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The Dog in Australasia
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter Beilby
Melbourne: George Robertson and Company, 1897.The first Australian dog breeder’s manual. FERGUSON 6885.
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Victoria Racing Club. Spring Meeting, 1900. Last Day. Official Programme [Steeplechase Day]
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictoria Racing Club
Melbourne: Victoria Racing Club by Sands & McDougall, 1900.An extremely well preserved early Melbourne horse racing programme, unused and with all of the sweepstakes leaves. The map shows Flemington Racecourse. Unrecorded in Trove or OCLC.
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John Olsen: Drawing – The Human Touch
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Olsen; Ken McGregor
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014.“This richly illustrated publication represents the author’s attempt to locate as many of John Olsen’s drawings as possible and Macmillan’s determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a companion to our previous monographs on the artist’s prints and paintings. Olsen is an artist who believes drawing to be the fundamental skill of artistic production and whose artworks, whether paintings, prints or drawings, indicate a keen sense of observation of human and animal behaviour translated into lively and sometimes humorous compositions dependent on the drawn line. He is a living legend on the Australian art scene, who claims: “Drawing is important in every stage of an artist’s career. Drawing is the plank on which you build the architecture of your work. Drawing is a transferable energy, a life-force, and it entails many ways of observing…” This book will inform and amuse as it reiterates the importance of drawing.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Test Cricket in Australia, 1877-2002
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Davis
Melbourne: Charles Davis, 2002.One of 344 signed and numbered copies.
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Luminous Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Ballet
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Australian Ballet
Melbourne: The Australian Ballet, 2011. -
Paradeisos
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristopher Koller
Melbourne: M.33, 2011.“Produced over a period of 12 years, Christopher Koller’s plastic camera photographs of gardens and otherwise mediated greenery forge a very different atmosphere to what one would expect from such subject matter. Warped, stretched and almost affronting in their blurred optical qualities, the images that fill Paradeisos are vivid and almost visceral in their odd beauty.” (publisher’s blurb)
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A Field Guide to Fungi of South-Eastern Australia
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoss McDonald; John Westerman
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1979. -
Australian Graffiti Revisited
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis; Ian Turner
Melbourne: Sun Books, 1980.Australian street and toilet wall graffiti. Second printing of the expanded second edition.
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Reasons of the Heart
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBron Nicholls
Melbourne: Penguin, 1993.Australian pederasty novel by Bron Nicholls, her first published novel for an adult audience.
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The Story of an Athlete (A Picture of the Past)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. C. A. Harrison
Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin, No date.Autobiography of one of the pioneers of Australian rules football, AFL.
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Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the End of the World
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Johnson
Melbourne: Hyland House, 1983.Tasmania Aboriginal fiction.
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A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham Willett; Angela Bailey; Timothy W. Jones; Sarah Rood
Melbourne: Australian Queer Archives and Heritage Victoria, 2021.“A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects was commissioned by Heritage Victoria to highlight the rich, diverse and unique history of queer communities in Victoria and to demonstrate how these communities are reflected in the places, objects and landscapes that surround us. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual, sistergirl and brotherboy (LGBTIQ+) people are, and always have been, an integral part of Victorian social, political and cultural life. However, the experiences and voices of queer communities have not commonly been included in the historical record and, consequently, queer heritage has remained largely invisible. This report identifies 100 places, objects and collections that have specific and unique meaning to VictoriaÂ’s contemporary queer communities. Identifying and exploring the meaning of these places, objects and collections to members of the LGBTIQ+ communities who have suggested them adds depth and richness to VictoriaÂ’s history and heritage. It also makes visible the stories and experiences of communities that have, until recently, been ignored and at times actively persecuted.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Sutton
Melbourne: Viking, 1989. -
Modern Houses Melbourne
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNorman Day
Melbourne: Brian Zouch Publications, 1976.Catalogue of the best built houses in Melbourne in the first half of the 1970s.
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If The Walls Could Speak: A Social History of the Mechanics Institutes of Victoria
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPam Baragwanath
Melbourne: Mechanics Institute Inc., 2000. -
The Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin Spencer
Read MoreBaldwin Spencer; John Mulvaney
Melbourne: Viking O’Neil, 1987. -
John Shirlow: Ten Etchings
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Shirlow
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 2005.Portfolio of ten etchings printed directly form Shirlow’s plates accompanied by an essay in letterpress by the publisher, Robert C. Littlewood, and a photographic frontispiece. The portfolio created by master Brisbane binder Fred Pohlmann in the style of Shirlow’s 1904 folio Five Etchings. Each etching titled in pencil and stamped with a facsimile signature. The etchings are of eight views of Melbourne, one of Sydney Harbour, and one of Hobart. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the publisher. This copy with the letterpress prospectus.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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Russell Drysdale, 1912-81
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Smith
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997. -
Stripperama
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Larter; Kelly Gellatly
Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2002.Catalogue of an exhibition 18 May – 28 July, 2002.