Books Containing Artworks
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# 9927
McGREGOR, Ken and GEISSLER, Marie
Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson Ngayuku Ngura – My Country (special edition, with original painting)
Translation into French by Flore Gregorini. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. 'This special presentation of Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson Ngayuku Ngura – My Country, authored by Ken McGregor and Marie Geissler, translated into French by Flore Gregorini and published by Macmillan, has been compiled by Ken McGregor. It is limited to 40 copies. Each copy, consisting …
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# 21757
[MIRO, Joan]. PRÉVERT, Jacques & G. Ribemont-Dessaignes.
Joan Miró. (With an original signed watercolour)
Paris : Maeght Editeur, 1956. First edition. Quarto, original cards with lithographed dust jacket and glassine wrapper, pp. 219, 8 colour lithographs (3 folding), extensively illustrated in colour and black and white; a fine copy. Signed and inscribed by Miró on the half-title ‘à Sandberg avec toute mon amitié’, with an original watercolour and ink drawing …
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# 22451
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969) and LINDSAY, Jack (1900-1990)
A homage to Sappho
Made by Norman and Jack Lindsay. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Limited to 70 signed copies. Quarto, bound by John Hains of London in full cream vellum over bevelled boards with title and Lindsay decoration in gold, all edges gilt, 64 pp, illustrated with fifteen original etchings by Norman Lindsay, a fine copy. One …
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# 22452
GELLERT, Leon (1892-1977); LINDSAY, Norman (1876-1969)
The Isle of San
A phantasy by Leon Gellert with five original etchings by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1919. Folio, quarter-vellum over green cloth, pp. 139 with initials printed in red, frontispiece portrait after an etching by Lindsay, five original large etchings with lettered tissue-guards by Norman Lindsay, each etching signed in full in pencil, occasional …
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# 22450
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
Twenty-one woodcuts. Drawn, engraved & printed by Lionel Lindsay (presentation copy for W. H. Ifould)
Sydney : Meryon Press, 1924. Quarto, quarter-cloth, papered boards with title label (edges rubbed), unpaginated, title page in red and black, woodcut frontispiece, foreword by Lionel Lindsay, engraved title device, twenty further woodcuts tipped-in. Limited to 95 copies, a deluxe edition of 30 copies was also issued. This copy out of series. Housed in the …
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# 22453
LINDSAY, Lionel
A book of woodcuts (presentation copy for Harry Chaplin)
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Quarto, cloth covered boards, title inlay, all edges uncut, unpaginated, signed woodcut frontispiece printed from coloured blocks, foreword by Lindsay with woodcut decoration, a further twenty original woodcuts tipped-in. Additional signed proof copy of the woodcut of The Cat printed on Japanese vellum tipped in a front blank, inscribed …
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# 22169
BRAY, Vincent (1933 - )
Lyre Bird and Mount Isa Mine
With an introduction by Geoffrey Blainey. Townsville : Lyre Bird Press and Melbourne : Zimmer Editions, 2013. Folio (525 x 415 mm), full blind-embossed cloth binding by Norbert Herold with pictorial inlay, dustjacket, unpaginated, six black and white reproduced drawings by Vincent Bray, two double page, introduction by Blainey, text on Mount Isa Mine by Barry …
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# 22111
WALKER, Thornton; GRISHIN, Sasha
Thornton Walker (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2015. Quarto, cloth in illustrated slipcase, pp. 160, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies signed by the artist, with an original signed etching ‘Orchard, Kyneton’ loosely enclosed. Scarce. Thornton Walker is a mid-career Melbourne-based artist whose work is represented in collections in the British Museum and Aichi Prefectural Museum …
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# 22141
HOFF, Rayner et al.
Sculpture of Rayner Hoff
With text by the Rt. Hon. the Earl Beauchamp, K.G., K.C.M.G., Howard Ashton, E.C. Temple Smith and W. Bede Dalley. Sydney : Sunnybrook Press, 1934. Quarto, illustrated cloth, dustjacket (spine a little darkened), light offsetting to endpapers, pp. 113; [8]. Limited to 100 copies, signed by all contributors, the artist and publisher, with an original …
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# 22095
KING, Richard (ed.)
Hall Thorpe. Coloured woodcuts (deluxe edition)
Sydney : Print Room Press, 1980. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in slipcase (lightly marked), pp. 84, illustrated with 4 colour and 30 b/w plates, essay by Robert Holden, a couple of spots of foxing to preliminaries. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies in hardback format, with an original signed woodcut included. A paperback edition of …
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# 21079
ADAMS, Tate
Diary of a vintage. The work cycle of the year 1979 at Wynns Coonawarra estate in South Australia.
Depicted in twenty-six wood engravings and text by Tate Adams. With an Introduction by David Wynn. Melbourne : Lyre Bird Press, 1981. Small quarto, gilt-lettered burgandy cloth in matching slipcase (slightly marked), pp. xvi; 42; (2), illustrated with original wood-engravings by Tate Adams.Limited to 375 copies signed by the artist. Original invitation to the launch …
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# 9873
[OLSEN, John]. McGREGOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (Publisher’s edition with drawing)
By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, silver decorated cloth in matching slipcase, 264 pp, illustrated throughout. First edition, first printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the Publisher's Edition, limited to 20 copies (numbered in two series of 10 copies: this …
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# 21102
[OLSEN, John]. McGREGOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (deluxe edition, with etching)
By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, silver decorated cloth in matching slipcase, 264 pp, illustrated throughout. First edition, first printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the deluxe edition, limited to 70 copies, specially bound and with an original signed etching …
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# 21004
RANKIN, Jennifer and OLSEN, John
[OLSEN, John]. Earth Hold
London : Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1978. Quarto, gilt-illustrated leather in cloth slipcase, 56 pp., illustrated with full page plates by Olsen. The deluxe edition, limited to 176 copies (of which 150 were for sale), with an original signed Olsen etching ‘Banksia’ tipped-in. The author, Jennifer Rankin, passed away at the age of 38 …
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# 20924
MOSER, Barry (1940 - )
Gold rush. Twenty-five wood engravings by Barry Moser on a theme of the discovery and mining of gold in America, Africa and Australia.
With a note on those prints by the artist. Los Angeles : Arundel Press, 1985. Folio, gilt lettered black cloth clamshell box, 7 leaves text; 25 original wood engravings each hand-signed by the artist. Printed for the Arundel Press by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae in West Hatfield, Massachusetts on Rives BFK. Limited to …
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# 21162
BRACK, John
John Brack nudes. Fifteen original lithographs.
Text by Margaret Plant. Introduction by Gordon Thomson. Melbourne: Lyre Bird Press, 1982. Large folio (465 x 340mm), in a modern binding of full black kangaroo decorated with Brack motif, housed in a black buckram clamshell box with gilt decoration and lettering on front panel. Illustrated with fifteen original large lithographs by Brack, each drawn on a …