David m welch (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition paperback, apart from author's signature no inscriptions, early pages slightly rippled from damp, no stains, clean text, sound binding, 268pp. With a strong emphasis on the Aboriginal history of the area, this book is introduction for visitors to the region of its many sights and sites of significance, including rock painting. It is well illustrated throughout with photos of scenes, documents and artefacts. Signed by Author(s).…

Softcover. Small Quarto Size [approx 17x24cm]. Very Good condition. Gift inscription to inside of front cover. Illustrated with Colour & black and white Photographs. Australian Aboriginal Culture Series No 3. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 272 pages. This book combines Spencerâs 1912 diary notes and photographs of Aboriginal life in the Kakadu region, Northern Territory of Australia with additional photographs and rock art images by Kakadu people and their ancestors.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. An Uncontrollable Child This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good +. BIOGRAPHY AUSTRALIANAHer life journey from English manor to Northern Territory frontier. The story of Judy Opitz, born in England, who worked with WWII pilots in the '40s, acted on stage in the '50s, travelled to Australia in 1958, and who fell in love with the remoteness of the Kakadu region, where she and her husband ran the Cooinda Motel. At 84, Judy was awarded her doctorate from CDU.viii, 264 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., map, ports. ; 24 cm. #290423/ 180124/141024Â First Edition.Opitz, Judy 1924- | Hotelkeepers -- Northern Territory -- Cooinda -- Biography. | Immigrants -- Northern Territory -- Cooinda -- Biography. | History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies. | Economic sectors - Tourism. | Jim Jim Creek (Kakadu, NT SD53-01) | Kakadu / Alligator Rivers area (NT SD53-01, SD53-05) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Coolalinga, David M. Welch, 2014. Small quarto, x, 142 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour). Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. The author 'survived 48 missions and 500 hours flying over Japanese enemy territory during World War Two, both as a gunner and radar countermeasures operator. Most of his service was spent living and flying with US Army Air Force bomb squadrons base at Fenton airstrip, 140 kilometres south of Darwin in the Northern Territory. [His] account describes living with the Americans and flying in B-24 Liberator long-range heavy bombers, on record-breaking missions lasting up to 16 hours' (rear cover). Edited by Craig Bellamy and David M. Welch. Winner of the NT History Book Award. …

Soft Cover. Zustand: F-. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed); pp. [vi], 108, with illustrations. A near fine copy. Flatsigned to early page by artist 'Reggie Sultan'. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition. James Robert Beattie Love (1889-1947), a clergyman and missionary, lived and worked with northern Kimberley Aborigines from 1914-1915 and 1927-1940, earning their friendship and learning their language and customs. This book includes his 1936 text (first published as Stone-Age Bushmen of To-Day; Life and Adventure Among a Tribe of Savages in North-Western Australia) and previously unpublished photographs, combined with other photographs and information from a number of sources. Love's book describes traditional Kimberley Aboriginal everyday life, including social organisation, kinship systems, belief in child-spirits, rituals, naming people, hunting and food gathering, fire-making, housing, language, warfare, murder, punishment, medicine, ageing, death and funeral practices, infanticide, polygamy, domestic violence, wife-lending, euthanasia, and cannibalism. Part of the Australian Aboriginal Culture Series No. 6.…

Paperback. Zustand: Near fine. Virginia, David M. Welch, 2008 (first thus). Quarto, xiv, 272 pages with 2 maps and numerous illustrations, many in colour. Colour-pictorial card covers; a near-fine copy. Australian Aboriginal Culture Series Number 3. 'This book contains [Spencer's] diary notes, photographs and sketches compiled while conducting field work in the East Alligator River region' in 1912, plus additional material from his 1914 book, 'Native Tribes of the Northern territory of Australia'. David M. Welch has supplied additional text and photographs. …

Paperback. First Edition. Virginia, David M. Welch, 2008. Small quarto, [vi], 108 pages with a colour map and numerous colour illustrations. Colour-pictorial card covers. Signed in ink by the artist. Aboriginal Culture Series Number 4. Signed.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Virginia, David M. Welch, 2008 [first thus]. Small quarto, vi, 154 pages with several maps and numerous illustrations (some in colour). Colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and sunned; an excellent copy. Australian Aboriginal Culture Series Number 5. Edited and with a preface by David M. Welch. 'This book is a compilation of material recorded by Herbert Basedow during an expedition lasting from March to November 1903, from his anthropological notes, his journal notes and previously unpublished photographs from his photo album' (from the preface).…

Stiff Wraps. 1st ed., royal octavo, stiff illustrated wraps, colour illus, map, references, index, pp 102. Signed by the author. Near fine condition. Traces the evolution of Kimberley Aboriginal rock art styles from the ancient Bradshaw Figures to the more recent Wandjina deities, and explores the mysteries of the art. Includes many colour photographs of rock art.…

Soft Cover. Zustand: F-. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & marked); pp. [vi], 82, with illustrations & maps. A near fine copy.