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Melbourne: Women 150, 1985. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the art project bringing together the work of 150 women artists from all over Victoria; texts by Sandy Kirby and Julie Ewington; b&w illustrations throughout; mild toning to edges of some pages, o.w. Very Good throughout.

Armadale: Scott Livesey Galleries, 2007. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good tight clean copy. large 8vo. colour illustrations Catalogue for the exhibition of Aboriginal art, Scott Livesey Galleries 2007; 30 full-page colour plates with notes (including provenance) to facing page; works by Ningie Nangala, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Pauline Sunfly Nangala, Kathleen Petyarre, Josephine Napurrula, Yinarupa Nangala, Rosella Namok, and others; includes original price list

Sydney: Craftsman House, 1988. Numbered Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good slipcase (lacks limited ed print)/slipcase. 4to. profusely illustrated No. 42 of 100 copies of the Signed Limited Edition, Signed/numbered by Leach-Jones to title page, in illustrated cloth boards in slipcase; study of the work of Alun Leach-Jones, with texts by Robert Gray, Graeme Sturgeon, and Christopher Gentle; dozens of full-page colour plates and b&w illustrations; includes biographical chronology, individual and group exhibitions, public and corporate collections, select bibliography; blue cloth boards with Leach-Jones illustration in vivid colour to front, and black white and blue image to rear; blue textured endpapers; in orange cloth slipcase with red titling; lacks the limited edition print; Very Good tight clean copy with no marks or flaws; slipcase with some foxed spots front and rear, and medium foxing to lower front below titling.

Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1999. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. colour and b&w illustrations Catalogue for the Antony Hamilton exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia 3 September - 7 November 1999; text by Sarah Thomas; includes bibliography and an interview with the artist; colour and b&w illustrations throughout.

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1971. 1st Trade Edition. hardbound. Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. folio. full-page colour plates Poet/Artist collaboration between A. Alvarez and Charles Blackman, including 7 full-page plates of Blackman's gouaches illustrating the Alvarez poems, some of which are given in facsimile; cloth boards with gilt-inlay Blackman drawing to front board and gilt titling to spine, orange endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper; this copy with some fairly heavy rippling/creasing to pages throughout (possibly due to moisture or humid conditions), medium foxing to half-title page, lighter to prelims, o.w. Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, with creases and closed tears, curled at edges, sunned to spine.

Brisbane: Downwind, 2017. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. square sm 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated overview of the work of Australian artist Arryn Snowball, with texts by Rosemary Hawker and Megan Williams, an interview with Snowball by Jonathan McBurnie, and a page of poems by longtime collaborator Nathan Shepherdson.

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1964. paperback. Very Good in rubbed wraps. 23 x 24cm. profusely illustrated Dobell Issue of Art and Australia (vol 2 no 2 August 1964); also includes an essay on Godfrey Miller by Alan McCullough; the Dobell section includes tributes by Hal Missingham, Douglas Dundas, Gwen Morton Spencer, Russell Drysdale, Margaret Olley, James Gleeson, and others, illustrated with numerous Dobell works in colour and b&w; former owner's name-stamp, small label-ghost, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps rubbed and scuffed.

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1974. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 23 x 24cm. profusely illustrated Special issue of Art and Australia, with focus on the newly-completed Sydney Opera House; full-length essay on the Opera House by David Saunders (with numerous b&w - and one colour - photo illustrations), followed by two essays by Daniel Thomas - 'John Coburn's Curtains' and 'Sydney Opera House The Works of Art'; this issue also includes a section on the Sydney Biennale, and tribute to Tony Tuckson; illustrated throughout in colour and b&w; former owner's name-stamp to reverse side of front cover, wraps very lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good.

Melbourne: Bread and Cheese Club, 1944. 3rd Edition. hardbound. Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. sm 4to. colour and b&w plates Illustrated study of the work of Albert Namatjira; foreword by RH Croll, colour plates of Namatjira's paintings, and also including b&w photo and text illustrations; b&w frontispiece photo of Namatjira (by Mountford); former owner's name to front endpaper, heavy tanning/foxing to endpapers, medium foxing to prelims, pages tanned throughout (light-med), scattered foxing, boards tanned around edges, o.w. Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, significant tape-repair to spine, rear panel, and folds of flaps.

