Art Books
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# 16378
LINDSAY Norman (1879 - 1969)
Repose
Watercolour on paper, 260 x 230 mm, signed in full lower left, framed. On the back of the frame is a label from Bloomfield Galleries, with registered stock number 610, as well as a signed certificate of authenticity by Jane Lindsay, the artist’s daughter, and a label stating that this is the study for a …
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# 16034
McCRAE, Hugh; LINDSAY, Norman
Idyllia (presentation copy for Rose McCrae)
[Sydney]: N.L. Press, [1922]. Large quarto (418 x 355mm) bound in white calf over white papered boards with Norman Lindsay decoration in gold and red (soiled), 35pp. with Lindsay decorations in black highlighted with gilt, further illustrated with five large original Norman Lindsay etchings with titled tissue guards tipped-in, each signed and numbered by the …
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# 16208
FRIEND, Donald (1915 - 1989)
The Farce of Sodom (Donald Friend’s copy)
By the Right Honourable Earl of Rochester. Written for the Royal Company of Whoremasters, and printed a-new upon the three hundredth anniversary of the untimely demise of our noble author in the thirty-third year of his life. With sets and costumes suitable for theatrical performaces designed by Donald Friend. Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1980. Large folio, …
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# 15957
The Darkening Ecliptic : poems by Ern Malley : paintings by Sidney Nolan [ORIGINAL DRAWING BY NOLAN]
Preface by Robert Melville. Introduction by Elwyn Lynn. [London] : R. Alistair McAlpine, 1974. Limited edition of 1000 copies, THIS ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES OF THE DE-LUXE EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY SIDNEY NOLAN, this copy out of series, signed on the title page by Sidney Nolan, Robert Melville and Elwyn Lynn. …
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# 15707
[LEWERS, Gerald]
Gerald Lewers Memorial Exhibition
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1963. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers, errata slip loosely enclosed, [pp 20]. Illustrated with black and white photographs of Lewers’ sculptures.
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# 15703
Gold fever! Life on the diggings 1851~1855
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp 15. Exhibition catalogue for a travelling exhibition presented by the National Library of Australia and Sovereign Hill.
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# 15709
[NORRIE, Susan]
Susan Norrie : Projects 1990-1995
Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp 36. Illustrated throughout with photographs of work displayed.
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# 16306
FRIEND, Donald (1915 - 1989)
Songs of the vagabond scholars. With 14 lithographs by Donald Friend. (Donald Friend’s copy)
With the original Latin and German text and literal translations by Randolph Stow. Introduction by Professor John Scott. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1982. Folio, 60pp., teal calf in slipcase (a few small marks), limited edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Contains fourteen original lithographs printed by Fred Genis, each measuring 460 …
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# 15762
CRAWFORD, Ashley
Lines of Fire. Works on paper by Tim Storrier.
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 128, illustrated.
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# 16269
Australian Art Society Second Annual Exhibition
Sydney : Australian Art Society, 1928. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (pencil numbers on cover), 19pp, 219 works exhibited. Lists works from 54 Australian artists.
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# 16245
BOLTON, Ken.
Blazing Shoes
Adelaide, Open Dammit, 1984. Oblong duodecimo, illustrated wrappers. pp. [99]. A scarce first edition of 200 copies only printed at the Experimental Art Foundation.
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# 16293
URE SMITH, Sydney
Australian present day art [Signed by Keith Murdoch]
Sydney : Ure Smith Limited, [1943]. First edition. Octavo, decorated cloth boards (short tear at head of spine), front free endpaper with dedication from newspaper baron Keith Murdoch to the artist and poet Baroness Maie Casey, wife of diplomat Baron R.G. Casey, ‘Maie Casey from Keith Murdoch. One of the many realms in which you …
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# 16303
BENNETT, Rubery
The art of Rubery Bennett
23 reproductions in full colour. With an introduction by William Dargie. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1954. Quarto, quarto cloth over papered boards (light foxing), in dustjacket and additional plain protective wrapper, colour plates. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the artist.
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# 16258
[STREETON, Arthur]. CROLL, R. H.
