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Abbott, C. L .A. Australia's Frontier Province
Sydney Angus & Robertson 1950 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve.Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Small, neat gift inscription to prelim pages. 218 pages ID233901
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Blackwell, Doris and Lockwood, Douglas Alice on the Line
Adelaide Rigby Limited 1967 Reprint Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 204 pages Doris Blackwell's father was the officer-in-charge of the Alice Springs telegraph station from 1899-1908. This is her story of life at The Alice at the turn of the 20th century. ID234163
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Conigrave, C. Price North Australia
London Jonathan Cape 1936 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ a little rubbed but complete [except for price-clipping] & now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Fold-out map. Previous owners bold signature to front pastedown. 319 pages The author spent 15 years in the administrative service of the Territory of North Australia, and travelled to almost every corners of this region. Apart from topographical information the book contains many stories of people he met - white and aboriginal. ID269202
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Donovan, P.F. A Land Full of Possibilities. A History of South Australia's Northern Territory
St. Lucia University of Queensland Press 1981 0702216062 / 9780702216060 1st Edition Hardbound
Octavo Size. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. With b/w plates and maps. 267 pages The story of South Australia's efforts to maintain a colony in the Northern Territory from the beginnings in 1863 until 1911, when no longer able to carry the burden of mounting debt, control of the Territory was transferred from South Australia to the Commonwealth. ID178648
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Flynn, Frank with Keith Wi Northern Frontiers
Sydney F.P. Leonard n.d. Hardback
Octavo Size. Very Good in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic cover. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and tear to rear panel with some loss. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. vi, 210pp ID238256
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Headon, David [Edited by] North of the Ten Commandments: A Collection of Northern Territory Literature
Sydney Hodder & Stoughton 1991 0340526661 / 9780340526668 1st Edition Softcover
Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 348 pages A skilful arrangement of an extraordinary collection of myths, yarns, legends, songs, novel excerpts, jokes, speeches, journal entries, letters, interviews, poems, government enquiries and newspaper items. All of these organised under the following headings: Origins, Early White Voyages and Exploration, The Whites dig-in, White Depiction of Aborigines, The Black View, Pilgrims, My Spirit My Country, A Bastard of a Place, Sites and Sightings, Darwin Mad Capital of the North, Adventures Incongruities Incredibilities, Nature's Stage, Sprees Drunks and Race Meetings, Opening up the Country Drovers Buffalo Hunters and Miners, Rock Belong Jesus Dreaming, and Hang on like I Done. ID253277
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JARVER, Peter Kakadu Country
Darwin Thunderhead Publishing 1988 0958906718 / 9780958906715 Hardcover
Quarto Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic cover. Spot to lower edge of front pastedown and free endpaper (where prised apart previously) Illustrated with Colour photographs of high quality. 119 pages ID236939
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Kerr, Margaret Goyder The Surveyors. The Story of the Founding of Darwin
Adelaide Rigby 1971 0851792871 / 9780851792873 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 183 pages In the late 1860s, South Australia's Surveyor-General, George Goyder, succeeded where many had previously failed - planning and surveying of the town of Darwin. ID143078
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Lockwood, Douglas Up the Track
Adelaide Rigby Limited 1964 Reprint Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Contains b/w photos. 228 pages ID227794
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Lockwood, Kim Darwin Sketchbook
Adelaide Rigby 1974 085179128X / 9780851791289 Reprint Hardbound
Octavo Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good Dustjacket dustjacket (now protected). Illustrated by Ainslie Roberts. Maps to endpapers. 64 pages ID254204
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Mack, Eric (Text) and Rudd, Richard (Photographs) The Rock
Adelaide Rigby 1976 0727000489 / 9780727000484 1st Edition Hardback
Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners with small closed tear to upper front edge. Gift inscription to front pastedown. Wonderful colour photographs by Richard Rudd. 56 pages A beautifully illustrated look at Ayers Rock [Uluru] and what it has meant to man over thousands of years. ID267733
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Mc Cann, Frank Medicine Man
Sydney Angus & Robertson 1959 Reprint Hardback
Octavo size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. 208pages b/w illustrations. An account of a Doctor's life in the early days of the Northern Territory. ID253796
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McKenzie, Maisie No Town Like Alice
Adelaide Rigby 1979 0727011103 / 9780727011107 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Map to endpapers, Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. 144pages ID183848
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Opitz, Judy An English Rose in Kakadu
Virginia, NT David M. Welch 2009 0977503550 / 9780977503551 1st Edition Softcover
Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Signed by the author on the Title Page. 264 pages The autobiography of Judy Opitz which recounts her life journey from an English manor to Northern Territory Frontier. In 1960 June Rowley visited Allan Stewart's remote Nourlangie Safari Camp, there she met and married Tom Opitz who called her 'Judy'. They then set up their own Trading Post at a place they named Cooinda, on the remote Jim Jim Creek crossing a bush track in Western Arnhem Land. Later they set up the Cooinda Motel which is now an integral part of many visitors' stay in what is now Kakadu National Park. ID271975
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