Norman Lindsay & Family

  • Norman Lindsay war cartoons, 1914-1918

    # 47416

    LINDSAY, Norman; FULLERTON, Peter

    Norman Lindsay war cartoons, 1914-1918

    /​ edited and with a commentary by Peter Fullerton. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1983. Large quarto, brown cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket, 251 pp, illustrated in black and white, 4 colour plates. A fine copy. Lindsay’s World War One cartoons, originally published in the Bulletin.

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  • Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

    # 46589

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

    Sydney : published for the author by Art in Australia, 1920. First edition. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards, spine lettered in gilt (a fine example); inscribed by the artist in pen on the front pastedown ‘Yours sincerely, Norman Lindsay’, small tape marks to endpapers, upper hinge slightly split, original signed etching by Norman Lindsay …

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  • A curate in Bohemia

    # 36429

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    A curate in Bohemia

    With thirty-seven illustrations by the author. Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Co., circa 1913. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small loss to head of spine and upper panel, edges rubbed), pp. 192, occasional light scattered foxing, illustrated by Lindsay, a very good copy of a fragile and rare work. First edition, second issue, with the breasts covered on …

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  • [NORMAN LINDSAY]. Health Reader with chapters on elementary school hygiene

    # 18404

    ELKINGTON, J. S. C.

    [NORMAN LINDSAY]. Health Reader with chapters on elementary school hygiene

    Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Christchurch : Whitcombe and Tombs, n.d. [c. 1908]. Octavo, lettered cloth (a little marked), 139 pp. with numerous illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Very scarce and early Lindsayana. ‘The pictures (surely Norman set out to enjoy himself!) are comical beyond belief. …I think this must be one of the really rare Australiana …

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  • Thieves' kitchen

    # 46602

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Thieves’ kitchen

    Created 1929. Etching, engraving, and soft ground, 253 x 304 mm, signed and dated lower right, edition 25 of 55 copies, in a vintage black timber frame. An etching by Norman Lindsay with enormous visual power, being a rollicking response to the poem Thieves’ kitchen written by Kenneth Slessor (copied in full below), first published …

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  • Norman Lindsay water colour book

    # 46588

    LINDSAY, Norman

    Norman Lindsay water colour book

    Eighteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium by Norman Lindsay and a biographical survey of the artist’s life and work by Godfrey Blunden. Sydney : The Springwood Press, 1939. Quarto, embossed green cloth in dustjacket (small chip to head of spine, scattered foxing), warm gift inscription (in both pen …

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  • [NORMAN LINDSAY]. Health Reader with chapters on elementary school hygiene (the author's copy)

    # 18980

    ELKINGTON, J. S. C.

    [NORMAN LINDSAY]. Health Reader with chapters on elementary school hygiene (the author’s copy)

    Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Christchurch : Whitcombe and Tombs, n.d. [c. 1908]. Octavo, lettered cloth (a little marked), 139 pp. with numerous illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Very scarce and early Lindsayana. The author’s copy, with his Norman Lindsay designed bookplate to front pastedown.

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  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty. Arthur Streeton Number.

    # 47067

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty. Arthur Streeton Number.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy (some loss/splitting on spine and rust stains from staples). Highlighting the Streeton’s iconic Australian works, this edition includes essays by Lionel Lindsay and J.S. McDonald. …

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  • Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    # 47045

    Sydney Ure Smith.

    Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1937. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers with Margaret Preston design, 88pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, very clean internally, a fine copy. Features articles on Arthur Streeton’s recent works, the Archibald Competition, Mary Edwards. Also includes colour and black and …

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  • The cynic’s autograph book No. 2

    # 46933

    [LINDSAY, Ruby]. "Celt"

    The cynic’s autograph book No. 2

    Illustrations by Ruby Lind. London : Gay & Hancock, 1913. Duodecimo, decorated boards, pp. 95, illustrations. A book of pithy phrases with space for supporters to sign their autograph (none in this example). Scarce illustrated work by Ruby Lindsay.

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  • The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay

    # 46660

    [LINDSAY]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin.

    The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay

    Sydney: Odana Editions,1998.  Large quarto, gilt lettered boards with pictorial inlay in colour illustrated wrappers, 480pp, signed by Lin Bloomfield on the title page (lightly foxed) and a large pen inscription on the front free endpaper from Merlin & Chris Costello and family, who were involved in the publication of the book. Light handling marks, …

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  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-Nine

    # 46711

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-Nine

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1933. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 92pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, edges rubbed and a crack to upper hinge, else good. Features essay by Gavin Long on the Heysen loan exhibition; essay on S. Woodward Smith and Kenneth MacQueen …

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  • J. J. Hilder and contemporaries

    # 46615

    HILDER, J. J. et al.

    J. J. Hilder and contemporaries

    Watercolours from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. [20, illustrated. Works by J. J. Hilder, Sydney Long, Hans Heysen, Blamire Young and Norman Lindsay.

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  • The Magic Pudding (first edition, first issue)

    # 44506

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    The Magic Pudding (first edition, first issue)

    Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (a couple of small stains), lettered in gilt on the spine, in unrestored original illustrated dust jacket (lightly foxed, a couple of small edge tears), patterned green A & R …

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  • The art of Hans Heysen (deluxe edition)

    # 44356

    HEYSEN, Hans

    The art of Hans Heysen (deluxe edition)

    Special number of Art in Austraila. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and C. Lloyd Jones. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1920. Quarto, papered boards, grey cloth spine, crack to lower hinge, bookplate to pastedown, 65 plates (many tipped-in, in colour), plus an additional suite of the colour plates tipped-in on coloured paper, light …

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  • A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    # 46242

    HAMMOND, Victoria

    A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick Fox, Bessie Gibson, …

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