Walg, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1983. October 1983. Dodd Mead. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0396081894. 213 pages. hardcover. keywords: Oceania Australia Aborigine Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - The author is this haunting novel, born of mixed aboriginal-European heritage, has lived in the tradition of tribal poetry, much of it taught to him by his late tribal wife, Djumala, the heroine of his tale. According to the fertility cult of the aborigines, the land is an extension of man's body and soul, a unity with nature that ensures regeneration cycles. If it is disturbed, life would cease. Here, it is the white man, the balandas, who are the disturbance as they ravage the earth in their lustful search for uranium wealth, even as they rape and mutilate the tribal girls whose destruction will extinguish the tribe and vacate the mineral-rich territory for the whites. In this story we follow Djumala, carrying her unborn child, as she journeys with her dog, Muru, across the familiar Australian bush away from the land of the white man to Gamitji, her tribal country, her walg, or womb. She seeks her mother to learn the tribal secrets of motherhood and thus prolong the life of her decimated tribe. It is a desolate journey through the shattered landscape that the white man has strangled by his plunder, stealing the magic that made the rain. But there is still magic left in the protection of the tribal spirits and the legend that life can sprout from dust, if there is a woman around to mother it. inventory #2690.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1983. First Edition of the author's first novel based on tribal traditions among Australian Aborigines 213 pages. Fine copy in Near Fine or better Dust Wrapper some age-toning, mostly to the rear panel. See photos clph.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Good in (stained) wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Condition: As New. First Edition. De gruwelen van het nucleaire tijdperk door de ogen van hen die ervoor moesten wijken.; Geuzenpocket 68 in uitstekende staat: schon en fris binnenwerk; recht boekblok; omslag met scherpe randen, rechte rug zonder leesvouwtjes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A straight unmarked book, internally spotless, appears unread. Dust jacket as new.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. Inscribed by B. Wongar to title page. Else clean and unmarked. Bumping to top corner and along bottom edge of rear board. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and shelfworn, with vertical crease to inner rear panel. Signed by Author(s).