Item BBR30 - $71

Nangara, the Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection : Stichting Sint-Jan, Brussels, 1996 ( ISBN: 1876167009 )

Publisher: Art Books Intl Ltd (December 1996) ; Author(s): Hank Ebes ; Two Volume Soft Cover with Soft Sleeve Case : 100 + 317 pages with colour and b/w illustrations ; English

This two volume set is a beautiful compilation of Aboriginal art shown in a Belgian Art Exhibition in 1996. The first volume has most of the text with full descriptions and maps of the Aboriginal art from this collection. The second volume is almost 100% full color illustrations. This is really a beautiful and hard to find set. The 10 digit ISBN is 1876167009 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781876167004. The books are in very good to excellent condition. The soft sleev case has some distress, especially at the edges, but it is fully intact.

Item BBR16 - $71

Tony Tuckson ( ISBN: 0947131221 )

Publisher: Craftsman House, Australia (December 1989) ; Author(s): Daniel Thomas, Renée Free, Geoffrey Legge ; Hard Cover with DJ : 188 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Heavy book (1.8kg) ; English

Tony Tuckson is well known for his sponsorship of Australian Aboriginal art. He was in a key museum position and was well known for his efforts on behalf of the Aboriginals. His own paintings are derivitives of the School of Paris, but he is collected in Australia. This book is loaded with B&W and color images of Tuckson's paintings. Ed Ruhe' estate owned a painting by Tony Tuckson. It was ultimately sold by a Sydney dealer for $10,000. This book is very difficult to find. There are no markings inside. It is in almost new condition except that the DJ has some wear around the top edges from handling/storage and a few stains on the rear DJ surface.

Item BBR28 - $64

Aratjara : Art of the First Australians Traditional and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists ( ISBN: 3926154179 )

Publisher: DuMont (January 1993) ; Author(s): Bernhard Luthi, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), Gary Lee ; Soft Cover : 379 pages with colour and b/w illustrations.; English

This book was published in conjunction with the traveling Arantjara exhibition of Aboriginal art in Germany, England and Australia between 1993 & 1994. This book is loaded with art depicting barks, canvas, wooden objects, etc. and with lots of information about the artists, Aboriginal art history & more. This is a very difficult book to find anywhere. The 10 digit ISBN is 3926154179 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9783926154170. This book is in very good condition. The pages are excellent and the binding is tight. There is some edge wear from handling and a small amount of distress on the cover edges.

Item BBR01 - $54

Art from the Land: Dialogues With the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art ( ISBN: 0957713509 )

Publisher: University Press of Virginia (1999) ; Author(s): Morphy, Howard; Boles, Margo Smith; University of Virginia ; Soft Cover : 266 pages ; 10.9 x 9 x 0.8 inches ; English

This medium soft cover book depicts many of the better pieces of Aboriginal art items from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection that was assembled over a 10 year period by John Kluge. John Kluge purchased the already large and marvelous collection of Ed Ruhe to make this collection one of the best collections of Aboriginal art anywhere in the world and certainly the best outside of Australia. This book is loaded with pages depicting bark paintings, canvas paintings and earth art in full color. This book is in near excellent condition with only minor evidence of spine and cover edge creasing from gentle reading of this fine volume.

Item BBR13 - $42

Kunwinjku Art From Injalak 1991-1992 ( ISBN: 0646152645 )

Publisher: Museum Art International (1994) ; Author(s): Dyer, Christine Adrian ; Soft Cover : 151 pages ; English

This beautiful book was published for the John W. Kluge Commission. It is a catalog of Aboriginal paintings from the Western Arnhem Land region of Australia. Illustrated throughout with beautiful B&W and color photos of wonderful bark paintings. This book is in almost new condition with only minor corner bumps from storage. There is no creasing on the spine. A rare and wonderful collectable for anyone interested in bark paintings.

Item BBR14 - $42

Spirit in Land Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land ( ISBN: 0724101470 )

Author: Judith Ryan, National Gallery of Victoria ; 2002 ; Soft Cover : 120 pages ; English

For the Aboriginals of Australia, bark paintings have long been part of a communications concept where people gather for ceremonies, revelation and rites of passage. Bark is the surface plane of the deep volume of ancestral knowledge outsiders can glimpse but never fully understand. Yet as art and design and with artists' new visual metaphors, the art has a tremendous power. This ancient form made modern blends sacred geometry and cosmic ideas with the concrete and is being avidly collected in the international fine art market. (National Gallery of Victoria) This book is in excellent condition with only minor edge wear on back cover.

