Artist Books
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# 34636
LETI Bruno (1941 - ); PESSOA, Fernando (1888 - 1935)
Dream walls
Melbourne : the artist, 2018. Octavo, printed gatefold wrappers, pp. 114, photographs and images by Bruno Leti. Printed in a small run of unnumbered copies. Signed by the artist. Images of Roman walls at Herculaneum and Pompeii taken by the artist with his painted responses.
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# 34612
JACKS, Robert et al
Collage
A book of papiers collés by Sydney Ball, Andrew Christofides, Robert Jacks, George Johnson, Inge King, Allan Mitelman. Melbourne : Jenny Zimmer, 1999. Quarto, folding clamshell box with lettered papered boards, containing the folio, printed wrappers, unpaginated, printed by Larry Rawling in folding sections, introduction by Jenny Zimmer, six folding sections printed with the artist’s …
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# 34190
LETI, Bruno
The Matrix
Bruno Leti : the matrix : remembering Giorgio Morandi : equilibrium and strength. Melbourne : Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria, 2010. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, 128 pp., extensively illustrated. In printmaking, the artform along with painting, photography and the making of artists’ books that has occupied Bruno Leti for the last half century, the …
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# 34094
MCGREGOR, Ken.
Fred Cress : Whispers. Drawings 1958 – 2007
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007. Quarto, purple lettered black cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 255, extensively illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. Fred Cress is a Sydney artist who divides his time between Australia and rural France, where he maintains a second studio. He is a keen student of human nature. While his …
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# 34078
ASTBURY, Leigh
Earth to sky. The art of Victor Majzner
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Quarto, cloth, illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, light wave to the jacket from storage, else as new. Contents: Part I. The Substance of the Matter 1966-1982: 1. Painting as process and paint as substance 1966-1976; 2. Explorations of a personal kind 1977-1982 Part II. Cultural Landscapes 1983-1992: 3. Cultural critiques 1983-1992; …
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# 34047
TEAGUE, Violet
Night fall in the ti-tree (facsimile edition)
Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. [Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, c. 2005]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, cloth spine, unpaginated, french folds in the style of the original publication from 1905. New copy. ‘In 1905 Violet Teague, in collaboration with her friend Geraldine Rede, handprinted Night Fall in the Ti-Tree at the Sign of …
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# 33702
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks: his Bloomsday book
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2004. Folio, embossed with an original collage design by the artist on front panel, housed in striking red and blue clamshell box, illustrated throughout and accompanied by poetry by James Joyce et al. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, in the superior binding, with an original signed screenprint bound in. …
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# 33480
McGREGOR, Ken; HOBBS, Ralph; STROCCHI, Marina; ROTHWELL, Nicholas
The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett) (Deluxe edition, with an original etching)
/ Ken McGregor, Ralph Hobbs ; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi ; introduced by Nicholas Rothwell. Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Deluxe edition, limited to 20 numbered copies (this is copy no. 11) and 5 hors commerce copies. Quarto, black cloth boards in slipcase, 215 pp, bound in at the front of the work …
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# 33641
DUGGAN, Laurie; ALBISTON, Jordie; BOLTON, Ken; JONES, Jill
[POETRY] The Earlwood Journal (The Fire Season) / Book: 15-Line Sonnets / Three of Them / My Workshop of Filthy Creation
Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2021. “Red-Letter Series”. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Laurie Duggan The Earlwood Journal (The Fire Season), 16 pp; 2. Jordie Albiston Book: …
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# 33529
ASTBURY, Leigh
Earth to sky. The art of Victor Majzner (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Quarto, cloth, illustrated dustjacket, slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies, with an original signed etching ‘Self-portrait’ loosely enclosed. Part I. The Substance of the Matter 1966-1982: 1. Painting as process and paint as substance 1966-1976; 2. Explorations of a personal kind 1977-1982 Part II. Cultural Landscapes 1983-1992: 3. Cultural …
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# 31544
AKKORDION, Petrus (1971 - ) (author and illustrator)
Zu Pferde.
Berlin : Edition Wasser im Turm, [2000]. Limited edition of 250 copies (this copy unnumbered). Octavo (210 x 132 mm), pictorial covers printed in tan and black on cream card, hand-stitched binding, [23] pp, hand-printed, with 11 full-page illustrations reproducing Berlin artist Akkordeon’s characterful pen-and-ink drawings of horses, each accompanied by one of his short …
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# 33004
LAULAURIE, Louise Rogers
Matisse : The Books
London : Thames & Hudson, 2020. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 320, illustrated. New copy. The livre d’artiste, or ‘artist’s book’, is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the greatest artists to work in this genre, creating his most important books over a period of eighteen years from …
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# 32428
OLSEN, John (1928 - )
John Olsen “The Kiss”
Townsville and Melbourne : Lyre Bird Press & Zimmer Editions, 2009. Folio, quarter-calf over linen, gilt-lettered on spine, unpaginated, original signed Olsen etching bound in as frontispiece, titled ‘The Kiss’ and editioned out of 30 copies, an original Olsen pen sketch of a lyre bird facing title page with the edition number written by the …
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# 31131
KYU-IL, Choi; BALL, Sydney; BAINES, Robert
Traces : Australia-Korea – Korea-Australia : a book of paintings, prints and calligraphies
Townsville: Lyre Bird Press and Melbourne : Zimmer Editions, 2001. Quarto, blindstamped folding clamshell box containing three folios in gilt-lettered hand made paper wrappers; the first being an introduction to the project and the artists; the second containing two original signed paintings by Sydney Ball; the third containing two original signed woodcuts and a caligraphic …
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# 32584
POGGIOLI, Sue
Spotty Hairy Book I
Artist’s book, linoprints, oil-based ink, Dutch etch paper, linen thread, greyboard, rice paper. 90 x 55 x 25 mm (when held in its box, variable when extended). A creative artist’s book with animistic energy. Exhibited : Firestation Print Studio Artists Book Prize 2020, item 14. ‘I trained and worked as a graphic designer (Queensland College …
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# 32583
KRUGER, Barbara; KING, Stephen
My pretty pony [prospectus]
New York : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [1988]. Prospectus for the deluxe edition book, folded sheet, light stain. The sixth publication in the Artists and Writers Series published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum. It features a short story by Stephen King on the perception of time and …