Books Containing Artworks
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# 44908
[URE SMITH, Sydney]
Catalogue of the etchings of Sydney Ure Smith
With an original etching and twelve reproductions of etchings by the artist and an introduction by Bertram Stevens. Sydney : [privately printed], 1920. Quarto, papered boards with title label, 40 pp, twelve tipped-in plates plus one original etching bound in as frontispiece, titled The Little porch, Campbelltown, signed and editioned by the artist (lightly foxed), …
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# 45149
[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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# 45250
CARROLL, Alison
Barbara Hanrahan : printmaker (deluxe edition)
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 1986. Quarto, black lettered red cloth with acetate wrapper, pp. 108, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 copies, signed and numbered by the artist on the title page, with an original signed etching ‘Skipping’ loosely enclosed. A small amount of foxing to the …
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# 44749
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 (very slight edge wear, a fine copy), pp. 113; [8]. Limited to 100 copies, signed by all contributors, the artist and publisher, with an original signed …
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# 44642
[REES] KLEPAC, Lou.
Lloyd Rees drawings (De luxe edition)
Sydney : John Brackenreg, Australian Artist Editions at Artarmon Galleries, 1978. Limited De Luxe edition of 100 copies prepared for collectors, numbered and signed by the artist (no. 36), with an original soft-ground etching, signed by Lloyd Rees, titled Deloraine, Tasmania (the plates were destroyed after printing by the Port Jackson Press, North Sydney), foreword …
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# 44639
COUNIHAN, Noel et al.
Eureka 1854 – 1954 : a folio of lino-cuts
Melbourne : Popular Print Art Group, 1954. Quarto, lettered paper portfolio (a little edge-worn, the tipped-on Noel Counihan linocut on the front panel in fine condition), four sheets letterpress and fourteen original linocuts of the Eureka Rebellion by Ray Wenban, Noel Counihan, Pat O’Connor, Peter Miller, Ailsa O’Connor, Len Gale, Ernie McFarlane, Maurice Carter, Naomi …
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# 44862
KENTRIDGE, William (1955 - )
William Kentridge : Why should I hesitate?
Edited by Sven Christian and Ann McIlleron. Cologne : Walther & Franz König, 2021. Two volumes, cloth in slipcase, pp. 744, illustrated. New copy. Limited to 1800 copies with a print included. A collectible, slipcased, two-volume overview on the South African artist William Kentridge, featuring a unique lapis lazuli print. Covering 40 years of South …
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# 44790
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Photographs : the lotus cycle.
Melbourne : the artist, 2009. Folding clamshell box, lettered in silver with pictorial only, containing a sheet of text, 13 lambda photographic prints, and colophon sheet. ‘These 13 lambda printed photographs were taken by Bruno Leti at West Lake, Huanghzou, China, during the late autumn of 2008. An edition of six boxed sets were printed …
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# 44707
[SHEAD]. GRISHIN, Sasha.
The apotheosis of Ern Malley
Melbourne: Australian Galleries, 2008 (second edition). Quarto, pp. 144, gilt boards in illustrated dustjacket (light handling wear).
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# 43629
SOUTH CANTERBURY COUNCIL; CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART (TIMARU)
Unique album presented to the Duke and Duchess of York by the citizens of South Canterbury, New Zealand, during the royal visit in March 1927: with an illuminated address and original watercolours.
Large square quarto, 310 x 280 mm, purple suede over bevelled boards (virtually unrubbed), front board with gilt-tooled decoration and lettering ‘South Canterbury, New Zealand, 16th March 1927’, lower board also decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; silk endpapers; [14] leaves of white card, the first [6] containing an elaborate illuminated address headed ‘To Your …
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# 44360
BERGNER, Yosl (1920 - 2017)
Angry Penguins and realist painting in Melbourne in the 1940’s (with a signed drawing by Yosl Bergner)
London : Hayward Gallery, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (after Albert Tucker), pp. 175, illustrated; a very good copy of this substantial catalogue for a travelling exhibition held at South Bank Centre organised by the Australian National Gallery. This copy with a signed presentation inscription and original drawing by Yoel Bergner to the title page. Yosl …
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# 44353
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …
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# 44500
DICKENS, Barry et al.
Janus
[Bundoora, Vic.] : [Preston Institute of Technology], [1972]. Quarto, original silk-screened wrappers by ‘Squeegee’, pp. [32], poetry and illustrations. Scarce literary publication with contributors by thirteen writers (including Frank Kellaway, Barry Dickens and others), illustrations by Joe de Lutes and Ron Peterbudge. Scarce.
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# 44112
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
A book of woodcuts. Drawn on wood and engraved by Lionel Lindsay
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Quarto, cloth covered boards, title inlay, bookplate to front pastedown, unpaginated, handcoloured woodcut frontispiece (light offsetting), foreword by Lindsay with woodcut decoration, a further nineteen original woodcuts tipped-in. Limited to 200 copies (this marked Review copy), a deluxe edition of 35 copies printed on Japanese vellum was also issued.
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# 44110
NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992); CLARK, Kenneth; MACINNES, Colin; ROBERTSON, Bryan
Sidney Nolan (deluxe edition with original monotype)
London : Thames and Hudson, 1961. Quarto, gilt-lettered half calf over linen, matching slipcase (lightly foxed), all edges gilt, 119 plates (16 in colour tipped-in), signed by Sidney Nolan and the three authors, with an original signed monotype of a Gallipoli soldier tipped-in. Limited to 60 copies. The first monograph on an Australian artist published …
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# 44209
[GLEESON]. KLEPAC, Lou.
Peregian Codex (deluxe edition)
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2008. Oblong quarto, orange cloth in matching slipcase, 96 pp., fully illustrated with Gleeson’s vivid surreal imagery. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies with a limitation slip signed by the artist, and an original aquatint etching loosely enclosed. The first 50 copies of this edition contain the aquatint Surge 2007 …