Artist Books
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# 47043
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia (complete set)
Art in Australia. Series 1, No. 1 – Series 4, No. 6 (1916 – 1942). Completes set. Series 1 (11 issues, quarto), Series 2 (2 issues, large quarto), Series 3 (80 issues, quarto), Series 4 (6 issues, large quarto). Illustrated wrappers, occasional chipping and flecking, extensively illustrated, tipped-in plates, a very good set. The most …
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# 47056
HINDS, John (1950 - )
The English Suite : a new catalogue of nostalgic wallpapers designed for the Antipodes
Melbourne : the artist, 2012. Elephant folio (580 mm tall), lettered cloth, title page, preface, 14 leaves of designs stencilled in colour, which reference traditional English patterns and iconography, but have been re-designed to reflect a contemporary theme or topic, ostensibly as prototypes for wallpapers for distribution in the Antipodes. A printed sheet of notes …
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# 47122
SHERIDAN, Noel et al.
Artists books / bookworks
This exhibition has been organised by the Ewing and George Paton Galleries, the Experimental Art Foundation, the Institute of Modern Art in conjunction with Laica California and Franklin Furnace New York. Melbourne : Ewing and George Paton Galleries, 1978. Folio, lettered paper portfolio (detached along folds, stained), 63 leaves (complete), each page loose as issued, …
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# 47112
CRAWFORD, Marian (1955 - )
Picturing the island
Melbourne : the artist, 2016. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound title band, pp. [52], illustrated. A contemporary photobook created by Melbourne artist Marian Crawford, drawing on her memories growing up on Babana (contemporary Kiribati) and using historical photographs of what was at the time known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. ‘Picturing the Island takes …
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# 47072
HABY, Gracia and JENNISON, Louise [Gracia & Louise]
Those two daring pirates
[Melbourne] : the artists, 2004. Artist’s book, 180 mm tall, 22 page concertina offset lithograph with original hand colouring, bound in coloured fabric, initialled by the artists. Printed in an edition of 30 copies with one artist’s proof, this is copy 13/30. A colourful celebration of the cultural life of New Orleans, Louisiana. “[These two …
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# 46926
JACUNSKI, Jaclyn
You are a warrior
[Chicago? : the artist, 2017]. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated. Artist’s book / zine on the subject of civil disobedience and the protest movement. ‘Jaclyn’s work is driven by political controversies that surround land, communities, and acts of resistance. By framing evidence of those acts, her work recontextualizes how they manifest in public spaces …
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# 46677
Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981
[New York and Sydney] : the artist, 1973 – 1981. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, manuscript title page, nine sections of original rubber stamp works, each between two and three pages each and containing five or six rubber stamps per page, each section separated with a blank page. An unique …
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# 46676
Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985
Melbourne : the artist, 1985. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, unpaginated, being an artist’s book of photocopied (xeroxed) designs. Provenance : the estate of Robert Jacks.
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# 46817
HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )
Action Man Story
Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …
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# 40913
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
Rainbow
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …
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# 46351
THIELEN, Beth
If a universe formed in your living room, could you ever tell?
[Pasadena, CA] : the artist, 1992. Artist’s book. Quarto, hand-decorated folding portfolio with magnetic clasp, folding cards [pp. 8] with 4 pop-up figures, with a hand-written quote from the L.A. Times in 1991 about the creation of multiple universes. Limited to 20 copies signed by the artist. Other examples are held in the Library of …
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# 46309
HINE, Simone
[FEMINISM] A film and a conversation
Parkville, Vic. : George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, 2015. Duodecimo (150 x 100 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (lightly marked); [22] pp., comprising a feminist essay accompanied by seven of the artist’s digital images. ‘Printed 2015 for f generation at the George Paton Gallery’. This was a group exhibition of work by women artists curated …
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# 46167
LETI, Bruno
The Matrix (deluxe edition)
Bruno Leti : the matrix : remembering Giorgio Morandi : equilibrium and strength. Melbourne : Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria, 2010. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, 128 pp., extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 20 copies, with an original signed etching, presented in a clamshell box. In printmaking, the artform along with painting, …
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# 46156
JOHNSON, George & Louis
George & Louis Johnson. Painter & poet (second edition)
George & Louis Johnson. Painter & Poet. Melbourne : 1995. Quarto, decorated cloth boards in a clamshell box (the cloth frayed at edges), pp. 36, [28), illustrated. Frontispiece is an original signed painting by George Johnson housed in a glassine sleeve. Essays by Terry Sturm and Gary Catalano on the important New Zealand poet and …
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# 45905
LEAR, Edward; LOCK, Margaret
The Pobble who has no toes
Brisbane : Locks’ Press, 1979. Quarto, linen with engraved illustration by Margaret Lock on upper board, unpaginated, pp. [16]; illustrated with eight original etchings, printed on veil Arches white, 250 gsm, by Margaret Lock, a fine copy. Printed in an edition limited to 60 signed and numbered copies, a couple of very small spots of foxing, …
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# 45998
GRISHIN, Sasha; LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Portrait of a printmaker. Matrix to paper, forty years of printmaking
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 192, illustrated. A detailed survey of Leti’s graphic output, including a section on his artists’ books. New copy.