Artist Books
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# 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: …
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# 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 …
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# 49164
NEADERLAND, Louise
A Mideast kaleidoscope
New York : The International Society of Copier Artists (ISCA), 1983. Artist’s book, metal fastener, loose sheets of photocopied text and image with holes punched at each corner, explanatory booklet. ‘A game book “based upon a photograph by Fadi Mitri and a portion of the Israeli Government statement announcing a cease fire in Lebanon on …
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# 10934
SHIRLOW, John (1869-1936)
The “Sydney Set”
Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, 1918. Folio, gilt-lettered papered boards (a little marked), 8 folded sheets with six original etchings, each signed in pencil, tipped in; with three of the six captioned tissue guards; light foxing and offsetting, title-page a little marked. List of plates: Sydney Cove, From Musgrave Street Wharf, 1917 George Street, Sydney, …
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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 (olive-coloured variant); pp. 24; 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 …
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# 48150
SELENITSCH, Alex; RYRIE, John; HILL, Hamish
TREES / LADDERS 1995
Melbourne : Hybrid Production, 1995. Folio, lettered wrappers, six sheets, folded, woodcuts by John Ryrie, poems by Alex Selenitsch, in timber slip-case by Hamish Hill measuring 50 x 27 x 4 cm Limited edition of 20 numbered and signed copies. Printed by John Ryrie using garamond, imprint & rondo hand-set monotype, on Arches 200 GSM, …
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# 48142
[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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# 48146
SELENITSCH, Alex
IMAGE/IMAGINE 2018
Melbourne : the artist, 2018. Quarto, 22 x 26cms (closed), black card covers with oval design, pp. 12, with the letters of the title stencilled in felt pen. Unique example. An inventive work of concrete poetry by the noted Melbourne poet, architect and artist.
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# 48145
SELENITSCH, Alex
Four 4-colour books, 2008 – 2015
Melbourne : the artist, 2008 – 2015. Four volumes, presented as a set, each with sculpted black card covers, hand stitched, title leaf and colophon, eight leaves of cut or torn coloured paper, 21x21cms when closed. Created in an edition of 32 examples, this is number 27, each book hand numbered. The four titles are …
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# 48121
JACKS, Robert et al
Collage
A book of papiers collés by Sydney Ball, Andrew Christofides, Robert Jacks, George Johnson, Inge King, Allan Mitelman. Melbourne : Jenny Zimmer, 1999. Quarto, folding clamshell box with lettered papered boards, containing the folio, printed wrappers, unpaginated, printed by Larry Rawling in folding sections, introduction by Jenny Zimmer, six folding sections printed with the artist’s …
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# 48120
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
1 – 12
New York: 96 Greene Street., N.Y. 10012, 1969 (later printing by the artist). Booklet measuring 93 x 55mm, letterpress buff wrappers, single staple, [24pp], printed on rectos only, an ascending sequence of twelve vertical lines. Edition of fifty copies. A miniature artist’s book created by Jacks in his twenties whilst living in New York and …
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# 47588
ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny et alia
Palmetum (the author’s copy with proof set)
“Depicted by” Juli Haas, Ray Crooke, Jan Senbergs, Anneke Silver, Cheryl Wildon, Danny Moynihan, Margaret Wilson, Normana Wight, Jorg Schmeisser, David Paulson, Ron McBurnie, Tate Adams, Anne Lord. With text by Jenny Zimmer. Introduction by John L. Dowe, Palm Biologist, James Cook University. Townsville : Lyrebird Press, 2002. Folio (470 x 395 mm), screen printed …
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# 47813
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks (signed copy)
Artists books, printed works, folios and ephemera from the artist’s collection 1969 – 2009. Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated in colour, essay by Douglas Stewart, 73 works photographed and catalogued, with prices. One of a handful of copies signed by the artist in 2010.
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# 47809
LETI Bruno
Chinese poems. Poems from the Tang dynasty
Photographs & drawings by Bruno Leti. Melbourne : Bruno Leti, circa 2005. Second edition. Octavo, bound in papered boards with red lettering by Wolfgang Schoefer, red cloth slipcase, pp. [48], photographs, drawings and text by Leti. Limited to 12 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Classical Chinese poems, hand scripted by Leti, with his accompanying …
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# 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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# 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 …