. The eighth book in the Australian Air Power series.- $45
- $45
The Truth about the Killing of Daniel Yock. Workers Inquiry Exposes Police Murder
[Aboriginal deaths in custody] Marrickville, Labour Press Books, 1994. Octavo, 158 pages, [7] (publisher's advertisements) pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs). Pictorial card covers a little rubbed; pages slightly thumbed; edges slightly marked; a very good copy. 'This volume contains the record of the campaign conducted by the Socialist Labour league and the Committee for a Workers Inquiry' (from the blurb).- $45
- $45
Excavations at Star Carr. An Early Mesolithic Site at Seamer near Scarborugh, Yorkshire
CLARK, J.G.D. (and others) London, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1971. Quarto, xxiv, 200 pages with 20 tables and 80 illustrations plus 24 plates. Quarter-contrasting cloth a little unevenly sunned; top edge nibbled; endpapers a little foxed; a very good copy. With the contemporary ink ownership signature of anthrolopologist Dr John Burton, and the later colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label (crossed out in ink) of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022).- $76
- $76
Australian Coastal Archaeology
HALL, Jay and Ian J. McNIVEN (editors) Canberra, ANH Publications, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS, The Australian National University, 1999. Quarto, iv, 315 pages with numerous tables, illustrations and maps. Colour-pictorial card covers a little rubbed and slightly marked; foot of the spine with a tiny tear; an excellent copy. Research Papers in Archaeology and Natural History, Number 31.- $76
- $76
Coastal Southwest Tasmania. The Prehistory of Louisa Bay and Maatsuyker Island
VANDERWAL, Ron and David HORTON Canberra, The Australian National University, 1984. Quarto, xvi, 137 pages with 3 maps, 48 tables and 61 illustrations (15 from photographs). Pictorial card covers; extremities slightly rubbed, marked, creased and sunned; an excellent copy. Terra Australis series, Number 9.- $52
- $52
Pump in the Roadway and Early Days in the Adelaide Hills
DYSTER, Tom Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1981 (second edition)/ 1980. Octavo, 160 pages with numerous illustrations plus endpaper maps. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. 'Stories of the Adelaide Hills - colourful days of coaches, significant events at Mylor, Crafers, Aldgate, Mt. Barker, Strathalbyn, Bridgewater, Blackwood; the gold rush to Echunga, the opening of the Adelaide to Nairne railway, and the construction of the first hills highway' (from the blurb).- $17
- $17
Australian Genesis and Exodus. The Stories of Derwent Lees and Horace Brodzky, their lives, their familes, and their in-common friends and acquaintances
LEW, Henry R. Melbourne, Hybrid Publishers, 2023. Quarto, viii, 332 pages with 151 plates (145 in colour, mostly from paintings). Colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. Loosely inserted is the publisher's abstract.- $86
- $86
Flora of Australia. Volume 45: Hydatellaceae to Liliaceae
GEORGE, Alexander S. (executive editor) Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987. Small quarto, xvi, 521 pages with 145 illustrations (20 in colour) with a colour plate and 477 location maps. Colour pictorial card covers; a near-fine copy.- $31
- $31
Boston, Mitchell and Liberator in Australian Service
WILSON, Stewart Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992. Quarto, 155, [2] (advertisements) pages with numerous illustrations (including line diagrams). Papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper (slightly creased, and with a tiny tear and a tiny production flaw to the front panel). The eighth book in the Australian Air Power series.- $62
- $62
Flora of Australia. Volume 3: Hamamelidales to Casuarinales
GEORGE, Alexander S. (executive editor) Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1989. Small quarto, xvi, 219 pages with 84 illustrations (24 in colour) with a colour plate and 183 location maps. Colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy.- $24
- $24
Marki Alonia. An Early and Middle Bronze Age Town in Cyprus. Excavations, 1990-1994
FRANKEL, David and Jennifer M. WEBB Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1996. Quarto, xxxvi, 324 pages plus dozens of diagrams and plates. Card covers a little marked; spine sunned and a little water-stained; bottom corners slightly creased and rubbed; a very good copy. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Volume 123, number 1. With contributions from Robyn Adams, Paul Croft, Dianne Simmons, Michael A. Smith, Glenn Summerhayes and Costas Xenophontos. With the ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022) (with his details crossed out in ink).- $103
- $103
The Illusion of Riches. Scale, Resolution and Explanation in Tasmanian Pleistocene Human Behaviour
COSGROVE, Richard Oxford, Tempus Reparatum, Archaeological and Historical Associates Limited, 1995. Quarto, [ii], xii, 234 pages with numerous illustrations, tables, graphs, plans and maps. Pictorial card covers lightly scuffed; spine lightly sunned; an excellent copy. With the contemporary ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). British Archaeological Reports International Series, Number 608.- $76
- $76
Modern Sedimentation and Late Quaternary Evolution of the Magela Creek Plain
WASSON, R.J. (editor) Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992. Quarto, xxviii, 322 pages with numerous graphs, tables and illustrations. Card covers unevenly sunned and a little rubbed; edges slightly marked; head of the spine slightly bumped; a very good copy. With the contemporary ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). The editor was Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region. Research Report Number 6.- $55
- $55
John Dowie. A Life in the Round
[DOWIE, John] LOCK-WEIR, Tracey (editor) Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 2001. Quarto, 88 pages with numerous plates (many in colour) plus a loosely inserted exhibition catalogue from 2006. Colour pictorial card covers; corners a trifle rubbed; a near-fine copy. Signed (in 2006) by the artist, John Dowie (1915-2008), one of the Rats of Tobruk, responsible for many of Adelaide's most definitive public sculptures. Loosely inserted is a Royal South Australian Society of Arts Inc Exhibition catalogue for a 2006 exhibition of Dowie's work (4 pages, a little creased and slightly torn).- $86
- $86
Flora of Australia Volume 8, Lecythidales to Batales
GEORGE, Alexander S. (executive editor) Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Quarto, xii, 420 pages with 87 illustrations (24 in colour) with a colour plate and 444 location maps. Cloth; front board a little bowed; pencilled ownership details; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed, creased and sunned.- $31
- $31
Bombers North. Allied bomber operations from Northern Australia, 1942-1945
LEWIS, Dr Tom Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. Small quarto, 156 pages with numerous illustrations, many in colour (including 2 colour maps). Colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. 'Drawing on a wealth of new sources . for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia' (rear cover blurb). Not least, B-25 Mitchells and B-24 Liberators.- $28
- $28
