Shop

# 50480

RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane

Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945 (hardcover)

Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 144, illustrated throughout with colour plates of works by the artists Jean Appleton, Gwen Barringer, Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Elise Blumann, Stella Bowen, Lina Bryans, Ethel Carrick (Fox), Dora Chapman, Sybil Craig, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Bessie Davidson, Agnes Goodsir, Marjorie Gwynne, Mary …

$90.00 AUD Read more
# 50478

McCAUGHEY, Patrick

The diaries of Fred Williams 1963 – 1970

Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2024. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. ix, 649, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘A generous and insightful glimpse into the private life and creative process of a giant of Australian landscape painting Fred Williams kept a daily diary from 1963 until his death in 1982. Disciplined and meticulous, he recorded …

$100.00 AUD Read more
# 50477

SMITH, Geoffrey

Sidney Nolan : desert & drought (hardcover edition, signed by Jinx Nolan)

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2003. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 160pp. Exhibition catalogue with numerous full page coloured plates throughout. The scarce hardcover edition, signed by the artist’s daughter Jinx Nolan on the title page in the year of publication.

$120.00 AUD Read more
# 50475

[TUCKER, Albert]. MOLLISON, James and MINCHIN, Jan.

Albert Tucker : a retrospective

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1990. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 120 pp. illustrated in colour. A fine monograph on the Angry Penguin.

$50.00 AUD Read more
# 50474

TWAIN, Mark

A cat-tale / Mark Twain ; illustrated by Charles Blackman

Sydney : Ashton Scholastic, 1987. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 48, illustrated; a very good copy.

$35.00 AUD Read more
# 50473

PORTER Dorothy (1954 - 2018); COLVIN, Robert (1942 - )

Foreign forests (copy number 1)

[Euroa, Vic.] : Robert Colvin, 2018. Folio, lettered buckram, screen printed endpapers, pp. [48], poems by Dorothy Porter illustrated with original screen prints by Robert Colvin, a fine copy. Limited to 8 copies plus 4 artist’s proofs, this is copy number 1, signed by Robert Colvin and Andrea Goldsmith, the partner of Dorothy Porter who …

$1,200.00 AUD Read more
# 50469

MIDDLEMOST, Thomas (editor)

Bruno Leti. Series: A Life of Images (signed presentation copy for Jenny Zimmer)

Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2022. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 256, illustrated. Signed by the artist on the half-title with a warm presentation inscription to art publisher, historian and author Jenny Zimmer. A fine copy. A genuine original, in art and life Leti tends to work in series that hold a continuity and common inspiration …

$90.00 AUD Read more
# 50453

"J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)

[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.

Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …

$1,850.00 AUD Read more
# 50468

MORGAN, Denise

ROAR re-viewed 30 years on

with an introduction by Sasha Grishin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, cloth-covered boards with paste-down illustration, stitching exposed on spine with title (as issued), illustrated thoroughly throughout, text by Denise Morgan. The black boards variant. A publication on the Melbourne Roar Studios and the artists who were its contigents. Sasha Grishin not only descirbed ROAR …

$75.00 AUD Read more
# 50461

NOLAN, Sidney and LYNN, Elwyn

Sidney Nolan – Australia (deluxe edition)

Sydney and London: Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, gilt-lettered calf with Nolan Kelly pictorial design in cloth slipcase (lightly marked) , 226pp. illustrated throughout, a fine copy The deluxe edition, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Sidney Nolan.

$700.00 AUD Read more
# 50460

[WHITELEY, Brett]. MCGRATH, Sandra

Brett Whiteley (deluxe signed edition)

Sydney : Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, full leather with gilt embossed signature in slipcase (lightly marked), pp. 232 fully illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the artist Brett Whiteley, presented in a special deluxe binding (this is copy 45), pale foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy of a rare edition. …

$1,850.00 AUD Read more
# 50459

McCULLOCH CHILDS, Emily and GIBSON, Ross

New beginnings. Classic paintings from the Corrigan collection of 21st century Aboriginal art (signed presentation copy)

Preface by Margo Neale. Melbourne : McCulloch & McCulloch, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 156, illustrated. With a warm presentation inscription from Pat Corrigan to noted art auction house owner Tim Goodman.

$60.00 AUD Read more
# 50447

TURNER, John

Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.

Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light edge wear, else a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett by New South Wales historian Dr. John Turner.

$90.00 AUD Read more
# 50439

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul and OUTHWAITE, Grenbry

The enchanted forest (de luxe edition)

London : A. & C. Black, 1921. The de luxe edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Quarto, gilt-lettered and decorated white buckram (very lightly marked, but a crisp, clean copy), illustrated endpapers, 93 pp, occasional light scattered foxing and offsetting, short tear to margin of pp. 61-62, 16 colour and 15 black and white plates, …

$2,750.00 AUD Read more
# 50433

[ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE.

[MELBOURNE] Consecration and solemn opening of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, October 31st 1897. The Archbishop of Melbourne requests the favour of the presence of Mr. & Mrs. O’Connor …

[Melbourne : s.n.], 1897. Folding card, 125 x 160 mm, printed on [4] sides, lithograph printed, front with embossed episcopal coat of arms, second side with invitation including the names of the O’Connors in manuscript, third side with lithographed illustration of the cathedral; laid down on section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf; …

$100.00 AUD Read more
# 50432

[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. CITIZENS' RECEPTION COMMITTEE]

[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens’ Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o’clock.

[Sydney : s.n., 1906]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm; lithograph printed; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the O’Connors; scattered small stains, bottom edge roughened; laid down on section of card from a nineteenth-century album. Scarce ephemeral item associated with the career of the “Australian Queen of Irish Song”. …

$50.00 AUD Read more