Art Books

  • Tim Storrier

    # 51599

    McGREGOR, Ken, ZIMMER, Jenny,

    Tim Storrier

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art, 2007. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 142, illustrated. Macmillan Mini-Art Series number 4. New copy. Tim Storrier has painted sites in Egypt, Africa, Turkey and the West coast of America. Earning the respect of the art world in 1968 at nineteen by being the youngest ever recipient of the Sulman Prize, …

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  • True light and shade : an Aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett's art

    # 51596

    MAYNARD, John

    True light and shade : an Aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …

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  • Rosalie Gascoigne : Plain air

    # 51593

    GASCOIGNE, Rosalie

    Rosalie Gascoigne : Plain air

    Wellington : City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, 2004. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated; a very good copy. Survey exhibition of the New Zealand born, Australian resident artist.

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  • Criss Canning

    # 51591

    McGREGOR, Ken and ZIMMER, Jenny

    Criss Canning

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 5. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy.

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  • Howard Arkley

    # 51590

    ARKLEY, Howard (1951 - 1999)

    Howard Arkley

    Melbourne : Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (with an image of Arkley’s portrait of Nick Cave), pp. 30, a fine copy of this illustrated catalogue of Arkley’s 2006 exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square Brochure and exhibition prepared by Jason Smith, additional …

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  • The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia

    # 18197

    WALL, Dorothy (1894-1942)

    The rainy day : gift book of the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia

    “Story and illustrations by Dorothy Wall.” (p.[1]). [Sydney] : John Sands [for The Bank], [c.1925]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers in green and black (small loss to corner), [18] pp, monochrome and colour illustrations; internally very good. A morality tale teaching children the virtue of thrift, by the creator of Blinky Bill. Muir, 7843, recording only …

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  • [OCEANIC ART] Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea

    # 16856

    KERSTEN, Wim; OUDSHOORN, G.

    [OCEANIC ART] Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea

    Amsterdam : Museum Fodor, 1963. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), 24 pp, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates; a good copy. Catalogue produced for Museum Fodor’s exhibition of objects from the astonishing private collection of Peter Kohler, Ascona (Switzerland), staged from 22 May to 30 June 1963. It features many sculptural masterpieces from the Sepik, …

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  • Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

    # 49329

    PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

    Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

    The most sought after of all Margaret Preston books, with a magnificent signed colour woodcut. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. Quarto, folding white buckram clamshell box with gilt-lettered title label (edges and joints restored), original ribbon ties, containing the following elements: 1. A black card folio, inside which is a copy of the publication …

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  • Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 2.

    # 51552

    MILLER, Harry Tatlock

    Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 2.

    Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], [1932]. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks), 134 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. This issue printed in an edition of 750 copies. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between …

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  • Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 4. February 1933

    # 51551

    MILLER, Harry Tatlock

    Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 4. February 1933

    Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], 1934. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks), 73 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources to print illustrations …

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  • [MARGARET PRESTON] Sydney streets

    # 51311

    BERTIE, Charles H.

    [MARGARET PRESTON] Sydney streets

    Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1928. Octavo, orange card covers, with a Preston woodcut reproduced on the front panel (a couple of small stains), title page reproducing Margaret Preston woodcut of St. Philip’s Church, [10] pp text, [10] leaves with tipped-in sepia-tone plates of Harold Cazneaux photographs, etchings by E. Warner and J.C. Goodchild, …

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  • The Home Annual

    # 44384

    FEINT, Adrian

    The Home Annual

    Sydney : Art in Australia, 1st October, 1932. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Adrian Feint (staples rusted), pp. 66, illustrated with fine reproductions of Australian art and photographs from the art deco period. Includes reproductions after Margaret Preston, Hans Heysen and Kenneth Macqueen, photography by Cazneaux and Hoppe, and articles on architectural design, and Australian travel …

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  • Danila Vassilieff (1898 - 1958)

    # 51574

    VASSILIEFF, Danila

    Danila Vassilieff (1898 – 1958)

    Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, 1973. Octavo, folded sheet (small mark to upper panel), cover illustration, pp. 4, catalogue of 33 works with prices, biography, a very good copy.

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  • Vassilieff and his art.

    # 51573

    [VASSILIEFF]. ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity.

    Vassilieff and his art.

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap.  

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  • The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    # 51572

    JOHNSON, Heather

    The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. Includes numerous references to Margaret Preston, Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay and other artists of the period. A mint copy.

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  • ROAR re-viewed 30 years on

    # 51568

    MORGAN, Denise

    ROAR re-viewed 30 years on

    with an introduction by Sasha Grishin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, cloth-covered boards with paste-down illustration, stitching exposed on spine with title (as issued), illustrated thoroughly throughout, text by Denise Morgan. The black boards variant. A publication on the Melbourne Roar Studios and the artists who were its contigents. Sasha Grishin not only descirbed ROAR …

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