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Brolga 1970. Imperial octavo, softcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

Adelaide: A Broiga Book, 1970. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations (some color), (14) unnumbered pages, 27 plates. Original cloth. Cover lightly soiled. No jacket. SIGNED on by artist (beneath his photograph) and author (on title-page). Laid in is a small printed color image of a 1963 Cant work titled Drawing. which was INSCRIBED on back by Cant ("Best wishes to Frank & Alice from Jim and Dora Xmas 1963"). This book also appears to have been published in softcover.

Adelaide: Brolga Books. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket a little rubbed at edges, a lovely clean, tight, copy, all the plates are intact. Austrlian artist of great repute. Scarce. ; 10.5" x 9" .

Adelaide.: Brolga Books., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Square quarto, [18] pages plus 27 plates (7 in colour). Cloth; dustwrapper rubbed and with slight loss.. This copy is signed and dated (10 April 1970) by the artist under his frontispiece portrait. Also signed on the title page by Elizabeth Young, the second daughter of John Young of Macquarie Galleries fame, published her later books under her married name, Jean [Elizabeth] Campbell. Her husband was the artist and arts administrator Robert Campbell.

[Adelaide]: Brolga Books, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. [Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. Square quarto, [18] pages plus 27 plates (7 in colour). Flush-cut card covers; extremities slightly bumped (with associated light creasing to a few corner tips); an excellent copy with the lightly used colour-pictorial dustwrapper. The frontispiece photographic portrait of James Cant is signed and dated (1970) by him; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. James Montgomery Cant (1911-1982) was married to fellow-Australian artist, Dora Chapman. The title page is signed by the author, Elizabeth Young, the second daughter of John Young of Macquarie Galleries fame (she published her later books under her married name, Jean [Elizabeth] Campbell). Her husband was the artist and arts administrator Robert Campbell. Loosely inserted is a catalogue for the James Cant Exhibition at the 1966… Read More

[Adelaide]: Brolga Books, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Fine. [Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. Square quarto, [18] pages plus 27 plates (7 in colour). Flush-cut card covers slightly foxed on the inside surfaces; essentially a fine copy with the fine colour-pictorial dustwrapper. This copy is signed on the title page by the author, and signed and dated (1970) by James Cant, under his frontispiece photographic portrait. (The handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s.) James Montgomery Cant (1911-1982) was married to fellow-Australian artist, Dora Chapman. Loosely inserted in the book is a small card (130 × 100 mm) printed with a monochrome illustration ('Drawing ... 1963') by him on the recto; it is inscribed on the verso 'Ruth & Mervyn, wishing you a very happy & prosperous New Year. Love, Dora & Jim'. The recipients were fellow-artists Ruth Tuck and Mervyn Smith. A small four-panel catalogue for… Read More

[Adelaide]: Brolga Books, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. [Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. Square quarto, [18] pages plus 27 plates (7 in colour). Cloth very slightly marked; an excellent copy with the slightly used dustwrapper. This copy is signed and dated (10 April 1970) by the artist under his frontispiece portrait; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. He died in 1983 at the age of 71. It is also signed on the title page by Elizabeth Young, the second daughter of John Young of Macquarie Galleries fame (she published her later books under her married name, Jean [Elizabeth] Campbell). Her husband was the artist and arts administrator Robert Campbell.