tolcher (16 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Book shows minor handling wear. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear, and has a mylar cover. First page/cover interiors are lightly marked and stamped. Other pages and text remain intact and unmarred. Binding is square and firm.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ spine & upper portion of front panel slightly sunned [seems common]. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Our copy includes a letter from the author with a copy of a short story. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 267 pages. A history of human exploration and settlement in the Cooper's Creek region. Covers Aboriginal prehistory, and the interaction between Aboriginals and European settlers, explorers and travellers. Also looks at the harsh environmental conditions faced by the inhabitants of the region, and how they coped.

Zustand: New. In.

c.268pp. 8vo. Original cloth and dustwraper, a fine copy. First edition.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. [Innamincka], Innamincka Progress Association, 1990. Small quarto, 64 pages with a map and numerous illustrations from photographs. Colour-pictorial card covers lightly rubbed; a near-fine copy. Dated (October 1990), inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page. Includes aboriginal content.

Softcover. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Inscribed and Signed by the author. Some age-toning to spine and covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 153 pages. Policing in the outback has always been difficult and sometimes dangerous, and nowhere more so than on Cooper Creek. The police who served there in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries struggled against great distances and harsh terrain.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. [Adelaide], The Author, 1999. Octavo, [viii], iv, 153 pages with 2 maps plus 14 pages of plates from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly marked on the rear cover; an excellent copy. 'Policing in the Outback has always been difficult and sometimes dangerous, and nowhere more so than on Cooper Creek. Against the forbidding background of the Outback, the constables brough felons to justice, saved lives and buried the dead, collected customs duries before Federation, watched over the dwindling Aboriginal population, conducted polls and represented a multitude of Government departments' (rear cover blurb).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1986. Octavo, xii, 267 pages with 4 maps plus 24 pages of plates. Papered boards a trifle bumped; one small mark to the leading edge; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper unevenly sunned and slightly creased. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author to South Australian historian Joy Chilman. 'For Joy - in whose footsteps as an historian I am proud to follow. Helen Tolcher'. Chilman's ownership signature is on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, The Author, 2003. Quarto, [viii], 168 pages with 2 maps and numerous illustrations, including 8 pages of colour illustrations from photographs. Colour-pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed; one top edge very slightly bumped; an excellent copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. [South Australia], Tolerable Publishers, December 1971. Oblong quarto (195 × 266 mm), [36] photocopied leaves (printed rectos only) with numerous illustrations by Vern Tolcher; the text on all but the first four leaves is typescript. Pictorial card covers, with the contents bound in with an Arnos fastener; covers a little unevenly sunned and rubbed, with two tiny closed tears; in excellent condition. A presentation copy, with the first page inscribed and signed 'To Jenny - best wishes, Helen Tolcher'. The dedication page is headed 'Interpreted by Heln Tolcher', and the work is 'Dedicated to all who worked in the field and the Laboratory with the Roonka Team' in 1971. The six-page preface by Loyd and Joy Chilman is followed by 14 myths and legends. The Ngaiawang (or 'Ngayawang') were 'one of the group of smaller tribes along the lower Murray River known to early settlers as Meru' (SA Museum website). Trove records only two copies (in the National Library of Australia, and the State Library of South Australia); the online cataloguing details could be improved.