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Published by Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964., 1964
First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. vi, 123; illustrated frontispiece, 16 b/w. plates, large fold-out map, appendix, original maroon cloth title lettered in gilt on spine, institution bookplate on front endpaper and institution stamp on back of title page, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce.
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia (LBSA), Adelaide, 1964
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hardback quarto, no jacket asissued, very good plus condition, burgundy cloth cover, black & white photos (including frontispiece), foldout map inside rear cover, typewritten text, endpapers minimally toned & foxed, minor edgewear. 320 pp. In 1940, Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga. Sheard died shortly afterwards during the war in an aircrash in New Guinea. This book reproduces Sheard's diary of his trip, which is held among the Charles P. Mountford material in the State Library of South Australia.
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1964
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 [first and only edition]. Quarto, [iv], 123 pages with a few illustrations plus 19 plates and a folding map; loosely inserted is a printed note from the publisher ('Appendices 2 and 3, which are referred to in the Journal have not been included. They were incomplete at the time of Mr Sheard's death'). Cloth slightly flecked and marked, and lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; new endpapers; the map was detached at one time, and is now a little foxed and creased, with three small tape-stains at one end, and the author's name written in ink in the margin at the other end; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy. Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga in June-October 1940. He was eighteen at the time; he died in an air crash on active service over New Guinea in 1942.
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1964
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 [first and only edition]. Quarto, [iv], 123 pages with a few illustrations plus 19 plates and a folding map. Cloth lightly marked and scuffed; top edge a little foxed; free endpapers lightly tanned; an excellent copy. Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga in June-October 1940. He was eighteen at the time; he died in an air crash on active service over New Guinea in 1942. We have previously handled a copy with a loosely-inserted printed note from the publisher: 'Appendices 2 and 3, which are referred to in the Journal have not been included. They were incomplete at the time of Mr Sheard's death'.
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1964
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 122 p., [15] leaves of plates: ill., fold. map; 26 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Plates. 0.0.