Australian Tree Portraits by Mountford, Charles P - 1956

Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. Ink name in front. 69pp. Lovely full-page photos. Griffin Press. I love trees! They give everything and take nothing. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" Tall

Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1956. Book. Illus. by Gwen Walsh. VG+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Green cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. 70 pp., illus. w/ sepia plates on each recto, facing-page commentary. Lightly rubbed spine extremities, covers slightly bowed. Pictorial dust jacket shows a few small chips and short closed tears along edges, mild rubbing to corners and extremities, now in mylar..

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. Large quarto, 69 pages with numerous drawings by Gwen Walsh and 31 plates (after photographs by Charles Mountford). Green cloth; endpapers lightly offset; ownership signature; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed, creased, chipped and torn with slight loss. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree portraits is all that I can offer.' More than half the superb photographs were taken in Central and North Australia. 'The book was judged one of the twelve best books of the year in Australia and I think it will compare quite favourably anywhere' (quoting the publisher, in a letter loosely inserted in a copy we have sold).

Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Small folio. 69pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Creasing, scuffing and minor chipping to dj. Initials "HLC" and year "1970" to front endpaper. Frontispiece. Each tree (Central and North Australia) has a double-page dedicated to it - text with drawings by Gwen Walsh on one and the exquisite photograph of the tree on the other side. Dj in good, book in very condition.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1956. 4to, pp. 69, two-tone frontis, b/w plates, ills.,original cloth boards, very good, in d.j. closed tears to edges, protected. Tipped-in manuscript letter from the publisher to ffep. Signed by Mountford to the title page. Very good condition in good d.j. Collection thirty photographic portaits. 1st Edition. cloth boards in d.j..

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. Large quarto, 69 pages with numerous drawings by Gwen Walsh and 31 plates (after photographs by Charles Mountford). Cloth a little bowed; pastedowns a little bubbled; endpapers lightly offset; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little worn, rubbed and slightly torn with slight loss. Inscribed and dated (1956) by the author to his son on the flyleaf. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree portraits is all that I can offer.' More than half the superb photographs were taken in Central and North Australia. 'The book was judged one of the twelve best books of the year in Australia and I think it will compare quite favourably anywhere' (quoting… Read More