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A Story of the COWALLA COAST RUN 1873 - 1964 by W. J. deBurgh
[ISBN 0 85905 380 6], (2007 New), soft cover, 46pp, illustrated, 80 grams, $12.00
 Born in 1912, WJ (Bill) de Burgh spent all his working life on his family's two Moore River properties, Cowalla and Baramba

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A Thousand Miles and More – a tramp through the Coolgardie Goldfields by Duke Stewart.
[ISBN 0 85905 427 6], (2008 Reprint 1896), Soft Cover, 54pp, 95 grams, $15.00*.
In 1896 Duke Stewart set out to report on the conditions of the new Coolgardie goldfields. By walking he absorbed the reality of the bush, meeting the prospectors and sharing their camps.
 

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Aboriginal Australian String Figures by D.S.Davidson
[ISBN 0 85905 369 5] ( 1941, 2006) Soft Cover, 141 pp, 200grams, $26.00.
Davidson collected these figures, mainly in WA, in the 1930s.

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Aboriginal Corporations, Communities and Outstations by Ian Murray
ISBN 085905 333 4 , 2006 new, 52pp A4, 320grams, $22.00*
Lists hundreds of corporations, outstations and communities

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All Gold. The Death of Stephen Grace by Peter J Bridge with Ian Murray, Gail Dreezens and Moya Sharp. .
[ISBN 0 85905 398 9], (2007 New), Soft Cover, A4, 30pp, saddle, illust, 135 grams, $16*
Grace was the head of APLA, the prospectors association, and was murdered by blacks in 1907, while on a prospecting expedition along the RPF.

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Bardie. The life and writings of E E Shillington. By Peter J Bridge with Gail Dreezens.
 [ISBN 0 85905 397 0], (2007 New), Soft Cover, A4, 52pp, saddle, 175 grams, $22*
Shillington and his mates discovered Sandstone. An interesting writer who could have become an antipodean Bret Harte, but instead had the trams running on time. .

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Ben Bowyang by the Herald.
[ISBN 0 85905 430 6], (2008 Reprint 1936, 1938), A4, Soft Cover, 53pp, illustrated, 175 grams, $22.00*
A reprint of the rare and classic comic of the bush character, Ben Bowyang and his mates, Kanga, Wilson, Hogan, Lil, and the Parson.

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Black and White, Best Together by Don & Meg Shedley
[ISBN 0 85905 405 5], (New 2007), Soft Cover, illust, 276 pp, 485 grams,  $35*The story of the Shedley family and how their Christian ministry in the Kimberley and changed the lives of many, both black and white, greatly for the better.

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Bloody Lucky by Jack Thorpe OAM
 [ISBN 0 85905 381 4], 2006, A4, 178p illustrated,480grams, $30.00
This book is an amazing and enthralling story of survival. From a harsh childhood through the brutalities of the Japanese in Changi, the Burma Railway, Saigon, and the coal mines of Japan. It is remarkable that he survived any of the hazardous and dangerous episodes. He did, and now he is a tower of strength in his country community.

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Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield by Gilbert Ralph
[ISBN 0 85905 395 4], (2007 New), Soft cover, 288 pages, illustrated, under 500 gram packed, $35.00*
Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield had its beginnings with a suggestion from Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall that the unique nature of the community at Bullfinch during the Great Western Consolidated era from 1950 to 1963 deserved recording.

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Bushmans Directory, The by Mary Taylor.
[ISBN 0 85905 417 9], (2007 New), A4, Soft Cover, 136pp, 375 grams, $30.00*.
A biographical index to WA drovers, stockmen, mailmen, doggers, teamsters, shepherds, boundary riders, fencers, etc, from the 1800s to the 1970s.

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Camp Fire Sketches by A.G. Hales.
[ISBN 0 85905 339 3], (2004 reprint), Soft Cover, 108pp, 160grams, $22.00
As the wind gathers sparks from the camp-fire, so these stories have been collected, here, there, and everywhere.

