Books Containing Artworks
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# 47598
ZIMMER, Klaus (1928 - 2007)
Book Six : The Book of Wisdom
[Melbourne : Jenny and Klaus Zimmer, 1998]. Cloth bound box measuring 257 x 257 x 110 mm with unique moulded title label lettered ‘VI’, containing an four page calligraphic manuscript zettel (paper guide) with a Buddhist quotation on the meaning of happiness, six coloured kiln-fired glass sheets with manuscript text, hand painting and coloured glass …
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# 47626
McGREGOR, Ken; JACKS, Robert
Robert Jacks. Past unfolded (deluxe edition with original signed painting)
Sydney : Craftsman House, 2001. Quarto, silver-lettered purple silk in matching slipcase with colour pictorial inlay, 168 pp, profusely illustrated. One of 100 deluxe copies specially bound and containing an original signed watercolour painting of Jacks’ distinctive emblem. The watercolour measures 280 x 185 mm and is signed lower right.
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# 32661
ZIMMER, Jenny (editor)
A series of occasional drawings by Klaus Rudolf Zimmer (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing and Zimmer Editions, 2021. Quarto, cloth with title label, pp. 184, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 20 copies signed by Jenny Zimmer, housed in a bespoke foding clamshell box, containing an additional portfolio housing an original signed drawing by Klaus Zimmer (note : the drawing will differ in each …
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# 45529
NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)
Hathor, and other poems. (With an original watercolour by the author)
London : Greening & Co., Ltd., 1905. Large paper issue of the “Author’s Edition”, limited to 25 numbered and signed copies containing an original watercolour drawing by the author. Small quarto (250 x 200 mm), publisher’s gilt-ruled quarter morocco over cloth with ‘Hume Nisbet’ stamped in gilt on upper board (boards with moderate staining and a …
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# 47299
MADDOCKS, Hilary
Hertha Kluge-Pott : printmaker (deluxe edition)
With an introduction by Roger Butler and contributions by Caroline Field, Inge King & Jenny Zimmer. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2015. Quarto, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 367, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to only 30 copies, presented in a cloth slipcase, with an original signed etching loosely enclosed title ‘Trace of a …
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# 46466
MACKENZIE, Kenneth (1913-1955); LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Our earth
With an original etching and 13 illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1937. Quarto, quarter cloth over gilt-lettered textured boards (a few light marks, foxing to spine), 60 pp, tipped-in illustrations and vignettes by Lindsay, a few occasional spots of foxing, offsetting from newspaper article to one page, a very good copy. …
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# 47485
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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# 47523
ROGERS, Andrew
Andrew Rogers : geoglyphs, rhythms of life (deluxe edition)
Milano, Italy : Charta, c2009. Large, thick quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 461, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, housed in a black clamshell box, with separate black cloth portfolio containing two original signed screenprints by the artist. This is copy number 14/100. ‘A photographic record describing a decade of earth-art by renowned …
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# 47009
MOLLISON, James and BONHAM, Nicholas
Albert Tucker (deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)
Melbourne : Macmillan and Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1982. Quarto, gilt-lettered leather, glassine wrapper, buckram slipcase. The deluxe edition, issued by Tolarno Galleries, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Albert Tucker, with an original signed colour lithograph loosely enclosed (light foxing). This is copy number 13.
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# 47500
McGREGOR, Ken; HOBBS, Ralph; STROCCHI, Marina; ROTHWELL, Nicholas
The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
/ Ken McGregor, Ralph Hobbs ; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi ; introduced by Nicholas Rothwell. Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Quarto, black cloth boards in illustrated dustjacket, 215 pp, illustrated in colour, with reproductions of hundreds of paintings by this important Alice Springs-based indigenous artist, as well as photographs demonstrating her methods of production. …
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# 47447
KRAUSMANN, Rudi; SIBLEY, Andrew
Maps. Drawings by Andrew Sibley (signed presentation copy, with original overpainting by the artist)
Sydney : Wild and Woolley, 2002. Folio, illustrated wrappers with original overpainting by Andrew Sibley, 54pp. of poetry with illustrations by Sibley. Limited to 200 copies signed by poet and artist. This copy with a warm personal inscription to art historian, author and publisher Jenny Zimmer.
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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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# 47008
PHILIPP, Franz; BOYD, Arthur
Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)
With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, in gilt-lettered clamshell box, light foxing to the interior lining paper of the box and a trace to the endpapers, otherwise pristine, 288 pp., extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 107 numbered copies (100 available …
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# 47318
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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# 46392
WARHOL, Andy (1928 - 1987)
The philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and back again). (Signed copy with drawing of a Campbell’s Soup can)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition. Octavo, boards in dust jacket, pp 241; a fine copy; the half-title is signed and inscribed by Warhol, accompanied by an original pen drawing by the artist of a Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, his most iconic image. Andy Warhol’s seminal self-analysing memoir, filled with his reflections of …
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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 …