Books Containing Artworks
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# 32428
OLSEN, John (1928 - )
John Olsen “The Kiss”
Townsville and Melbourne : Lyre Bird Press & Zimmer Editions, 2009. Folio, quarter-calf over linen, gilt-lettered on spine, unpaginated, original signed Olsen etching bound in as frontispiece, titled ‘The Kiss’ and editioned out of 30 copies, an original Olsen pen sketch of a lyre bird facing title page with the edition number written by the …
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# 32289
MARSH, Dale
The art of Dale Marsh (with original drawing)
Sydney : Dale Marsh Studio, 1981. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (lightly marked), 29pp [75pp of plates]. Features 75 colour plates in addition to biographical essays and a tipped in sketch . Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the artist with an original signed drawing tipped on to the half-title.
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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. ‘How did this book of unusual drawings, arranged …
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# 9908
[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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# 31256
KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs
A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered black calf finely bound with matching slipcase, 112 pp, illustrated throughout. This one of 100 copies of the special collectors’ edition, signed by the artist with an original signed Lloyd Rees lithograph loosely enclosed (light …
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# 31065
OPPEN, Monica
Metropolis
Sydney : Ant Press, 2016. Folio (535 mm tall), printed cloth bound boards, pp. [14], each leaf consists of a folded sheet of Zerkall wove paper printed with collography, with a translucent upper layer on Taiwanese kozo paper printed in woodcut, both layers with printed text from hand-cut rubber stamp letters. An artist’s book limited …
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# 30765
MARX, Jack and MCGREGOR, Ken
Jason Benjamin : What binds us (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007. Quarto, red-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, pp 192, illustrated throughout. The deluxe edition, limited to 75 copies specially bound with an original signed etching, ‘Will you ever really know?” loosely enclosed.
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# 27943
[DRYSDALE]. LAWSON, Henry
Short Stories (with five original Russell Drysdale etchings)
Original etchings by Russell Drysdale. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1981. Tall folio (47cm high) bound in gilt-titled brown polished calf in umber slipcase (small area of damage to foot of spine), illustrated endpapers, 47pp. of Lawson prose illustrated with five original etchings by Drysdale. Limited to 100 copies, signed by Russell Drysdale. Containing 5 …
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# 30711
Charapanovskaia, Marina (1961 - )
The Hat
Melbourne : the artist, 2001. Artists’ book, oblong folio (505 x 365 mm), finely bound in tan leather, blind embossed on front panel, patterned endpapers, etched title page, 5 folded leaves printed with 9 original etchings, each signed and numbered, interlined with tissue. Limited to 4 copies. In this handsome folio the artist uses her …
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# 29579
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
The light fades but the gods remain (Deluxe limited edition with original signed photograph)
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson in association with the Monash Gallery of Art, 2019. Quarto, lettered cloth, illustrated dustjacket, pp. 166, extensively illustrated. The deluxe artist’s edition, signed by Bill Henson on the half-title, housed in a lettered cloth slipcase. The deluxe artist’s edition, limited to 100 copies (although not numbered), with an original signed …
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# 29456
THOMAS, David.
Criss Canning : the pursuit of beauty. (Deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007. Quarto, gilt-lettered teal cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 192, fully illustrated. First edition, the deluxe edition, limited to 75 numbered copies, with an original signed etching ‘Banksia’, printed at Port Jackson press, loosely accompanying the book. Written and published to coincide with the artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. …
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# 28785
TAILLANDIER, Yvon (1926-2018)
Livre d’artiste by Yvon Taillandier
[France : probably between 1970 and 1980]. A unique object created by Yvon Taillandier by overpainting the pages of a nineteenth century copy of the published score to the opera Lara by Louis-Aimé Maillart (1817-71), the volume measuring 275 x 200 mm, with 295 pages. Taillandier has painted 7 full-page and 34 double-page paintings within …
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# 28448
[Warringah Printmakers Studio]; ANSON, Jennifer
Natural Collection
Sydney : Warringah Printmakers Studio, 2017. Elephant folio with printed wrappers, housed in buckram clamshell case with matching printed lining, in printed calico bag. A publication of twenty-nine prints of varying method, showing flora and fauna of Northern Sydney, accompanied by artists’ statements and scientific descriptions. Limited to an edition of 10 copies, with signatures of …
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# 27106
COUNIHAN, Noel (1913 - 1986)
War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan (signed edition)
London: Collet’s Holdings Ltd., 1950. Later lettered paper portfolio (385mm tall), cut lettering from the original folio pasted on (foxed), 4pp. letterpress (long split along fold), twelve linocuts on separate sheets, very good examples. Limited to 300 copies signed by the artist, this is number 88. In this example, each linocut has been signed by …
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# 28213
MCGREGOR, Ken.
Fred Cress : Whispers (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007. Quarto, purple lettered black cloth in matching slipcase, pp 255, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 75 copies with an original signed and numbered etching, Companions, loosely enclosed.
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# 27657
[DICKERSON]. POWELL, Louisa
Robert Dickerson : the complete graphics (deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Sydney : Queen Street Fine Art, 2002. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 132, illustrated. A detailed survey of the graphic output of the noted Australian artist, with all works illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, with an original signed etching ‘The Master Printer’ loosely enclosed.