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Circled Continent, The by Randolph Bedford, edited by, and with a foreword by PJ Bridge and C. Holyday, and Gail Dreezens.
[ISBN 0 85905 410 1], (2007 Reprint 1905), A4, Soft Cover, 72pp, 230grams, $25.00*
Randolph the Reckless, one of Australia’s greatest, but ignored writers, traveled along the Queensland coast to the Torres Strait and Papua in 1905. His brilliant descriptive writing of the places, people and their products is a joy to read and as fresh as it was a century ago. This ‘lost’ item does not appear in any bibliographies.

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Cobb & Co. in the Golden West edited by Gail Dreezens, P J Bridge, Phil Bianchi.

[ISBN 0 85905 406 3], (2008 New), A4, Soft Cover, 166pp, 470grams, $30.00*.
The WA coaching companies covered immense distances in scarcely explored country. Among them was the WA Cobb and Co run by Nicholas and Kidman. This collection of reminiscences, reports, timetables, adverts, etc is heavily illustrated. An essential volume on bush history and transport.

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Coolgardie Goldfields, The by William Nicholas
[ISBN 0 85905 402 0], (2007 Reprint 1895), A4, Soft Cover, 28pp, illustrated, 125 gram, $.22.00*.
Prof W Nicholas was manager of the Burbanks goldmine. Originally published in 1895, this idiosyncratic pamphlet was written to advise prospectors as to the geology and conditions of the new fields.

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Coolgardie in 1892 by William Ford
 [ISBN 0 85905 401 2], (1932 reprint 2007), Soft Cover, A5,  10pp, saddle stitched, 35 grams, $5.00*
A rare pamphlet published by Ford in 1932 to record the discovery of Coolgardie.

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Crooks, con men and spielers, magsmen, and other dysfunctionals from the bottom of the duck pond. by Peter J. Bridge

[ISBN 0 85905 415 2], (1930s, reprint 2007,e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol. 2 No.1.), 16 pp, saddle, Soft Cover, A4, 90 grams, $11*
The police published the methods of con men and swindlers in their efforts to educate the public. However the old tricks still reel them in and new applications catch a sucker every minute.

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Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia, The by John G Withnell.
[ISBN 0 85905 423 3], (2007 Reprint 1901), Soft Cover, 35pp, 50 grams,  $12.00.
Pastoral pioneer John Withnell studied the natives of the NW for many years. His booklet was first published in 1901 at Roebourne.

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Early Days of Yilgarn District, The  edited by Peter J Bridge and Angela Teague.
[ISBN 978-0-85905-445-4], (2008, New), A4, Soft Cover, 69pp, illus., 225 grams, $22.00*
 This collection forms part of a series of biographies and reminiscences of the earliest prospectors of the Yilgarn Goldfields.

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Early Woodlines of the Goldfields- The untold story of the Woodlines to World War II. edited by Phil Bianchi, Peter Bridge and Ray Tovey.                               NEW EXPANDED SECOND EDITION

[ISBN 0 85905 432 2]  140 pp, 380grams, A4 perfect bound, soft cover, $30.00* inc GST
This book is a collection of newspaper articles and letters to the editor that appeared in newspapers such as The Sun, The West Australian and The Kalgoorlie Miner.

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Esther Austin – Adventures on the Goldfields. By Hadah.
[ISBN 0 85905 412 8], (1899 reprint 2007, e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol.4 No.4.), 18 pp, illust, saddle, Soft Cover, A4, 95 grams, $12*
The experiences of a Salvation Army girl on the Eastern and Murchison fields in the 1890s.

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Expedition Eastward from Northam, The, by the Dempster brothers, Clarkson, Harper and Correll, July-August, 1861 by Lesley Brooker
 [ISBN 0 85905 390 3], (2006 New), Soft Cover, 92pp, illustrated A4, 285g, full colour, 43 sketch maps, 59 colour photos, $35
 It was idle curiosity that first led Lesley Brooker, an ex-CSIRO scientist, to find out who might have been the first Europeans to visit a bush property near Sandford Rocks, Westonia, recently purchased by Lesley and her husband Michael from the National Trust under the BushBank scheme.

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For Those Who Remembered Bob True, A History of Whitfords Reward, Gregory Hills. By Peter J. Bridge with Ian Murray.
[ISBN 0 85905 413 6], (2007 New, e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol.1 No.6.), 20 pp, saddle, Soft Cover, A4, 95 grams, $15*
Bob True was buried in a lonely grave at Lake Wells in 1906 by his prospecting mates.

