The Hard Light of Day. An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2012/ 2010. 'Moss sees the truth of the Center: here is the hidden face of today's Alice Springs.' The author's first book. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2012/ 2010. 'Moss sees the truth of the Center: here is the hidden face of today's Alice Springs.' The author's first book. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2013. More
Melbourne, Printed by J. Roy Stevens, [early 1940s]. We have previously handled a copy inscribed by the author: 'in | Art of the Aust. Aboriginal | Barrett & Croll 1943'. That book was published in quarto format; this is a reset version. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1937. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD, C.P.: Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places in South-Western Central Australia (15 pages) and Examples of Aboriginal Art from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Harbour, North-Western Australia (11 pages); TINDALE, N.B.: Two Legends of the Ngadjuri Tribe from the Middle North..... More
Adelaide, Royal Society of South Australia, 1937, 1938 and 1939. The articles appear under the general title of 'Aboriginal Crayon Drawings', with the following individual sub-titles. Number 1: Relating to Totemic Places belonging to the Northern Aranda Tribe of Central Australia (12 pages with a map and 18 illustrations). Number..... More
Croydon, Longmans, 1965 (reprint)/ 1961. One of the Arts in Australia series. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. 'These sensitive studies are neither tourist poses nor anthropological records' (dustwrapper blurb). The title page is inscribed and signed 'To Olga Hardy with much regards from the Author, Charles P. Mountford'. We know of Olga Hardy only as the author of 'Like a Bird on..... More
Four of the items are large exhibition-quality vintage prints (255 × 305 mm or the reverse) from 1940 negatives: the truly stunning 'Komita with a sand drawing'; 'Young woman taking water from Erliwunyawunya rockhole'; 'Kulpitjata the song leader'; and 'Katabulka in mourning'. We have located no reproduction in print of..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1976. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara [sic] of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara [sic] of the Musgrave Ranges, on the borders of South, Central and Western Australia (Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40). The following caveat is printed on the verso of..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1976. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara [sic] of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara [sic] of the Musgrave Ranges, on the borders of South, Central and Western Australia (Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40). The following caveat is printed on the verso of..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1976. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara [sic] of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara [sic] of the Musgrave Ranges, on the borders of South, Central and Western Australia (Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40). The following caveat is printed on the verso of..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1968. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Lady Pauline and Sir | A. Grenfell Price | with much gratitude and | appreciation | fr[om] | Charles P. Mountford'. The outcome of Mountford's '1960 journey into the north-west of central Australia, which included 300 miles of difficult..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1968. The outcome of Mountford's '1960 journey into the north-west of central Australia, which included 300 miles of difficult and totally untravelled territory ... the only complete record in Australian literature of an entire aboriginal myth' (dustwrapper blurb). Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976), anthropologist and photographer. More
St. Augustin, Anthropos, 1964. The engravings were first described in 1914 by Dr Herbert Basedow; this paper considers some of his suggestions in the light of increased knowledge. More
[Washington], United States Indian Service, April 1944. Limited to 3000 copies; this copy has the 1945 ownership signature of Charles P. Mountford, the noted Australian anthropologist. Loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping recording the 100th birthday of Mountford's wife Besie in November 1990 (she accompanied Mountford on his 1948 Arnhem..... More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
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..... More
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..... More
Flinders Ranges, South Australia, [circa 1937]. 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'. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1972. 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);..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1972. 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..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1938. This issue also contains TINDALE, N.B.: Prupe and Koromarange - a Legend of the Tanganekald, Coorong, SA (7 pages with a map and an illustration plus a plate). More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1926. This issue also contains MAWSON, Sir D. and P. HOSSFELD: Relics of Aboriginal Occupation in the Olary District (8 pages with 2 full-page illustrations plus 4 plates); HOSSFELD, Paul S.: The Aborigines of South Australia. Native Occupation of the Eden Valley and Angaston Districts (11 pages with..... More
Rochester, Inner Traditions, 1993 (first US edition). Subtitle of the Australian first edition: 'Everything Standing Up Alive. Spirit of the Kimberley'. More
Broome, Magabala Books, 2001 (new edition)/ 1993. 'In this New Edition, an intriguing and revealing chapter has been added in the form of a conversation about the famed Bradshaw rock paintings, recorded not long before the close of Mowaljarlai's life. From this it emerges that, contrary to some controversial views..... More