Rare Books
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# 42525
FEINT, Adrian (1894 - 1971)
Bookplate for E. York Seymour (1942)
Wood-engraving, printed in black ink, from one block, 8.9 x 7.0 cm (printed image), tipped on to a backing sheet.
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# 42519
"BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES" [BELLAS, Bruce] (1909 - 1974)
The male figure
Volume thirty-six. Los Angeles : Bruce of Los Angeles, 1966. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp 54, with photographic illustrations. Fine, uncirculated copy. The thirty-sixth volume of a beefcake magazine first published in 1956, dedicated to the male figure by renowned photographer Bruce Bellas, who published under the name Bruce of Los Angeles. Bruce’s distinctive skill in …
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# 42497
McDIARMID, David
Gifts from David McDiarmid
Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, 2014. Quarto, lettered boards, pp. 88, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 700 copies. David McDiarmid (1952–1995) was an artist, designer, DJ and activist who made an indelible impact on the intersecting histories of art, craft, fashion, graphic design, gay liberation and AIDS awareness in Australia and New York. …
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# 42476
HUNT, Susa and CARTER, Paul
Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.
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# 42473
TUSZYNSKI, Felix
Felix Tuszynski. Dreaming time : paintings and drawings
Melbourne : Jewish Museum of Australia, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Paintings and drawings from the Australian artist, a Polish holocaust survivor.
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# 42345
OPPENHEIM, John
Jew : A Photographic Project by John Offenbach
Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 176, illustrated. John Offenbach’s wonderful collection of portraits, boldly and bluntly entitled Jew, could not be more timely. In a period when antisemitism and racism are rife, when ignorance and prejudice prevail, here is a captivating tale of the unexpected. A portrait of Jewish people …
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# 42326
SMITH, Paul (1945 - )
Cradle Mountain
Melbourne : Seekers Press, 1973. Quarto, printed yellow wrappers (light wear), pp. [36], illustrations by John Adam. Limited to 500 signed copies.
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# 42320
MORPHY, Francis (ed.)
Outside in : research engagements with Arnhem Land art : the Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, 30 August – 7 October 2001
/ curators and catalogue essays, Jon Altman, Nigel Lendon, and Frances and Howard Morphy; catalogue editor, Frances Morphy. Canberra : Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, [2001]. Small square quarto (235 x 250 mm), pictorial laminated wrappers, pp. 36, with colour illustrations; a fine copy. ‘… the work of a curatorium consisting of Howard and …
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# 42319
PARAMOUNT (SYDNEY)
[CINEMA; SYDNEY] Press sheet : “The Blob”
Sydney : Paramount Film Service Pty. Ltd., [1958]. Broadsheet, 315 x 255 mm, printed on both sides, illustrated; old horizontal fold, else fine. Press sheet for the Australian release of The Blob (1958), consistently voted as one of the worst science-fiction movies ever made. It was Steve McQueen’s first major role: note he is billed here as Steven …
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# 42317
[STREETON, Arthur]
Arthur Streeton memorial exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, 5th September to 7th October 1944
[Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1944. Large octavo, printed wrappers (lightly marked), 16 pp, illustrated (6 black and white, 3 colour plates). Essays by R. H. Croll and Lionel Lindsay. Lists 135 works.
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# 42275
MULVANEY, D. J. (editor)
Australian archaeology : a guide to field and laboratory techniques.
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1972. Second edition. Series: AIAS Manual No. 4. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. ix, 121; with b/w photographic plates and line-drawn illustrations; an excellent copy. With contributions by F. D. McCarthy, I. M. Crawford, Winifred Mumford, H. A. Polach, D. J. Mulvaney, et al. Includes …
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# 41409
DISTRICT RAILWAY
Improved District Railway Map of London
London : W. J. Adams & Sons, 1880. Second edition. Large folding map, 66 x 108 kms, printed in colour, folded as issued (a couple of splits along the folds), in illustrated paper wrappers (light edge wear). Scarce early railway map of London. ‘This is a geographic style railway map on linen and card, issued …
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# 37330
CRAWHALL, Joseph
Crawhall’s Chap-Book Chaplets
London; Field & Tuer, 1883. Quarto, illustrated papered boards (edges rubbed, small chips to spine), fore and lower edges uncut, unpaginated (approx. 200 pp.) eight chapbooks printed at the Leadenhall Press on colour papers, illustrations coloured by hand, printed in a limited edition of unspecified number, a fine copy. A charming collection of illustrated street ballads …
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# 41577
[BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean-Anthelme (1755-1826)]
Physiologie du gout
ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante; ouvrage théorique, historique et a l’ordre du jour, dédié aus gastronomes parisiens par un professeur membre du plusieurs societés savantes. Edition précédée d’une notice par M Le Baron Richerand; suivie de La Gastronomie, poème en quatre chantes, par Berchoux. Paris : Charpentier, 1840. Octavo, in a fine Swedish binding (very …
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# 39532
DURRELL, Lawrence
Sauve qui peut
London : Faber & Faber, 1966. First edition. Octavo, pink cloth in dustjacket (light foxing, short tear upper panel), pp. 82, illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. A very good copy.
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# 17622
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fourteen. Xmas Number
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1925. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (bookseller sticker on recto wrapper), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, some discolouration to spine and verso wrapper. A special Christmas Edition with an essay by William Moore on the revival in New Zeland; …