Miegunyah press 2006 (46 resultados)

Large 8vo, 258pp. Colour illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Minor wear and fading.

Large 8vo, 258pp. Colour illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition; 433 pages.

hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition; 231 pages, colour and b/w photos, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

4to, 254pp. Colour illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

8vo, 429pp. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket.

8vo, 233pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

xii+433pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. A fine copy. First edition.

4to, 243pp. Colour illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

paperback in very good condition; 245 pages, b/w photos.

8vo. xx+168pp. Original boards in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition.

8vo, 389pp. A very good hardback copy in rubbed dust jacket.

Paperback. David Unaipon-the man on the $50 note-was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. He also acted as a 'collector' for the Aborigines Friends' Association. Most of the stories come from his own Ngarrindjeri people, but some are from other South Australian peoples. The stories were in 1930 as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, but the author of the work was given as W. Ramsay Smith, FRS, anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia. Unaipon's name does not appear anywhere in the book, except where he is mentioned in passing as a 'narrator'. In putting together this new edition of the stories Unaipon collected and transcribed, Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker have undertaken a 'literary repatriation', restoring the text to its original form and bringing it home to its community-the community to whom the stories belonged in the first place. The descendants of David Unaipon played a pivotal role in verifying and editing the manuscript, noting anything which is inconsistent according to their knowledge, and restoring any words lost in the transcription from the hand-written version to the microfilmed typescript. In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith. The stories are accompanied by a substantial Introduction, which gives the historical and cultural context of Unaipon's work, and recounts the complex sequence of events that led to the theft of his book. These are USED books. Please only purchase if you are happy with that. Images & Editions We use stock images and database descriptions based on the ISBN. The image shown may NOT be the actual book cover you will receive. Covers, editions, printings, and publishers may differ. If you need a specific cover, edition, or printing, please contact us before purchasing. What "Used" Means Because these books are pre-owned: Colouring books may be coloured in Textbooks may have answers filled in, highlighting, notes, or underlining Workbooks may have writing inside Access codes, download codes, CDs, DVDs, or online content are usually missing or already used Books that originally came with toys, inserts, maps, cards, or bonus items will usually NOT include them Pages may be folded, marked, or show normal signs of use If you are buying a book for anything other than reading (e.g. colouring, study use, collecting, gifts, specific covers, bonus items, or digital access), used books may not be suitable. Condition All books are listed as Used - Good Books are clean and readable but not new Some books may have: Writing, highlighting, or markings Folded pages or minor wear A small warehouse or inventory sticker on the spine Original retailer stickers (we do not remove them) Our Process We purchase books by the pallet and scan thousands at a time. For this reason, we cannot photograph or individually inspect every book. Acknowledgement By purchasing, you acknowledge that: You understand the book is used You accept the condition and limitations described above Stock images and descriptions may not exactly match the item received Thank you for supporting Oak Books and helping give books a second life.…

xii+258pp. Small 4to. Original boards with gilt lettering in a pictorial dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Bookplate. A fine copy. First editon.

8vo, 389pp. A very good hardback copy in like slipcase. Minor bump to lower left.

8vo, 349pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket.

4to, 254pp. Colour illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket with a faded spine. . Signed by Juan Davila. Davila was born in Chile and moved to Australia in 1974.

Super Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Quarto hardback in dustwrapper, 232 pages, illustrated, a fine copy. First edition. From the collection of Austalian art historian Leigh Astbury with signature.

4to, 179pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

8vo, 873pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xii + 257pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., index.

8vo (23x19cm), hardback, xii + 231pp. Very good condition, in very good dustwrapper (bumped, mild creasing). Light shelf wear, signed by author at title page. With b&w and colour photographs. Pictures available on request.

8vo (23.5x19cm), hardback, xiv + 257pp. Very good condition in very good dustwrapper (light wear only). Some b&w photographs, colour illustrations. Pictures available on request.

4to. 234pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a fine copy. . First edition, signed by author.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xii + 257pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., index.

Octavo,349 pp.,illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. In 1800 François Pà ron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. As his colleagues either deserted or died, he would rise rapidly within the expedition's ranks and even write its official account. In doing so, Pà ron would seek to destroy Baudin's posthumous reputation. The expedition was famously marked by the vexed relationship between Pà ron and Baudin, but Pà ron's work, as a man of science, profoundly enhanced the achievements of the expedition: he seized valuable opportunities to pioneer zoological, oceanographic and ethnographic studies, and as an ecological observer was remarkably prescient. Edward Duyker's meticulously researched biography of Pà ron takes readers on an engaging and wide-ranging journey-from the heart of pre-revolutionary rural France, to the bitter fighting on the Rhineland front in 1793-94, to the late eighteenth-century Paris medical school, to landfalls in the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, to the little-known shores of Van Diemen's Land and New Holland, and back into the very heart of Napoleon's Empire. This is both a balanced assessment of the difficult relationship between Pà ron and Baudin, and an analysis of the conduct of science during some of the most turbulent years in French history.…

reprint softback with french flaps Nice copy octavo 245pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, sources, index, In 1933, Anthropologist Donald Thomson fought to secure the release of 3 Yolngu men jailed for killing five Japanese pearl fishermen & three Europeans. At the same time he made the most comprehensive photographic record of a functioning aboriginal society we will ever have. Wrappers loose o/w a nice copy.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo viii + 273pp., col. pls., bibliog., indexes, This book covers the gardens of Elizabeth Macarthur; Georgiana Molloy; Louisa Anne Meredith; Una Falkiner; Winifred West; Beatrice Bligh; Edna Walling and Kath Carr. Small closed tear to dust jacket o/w 'as new'.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket New book octavo xii + 257pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., index.