Books Containing Artworks
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# 49329
PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)
Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929
The most sought after of all Margaret Preston books, with a magnificent signed colour woodcut. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. Quarto, folding white buckram clamshell box with gilt-lettered title label (edges and joints restored), original ribbon ties, containing the following elements: 1. A black card folio, inside which is a copy of the publication …
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# 51552
MILLER, Harry Tatlock
Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 2.
Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], [1932]. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks), 134 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. This issue printed in an edition of 750 copies. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between …
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# 51551
MILLER, Harry Tatlock
Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 4. February 1933
Geelong, Vic. : at the Bookshop [H. Tatlock Miller, proprietor], 1934. Quarto, pictorial card wrappers designed by A.N. Baldwinson (a few light marks), 73 pp (edges with light foxing), illustrated. Harry Tatlock Miller edited and published this important quarterly journal of Australian art and literature between 1931 and 1935. Lacking the resources to print illustrations …
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# 51341
ADAMS, Richard (1920 - 2016)
Watership Down (deluxe edition with original signed watercolour)
London : Paradine, 1976. Octavo, full crushed levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine in compartments with gilt-illustrations and vignette to front board, light sunning to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 550 pp., numerous colour and black and white illustrations and folding colour map at rear, a fine copy, housed in the publisher’s marbled …
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# 50806
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
War impressions (deluxe edition, copy number 1, with original signed watercolour)
Being a record in colour by Mortimer Menpes. Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. London : Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Quarto, in a fine signed binding by Bickers of London of full levant morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling, edges slightly rubbed, morocco turn-ins with …
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# 51098
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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# 51317
[OLSEN, John]. McGREGOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (trial binding for the deluxe edition, possibly unique)
By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, decorated grey cloth in clamshell box, portrait of Geoffrey Dutton to upper panel, edges blocked silver, 264 pp, illustrated throughout. First edition, first printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This appears to be a trial binding …
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# 50738
OLSEN, John (1928 - )
John Olsen “The Kiss”
Townsville and Melbourne : Lyre Bird Press & Zimmer Editions, 2009. Folio, quarter-calf over linen, gilt-lettered on spine, unpaginated, original signed Olsen etching bound in as frontispiece, titled ‘The Kiss’ and editioned out of 30 copies, an original Olsen pen sketch of a lyre bird facing title page with the edition number written by the …
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# 51313
[Warringah Printmakers Studio]; ANSON, Jennifer
Natural Collection
Sydney : Warringah Printmakers Studio, 2017. Elephant folio with printed wrappers, housed in buckram clamshell case with matching printed lining, in printed calico bag. A publication of twenty-nine prints of varying method, showing flora and fauna of Northern Sydney, accompanied by artists’ statements and scientific descriptions. Limited to an edition of 10 copies, with signatures …
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# 51305
McGREGOR, Ken; SIMON, Christopher
Naata Nungurrayi : the late works (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2015. Quarto, decorated cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 23, plus 155 images of works by the artist, enhanced by the inclusion of six original photographs of the artist by Ken McGregor, each signed by the mark ‘X’ by the artist, and with an original etching by Nungurrayi, limited to 20 copies, …
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# 51291
MADDISON, Ruth
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2021. Octavo, illustrated gatefold wrappers, unpaginated, approx. 200 pp., illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 numbered copies with wraparound band, containing an original photograph signed by Ruth Maddison. A fine copy, as new. Scarce. ‘Spanning close to 200 pages, this landmark publication sits alongside Maddison’s exhibition as a …
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# 51185
FRY, Gavin; KLEPAC, Lou
Margaret Woodward (deluxe edition with a signed print)
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2002. First edition, second issue of the deluxe edition. Quarto (310 x 250 mm), gold-blocked red cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 148, pale stain to title page, 102 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. The deluxe edition, second issue, limited to only 25 copies, signed by …
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# 50907
GRAHAM, Anne Marie (1925 - )
10 lithographs on “Australians” by Anne Graham. (Copy number 1)
[Melbourne?] : [the artist?], 1975. Gilt-lettered cloth portfolio (lightly flecked) titled ‘Anne Graham Lithographs’, 44 x 61 cm; containing a lettered title sheet (discoloured, with a couple of small holes) and ten lithographs, each with a numbered tissue guard (some are creased); the graphics all in fine condition, each signed, titled and numbered by the …
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# 50897
ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)
Tropical wood-engravings.
Melbourne : Zimmer editions, 1997. Quarto (350 x 370 mm), gilt-lettered wrappers, pp. [24], essays by Jenny Zimmer and Tate Adams, biography, accompanied by five large wood engravings of tropical palm trees, each print signed by the artist and editioned 12/15, the booklet not numbered, housed in a gilt-lettered clamshell case. Tate Adams was born …
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# 51040
KLEPAC, Lou
Tim Storrier (deluxe edition with signed etching)
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2018. Quarto, gilt-blocked red cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 264, fully illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies, specially bound, signed by the artist on the title page (and dated 2021), with an original four colour signed etching ‘Night Horse’ loosely enclosed. A mint copy, number 23. Tim Storrier …
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# 50901
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
A folio of linocuts by V. G. O’Connor.
Sydney : Port Jackson Press, 1980. Folio. buckram portfolio (a few light marks), Foreword letterpress sheet, title sheet (slightly creased), five original linocuts, each titled, numbered, signed and dated 1949/80, a fine set. Printed in an edition of 75 copies, at the Whaling Road, Studio, North Sydney. A rare set of early linocuts by the …