Rare Books

  • Skins 'n' Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.

    # 51829

    BIONDO, Sam and PUGH, Rohan

    Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.

    Melbourne : Skins ‘n’ Sharps, 2006. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 14 pp (including wrappers), b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue produced to accompany a low-key Melbourne exhibition staged in 2006, Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The catalogue contains many original photographs, previously unpublished, documenting the unique …

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  • Australian Aboriginal portraits

    # 51814

    MOUNTFORD, Charles

    Australian Aboriginal portraits

    Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1967. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, edges rubbed, pp 89, illustrated. A good copy

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  • Tasmanian friends and foes : feathered, furred and finned

    # 51813

    MEREDITH, Louisa Anne

    Tasmanian friends and foes : feathered, furred and finned

    London : Marcus Ward, 1881. Second edition. Small quarto, original gilt decorated green cloth (boards lightly rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt decorated endpapers, pp. 259, illustrated with 8 chromolithographic plates and lithographed vignettes; a fine copy. Ferguson 12515. An Australian natural history book for children written by colonial Tasmanian novelist Louisa Anne Meredith, and featuring …

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  • Conrad Martens : the man and his art (presentation copy for Hugh Wright)

    # 51809

    LINDSAY, Lionel

    Conrad Martens : the man and his art (presentation copy for Hugh Wright)

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1920. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s printed papered boards, maroon cloth spine, tipped-in colour frontispiece self-portrait of the artist, 33 pages of text (essay by Lindsay), LX plates (the first XXXII are tipped-in colour plates), a fine copy in the original presentation box (corners split). With a signed presentation inscription from …

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  • Jubilee Exhibition of Australian Art : aboriginal art, early colonial art, the art of the middle period, contemporary art

    # 51801

    THOMAS, Laurence (curator)

    Jubilee Exhibition of Australian Art : aboriginal art, early colonial art, the art of the middle period, contemporary art

    Organised by Laurence Thomas under the direction of the Plastic Arts Committee. [Sydney] : Ure Smith, [1951]. Quarto, decorated wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 64, illustrated. Includes reproductions by Lionel Lindsay, Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, Eric Wilson, Margaret Preston, Hans Heysen, David Davies, Russell Drysdale and others, as well as Aboriginal bark paintings.

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  • Songs of love and life

    # 51796

    CROSS, Zora

    Songs of love and life

    Sydney : Tyrrell’s, 1917. First edition. Octavo, lettered wrappers, yapp edges, pp. 72, uncut and unopened, a fine copy of the first edition. A second edition was published a month later in 1917 by Angus & Robertson. The first edition is scarce.

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  • The Flyaway Highway.

    # 51795

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    The Flyaway Highway.

    Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1973. Reprint of the 1936 first edition. Large octavo,illustrated dustjacket (spine faded), pp. 109, with numerous Lindsay illustrations. Lindsay’s second children’s book, the first being The Magic Pudding.

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  • In the land of the Magic Pudding : a gastronomic miscellany

    # 51791

    SANTICH, Barbara

    In the land of the Magic Pudding : a gastronomic miscellany

    Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2000. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 235. Writings on the theme of food in Australia, inspired by the Lindsay classic.

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  • Puddin' Poems. Being the best of the verse from the Magic Pudding

    # 51789

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Puddin’ Poems. Being the best of the verse from the Magic Pudding

    London and Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1977. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (slightly marked), pp. [32], illustrated. White 4962

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  • The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley.

    # 51788

    [McAULEY, James and STEWART, Harold]. “MALLEY, Ern”.

    The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley.

    Melbourne and Adelaide: Reed and Harris, 1944. Small quarto, 46 pages, in original wrappers illustrated by Sidney Nolan of ‘The Arabian Tree’ from the ‘Malley’ poem Petit Testament, further reproduced as a black and white frontispiece, spine chipped, a couple of minor stains, upper wrapper nearly detached. The first edition variant in illustrated wrappers, a …

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  • [MILITARY] We were the rats (presentation copy for Pearl Goldman)

    # 51785

    GLASSOP, Lawson

    [MILITARY] We were the rats (presentation copy for Pearl Goldman)

    Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1945 (1st edition). Octavo, brown cloth over boards (worn), spine with printed lettering (split to tail), 275 pp. A presentation copy inscribed for Pearl Goldman (one of Norman Lindsay’s most celebrated artist’s models): “To Pearl, in appreciation of ‘Imperia’, with best wishes from Lawson. Sydney, January 1946.” During the Second …

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  • Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

    # 51780

    [LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).

    Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

    Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards, 335 pages, profusely illustrated; a new copy. During his long creative life Norman Lindsay produced works in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. The earliest drawing reproduced in this book was done in 1889, when he was …

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  • Native Rose (hardcover edition)

    # 51763

    WHITELEY, Brett and DRISCOLL, Michael.

    Native Rose (hardcover edition)

    Sydney : Richard Griffin, 1986. Large quarto, cloth in dust jacket (light handling wear), 58 pp, illustrated by Whiteley. The scarce hardcover edition of this book of poems illustrated with large format plates. A series of poems by Michael Driscoll inspired by the Olgas (Kata Tjuṯa) in Central Australia and the journals of explorer Ernest …

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  • After the Tent Embassy : Images of Aboriginal history in black and white photographs

    # 51761

    LANGTON, Marcia

    After the Tent Embassy : Images of Aboriginal history in black and white photographs

    [Sydney] : Valadon Publishing, 1983. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp 120; a good copy. An extensive collection of photographs with an emphasis on the politics of Aborigines in Australian society.

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  • God bless dear Daddy who is fighting the Hun and send him Help

    # 51532

    [LINDSAY, Norman]

    God bless dear Daddy who is fighting the Hun and send him Help

    Sydney : Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1918. Printed by W. E. Smith Ltd, Sydney. Colour printed poster, 46.4 x 35.1 cm (printed image), central crease, some rubbing, handling marks, framed. One of six rare separately issued colour posters commissioned by the Commonwealth Government as part of its recruitment campaign. These posters were issued …

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  • Cole's Gardening in Victoria;

    # 49997

    COLE, T. C.

    Cole’s Gardening in Victoria;

    containing full directions for the formation and general management of a good garden ; together with a comprehensive calendar for the operations of each month in the year. Melbourne : W. Fairfax and Co., 1860. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered pebbled cloth embossed in blind (spine slightly sunned and edges a little rubbed); binder’s ticket for Detmold …

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