Item BBR04 - $42 (2 copies are available)

Art and Land: Aboriginal Sculptures of the Lake Eyre Region ( ISBN: 0949268909 )

Publisher: South Australian Museum in association with Wakefield Press (1986) ; Author(s): Jones, Philip , Sutton, Peter ; Soft Cover : 144 pages ; 280mm x 215mm; 0.69kg. ; English

This beautiful book has 41 color photos, 483 b/w photos, 12 figures & 7 maps ; a foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, references, index. The focus of this book is on those remarkable Aboriginal objects called Toa. They receive attention, not only as objects of information, but as objects of symbolic representation of the Diyari and associated language groups of the Lake Eyre Basin. This book is in very good to excellent condition. Keywords: Ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, Billipilpana, Burukarla, Dampawaruna, Darana, Dimpiwalakana, Godagodana, Jelkabalubaluna)

Item BBR31 - $32

Journey in Time The World's Longest Continuing Art Tradition. The 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal Rock Art of Arnhem Land. ( ISBN: 9781876622091 )

Publisher: Reed New Holland Sydney ; Publish Date: 1999 Reprint ; Author(s): George Chaloupka ; Hard Cover with DJ : 256 pages ; English

Lavishly illustrated in colour, illustrated endpapers, colour frontispiece, appendices, acknowledgements, bibliography, index; original green cloth Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. The cover title is an excellent description of the contents. Czech-born Chaloupka has lived in the Northern Territory for over 40 years and is regarded as a leading (if a little controversial) expert on Aboriginal rock art. This book is in excellent condition, but the DJ has wear on the edges from handling.

Item BBR27 - $32

Dreamings, the Art of Aboriginal Australia ( ISBN: 0670824496 )

Published in Australia by Penguin Books Australia Ltd.. 1989 ; Author(s): Sutton, Peter with contributions by Peter Sutton, Christopher Anderson, Philip Jones, Francoise Dussart & Steven Hemming ; Hard Cover with DJ : 266 pages ; English

This beautiful book was written in conjunction with an exhibition held in New York, in 1988, of the same title. The Art featured in the book is from the South Australian Museum collections. The works include acrylic paintings from Central Australia, bark paintings from Arnhem Land, sculptures from Cape York Peninsula and the Lake Eyre region, as well as a variety of works from the far west and south-east of the continent. The 10 digit ISBN is 0670824496 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780670824496. The book is in excellent condition with a small amount of edge distress to the DJ and a few small stains on the page ends that are almost not noticeable because they are not visible when the pages are viewed flat.

Item BBR02 - $29

Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story: 1937-1997( ISBN: 0500974683 )

Publisher: Thames & Hudson (October 1998) ; Author: Caruana, Wally ; Soft Cover : 174 pages ; 11.8 x 9.5 x 0.5 inches ; English

This dramatic tale of Wititj, an Olive Python, and the two sisters of the Wagilag clan is the basis of one of the more important Aboriginal ceremonial cycles and painting traditions. These mythical events tell of the arrival of the monsoon season as well as for providing the basis for ritual activity and religious knowledge. A tradition in bark painting has been traced over four decades and six generations, revealing distinctive ways in which individual artists continually reinvent their cultural heritage. The works of art themselves are beautifully captured in full color, and artists' biographies, a glossary, and a bibliography complete the volume. This book is in very good condition. it has cover corner wear and a hand written dedication to Ruhe on the first page.

Item BBR29 - $26

Wandjuk Marika : Life Story

Author(s): Wandjuk Marika, Jennifer Isaacs ; Publisher: University of Queensland Press (November 1995) ; Soft Cover ; 176 pages ; English

This book is the autobiography of one of Australia's greatest indigenous statesmans, artists and religious leaders: champion of land rights, poet, singer, dreamer, and outstanding artist. Wandjul Marika was the custodian of Yalanbara, the sacred Arnhem Land beach at which the Creation Ancestors stepped ashore and gave birth to the first people. His story reveeals the Yolna (Aboriginal) side of Australian History. The full color photographs show the changing life at Yirrkala over the decades and the power and mystery of Yalanbara's sacred rights. The 10 digit ISBN is 0702225649 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780702225642. The internal pages are in excellent condition. The cover has minor distress in places and the bottom of the last few pages has .some minor edge damage.

