New Acquisitions
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# 51534
LANE, Terence; SEARLE, Jessie
Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned, edges lightly rubbed), pp. 449, extensively illustrated. A very good copy. “This study of Australian home interiors surveys the decoration, arrangement, and use of domestic interiors from the time the Europeans settled at Sydney Cove in the eighteenth century until 1914. Richly illustrated …
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# 51356
GROS DE BELER, Aude. (editor.)
Tattoo
Arles : Musée du quai Branly Actes sud, [2014]. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards,, pp. 303, illustrated. new copy. ‘The practice of tattooing has an extensive primitive history in Asian and African countries, where it had social, religious and mystical roles. In 3000 BC, Otzi (whose mummy was famously discovered in the 1990s) covered his body …
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# 51526
SMART, Jeffrey (1921 - 2013)
Jeffrey Smart Retrospective
By Edmund Capon with contributions by Barry Pearce and Peter Quartermaine. Sydney: The Beagle Press for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, 212pp. profusely illustrated.
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# 51515
BOYD, Penleigh
The landscapes of Penleigh Boyd
With biography by James MacDonald. Foreword by Hugh Grant Adam, M.A. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, n.d. [1920]. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy out of series). Quarto, papered boards (one corner bumped, tears to spine); pp [46], illustrated with tipped-in colour plates; some toning to endpapers, a very good copy..
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# 51511
[MILLER]. HENSHAW, John. (ed.)
Godfrey Miller (signed presentation copy)
Sydney: Darlinghurst Galleries, distributed by Ure Smith, 1966. Quarto, boards with illustrated dustjacket, 16 colour plates, 110 illustrations in monochrome, a forward by Peter Bellew and an article and writings by the artist. A substantial reference on Godfrey Miller (1893 – 1964), edges lightly rubbed, but a fine copy. This copy with a signed presentation …
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# 51507
CHRISTIE, Robyn and MILLER, Justin.
The D.R. Sheumack Collection : eighty years of Australian painting.
Compiled by Robyn Christie and Justin Miller. Sydney : Sotheby’s Australia, 1988. Quarto, silver-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (spine sunned, light handling creases), pp. [148], illustrated. Catalogue of one of the finest collection of traditional Australian paintings formed in the past century. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, William Dobell, Tom Roberts, Hans Heysen etc.
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# 51506
HOLDEN, Robert.
Twinkle twinkle Southern Cross : the forgotten folklore of Australian nursery rhymes
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1992. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 99. Original order form enclosed. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, D. H. Souter etc.
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# 51501
ASHTON, Julian
The Julian Ashton Book
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1920. Quarto, paper wrappers over cards, unpaginated, 28 plates including some tipped-in colour plates, essays by Norman Lindsay, Grace Crowley, W. Hardy Wilson, Chris Brennan, Lionel Lindsay and Charles Lloyd Jones. Presentation copy to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald inscrinbed on the front free endpaper by the publisher.
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# 51497
SPENCER, A.H.
The Hill of Content : books, art, music, people. (Signed copy)
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1959. First edition. Octavo, boards with pictorial dust jacket, pp 246, illustrated, light foxing. Reminiscences of the legendary Melbourne bookstore, with much content on Norman Lindsay and his family. Inscribed by the shop’s owner A.H. Spencer on front endpaper to K. V. McClelland.
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# 51492
LINDSAY, Jack
Faces and places. With drawings by Norman Lindsay
Toronto : Basilike, 1974. Octavo, quarter cloth with lettered label on spine over marbled papered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrations. Limited to 350 copies.
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# 51491
CROSS, Zora
Songs of love and life
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1917. Second edition, reprint (published the same year as the first). Octavo, decorated cloth (slightly flecked), illustrated endpapers by Sydney Ure Smith, portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 152; [4 – advertisements, dated November 1917], a few minor spots of foxing. Loosely enclosed : the upper panel of the very rare original …
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# 51462
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.
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# 51461
CHAPLIN, Harry
Norman Lindsay : His books, manuscripts and autograph letters in the library of, and annotated by Harry F. Chaplin.
Foreword by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Wentworth Press, 1969. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 90. A very good copy. With a signed presentation inscription from Walter Stone on the title page.
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# 51429
REILLY, Dianne; HAMMOND, Victoria
Charles Joseph La Trobe : landscapes and sketches
Introduced by Dianne Reilly ; notes by Victoria Hammond. Melbourne : State Library of Victoria in association with Tarcoola Press and National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1999. Quarto, gilt-lettered faux morocco in matching slipcase, a few small marks, pp. xviii, 341, extensively illustrated in colour. Limited to 500 numbered copies, a very good copy on …
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# 51446
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Decade 1970-1980.
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2013. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), diecut boards, pp. 255, illustrated; a mint copy. Winner, Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Over $50, Designers’ Choice Book of the Year, Australian Book Designers Association 2014. ‘His photographs explore the cultures and subcultures of the decade, as well as …
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# 51442
DICKERSON, Jennifer
Robert Dickerson. Against the tide (signed copy of the hardcover first edition)
Brisbane : Pandanus Press, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in pictorial dustjacket, pp. 168, extensively illustrated in colour, text by Jennifer Dickerson. Signed by Jennifer Dickerson and Robert Dickerson. A fine copy.