Victoria
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# 46324
BROPHY, Philip & CHESWORTH, David (co-ordinators)
[MELBOURNE POST-PUNK] New Music 1980 number 4. Double issue.
Northcote, Vic. : Philip Brophy & David Chesworth (funded by → ↑ →), 1980. Foolscap folio (300 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (silverfished), 53 pp, illustrated; contents in very good condition. Very scarce original issue of Philip Brophy and David Chesworth’s serious magazine New Music (well, it’s definitely not a fanzine). Packed with interviews …
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# 46546
WOMEN'S THEATRE GROUP (Melbourne)
Report for the Theatre Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, for Jan. to Jul. ’78, from Women’s Theatre Group, Melbourne.
[Melbourne : Women’s Theatre Group, 1978]. Foolscap folio (330 x 220 mm), stapled self-wrappers, [10] pp, roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46586
[Photographer unknown].
View of Scott’s Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.
Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of card mount (250 x 360 mm) removed from a nineteenth-century album, with a contemporary caption in ink below the image: ‘Melbourne. Scotts Hotel, Collins Street West’; no photographer’s imprint; a beautiful print with excellent tonal range, in fine condition; verso with a faded albumen …
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# 46713
ROBB, E. M.
Early Toorak and district
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), lettered cloth (boards lightly stained and flecked); pp. 137, illustrated throughout with b/w photographic plates, gift inscription to front free endpaper, blind stamps to half-title and title pages, light foxing to preliminaries, a good copy. Scarce photographically-illustrated history of Toorak and the …
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# 46556
VWLN (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE; FEMINISM] Victorian Women’s Liberation Newsletter. A new collective.
Melbourne : Women’s Liberation Newsletter, [1989]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; original folds and light corner creasing, otherwise good condition. The MWLN (aka VWLN) ran its first edition in February 1972, and was published monthly. This flyer appeals for subscriptions for 1990, which saw a new incarnation of the newsletter: ‘Womens liberation newsletter is a …
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# 46549
COALITION AGAINST WOMEN'S IMPRISONMENT
[MELBOURNE] “Wring out Fairlea” : another afternoon of entertainment & action to encircle Fairlea Women’s Prison by linking arms. Sunday 25th March
[Melbourne] : Coalition Against Women’s Imprisonment, [1988]. A4 sheet, printed on both sides; verso with list of the Coalition’s demands to the State and Federal Governments re. Fairlea Women’s Prison; entertainment for attendees at the protest included music from Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach; original folds and light marks. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia …
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# 46551
LESBIAN FESTIVAL '92
[MELBOURNE] Lesbian Festival ’92 Melbourne October 8 – November 3.
Carlton North, Vic. : Lesbian Festival ’92, 1992. Octavo (210 x 145 mm), pictorial self-wrappers, [4] pp. illustrated; original fold, annotated in pencil by Virginia Fraser, otherwise very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46555
3CR
[MELBOURNE] International Women’s Day. 8 March [1990]. 3CR 855 kHz.
[Melbourne] : 3CR Community Radio, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; 24-hour programme schedule for IWD; light corner creasing, otherwise good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46557
LESBIANS UNLIMITED (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE] Lesbians Unlimited Fun Group Xmas calendar.
Fitzroy, Vic. : Lesbians Unlimited Publicity Group, [1990?]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; toning and light creasing, otherwise good condition. ‘Lesbians Unlimited was established at the end of 1989 to provide a legally constituted and incorporated body for the organisation of the Melbourne Lesbian Festival in 1990. It continued meeting after the Festival to …
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# 46573
VICTORIAN WOMEN'S ORCHESTRA
Victorian Women’s Orchestra. Inaugural Concert … Friday, March 9th, 1990, 8.00pm … at Toorak Uniting Church …
Program will include: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Greig: Norwegian Dances, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Ravel: Bolero. Parkdale, Vic. : VWO, 1990. A5 flyer, printed recto only; fine. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 24237
MICHELL, H. (ed)
[HORSE RACING] Victoria’s greatest races.
With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners – trainers – jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges …
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# 46548
THE WOMEN'S GALLERY
[MELBOURNE] The Women’s Gallery 1st Anniversary … Saturday 22nd July 1989 …
Fitzroy, Vic. : The Women’s Gallery, 375 Brunswick Street, 1989. A4 sheet, printed recto only; very good condition. Flyer inviting ‘members & friends … to join us at the Gallery for supper / concert / dance / Moira Macdonald & Mojo Blues Band / with guest speaker Janine Burke’. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia …
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# 46525
WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)
Women’s Art Register. Catalogue of slides.
Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [May, 1983]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [2], 6, [8 index of Information Folders]; roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46526
WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)
Women’s Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.
Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [1983?]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [7]; roneo-printed; light creasing, Virginia’ Fraser’s annotations in pencil. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46523
PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY (Melbourne)
You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.
South Yarra, Vic. : Photographers’ Gallery, [1986]. Invitation, 100 x 210 mm, black on white card, printed recto only; with Virginia Fraser’s revision of the first word of the title in felt-tip pen; a couple of light marks. The Photographers’ Gallery (and Workshop) was founded in 1973 by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams …
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# 46847
KIDDLE, Margaret
Men of Yesterday : a social history of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1967 (reprint). Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges lightly rubbed, short tear t lower panel), maps to endpapers, pp. xviii; 573, illustrated. A fine copy.