IMPORTANT NOTICE!

ROAD CLOSURE

WE ARE STILL OPEN

2-4pm Tues + Fri New Summer Hours from Nov 1 

Metronet, not satisfied with wrecking the rail and roads for some 2+ years, have announced the closing of the area of Oats Street outside our office.

Parking must be on Rutland Ave or around.

NEW OPENING TIMES + APPOINTMENTS

From the start of November through summer we are shortening our opening hours to, from 2 PM to 4 PM, Tuesdays and Fridays.

This will channel erratic customer service to a concentrated period. And save us all from hot boredom.

The majority of phone queries can be conducted via email to the satisfaction of all.

Discussions re publishing must be commenced with emails detailing the content of the manuscript.

Please note that those seeking to talk long will be placed at the end of the que. 

Ditto for those bringing in manuscripts without an appointment.

At 81 time is short and our backlog great.

EMAIL WARNING

We have had several queries from overseas translators checking whether we are advertising for translators.

Criminally inclined Chinese operators are using a close adaption of our name in a @gmail account to solicit such work.

We have observed Chinese gangsters trying it on for our name in the past.

In the past we have noted Chinese criminals involved in book stealing rackets in Western Australia. 

They were just in advance of the criminally destructive policies of the State Library.

If the book is on the website and booklist it is in print and in stock.
 

PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.

   All prices quoted are in Australian currency and include GST. * Short trade discount.

   If you are unsure of a title use the search facility on the left hand side of this page. 

This Home Page list is the new releases. 

See the Main Booklist for full details.

We have rarely changed the prices upwards on our books. Plenty have been discounted.
 

However, with a combination of declining sales, declining stocks, and greatly increased production costs some changes are necessary.

Reprinting of many core titles has generally not been viable. But when we do this the runs are much smaller.

So costs per copy are higher. So usually these will have reduced trade discounts, marked with a * on the listed price.

We are on the tail end of the following titles, Black and white, Yammaji, Youanme.

The prices of the remaining stock are now raised to fit in with the new pricing if/when we reprint. All are now rrp $40.00*

Most of our titles will not be reprinted when they become out of print. Then the rare book sellers will have a field day.

Obituary

Rob O'Connor QC has passed. Rob was a very keen amateur historian and a valued member of the Exploration Diaries Project. His main contribution was in proof reading and occasional legal advice. A great bibliophile he appreciated being on the ground floor of book production.

Philosophy lessons.
 

"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
 

"Censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is weak."—Julian Assange.
 

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."—Marcus Aurelius

Why multiculturalism must be annihilated in Australia

By Dr. Stephen Chavura, January 22, 2025

 COMING SOON 

Tommy Stock & Micky Ryan. Aboriginal life, and death, on the fringes.

Collated by Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-875778-43-0, (New, 2024), A4,    pages,  grams, $22.00*

This collection of descriptions of camp life among the ‘fringe dwellers’ is interesting in the coverage of lives otherwise unrecorded.  While some items are repetitious, each entry by a different reporter reveals new information, such as the descriptions of the Chinese boy Jack Hay and new names and the history of the antagonists. 

‘Arizona Bill’ Adams, General W.T. Bennett, and John Howell. Americans on the Westralian goldfields.

Peter J. Bridge & Geoffrey V. Blackburn.

ISBN 978-1-875778-55-3, (New, 2024), A4, illustrated,   26 pages, 110 grams, $22.00*

The previously uncorrelated story of three American mining men and adventurers in Australia in the late 1800s.

Arnold Wienholt (Sirumatauw) “The man who the lion bit.”

W.F.F. Wienholt.

ISBN 978-1-875778-38-6, (New, 2025), A4, 360+pages, 1kg, $85.00*.

A biography from otherwise unseen family letters. Adventurer, hunter, Queensland politician, soldier, spy. Shot by the Italians at the start of WWII in Ethiopia. A very small run to ensure the ms is not lost. 

Australia’s Wild Wonderland. M.P. Greenwood Adams.

ISBN 978-1-875778-45-4, (1923, R 2024), A4, 31 pages, 130 grams, $22.00*

Heavily illustrated story of the 1921 expedition to the Kimberley. 

Big Jim Wilkinson. Pioneer Prospector and principled man of many parts.
Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-875778-51-5, (New, 2024), A4, 33 pages, 140 grams, $22.00*

Confessions of a Nurse.

‘Ministering Angel’.

ISBN 978-1-875778-64-5, (1913, R, 2025), 40 pages, 150 grams, $30.00*

The revelations of a goldfields/country nurse a century ago.

The Daybooks and Journals of Yngve Laurell and Rudolf Soderberg of the Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910-1911.

By Kim Akerman, Margareta Luotsinen, Gun & Gunnar Syren.

ISBN 978-1-875778-46-1, (New, 2025), A4, illustrated, indexed, 319 pages, 1.5kg, $130.00*

The last of Kim Akerman’s translations of the Swedish journals and another important volume on Kimberley anthropology. The Swedish Expedition observed, collected and wrote about their Kimberley work. This is the last of four volumes prepared by the last ethnographer of the Australian Aboriginals.

This is a small run commensurate with the PC attacks on Hesperian’s Aboriginal Studies programme which will shortly be suspended. Pseudo aboriginal groups extract material from our books and having deleted all they do not like, publish, at the taxpayers expense, volumes of unreadable codswallop.

Dirty Old Perth.

Wayfarer – Herbert Cecil Williams.

ISBN 978-1-875778-61-4, (R 2025), 46 pages, 160 grams, $30.00*

Perth as it was in the 1920s.