Arthur Streeton memorial exhibition
National Gallery of South Australia, 9th November to 10th December 1944. Adelaide : National Gallery of South Australia, 1944. Quarto, folded sheet, pp. 4, one of two variant editions (this edition printed in black & white), black & white illustration on cover of catalogue number 22, ‘Victoria Tower, Westminster’, essay on Sir Arthur Streeton by R. …
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# 16298
[HEYSEN]. DRIDAN, David
The art of Hans Heysen
With text and selection of pictures by David Dridan. Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1966. Oblong quarto, boards in dust jacket, unpaginated, introduction on Heysen, list of plates including 32 in colour and 40 in monochrome, some light foxing to endpapers, otherwise fine.
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# 16230
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The etchings of Norman Lindsay
London : Constable & Co., 1927. Folio, gilt-lettered blue buckram (spine faded, one corner slightly bumped), top edge gilt, 45 leaves of plates with accompanying title leaf, each a fine photogravure reproduction of a Norman Lindsay etching, occasional foxing. Limited to 129 copies of which 120 were for sale, signed and numbered by Norman Lindsay. …
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# 16276
HALL, Rodney
Focus on Andrew Sibley (signed copy)
Brisbane : University of Queensland Press, 1968. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (edges rubbed), pp. 70, illustrated, Signed on the title page by the artist. In the ‘Artists in Queensland’ series.
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# 15767
McCULLOCH, Alan
Artists of the Australian gold rush
Melbourne : Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xiii; 214, illustrated. A well researched and scholarly reference.
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# 16281
PLANT, Margaret
John Perceval
Melbourne : Lansdowne Australian Art Library, 1971. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 112 pp. with numerous tipped in colour plates; a fine copy.
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# 16300
FRIEND, Donald (1915 - 1989)
Coogan’s Gully : a young person’s guide to bushranging, ecology & witchcraft (Signed copy)
Melbourne : Gryphon, 1979. First edition. Oblong quarto, cloth boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), some damp spots to front endpapers, 58 pp, illustrations include 13 full page in colour, a good copy signed on the half-title by Friend.
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# 16256
[ARTHUR STREETON]; National Art Gallery of New South Wales
Streeton Memorial Exhibition Souvenir Catalogue, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1945
[Sydney] : National Art Gallery of N.S.W., 1945. Large octavo, printed wrappers (lightly marked), 16pp (foxing to inside front and rear covers), illustrated (4 black and white, 4 colour plates). List of 61 works and an essay by Lionel Lindsay.
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# 16251
[ARTHUR STREETON]; National Art Gallery of New South Wales
Loan Exhibition of the works of Arthur Streeton, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1931
Sydney : National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1931. Octavo, printed wrappers (staples rusted), 8 pp; a good copy; lists 173 loan works with provenance beside each entry; [together with] an official invitation to the opening of the exhibition. Buff card (100 x 125 mm) with printed calligraphic font. The Trustees of the National Art …
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# 15343
JOHNSON, Vivien
Michael Jagamara Nelson
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1997. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 167, illustrated. A detailed monograph.
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# 16270
[DYSON, Will, et al.]
[WILL DYSON] Catalogue of exhibitions commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Albright Art Gallery.
Buffalo, N.Y., The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1930. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 32, introduction on the Albright Art Gallery, preface by W. M. H., catalogue of works by the artists Albert Andre, Paul Bartlett, Georges Braque, Eva Bernstein, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Gustave Courbet, Andre Derain, Edgar Degas, Charles Dufresne, Raoul Dufy, Ebihara, …
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# 16225
URE SMITH, Sidney and STEVENS, Bertram
The Art of J. J. Hilder
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter cloth over lettered boards, original dustjacket (some light wear), previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, 48 pp., numerous tipped-in colour and black and white plates (some offsetting), contributions by Julian Ashton, Bertram Stevens, Harry Julius, Sydney Ure Smith and J. J. Hilder.
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# 16290
HAESE, Richard.
Rebels and Precursors. The revolutionary years in Australian art (signed copy)
Melbourne: Allen Lane, 1981. First edition. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, 324pp. extensively illustrated. Important work on the Angry Penguins, their contemporaries and influence on modern Australian art. Signed by the author Richard Haese, and Angry Penguins Max Harris and Barrett Reid.
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# 16244
[ASHTON, William]. The Macquarie Galleries
Exhibition of recent work by Will Ashton, R.O.I.
