Paradise Garden. Paintings, drawings and poems with an introduction by Robert Melville (deluxe edition)

London: R Alistair McAlpine, 1971. Quarto, 110pp. consisting of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. The de luxe edition, in a suede binding, signed by the artist. A total of 3000 copies were produced, 2890 standard editions (cloth bound with dustjacket), plus, according to the colophon, 110 de luxe copies of which 20 contained original Nolan drawings. In reality, the deluxe edition consisted of 85 copies without a drawing, and numbered so by Nolan in pen (this is copy number 51). Possibly the final unaccounted for 5 copies were a presentation issue.

This copy with a printed slip ‘with the compliments of R. Alistair McAlpine’ and a note from another bookseller indicating that this copy was presented by Lord McAlpine to A. A. van Nuffelen, an Anglo-Belgian architect.