PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.
Dingbat Flat
The Kalgoorlie-Boulder Riots of 1934
Rod Moncrieff
ISBN 978-0-85905-711-0, (New, 2018), A4, illustrated, 178pp, 500grams
$35.00* + POST
The race based riots and their causes have echoed over the past century. The first dispassionate study of a usually highly politicised incident. Essential reading for the multiculters.
Diogenes
by George Pavlu
ISBN 085905 325 3, (2003 new), Soft cover, illustrated, 185grams
$22.00 + POST
.... here is a book that barks at fleas with cynic wit. And what a restorative sight - Diogenes the Dog snapping at the heels of 'homo consumerus' at prayer in their temples to modernity - Shopping Malls - urging the decidedly un-chic virtue of frugality: to know that enough is enough IS ENOUGH!
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.
Disorderly Proceedings in the Park
Western Australian Football in Colonial Times
by Steve Errington
ISBN 978-0-85905-637-3, (2016, New), A4, illustrated, 194 pages, 535 grams
$40.00* +POST
In the early 1880s in the sleepy towns of Perth and Fremantle young men played loosely organised rugby matches. But in 1885 some keen young players of Victorian Rules imposed their will on this tired scene and formed what is now the West Australian Football League, starting a competition which continues 131 years later.
Clubs came and went: Centrals, Metropolitans, Victorians and West Australians are no more. Unions changed their name. An early East Perth club lasted two years.
Do Not Yield To Despair
The Exploration Diaries of Frank Hann 1895--1908
edited by Mike Donaldson and Ian Elliot
ISBN 085905 226 5, (1998 new), Case Bound, A4 size, 440pp illustrated, 1.4kg
$95.00* + POST
Frank Hann was one of the greatest bushman in Australia. He travelled from Northern Queensland through the Territory to the Kimberley and finally to Laverton and the Eastern Goldfields where he spent his life exploring the desert.
These unique diaries record his travels and life and are essential reading for anyone travelling the Western Australian and Northern Territory deserts.
Dobson of Australia.
Peter J. Bridge.
ISBN 978-0-85905-952-7, (New,2022), A4, 28 pages, $22.00*
Dobson, a lucky Irish prospector at Kanowna headed North. He became a fixture of bush life for several decades and is one of the great characters of the North.
Dog Registration Discs in Western Australia
by Walter R. Bloom & Alf Campbell.
ISBN 978-0-85905-845-2, (New 2020), A4, heavily illustrated in colour, 168 pages, french flaps, 530 grams, $60.00*
A small run of what will become a real collector’s item.
The first and only catalogue of these very collectable relics, which is an outcome of the metal detector gold and relic hunting hobby. Judging by the value of some items the finding these could be like finding gold.
This is a thoroughly researched and outstanding colour publication with many fine examples illustrated of a substantial collector base. It is a snapshot of 20th Century WA local history, where there are more dogs than people.
Dollypot
edited by P.J. Bridge
ISBN 0 85905 100 5, (1987 new), 168pp, 152mm x 222mm, illustrated, 350grams
SC $25.00, HC $35.00 + POST
Dollypot is a magnificent collection of prospectors' and miners' stories from the pages of the old Western Mail newspaper.
Humour, sadness, thirst, booze, hard luck, life, people and poetry of the goldfields - from the Kimberley in the north to Ravensthorpe in the south east of Western Australia.
Don’s Adventure. Invasion of Balikpapan. ‘F’ Day – Sunday 1 July 1945.
The diaries of Corporal Donald Briggs (WX 16865) of 1 Australian Armoured Regiment, ‘A’ Squadron and Japanese Sailor Katsuichi Kitao. Compiled by Donald (Don) Charles Briggs.
ISBN 978-0-85905-923-7, (New 2022), A4, 56 pages, illustrated, 180 grams, $22.00*
Contains the Japanese diary as well as Briggs’ war diary.
Down the Dinbole
by Bonnie Milne
ISBN 0 85905 348 2, (2004 new),125pp, illustrated, 165 grams
SC $22.00 + POST
Bonnie Milne grew up on an isolated sheep station in the Upper Gascoyne district.
This is a light hearted look at family life on Coor de Wandie station
Dr William John Peasley, a biography and bibliography
ISBN 978-0-85905-802-5, (2020), A5, 8 pages, $10.00*
The Drover's Scrapbook
edited by Peter J Bridge and Gail Dreezens
ISBN 978-0-85905-428-7, (2008), A4, 127pp, illustrated, Soft Cover, 370 grams
$30.00* + POST
A collection of reports and reminiscences of WA droving from the 1880s to the 1950s, giving many names and records of trips with sheep and cattle from the north to the southern markets.
The Drover’s Cook and other verses
by Tom Quilty
ISBN 978-0-85905-640-3, (1958 R 2016), 124 pages, soft cover, 140 grams.
$25.00* + POST
Tom Quilty was a well-known Kimberley cattleman who became famous for his verse and especially for his descriptive poem, “The Drover’s Cook – weighed fifteen stone, He had one bloodshot eye, He had no laces on his boots, No buttons on his fly.”
The royalties for this book go to the Kimberley RFDS. This small reprint of a now rare book is done to satisfy the curious readers of the new Red Dog: True Blue by Louis de Bernieres in which the author quotes verse from The Drover’s Cook.
Droving Days
by H.M. Barker
ISBN 0 85905 197 8, (1994 reprint of 1966 edition), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 124pp, illustrated, 175grams
$25.00 + POST
The acute powers of observation and vivid recollection of years spent in the bush that characterised his Camels and the Outback are again delightfully shown by H.M. Barker.
After highlighting the achievements of some of the best known of the early pioneers - Hawden, Tyson, de Satge, Sutherland, Gray, Buchanan, Christison and Cotton - he introduces the pleasures, rigours, vagaries and discomforts of droving as he experienced them.