Sydney : The Macquarie Galleries, 1932. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 8, foreword by The Macquarie Galleries, catalogue of 30 works with prices, two pages of ‘some opinions of Will Ashton’s work by other painters’ including Lionel Lindsay, J. S. MacDonald, Howard Ashton, Arthur Streeton and Hans Heysen, a fine copy.
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# 16243
[ASHTON, William]
Exhibition of French and Italian landscapes by Will Ashton
June 2nd to 14th, 1927, held at The Fine Art Society’s Gallery. Melbourne : The Fine Art Society’s Gallery, 1927. Octavo, lettered yellow wrappers, pp. 8, two black & white reproductions of Ashton’s work, foreword by Lionel Lindsay written in Monaco 1927, catalogue of forty-two works with prices, a very good copy.
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# 16236
THOMAS, David
Andrew Sibley. An epic of the everyman (signed copy)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2004. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated in colour. A substantial monograph on the artist. Signed by Sibley on the title page.
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# 16252
[ARTHUR STREETON]; National Art Gallery of New South Wales
In remembrance, Christmas, 1943 : Arthur Streeton’s Dandenongs
[Melbourne] : Webb Printing, 1943. Duodecimo, printed green wrappers (spine faintly sunned), 8 pp. A fine copy. An anonymous eulogy for Streeton focusing on his ‘own beloved hills – his Dandenongs.’
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# 16250
[ARTHUR STREETON]
Exhibition and auction sale of pictures by Arthur Streeton
Auction prospectus for a sale held by J.R. Lawson, Auctioneer, 196 Castlereagh Street. Sydney : Farmer & Company, [1923]. Octavo, single folded sheet (4 pp), (faint vertical crease). The prospectus includes discussion of the sale history of ‘Golden Summer’, the price escalation of Streeton’s works, and comment on the works by Norman Lindsay and Charles …
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# 16271
[BONYTHON GALLERY]
Bonython Gallery gazette [complete run, February 1972 – May 1974]
[Sydney : The Gallery], February 1972 – May 1974. Complete set of 15 issues of the bimonthly magazine published by the owner of one of the most significant Australian commercial art galleries of the 1970s. This magazine provides illustrated biographies of the contemporary artists exhibiting at Bonython’s Paddington gallery after his move from Adelaide to …
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# 16299
FRANCE, Christine; GAZZARD, Marea
Marea Gazzard : form and clay (signed copy)
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1994. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated.
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# 16242
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874-1961)
Discobolus and other verse
Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire [printed at The Hawthorn Press], 1959. Edition limited to 350 copies (this is copy no. 339). Small quarto, olive cloth boards (slightly bowed), spine with gilt lettering, pp 68, [1], numerous reproductions of Lionel Lindsay wood-engravings, contents fine, in original but defective slipcase (lacking top edge, bottom edge with extensive tape …
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# 16291
[CANNING, Criss et al].
Artists. The Melbourne Art Exchange (signed)
Melbourne : Melbourne Art Exchange, 1987. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 80, wet stamp on the half-title, photographic portraits, illustrations. A promotional book fraturing sixteen traditional artists for the Melbourne commercial gallery. This copy is signed by five of the artists, John Lennox, Graeme Roche, Criss Canning, Piers Bateman and John Pointon. The …
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# 16262
[ARTHUR STREETON]
Mr. Arthur Streeton’s exhibitions : the Gallery, Education Department.
Sydney : Education Dept., [1920]. Octavo, single folded sheet (4pp). A very good copy. Includes the history of Streeton’s painting Golden Summer, as well as numerous reviews of his work, particularly from the war period.
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# 16297
LINDSAY, Jack
Dionysos : Nietzsche contra Nietzsche : an essay in lyrical philosophy
/ by Jack Lindsay ; and a foreword by R. L. Hall. London : Fanfrolico Press, [1928]. Limited edition of 500 numbered and signed copies (number 189). Quarto, publisher’s blue cloth boards (rubbed) with gilt stamped Norman Lindsay design, fore-edge and lower edge uncut, xi, 243 pp, [11] plates (including one illustration by Norman Lindsay), …
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# 16282
BURTON, Barbara; SPLATT, William
100 masterpieces of Australian painting (Sidney Nolan’s copy)
/ notes on the artists by Barbara Burton, commentaries on plates by William Splatt ; introduced by William Splatt. Adelaide : Rigby, 1977, First edition. Quarto, cloth boards in dust jacket (sunned), Sidney Nolan’s copy, his ownership inscription ‘Nolan’ in ink on the front free-endpaper, 208 pp, illustrated with colour plates, clean and sound; loosely …
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# 16235
WHITELEY, Brett.
