Bilma, First Edition (6 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Illustrations are taken from Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Glossary. 71pp. Biege lining papers. Olive linen boards with title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Poetry, Poems. Hard Cover.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First US printing. First collection of poetry (interspersed with some short fiction pieces) by this Australian aborigine writer who uses B. Wongar as his pseudonym. The overall theme of his writing is the conflict between cultures, and especially the conflict as it relates to attitudes about the land. Illustrated with aboriginal paintings. Ex-library with relatively few l markings, and overall tight and clean in a very good dustjacket (spine faded.).

Poems, Australian Aboriginal author. First U.S. Edition. 71 pages. Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0814203701.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Columbus. 1984. Ohio State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0814203701. 69 pages. hardcover. Cover designed by Kent D. King. keywords: Oceania Australia Literature Poetry World Literature. DESCRIPTION - This first collection of B. Wongar's poetry, interspersed with a few pieces of new short fiction, elaborates what the novelist Tom Keneally described, when reviewing Wongar's THE TRACK TO BRALGU in the June 25, 1978 New York Times Book Review, as ' a black man's picture of that lethal conflict between a race that sees the earth as no more than a quarry and another and more ancient one to whom it is an extension of body, soul, and family.' inventory #8718.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First American edition. Illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a sunned spine. The first collection of poetry interspersed with new short fiction from Wongar, the pseudonym of an Australian aborigine.

Chapel St.Leonards: Exploration Sahara/Privately Published, 1991 Wrpps, 4to. 68pp. colour illustrations on 7 plates, map, glossary. The account of an expedition across the Sahara in 1974. Worldcat lists only the SOAS and Smithsonian copies. With a signed presentation inscription from the author, a very nice signed copy of the first edition in the publisher's printed brown wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O].