Artist Books
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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).
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# 44303
ANDERSON, Peter.
The artist’s books of Robert Jacks
Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2009. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Detailed and scholarly catalogue on the artists books of Robert Jacks, spanning from the 1960s – 2000s
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# 44108
CROOKE, Ray (1922 - 2015)
An epistle from Oberea
With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design, 24 pp, illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also silk-screened by Crooke on Thursday Island; a beautiful Australian …
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# 42765
CLARKE, Glen
Suppression = alienation = oppression
Melbourne : Champion, 1979. Quarto, coil bound, illustrated wrappers, pp. [44], photographically illustrated. Photographically illustrated artist’s book.
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# 37021
MORIYAMA, Daido (1938 - )
Accident, 2011
Tokyo : Goliga, 2011. Artist’s book, 360 x 260 mm (closed) ‘each book has 80 Pages that are comprised of 40 individual sheets folded and bound together in an accordion format. All sheets are printed single-sided with tritone silk screening on 220 kg paper stock. A mixture of two varieties of the same paper have …
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# 43196
LETI, Bruno; LONEY, Alan
Bruno Leti
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Duodecimo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 142, illustrated. Macmillan mini art-series no. 17.
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# 29511
WEEKES, Trevor
Wolf Journal
[Sydney: the artist], 1989. Quarto, unique artist’s binding of embossed stained calf with wolf design, contrasting labels on spine with five raised bands, containing twenty-one original coloured drawings by Weekes of the Wolf, title label ‘Wolves / Trevor Weekes / 1989’. The colophon reads ‘The Wolf Journal, Trevor Weekes, 1989. Hand coloured, hand drawn in …
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# 42894
HOPKINS, Ted (1945 - 2023)
The Book of Slab
Devised and produced by Ted Hopkins in association with the publisher, Champion Books. Melbourne : Champion Books, 1983. Quarto, lettered English buckram with diecut shape of Australia, illustrated endpapers, pp. [228], illustrations, ephemera tipped-in, vinyl disk. Printed in an edition of 250 copies (from the prospectus, which is not included). A fascinating Australian artist’s book …
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# 42708
MARTIN, Sue
A book of beetles
Artist’s book, card portfolio 23 x 18 cms, hand stamped linen bound boards, stringbound, 11 leaves of hand painted leaves with hand stamps of beetles, glassine sheets of text. Signed by the artist on the inner boards. A charming and shimmering artist’s book by the contemporary printmaker. Exhibited : Firestation Print Studio Artists Book Prize …
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# 42707
NEAL, Karen (1956 - )
Magpie Book
Artist’s book, card portfolio 280 x 200 x 15 mm, with a linocut on the cover, signed by the artist, titled and numbered 1 / 5, containing a 10 panel concertina panorama, each panel with a linocut illustration of a magpie. A simple and striking artist’s book by the Melbourne based contemporary printmaker. Exhibited : …
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# 42424
[OLSEN, John]. MCGRECOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (deluxe edition)
By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, two volumes, black decorated umber cloth in matching slipcase, pp 256, 8 [247 – 264], illustrated throughout. First edition, second printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the deluxe edition, limited to 70 copies, specially …
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# 41421
Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)
The Three Stamps Box Sets 1976 – 77
A rare group of collaborative stamp sets published by Robert Jacks with contributors from the Upper Stamp movement. These early sets, featuring original rubber stamps, were produced in very low numbers. ‘In addition to being included in exhibitions, publications and other editions coordinated by others, Jacks also coordinated and produced a number of collections of …
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# 42047
OPPEN, Monica
Tree Song
[Sydney] : Ant Press, 1991. Folding broadside with a designer binding of cloth bound boards with embossed design, 405 x 120 mm., letterpress with an original woodblock. Limited to 55 copies signed by the author-artist.
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# 25002
LETI, Bruno
The enclosed garden
Thirty mixed media drawings 1985 – 1990. Melbourne : the artist, 1998. Octavo, quarter-cloth with papered boards, introduction by Bob Garlick, colour photographs of Leti’s paintings. Limited to 15 copies signed and numbered by the artist. An intimate series of landscape paintings aligned with Leti’s other work ‘Studio emblems’. Held in three Australian collections : …
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# 13695
LETI, Bruno; STEELE, Professor Peter
Intersections. Photographs from the series the cross and the matrix
Melbourne : the artist, 2006. Small quarto, card wrappers with blind etched covers, unpaginated, essay by Peter Steele, eight original c-type photograph by the artist tipped-in. Limited to 15 signed copies.