Rare Books
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# 51513
Japan Tourist Bureau.
From the car window
Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, December 1935. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 21 pp, illustrated, map, a very good copy.
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# 51507
CHRISTIE, Robyn and MILLER, Justin.
The D.R. Sheumack Collection : eighty years of Australian painting.
Compiled by Robyn Christie and Justin Miller. Sydney : Sotheby’s Australia, 1988. Quarto, silver-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (spine sunned, light handling creases), pp. [148], illustrated. Catalogue of one of the finest collection of traditional Australian paintings formed in the past century. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, William Dobell, Tom Roberts, Hans Heysen etc.
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# 51506
HOLDEN, Robert.
Twinkle twinkle Southern Cross : the forgotten folklore of Australian nursery rhymes
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1992. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 99. Original order form enclosed. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, D. H. Souter etc.
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# 51502
HURST, Cameron and Jeremy GEORGE (editors)
Venus in Tullamarine : art, sex, politics and Norman Lindsay
/ with contributions from Ian McLean, Adrain Martin, Cameron Hurst, Jeremy George, James Nguyen, Soo-Min Shim. [Cover title]. Small octavo (175 x 105 mm), illustrated wrappers, pp. 152; an as-new copy. ‘Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) was a prolific, popular, and controversial Australian artist. He is best known for his children’s book The Magic Pudding (1918) and …
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# 51501
ASHTON, Julian
The Julian Ashton Book
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1920. Quarto, paper wrappers over cards, unpaginated, 28 plates including some tipped-in colour plates, essays by Norman Lindsay, Grace Crowley, W. Hardy Wilson, Chris Brennan, Lionel Lindsay and Charles Lloyd Jones. Presentation copy to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald inscrinbed on the front free endpaper by the publisher.
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# 51500
GOLDMAN, Pearl
Memories of Norman Lindsay and the theatre (signed copy)
Southport, Qld. : John A. Elliott for the Gold Coast and Hinterland Historical Society, 1999. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. Autobiography of actor and Norman Lindsay model Pearl Goldman. With a signed inscription by Pearl Goldman to the title page.
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# 51497
SPENCER, A.H.
The Hill of Content : books, art, music, people. (Signed copy)
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1959. First edition. Octavo, boards with pictorial dust jacket, pp 246, illustrated, light foxing. Reminiscences of the legendary Melbourne bookstore, with much content on Norman Lindsay and his family. Inscribed by the shop’s owner A.H. Spencer on front endpaper to K. V. McClelland.
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# 51495
PETRONIUS, Gaius; LINDSAY, Jack; LINDSAY, Norman
The Satyricon and poems.
London : Elek Books, 1960. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (corners bumped, a little marked and a couple of short tears), pp. 223, illustrations by Norman Lindsay, a couple of leaves loose.
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# 51362
PEDROSA, Adriano (editor)
Indigenous histories
São Paulo : Museu de Arte de São Paulo and New York : KMEC Books, 2023. Quarto , illustrated boards pp. 340, illustrated. Continuing the work of the acclaimed Afro-Atlantic Histories, this publication from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) compiles the collective curatorship and research carried out by artists and scholars from …
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# 51492
LINDSAY, Jack
Faces and places. With drawings by Norman Lindsay
Toronto : Basilike, 1974. Octavo, quarter cloth with lettered label on spine over marbled papered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrations. Limited to 350 copies.
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# 51491
CROSS, Zora
Songs of love and life
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1917. Second edition, reprint (published the same year as the first). Octavo, decorated cloth (slightly flecked), illustrated endpapers by Sydney Ure Smith, portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 152; [4 – advertisements, dated November 1917], a few minor spots of foxing. Loosely enclosed : the upper panel of the original dustjacket, with …
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# 51490
SAXBY, H.M.
A history of Australian children’s literature 1841-1941
Sydney : Wentwoth Books, 1969. First edition. Octavo, fine brown cloth boards in like dust jacket (spine sunned), 212 pp, illustrated with black and white plates, an excellent copy. (Volume 1 only: volume 2 covers the period 1941 to 1970). Includes works on Ethel Turner, Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and others.
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# 51487
GOUGH, Julie (1965 - )
Tense past : Julie Gough
Tebrakunna [Tas.] : Tebrikunna Press & OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights, 2021 (2023 reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered leather over illustrated cloth, illustrated endpapers, pp. 326; (2), illustrated. New copy. ‘This title documents Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Julie Gough’s major survey show held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart in 2019. Her art and …
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# 51472
LAWSON, James R.
Catalogue of the magnificent furniture, art treasures, costly appointments and effects … throughout the residence ‘Wyldefel’, Wylde Street, Potts Point.
Sydney : James R. Lawson, 1935. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, marked with tears to the yapp edges, pp. 132, occasional foxing. Lavish catalogue of the opulent contents of ‘Wyldefel’ owned by Mr. W. A. Crowle. Includes rare Lalique glass, silver, Chinese ivory and Japanese antiques, exhibition quality furniture etc. The artworks include numerous etchings by Norman …
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# 51462
CHAPLIN, Harry F.
A Lindsay Miscellany : Norman, Lionel, Ruby, Philip & Mary and other members of the family.
First editions, inscribed copies, autograph letters, manuscripts and other material associated with the lives and work based on the collection of and annotated by Harry F. Chaplin. Sydney : Wentworth Books, 1978. Quarto, textured wrappers, pp. 125, portrait frontispiece of Ruby Lindsay, detailed catalogue with lengthy personal annotations of the unique Chaplin collection.
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# 51461
CHAPLIN, Harry
Norman Lindsay : His books, manuscripts and autograph letters in the library of, and annotated by Harry F. Chaplin.
Foreword by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Wentworth Press, 1969. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 90. A very good copy. With a signed presentation inscription from Walter Stone on the title page.