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From Kastellorizo.... Memoirs of a Greek Migrant Family by Michael (Stratos) Jack Kailis
Michael (Stratos) Jack Kailis was born in Western Australia of Greek parents. His formative years were spent in North Perth, now known as Northbridge.
[ISBN 0 85905 382 2], (2006 New), Soft Cover, 327pp, 435grams, $39.95.
Please order direct from Stratos Investments Pty Ltd for both trade and retail.
PO Box 267, Cottesloe, 6911. Phone 0417 902 150 Fax 08 9286 2275,  E-mail: stratsy@bigpond.com

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Government Gums and Rattling the Dish,The by Peter J Bridge with Gail Dreezens
 [ISBN 0 85905 399 7], (2007 New), Soft Cover, A4, 51pp, saddle, illust, 180 grams, $22*
 Before the advent of gaols prisoners were chained to trees, a practice surviving in WA until the 1950s. Digger justice was rough, ready, and sure. When the police came crime soared. Perhaps we need local justice committees to be revived.

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Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western Australia by Mark Andrew Calderwood, Benjamin Alexander Grguric and Mark Ivan Jacobson
 [ISBN 0 85905 378 4], (2007 New), Case bound, laminated, 394pp, well illustrated, 830 grams, $85.00*
Western Australia is a treasure trove. Emeralds, green tourmalines, purple lepidolite, lustrous black tantalite and other minerals are found in pegmatites scattered across the vastness of Western Australia.

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History of Whalers on the South Coast of New Holland from 1800 – 1888, The  by Rod Dickson
 [ISBN 085 905 394 6], (2007 New), Hard cover, A4, cleat sewn, 640pp, 2kg, $120*
 This volume traces the history of over 700 individual ships and their voyages from American, French, British and Colonial ports to the southern shores and offshore waters of todays Western Australia from Cape Leeuwin to the Head of the Great Australian Bight.

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How to Cook Wheat by Mary Farrelly.
[ISBN 0 85905  385 7] ,(2006 reprint), soft cover , A4 , spiral bound, 42pp, 150 grams, $10* 
A depression cookbook with many great old ads. 
A series of recipes using whole wheat and including the original advertisements

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H.W.B. Talbot – Exploring the Golden West by Len Talbot

[ISBN 978-0-85905-418-8], (2008 New), Soft Cover, A4, 200 pages, illustrated, 560 grams, $40.00*

The biography of one of the best-known exploration geologists of Western Australia.

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Incident at Afghan Rocks, The edited by P.J. Bridge, J. Crocker, S. Gullefer, I. Murray and G. Dreezens.

[ISBN 978-0-85905-437-9], (2008 New), A4, Soft Cover, 51pp, illustrated, 170grams. $22.00*

The details of the shooting of two Afghans by R.B. Knowles in 1894 near Balladonia, for defiling a waterhole, are brought together for the first time. The incident is now part of Australian folklore.

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Iron in the Fire by Edgar Morrow
1896-1953, was born in Lancashire, England and arrived in Western Australia as a youth of twelve with his family to go farming at Dongerlocking.
At the start of World War I he enlisted in the 28th Battalion, attaining the rank of Corporal and served in Gallipoli and France, where he was twice wounded.
[ISBN 0 85905 360 1], (2006 reprint of 1934 edition), Soft Cover, 136pp,190grams, $22.00 

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Java Rabble - a story of a ship, slavery and survival by Fred Skeels OAM

ISBN 978-0-85905-419-5, (2008 new),158 pages, 160 x 240, Soft Cover, illustrated, 280 grams, $30.00. Postage Australia wide $5.50.

Fred was on HMAS Perth when it was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Straits in March, 1942.
This is the story of a young sailor, joining in 1941 at 18. A year later he and his mates were in the great battles of the Java Sea and Sunda Straits in which the Perth and its allies were sunk.

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Journal of the Brockman Droving Expedition of 1874-75 to the Norht of Western Australia, The
Edited by Nan Broad with Peter Bridge.
[ISBN 0 85905 366 0], (2006 New), Hard Cover, Dust Jacket, 177pp, illustrated, 475 grams, $60*.
The story of one of the greatest early stock droves in Australia.