Zoo
Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1979. Quarto, full black leather with inlaid white leather lettering, unpaginated, 38 plates reproducing Whiteley’s drawings and paintings of the animals in Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo, and a large original etching (240 x 195 mm) of a monkey, bound in. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies, signed by the artist …
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# 16218
LINDSAY, Norman
The Magic Pudding
Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1948. Octavo, illustrated blue cloth in original dustjacket (a few chips and tears), pp. 170 with numerous Lindsay illustrations, some in colour.
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# 16277
[STORRIER]. VAN NUNEN, Linda.
Point to Point. The art of Tim Storrier.
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1987. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (the laminate lightly lifting), 174pp. profusely illustrated, faint foxing to extremities.
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# 16265
[ARTHUR STREETON]
Arthur Streeton, Fine Art Society, Melbourne, 1929
Melbourne : Fine Art Society, 1929. Octavo, single folded sheet (4 pp, light foxing and horizontal and vertical creases, a few annotations in pen). List of 25 works with dimensions and prices, including ‘Mirage, Riverina’.
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# 16241
VON BERTOUCH, Anne and HUTCHINGS, Patrick
Guy Boyd
Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1973. Folio, cloth bound boards in slipcase, pp. 136, illustrated. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the artist, light foxing to preliminaries. The definitive reference work on the Australian sculptor, brother of Arthur and David Boyd.
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# 16304
SUTHERLAND, Margaret (composer); CASEY, Maie (librettist); BLACKMAN, Charles (artist)
[BLACKMAN] The young Kabbarli : chamber opera in one act
Sydney : J. Albert & Son, 1972. “This limited edition is published in association with the Advisory Board, Commonwealth Assistance to Australian Composers.” Limited to 200 copies, signed by the librettist, Maie Casey, and composer, Margaret Sutherland, copy no. 43. Quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to front, front free endpaper with reproduction of a …
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# 16292
KERR, Joan
The dictionary of Australian artists.
Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine with a couple of short tears and a little sunned), pp. 889 extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists.
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# 16289
[LOXTON, John] ROWELL, John; TAYLOR, H. Vivian
The art of John S. Loxton
Melbourne : Osboldstone & Co, 1956. Quarto, inlaid boards illustrated dustjacket, [15]pp with 28 plate leaves. Featrues 22 reproductions in full colour, and 6 in duotone, with text by John Rowell. Limited to 1250 copies, signed by the artist.
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# 16287
[HEYSEN]. KLEPAC, Lou.
Nora Heysen
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1989. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 80pp. illustrated throughout, light offsetting to endpapers. An important monograph on the artist.
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# 16253
[ARTHUR STREETON]; National Art Gallery of New South Wales
Exhibition : oil paintings and water-colours. Arthur Streeton. Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1928
Sydney : The Macquarie Galleries, 1928. Duodecimoo (small stain to front cover, pencil annotations inside rear cover), 3 pp. A good copy. List of 14 oil paintings (dimensions and prices) and 36 watercolours (prices only) executed while during service with the Royal Australian Medical Corps 1915 – 17.
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# 16283
MACKENZIE, Andrew
Frederick McCubbin 1855-1917: ‘The Proff’ and his art.
Melbourne: Mannagum Press, 1990. Folio, boards with colour illustrated dustjacket, slip case, 354pp. This is a monograph containing significant biographical and historical information on McCubbin, his family and the models in his artworks. There are numerous colour illustrations of his work. Limited to 1000 copies
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# 16041
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Paintings in oil. Norman Lindsay (deluxe edition)
Fourteen reproductions in colour from original oil paintings, and 16 half-tone plates reproduced in black and white; with essays by Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay. Sydney : The Shepherd Press, 1945. Quarto, gilt-stamped papered boards in decorated paper dustjacket, colour and black and white plates, in the original slipcase. Some very light handling marks, a …
