Search Results: Authors starting with A from Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Paris : Draeger frères, [1912]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (some very pale foxing), staple bound, pp 19, [1], chiefly black and white photographic illustrations of silverware (accessories, jewellery, tableware etc.), with [4] page insert advertising clocks and a bronze decorated calendar; a very good example of this attractive catalogue produced by the Parisian firm of A La Gerbe d'Or.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (94 x 58 mm). Verso with studio backmark of A.W. Burman, 209 Bourke Street East. Anthony Lowande (1869-1937) was the youngest member of the renowned Brazilian Lowande family equestrian circus troupe when they toured Australia and New Zealand in 1877-78 with Cooper, Bailey & Co.'s circus. Tony was famous for his prowess as a daredevil somersault rider.

Melbourne : A. J. Wiltshire & Co., [1908]. Broadside, printed recto and verso, 290 x 115 mm, central crease. List of prize winners for an annual handwriting competition sponsored by A. J. Wiltshire and Co., ink manufacturers from Richmond, Melbourne. Highly ephemeral.

London : Methuen & Co., 1905. Second edition. Octavo, publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth over boards (damp staining to boards, pastedowns and endpapers); a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper for the Governor of Pentonville Prison 'To Major O. E. M. Davies, with best wishes from the Author, J. H. M. Abbott, August, 1908'; pp xiv, 296, 40 (publisher's catalogue, July 1907); although the condition of the book could only be rated as poor, loosely inserted is an interesting 4-page holograph letter (in fine condition) signed in full by Abbott to Major Davies at Pentonville, commenting in detail about his book, England, and prisons: 'it was a strange experience for me', writes Abbott about his observations of confinement, suggesting the benefits of 'soldiering in comparison', and asking Davies whether he should approach the Home Office in order to gain access to other such institutions. 'J. H. M. Abbott (1874 – 1953) was an Australian novelist and poet who was born… Read More

[San Francisco, CA : U.S. 25th Special Naval Construction Battalion, 1943-45?]. Foolscap folio (330 mm), stapled, [40] pp, roneo printed, with line-drawn illustrations; a collation comprising Chapters I - XXVII of ""Tales of New Guinea"" by Cecil and Russell Abel, which appear to have been separately issued as supplements to The Stevie Seabee newsletter (the collation was probably made shortly after the time of publication, judging by the rust on the surviving staple!); paper toned and with light foxing, otherwise well preserved. During World War Two the stories of missionary brothers Cecil Charles Abel (1903-1994) and Russell William Abel (1923-1972) were issued in conjunction with The Stevie Seabee newsletter, to both entertain and inform US marines in New Guinea. Under the title Tales of New Guinea, the stories were presented as numbered chapters and occupied one or two entire pages. We have not been able to establish conclusively whether the present collation of 27 chapters represents the… Read More

[Melbourne?] : Dalgety & Coy. Limited and Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, [between 1928 and 1933]. Bookmark, 132 x 57 mm, offset printed on thin card, recto with colour illustration of one the company's ""Bay"" liners, verso with information about the service to London via Suez, inviting prospective travellers to contact the Dalgety & Co. or Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line office in ""capital cities""; fine. 'The Australian Government formed a shipping company after WWI which became the Australian Commonwealth Line in 1923. The company was bought by Lord Kylsant's shipping empire in 1928, his other companies included White Star Line, Shaw, Savill & Albion, and the Aberdeen Line. The name of the company was changed in 1928 to the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line as the Aberdeen Line had been engaged in the Australian trade since 1840 and therefore had good associations with the public. In 1933 the Kyslant organisation was declared bankrupt, the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line was awarded to the… Read More

by direction of the Honorable Francis Abigail, Minister for Mines, Sydney. Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1888. Octavo (245 x 155 mm), publisher's printed salmon-coloured wrappers (upper wrapper with edge and corner wear and annotations in pencil at top corner; spine ends with paper loss), pp 115; internally very clean, a good all-original copy.