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Judex – Judging the Fields by Fred Casey, edited by Peter Bridge with Celene Bridge.

[ISBN 0 85905 421 7], (2007 New), Soft cover, A4, 37pp, saddle, 150 grams, $20*

Fred was the surveyor of the Kalgoorlie Council and a prospector who died on the dumps, chasing the wily weight. He was the first historian of early Kalgoorlie.

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Kingdom of Shylock, The (Revised) by Frank Anstey MP.
[ISBN 0 85905 392 X], (2006 reprint), Soft Cover, A4, 112pp, Illustrated, 315g, $30*.
First published in 1917, when it was repressed. This is a reprint of the second edition. Frank Anstey (1865-1940) was a leader of the Labor Party, a committed socialist, supporter of public finance and the Commonwealth Bank, and viewed WWI as “a war of rival capitalists”.

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Krakatoa in Western Australia.  Pseudobitumen by Peter J. Bridge
[ISBN 0 85905 414 4], (2007 New, e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol.1 No.7 – 8.), 30 pp, saddle, Soft Cover, A4, 125 grams, $20*
When Krakatoa lifted off, WA rang like a bell and many strange seismic activities were recorded. Pseudobitumen from desert caves has intrigued investigators for over 150 years.

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Lakewood Woodline, 1937 – 1964, The by Phil Bianchi and Ray Tovey.
[ISBN 0 85905 422 5], (2007 New), A4, Soft Cover, 220pp, illustrated, 610 grams, $40.00*
Combined documents, photographs, and reminiscences of those who lived on the Lakewood line. Of great goldfields interest.

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Life and Adventure in Northern Australia by Thomas Traine.
[ISBN 0 85905 367 9] (2005 New),  62pp, A4, Perfect bound, illust., 190 grams, $22.00.
Tom Traine was one of the overlanders from Queensland to the West in the 1880s. His story covers the opening of the Barkley Tablelands, Black Jack Reid, the Ragged Thirteen, aboriginal encounters, running pubs and stations and the first development of Port Hedland

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Loaming For Gold by Sam Cash, with a Foreword and biographical notes by Bob Sheppard.

[ISBN 0 85905 431 4], (2008 Reprint with new material), Soft Cover, 84pp, illustrated, 150grams. $22.00.

The technique of loaming has found many new gold mines and millions of $ of gold. This book by the ‘Prince of Loamers’ is an essential handbook for prospectors. It gives the potential for the creation of great wealth.

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Lure of the North by F. W. Gunning
[ISBN 0 85905 396 2], (2007, reprint), Hard Cover, dj, 272pp, illustrated, 720 grams, $75.00*
Lure of the North is the story of George Gooch and the opening up of the Gascoyne.
Long out of print and reaching $600 plus as a rare book, it has been reprinted courtesy of the Gunning and Gooch families.This new facsimile, limited edition, is case bound with a dust jacket.

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Memoirs of a Spanish Missionary Monk by Seraphim Sanz de Galdeano OSB MBE OAM CSM
[ISBN 0 85905 386 5], (2006 New), Soft Cover, 260pp, illust, 350g, $35
Seraphim Sanz de Galdeano was born in Spain in 1913, the eighth of ten children. At eleven years of age he heard Dom Anselm Catalan of New Norcia, Western Australia speak of the need for missionaries to work with the Australian Aborigines in far flung areas of Australia. From that time, young Seraphim decided to dedicate his life to this mission.

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Metamorphosis of a Race - Kuíni and Kulári Tribes of Kalúmburu Mission   by Seraphim Sanz de Galdeano OSB MBE OAM CSM and Dolores Djinmora
[ISBN O 85905 376 8],(2006 New), Soft Cover,  152pp, illustrated, 260grams, $28.00 
Engrossing ...... a living history. The fascinating observations and life of Father Seraphim Sanz, a Benedictine monk, who served his God at Kalumburu, an isolated Aboriginal Mission in Australia's Far North West. and the impressions of an amazing Aboriginal elder, Dolores Djinmora who worked along side Father Sanz in his Christian endeavours. (Diana Temby, Executive Director, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission)

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Millendon Memoir, The George Fletcher Moore’s Western Australian Diaries and Letters, 1830-1841.
Edited with an Introduction by JMR Cameron.
[0 85905 388 1], (2006 New), Hard Cover,  536pp, illustrated, 1020g, $80.00*
This is probably the most important colonial work to be published in WA. There are no other diary or letter sequences of such content from such a central figure in the early colony.

