Australian Artists L-P
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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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# 45883
GLASSOP, Lawson (1913-1966)
[MILITARY] We were the rats
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1944. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth over boards (canted), in the rare illustrated dust jacket by Frank Hodgkinson (defective, splits and tears repaired with old brown paper), 275 pp; foreword by Norman Lindsay; contents clean and sound. Author and journalist Lawson Glassop served in the Middle East between 1940-1943, during …
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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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# 45956
HOFF, Raynor, LINDSAY, Norman and others
The work of Eileen McGrath
Sydney : Sydney Technical College, 1931. Quarto, boards in illustrated paper wrappers (detached at the spine and now presented in a dustjacket protector), 48 pp., illustrated with numerous art deco designs, illustrations and tipped-in colour plates, with the rare original dustjacket ( the front flap absent, otherwise complete). Limited to 1000 copies, this is number …
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# 45951
McPHEE, John (ed.)
Joseph Lycett : convict artist
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 285, illustrated in colour throughout, academic text on the artist by John McPhee, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Shane Frost and Martin Terry. A richly illustrated monograph on the convict artist Joseph Lycett published on the occasion of …
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# 45919
BATTY, Joyce
Namatjira : Wanderer between two worlds
Melbourne : Hodder & Stoughton, 1963. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 158, illustrated. Some pale foxing and edge wear to the dustjacket, a very good copy.
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# 45897
COPPEL, Stephen
Out of Australia : prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas
With a contribution by Wally Caruna on Aboriginal prints. London : British Museum Press, 2011. “Published to accompany the exhibition Out of Australia : prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas at the British Museum from 26 May to 11 September 2011”. Quarto, pictorial card covers, 240 pp, colour illustrations. An as new …
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# 43690
ROBINSON, Julie
The world of Mortimer Menpes
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 248, illustrated. As new copy. ‘This major exhibition pays tribute to the artistic accomplishments of Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938). The exhibition is the first retrospective of Menpes’ work and sheds new light on his artistic practice. It includes his work in all media – …
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# 27521
[LETI]. GRISHIN, Sasha
Bruno Leti (deluxe edition)
Six Memos on the art of Bruno Leti. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2002. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, 184pp. illustrated with images of Leti’s contemporary graphics and artists’ books. This the de luxe edition of 50 copies, signed by the artist, with an original graphic Lines and Planes (I) signed by the artist loosely …
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# 45626
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
Paris
London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (corners bumped, a few marks to spine), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards; occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The …
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# 45694
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
Venice (deluxe edition)
London : Adam & Charles Black, 1904. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly rubbed and marked, spine browned with chips at head and foot), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 222, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies …
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# 45826
[LINDSAY]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).
Norman Lindsay: Oil Paintings 1889-1969 (deluxe edition)
Bungendore: Odana Editions, 2006. Quarto, full leather in leather slipcase, 308pp., Limited to 550 copies which only 500 are for sale. Signed by the author and curator Lin Bloomfield. Contains an original photograph of the Norman Lindsay painting ‘The Vanities’. As new, mint copy. The most substantial book produced on Lindsay’s oil paintings.
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# 45832
OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)
Paella (signed print)
Offset lithograph, 210 x 150 mm, on fine paper (some examples are watermarked Holland, and some examples are not watermarked), personally signed by John Olsen. Some examples are signed in pen and dated ’08 and some examples are signed in pencil and dated ’07. A whimsical signed print of one of John Olsen’s recurring subjects, …
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# 45815
[LINDSAY]. HOPE, A. D.
Norman Lindsay pencil drawings
with a foreword by A. D. Hope. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1969. Quarto, gilt-titled boards with illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked, spine slightly sunned), 112pp, bookplate to front pastedown, slight offsetting to front free endpaper, a very good copy. This is the first and only edition of this collection of forty-six of Lindsay’s pencil drawings. …
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# 45709
[NOLAN]. STOW, Randolph
Outrider. Poems 1956 – 1962. Paintings by Sidney Nolan.
London: Macdonald, 1962. Large octavo, hardcover in dustjacket (laminate lifting slightly), 44 pp., numerous full page colour Nolan plates, largely of landscapes. The author’s second book.
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# 45896
PAVLIDIS, Jim and BACKHOUSE, Megan
Jim Pavlidis : dream home. Portraits of Greeks who came to Australia
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 12. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy.