Dewar Mickey (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce title. Paper covered copy. As new except for age toning to all edges. From back cover: In the 1930s Australia was stunned by a series of seemingly inexplicable murders of non-Aboriginal people perpetrated by the Arnhem Land Yolngu. After eight deaths in two years, newspapers were calling it the 'Black War'. Missionaries, police and the media were equally convinced they knew the reasons for the killings. Following the arrest and trials of the alleged killers, non-Aboriginal Australia was forced to debate the issue of their occupation of the continent. In the process, issues of Aboriginal rights to justice and defence of their land were raised. Darwin, NT: Australian National University North Australian Research Unit; 1992. 110pp. 25cm x 18cm.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy tall octavo xiv + 107pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index,

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. x, 162pp, appendices, footnotes, bw ills. Pictorial card. Light edghe wear to cover. The notorious Fannie Bay Gaol opened in 1883 with 31 inmates. It was eventually closed in 1979. As well as killer, bushrangers, cattle rustlers and thieves Fannie Bay Gaol also housed innicent offenders whose only crimes were to be vulnerable to colonial law-Chines e and Aboriginal prisoners, the poor, the insane and children convicted of crimes. Size: Small 4to.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Darwin, NTU Press, 1999. Large octavo, x, 162 pages plus 10 pages of plates (reproducing 16 photographs and a plan of the gaol). Pictorial card covers unevenly sunned and very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. 'In September 1883 notorious Fannie Bay Gaol opened its doors with thirty one inmates. For the next ninety six years Fannie Bay Gaol housed those elements of Northern Territory society who transgressed the law of the northern frontier including killers, drug dealers, bushrangers, cattle rustlers and thieves. Fannie Bay Gaol was home also to the innocent offenders whose only crimes were to be vulnerable to colonial law: Chinese and Aboriginal prisoners, the poor, the insane and the children convicted of crimes' (from the blurb). Signed.

Paperback. Good condition. Signed by editors. Includes chapters on Nation and Assimilation: Continuity and Discontinuity in Aboriginal Affairs in the 1950s; Populating the Northern Territory; The Art of Engagement: Indigenous Art and Outside Influence etc. 219pp. ISBN 0975761420.