Books Containing Artworks
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# 34617
MACKENZIE, Kenneth (1913-1955); LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Our earth
With an original etching and 13 illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1937. Quarto, quarter cloth over gilt-lettered textured boards (a few light marks, foxing to spine), 60 pp, tipped-in illustrations and vignettes by Lindsay, a few occasional spots of foxing, offsetting from newspaper article to one page, a very good copy. …
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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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# 34191
ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios (TÉRIADE)
Verve : Vol. VIII, No. 29/30. Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso
Paris : Éditions de la revue Verve, 1954. Distributed in Great Britain and the Dominions by A. Zwemmer Ltd. Quarto, papered boards with Picasso illustration designed for this publication (spine and upper board sunned, edges rubbed and split to head of spine), pp. [204], text by Tériade, Michel Leiris and Rebecca West, illustrated with heliogravure reproductions …
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# 34199
COVENY, Christopher
Twenty scenes from the works of Dickens designed & etched by Christopher Coveny
Sydney : Thomas H. Feilding, 1883. Quarto, quarter morocco over gilt-lettered cloth (stained and worn), endpapers replaced, etched title page, twenty detailed etchings with accompanying letterpress, the seventh plate presented in two versions, scattered foxing and light offsetting, the third plate with water stains to the edges. Ferguson 9140A. Scarce Australian illustrated presentation of Dickens’ …
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# 34434
McHUGH, Vincent (1904 - 1983); ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)
Alpha : the mutabilities
Poems by Vincent McHugh ; with wood engravings by Tate Adams.San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1958. Folio, letterpress wrappers (lightly handling wear), stringbound, pp. [16], letterpress text by McHugh and wood engravings by Adams. A very good copy. Poems & Pictures series number eleven. 137 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. …
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# 34229
FRY, Gavin; KLEPAC, Lou
Margaret Woodward
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2020. Revised edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 310 x 250 mm., pp. 168, 102 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. The softcover edition. Margaret Woodward is recognised as a distinctly original artist. Winner of the Wynne Prize, and many other awards. This book explains how her highly …
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# 34342
LURIE, Morris; HICKEY, Dale
Three stories / Morris Lurie; & ten drawings, plus one original / by Dale Hickey
Melbourne : Grossman Press, 1987. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author and artist, with an original coloured illustration (of a condom) by Hickey. Quarto, decorated boards with glassine dustjacket as issued. Fine. Pithy and pornographic.
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# 34341
JOHNSON, Robert
The paintings of Robert Johnson
Sydney : The Legend Press, Folio, quarter-cloth over decorated papered boards, dustjacket (a couple of short tears but uncommonly fine), pp. [xviii]; 18 colour plates, occasional light foxing. Biographical note by John Brackenreg. Scarce in this condition.
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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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# 33656
HOFF, Rayner (1894-1937)
In vain the Christian
[Circa 1934]. Linocut, printed in colours, 190 x 90 mm (image), 220 x 100 mm (sheet), titled in pencil lower left, signed in pencil lower right; a few spots of foxing, else in fine condition. A rare original linocut by the Sydney modernist, originally issued as the frontispiece for the limited edition book The sculpture …
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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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# 33376
KOLENBERG, Hendrik; ARNOLD, Ray
Roger Kemp : the complete etchings (with original etching by Ray Arnold from the exhibition launch in Hobart)
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrated. Published to coincide with an exhibition of a selection of Kemp’s etchings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 31 January-7 April 1991. Produced by Lou Klepac at The Beagle Press for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. …
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# 33528
[LINDSAY, Lionel]. BRENNAN, Christopher.
The Burden of Tyre. Fifteen poems by Christopher Brennan. Etchings by Lionel Lindsay.
Sydney: privately printed by Harry Chaplin, 1953. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (marked), dustjacket (light water stains), unpaginated, tipped-in etched portrait of Brennan by Lionel Lindsay, signed and numbered, text in letterpress and reproduction of manuscript, tipped-in plate. Limited to 300 copies signed by Harry Chaplin.
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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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# 33700
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Principio erat (Artist’s edition B)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to 500 numbered copies. …