Books Containing Artworks
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# 46589
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Sydney : published for the author by Art in Australia, 1920. First edition. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards, spine lettered in gilt (a fine example); inscribed by the artist in pen on the front pastedown ‘Yours sincerely, Norman Lindsay’, small tape marks to endpapers, upper hinge slightly split, original signed etching by Norman Lindsay …
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# 46677
Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981
[New York and Sydney] : the artist, 1973 – 1981. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, manuscript title page, nine sections of original rubber stamp works, each between two and three pages each and containing five or six rubber stamps per page, each section separated with a blank page. An unique …
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# 46676
Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985
Melbourne : the artist, 1985. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, unpaginated, being an artist’s book of photocopied (xeroxed) designs. Provenance : the estate of Robert Jacks.
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# 46692
OLSEN, John; DURACK, Mary; DUTTON, Geoffrey; SERVENTY; Vincent; BORTIGNON, Alex
The Land beyond time : a modern exploration of Australia’s north-west frontiers. (signed copy with original pen drawing)
With Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1984. Folio, boards in dust jacket, 312 pp, fully illustrated; a very good copy. This copy signed and inscribed John Olsen and his then-wife Noel Hjorth also adding an original pen drawing of a pelican plunging its beak into the pond where …
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# 45890
POZZI, Michel
[WW1; ARTIST’S BOOK] Commentaires et visions de l’humanité [à la] Marne
Paris : M. Pozzi, 1917. The first of 12 examples made by the artist; as far as we can ascertain, the only one extant. Folio (380 x 285 mm), artist’s original binding of full vellum, the upper board with artist’s manuscript calligraphic title, along with his monogram, name ‘M. Pozzi’ and ‘Paris 1917’ in red ink, …
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# 46023
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Principio erat (Artist’s edition B)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. As new. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to 500 …
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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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# 45899
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The standard edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the author. Quarto, papered boards in dust jacket, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some of which are original graphics tipped-in; a fine copy of this magnificent showcase of Australian bookplates. Artists include Norman Lindsay, Adrian Feint, Alan Jordan, …
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# 45971
HENSON, Bill
Principio erat (standard edition B)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. As new copy. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to …
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# 46007
SIMS, Paddy Japaljarri (c. 1917 - 2010); STEWART, Paddy Japaljarri (1935 - 2013)
Yuendumu Doors suite
Darwin : Northern Editions Print Workshop for Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, 2000. Thirty sugar lift etchings, printed in colour from single plates, each titled lower centre and editioned lower left 56 / 75 by the publisher, each personally signed by the artist either ‘P S’ (Paddy Stewart) or ‘X’ (Paddy Sims, who could not write), each …
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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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# 45717
BLUTH, Manfred (1926-2002)
Gallipoli-Kampagne.
Berlin : Graphische Werkstatt, [1975]. Edition limited to 20 copies (no. 2), signed and numbered by the artist. Oblong elephant folio, original red cloth boards lettered in black (a few light marks) with black cord binding, containing 12 coloured lithographs signed by the artist, each 370 x 750 mm; text in German, English and Latin. …
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# 45774
GRISHIN, Sasha
John Wolseley : Land Marks II (signed copy with original pen drawing)
Sydney : Craftsman House, 2006. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear), pp. 206, illustrated. Scarce. This copy with a warm signed presentation inscription from the artist to the late Bill Riches, veterinary surgeon and art collector, referencing his painting of cassowaries, with a small pen and ink sketch of cassowaries.
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# 45466
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Paradise Garden. Paintings, drawings and poems (deluxe edition, with original drawing)
With an introduction by Robert Melville. London: R Alistair McAlpine, 1971. Quarto, 110pp. comprised of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. The rarest deluxe edition, in a batik cloth binding, signed by the artist, with an original signed drawing bound in. A total of 3000 copies were …