Artist Books

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.    

  • # 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 …

  • # 45890

    POZZI, Michel

    [WW1; ARTIST’S BOOK] Commentaires et visions de l’humanité [à la] Marne

    Paris : M. Pozzi, 1917. The first of 12 examples made by the artist; as far as we can ascertain, the only one extant. Folio (380 x 285 mm), artist’s original binding of full vellum, the upper board with artist’s manuscript calligraphic title, along with his monogram, name ‘M. Pozzi’ and ‘Paris 1917’ in red ink, …

  • # 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’ …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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, …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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, …

  • # 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.

  • # 45994

    LETI, Bruno

    The Matrix

    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. In printmaking, the artform along with painting, photography and the making of artists’ books that has occupied Bruno Leti for the last half century, the …

  • # 43631

    GASKIN, Claire; HOLT, LK; MEAD, Philip; ROSE, Peter

    [POETRY] Weather Event / Merry War (of Never Meeting and Never Ending) / Clouded / Catullan Rag LXV-LXXXI

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2023. “Red-Letter Series”. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Claire Gaskin Weather Event, 24 pp.; 2. LK Holt Merry War (of Never Meeting …

  • # 45420

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks: his Bloomsday book (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2004. Folio (37 x 27 cm), embossed with an original collage design by the artist on front panel, housed in striking red and blue clamshell box; [20] pages, illustrated throughout and accompanied by poetry by James Joyce et al. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, in the superior binding, with …

  • # 44832

    HOPKINS, Ted (1949 - 2023)

    [Teledex]

    [Melbourne : Champion Books, 1980].  Artist’s book in the form of a teledex telephone director, folding box made of steel with alphabet index design, index cards with poems in alphabetical order. Many of the poems focus on Melbourne and Victoria.