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Terribly Awesome Photo Books
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Kooiker; Erik Kessels
[Gent]: Art Paper Editions, 2012.“For several years, Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have organized evenings for friends in which they share the strangest photo books in their collections. The books shown are rarely available in regular shops, but are picked up in thrift stores and from antiquaries. The groups fascination for these pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. Its only in this area that its possible to find images with an uncontrived quality. Whats noticeable from these publications is that theres a thin line between being terrible and being awesome. This constant tension makes the books interesting. Its also worth noting that these tomes all fall within certain categories: the medical, instructional, scientific, sex, humour or propaganda. Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have made a selection of their finest books from within this questionable new genre.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Printed Web #1
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Soullelis
New York: Library of the Printed Web, 2014.“Featuring new web-to-print work by Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Mishka Henner, Clement Valla, David Horvitz, Chris Alexander, Christian Bök, Benjamin Shaykin, & and Paul Soulellis. Texts by Hito Steyerl and Kenneth Goldsmith.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Kilimanjaro 12: Thinking of Collective
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHauser & Wirth; Roman Signer; Damo Suzuki
London: Kilimanjaro, 2011.“Kilimanjaro is a vibrant printed space dedicated to visual culture and editorial experimentation, and aims to generate an environment in which ideas reason with visual pleasure. Contributors stem from different art disciplines including film, fashion, photography and contemporary culture. Issue 12 features Hauser & Wirth, Roman Signer and Damo Suzuki.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dermatology and Syphilology of the Nineteenth Century
AU$165.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Thorne Crissey; Lawrence Charles Parish
New York: Praeger, 1981.An accessible history of dermatology.
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Korean 12 Muse
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSeung Hyo Jang
Seoul: Sejong Center, 2004.Catalogue for an exhibition of humanoid robot sculpture. Rare, not recorded in OCLC at November, 2020.
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Ordinances Against a Set of Crack-brained Fellows, Commonly Called or Known by the Name of Poets
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Gray
: The Murder Club, 1986.A short poetic diatribe against poets here printed in a limited form in the style of a private press poetry book. An excerpt from The Newgate Calendar, attributed to Thomas Gray, criminal nephew of the Exeter Hangman.
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Booze Built Australia
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Kelly
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Company, 2017.This is the fascinating account of how Australias development was fuelled by alcohol.
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Monuments to Nature
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Leighton
Hamburg: Jahr-Holding, 2002.Catalogue of work by environmental artist Patricia Leighton. This copy inscribed by Leighton.
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Ko-Kutani
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIdemitsu Museum of Arts
Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 2004.A detailed catalogue of Ko-Kutani Japanese porcelain from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts collection. Primarily photographs, most of the text is in Japanese with some captions bearing English translation and an essay in English at the rear.
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Bittersweet
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColleen McCullough
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2013.A scarce signed copy of Colleen McCullough’s last book published two years before her death. McCullough was mostly blind due to illness and did not travel from her home, Norfolk Island, making signed copies of this work hard to come by. Provenance: Private collector that operated tours to Norfolk Island.
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Dramatic Anthroposophy
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrian Anderson
Dunedin: Threshold Publishing on behalf of the Department of Languages and Cultures, German Section, University of Otago, 2018.Identification and contextualization of primary freatures of Rudolf Steiner’s ‘anthroposophy’, as expressed in his “Mystery Drama’, Die Pforte der Einweihung (The Portal of Initiation).
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Illustrations of the Japanese Species of Bamboo
AU$1,850.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIsuke Tsuboi
Gifu and Tokyo: Kawada Teijiro and Hatsubaijo Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha, 1916.The Tsuboi Bamboo Atlas comprises 109 loose colour lithographs of Japanese bamboo varieties with an English title page and index together with an 80 page book in Japanese. Presents examples of root systems, stems, with and without flowers and leaves, cross-sections, abnormalities, and fungus, at various scales, with Japanese and Latin titles, and English captions.
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The Waysides of Cannes
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOlive Underhill
Cannes: The Lounge Library, No date.Early 20th century travel guide to Cannes on the French Riviera. Provides short historical overview of Rivierian and Cannes history, the villas of Cannes, modern Cannes: its entertainment’s, sights, sports, and various excursions: Mont-Chevalier, Saint-Cassian, La Corniche d’Or, The Esterels, La Napoule, Theoule, La Croix-des-Gardes, Auribeau, The Tanneron, Notre-Dame de Peygros, Saint-Cassien-du_bois, Saint-Barthelemy, Ranguin, La Roquette, Le Cannet, Mougin, Notre-Dam-de-Vie, Castelaras, Grasse, Valley of the Loup, Gourdon, Super-Cannes, Vallauris, Biot, Villeneuve-Loubet, Saint-Paul-du-Var, CAgnes, Antibes, Les Iles de Lerins, and more. 3 double page maps. Scarce, one copy recorded in OCLC, at Cornell.
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Blind But Can See
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStacey Holmes
Australia: Stacey Holmes, 2016.Stacey Holmes is an Australian artist currently living and working in the expansive landscapes of rural NSW Australia where she was raised.
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Out Of Mind
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStacey Holmes
Australia: Stacey Holmes, 2014.Stacey Holmes is an Australian artist currently living and working in the expansive landscapes of rural NSW Australia where she was raised.
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Enter The Void
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStacey Holmes
Australia: Stacey Holmes, 2013.Stacey Holmes is an Australian artist currently living and working in the expansive landscapes of rural NSW Australia where she was raised.
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Cosmic Doom (Silver)
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Bennett
Australia: Henry Bennett, 2015.Henry Bennett is a contemporary Queensland artist, illustrator, and musician. He creates fantastical psychedelic worlds with traditional pen and ink drawing techniques.
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Cosmic Doom (White)
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Bennett
Australia: Henry Bennett, 2015.Henry Bennett is a contemporary Queensland artist, illustrator, and musician. He creates fantastical psychedelic worlds with traditional pen and ink drawing techniques.
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Picturing a Nation: The Art & Life of A. H. Fullwood
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Werskey; A. H. Fullwood
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021.“The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian artist of the Heidelberg era. Fullwood’s illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler-colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today? In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Nomen / Noh Masks
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYasuo Nakamura; Naomi Maki
Kyoto: Shinshindo, 1979.A beautifully presented collection of masks used in the classical Japanese dance-drama Noh. Each plate, photographed by Naomi Maki, is mounted in an individual folder with tissue guard, housed in a portfolio case, and includes an index sheet. An accompanying explanatory volume written by Yasuo Nakamura goes into detail on the subject, as well as containing black and white photographs of the reverse sides of the masks. The portfolio and accompanying volume are housed inside of another cloth clamshell with two bone clasps, which in turn is housed in another box. Yasuo Nakamura (1919-1996) was a Japanese high school teacher, junior college professor, and Noh scholar, producing numerous works on the subject from the 1960s until his death. His scholarship on this collection of masks earned him the Geijutsu Sensho Prize from The Agency for Cultural Affairs.