Australian Tree Portraits
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 the publisher, in a letter loosely inserted in a copy we have sold).
Item #73949
Price (AUD):
$250.00