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  • 21744 - Latz, Peter
  • Bushfires and Bushtucker
  • IAD Press, Alice Springs Softback, 8vo, pp 400, In very good condition, with minor wear to jacket.
  • Aboriginal Plant use in Central Australia
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  • 21745 - Harris, John
  • One Blood, 200 years of Aboriginal encounter with Christianity
  • Albatross Books Pty Ltd Hardback with dust wrapper, 4to, pp 900. In excellent condition. Mark on inside of d/w otherwise very clean copy. Australian Christian Book of the Year, 1991.
  • Out of a burning conviction that 'God made of One blood all nations', Christians have carried their message to Aborigines throughout Australia. It is in this encounter and its results that John Harris explores in these many stories that tell one story.
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  • 21548 - French, Alison
  • Seeing the Centre, the art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959
  • National Art Gallery of Australia Soft cover, 4to, In very good condition. Sun damage to spine and back cover. Binding good
  • In 1951 a small blue envelope reached the Alice Springs post office. The address was simple, 'Albert Namatjira. Famous Aboriginal Artist'. It had been posted in India by an autograph hunter whose confidence in it's delivery was not unreasonable, in light of the accurate description.
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  • 21754 - Nesbit, E.
  • Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit
  • London In very good/good condition. Boards are beautifully decorative in red and light green with gilt lettering of a phoenix on front board and spine. There is silver fish marks on all boards. Wear to edges. Foxing on foreedges and on pages. Contains b/w etchings and a colour picture.
  • Lovely first edition with a beautiful decorative cover. Story of three children who find an egg that turns into a slightly surly phoenix wrapped in a magic flying carpet.
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  • 21756 - di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
  • The Leopard
  • 1960 Hardback with dust wrapper.In very good condition. First UK Edition. Wear to dw edges. Slight mark near hinge on front panel of dw. Ffep has small mark from glue residue at tail. Boards, foreedges and pages in very fine condition.
  • Story of the traditional way of life in decline in Sicily. Fabrizio, Prince of Salina rules within the splendour and squalor of his land. The Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them.
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