Sydney : Kaldor Public Art Projects, 2015. Octavo, lettered boards, pp. 107, illustrated. New copy. Solo exhibition of the artist in Sydney. 'Following the success of Marina Abramović’s ambitious work Luminosity, 1997, in 13 Rooms, John Kaldor invited the pioneering Serbian performance artist to Sydney for a solo project. Two years later, at the historic Pier 2/3 in the Walsh Bay artistic precinct, Marina Abramović: In Residence offered audiences an innovative experience at the forefront of contemporary art.' https://kaldorartprojects.org.au/projects/project-30-marina-abramovic/

Fare to San Francisco : Steerage,  £25. No Cabin Passengers taken. Freight taken at lower rates. For Freight or Passage, apply to Adams & Co., 69, Collins Street, West, Melbourne. Melbourne : Goodhugh & Trembath, 48, Flinders Lane, East, and 174, Elizabeth Street, [1854]. Clipper ship sailing card, 227 x 144 mm, printed recto only in letterpress in blue, with three prominent lines added in gold display lettering, and with a vignette illustration of a clipper ship; just below centre is a small cutting from a Melbourne newspaper pasted on by the original owner which notes the sailing date (3 August), names Elbridge Webster as the ship's owner, and lists cabin passengers; verso annotated in ink (also by the original owner) 'Cap[t.] Elbridge Webster / Ship ""Louisa"" / [from Mel]bourne / Aug. 3rd 1854'; some superficial paper loss to verso due to the card having been removed from a 19th century album page, otherwise in fine condition; striking and rare. A remarkable piece of ephemera printed in… Read More

Melbourne : Heide, 1989. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 98,  small stain to upper wrapper, a good copy.

/ written by Harry Adams ; composed by E. Jonghmans. At the head of title: The Immensely Successful Anglo Australian Patriotic Song. Sung also by Harry Rickards. London : Hopwood & Crew ; Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1887]. Folio (315 x 260 mm), wrappers with a striking colour design of an Australian stockman by British artist Alfred Concanen, the front also with the name and address of the original Melbourne owner 'Lillie Jepson, ""Woodbine"", Clifton Hill' (wrappers lightly foxed, original owner's stitched cloth spine), 5 pp, the first four with music notation (arrangement for voice and piano) and the last with complete lyrics; edges trimmed closely, but a very good example. Trove locates only two copies (NLA; SLV)  

Aurukun, Queensland : Aurukun Community Incorporated, 1986. Octavo (210 x 160 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 28 pp., line-drawn illustrations throughout; very light vertical crease, else fine.

London, United Kingdom : British Museum Press, 2019. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Authors : Julie Adams, Lissan Bolton, Theano Guillaume-Jaillet, Mary McMahon, Gaye Sculthorpe. New copy. On the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s extraordinary voyages of exploration, this publication reflects on and charts the enduring legacies of his encounters with Pacific peoples. Objects collected and images made on or associated with the voyages are explored alongside artworks created by contemporary artists from the Pacific region. Together, they reveal that understandings of history are rarely agreed and always shifting, while Cook and the impacts of his voyages are reimagined as complex, contentious and unresolved.

Townsville : Lyre Bird Press and Melbourne : Zimmer Editions, 2005. Folio (525 x 415 mm), portfolio with series of handpainted leaves in gouache by Tate Adams, cut on the fore-edge to different depths, to produce a series of overlapping designs, colophon and two further screenprints, one double page, with screenprinted text by Jenny Zimmer, housed within cloth covered archival box by Norbert Herold with pictorial inlay. Edition limited to 20 signed copies, this being no. 20. Colophon: 'This book is the fourth in a series of limited edition artists' books published by the Lyre Bird Press, Townsville, Queensland in collaboration with Zimmer Editions, Melbourne, Victoria. The edition comprises 20 copies and each is signed and numbered by the artist. Tate Adams' Gestural gouaches were painted in his Townsville studio in 2004. The text, by Jenny Zimmer, has been screen-printed on 270 gsm BFK Rives by Larry Rawling in his studio in Kinglake West. The book's design follows an original concept for the series… Read More

Townsville, Qld. : Lyre Bird Press, 2001. Quarto, diecut wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. Rare illustrated artists books from the press.