Item BBR11 - $26

Australian Aboriginal Art From the Collection of Donald Kahn

Author(s): Bardon, Geoffrey; Johnson, Vivien ; Publisher: Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL ; Soft Cover ; 1991 ; 86 pages ; 11 x 8 1/2 ; English

This is a beautifully produced exhibition catalogue. Glossy paper and quality color printing showing the bark paintings from the Donald Kahn collection. Chapters include: defining the dreamtime, the dreaming: where existence and essence converge, origin of the painting movement, color plates & catalogue. Very good to excellent condition with a small degree of creasing and edge wear.

Item BBR05 - $24

Burnum Burnum's Aboriginal Australia: A Traveller's Guide ( ISBN: 0732800072 )

Publisher: Australia in Print ; Author(s): Stewart, David ; Hard Cover with DJ ; 12.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches ; 1988 ; 328 pages ; English

This large hard cover book with DJ provides a heartfelt and thoughtful guide to Australia from an Aboriginal persepective. It is loaded with photos of Australia that you are unlikely to see in other books on the subject. A large number of biomes are covered in the text with numerous photos of the landscape, Aborigines who inhabit these lands and the tools and artifacts that they use. Click here to see a graphic depicting some of the internal pages. This book is in very good to excellent condition. The DJ does have some edge wear as expected, but there are no major tears.

Item BBR08 - $24

An Exhibition of Oenpelli Paintings on Bark ( ISBN: 0908130007 )

Author(s): The Australian Gallery Directors Council ; Soft Cover ; 1973 ; 50 pages ; English

This soft cover booklet was produced by The Australian Gallery Directors Council for the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australian Council. This catalogue of an exhibition of bark paintings from the North Coast of Australia is loaded with B&W art depicting some of the most beautiful bark paintings you are likely to ever see. The internal pages are in very good condition. The cover has some wear and the spine is strong and fully intact, but there is no surface for a printed title or credits. It is possible that the catalogue was published this way.

Item BBR09 - $24

Australian Aboriginal Art: Arnhem Land ( Library of Congress Card Number: 71-175062 )

Author(s): Allen, Louis A. ; Soft Cover ; 1972 ; 43 pages ; English

This soft cover booklet is loaded with B&W art depicting bark paintings and carvings that tells the story of Aboriginal myths, rites and ceremonies. Chapters include: the country and the people, artists and art styles, the great myths, the forces of nature, totemic rites, srcery and love, death and burial, culture shock & more. Really nice and full of great information, not just art. The book is in very good condition, especially the internal pages. The cover has some stains on the front cover and some wear at the edge of the spine.

Item BBR12 - $15 (3 copies are available)

Modern Art-Ancient Icon: a Gallery of Dreamings From Aboriginal Australia ( ISBN: 0646080520 )

Author: Ebes, Hank ; Publisher: The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreaming, Alice Springs, Australia ; Soft Cover ; 1992 ; 57 pages ; English

This booklet is a catalogue presented by the Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings for an exhibition that was presented by the World Bank Art Society at a gallery in Washington D.C. in 1992. Illustrated throughout with both B&W and full color art on glossy pages, depicting art of the Western Desert, Art of Arnhem Land & Mosaics that you can read. There is also a listing of artists and a glossary with symbols. Excellent condition.

Item BBR18 - $13

The Death of a Wombat ( ISBN: 0858850095 )

Author(s): Smith, Ivan , Illustrated by Pugh, Clifton Ernest ; Publisher: Wren Publishing, Australia; Hard Cover with DJ ; 1972 ; 80 pages ; English

This large hard cover book is beautifully illustrated throughout. A wonderful story, written as a poem, about Australian animal life in the brush, but with a sad ending after all the animals in the story are killed in a brush fire. Very good to excellent condition. The spine is tight. The pages are clean and bright with light reading wear. The dust jacket is worn on the edges.