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# 42646
RITSOS, Giannis / Ρίτσος, Γιάννης (1909-1990)
The Wavering Scales
Red Wing, Minnesota : Red Dragonfly Press, 2006. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 31, printed letterpress. Poem concerning German occupation written by Ritsos in Athens in 1943. ‘Martin McKinsey translated sections 1 through 4. Scott King translated sections 6 through 9. In section 5, the two translators overlaid their approaches. 110 copies printed using Eric Gill’s …
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# 42542
LEONTE, Carmelia
Death Searches for you a second time. Poems by Carmelia Leonte
Northfield, Minnesota : Red Dragonfly Press, 2003. Small quarto, bound in lettered grey wrappers, pp. [28], printed letterpress. Printed in an edition of 140 copies.
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# 42629
HOAD, Harold F.
Sonnet in remembrance
Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic. : John T. Kirtley, 1949 . Folio, unbound sheets as issued, pp. [4] plus four blanks, printed letterpress, two illustrations signed Charles Crampton. One of only eighty hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author (this copy is numbered but not signed). John Kirtley (1897-1967) is an important figure in Australian …
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# 42631
POLITZER, Louis
Birthday Greeting to Leah Witter. Fourteenth May. Written by Louis Politzer 1951
Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic. : John T. Kirtley, 1951 . Folio, unbound sheets as issued, pp. [4] plus four blanks, printed letterpress. One of only ten hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author. John Kirtley (1897-1967) is an important figure in Australian printing having produced the first Australian hand-printed books. Introduced by Philip Lindsay …
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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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# 41271
CROOKE, Ray
An epistle from Oberea (signed twice by Ray Crooke)
With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design, signed ‘Ray Crooke 21 October 65’ on the endpaper, 24 pp, illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also …
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# 38077
BRACK, John (1920 - 1999)
John Brack nudes. Fifteen original lithographs
Text by Margaret Plant. Introduction by Gordon Thomson. Melbourne: Lyre Bird Press, 1982. Large folio (465 x 340mm) bound in gilt-titled half-leather over hessian covered boards decorated with Brack motif, housed in matching clamshell box with gilt decoration and lettering on front panel, bound by N. Doslov of Melbourne, with binder’s ticket on front pastedown. …
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# 39731
[LINDSAY, Norman]
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Done into English by Jack Lindsay. Illustrations by Norman Lindsay. London : Fanfrolico Press, 1926. Folio, half-morocco over gilt-decorated boards (light edge wear, corners bumped), 51 pp., light foxing to endpapers. Limited to 725 copies signed by Jack Lindsay. The London edition, a Sydney edition from the Fanfrolico Press also appearing in 1925, the London …
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# 39535
DALRYMPLE, Alexander
An account of the discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean
By Alexander Dalrymple, first printed in 1767, reissued with a foreword by Kevin Fewster and an essay by Andrew Cook. Sydney : Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1996. Octavo, full blue calf, lettered and ruled in gilt, blind embossed, pp. 47, xxxi, 103., [5] leaves of folded plates. The deluxe edition, …
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# 39819
[DESCARTES]. HART, Kevin
Losing the power to say “I” : an essay celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of René Descartes.
Melbourne : Art School Press, 1996. Limited edition of 100 copies, numbered, signed and dated by the author. Octavo, olive cloth boards with pictorial onlay (portrait of Descartes), title page printed in red and black with vignette portrait of Descartes (identical to onlay on upper board), 37 pp, a fine copy.
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# 38978
LONEY, Alan; MORRIS, Miriam
New leaf
Poems by Alan Loney ; drawings by Miriam Morris. Melbourne : Electio Editions, 2005. Octavo, printed wrappers, string bound, faint sunning to spine, pp. [24], poetry with illustrations. “This book is designed and printed by Alan Loney. Types are Dante and Civilite, & the paper is Magnani mouldmade damped for printing on an Albion handpress. …
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# 38943
LONEY, Alan
Red Square : the next word
Melbourne : Electio Editions, 2012. Octavo, publisher’s Ruscombe grey paper over boards in navy cloth-covered slipcase, 28 pp., with numerous illustrations; internally pristine, a fine copy. Signed and numbered by the poet. Number 35 of 45 copies. “This book derives from putting two small obsessions together and seeing what happens. The first is with the typographical …
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# 38942
LONEY, Alan
Soma : guarding the body poems from the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers with typographic images (Alan Loney’s copy)
Melbourne : Electio Editions, 2008. Octavo, publisher’s brown papered boards in burnt orange cloth-covered slipcase (slight wear to corner), 48 pp., with numerous illustrations; internally pristine, a fine copy. Signed and numbered by the poet. Limited to 30 copies, of which 26 (lettered A – Z) are for sale, this is one of four numbered copies, number …
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# 30219
LINDSAY, Jack
Lysistrata By Aristophanes
Done into English verse by Jack Lindsay with illustrations and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: Fanfrolico Press, 1925. Quarto, quarter white cloth over gilt-stamped boards (corners bumped), pp. [viii]; x; 48; [2], tipped-in plates by Norman Lindsay. Limited to 136 copies, signed by Jack Lindsay. A few minor marks, a very good copy. ‘The first title …
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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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# 38697
DURRELL, Lawrence
[PRIVATE PRESS] The vintage time
Pearl Beach, N.S.W. : The Escutcheon Press, 1997. Oblong octavo, publisher’s pictorial purple cloth over papered boards, 14 pp, vignette illustrations; a fine copy. Printed in an edition of 103 copies. ‘This book first appeared as chapter seven of Prospero’s cell by Lawrence Durrell Faber and Faber London 1945″ – the colophon.