Artist Books

  • Foreign forests (copy number 1)

    # 50473

    PORTER Dorothy (1954 - 2018); COLVIN, Robert (1942 - )

    Foreign forests (copy number 1)

    [Euroa, Vic.] : Robert Colvin, 2018. Folio, lettered buckram, screen printed endpapers, pp. [48], poems by Dorothy Porter illustrated with original screen prints by Robert Colvin, a fine copy. Limited to 8 copies plus 4 artist’s proofs, this is copy number 1, signed by Robert Colvin and Andrea Goldsmith, the partner of Dorothy Porter who …

  • Bruno Leti. The Carlton monotypes

    # 50416

    LETI, Bruno

    Bruno Leti. The Carlton monotypes

    Melbourne : the artist, 2015. Quarto, flushcut wrappers, spiral bound, unpaginated, foreword by the artist, plates. A book documenting a series of unique monotypes Leti made of the skyline of Carlton in 1989, with particular reference to the domed buildings which prompted recollections by Leti of the famous domes to be found in Italy and …

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) /  From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 6/25)

    # 50367

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 6/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. 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. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) /  From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 7/25)

    # 50366

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 7/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. 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. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) /  From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 13/25)

    # 50365

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 13/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. 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. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) /  From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 12/25)

    # 50364

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 12/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. 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. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) /  From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 19/25)

    # 50363

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 19/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. 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. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) /  From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 18/25)

    # 50362

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 18/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. 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. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) /  From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 17/25)

    # 50361

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 17/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. 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. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

  • Le vagabond.

    # 49992

    MAUPASSANT, Guy de

    Le vagabond.

    Lithographies en couleurs par Steinlen. Paris : Société des Amis des Livres, 1902. Small folio, magnificently bound in full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, gilt rules and fillets, spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt (a little rubbed on the bands), full morocco doublures with gilt rules and morocco fillets, …

  • Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    # 50007

    [CORRIGAN, Patrick]

    Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. Quarto (365 mm tall), gilt-decorated blue cloth in matching slipcase, pp 148, portrait frontispiece, signed bookplate by Andrew Sibley, essay, tipped-in photographs, forty tipped-in facsimile bookplates commissioned from Australian artists by Pat Corrigan. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author, collector and publisher; printed letterpress, with a …

  • At Jupiter Creek (letters 9-12)

    # 49763

    BANFIELD, Elizabeth (1963 - )

    At Jupiter Creek (letters 9-12)

    [Melbourne: the artist, 2009]. Artist’s book. Edition 2/3, signed, titled and dated 2009 in pencil. Handmade book with black cloth covered board ends measuring 230 x 185 mm. The work becomes a concertina-fold diorama consisting of a folded sheet of rag paper with six illustrated panels. Each of the panels features handcut linocuts in the …

  • The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett) (Deluxe edition, with an original etching)

    # 49534

    McGREGOR, Ken; HOBBS, Ralph; STROCCHI, Marina; ROTHWELL, Nicholas

    The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett) (Deluxe edition, with an original etching)

    /​ Ken McGregor, Ralph Hobbs ; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi ; introduced by Nicholas Rothwell. Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Deluxe edition, limited to 20 numbered copies (this is copy no. 2) and 5 hors commerce copies. Quarto, black cloth boards in slipcase, 215 pp, bound in at the front of the …

  • Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (Publisher’s edition with drawing)

    # 9915

    [OLSEN, John]. McGREGOR, Ken

    Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (Publisher’s edition with drawing)

    By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, silver decorated cloth in matching slipcase, 264 pp, illustrated throughout. First edition, first printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the Publisher’s Edition, limited to 20 copies (numbered in two series of 10 copies: this …

  • A family of forms

    # 49331

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    A family of forms

    A book of original serigraphs by Robert Jacks. Melbourne and Townsville : Lyre Bird Press & Zimmer Editions, 1999. Large folio (520 x 410mm), embossed canvas covered boards with plain black paper jacket, vivid yellow endpapers, 16pp of text and striking full page original screenprints by Jacks. Limited to 30 copies signed by the artist. Anderson: …

  • Remembrance

    # 49203

    LYSSIOTIS, Peter, STRASSER, Theo and COLVIN, Robert

    Remembrance

    [Melbourne] : Masterthief, 2009. Folio (510 mm tall), lettered cloth, hand-painted endpapers, pp. [44], original screenprints and painted pages with overlaid text. Limited to 10 copies plus 3 artists proofs signed by the artists. This is copy number 8. “Composed by the two creators of Eyewitness (2008) in collaboration with the poet Colvin, Remembrance is …