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Mount Minnie Mystery, The & A Midnight Melee . Edited by Peter J Bridge with Gail Dreezens.
The Mount Minnie Mystery. In late 1925 Moorish horse dealer, Alexander Hughes, and his aboriginal assistant, Sailor, disappeared from Mount Minnie Station near Onslow in the North West of Western Australia.

A Midnight Melee. In 1920 a well-known Nor’ Wester, Charles Athelstone Park, was arrested for the murder of Big Bob, an aboriginal drover. The investigation covered territory from the Kimberley to the Upper Gascoyne.
[ISBN 978 0 85905 425 6], (2008 New), Soft Cover, 36 pages, A4, 125 grams, $22.00*

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Nurses with Altitude with Foreword by Tim Fischer
Now released
[ISBN 978-0-85905-441-6], Soft cover, section sewn, 264 pages, 355 grams, $35.00.
A collection of stories by the nurses and their colleagues at the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia. Compiled by Gaye Richardson in conjunction with the Flight Nurse Reunion Committee.
Probably the best book on the RFDS, written by the staff from their own experiences.

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Old Sixteenth, The  by Cyril Longmore.
[ISBN 0 85905 409 8], (1929 reprint 2007), Hard Cover, 286 pp, illust, 695 grams, $85.00*
The unit history of the mainly West Australian 16th Battalion during WWI, with fold out plates and nominal list.

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Padre Plod by Barry May
[ISBN 0 85905 424 1] )(New 2007), Soft Cover, 265 pages, 355 grams, $35.
 During his many years as Western Australia’s first full-time Police Chaplain, Father Barry May often attended scenes of great trauma and witnessed heart-breaking tragedy, he encountered things that would test anyone’s faith. Yet it was his own unflinching faith in God the Creator that sustained him in his grim responsibilities.

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Pearls and Pearling Life. by EW Streeter
[ISBN 0 85905 255 9], (1886 reprint 2007), Hard Cover, 340 pp, illust, 835 grams, $116.00*
The pearling classic, impossible to obtain. With tipped in colour plates and map. A study of pearls and pearling regions of the world. Early WA pearling.

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Pioneers of Nor'-West - Pastoral and Pearling by Lockier Clere Burges
 [ISBN 978-0-85905-438-6], (2008 reprint 1911), Soft Cover, A$, saddle stiched, 28pp, 120grams, $15.00*
 The author was an early pioneer of the NW and wrote thee reminiscences in 1911. The original copies are extremely rare.

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Prospecting Poultry. Land of Forests, Fleas and Flies. Jack Sorenson and his Lost Verse. by Peter J. Bridge with Gail Dreezens.
 [ISBN 0 85905 411 X], (2007 New, e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol.1, Nos. 1-3.), 34 pp, saddle, Soft Cover, A4, 135 gram
The habit of chooks to eat bright gold grains led to some interesting incidents on the fields. The development and effect of a catchy doggerel verse that has had wide echoes. A collection to add to our Ghosts of Bayley Street.

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Road to Bulong, The by P. Rajkowski and E. Tuettemann.
[ISBN 0 85905 420 9], (2007 New), 380pp, illustrated, Soft Cover 1.3kg, $ **   ., Hard Cover, dj, **  kg $ **   .
The story of the Jones family of Hampton Hill Station, from the colonial pearling days of Shark Bay and the Gascoyne, with the Butcher family, to goldfields pastoralism, transport and mining. Available direct from the Jones family at Hampton Hill.

