Artist Books
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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.
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 44934
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
A womb for the Pope : cards distributed at Right to Life rally and anti-Right to Life demonstration, Treasury Gardens, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Stencilled card, 90 x 110 mm; verso blank; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as …
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# 44935
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Be your own idol : cards distributed at “Come as your favourite heroine party”, Carlton, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Three cards with embossed borders, 105 x 125 mm; rectos inscribed in biro by the artist ‘Be your own idol’; versos also inscribed ‘Complements [sic] of Small Disturbances’; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser …
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# 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.
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# 45282
HAMILTON, Alex (1958 -)
Under a white sky
[Melbourne] : the artist, 2010. Duodecimo, artist’s book, reproducing the artist’s journal, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 150 signed copies, this out of series.
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# 44206
HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich
Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …
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# 42710
STUERZL, Jennifer (1956 - )
River mangroves mud
[Brisbane : the artist, 2020]. Artist’s book, handbound by David Bedford in salvaged mangrove wood (with salvage permit reference numbers included), stitch binding by the artist, pp. [16], handprinted sheets with collage, concrete poem in manuscript by Jennifer Stuerzl inside upper board, manuscript map of the Brisbane River to lower board, a stunning book housed …
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# 44789
LETI, Bruno and SKOVRAN, Alex
Wanderings. Small paintings and photographs (signed copy)
Melbourne : the artist, 2023. Octavo, illustrated boards, pp. 78, illustrated. Poetry by Skovran, in response to Leti’s paintings inspired by the natural environment. Signed by the artist.
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# 44790
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Photographs : the lotus cycle.
Melbourne : the artist, 2009. Folding clamshell box, lettered in silver with pictorial only, containing a sheet of text, 13 lambda photographic prints, and colophon sheet. ‘These 13 lambda printed photographs were taken by Bruno Leti at West Lake, Huanghzou, China, during the late autumn of 2008. An edition of six boxed sets were printed …
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# 44707
[SHEAD]. GRISHIN, Sasha.
The apotheosis of Ern Malley
Melbourne: Australian Galleries, 2008 (second edition). Quarto, pp. 144, gilt boards in illustrated dustjacket (light handling wear).