The Story of the Camera in Australia
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1955. This deluxe edition consisted of only 100 numbered and signed copies; this out-of-series copy is unnumbered and unsigned. More
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1955. This deluxe edition consisted of only 100 numbered and signed copies; this out-of-series copy is unnumbered and unsigned. More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. Inscribed and dated (1956) by the author to his son on the flyleaf. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their..... More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More
Melbourne, Colorgravure Publications, 1957. Number 162 of a limited edition (upper limit not known). The superb illustrations include many from original photographs by Spencer, Basedow, Love and Poignant. More
Kyoto, Mitsumura Suiko Shoin Co., Ltd., 1960. Edited by Mitsumura Suiko Shoin; text and captions in Japanese and English; English translation by Horokuni Kobatake. More
Hilversum, C. De Boer Jr., 1961. Text in English and Dutch. More
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
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1963. The famous Australian Second World War photographer. More
San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1963. Number 7 in the Sierra Club Exhibit Format series. More
New York, Harper and Row, 1964. Features 148 illustrations, 48 in colour. More
Brisbane, The Jacaranda Press/ The Australian National University Press, 1965. 'The first camera in the north of Australia belonged to an enthusiastic amateur photographer, Richard Daintree (1832-1878) ... His Queensland photographs are a unique record of the first years of contact between squatters and Aborigines, the birth of a gold-rush..... More
Rochester, George Eastman House, 1965. With essays by Henry Holmes Smith and Thomas B. Hess. George Eastman House Monograph Number 5. More
New York, The Eakins Press, 1966. Twelve 'interiors', ranging from sharecropping in Louisiana and Alabama during the Great Depression to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts during the 1950s and 1960s. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
London, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1967 (first edition). More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. 'These sensitive studies are neither tourist poses nor anthropological records' (dustwrapper blurb). The title page is inscribed and signed 'To Olga Hardy with much regards from the Author, Charles P. Mountford'. We know of Olga Hardy only as the author of 'Like a Bird on..... More
New York, Grossman Publishers, [1967]. Inscribed, signed and dated (1969) by the photographer on the half-title. More
New York, Walker and Company, 1967. More
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1968. Loosely inserted is an original gelatin silver portrait photograph of Sargent (140 Ă— 90 mm), signed in ink along the wide bottom margin. The signature of the photographer, Fred Siegfried Schiffer (1917-1999), is in the bottom right-hand corner of the negative (as 'Schiffer'). Vienna-born Schiffer emigrated..... More
London, Ian Allan, 1968. 'Fenman' is the collective pseudonym of five former graduates of Cambridge with a shared interest in railway photography (dustwrapper). More
London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1969 (first English edition)/ 1968. With many folding illustrations from photographs. More
New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1969 [first thus]/ 1957. '50 Years of Great Marine Photographs'. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969. Signed in ink on the title page by both authors. Sir Edward James Ranembe Morgan (1900-1977), judge, local historian and sometime president of the National Trust of South Australia and foundation board-member of the National Gallery of South Australia. Stephen Hamilton Gilbert (1910-1979) took the..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1969 (revised and enlarged edition)/ 1955. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1969. More
[Footscray], James Flood Charity Trust, 1970/ 1970. Dated 13 November 1972, and signed by the editor, the Director and General Manager of James Flood Pty Ltd. Number 2759 of 5000 copies. More
New York, Haywire Press, 1970. 'These self portraits span a period of six years and were not done as a specific preoccupation, but rather, they happened as a peripheral extension of my work. They began as straight portraits but soon I was finding myself at times in the landscape of..... More
Los Angeles, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, [circa 1970s]. Catalogue of a selling exhibition of 136 photographs, gravures and orotones by Curtis. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. A unique copy of this account of the raising of the ship's bell from the HMAS 'Perth', sunk on 28 February 1942. Not only is it inscribed and signed by the author (twice), but it also contains the signatures of 22 survivors of the sinking, gathered at..... More
Houston, Allison Press, 1971. The very scarce cloth-bound issue of Winningham's photographic essay on Houston's professional wrestling scene. 'Wetmore & Company of Houston printed 1500 copies. 1400 were sewn and bound with a soft cover; 100 copies were sewn and bound with a hardcover' (the photographer's website). More
[Adelaide, Unidentified Photographer, circa 1971]. 'An Arrente woman from Alice Springs, Auriel Andrew began her musical career in the late 1960s, "cutting her teeth" on the local live music circuits in Adelaide and Port Lincoln. She appeared on various live TV musical broadcasts before she became a regular on Channel..... More
London, The Bodley Head, 1971. A Studio Book. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1971 (first English edition). More
New York, Lustrum Press, 1971. A pictorial record of Portugal during the reign of Salazar. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1972. Inscribed and signed 'with much regards Monty'. Loosely inserted is a small quantity of interesting related ephemera: an invitation to the launch of this book, and a newspaper review clipping; a photograph captioned 'Monty's Hon Ph.D Investiture, Melbourne Uni' (it was an honorary Litt.D., in 1973);..... More
Adelaide, The Maitland and Kilkerran Centenary Committee, 1972. More
[Melbourne], Australian Post Office, 1972. The photographs show the official centenary celebrations at Alice Springs on 22 August 1972 (46 photographs, including the reopening of the restored Old Telegraph Station), and in Adelaide on 21 and 22 August (5 photographs). Dignitaries present include Sir Alan Hulme (Postmaster General), Sir Arthur..... More
Rochester, Humpy Press, 1972. An unusual little book that defies easy categorisation. On one hand, it is a Jewish recipe book containing just three recipes: a chicken broth, 'kreplach' (dumplings), and matzo balls. It is also a photobook, featuring a matronly chef demonstrating the cooking steps, topless. Only later does..... More
London, Countdown Publications, 1972. Number 345 of 500 copies of this whimsical artist's book, signed and dated (1972) by James Wedge, featuring reproductions of his photographs. More
Rochester, Humpy Press, 1972. The 'Fictcryptokrimsographs' of the title are manipulated polaroid photographs, most of them surrealist nudes. The phallo-nasal device of the Humpy Press appears gradually, flip book-style, on the last ten plates. Provenance: Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019), with her small gallery label on..... More
Haverford, Toll & Armstrong, Publishers, 1972. More
[Kingston], University of Rhode Island Arts Council, 1972. Exhibition catalogue. More
New York, Weathervane Books, 1972 (third impression). Photographs selected by Rachel J. Homer; introduction and commentary by Don D. Fowler. More
New York, Aperture, 1973. More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts in association with Ure Smith, 1973. More
New York, Arno Press, 1973 [facsimile edition]/ 1954. One of The Literature of Photography series. More
Paris, Chene, 1973. The text is in French; loosely inserted is the eight-page 'Legendes des Photographies'. [2 items]. More
New York, Arno Press, 1973 [facsimile edition]/ 1931 (tenth, revised and enlarged, edition). One of The Literature of Photography series. More