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Senator Bertie Johnston by J.C. Rice.
[ISBN 0 85905 384 9], (2006 New), Hard Cover, dj, 685pp, illustrated, 1.4kg, $55.00*.
Bertie Johnston was in the WA Parliament for 30 years, for both the Labor and Country parties. This biography covers his public and private life

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Steam in the Forests by MRH Southcombe
[ISBN 0 85905 387 3], (2006 reprint of 1986 edition), soft cover, 144pp, illustrated, 210 grams, $22.00.
 The South West timber industry relied upon steam engines of many types.

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Shearer’s War, The  by Stuart Svensen.

[ISBN 0 85805 434 9], (1989, 2008), 325pp, illustrated, 550 grams, $45.00.

Second only to the rebellion of Eureka Stockade, the great Queensland shearer’s strike of 1891 was suppressed with the threat of troops with artillery and machine guns. The leaders were marched in chains for hundreds of miles and gaoled in loaded courts. This was the birth of the ALP. Many of the leaders became Members of Parliament. This is the first time the real story has been told of the machinations of the pastoralists, politicians, banksters, and like parasites in their antagonism against Australian workers.

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Suicides and Settlers - Their place in 19th Century West Australian social history by Claire McIntyre
 [ISBN 978-0-85905-446-1], (2008 New), 223pp, Soft Cover, illustrated, 295 grams, $28.00
 This book is a social history of 19th Century Western Australia told through the 315 suicides recorded here from the towns of the Swan settlement, Fremantle, Perth and Guildford. They also reach from the Kimberley to Esperance and the distant deserts.

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Sunrise – the Fred and Elsie Colson story by Alb Colson.
[ISBN 0 85905 426 8], (2007 New), A4, Soft Cover, 87pp, 275 grams, $25.00*.
The story of the NT pioneer family who arrived in 1927 to work on the Oodnadatta to Alice railway. Carting, mining, the Lasseter expedition, searching for lost airmen, purchase of Aileron Station in 1934, WWII contracting. Fred and Elsie became some of the best known of the Centralian personalities.

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Three Families Outback in Australia’s Tropic North by Florence Martin.
[0 85905 364 4], (1980 reprint 2007), Soft Cover, 107 pp, illust, 165 grams, $22.00.   The story of the families on Carlton Hill, Ningbing, and Legune Stations in the early 1900s.

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To King George the Third Sound for Whales  by Rod Dickson.
 To King George the Third Sound for Whales. A voyage aboard the British Whaling Vessel Kingston of London, Captain Thomas Dennis. 1800-1802. Transcribed from the original ship’s logbook by Rod Dickson.
[ISBN 0 85905 372 5], (2006 New) Hard cover, dj, 174 pp, 25 x 17cm, illustrated, maps, 480grams. $55.00*, A limited edition of 500 copies
To be released 1 June 2006.   Publisher direct price  $55.00 We will advise overseas POSTAGE on query.

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Toodyay Gold compiled by Peter J Bridge and Angela Teague.
[ISBN 978-0-85905-443-0], (2008 New), A4, Soft Cover, 62pp, illus., 200 grams, $22.00*
Toodyay, one of the earliest settlements in Western Australia, dating from the 1830s, and the scene of many interesting incidents, showed that after a century of occupation it had more secrets to reveal, when in 1931, early in the first Great Depression, Brown and party discovered payable gold in Yinniding Creek, eight miles south-west of the town. This is an example of resources expanding to fill the needs.

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Toodyay Homesteads by Rica Erickson & Robyn Taylor
[ISBN 0 85905 362 8], (2006 New), Soft Cover, 196 pages, 260 grams, $30.00., Australia-wide POSTAGE $5.50
Toodyay Homesteads, Past and Present is an invaluable book for anyone interested in Western Australia's rural heritage. It describes the evolution of the Toodyay District and the farming properties that have operated since the 1830s and 1840s.

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Travels With A Lawbook - Memoirs of a Magistrate by Ken ‘Lazarus’ Moore
 [ISBN 978 085 905 442 3] , (2008 New), Soft cover, notch bound, A4, 384 pages, 1.1 kg , $50.00*
In this autobiography the author takes us on a roller-coaster journey from his birthplace in the Glens of Antrim to far distant places around the globe.

