The First Sunrise by Ainslie Roberts and Charles P. Mountford

The First Sunrise

Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings

Paintings by Ainslie Roberts

Text by Charles P. Mountford

Rigby, 1971, [First Edition], ISBN 0851792537, colour reproduction plates throughout, line drawings, hardcover with illustration to front cover, dustjacket

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, tape residue to endpapers, minor crumpling to text block, water stains to bottom corner of front and back cover, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little crumpling and discolouration at back (see photographs)

“The First Sunrise is a companion volume to The Dreamtime and The Dawn of Time… the concept of those two books – and of The First Sunrise – was developed through an association between the famous ethnologist Charles P. Mountford and the artist Ainslie Roberts.  Both men have an intimate knowledge of the Australian outback.  Mr Roberts has made extensive painting tours through remote regions, and Mr Mountford spent many years on research into the lives of the Aboriginal peoples.  During that time, he collected many of the myths with which the Aborigines explain the creation of the world and all that lives and lies therein.