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  • Destination Barrier Reef – Arnold Lock – First Edition 1955

    Destination Barrier Reef – Arnold Lock – First Edition 1955

    Published by Georgian House, Melbourne a first edition 1955. Octavo, 227 pages, illustrated with numerous images from photographs taken by the author. End paper maps. Some dust jacket repairs, generally a nice copy. Super dust jacket art.

    A well put together book, by traveler Arnold Lock, of Queensland along the Great Barrier Reef .. we particularly like the Hinchinbrook / Cardwell section. Despite the title quite a bit in the Torres Strait and particularly Badu Island (a favourite of contemporary Idriess) and the pearling industry. Don’t whatever you do step on a stone fish … not nice.

    The Barrier Reef and further “Up” before the tourist got there … well most of them

    $35.00

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  • Forty Fathoms Deep – Ion Idriess – Signed Annotated 1937 Edition

    Forty Fathoms Deep – Ion Idriess – Signed Annotated 1937 Edition

    Signed, annotated third edition published February 1937, a month after the first edition.

    A vivid and thrilling edition from Idriess on the pearling industry centred in Broome, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

    Published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney. Octavo, 343 pages, 10 pages advertisements for other Idriess titles. Green cloth covered boards black titles to spine and front cover. Dust jacket designed by Edgar Alfred Holloway This is the orange variant (sometimes yellow or yellow and orange – see authority Feain and Aronry page 42). Map of northern Australia, Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea on front endpaper, rear blank. 19 pages of black and white illustrations.

    Very good condition, very clean inside and a dust jacket with minor nibbles along the top and a part removed top of inside flap.

    Annotated and signed boldly by Idriess on the title page … “Wishing Mrs Noah Van Cleef many happy memories on her trip to Australia. Ion L Idriess Sydney 1937” … a further note March 1, 1937 in Idriess hand bottom left of title.

    Australian pearling essential early edition signed and annotated by author.

    $180.00

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  • Man Tracks [With the Mounted Police in Australian Wilds] – Ion Idriess

    Man Tracks [With the Mounted Police in Australian Wilds] – Ion Idriess

    Published by Angus & Robertson 1936, a ninth edition issued one year after the first. The copy of Chicago resident, Idriess friend and admirer, Frances Van Cleef with a note indicating she acquired it in Melbourne on Feb 16, 1937.

    Very good condition, a couple of chips to the dust jacket, very clean and tight internally. A super copy.

    An impressive Idriess book about the Australian Mounted Police up through the Centre, the North and West. Many lively accounts recounted in the normal Idriess way. The photography in this book is special with a number of unique aboriginal images.

    Real Crime solved by Australian Police on Horseback

    $80.00

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  • Somewhere in New Guinea – Frank Clune – First edition 1951

    Somewhere in New Guinea – Frank Clune – First edition 1951

    Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney in 1951, a first edition in pretty good condition

    A companion book to Frank Clune’s “Prowling in Papua”. This time the north side and a good deal of mooching around “as he put it”. Wewak, Hagen, Madang, Markham Valley and Rabaul included.

    First Edition Clune in New Guinea

    $40.00

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  • The Fortune Hunters – Frank Clune – First Edition 1957 Near Fine

    The Fortune Hunters – Frank Clune – First Edition 1957 Near Fine

    Angus and Robertson First Edition 1957 in very good if nit fine condition.

    Frank Clune out in Jeep amongst the minerals and aboriginals. Uranium and Jack Noble (discovered Nobles Nob) and confronting story and images of murdered Kai-umen. More than the usual Clune.

    Best Clune – First and Good

    $40.00

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