Charles Pearcy Mountford (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Near Fine. Inscriptions and label to two preliminary pages; o/w tight clean and bright; in just lightly rubbed dj. Remarkable paintings by Roberts; 79 pp.

FIRST. FINE/nFINE. Black boards, white spine. po name neatly on ffep. Dustwrapper with the usual crinkling of the laminate for this book. Retelling of 23 aboriginal myths and art - the bark paintings are by the Tiwi of Melville Islands, the finger paintings by members of Pitjanjara and Junkanjara tribes, of the Mann and Musgrave Ranges. [B156].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/chipping.some paper loss at spine, unclipped price, in mylar; rust c. w/brown spine titles; maps on end papers; 184 clean, unmarked pages/index. B/W Photos; Maps on End Papers (illustrator).

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Fine. No dust jacket. 24 p., [3] p. (on fold. l. ) illus., 28 col. plates. 17 cm. A Mentor-Unesco art book. "MQ582." No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. PB 184.

Condition: Good. Original decorated boards, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and b/w, small 4to.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine condition, some shelf wear. Clean, Unmarked, Tight Binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Before Time Began is the culmination of a lifetime's experience. Spectacular finger paintings and bark paintings collected by C. P. Mountford on two of his expeditions illustrate this collection of 23 myths, retold with all the respect, love and insight which he has for the Aboriginal people of Australia. **The book has light shelf rubbing at the top.**.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The cover has a bit of wear, with light foxing, and a water damage stain on the back. The page edges are a bit tanned and foxed. The first page has a name inscirption from a previous owner. 24 pages of text plus 28 leaves of colour plates (including several fold-outs) Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. « Even yet the great majority of people do not realize that the culture and social customs of the Australian Aborigines are a unique survival from the distant past. What to us is only too often a treeless, desert waste, where the mirage mocks the weary traveller, is to them a homeland with a story or legend attached to every feature. In the fascinating pages of Brown Men and Red Sand the author takes us back into the remote past, and enables us to share in daily life of An anthropologist's well-written account of time spent among Aboriginal tribes in Central Australia in the 1930s and 40s. A marvellous and sensitive evocation of traditional Aboriginal culture just on the point of being completely diluted by mission lifestyles and incursions into tribal lands by white European settlers.».…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. BOOK, SLIGHTLY BUMPPED CORNERS. DJ ALSO SLIG BUMPPED.

Copertina morbida. Condition: Buono. 24 p., 28 c. di tav. : ill. ; 17 x 11 cm. UNESCO Silvana. Arte per tutti, 9. I dipinti su scorza d'albero e graffiti su pareti di grotte sono manifestazioni artistiche degli aborigeni australiani che vivono nelle zona desertica della Terra di Arnhem. Alcuni dipinti sono stati considerati come esempio d'arte magica piuttosto che quadri rappresentativi. L'arte degli indigeni australiani è paragonabile a quella praticata in Europa all'età della pietra. Brossura editoriale, coperta in cartoncino flessibile plastificato, illustrata a colori.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1972. Octavo, [viii], 222 pages plus 16 pages of plates (30 images). Papered boards; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (a little sunned on the spine). Inscribed and signed 'with much regards Monty'. Loosely inserted is a small quantity of interesting related ephemera: an invitation to the launch of this book, and a newspaper review clipping; a photograph captioned 'Monty's Hon Ph.D Investiture, Melbourne Uni' (it was an honorary Litt.D., in 1973); his funeral notice clipped from a newspaper; and a remembrance card from Mountford's funeral, inscribed in ink 'With special remembrance to you, CPM's fellow worker'. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Quarto, [vi], 89 pages with 39 full-page plates (from the author's superb photographs). Original quarter leather and cloth; leather slightly rubbed; spine lettering discoloured (as ever); gift inscription on the verso of the rear flyleaf; an excellent copy. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Condition: Very Good. Flinders Ranges, South Australia, [circa 1937]. A vintage sepia-toned silver gelatin photograph (244 × 227 mm), backed up with cream card (256 × 238 mm) on the original mount board (400 × 342 mm, signed and captioned by the photographer in black ink in the bottom margin). A tiny spot of loss to the surface near the bottom left-hand corner; minor silvering-out around the edges; mount board a little foxed; overall, in excellent condition. The State Library of South Australia holds the original negative (PRG 1218/34/675G) in its Mountford-Sheard Collection, with the date given as 'Approximately 1937'. Signed.…

Condition: Very Good. Small quarto, one page, undated (but 1964 from the content); folded once across the centre; in excellent condition. This interesting letter is from Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976, anthropologist) to his friend Harold Llewellyn Sheard (1890-1975, amateur anthropologist) and his wife Rose (née Lowcay, 1889-1968). Mountford has been busy in the eastern states: 'Ayers Rock [published in 1965] is in the hands of the publishers, the last volume of the Arnhem Land reports is almost complete [it was published in 1964], and I am going to get my M.A. Apparently the last examiner (undoubtedly Stanner) was much fairer in his criticisms than the previous one (Capell), who is a cobber of Elkin's'. The politics of anthropology . (for more detail on the matters mentioned in this short letter, you need go no further than the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' entry on Mountford by Dr Philip Jones). Sheard assiduously collected Mountfordiana, which he later deposited in the State Library of South Australia. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. An original vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph (image size 300 × 248 mm), on the original thick card mount (442 × 354 mm), with the caption, in duplicate typescript on paper, mounted on the bottom margin. The mount is lightly foxed, with a few pinholes close to the top and bottom edges; there is a tiny surface chip to a bottom corner tip of the photograph, and minimal silvering-out; overall, in excellent condition. The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two small cloth tabs affixed near the top edge on the verso, suitable for hanging the item; a number in another hand ('1' in a circle, written in indelible pencil) suggests this print was exhibited at some stage. Mountford made four expeditions to Ayers Rock (Uluru) between 1935 and 1960; the negative for this print comes from the 1940 journey. A very similar image appears in Mountford's book, 'Ayers Rock. Its People, Their Beliefs and Their Art', published in 1965. The caption to that image (see plate 70A, page 111) reads: 'The spirit dingo, Kulpunya: A, Stone, body of bell-bird, Panpanpanala'. Mountford explains in his introduction to the book the reasons behind such discrepancies (see page xiv). During the course of his first three expeditions to the region, he 'did not feel that the material gathered . was sufficiently detailed or accurate for publication. my informants were not Ayers Rock men and, therefore, did not know the myths in detail, or they were men who, though belonging to the country, were too young when they left Ayers Rock to have gained a full knowledge of the myths . In 1960 another attempt was made . there were few Ayers Rock men then living, and only one of them, Balinga . was particularly well versed in the stories explaining the mythical origins of the topographical features of Ayers Rock. For this reason, his statements have been used whenever they differed from those of earlier informants'. Signed by Author(s).…