London: Faber and Faber, 1988. first edition published in England. Quarto, 34 x 25 cm, 336 pp., 602 illustrations including 64 plates in colour, hard cover in reddish-brown cloth, gilt titling on spine, colour dust wrapper with a front cover view of Brancusi’s Studio, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, and..... More
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 1995. Large octavo, 28.5 x 22cm, black linen boards with white title on spine, green dust jacket with glass plate negative circa 1891 of a man and woman in formal attire, xxii, 594pp, 272 illustrations (photography). Dust jacket has a 2cm vertical tear along the joint..... More
Ravensburg, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2000. Octavo (24.5 x 16.5cm), pp. 135 (1, copyright page), 70 illustrations; hot pink boards illustrated with Female Head with Flowers c.1958 on top board, lettering in black on spine, plain endpapers, TEXT IN GERMAN. The pink has lifted in tiny patches (1-2mm) on each of..... More
London: London College of Printing and Goldsmith's College, 1978. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Translated by Ronald Knox. [3] blank, [36]pp, [3] blank, mustard coloured paper covered boards, cloth spine, paper label on spine, speckled endpapers. Printed in 18pt Bembo type with 60pt. initials. Sixteen lithograph illustrations printed at Goldsmith's College..... More
Sydney: Ant Press, 1991. Boards. Concertina folding broadside with a designer binding of board covers with paper design. Letterpress with original print. Limited edition 35/55, signed by the author/artist. Made in collaboration with Catnip Press. Near Fine. Slight bow to the boards. "This small book celebrates the importance of trees..... More
London: Constable & Co., 1927. Folio, gilt-lettered blue buckram, top edge gilt, 45 leaves of plates with accompanying title leaf, each a fine photogravure reproduction of a Norman Lindsay etching. Spine is sunned and some insect damage to cover. Foxing throughought is especially prominent on first three plates and the..... More
Sydney: Shepherd Press, 1945. Boards. Hardcover in original slipcase and dust-jacket. Tall octavo, 33.5 x 25cm, 81 un-paginated leaves including captioned guards, 14 tipped in colour plates, 16 half tone plates reproduced in black and white; with essays by Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay. Textured brown boards with gilt device..... More
Paris: Éditions D'Art L.J.Patras, [1920s]. First Edition. Octavo, oblong format (18.5 x 24cm), marbles eps, Title page, 2pp Preface, 48pp Text (French, English, Spanish, Italian), 1p Advertisement, 1p Blank, 1p Colophon, 48 photogravures with tissue guards. Full calf, gilt blocked with photogravure of Versailles enclosed within circular gilt design, title..... More
London: Bodley Head, 1967. Small octavo, 19pp, [2]. Near fine in pictorial french fold wraps, saddle stitched, with 9 sepia illustrations to the text by Maurice Sendak. Privately issued. First and only edition, limited to 275 copies printed as a gift from the publishers. One of Sendak’s rarest and most..... More
London: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliohiles. First English Language Edition. Seven volumes comprising two novels, The Facetious Nights by Straparola (volumes 1-4, illustrated by Jules Garnier and E.R. Hughes, A.R.W.S.) and The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni (volumes 5-7, illustrated by E.R. Hughes, A.R.W.S.); trans. G.E. Waters;..... More
Gold Coast: Art Galleries Schubert, 1995. Stapled art gallery catalogue, square(-ish) format (21.5 x 22.5cm), 4pp. Sam Fullbrook was an award winning painter highly regarded for his management of colour. He won the Archibald Prize in 1974 and his work is held by all the State and the National Gallery..... More
Sydney: Art in Australia Limited, 1924. Softcover (25 x 19cm), (unpaginated) pp. [16 pages of advertising], 86, [8 pages of advertising]; grey blue wraps, yellow title box on front cover, lettering in black; richly illustrated with 5 colour tipped in plates, 28 gloss pages of black and white plates, historiated..... More
Sydney: John Fairfax and Sons LTD, 1935. Softcover (25 x 19cm), pp. 90 [including 12 pages of advertising at the front and five at the back]; light blue wraps with two tone blue lettering and illustrations on the spine and covers; richly illustrated with black and white pictorial gloss pages..... More
Sydney: Art in Australia Limited, 1924. Softcover (25 x 19cm), (unpaginated) pp. [10 pages of advertising], 78, [16 pages of advertising]; pink wraps with lettering in black, blue title panel on front cover and advertising panel in black on the back cover; richly illustrated with 5 colour tipped in plates..... More
1958-196. Voss. Cologne: Kiepenhauer and Witsch, 1958. German First edition, first issue; OFFERED WITH [DEDICATEE COPY] White, Patrick. Riders in the Chariot. New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition, First Printing; OFFERED WITH The Burnt Ones. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964. First U.K. Edition. Voss. Cologne: Kiepenhauer and Witsch, 1958..... More