New York: The American Museum of Natural History, May 1928. First edition - In 1928 Mead was an associate curator at the Museum, and later she was the curator and curator emeritus. Published the same year (and preceding it) as her first and and most important work, 'Coming of Age in Samoa,' a book which was both a bestseller and one which changed American anthropology. This leaflet includes information on work in Greenstone (jade), woodwork. canoes, weapons, textiles, tattooing and more. Map frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawingst. 32 pp bound in stapled tan illustrated wrappers.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of short stories by this Australian author which includes all of the stories, most dating from the 1930s and 1940s which the author wanted to see preserved, some appearing in book form for the first time. The title story is a "sustained masterpiece showing a Kentish farmer coming to grips with the difficult Australian earth." All of the stories in this collection are "imbued with a warmth of feeling for the Australian earth." 265 pp.

New York: HarperVia / Harper Collins, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's award winning second novel (third book) one which reclaims Australia's Indigenous voices as it combines history and current crises with a dictionary of the Wiradjuri language. This is the story of a young Wiradjuri woman who returns home to Australia to attend a funeral, only to find that her ancestral lands are threatened by mining. The novel explores language as well as themes of colonialism, environmental issues and intergenerational trauma. It was awarded the 2020 Miles Franklin Award, the 2020 Voss Literary Prize and the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction. Author's note. 343 pp. ISBN: 978-0063003460.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Australian writer's fourth novel, sixth book. Set against the backdrop of the Australian bush, this is a story of scientists and environmentalists, Aborigines and whites, predators and prey, all in dramatic conflict. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-671-620053.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2000). First edition - Prize-winning Australian author's second novel, a story of war, migration and the search for beginnings in a new land. Winner of the Australian Booksellers Book of the Year Award. 425 pp. ISBN: 0-871138026.

Adelaide: Rigby, Limited, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a thoroughly researched account of the "brutal annihilation" of the traditional way of life of the thousands of the Barkindji people who once lived in the Darling River region of New South Wales. They have dwindled to a mere handful, mostly part-Abroriginals. This volume is "an appalling case history of the relationship between white man and black man in Australia" between 1829 to 1940. While explorers like Charles Stuart and Edward John Eyre treated the Barkindji with kindness and received loyal friendship in return, this did nothing to stop the slide into humiliating dependence. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 246 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-72700008X.

New York: Harper & Row, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Australian author set in the near future in the United States - one which traces the progress of a good man from obscurity to fame - 346 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0153016.

Saint Lucia: University of Queensland Press, (1982). First edition - A novel by one of Australia's most highly praised authors, a portrait of one woman from her portentous birth in the 1880s through to her thirties in the early years of the Depression. 203 pp. Cover art by the author/artist. ISBN: 0-702218901.

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press (1984). A novel which tells of one girl's childhood and adolescence in 1950s Australia. 156 pp. Cover art by the author/artist. ISBN: 0-701127597.

New York: Ballantine, (2004). First edition - The author's ode to his adopted country - New Zealand. List of recommended readings, and glossaries of English phrases and Maori words. 252 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel (fourth book) by this award-winning writer who was born in Australia, one which builds up an unexpected portrait of a man. 282 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon,. ISBN: 0-06-0111836.

New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel of this Australian author, originally published in 1984, but not published in the US until after several later novels. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-393-034984.

New York: Taplinger Publishing Co, (1987). Novel set on the island of Kailuana in Papua New Guinea in 1959 in the last days of Australian rule, which is centered on a government inquiry into an outbreak of native violence and horrific death of a young administrator, a story which vividly depicts the clash of cultures between the Indigenous peoples and their colonial rulers. Although Stow received many awards, including the Patrick White award in 1979, he is the least well-known of the three great twentieth-century Australian novelists whose other members are Patrick White and Christina Stead. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-80088017x.

Fairfield, Australia: Pascoe Publishing, (1986). First edition - The second collection of stories, including many prize winners, by this Australian author. Themes in the 15 stories range from the fire-bombing of Dresden, to the struggles of ordinary people, Aborigines, Bali and more. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-959210482.

New York: Coward-McCann, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel, set in the Australian Outback - the story of several generations of the Carlyon family, founders of Murranji Station, and also an account of the inexorable encroachment of civilization and of the destruction of the wilderness. 461 pp. ISBN: 0-698110749.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1974). A posthumous edition of Boyd's least-known novel and one of his most unusual stories - a group of eleven shipwrecked people, including 6 nuns, find themselves on an uninhabited tropical island where the facade of civilization begin to erode under the malign influence of one of the seamen. Originally published in London in 1940, almost all copies of the first edition were destroyed in the Blitz. This edition includes a postscript on the author by Manning Clark. Macmillan, Melbourne, 1973. ISBN: 0-156678209.

London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'vaguely futuristic' post-modern picaresque novel by this Booker Prize winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-571171974.

New York: George Braziller, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first book of short stories. As an author of Maori descent, she brings the traditions of that culture to an international audience. Hulme was the first New Zealander to win the Booker Prize for her powerful debut novel 'The Bone People.' 240 pp,. ISBN: 0-807611689.

New York: Atheneum, 1966. dj. A collection of nine short stories set in New Zealand. 286 pp. Dust jacket design by James and Ruth McCrea.

Owings Mills, Maryland: Stemmer House Publishers, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning New Zealand writer set in the Titirangi area. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-880450444.

Dulwich Centre: Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia, 1995. First edition - "This Newsletter outlines a report of a counselling project initiated by the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia, which was conducted from June 1994 to September 1994. This counselling project implemented one of the recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (November 1987 to December 1990)." Large format. 40 pp.

Sydney: Knopf / Random House Australia, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Using a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in Carey's boyhood, this is a novel of literary forgery and obsession which ranges from Melbourne to Malaysia, to Bali, to Sumatra and Java. Author's note. 280 pp. Ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 1-740512464.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. Hardcover first edition - Thirteenth novel by this Booker Prize winning author which is "at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny - that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics. When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australias prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0385352772.

New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1827 Australia; two men talk through the night - one is a convict about to be hanged in the morning, the other the officer in charge of the hanging. ISBN: 0-679-442669.

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, (1994). Contains three complete books by this New Zealand writer - her first novel, her first book of poems, and a volume of her autobiography. Introduction by George Braziller. Each is paginated separately - 211, 121, 195 pp. respectively.

New York: Norton, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 17 short stories by this award-winning Australian author, published posthumously - stories which give a picture of life in Australia from the impoverished 1890s to the comfortable 1980s. Publisher's note. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-393-030318.