International Artists
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# 49982
DAALDER, Truus
Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa
Adelaide : Ethnic Art Press ; South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 420, illustrated in colour. As new copy, still sealed in shrinkwrap and in publisher’s carton. “A sumptuously produced book with an elaborate, informative text and 704 beautiful photographs of adornment from many parts of the world, ranging …
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# 49795
SMITH, Patti (1946 - )
Just kids. (Signed deluxe edition)
New York : Ecco (Harper Collins), 2010. Octavo, silver lettered. blue cloth, ribbon marker, decorated endpapers, pp. xii; 280; (12), photographically illustrated, housed in a silver lettered blue cloth folding clamshell box, with an additional broadside Reflecting Robert loosely enclosed. The deluxe edition, limited to 1000 hand numbered copies signed in pen by Patti Smith. …
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# 49792
FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )
Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (deluxe edition with original signed photograph)
Los Angeles : Cherry and Martin, 2015. Quarto, lettered boards in matching slipcase (slight crease along upper panel), pp. 56, illustrated. A fine copy. Second edition, the first edition published by NFS Press in San Francisco in 1977. The deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies bound in hardcover with slipcase (this is copy number 54), …
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# 49941
FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )
Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (first edition)
San Francisco : NFS Press, 1977. First edition. Quarto, lettered wrappers (edges very slightly rubbed, erasure of bookseller’s pencilled price on preliminary blank), pp. 56, illustrated. A fine copy. The rare first edition. In 2015 a facsimile was printed (which sold out), this summary is taken from the publisher’s description: ‘Hal Fischer’s Gay Semiotics: A …
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# 49908
BENNETT, James
Crescent Moon : Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia
Bulan sabit : seni dan peradaban Islam di Asia tenggara.. Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, and Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2006. Quarto, laminate boards with acetate dustjacket, pp. 303, extensively illustrated, as new copy. Crescent Moon: Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia is a spectacular visual exploration of the Islamic …
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# 49813
BRAMLY, Sophie et al.
Yo! The early days of Hip Hop 1982 – 84
London : Soul Jazz Records, 2022. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. Over 250 rarely seen stunning images documenting the rise of hip-hop in the early 1980s. Photographs by Sophie Bramly, Introduction by Bill Adler, Text by Fab Five Freddy, Grand Mixer D.ST, Rahiem (The Furious Five), Arthur Baker, Zephyr Muhamad (The …
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# 49859
ALLEN KENOYER GLASS INC.
Stained glass pattern catalogue : Allen Kenoyer Glass.
[Cover title]. Manhattan Beach, Calif. : Allen Kenoyer Glass Inc., 1990. Quarto (275 x 215 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers (a few light marks, worn at spine ends); pp. [2], 97, with order form at rear; line-drawn illustrations throughout; wet-stamp of New South Wales importer, retailer and wholesaler Albury Leadlight to preliminary leaves and final blank; …
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# 50292
MOOKERJEEE, Ajit
Tantra art : its philosophy & physics
New Delhi : Kumar Gallery, 1966. First edition. Quarto, gilt-illustrated cloth, dustjacket (edge wear and a few short tears), pp. 156, illustrated in colour and black and white. Printed in Switzerland. The foundational text for understanding Tantrism through its visual metaphysics. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930, her wet stamp to a few leaves). …
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# 48242
Barnett, P. Neville
Figure prints of Japan
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1948. Large quarto (450 mm tall), white vellum over floral decorated silk covered boards, decorated endpapers, 54pp. On hand-made paper with numerous tipped-in Japanese woodcuts, offsetting from glue as usual, bookplate to preliminary blank. Limited to 100 copies, this one of the 47 Special De-Luxe Editions, signed by the author, this …
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# 49984
SMITH, Bernard (1916 - 2011)
European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (third edition)
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2022. Third edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 350, illustrated. New copy ‘From Australia’s greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of the Australian classic. Featuring a new introduction by Sheridan Palmer and Greg Lehman. Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia’s greatest art historian and …
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# 49738
MARIANI, Pietro C.
Leonardo da Vinci : the complete paintings (revised edition)
New York : Abrams, 2019. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 400, new copy. The most comprehensive book on the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, with hundreds of illustrations. This classic volume on Leonardo’s paintings captures the magical qualities that make him one of the most beloved painters in the history of art. Pietro Marani’s definitive …
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# 48878
Bigot, Georges Ferdinand (1860-1927)
Ma-Ta : dessins de G Bigot.
[Yokohama, 1884]. Quarto (292 x 213 mm), original plain limp covers with Japanese hand-stitched binding, 21 etched plates (including the main title) on papier japon, depicting Japanese people, aspects of traditional Japanese culture, and scenes from everyday life in Japan; an exceptional example, housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box, spine lettered in gilt. French …
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# 49657
MARMOL, Ignacio
Ignacio Marmol. Altijiringa. Reflections on the spatial character of Australian colour.
Melbourne : Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1990. Quarto, pp. [8], illustrated.
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# 49613
MacDONALD, George F.
Haida art
Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (one corner bumped), pp. xii;242, illustrated. Haida art is the rich, symbolic artistic expression of the Haida Nation from the Pacific Northwest Coast, instantly recognizable by its distinct formline design. This art form is a visual language that narrates history, ancestry, and the spiritual …
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# 49619
WADE, Edwin (editor)
The Arts of the North American Indian. Native Traditions in Evolution
New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1986. Quart, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 324, extensively illustrated, small scratch to dustjacket at foot of spine, a good reference copy. A scholarly study examining over 3,000 years of Native artistic, social, and cultural evolution across over 60 tribes. It features essays from fourteen authorities, analysing diverse art …
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# 49614
CRAWFORD, A. L.
Aida : life and ceremony of the Gogodala
Bathurst : Robert Brown and Associates in association with The National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea, 1981. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 408, extensively illustrated.