Books Containing Artworks
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# 44107
[LYMBURNER]. KLEPAC, Lou and KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Francis Lymburner drawings (deluxe edition with original etching)
Hobart and Sydney : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in conjunction with The Beagle Press, 1986. Oblong quarto, cloth-bound boards with gilt decoration to cover and letting to spine, presented as a hardbound special edition limited to one hundred copies (this copy out of series), with an original etching printed posthumously, with blind stamped signature …
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# 44108
CROOKE, Ray (1922 - 2015)
An epistle from Oberea
With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design, 24 pp, illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also silk-screened by Crooke on Thursday Island; a beautiful Australian …
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# 43640
[LINDSAY] McCRAE, Hugh
Satyrs & Sunlight : Silvarum Libri (Augusta Helen McCrae’s copy)
With pictures and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: John Sands Ltd, 1909. Folio, quarter-vellum and decorated papered boards (edges rubbed, spine dulled, loss to some lettering to upper panel), 149 pp., includes twenty-one full-page plates and numerous vignette illustrations; text pages with foxing. Limited to 130 copies, signed and numbered by McCrae (this copy is …
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# 44059
RANKIN, Jennifer and OLSEN, John
[OLSEN, John]. Earth Hold (signed presentation copy with original drawing)
London : Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1978. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (slightly bowed), illustrated dustjacket (a few marks and stains), 56 pp., illustrated with full page plates by Olsen. The standard edition. Signed and inscribed ‘For Andrew, with love & appreciation’ by both Jennifer Rankin and also John Olsen, who has executed a pen drawing …
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# 43659
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia (Special edition)
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The Special edition, limited to 85 copies signed by the author (a standard issue of 200 copies was also published). Quarto, papered boards in quarter imitation parchment (slightly worn), printed dustjacket (edges worn, light foxing), acetate jacket, a couple of chips, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some …
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# 43532
CUNNINGHAM, W. (editor)
Sydney Art School Magazine. The Art Student. Volume One, Number One (with a related signed letter to the Editor by Sydney Ure Smith)
Sydney : Sydney Art School, 1930. Large octavo, red wrappers with printed title label, pp. [32], illustrated with a reproduction of a George Lambert drawing of Julian Ashton, and with an original linocut titled Mother by Joshua Smith, occasional foxing, articles and verse. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Loosely enclosed, a signed typed letter …
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# 43569
PAUL, Dorothy Ellsmore (editor)
The etched work of Sydney Long, A.R.E. A complete catalogue of his etchings.
Sydney : The Attic Press, 1928. Quarto, quarter-cloth over illustrated paper boards (lightly foxed), pp. [vi]; 10, [80], numerous tipped-in black and white plates, occasional sparse foxing, illustrated catalogue of 88 works. The frontispiece is an original etching ‘Young kookaburra and grasshopper’ signed by the artist. Limited to 300 copies signed by the artist.
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# 42522
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris (editor)
Compass. No. 2, Spring 1956
Melbourne : Melbourne University Literature Club, 1956. Quarto, stapled wrappers (stencilled design by Ray Wilson), pp. 31 printed roneo, poetry by the students.
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# 18052
WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987); FRANKFURT, Suzie; WARHOLA, Júlia
Wild Raspberries. (Presentation copy inscribed by the artist)
New York : the artist, 1959. Folio (445 mm tall), original fuchsia papered boards (faded and paper lost at spine, as usual), title sheet, pp [42], comprised of 18 single illustrated leaves (one enhanced with original watercolour), one double-page illustration and one sheet with text, interleaved with eight sheets of fuchsia tissue paper, as issued; …
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# 37021
MORIYAMA, Daido (1938 - )
Accident, 2011
Tokyo : Goliga, 2011. Artist’s book, 360 x 260 mm (closed) ‘each book has 80 Pages that are comprised of 40 individual sheets folded and bound together in an accordion format. All sheets are printed single-sided with tritone silk screening on 220 kg paper stock. A mixture of two varieties of the same paper have …
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# 43070
ALECHINSKY, Pierre; IONESCO, Eugene.
Pierre Alechinsky (deluxe edition)
By the artist, with an introduction by Eugene Ionesco. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1977. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 258, illustrated, a very good copy. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by the artist, with an original signed lithograph loosely enclosed. Both the book and lithograph are numbered 21/100. Illustrated with …
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# 29511
WEEKES, Trevor
Wolf Journal
[Sydney: the artist], 1989. Quarto, unique artist’s binding of embossed stained calf with wolf design, contrasting labels on spine with five raised bands, containing twenty-one original coloured drawings by Weekes of the Wolf, title label ‘Wolves / Trevor Weekes / 1989’. The colophon reads ‘The Wolf Journal, Trevor Weekes, 1989. Hand coloured, hand drawn in …
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# 42871
BELL, Amber Creswell; DONE, Ken
Ken Done : Art, Design, Life (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson, 2021. Quarto, pictorial boards in yellow plexiglass slipcase, pp. 318, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 300 signed copies with a signed Ken Done print in a pocket in rear endpaper. ‘Is it not time we placed Done into the context of Streeton and Roberts, Olsen and Nolan – all …
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# 42784
HERBERT, Xavier (1901 - 1984); CROOKE, Ray (1922 - 2015)
Dream Road (deluxe edition with original Ray Crooke artwork)
Illustrated by Ray Crooke. Foreword by H. P. Hesseltine. Sydney : William Collins, 1977. Quarto, gilt-lettered quarter-lambskin over gilt-decorated cloth (spine sunned and discoloured, as often found), slipcase with colour illustrations (light foxing), illustrated endpapers, pp. 119, illustrated by Crooke. The deluxe edition, limited to 180 copies (150 for sale), specially bound, numbered by hand, …
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# 42424
[OLSEN, John]. MCGRECOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (deluxe edition)
By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, two volumes, black decorated umber cloth in matching slipcase, pp 256, 8 [247 – 264], illustrated throughout. First edition, second printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the deluxe edition, limited to 70 copies, specially …
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# 39998
[OLSEN, John]. McGREGOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (deluxe edition, with signed 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 …