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Cat 388, Item 3 BUNN, Anna Maria. THE GUARDIAN. A TALE. Syd. Spilsbury. 1838. Original publisher's green linen with printed paper titling label. 152pp. b/w ills. First printing. F.Hobhill Cole bookplate. The first novel written by an Australian woman and the first novel printed on the Australian mainland. Housed in a folding cloth case. Extremely Rare. |
Cat 388, Item 293 ENGEL, Heinrich. THE JAPANESE HOUSE. A Tradition for Contemporary Architecture. With a Foreword by Walter Gropius. Tokyo. Charles E. Tuttle Company. 1964. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 495pp. (sl foxing) to top, foredge & some pages. Dustjacket covered in plastic. Inscription on ffe. Bookplate to front pastedown. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. In the slip-case. |
Cat 388, Item 17 WHITELEY, Brett. ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT VINCENT VAN GOGH. Paintings, drawings, photographs, silkscreen prints, etchings and sculptures created over a period of fifteen years. Foreword by Edmund Capon. Melb. Richard Griffin. 1983. 4to. Full calf gilt. unpag. Profusely illustrated with col. & b/w plates by Whiteley. Pristine copy. 1st ed. The very scarce Special Edition, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the artist and with three splendid original Whiteley signed etchings. The etchings are Suns of the Sun, The Back of the Asylum, St. Remy & Self-Portrait, One of a Dozen Glimpses. Rare on the market as many of the etchings with which the book was issued have been separated from the set and sold individually. |
Cat 388, Item 9 GRISHIN, Sasha. GARRY SHEAD. THE APOTHEOSIS OF ERN MALLEY. Syd. Australian Galleries. 2008. (2nd ed.) Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Very good copy.Shead believes that though the Ern Malley poems were a hoax, they have created the image of a creative individual in the Australian psyche. |
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