Editore: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1976
ISBN 10: 017005070X ISBN 13: 9780170050708
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.
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Editore: Taplinger Publishing Co, New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 0800827457 ISBN 13: 9780800827458
Da: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Ainslie Roberts (illustratore). 1st Edition. 79 pages with colored plates and drawings. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to cloth and pictorial cover in original pictorial jacket. Underlining. paintings by Ainslie Roberts. First edition. This visually powerful volume, illustrated with 32 full-color-plates and nearly two score pen-and-ink drawings, is the companion to The Dreamtime and The Dawn of Time, two of the most popular Australian books ever published. Condition: Underlining in text else a very good copy in like jacket.
Condizione: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (ethnology, Australia) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Editore: Rigby, Adelaide, 1971
ISBN 10: 0851792537 ISBN 13: 9780851792538
Da: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Roberts, Ainslie (illustratore). 79 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. Size: 8vo.
Editore: Published by the New American Library of World Literature by arrangement., [New York], 1964
Da: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
Mass-market paperback. Condizione: 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.
Editore: Prentilce Hall, 1973
ISBN 10: 0132193523 ISBN 13: 9780132193528
Da: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Dustjacket torn and taped, with edgewear. 32 Aboriginal folktales and myths, with retold text by the author and with Ainslie Roberts visual concept of the tales in color paintings. The stories put into words the Aborigines real world as well as The Dreamtime world which governs their daily actions.
Editore: Frederick A. Praeger, NY, 1952
Da: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. B/W Photos; Maps on End Papers (illustratore). 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.
Editore: Littlehampton Book Services Lt, 1981
ISBN 10: 0851794289 ISBN 13: 9780851794280
Da: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
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Editore: Labor, Barcelona, 1965
Da: Librería Camino Bulnes, Pamplona, Spagna
Tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. Materia: Antropología cultural y social, Australia, Usos y costumbres. Rodrigo, Ignacio (traductor). 1ª reimpresión. 218 p. : il. ; 22 cm Libro en buen estado. Libro.
Editore: Rigby, 1969
ISBN 10: 0727000276 ISBN 13: 9780727000279
Da: Bookbot, Prague, Repubblica Ceca
Condizione: Fine.
Editore: Angus & Robertson Publishers, Australia, 1981
ISBN 10: 0207143730 ISBN 13: 9780207143731
Da: Librairie La forêt des Livres, Lévis, QC, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: 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.».
Editore: Silvana Editoriale D'Arte, Milano, 1964
Da: BFS libreria, Ghezzano, PI, Italia
Copertina morbida. Condizione: Buona. 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.
Editore: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1965
Da: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Rebound. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustratore). First Edition. By the Author on the Half Title Page. The text is illustrated with 111 plates including five in colour, and 43 figures in-text including two folding diagrams, bibliography, index. Rebound quarter blue leather, with blue cloth board and gilt coloured titles to the back strip. The author's account of the native Pitjandjara People around what was then known as Ayer's Rock, but more recently known as Uluru; more specifically about their art and their beliefs. The leather has been badly rubbed/frayed at the head and foot of the spine. There is a 1 inch split to the top right hand edge of the back strip. Rubbing of the book edges with the underlying board visible and a little sunning of the back strip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], V - XIV, [6], 3 -208, [4] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Indigenous Cultures; mythology; Signed; Australia; Art & Design. By the Author on the Half Title Page. Inventory No: 0204602.
Editore: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1967
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: 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.
Editore: Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1972
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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'.
Editore: Rigby, Adelaide, 1972
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Adelaide, Rigby, 1972. Octavo, [viii], 222 pages plus 16 pages of plates. Papered boards; edges a little marked; minor signs of use; an excellent copy with the lightly sunned dustwrapper. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Sir Grenfell and | Lady Price | with much thanks | and many regards | from | Monty | Charles P. Mountford' (the anthropologist Charles Pearcy Mountford, 1890-1976). The recipient, Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist, has annotated in pencil the five pages of Chapter 9, 'The Leichhardt Enigma' (pages 56-60). In 1938, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society, South Australian Branch, of which he was the president at the time, Grenfell Price led 'an "inconclusive" expedition to examine supposed remains of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt'. Mountford was also a member of the expedition, and the chapter deals in some length with it. A few annotations elsewhere include one at the head of the title page: 'The greatest of abo artologists [sic]. AGP'.
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo Copia autografata
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.
Editore: Flinders Ranges, South Australia, 1937
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Fotografia Copia autografata
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'.
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Fotografia Copia autografata
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'.