The Noblest Game. A Book of Fine Cricket Prints
London, Harrap, 1969. More
London, Harrap, 1969. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1967. The half-title is signed in black ink by Arthur Boyd. More
London, The Folio Society, 1995 [first thus]. 'The text of this edition is taken from a selection of the fairy tales ... published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1913'. Loosely inserted is the publisher's flyer for the William Heath Robinson Trust. More
Sydney, Art in Australia Limited, 1923. Number 383 of 1000 copies. The introduction is by Lionel Lindsay. More
Sydney, 'Printed ... by Radcliffe Press ... by Authority from Penleigh Boyd', 1923. All 581 items were for sale; the original price-list is attached to the recto of the rear cover with a small piece of tape. The foreword to the British section was written by 'the famous English critic'..... More
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919. Provenance: Will Ashton, with his Lionel Lindsay-designed bookplate on the front pastedown - a felicitous combination all round. English-born Sir John William (Will) Ashton (1881-1963) emigrated with his parents to Adelaide when he was a child; his father was the artist James Ashton..... More
London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1992. A catalogue raisonné of 452 prints by Hayter, with all published colour prints reproduced in colour. Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was 'perhaps the greatest and most influential printmaker of the twentieth century.... At the centre of the avant-garde in Paris and for a decade in..... More
Melbourne, Melbourne Publishing Company, 1918. Esther Paterson (1892-1971) was a Melbourne-born painter and illustrator, and the wife of the naval historian George Hemon Gill (1895-1973). The foreword is just that (forward!), and the captioned illustrations are in the same vein ... 'It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to provide a foreword..... More
London, 'Sketch' Offices, [circa 1917 (second edition)]. Raphael Kirchner (1876 - 2 August 1917) 'was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin-up work' (Wikipedia); this volume showcases the latter. More
London, The Pomegranate Press, [1916] (third edition)/ 1915. The foreword states that 'In presenting to the public a New Quarterly Magazine we are aware of the fact, that in these days half the world is at war'. This may account for the fact that the only other number to appear..... More
Sydney, The Worker Trustees, 1920. 'With Commemorative Poems by Mrs Mary Gilmore, Henry Lawson, C.J. Dennis, Roderic Quinn, and J. Le Gay Brereton, and Appreciations by Leading Publicists' (frontispiece). Claude Arthur Marquet (1869-1920), a 'proficient, self-taught black-and-white artist' was born in Moonta, South Australia. He moved to Victoria in 1902..... More
Sydney, Magazine Programmes Pty. [Ltd.], [1927]. More
Sydney, Privately printed by Harry F. Chaplin, 1953. Number 165 of only 300 copies (250 for sale) signed by the publisher. More
London, Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld. [circa 1903]. Provenance: A. Henry Fullwood, with his signature ('London, 1903') in ink on the front pastedown. Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930) was born in England, and emigrated to Australia in 1883. He 'worked as a black and white artist for the "Picturesque..... More
London, H.C. Dickins, [January 1914]. This detailed list is dated January 1914 ('Previous list cancelled'). It contains approximately 140 etchings and engravings available for sale, with prices: 'In the case of editions nearly exhausted, the number of proofs remaining is given in parentheses'. The item numbers (a broken run from..... More
London, Chiswick Press [for H.C. Dickins], [circa 1914]. A chronological list of plates engraved by Stevenson from 1905 to 1913. Inscribed in ink on the 'Collector's Notes' page at the rear is a list of 'Plates issued since No. 37'. More
Glebe, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1995. With the ink ownership details (MOS, 12 February 1997) of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. A catalogue of the inaugural exhibition at the MOS Focus Gallery, Museum of Sydney on the site of the first Government House. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1968. Provenance: Pastor Gordon John Gerhardy (1933-2023), a Lutheran missionary in PNG, with his ink ownership signature on the front free endpaper. Not least, the distinctive art of the Pitjantjatjara. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2014. Inma, as told to Diana James by Ivy Nganyinytja and Andy Tjilari with Commentary by Tjilpi Robin Kankapankatja, Teddy Edwards, David Miller, Robert Stevens and Tjilpi Tjulyata. Essays by Diana James, Howard Morphy, Judith Ryan, June Ross, Mike Smith and Janet DeBoos. The catalogue to..... More
Singapore, Editions Didier Millet, 2005. 'Anthony F Granucci presents his personal collection of over 140 objects from the islands, which range from ornamental and ritual objects to instruments for daily use' (dustwrapper blurb). All 146 items are illustrated. More
Sydney, Doubleday, 1992. The 'story of the traditional and contemporary craft and carvings of the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjara people, known collectively as the Anangu. Anangu lands cover the entire central and south-western desert areas of Australia' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Ghent, Snoeck-Ducaju, 1997. A catalogue 'presenting a selection [of 79 items] from the group of around four hundred objects that go to form the Oceania collection' (mainly Melanesian, with a few items from Micronesia and Polynesia). The text in mainly in Dutch, with short descriptions of each item in English..... More
Christchurch, Art Galleries and Museums' Association of New Zealand, 1969. More
Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1991. More