Published by Imperial Printing Co, Perth, 1944
Seller: Magnus Berglund, Book Seller, Sutter Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gray boards with dark red spine. Light wear to corners. Old Perth book store stamp on FEP. Light pencil scribbles on half title. Pages are clean and not torn. Light tanning throughout.
Published by Bulletin, The, Sydney, Australia, 1936
Seller: Sumter Books (Manly, Inc.), Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Third impression. Bookshop sticker affixed to front pastedown. Pages browning, with spotting, especially to foreedges. Covers show wear and soiling. Significant chipping and tears to edges of dustjacket, although portrait on front cover untouched.
Published by Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1966
Seller: A Different Chapter, Cairo, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's stamp inside front board; clean interior, good binding, wear to the edges and corners of the cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Macmillian, Australia, 1965
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Elizabeth Durack (illustrator). 2nd Impression. Jacket is not price clipped, has a small tear on the front panel. Slight fade to spine.
Published by Marlin Books, Richmond, Victoria, 1978
ISBN 10: 0091308518 ISBN 13: 9780091308513
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Elizabeth Durack (illustrator). reprint. slight loss of colour on the spine section of the binding, double page map of Australia on the inside of the front cover, and illustrated black-and-white drawings, and several with and ochre wash. First softcover edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 137 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Elizabeth Durack. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Horses; Australia; ISBN: 0091308518. ISBN/EAN: 9780091308513. Inventory No: 0257305.
Published by The Bulletin, 1935
Seller: Reasons To Live Books, Gibsons, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second impression. Slight foxing to the edge of the text block. Some wear on the spine. Light staining on the front and back covers. Actual copy pictured in photo.
Published by Macmillian, Australia, 1965
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Elizabeth Durack (illustrator). 1st Edition. Jacket is price clipped, has a small tear on the back panel. Corner wear. 1st edition , 1st printing.
Published by Bantam, Sydney, 1990
ISBN 10: 0552110558 ISBN 13: 9780552110556
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. photographs (illustrator). reprint. Illustrations and maps, acknowledgements, foreword by the author, introduction to this edition and index. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs and illustrations. The text is also illustrated with the odd map stop colour illustrated paperback binding with green and brown coloured titles to the front panel and green and black coloured titles to the back strip. Mary with a profound sense of family history has rebuilt the saga of the Duracks, from the time when Patrick left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853 where he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle land across great stretches of Australia. Some creasing of the book corners and reading creases to the back strip. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Previous owner has placed an ex-libris plate to the verso of the front cover. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 416, [2] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; 19th century; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0552110558. ISBN/EAN: 9780552110556. Inventory No: 0287623.
Published by Rigby, Adelaide, 1963
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing. No dj. Illustrated boards are bowed, bumped and spine head, and with scattered foxing along upper edges. Small bookstore label on front pastedown. Pages and illustrations all clean and unmarked. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.
Published by Cassell and Co., 1111
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content age-toned, no inscriptions, webbing visible at title page (repairable), unpaginated, colour illustrations. Fair DJ with some edge wear and creasing.
Published by The Bulletin, Sydney., 1935., 1935
Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970. PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
106pp. (last blank). 24cm. Tipped in colour frontis. portrait. Line illus in the text. Foxed. Lacks free front end paper. Hard cover. Soiled and worn. Front hinge weak. * A poor copy.
Published by Angus & Robertson Sydney 1965 (first edition), 1965
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
19.5 x 13cm, 132pp, very good hardback & dustwrapper The story of an Aboriginal youth, a "bodgie" who grows up on the outskirts of an Australian town and falls into petty crime. First novel published by an indigenous Australia author. This was 'the first novel by any writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia'.
Published by Rigby Limited, Adelaide etc, 1963., 1963
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardback, 26.5x23.5cm, unpaginated. Good condition (general wear and foxing; bumped and worn at corners; 4.5cm split at front lower hinge) in fair dustwrapper (major wear and tear; 4-5cm tears at head and foot of spine; 1-2cm tears at corners; 1cm tear at back upper edge; creased and worn at edges). Pictures available on request.
[46]pp. 8vo. Coloured illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Original paper-covered pictorial boards, backstrip chipped, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.
