Catherine Stanton John (31 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 182 pages, many illustrations, 27cm tall, quarto, bibliography, index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Methuen Australia, Published 1982. Hardcover, 176 pp.; 28 cm; First Edition; over 130 numbered plates in color and black-and-white, with maps. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards, white lettering on spine with METHUEN at foot. Mild bumping to edges and corners, a hint of color loss along edges, front board slightly bowed and does not lie perfectly flat. Binding tight. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Pale yellow pictorial jacket, front panel with a stone head from La Grange, Western Australia, rear panel with a bark painting, Aranga, Oenpelli, western Arnhem Land. Light bumping and creasing to jacket edges and corners, mild shelf wear, with fading to the jacket spine and over the top edge of the rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. A national survey of Aboriginal art across rock painting and engraving, bark painting, sculpture, body art and domestic objects, set within its socio-cultural and religious context rather than treated formally. Ronald M. Berndt (1916-1990) and Catherine H. Berndt (1918-1994) came to the University of Western Australia in 1956 to establish anthropology there, and in 1976 founded its Anthropology Research Museum, renamed the Berndt Museum of Anthropology after his death; their collaborator John E. Stanton was its curator. The book is dedicated to the Aboriginal artists whose work it illustrates, with royalties assigned to a trust fund for the museum to buy Aboriginal art, and the Preface divides the labour: Ronald Berndt wrote the text and plate annotations, Catherine Berndt edited it, Stanton assembled the plates and maps. Published as Aboriginal art was being revalued from ethnographic artefact to fine art, the closing chapter, Changing Directions, takes up the trend away from traditional forms, work through a European medium and what the authors call the renascence of Aboriginal art, and the front flap puts the case plainly: none of it can be seen to advantage if forced into the narrow confines of "primitive" or "ethnic" art. Contents: List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; Perspectives and Meaning; Living Traditional Art; More about Living Traditional Art; Art in Everyday Affairs; More Art in Everyday Affairs; Changing Directions; Descriptive Annotations to the Plates; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean and sound copy. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gift Quality First edition very good condition hardcover in a very good dust jacket gently read clean.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 176pp, index, bibliography, 150+ col & bw ills, maps. Brown cloth in jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket which has toned sticker mark on front panel, spine a bit faded. An authoritative consideration of the place of Aboriginal art within its own traditional settings, and the contribution of such art, not only to Aboriginal heritage, but also to the cultural heritage of wider Australian society. Not only illustrating the diversity of paintings, drawings and carvings the book encourages a greater understanding and appreciation of what the Aborigines have achieved. Size: 4to.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 176pp, index, bibliography, 150+ col & bw ills, maps. Brown cloth in jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket which has toned sticker mark on rear panel. Small triangle excised from front free endpaper and half-title page. An authoritative consideration of the place of Aboriginal art within its own traditional settings, and the contribution of such art, not only to Aboriginal heritage, but also to the cultural heritage of wider Australian society. Not only illustrating the diversity of paintings, drawings and carvings the book encourages a greater understanding and appreciation of what the Aborigines have achieved. Size: 4to. …

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 4to. original burgundy boards gilt (slightly rubbed & bumped, a little thumbed, upper fore-corner of half-title excised) in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed & creased); pp. 176, with illustrations. Heavy item (1.35kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 176pp. 27cm. frontispiece & Illustrations throughout, the majority in colour. Maps. Full description of the illustrations at the end. Bibliography. Indexes. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sydney, Methuen Australia, 1982 (first edition). Quarto, 176 pages with several maps and 158 illustrations (many in colour, each one fully described and annotated). Papered boards lightly bumped at the foot of the spine; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (slightly creased), still in the original publisher's mailing carton.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Large heavy 4to. in brown boards white lettering to spine, 176pp on thick glossy art paper, colour plates, bibliography, index etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW very clean and tight unmarked and unread copy (faint shelf-rub to cover bottom edges) in a slightly spine sunned but otherwise AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

reprint hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 176pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, bibliog., indexes, Inc. paintings, drawings, sculpture, sacred figures, mortuary figures & posts.

Boards. 1st edition. 4to, original cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, pp 176. Dustjacket faded to top edge, Book in near-fine condn.

4to, 624pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy quarto 176pp., colour & b/w plates, map, bibliog., indexes, A thoughtful & authoritative consideration of the place of Aboriginal art within its own traditional settings.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cloth. Macmillan, 1964. 1st American ed. 73 color plates. Very good copy . Dj edge worn, ragged top of spine.; 10.8 X 8.0 X 0.5 inches; 182 pages.

Hardback. This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged Ronald Berndt to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on their story to future generations. A World That Was encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization. 1993, First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w that is now in a protective cover. A superb copy. Scans available if required. {"length"=>["25"], "width"=>["19"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dark green boards with gilt lettered spine in illustrated dustwrapper. xxxi, 624 pages, Illustrated with 36 text figures, 10 maps, and 45 monochrome photos on plates, appendices, 7.5 X 10 inches. Near fine book in a near fine dustwrapper.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Miegunah Press Series #11. blue boards, unclipped dj w/ Murray River ceremony illus, all exc, unread, bright pristine copy; 36 b/w txt fig, 10 b/w maps, 45 b/w photos on plates, appendices, 624 pp. results of the Berndt's joint fieldwork done principally 1939-1943, 'encyclopedic, engrossing, sometimes dramatic' Size: 7.5"-10".…

Gr.-8°. 175 S. Original-Schutzumschlag, mit 153 Abbildungen, Kopfschnitt hellbraunfleckig, sonst gutes Exemplar Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

176 pp including index, quarto, tinted end-papers, line drawings, coloured and b&w photographic plates and illustrations, d/j spine faded, else very good copy in like, pictorial d/j. Scarce hardback edition.

280x215mm, 176pages, colour photographs, Book in good condition. Envois Europe : TVA inclus dans montant final. Exceptions taxes postales locales à la charge de l'acheteur (~2 EUR). Si nécéssaire, contact via notre page d'accueil / Shipping to Europe : VAT included in total amount. Local postal fees apply to buyers in Europe (~2 EUR). Contact us via our homepage if needed.…

176pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Colour frontispiece, 153 plates, all colour except 10, maps, bibliography, name index, subject index. A near fine copy. .

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1993 [first Canadian edition]/ 1993. Quarto, xxxii, 624 pages with 36 illustrations, 20 tables and 10 maps plus 20 pages of plates (comprising 45 illustrations from photographs). Papered boards; bottom edge very lightly shelf-marked; bottom corner of the front free endpaper lightly creased; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. One of the Miegunyah Press series, first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'.…

4to; pp. xxxii, 624; 45 plates, 36 figures, 10 maps, 20 tables, appendices, bibliography, index to Aboriginal personal and family names, index to place names, general index, original green cloth, title in gilt on spine, in dustjacket, a fine copy. . The book recreates in great detail the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. First edition and decidedly scarce. The Canadian issue. "The last fine-grained account of traditional aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition). Quarto, xxxii, 624 pages with 10 maps, 20 tables and 36 illustrations plus 20 pages of plates (comprising 45 illustrations from photographs). Papered boards slightly bumped on the front bottom edge; small light mark to the leading edge of the text block; an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper (lightly creased). One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. A copy of the publisher's original media release (quarto, one leaf, printed recto only) is loosely inserted.…