Field Notes in Connection with Explorations in British New Guinea. May to October 1891.

A. Gibb Maitland.

ISBN 978-1-875778-40-9, (New, 2024), A4, 56 pages, illustrated, 180 grams, $45.00*

While AGMs report on the geology of NG is well known and available, his field notes languished in a university storeroom. Now transcribed they are of great interest to historians of Australasian geology and to PNG ethnographers and historians.

History of Mineral Discoveries [in Western Australia]

Revised by A. Gibb Maitland.

ISBN 978-1-875778-26-3, (1904 R 2024), A4, indexed, 27 pages, 130 grams, $22.00*

A valuable but little known early record.

John Wood. Pioneer Pearler. Reminisc. of Alex Forrest & a pearling tragedy.

By JT.

ISBN 978-1-875778-67-6, (1905,R,2025), A5, 9 pages. $10.00*

Killers of the Kimberley.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-875778-57-7, (New, 2025), A4, Indexed, 118 pages, 360 grams, $35.00*

Full details of all the pioneers, prospectors, pastoralists, murdered by the local savages up to the 1930s.

Despite nearly 200 years of British settlement of Western Australia, and education by practical example, churches and government, a large portion of the ‘aboriginal’ population has regressed into its natural primitive savagery. Our masters try to hide this by minimising publication of aboriginal criminal matters. Swamping our society with aliens, financial imposts, and mass population control ‘medications’ is creating a system of cultural destruction and control. Meanwhile, back at the bank, the future of the nation is being aborted. Land rights are a front for international finance and control.   

“Matt”. A documentary biography of H.A. Ellis, Government Geologist in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-875778-54-6, (New, 2025), A4, 76 pages, illustrated, 250 grams, $35.00*

New Zealand born, decorated soldier of WWI, intrepid outback geologist in the 1920s to 1950s, Matt was a legend to those few now alive who knew and worked with him. Collected echoes of his life are here permanently recorded.

Opthalmic Atrocities. Clapped out Gins, Poxed Malays, and filthy flies.

ISBN 978-1-875778-65-2, A5, 8 pages, $10.00*

Why aboriginals were banned from towns as a health hazard to civilised residents.

The Prospector’s Companion.

FCB Vosper.

ISBN 978-1-875778-56-0, (1894 R 2024), A4, 98 pages, 310 Grams, $35.00* 

Lost for over a century this book was compiled by the firebrand orator of Queensland and Coolgardie. He was also a keen mineralogist and wrote his book to educate prospectors. Interesting to collectors and mining historians.  Some of his specimens are held in the WA Museum.

Sam Hazlett. An Explorer/prospector in the News.

Ed by Gary Arcus from the collections of Mark Chambers and Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-875778-35-5, (New, 2024), 240 x 160, illustrated, indexed, French flaps, 222 pages, 570 grams, $55.00*

Sam Hazlett explored the central desert during the 1890s until 1904 when he was speared and incapacitated. Several decades later he coughed up the spearhead. He then commenced many expeditions in the 1930s searching for pastoral lands and gold. Famous for his camels he died in 1942. 

Through Hitherto Impassable Ranges. Exploring the heart of the Kimberley 1884-1906.

Ned Overton.

ISBN 978-1-875778-34-8, (New, 2024), 160 x 220, Case bound, 852 pages, illustrated – colour & B&W, maps, 2.2kg, $280.00*

The second volume of Kimberley exploration. Only 100 copies of this casebound edition have been printed.

The rugged King Leopolds and adjoining ranges encircle WA’s northern Kimberley district. When Alex Forrest traversed from near Geikie Gorge to Collier Bay in 1879, he found the ranges impenetrable.

Following Forrest, pastoralists and government surveyors confined themselves to the southern plains, although pastoral leases covered the entire district. Beginning in 1883, explorers began to find narrow gaps penetrating this barrier, worn by water to plain level; some of them were accessible, bypassing a dangerous climb.

Soon after the northern pastures had been initially explored the discovery of gold to the south-east gave lightly-equipped prospectors high incentive to find more gaps, opening access northwards. Shunning publicity, they made only rudimentary maps. When in 1887 Dr Thomas Lovegrove announced an expedition to investigate a new road through the “hitherto considered impassable Leopold Ranges”, he failed to appreciate the wide extent of recent traverses across the northern Kimberley – mostly initiated through, rather than over, otherwise impassable ranges.

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Ned Overton spent his first two decades in Sydney, where he gained a BSc Hons in geology from Sydney University. His career in hardrock mineral exploration began in nickel-boom Kalgoorlie, later extending to much of Australia, including the Kimberley. He has managed a gold mine start-up in NSW, helped float several exploration companies and undertaken feasibility studies and project evaluations here and in Canada, the Philippines and Fiji.

Around our Bicentennial, Ned learnt of his relationship to a First Fleeter, which piqued an interest in genealogy and the wartime exploits of several relatives, leading, post retirement, to preparing Australian history books online. He joined WAEDP’s Kimberley project almost ten years ago. The present Volume II follows Closing in on the Kimberley, 1819–1884 (2022). In addition to a third Kimberley volume, he is co-authoring a biography of Harry Stockdale.

VDC North West Evacuation Plans 1943.

Maj. RP McInerney.

ISBN 978-0-85905-942-8, (2022), A5, 12 pages, $10.00*

With the Shearers. A trip to the ‘Nor’West by buckboard 200 miles.

Wayfarer – Herbert Cecil Williams.

ISBN 978-1-875778-62-1, (1921, New, 2025), A4, 15 pages, 75 grams, $22.00*