Editor Jenny Zimmer; with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto silver-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 220, illustrated throughout. As new copy, mint condition. 'This book presents the genesis of Tate Adam's remarkable influence on art in Australia. From the spring of a tiny space in a side street of central Melbourne the Crossley Gallery, in Crossley Street, became a focal point for the appreciation of Australian and international printmaking.' - the publisher With contributions by Tate Adams, Harry Crock, Leonard French, Lyn Williams, Andrew Sibley, Les Kossatz, Allan Mitelman, Jock Clutterbuck, Hertha Kluge-Pott, Bea Maddock, Graeme Peebles, Helen Maudlsey, Jan Senbergs, and others. Includes illustrations after Roger Kemp, Fred Williams, George Baldessin, Tate Adams, John Olsen, John Brack and others.

Editor Jenny Zimmer; with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 220, illustrated throughout. One of a very small number of copies specially bound in a deluxe binding with slipcase. As new copy, mint condition. 'This book presents the genesis of Tate Adam's remarkable influence on art in Australia. From the spring of a tiny space in a side street of central Melbourne the Crossley Gallery, in Crossley Street, became a focal point for the appreciation of Australian and international printmaking.' - the publisher With contributions by Tate Adams, Harry Crock, Leonard French, Lyn Williams, Andrew Sibley, Les Kossatz, Allan Mitelman, Jock Clutterbuck, Hertha Kluge-Pott, Bea Maddock, Graeme Peebles, Helen Maudlsey, Jan Senbergs, and others. Includes illustrations after Roger Kemp, Fred Williams, George Baldessin, Tate Adams, John Olsen and others.

[Title from caption in image]. Gelatin silver print photograph, panoramic format 100 x 320 mm; laid down on its original board mount, 250 x 455 mm, signed by the photographer lower right 'T. G. Adamson Photo.'; the print has a few light surface marks and some fading and scattered ink spots at bottom right corner; the mount has scattered staining and loss at the left-hand corners. This group portrait of the staff of Lanes Motors was taken outside the firm's head office in Exhibition Street in the winter of 1924. The firm, whose factory was in Ingles Street, Fishermans Bend (South Melbourne), was founded by brothers Harry  and Robert Lane, and it became one of Melbourne's most famous and long-running car dealerships, still operating today as a Mercedes-Benz dealership in South Melbourne.    

Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser and Chronicle Offices, 1871. Octavo (212 x 135 mm), original printed blue wrappers, stitched; 11 pp; contains the libretto for Handel's Messiah; lower wrapper light creasing, else a fine copy. Rare. Trove locates no copies.

and Bradford House, Barbican, London. Noted for quality and good value. Adelaide : Vardon & Sons Ltd. (printers), [c.1925]. Large oblong octavo (180 x 245 mm), original pictorial wrappers (some silverfishing), staple bound, pp 58, [1], lithographic illustrations throughout, including several colour plates; pp 33-34 with loss at top corner, centre pages loosened from staples, otherwise contents sound and clean. A wonderful, profusely illustrated trade catalogue for a vast array of jewellery, watches, clocks, pens, sterling silver ornaments, travelling cases, shields and trophies, Australiana souvenirs, silver-plated tableware and presentation cutlery, barometers, compasses, telescopes, binoculars, etc. Approximate date of publication is based on the date of 1924 which is engraved on the silver trophy illustrated on page 40. Scarce. Only two copies are recorded in Australian collections (State Library of South Australia; State Library of Victoria)