Norman Lindsay & Family

# 15955

LINDSAY, Norman

Norman Lindsay’s exhibition of water colours, pen drawings and etchings

Adelaide : Preece’s Gallery, 1924. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 8, tipped-in plate. Rare.

# 15683

BLOOMFIELD, Lin

Norman Lindsay Watercolours 1897 – 1969 (deluxe edition)

Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2003. Quarto, full leather in matching slipcase, 312 pp. extensively illustrated with colour plates, notes and commentary on Lindsay’s artworks and techniques. The deluxe edition, limited to 550 signed and numbered copies, with an additional photograph of the painting The Presentation included. A standard edition was also produced. Both editions sold …

# 15763

LINDSAY, Jane

Portrait of Pa. Norman Lindsay at Springwood

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1973. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 190. illustrated. First edition. Jane Lindsay’s recollections of her father Norman Lindsay.

# 15942

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.

# 14881

LINDSAY, Jack; LINDSAY, Norman

Lysistrata By Aristophanes (Hugh McCrae’s copy of the deluxe edition)

Done into English verse by Jack Lindsay with illustrations and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: Fanfrolico Press, 1925. Quarto, quarter blue morocco over gilt-illustrated papered boards (edges rubbed), manuscript note tipped-on to the front free endpaper by Hugh McCrae, Lindsay illustrations in the text and 4 large tipped-in plates by Norman Lindsay on peach coloured …

# 15950

LINDSAY, Norman

[NORMAN LINDSAY] Belinda’s suitors

Circa 1940. Greeting card on thick artist’s paper (single folded sheet, 380 x 200 mm, ‘Georgian’ watermark), the front with tipped in offset lithograph (120 x 125 mm), printed caption below, printed and handwritten greetings inside. Very fine.  

# 15920

Eight Poems of Youth

Monash University: The Ancora Press, 1996. Quarto, marbled paper wrappers with title-label, 16pp. hand-printed of Lindsay’s poems. Introduction by John Arnold. Hand-printed and bound in an edition of 100 numbered copies.

# 14647

LINDSAY, Norman

An Australian Bird Calendar

Written by E. S. Emerson. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Melbourne : George Robertson & Company, n.d. [c. 1910]. Octavo, early twentieth century gilt-lettered crushed morocco, bound retaining the original illustrated wrappers highlighted in silver, pp. [16], illustrated throughout after Norman Lindsay.

# 14471

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

The Magic Pudding

Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter cloth over papered boards (small water stain along bottom 2 cm of lower board, touching last couple of pages), lettered in gilt on the spine, in fine original illustrated dust jacket (small chips …

# 14489

LINDSAY, Norman; DYSON, Edward; JARDINE, Walter; et al.

The Lone Hand : the National Australian monthly magazine. Vol. VIII, No. 48, April 1st, 1911

Sydney : Printed and published by William Macleod for The Bulletin, 1911. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (by Norman Lindsay, cover detached with some rubbing, minor chipping on spine), pp. xvi; 441 – 528; xvii – liv, extensively illustrated in black and white by Norman Lindsay, Walter Jardine, and Alek Sass, with photographic illustrations throughout. With extensive …

# 14487

LINDSAY, Norman; LINDSAY, Lionel; HILDER, J.J; et al.

The Lone Hand : the National Australian monthly magazine. Vol. VII, No. 39, July 1st, 1910

Sydney : Printed and published by William Macleod for The Bulletin, 1910. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Beryl Reid (chipped), pp. xvi; 89 – 176; xvii – liv, extensively illustrated in black and white by Norman Lindsay, J.J. Hilder, and Lionel Lindsay, with photographic illustrations throughout. The fiction number, with extensive advertisements at front and back, …

# 13659

LINDSAY, Jack (1900-1990)

Fauns and Ladies (Margaret Coen’s copy)

With three original woodcuts by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Hand–press of J. Kirtley, 1923. Folio, quarter lambskin over papered boards, original dust jacket with paper label to spine (a few tears), Norman Lindsay designed bookplate for Margaret Coen to front paste down, light offsetting to endpapers and a couple of spots of light foxing, else …

