London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969. First Edition. Octavo, hard cover (22 x 14cm), pp. iii (1, blank) 316; black cloth covered boards, lettering in argent on spine. LACKS DUST WRAPPER. Head of spine a tad brittle with a 3mm chip at the head of the front joint, starting at the..... More
Boulder: Westview Press, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hardback (25 x 19cm); pp. 320 including 48 pages of black and white plates; richly illustrated with 150 photographs and 66 line drawings; beige cloth covered boards; lettering in gilt on the spine; plain endpapers; pictorial dust wrapper with sky blue spine. Head and..... More
London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1913. Cloth. Red cloth covers with gilt title, frontipiece and 30 plates, xiii, 386pp. Covers clean and bright. A little sunning to spine. Binding square, corners gently bumped. Some foxing to first and final gatherings and to p.43. Otherwise internally clean. There is..... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. Brown stain on rock under the seated official. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his..... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions. From 102 illustrations..... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions. From 102 illustrations..... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. A foxed copy. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions..... More
Roseville East: Craftsman House, 1995. Octavo, 29 x 26cm, apricot canvas boards with brick red title on spine, illustrated dust jacket ("Memory of Temple Downs" 1992), 160pp, 40 colour plates and 31 black and white figures. Robert Grieve (1924 - 2006) made significant contributions to the Australian contemporary art scene..... More
London, Paris, New York, Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, nd. Quarto (31 x 23.5cm), xlvii, 152pp., 250 plates, alledges gilt; three quarter red leather over red pebbled boards, gilt lettering to top board and spine, five raised bands separated by gilt decorated panels, marbled endpapers with leather strip at the..... More
Sydney: The Shepherd Press, 1948. De-luxe Edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered leather, 144pp., with 23 black and white drawings and 5 colour plates by Norman Lindsay. Signed by author and artist. Some rubbing to head and foot of the spine and to the corners, leaves slightly toned, a few foxmarks to endpapers; boards..... More
Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, c.1992. Glossy pictorial cover. Octavo (263 x 216 mm.), 116pp, ill., bibliography, pictorial glossy paper covered boards. Very good, boards lightly scuffed and marked, top edge soiled, top back fore edge corner bumped, top of spine with light wear. Published on the occasion of an exhibition..... More
Princeton, Wisconsin: Kitchen Sink Press, 1988. Hardcover (26 x 18cm); pp. 139, [5, blank]; stiff, gloss cloth covered boards, brown, black and blue illustrated covers with lettering in black, white and yellow; light peach endpapers; number 600 of 1250 signed copies as noted on a bookplate illustrated by Eisner and..... More
Hong Kong: communion w ltd, 2005. Custom. Large octavo (32cm x 25cm), white boards, stitched natural fabric cover, with title printed on front and spine, 288pp (including endpapers), lavishly illustrated with sketches, still photographs and performance photos. A beautiful record of costume designer Wada’s works in the decade leading up..... More
Roseville East: Craftsman House, 1995. First Edition. Large Hardcover (29 x 26cm), pp. (5) 6 – 271 (1, blank); grey boards with title in argent on spine, sunny orange endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper (front: Self Portrait with Goose Feathers; back: Morning Landscape Beechmont). Small dint (3mm – 1mm) at the..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1963. First American Edition. Quarto, with more than 1,250 illustrations including 53 tipped-in full-page colour Plates, 30 x 22 x 6.6 cm, 775 pages, weight 3.32 kg, hard cover, colour dust jacket with image of At Cock’s Crow 1944 on front and full-page b/w photograph..... More
Spit Junction: The Craftsman’s Press, 1983. First Edition. Large format hardcover, pp. 168 including frontispiece featuring photograph of Lloyd Rees taken by Max Dupain; blue cloth covered boards with embossed silver lettering on the spine, lettering and border on the front cover, grey textured endpapers, in a blue cloth presentation..... More
London: Lund Humphries, 1971. First English Language Edition. Translated by Janet Seligman, both volumes thick quarto, 26 x 21.8 cm, hard cover with colour & b/w photographic dust jackets, black cloth with gilt titles on spines. A little narrow discolouration of top edges of both jackets. Vol. 1: ix 473 pages..... More
Melbourne: Miegunyah and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2009. First Edition. Almost square hardcover(22.3 x 21.5cm); pp x, 309, (1), cobalt endpapers and all edges dyed cobalt, richly illustrated; glossy hardcover illustrated with a detail from Robert Rooney's After Colonial Cubism (1993). Top board has a 2mm abrasion to the..... More
Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology and Piper Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover (28.5 x 28.5cm), pp. 204; aubergine cloth covered boards with lettering in silver on the spine and front cover; pictorial dust wrapper featuring Robinson’s Creation landscape: The ancient trees, 1997, black spine with lettering in black; eggplant endpapers;..... More
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
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975. First English Language Edition. Jean Boisselier, Professor of the Sorbonne and Director of the French Archaeological Mission in Thailand, with commentaries by Jean-Michel Beurdeley and photographs by Hans Hinz. First English language edition translated by James Emmons from the original French edition of 1974..... More
South Yarra: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2005. Tall hardcover, 35.5 x 25cm, navy blue canvas boards with title and illustration in argent on the top board and title in argent on the spine, illustrated dust-jacket, 264pp, 431 illustrations. Considered one of Australia's greatest living painters, and winner of the 2005 Archibald..... More
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1990. First Edition. Special collector’s edition, number 43 of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author and artist. Large format hardcover (32.5 x 25.5cm including slipcase), pp. 128; black cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine and front cover presented in matching..... More
Princeton: Kitchen Sink Press, 1984. First Edition. Large format softcover (27.5 x 21.5cm); pp. 159 (ffep included in pagination); illustrated covers with lettering in black, yellow and white; black and white illustrated endpapers; signed on the title page by both Kurtzman and Elder. Small abrasions to the head and tail 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