Books Containing Artworks
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# 38077
BRACK, John (1920 - 1999)
John Brack nudes. Fifteen original lithographs
Text by Margaret Plant. Introduction by Gordon Thomson. Melbourne: Lyre Bird Press, 1982. Large folio (465 x 340mm) bound in gilt-titled half-leather over hessian covered boards decorated with Brack motif, housed in matching clamshell box with gilt decoration and lettering on front panel, bound by N. Doslov of Melbourne, with binder’s ticket on front pastedown. …
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# 17504
Parallel Prints 2015
Kerikeri, N.Z. : Art at Wharepuke, 2015. Buckram clamshell case containing twelve original prints by Susanna Castleden, Anoinetta Covino-Beehre, David Fraser, Mark Graver, Jodi Heffernan, Martin King, Deborah Klein, Bruno Leti, John Neeson, Melissa Smith, and Deborah Williams. Limited to 24 sets (the prints in an edition of 36). The first Parallel Prints project was …
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# 41030
MOFFATT, Tracey et alia
Visionaire 30 : the game. Australia edition
[New York] : Visionaire Publishing, 1999. Limited to 6000 numbered copies. A fine example. Issue 30 of the avant garde photography magazine, presented in the form of a game, featuring photographs by Australian artists and sitting in a box designed by Louis Vuitton. “30 GAME is not only a collection of art but also a …
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# 40677
MARSH, Dale
The art of Dale Marsh
Sydney : Dale Marsh Studio, 1981. Quarto, gold stamped calfskin boards with slipcase, 29pp [75pp of plates]. Features 75 colour plates in addition to biographical essays and a tipped in sketch . Limited to 400 copies, signed by the artist with an original drawing.
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# 40651
POE, Edgar Allen
The Raven. With six woodcuts by Rick Amor
Cobargo : The Croft Press, 1990. Tall folio, black cloth with pictorial printed label, 16pp plus six original full-page woodcuts by Rick Amor. Printed by Jim and Ruth Walker and co-published by Richard Griffin. Limited to 100 copies, of which ten were bound in leather, this is one of the 90 standard versions. Includes an …
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# 39913
BYRNE, Harold
Harold Byrne : Etched book-plates
Sydney : [the Author], 1936. Quarto, stitch-bound wrappers with etched paper label to upper wrapper, etched limitation statement tipped-in ‘This edition is limited to 25 signed copies of which this is No. [17 – Harold Byrne, inscribed in ink], six tipped in etched bookplates for R. A. Muller, Frank E. Lane, Patricia Conaghan, Janet Ashton, …
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# 39997
OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)
John Olsen. My complete graphics 1957 – 1979 (deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Introduction by Lou Klepac. Melbourne: Australian Galleries and Gryphon Books, 1980. Folio, gilt-decorated full calf in illustrated dustjacket, 248pp., pale foxing to preliminaries, illustrated throughout, with an original signed John Olsen etching ‘Owl & train’ tipped in at rear. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by Olsen with an original etching. This is …
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# 39938
FRAZER, David.
Howard & Ken were a double act.
Wood engravings written & illustrated by David Frazer. Melbourne: the artist, 1999. Small quarto, half-cloth over black lettered papered boards, 40pp., fourteen original wood-engravings initialled by the artist. Hand printed by the artist at Monash Caulfield Printmaking Studio on Arch Aquarelle acid free paper. Letterpress by John Ryrie, bookbinding by Peter Wegner. Limited to only …
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# 39574
CHRISTOFIDES, Andrew; MAHFOUZ, Naguib
Passage
Melbourne and Townsville : Lyre Bird Press & Zimmer Editions, 2005. Folio, lettered wrappers (small spot to upper wrapper), 10 folded leaves, including title sheet and colophon sheet, 8 sheets being quotes from Mahfouz accompanied by an original watercolour by Christofides, housed in a clamshell box. Limited to 30 copies signed by the artist plus …
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# 39836
SMITH, Ivan and OLSEN, John
A sliver of time (signed and inscribed copy with small ink sketch)
Sydney : Harper & Row, 1981. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 80, illustrated. Signed and inscribed by the author Ivan Smith on the half-title. Inscribed by Olsen and signed on the endpaper with a small sketch of a frog. A very good copy of the illustrated story.
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# 39885
WILSON, Gavin
Elemental reckoning : the art of Tim Storrier 1981 – 2011 (deluxe edition with original etching)
Sydney : JAM Press, 2011. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 94, illustrated. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at S. H. Ervin Gallery. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by the artist on the title page, with an original signed etching ‘Saddle’ loosely enclosed.
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# 9919
[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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# 39862
FRAZER, David.
The Ballad of Count von Jack
Castlemaine : Unstable Press, 2011. Quarto, maroon buckram with lettered insert bound by the artist, [30] pp. letterpress, 9 original wood engravings, each initialled by the artist. A wry comment on the life of the artist, illustrated with Frazer’s trademark wit. Limited to 10 copies. Collections: SLV, University of Melbourne, Monash University.
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# 39800
OLSEN, John; McGREGOR, Ken
Owlswood. John Olsen’s studio, NSW, 1999 – 2011
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2015. Folio, hand bound by David Poole in blind-lettered cloth, pp. 32, extensively illustrated, with a photograph of John Olsen signed by the artist tipped-in and an original sugarlift etching ‘The Chase’, limited to 20 signed copies, bound in. A photographic documentation of artist John Olsen at home and in his …
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# 39586
McGREGOR, Ken and GEISSLER, Marie
Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson Ngayuku Ngura – My Country (deluxe edition with original etching)
Translation into French by Flore Gregorini. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2010. Quarto, white lettered black buckram in dustjacket, matching slipcase, illustrated endpapers, pp 248, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 numbered copies, with a large and magnificent original colour etching by Watson loosely enclosed, limited to 50 numbered copies signed with his monogram ‘X’. …
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# 39837
SMITH, Ivan and OLSEN, John
A sliver of time (signed and inscribed copy with large ink sketch)
Sydney : Harper & Row, 1981. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 80, illustrated. Warmly inscribed by Olsen and signed on the endpaper with a large sketch of a kangaroo. A very good copy of the illustrated story.