UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS
Written by Frane Lessac. Illustrated by Frane Lessac.
Stock no. 1831551
Published by Candlewick Press. 1st USA 2019. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

After nightfall in Australia, families watch movies as bats flit overhead, mysterious orbs of light bounce across the outback, a staircase to the moon appears reflected at the ocean's edge, and a Ferris wheel offers a citywide view - under the Southern Cross. Bright and colorful artwork, engaging verse, and captivating facts. Find the dog in every scene. Matt pictorial boards. Full page colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 9781536202267. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and rubbed at corners.

AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS AND BIRDS
Written by Sheila Hawkins. Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins.
Stock no. 1831550
Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book on Australian nature, concentrating on the most curious or charming of all these creatures for illustration. Everything from Great Kangaroos to the exquisite Feathertail Gliders; from the koala and its 'near relation' the wombat to the prickly echidna which likes to eat raw eggs through a hole in the shell... Pictorial cloth boards. Green two-tone illustrated endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. 64 pages. Boards bright. Foxing to top edge of text block. Name and date in ink to colophon page else contents beautifully clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, 2" split to top of front fold (no loss), scuffed.

EARLY DAYS IN AUSTRALIA: STORIES OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT
Written by William Howitt; Ralph H. Major; John Pinkerton; et al. Illustrated by W.R.S. Stott.
Stock no. 1331304
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1934. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Pioneer Series. Blue cloth with dark blue titles and vignettes. Front endpapers are maps (listed as being at pages 1 and 161 on contents page). 320 pages. 8 colour plates. Spine and corners bumped. Some light foxing to cover edges and to contents. Top corner of front free-endpaper has been removed (map not affected). Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss and grubby to rear panel and spine.

THE FATAL IMPACT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1767-1840
Written by Alan Moorehead.
Stock no. 1831257
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The late Alan Moorehead evocatively recounts the almost inevitable tragic consequences for the native people and cultures of the South Pacific when Western man "discovered" them, even when the discoverer, Cook, was no conquistador and had come with high hopes of peaceful and productive co-existence. Green cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w photos and illustratilons. xiv and 230 pages including index. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.

NODDY: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL LYNAGH
Written by Andrew Slack.
Stock no. 1831232
Published by William Heinemann Australia. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rugby - Biography of the Australian record-breaking fly-half. Black boards, white title to spine. Colour & b/w photos. xi and 276 pages including index. ISBN: 0855615710. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased and scuffed.

THE ART OF ARTHUR BOYD
Written by Ursula Hoff; T.G. Rosenthal. Illustrated by Arthur Boyd.
Stock no. 1831133
Published by Andre Deutsch Limited. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is the first major study of Arthur Boyd since the long out-of-print book by Franz Philipp. This book is illustrated with more than 200 pictures, ranging from line drawings to engravings to sculptures to pastels to the major oil paintings and constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Australian art. The author is a noted authority on Australian art. Introduction by T.G. Rosenthal. Large format. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. 247 pages. ISBN: 0233978240. Text block lightly browned, top edge has some minor foxing. A few grubby marks to endpapers. Light browning to page edges else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby.

DOLPHINS, WHALES & ME
Written by Mike Bossley.
Stock no. 1831116
Published by Moonglow Publishing. 1st 2022. Very good condition.

Dolphins and whales are a "mind in the waters", with self-awareness, culture, and complex communication. But they, and their cousins the whales, are under threat almost everywhere from hunting, entanglement, habitat damage and toxic pollution. This book puts Dr Mike Bossley's research and activism into an international perspective on the campaign to protect these enigmatic beings. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 264 pages. ISBN: 9780645299526. SIGNED by the author (Best wishes) to title page. Corners of covers lightly worn. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

AYERS ROCK: ITS PEOPLE, THEIR BELIEFS AND THEIR ART
Written by Charles P. Mountford.
Stock no. 1830527
Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd.. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

This is a study of the huge monolith that rises over 1,100 feet in the western desert of central Australia, and the daily life, beliefs and art forms of its aboriginal inhabitants, the Pitjandjara tribe. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 5 colour plates, b/w plates and figures to text. Fold out pages of cave painting sites. xiv and 208 pages including index. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with slight loss and closed tears, spine lightly faded.

WHITHER FROM AULIS: A CHILDHOOD AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written by Anke Weihs.
Stock no. 1830127
Published by Floris Books. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Anke Weihs was one of the founders of the Camphill Movement. Born in Australia, she spent her childhood in Japan, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and later in Europe. In this book she describes the tortuous path that eventually led her to Vienna where she met Dr Konig, who was in the centre of the group which later in Scotland founded Camphill. Cream cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 272 pages. ISBN: 0863150985. Boards slightly grubby along horizontal edges. Text block lightly browned. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased and is scuffed.

PERILOUS PARADISE: PHOTO STORY OF NEW GUINEA AND ITS EMERGING PEOPLE
Written by Eric Were.
Stock no. 1829032
Published by Pacific Press Publishing Association. 1st 1968. Very good condition.

From its steamy, mosquito-infested swamps to its high fertile valleys and mist-enshrouded peaks, New Guinea presents 300,000 square miles of highly diversified terrain with 2,000,000 needy but fascinating tribal people. This land is a perilous paradise with minimum of comfort and maximum of challenge. Especially featured in this book are a group of missionaries who are doing humanitarian work, often under difficult circumstances. Matt pictorial boards. B/w photos, a few colour photos. Not paginated. Spine lightly faded, corners of boards lightly worn. Bookplate to half-title page and a few grubby marks to same. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

RAAF CAMOUFLAGE & MARKINGS 1939-45 VOL 1
Written by Geoffrey Pentland. Illustrated by Geoffrey Pentland.
Stock no. 1828790
Published by Kookaburra Technical Publications. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Visual presentation of dozens of aircraft in a variety of conditions raising from the slick new machine in factory finish to the mud-stained often bullet-ridden combat veteran. Large format. Light blue cloth boards, white title to spine. B/w photos. Colour illustrations. 144 pages. ISBN: 0858800365. Light rubbing to lower board edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. A few pencil erasure marks to front endpaper. Text block lightly browned. Contents otherwise clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed/scratched.

THE ART OF THE FIRST FLEET & OTHER EARLY AUSTRALIAN DRAWINGS
Written by Bernard Smith; Alwyne Wheeler.
Stock no. 1828619
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Smith & Wheeler. In 1788, the First Fleet landed in New South Wales, and European settlement in Australia began. Among those on board the eleven ships of the fleet were artists who recorded their impressions of the land, its indigenous people, its flora and fauna, and incidents or events which they considered significant. This volume contains many little-known works of art from the voyage and from the early years of settlement. Large format. Pale grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 256 pages including index. ISBN: 0300041187. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded, mainly to front panel.