New York, Crown Publishers Inc., 1962 (presumably the first edition sheets; see our footnote). The book was first published in New York by Crown in 1962; the text block of our copy appears to be that of the true first edition. The boards are lettered at the foot of the..... More
Auckland, Collins, 1980. More
Zurich, Scalo, 2002. More
Tokyo, Graphic-Sha Publishing Co. Ltd., 1987. Text in Japanese and English. Illustrates the utensils used in the preparation and consumption of Japanese food. More
Two of the photographs are approximately 100 × 150 mm, the other two are approximately 70 × 75 mm. All four have been removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; each one has a small number pencilled unobtrusively in the sky in the top right-hand corner..... More
The gelatin silver print is behind a circular mat (visible image size approximately 135 mm in diameter), behind slightly convex glass. The wooden frame is fashioned from timber with a half-round profile (depth 35 mm, inner diameter 200 mm, outer diameter 315 mm), thick with white paint; rope is attached..... More
Glebe, Florilegium, 2003. A former review copy, with the loosely inserted publisher's descriptive blurb (on Florilegium's letterhead). More
[Adelaide, Tynte Gallery, 1986]. Featuring 8 full-colour plates and the lecture, 'David Hockney on Photography. A Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 1983'. More
Munchen, Schirmer/ Mosel, 2001. Text in German and English. More
Sydney, Hordern House, 1988. 'An Historical Survey' (38 pages); 'Photographic Genres' (34 pages) and a detailed (but not comprehensive) bibliography of 130 photographically illustrated books (86 pages). A fascinating and little-known branch of book illustration; limited to 1000 copies. More
St. Heller, Shoreline Publishing Limited, 1988. More
London, Simpkin Marshall, 1931 (Australian edition). 'Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era ... a brilliant landscape and travel photographer.' (E.O. Hoppe Estate Collection website). More
The Hundred of Kappakoola [sic], derived from Kappakoola Hill, near Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula, is the best we can do to give this item some context. The horse features at South Australian country races in a few issues of the 'Sporting News' in 1913 and 1914 (information courtesy of..... More
The photographer is not identified, but written in ballpoint pen on the verso of each mount is '1933 | Probably funeral of Reg Player Fuller'. Reg Fuller, one of 'the State's best riders over hurdles and fences', died as a result of injuries received when his horse 'fell with him..... More
The gelatin silver postcard-format print (circa 1920s) is in fine condition. The unidentified location depicted is presumably in England, where the item was sourced. The British passion for dogs is taken to extremes in this instance, with the bulldog resting on its stomach and front paws on the operating table..... More
Los Angeles, Curatorial Assistance and New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. 'A Photographer's Journey Through Australia, 1930' (essay title). Not least, Aborigines. More
New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1915. Volume 30 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More
New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1919. Volume 34 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More
New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1920. Volume 35 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More
![Item #124651 A vintage photograph of the 'Hummock Hill [Football Club]. Seas[on 1915]'. 1910s...](/pictures/thumb/124651_01.jpg?v=1634106744)
[Port Pirie], 'Geo. T. Row, Photo.', 1915. + A similar item from around the same vintage (the final number on the date written on the football in the image is indistinct - possibly 1913?): the uncredited photograph is a little scuffed, and the mount is a little marked and rubbed..... More
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other..... More
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other..... More
![Item #108651 'A Monster Anthill' [Northern Territory, Australia, 1914]. Frank HURLEY](/pictures/thumb/108651_00.jpg?v=1568171363)
Although this print does not have an original 'Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London' label on the verso, it almost certainly comes from the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1956 (second reprint)/ 1948. '... sealed in containers, the negatives [of the] superb photographs ... were buried in the bowels of the 'Endurance' as she lay dying in the grip of the pack-ice, and were salvaged at great risk by Captain Hurley and one of the..... More
This is an example of item 143 of the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works, which emanated from the Fine Art Society, London. The full title of the catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other Photographic Studies by Frank Hurley' (small octavo..... More