Books & Bookplates
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# 42014
O'CONOR, Juliet
Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books
Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 262, thoroughly illustrated. An extensive insight into the history of children’s books in Australia, with detailed sections on great artists and authors such as Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, May Gibbs, Harold Gaze, Pixie O’Harris, Graeme Base etc. An essential reference book.
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# 41244
BARNETT, P. Neville et alia
The Australian Ex Libris Society. Journal No. 1
Sydney: the Society, 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 48, illustrated with eight bookplates reproduced by Norman Lindsay, and others. Limited to 300 copies (this is copy 253). Bookplate for Jean and Jeff Bidgood to inside of front wrapper. A valuable collection of miniature artworks by Australian artists of the interwar period.
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# 41243
AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY
The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1934
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1934. Edition limited to 250 copies (this is copy no. 60). Octavo, printed wrappers in glassine wrapper (a couple of small tears), 43 pp, light offsetting, tipped-in bookplates by P. Roach Pierson, J.C. Goodchild, Eirene Mort, Douglas Pratt, George Perrottet, Ethleen Palmer, Adrian Feint, Helen Ogilvie, L. Roy Davies , and …
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# 41245
AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY
The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1930
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1930. Edition limited to 300 copies (this is copy no. 39). Octavo, printed wrappers in glassine wrapper (a couple of chips), 48 pp, light foxing, tipped-in bookplates by Adrian Feint, L. Roy Davies, Eric Thake, R. A. Clive, Will Mahoney, Hector MacDonald, P. Neville Barnett, Pixie O’Harris, Hilda Wiseman and others; …
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# 41248
AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY
The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1930-32
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1931. Edition limited to 250 copies (this is copy no. 2). Octavo, printed wrappers in glassine wrapper (a couple of small tears, chips with loss), 48 pp, light offsetting, tipped-in bookplates by G. D. Perrottet, John D. Godson, Walter Jardine, Adrian Feint, Eric Thake, Aileen Walker, Ella Dwyer, D. H. Souter, …
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# 40425
EVANS, Jane (attributed)
Keepsake in the form of a needlework sampler bookmark, commemorating the birth of John Evans at Round Mountain, near Rylstone, Central West New South Wales, on 17 June 1878.
Needlework sampler bookmark, 105 x 65 mm; very well preserved. The text reads: ‘John Evans / Born / June 17th 1878 / Round Mountain / Sweet copy far more dear to me / Than all the living forms could be. / Save him who placed thee next my Heart‘; [together with] another sampler bookmark, sewn …
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# 41351
INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman.
True Patriots All, or, News from Early Australia, as told in a collection of broadsides. (Deluxe edition with three signed etchings – the Coles copy)
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1952. Quarto, gilt-titled half-calf over buckram (small mark to upper board), 280pp. reproducing illustrated broadsides with Australian content. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 signed copies (this is copy number 15), bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, and containing three original etchings signed by Ingleton. An exploration on ephemeral early printings …
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# 41242
AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY
The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1935 & 1936
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1936. Edition limited to 175 copies (this copy out of series). Octavo, printed wrappers (sunned) in glassine wrapper (a few small tears and chipping to edges), 47 pp, tipped-in bookplates by George Perrottet (2), Harold Byrne, Ella Dwyer, Pixie O’Harris, P. Roach Pierson, William Hunter, Adrian Feint, Helen Ogilvie, L. Hopkins …
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 40962
PEAKE, Andrew Guy
Artur Mario da Mota Miranda : his contribution to Ex-Libris and an index to his works
Adelaide : Tudor Australian Press, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 82, illustrated. New copy. Printed in a limited edition of 150 numbered copies. ‘Artur da Mota Miranda over his lifetime, edited nearly sixty volumes, over three series, profiling bookplate artists throughout the world. This volume is a tribute to his lifetime achievement, illustrates many of …
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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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# 38436
BARNETT, P. Neville (1881-1953)
Woodcut book-plates (standard edition)
Foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Sydney : Privately printed [The Beacon Press], 1934. Small quarto, original marbled paper boards (light scattered foxing), vellum spine with black lettering, marbled endpapers, pp. 240 (pale foxing to edges), illustrated throughout with examples of woodcut bookplates, for the most part tipped-in, the frontispiece being the tipped-in signed Adrian Feint bookplate …
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# 37606
CARMODY, Shane; MILLARD, Susan; WELCH, Anna et alia
Mirror of the world. Des Cowley, books & ideas
By Shane Carmody, Susan Millard and Anna Welch, with contributions by Dermot McCaul, Stuart Kells, Clare Williamson, Kevin Patrick, Dianne Reilly, Madeline Say, Marguerite Brown & Akko van Ogtrop, Jock Murphy, John Arnold, Joan Lindblad Kirsop & Wallace Kirsop, Graham Anderson, Richard Overell & Derrick Moors, Geoffrey Cains and Francesca Curate Sasnaitis. [Melbourne : privately …
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# 13970
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (facsimile edition limited to 100 copies, 1899)
Reproduced by authority of the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1899. Angus & Robertson, 1899. Folio, half-crushed morocco over cloth (a few marks), lettered in gilt to the spine, bookplate from the W. R. Griffiths collection to front pastedown, unpaginated, foxing to edges, photo-lithographed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons of …
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# 37206
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian rare books 1788 – 1900 (deluxe edition)
Sydney : Hordern House, 1987. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, slipcase, vol. 1 pp. x; 168; vol. 2 pp. 32; a fine set. The deluxe edition, each volume limited to 125 copies signed by the author. The deluxe edition is specially bound in slipcase, and includes the additional volume ‘First news from Botany Bay : …
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# 36305
BARNETT, P. Neville
Armorial book-plates (deluxe edition)
Their romantic origin and artistic development. Sydney: privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1932. Deluxe edition, limited to 120 numbered and signed copies (this is copy no. 2). Small quarto, patterned cloth with gilt lettered title label (rubbed) to upper board, 172 pp, illustrated throughout with bookplates; a very good copy. A worldwide survey of …