Melbourne & Sydney: Lothian, 1916. Signed Limited Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. folio. hand-tipped plates No. 206 of 1000 copies Signed by Frederick McCubbin, 45 full-page hand-tipped plates in colour and b&w, with printed tissue-guards, essay by James MacDonald, and including a text by McCubbin on aspects of Australian Art; list of subscribers to rear of text; all plates present (No. XXIII frontispiece, No. VII bound before VI) green cloth boards with gilt titling and detail of a McCubbin picture of two trees (also in gilt) to front board, gilt titling to spine; tanning and foxing to endpapers and prelims, short closed tear to one page of prelims, offset to contents page; tissue-guards vary in condition, some with closed tears and (occasionally) tape-repair, some intact, some with significant loss and creases; all plates clean and unmarked, with some tanning to edges of pages; generally Good throughout; boards rubbed, with dulling to gilt titling, in particular to spine; wear to head and… Read More

Southport: Keeaira Press, 2006. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good . large 8vo. colour and b&w illustrations Illustrated study of aspects of contemporary Indigenous art in Australia, being the book to accompany the two-day conference The Art of Politics/The Politics of Art, held at the Qld Museum in October 2005.

Sydney: Craftsman House, 1986. Numbered Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG slipcase/slipcase. 4to. profusely illustrated No. 94 of 100 copies of the Signed Limited Edition, Signed/dated (86) to half-title page edition plate by Robert Juniper and Elwyn Lynn; illustrated study of the work of Robert Juniper; 35 full-page colour plates, 23 b&w text figures; text by Elwyn Lynn; includes bibliography, chronology, list of exhibitions; brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine in cream slipcase with gilt titling to front; mild foxing to half-title page, o.w. Very Good and clean throughout; slipcase knocked to head and tail of spine, with some creases and minor loss of cloth, minor loss to cloth at lower front, o.w. slipcase G-VG.

Brisbane: Boolarong, 1991. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated history of the Queensland Branch of the Contemporary Art Society, referencing the Brisbane Art Scene 1950-1975, and documenting the work of Artist-Teachers Margaret Cilento, Jan Molvig, Roy Churcher, Andrew Sibley, and Mervyn Moriarty, and also looking at the work of CAS artists such as Davida Allen, Milton Moon, Margaret Olley, William Robinson, Gordon Shepherdson, Madonna Staunton, and many more; illustrated throughout with photos of the artists and their works; small label ghost to title page, likewise reverse side of rear cover, wraps lightly rubbed, lightly sunned to spine, o.w. Very Good.

Wagga Wagga: Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, 2000. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Published to accompany the exhibition of works selected from the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery's collection of Australian prints, October 2000 - January 2001; text by Sasha Grishin; colour and b&w illustrations throughout, and including a catalogue of the complete print collection of the Gallery up to the year 2000; Baldessin, Banduk Marika, Barbara Hanrahan, Arthur Wicks, Alun Leach-Jones, Bea Maddock, Roger Kemp, and many more; occasional very minor foxing, o.w. Very Good.

Sydney: Beagle Press, 2003. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Documents the private collection of Australian Surrealist Art of James Agapitos and Ray Wilson, who began collecting in 1939 and went on to build a body of over 300 works; artists featured include Boyd, Tucker, Thake, Dora Chapman, Gleeson, Hester, Nolan, Pixie O'Harris, Perceval, Drysdale, Vassilieff, and many more; copiously illustrated with full-page colour plates and b&w text illustrations; includes Artists' Biographies and Select Bibliography; Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, and with rippling of celoglaze to rear panel; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING IF DESTINATION IS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA.

Brisbane: QUT Art Museum, 2007. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. sm 4to. colour and b&w illustrations Catalogue for the exhibition of the work by women artists in Brisbane in the mid-20th Century; chapters on Olley, Cilento, Pamela Macfarlane, Betty Quelhurst, Joy Roggenkamp, Kathleen Shillam; text by Stephen Rainbird; colour and b&w illustrations throughout; minor edgewear to front cover (lower edge), o.w. Very Good.

Sydney: Bay Books, 1979. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Classic study of the work of Brett Whiteley at mid-career; copiously illustrated in colour and b&w; includes Chronology, notes from Whiteley's notebooks; Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK WILL INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING IF DESTINATION IS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA.

Sydney: S.H. Ervin Gallery, 1988. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of Australian Indigenous art, and work by non-Indigenous Australian artists addressing Indigenous themes, covering a period of roughly 50 years from 1938 to 1988 - S.H. Ervin Gallery 8 June - 31 July 1988; exhibition curated by Catherine De Lorenzo and Dinah Dysart, with essay by De Lorenzo; colour and b&w illustrations throughout; wraps very lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good tight clean copy.

Sydney, 2008. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 22 x 22cm. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the 2008 exhibition at Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney, featuring paintings by Joe Furlonger and Jun Chen, inspired by their travels in China; full-page colour plates throughout; text by Evan E. Hughes; limited to 1000 copies; mild foxing to endpapers and prelims, o.w. Very Good.

Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, 2012. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good tight clean copy in like slipcase/slipcase. sm 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of works by art team Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, MOCA 4 October - 2 December 2012; text by Anna Davis and with an interview by Hou Hanru, illustrated throughout with the artists' work; nice blue boards with white and orange titling (no dustwrapper as issued) in illustrated slipcase; catalogue limited to 500 copies; VG+ tight bright copy.