Published by Imperial Printing Company, 1935
Seller: The Known World Bookshop, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First published 1935; this second edition published December 1935. Orange cloth at spines, parchment coloured boards with silverfoil illus. Small puncture to cloth near spine, light foxing, else very good.
Publication Date: 1943
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. Perth: 1943. Fifth impression (Wartime) of the original 1935 edition. 76 pp. An intact and good-only copy in brown card boards that are worn at the spine. No internal markings except for a lovely gift inscription inside front cover. Pages are toned due to quality of war-time paper. No dust jacket. Tales of the aboriginal inhabitants of Argyle Station. The Durack sisters lived at the remote Argyle Downs and Ivanhoe cattle stations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. In the late 1920s and early '30s they managed the Ivanhoe cattle station and their brother managed Argyle Downs. During these times they lived and worked closely with the indigenous people who worked on and lived near the station.
Published by Rigby, Melbourne. 1963., 1963
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Landscape 4to, unpaginated, colour & black and white illustrations. A good hardback copy in edgeworn dust jacket with tape-repaired closed tear. Some light offsetting to endpapers.
Published by Cassell, 1945
Seller: The Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Condition: Reading Copy. Durack, Elizabeth (illustrator). Grey paper-covered boards with brown lettering. 18cm x 24.5cm. Unusual and attractive illustrations on every page. Covers heavily worn. Corners bumped. Spine has been reinforced by a previous owner with a grey fabric tape. Inner hinges have been reinforced at some time with brown parcel tape, now peeling. Stitching has pulled in places. Contents generally good, but two pages have ink splashes on them, and one leaf is detached, and the first two pages have a small scuff/tear at the centre.
78pp. 4to. Original boards in slightly repaired dustwrapper. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. A very good copy. Revised edition of work from 1941.
[44]pp. Oblong 4to. Colour and b/w illustrations by Elizabeth Durack throughout. Original pictorial boards in dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.
78pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. A near fine copy. Revised edition of work from 1941.
Published by The Bulletin, Sydney, 1936
Seller: The Known World Bookshop, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Paper covered boards with illus. front board and orange ckoth spine. Inscription front free endpaper, light foxing, else very good.
Published by The Bulletin, Sydney, 1935
Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970. PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 105pp. 24cm. Tipped in colour frontispiece. Black and white vignette line illustrations in the margins. Decorated boards over cloth spine. Externally soiled and with edge wear. Internally with scattered foxing and light tanning to the text block. Corner cut from free front-end paper. Only a fair copy.
Published by Lerner Publications Company, 1968
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: 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!.
Published by Lerner Publications Company, 1968
Seller: The Bookworm, Herrin, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1966 Lerner first thus; library pocket removed; one small school stamp; clean text and tight binding; A1S12.
HARDCOVER. The Bulletin, 1944. Sixth impression. A good copy in lightly soiled and rubbed boards. The edges are tanned. The front free endpaper appears to have been neatly removed.
Published by The Bulletin - Sydney, Australia, 1936
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Peach colored cloth half-bound to spine over textured heavy paper on boards with blue-gray titling and line drawing of a "Piccaninny" (black child). Set in Australia. Story of Indigenous peoples and settlers. Some fading to the cloth on spine and minor wear to the boards along with minor spotting to interior.
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd., Melbourne, n.d.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
8vo (24.5x18cm), hardback, unpaginated (ca 42pp). Goodish condition in like dustwrapper (generally worn, a bit grubby, chipped and torn, bumped, 2.5x1cm chip to surface at lower left rear, triangular piece missing from upper rear edge, tears along front fold but hanging on - now in protective cover). 2cm sections of spine extremities missing, section of lower spine has been repaired, edges bumped and chipped, foxed, age-toned, general wear, bookseller's label at title page, gift inscription to upper margin of title page. Interior good, contents bright and clear. Pictures available on request.
Published by Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1965
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, 1965/ 1964. Small quarto; colour pictorial papered boards; edges of preliminaries slightly tanned; essentially a fine copy. Illustrations by Elizabeth Durack.
Published by Macmillan And Co, 1965
Seller: Archive, Sth Hobart, TAS, Australia
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Elizabeth Durack (illustrator). Reprint. Near Fine In A Very Good Jacket With Light Handling Wear Pp 137 Endpaper Maps Illustrations.