# 13937

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969) and LINDSAY, Jack (1900-1990)

A homage to Sappho

Made by Norman and Jack Lindsay. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Limited to 70 signed copies. Quarto, vellum over bevelled boards with title and Lindsay decoration in gold, all edges gilt, 64 pp, illustrated with fifteen original etchings by Norman Lindsay, a fine copy. One of the finest Australian private press books, a beautiful …

# 13921

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Madam Life’s lovers

A human narrative embodying a philosophy of the artist in dialogue form. With a gravure by the author. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, gravure frontispiece by Norman Lindsay, pp 188, scattered foxing. A very good copy.

# 13919

LINDSAY, Norman

Petronius. A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon.

with the Earliest English Translation (1694), now first reprinted with an Introduction, together with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay.  London : privately printed by Ralph Straus, 1910. Quarto, later full vellum, ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title label to spine, card slipcase (sunned), top edge gilt, other edges uncut, 303 pp, one hundred black …

# 13711

LINDSAY, Norman; HOPE, A.D.

Siren and satyr : the personal philosophy of Norman Lindsay

Introduced by A.D. Hope. Melbourne : Sun Books, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 80 pp, illustrated in black and white and colour. A very good copy of this illustrated compendium of great Lindsay artworks.

# 13710

CHAPLIN, Harry F.

A Lindsay Miscellany (presentation copy for Douglas Stewart)

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 …

# 13622

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, blind embossed green cloth in original illustrated dustjacket (small stain), eighteen tipped-in colour plates, lower edge stained green as …

# 13590

LINDSAY, Lionel

A book of woodcuts

Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Quarto, cloth covered boards, title inlay, all edges uncut, unpaginated, signed and handcoloured woodcut frontispiece, foreword by Lindsay with woodcut decoration, a further nineteen original woodcuts tipped-in. The deluxe edition, limited to 35 copies, hand printed by Percy Green on Japanese vellum, the woodblocks hand printed by the artist. …

# 13261

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969), et al.

The Lone Hand : the National Australian monthly magazine. Vol. XII, No. 72, April 1, 1913

Sydney : Printed and published by William Macleod for The Bulletin, 1913. Large octavo, illustrated wrappers (some paper loss at head and tail of spine; lower wrapper with a couple of chips at fore-edge), pp lvi, 451-538, 4 [index]; black and white photographic illustrations throughout, plus illustrations by Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, David Low and …

# 13232

DICKENS, Charles; LINDSAY, Norman

Great expectations (presentation copy from Norman Lindsay to Molly Coen)

With forty-six illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : The Shepherd Press, 1947. Large octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine slightly sunned), pp. 520, Norman Lindsay illustrations, a number of which are pasted in. Presentation copy to long time friend Molly Coen 'Dear Molly, It's a pleasure to inscribe this book to you, with all pleasant memories of …

# 13140

[LINDSAY]. STEPHENSON, P.R.

Kookaburras and Satyrs. Some recollections of The Fanfrolico Press.

Sydney: Talkarra Press, 1954. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth ( a little rubbed), 35 pp, bookplate to front free endpaper. Printed in an edition of 225 numbered copies. The first book of the Talkarra Press, and signed by the publisher Walter Stone. The author recalls his days as co-editor of The Fanfrolico Press in London, and in …

# 13043

COLEMAN, Peter and McAULEY, James (editors)

[NORMAN LINDSAY]. Quadrant. November – December 1969.  No. 62, Vol. XIII, No. 6.

Sydney : Quadrant, 1969. Quarto, printed wrappers with a portrait photograph of Norman Lindsay, pp. 80. Includes an article by Nancy Keesing on Norman Lindsay, following his death that year. 

# 13021

PARKER, Eric

Oddities of natural history [presented to Margaret Coen by Norman Lindsay]

London : Seeley, Service & Co., Octavo, cloth (marked and sunned), pp. 228, photographic plates. Inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Margaret 4-4-44 Norman'. From the library of Margaret Coen.