Artist Books

  • Our home

    # 47664

    TWIGG, Anne

    Our home

    [Melbourne] : Anne Twigg [Stanmore, New South Wales] Ant Press, 2013. Limited edition of 20 copies signed by the artist. Oblong octavo (160 x 230 mm), bound in grey bookcloth with highly abstracted title in a light grey across spine and front and back boards; paste paper dustjacket; 106 unnumbered pages, poem by Mohsen Soltany Zand, …

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  • Book Six : The Book of Wisdom

    # 47598

    ZIMMER, Klaus (1928 - 2007)

    Book Six : The Book of Wisdom

    [Melbourne : Jenny and Klaus Zimmer, 1998]. Cloth bound box measuring 257 x 257 x 110 mm with unique moulded title label lettered ‘VI’, containing an four page calligraphic manuscript zettel (paper guide) with a Buddhist quotation on the meaning of happiness, six coloured kiln-fired glass sheets with manuscript text, hand painting and coloured glass …

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  • Nose Peak

    # 47486

    BALDESSARI, John (1931 - 2020)

    Nose Peak

    Paris : Onestar Press, 2015. First edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Octavo, flushcut illustrated wrappers, pp. [126]. A series of line drawings, which when flicked through, form the countoured shape of a nose. “It should be said that Baldessari’s penchant for depicting noses in his work extends as far back as 1965 with the …

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  • Object of the game

    # 47323

    HITTI, Deanna

    Object of the game

    Fremantle : Fremantle Arts Centre, 2021. Quarto, illustrated wrappers in illustrated card dustjacket, pp. [40], illustrated. Limited to 200 numbered copies signed and dated by the artist. An artist’s book and exhibition catalogue ‘Object of the Game presents the 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award-winning artist’s book Towla by Deanna Hitti, a Melbourne based artist …

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  • Pera Palas Oteli, Istanbul [Pera Palace Hotel]

    # 47568

    ZIMMER, Jenny

    Pera Palas Oteli, Istanbul [Pera Palace Hotel]

    Melbourne : Monash University, 1994. Duodecimo, folded printed wrappers in slipcase (binding by Norbert Herold), pp. 9, unbound in folded sections, each with photographs by Zimmer inserted. Printed at The Art School Press and its final publication. Limited to 20 copies plus 5 hors commerce. A rare early artists book by noted Melbourne publisher Jenny …

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  • Murray / Murundi

    # 47647

    ELY, Bonita

    Murray / Murundi

    With contributions from Jack & Annie Koolmatrie, Leigh Hobba and Dulcie Ely. Adelaide : Experimental Art Foundation, [1981]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [90], illustrated, a couple of pages detached from the burst binding. Artist’s book on the Aboriginal history of the Murray (Murundi) River. Reference : CATALANO, Gary. The bandaged image : a study of Australian …

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  • Rococo recollections

    # 47309

    BARAKI, Bashir; ZIMMER, Jenny

    Rococo recollections

    by Bashir Baraki ; with an introduction by Jenny Zimmer. Melbourne : the author, 1995. Small folio, cloth bound card case with ribbon tie, containing a paper portfolio housing sheets of text and images. A fine copy. ‘Printed on acid-free Ingres Vidalon in a limited edition of 15 copies with 3 additional copies, ‘hors commerce’, …

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  • Recollections : words and images

    # 47308

    ZIMMER, Jenny

    Recollections : words and images

    Melbourne : the author, 1995. Quarto, cloth case with ribbon tie, containing a paper portfolio housing sheets of text and images. A fine copy. Printed in an edition of 20 copies plus 5 copies hors commerce, this copy is not numbered. ‘The images constructed from found objects and ostensibly abstract in form, are actually associated – …

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  • Red Circle Drawing [original title: Circular Drawing]

    # 47542

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    Red Circle Drawing [original title: Circular Drawing]

    New York : Robert Jacks, 1977 [Harcourt: 2007]. Folio, red card hand-stamped wrappers staple bound with cloth tape, nine leaves of red card, each punched with a hold at a different point. Upon flicking through, the series of holes forms a circle. Edition: 5 signed copies Reference : ANDERSON, Peter. The artist’s books of Robert …

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  • Thinking of Picasso 1987

    # 47545

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    Thinking of Picasso 1987

    [Melbourne : the artist], 1987. Artist’s sketchbook, rivet bound cloth covered boards, 180 x 278 mm, inscribed by the artist with title inside upper board, 27 leaves of sketching paper with drawings by Robert Jacks, most on both sides, of designs inspired by Picasso, including his cubist guitar images which were influential in Jacks’ work. …

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  • Green Rubber Stamps 1990

    # 47544

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    Green Rubber Stamps 1990

    [Melbourne : the artist], 1990. Oblong folio (175 x 290 mm), 20 leaves of rag paper with green hand stamped designs, some pages loose. manuscript title to upper panel, signed by Jacks, green tape to spine. A unique artist’s book by Robert Jacks.    

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  • Yellow Drawing Top Bottom [original title: Top – Bottom].

    # 47543

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    Yellow Drawing Top Bottom [original title: Top – Bottom].

    New York: Robert Jacks, 1977 [Harcourt: 2007]. Folio, yellow card hand-stamped wrappers staple bound with cloth tape, seven leaves of yellow card, each punched with a hold at a different point. Upon flicking through, the series of holes forms a line drawn from top to bottom. Edition: 5 signed copies. Reference : ANDERSON, Peter. The …

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  • Enough

    # 47515

    NOLAN, Rose (1959 - )

    Enough

    Melbourne : Negative Press, 2016. Artist’s book. Octavo (folded), 220 x 840 mm (open), initialled and dated on rear in pencil. A concertina style publication, employing the creases to define the characters in a similar manner to the artist’s acclaimed wall drawings. Published in a limited edition of 100 copies which quickly sold out. Rose …

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  • The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)

    # 47500

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

    The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)

    /​ Ken McGregor, Ralph Hobbs ; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi ; introduced by Nicholas Rothwell. Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Quarto, black cloth boards in illustrated dustjacket, 215 pp, illustrated in colour, with reproductions of hundreds of paintings by this important Alice Springs-based indigenous artist, as well as photographs demonstrating her methods of production. …

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  • The silent scream

    # 47454

    OPPEN, Monica; LYSSIOTIS, Peter, et al.

    The silent scream

    Political and social comment in books by artists. Essays by Monica Oppen, Peter Lyssiotis, Walter Struve, Scott McQuire, Humphrey McQueen, Des Cowley. Sydney : Ant Press for Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem, 2011. Quarto, laminated card wrappers, 189 pp. fully illustrated. Produced to accompany the exhibition at Monash University Library of international and Australian artists’ books …

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

    # 47201

    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

    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 …

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