Books Containing Artworks

  • Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria Print Folio

    # 41502

    AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP

    Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria Print Folio

    Melbourne : Australian Print Workshop, 1991. Cloth covered clamshell box made by Ilme Simmul (a few marks), 80 x 59 cms, with title label, housing a title sheet and six original signed graphics by leading Australian artists. Limited to 85 numbered sets, the plates destroyed after printing. Occasional light handling marks, a few spots of …

    $2,500.00 AUD Read more
  • The Three Stamps Box Sets 1976 - 77

    # 41421

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    The Three Stamps Box Sets 1976 – 77

    A rare group of collaborative stamp sets published by Robert Jacks with contributors from the Upper Stamp movement. These early sets, featuring original rubber stamps,  were produced in very low numbers. ‘In addition to being included in exhibitions, publications and other editions coordinated by others, Jacks also coordinated and produced a number of collections of …

    $2,750.00 AUD Read more
  • The paintings of Robert Johnson (deluxe edition with drawing)

    # 41847

    JOHNSON, Robert

    The paintings of Robert Johnson (deluxe edition with drawing)

    Sydney : The Legend Press, Folio, gilt-decorated full grey morocco, pp. [xviii]; 18 colour plates, housed in publisher’s cardboard box with paper title label. Biographical note by John Brackenreg. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by the artist with an original signed drawing tipped-in, this drawings titled ‘Near Kiewa, Vic.’.

    $350.00 AUD Read more
  • Woodcuts. With an original woodcut by Lionel Lindsay.

    # 41777

    [LINDSAY, Lionel]. STEPHENS, A. G.

    Woodcuts. With an original woodcut by Lionel Lindsay.

    Decorations by Roy Davies. Sydney: Tyrrells’ Limited, 1923. Quarto, illustrated boards with cord ties (edges rubbed), 34pp. with essays on the history of woodcuts, and the woodcut in Australia, as well a catalogue of woodcuts for sale by Lionel Lindsay, Margaret Preston, Napier Waller and Roy Davies et al. Limited to 125 copies, of which …

    $550.00 AUD Read more
  • Sesame and lilies. (Antonio Dattilo Rubbo's copy with self-portrait)

    # 32714

    RUSKIN, John (1819-1900); DATILLO RUBBO, Antonio (1870 - 1955)

    Sesame and lilies. (Antonio Dattilo Rubbo’s copy with self-portrait)

    London : George Allen, 1901. Complete edition (fifty-second thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges rubbed), pp. xxxviii; 228, lacking the front free endpaper. Preliminary blank with large pencil signature ‘A Datillo Rubbo) with a small pencil sketch being a self-portrait of the artist folding an artist’s case. Sesame and lilies is comprised of two lectures …

    $200.00 AUD Read more
  • Old colonial by-ways (deluxe edition, presentation copy)

    # 28995

    URE SMITH, Sydney and BERTIE, Charles

    Old colonial by-ways (deluxe edition, presentation copy)

    Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (somewhat sunned and flecked), essay, 55 plates (some in colour, tipped-in), the deluxe edition, limited to 40 copies, with an original signed by Ure Smith. Presentation copy with signed inscription from Sydney Ure Smith to Maie Casey, dated 1940. Rare.

    $275.00 AUD Read more
  • An epistle from Oberea (signed twice by Ray Crooke)

    # 41271

    CROOKE, Ray

    An epistle from Oberea (signed twice by Ray Crooke)

    With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design, signed ‘Ray Crooke 21 October 65’ on the endpaper, 24 pp, illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also …

    $450.00 AUD Read more
  • The Eric Thake Picture Book (deluxe edition, signed with original photograph)

    # 41320

    SUMMONS, Elizabeth

    The Eric Thake Picture Book (deluxe edition, signed with original photograph)

    Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1978. Quarto, gilt-lettered full morocco in illustrated dustjacket (toned, small chips), unpaginated, contains numerous plates reproducing Thake’s linocuts. Limited to 1000 copies. This is one of 20 special copies with a pasted on slip to the colophon ‘Nos. 1L – 20L are bound in full leather and contain 5 loose plates …

    $350.00 AUD Read more
  • [OLSEN]. Drawn from Life (signed and inscribed copy with pen sketch)

    # 41474

    OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)

    [OLSEN]. Drawn from Life (signed and inscribed copy with pen sketch)

    Sydney: Duffy and Snellgrove, 1997. Octavo, hardcover in dustjacket, 354 pp illustrated, spine sunned. Signed by the artist on the title page and dated ’97, inscribed by Olsen ‘For John & Suzanne’ with a full page pen drawing of a man in a trench coat standing in front of an impressive vintage automobile. A very …

    $450.00 AUD Read more
  • Barbara Hepworth catalogue raisonne. (Deluxe edition with original signed screenprint)

    # 40236

    [HEPWORTH, Barbara].

    Barbara Hepworth catalogue raisonne. (Deluxe edition with original signed screenprint)

    HODIN, J. P. Barbara Hepworth. Neuchatel, Switzerland : Editions du Griffon, 1961. Quarto, lettered cloth in dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. 172, illustrated. The French language edition, printed in Switzerland. Together with: The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960 – 69. Edited by Alan Bowness. New York : Praeger, 1971. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), housed …

    $4,800.00 AUD Read more
  • [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    # 34804

    TULLOCH, David

    [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page and five tinted lithographed plates, …

    $6,600.00 AUD Read more
  • Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 - 2011 (deluxe edition)

    # 40576

    WEIGHT, Greg and MCGREGOR, Ken

    Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 – 2011 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, blind embossed ochre cloth in cloth slipcase with draw ribbon, pp. 199, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies, specially bound, with an original signed etching by Mrs Bennett (Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa), numbered in an edition of 50 and signed with her monogram ‘X’. A book of portrait …

    $1,100.00 AUD Read more
  • True Patriots All, or, News from Early Australia, as told in a collection of broadsides. (Deluxe edition with three signed etchings - the Coles copy)

    # 41351

    INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman.

    True Patriots All, or, News from Early Australia, as told in a collection of broadsides. (Deluxe edition with three signed etchings – the Coles copy)

    Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1952. Quarto, gilt-titled half-calf over buckram (small mark to upper board), 280pp. reproducing illustrated broadsides with Australian content. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 signed copies (this is copy number 15), bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, and containing three original etchings signed by Ingleton. An exploration on ephemeral early printings …

    $375.00 AUD Read more
  • Principio erat (standard edition A)

    # 41292

    HENSON, Bill

    Principio erat (standard edition A)

    Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. 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 500 numbered copies. …

    $375.00 AUD Read more
  • A Comment. July 1943. No. 16

    # 41089

    CROZIER, Cecily (editor); GLEESON, James, et al.

    A Comment. July 1943. No. 16

    Malvern East, Vic. : A Comment Publication, 1943. Royal octavo, self buff wrappers with linocut image of dancers by Irvine Green, staple bound, pp. [32], light handling crease, printed in roneo and black ink on buff paper, illustrations; includes text contributions by Raymond Hughes, Sylvia Green, Mark Kronenberg, Muir Holborn, Joan Masters, Elizabeth Galloway, Raemonde …

    $240.00 AUD Read more
  • Orpheus : the song of forever (deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

    # 40587

    AMADIO, Nadine

    Orpheus : the song of forever (deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

    Sydney: The Craftsman’s Press, 1983. Quarto, decorated cloth in slipcase, 128pp., illustrated with numerous tipped-in plates by Charles Blackman, fine. Limited to 250 copies signed by author and artist with an original signed lithograph loosely inserted. One of the finest Blackman illustrated publications, a loosely enclosed review by Barrett Reid reads: ‘It is the “Orpheus” …

    $1,500.00 AUD Read more