Australian Tree Portraits by Mountford, Charles - 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: Melbourne University Press, 1956. 69pp, bw photographs, drawings. or green cloth lacking jacket. Cloth has some small holes through to card beneath and a wormhole at spine, minor bump to bottom corner.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walsh, Gwen.. Folio.

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. 69pp, bw photographs. drawings. Green cloth in jacket. Small prev owners name inside front cover, protective plastic cover stuck to endpapers, small bookseller label on front pastedown, corner crease to front free endpaper, rear free endpaper has surface silverfishing affecting the gray coating on the paper. Photographic protraits of Australian trees with accompanying text and attractive drawings of leaves, blossoms etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Walsh, Gwen.. Folio.

Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1956. Book. Illus. by Gwen Walsh. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 340mm Tall, 4to. 69 pages. 32 photographs with drawings. Text description of each tree. Green cloth covers; slight wear to top/tail of spine.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1956. 69pp, bw photographs. drawings. Orgreen cloth lacking jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED 'Charles P Mountford for W McCaffrey 1959' on title page. Cloth stained and worn with several short splits in cloth at spine (still holding firmly), prev owners name by pen and stamp on front free endpaper and by stamp on title page (RK McCaffrey), top corner bumped resulting in minor creasing to top corner of most pages. Scarce title and any Mountford signed books are scarce. Photographic protraits of Australian trees with accompanying text and attractive drawings of leaves, blossoms etc.. Signed & Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Walsh, Gwen.. Folio.

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).

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