Norman Lindsay & Family

  • The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson)

    # 34621

    [RUBY LINDSAY, 1887-1919]

    The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson)

    London : Cecil Palmer, 1920. Quarto, buckram over papered boards (light scuff marks), gilt title, 51 pp, illustrated in black and white and colour. Bookplate to front pastedown of Molly Coen, sister of Margaret Coen (who designed the bookplate) and friend of the Lindsay family. A very good copy. This work, available only to subscribers, …

  • Norman Lindsay : the embattled Olympian.

    # 34620

    HETHERINGTON, John.

    Norman Lindsay : the embattled Olympian.

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1973. First edition. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket, 272 pp, illustrated; a very good copy.

  • Our earth

    # 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. …

  • The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    # 34561

    LINDSAY, Daryl and Joan

    The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    Written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay. [Melbourne] : Australian Red Cross Society, [1941]. Quarto, decorated cloth (toned, small split lower spine), illustrated endpapers, unpaginated (approx. 80 pp.), extensively illustrated by Daryl Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Napier Waller, Frank Medworth, Douglas Annand, and others. Of particular note is the vibrant double page colour reproduction of …

  • The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    # 34175

    LINDSAY, Daryl and Joan

    The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    Written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay. [Melbourne] : Australian Red Cross Society, [1941]. Quarto, decorated cloth (toned, small split upper spine), illustrated endpapers, unpaginated (approx. 80 pp.), extensively illustrated by Daryl Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Napier Waller, Frank Medworth, Douglas Annand, and others. Of particular note is the vibrant double page colour reproduction of …

  • My army, o, my army!

    # 34431

    LAWSON, Henry; LINDSAY, Norman

    My army, o, my army!

    Sydney : Tyrrell’s Limited, 1915. Quarto, illustrated cloth by Norman Lindsay (front board a little marked, spine slightly discoloured), pp. 127, preliminaries and edges lightly foxed, portrait frontispiece loose. First edition, published in 1915 in paperback and hardback formats. The hardback edition, limited to 250 copies (this out of series).

  • Norman Lindsay watercolours

    # 34283

    LINDSAY, Norman; BLUNDEN, Geoffrey

    Norman Lindsay watercolours

    : fifteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium / by Norman Lindsay and a survey of the artist’s life and work by Godfrey Blunden. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1973. Quarto, blue cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket, 63 pp, pale foxing to endpapers, 15 colour plates. A very good copy. …

  • [NORMAN LINDSAY] The legendary Lindsays (softcover edition)

    # 34273

    PRUNSTER, Ursula

    [NORMAN LINDSAY] The legendary Lindsays (softcover edition)

    [Roseville, N.S.W.] : Beagle Press in conjunction with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 120 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, with short essays by Robert Holden and Helen Glad. A superb pictorial survey of the art and private world of the Lindsays. Alongside reproductions of …

  • The Flyaway Highway.

    # 34244

    LINDSAY, Norman.

    The Flyaway Highway.

    Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1973. First published in 1936. Large octavo, boards in Lindsay decorated dustjacket (sunned), pp. 108., light foxing to preliminaries, with numerous Lindsay illustrations. Lindsay’s second children’s book, the first being The Magic Pudding.

  • Model wife : my life with Norman Lindsay

    # 34145

    LINDSAY, Rose

    Model wife : my life with Norman Lindsay

    Sydney : Ure Smith, 1967. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. [viii]; 275, illustrated, a very good copy. Reminiscences of Rose Lindsay, wife of Norman Lindsay.

  • [NORMAN LINDSAY] The legendary Lindsays (hardcover edition)

    # 34223

    PRUNSTER, Ursula

    [NORMAN LINDSAY] The legendary Lindsays (hardcover edition)

    [Roseville, N.S.W.] : Beagle Press in conjunction with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, 120 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, with short essays by Robert Holden and Helen Glad. A superb pictorial survey of the art and private world of the Lindsays. Alongside reproductions …

  • Aboriginalities from The Bulletin

    # 30412

    BERTIE, Charles H. (1875-1952); LINDSAY, Lionel (1874-1961) (illustrator)

    Aboriginalities from The Bulletin

    / selected by Charles H Bertie … With thirty-nine illustrations by Lionel Lindsay. Sydney : NSW Bookstall Co. Ltd., 1913. “Bookstall series”. Octavo (180 mm), original pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper detached, small paper loss at spine ends), pp 152, [16 publisher’s advertisements], with 39 line-drawn illustrations by Lionel Lindsay; internally very good; housed in custom made …

  • Epigrams of Eve. With sundry decorations by Ruby Lind (signed presentation copy)

    # 33571

    [LINDSAY, Ruby]. LOEB, Sophie Irene (1876 - 1929)

    Epigrams of Eve. With sundry decorations by Ruby Lind (signed presentation copy)

    New York : George H. Doran Company, 1913. First American edition. Octavo, lettered papered boards with Ruby Lind illustration (edge wear with loss to foot of spine), pp. 92, Ruby Lindsay illustrations throughout. With a signed presentation inscription from the author on the front free endpaper ‘To Dr. Eldred who will always have a friend …

  • Harold Cazneaux photographs.

    # 34132

    CAZNEAUX, Harold.

    Harold Cazneaux photographs.

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 12, illustrated. Includes Cazneaux’s 1921 portrait of Norman Lindsay.

  • Lionel Lindsay: An artist and his family

    # 34129

    [LINDSAY, Lionel], MENDELSSOHN, Joanna.

    Lionel Lindsay: An artist and his family

    London: Chatto and Windus, 1988. Octavo, boards with illustrated duskjacket, light edge wear, 254 pp.. This is an insightful biography by Mendelssohn on life and work of Lionel Lindsay and the Lindsay family. There are numerous illustrations of watercolours, etchings and wood engravings as well as photos of the Lindsays. A very good copy.

  • My mask

    # 34121

    LINDSAY, Norman

    My mask

    For what little I know of the man behind it. An autobiography by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1973. Octavo, wrappers (a little worn), pp. 245, with numerous photographic illustrations. Lindsay’s autobiography, published by his widow the year after his death in 1970, paperback reprint.