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28th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, The. A record of war service. By Harry K Kahan. . 
[ISBN 0 85905 391 1], (1969 reprint 2007), Soft Cover, A4, 140 pp, illust, 410 grams, $30.00*

The story of the 28th in France in WWI. Collett’s volume covers the unit until they arrived in France and Kahan continues the story.

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Wanderings of Dido, The – E A Church edited by Peter J Bridge with Gail Dreezens

[ISBN 0 85905 365 2], (2007 New), Soft Cover, A4, 40 pp, saddle, 160 grams, $20*

Ted Church was a prospector and raconteur of the Kalgoorlie area who recorded many of the incidents of goldfields life.

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Well Drilling Plants and Gasoline Engines by the Goldfields Diamond Drilling Coy. Pty. Ltd.
[ISBN 978-0-85905-454-6], (?1920s, 2008), Soft Cover, 78 pages, A4, 235 grams, $25.00*
This heavily illustrated catalogue and descriptive booklet of ?1920s diamond drilling equipment for water and oil is invaluable for machinery collectors and historians of the pastoral and oil drilling industry in Australia.

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West Pilbara, The . Sail and Teams to Bulk Carriers and Bitumen by Doug Gordon. Reprinted with index
[ISBN 978-0-85905-444-7], (2008 Reprint), 162pp, softcover, A4, illustrated, 410 grams $35.00*A new edition of this popular book, now indexed. The Gordon family were pioneers of the Pilbara. Covers the early history and the development of Millstream Station, together with Doug’s life at Wittenoom and many of the NW personalities.
 

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Whatever happened to Kangaroo Kate? David Carnegie at Halls Creek. Moondyne Joe, his early life.
by Peter Bridge with Gail Dreezens and Drew Deveraux.

[ISBN 0 85905 416 0], (2007 New, e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol 1 No 5) Soft Cover A4, 15pp, saddle, 90 grams, $11*

Kangaroo Kate and her namesakes intrigued bush people for many years. She disappeared in 1930. A letter from Carnegie to Forrest from halls Creek in 1897. The real facts on Moondyne Joe’s origins and early life.

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Where on the Coast is That? by Ian Murray with Marion Hercock.

[ISBN 978-0-85905-452-2],(New, 2008), Soft Cover, 350 pp, 910 grams, $ 45.00*
Owing to the geographical location of Western Australia at the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean, its coastal features have more than the expected Aboriginal and English place names. This is because the first European names were bestowed by Dutch navigators in the 1600s, then by English and French navigators before settlement by the English in the 1820s. The place names applied speak volumes about the motives of navigators in selecting names.

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White blacks and black whites edited by P.J. Bridge A. Teague & G. Dreezens.

[ISBN 0 85905 436 5], (2008 New), A4, Soft Cover, 34pp, illustrated, 130grams. $22.00*
From the 1830s to the 1890s many strange stories about whites amongst the blacks came in from the frontiers. Albinos, lost explorers or shipwreck survivors? This intriguing collection is from Western Australia.

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Yundamindra by Alec Palmer
[ISBN 0 85905 370 9], (2006 New), Soft Cover, 138pp, illustrated, 190 grams, $22.00 Australia-wide POSTAGE $5.50
The history of the town, station and surrounding mining areas of Yundamindra.

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Desert Gold ***. The Border Exploration Syndicate Expedition to the Rawlinson Ranges in 1899 – 1900, by Henry Hill. Edited by Mark Chambers and P.J. Bridge.

[ISBN 0 85905 383 0], (2008 New), Hard Cover, dj, **pp, illustrated, ** grams, $ ***
This almost unknown expedition was marked by drought, murder in Aboriginal conflict, death of the Afghan camel man, spearing of the camels, and no gold. Henry William Hill, Hilton Verney Smith, Frank Merton, Joseph John Gillio, Charles Norton, and Shah Nawas were adventurers whose luck was out on this 9 month expedition.

Evidences of an Inland Sea by G.F. Moore, with a new foreword by Prof. J.M.R. Cameron.

[ISBN 0 85905 407 1], (2008 Reprint 1837), Hard Cover, dj, ** pp, **grams, $ * **.

Moore led a series of expeditions to the NE of Perth to investigate the stories of natives about a body of inland water. This

exceptionally rare book contains much of Aboriginal interest.