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

With an introduction by Michael Shmith. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2005. Narrow folio, blind lettered cloth with inset illustration, pp. 144, illustrated. Completed over a 58-year period, The Great Music Makers series offers both an insight into the development of Kahan’s artistic practice and a visual record of some of the greatest music makers of our time. The drawings represent the culmination of a lifetime of astute observation, refined draughtsmanship and an appreciation of the transience of the musical performance. Whether through the subtle gesture of pencil on paper, or the more assured markings of pen or ink, each drawing brings to life a well-known Australian or international composer, conductor, musician or singer, captured by Kahan during a dress rehearsal, performance, or chance encounter. As Kahan’s artistic career developed, capturing life in motion became a recurrent theme. From designing fanciful costumes for film and stage, to documenting the veracities of life as a… Read More

Melbourne : Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1985. Exhibition catalogue, folding card, catalogue of works, four illustrations, essay by Charles Nodrum, biography.

Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1934. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. vi; 403, very good. A guide to sinology for the lay person by a self-taught Chinese scholar. Scarce Shanghai imprint.

Götheborg [Sweden] : C.F. Arwidsson, [1853]. First edition. Octavo, publisher's contemporary buff boards (lightly marked) with blue cloth spine, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 to front pastedown, [2], v, [1], 104 pp. Text in Swedish. Ferguson, 11049a. The first Scandinavian gold digger’s guidebook. A guide book for prospective Swedish travellers to the Victorian and New South Wales goldfields, compiled and published within a relatively short time of the first gold discoveries and probably the earliest Scandinavian work on the Australian gold rushes. It includes specific information about the Turon, Bungonia, Abercrombie River, Summerhill Creek, Shoalhaven and Wentworth diggings in New South Wales, as well as the Victorian diggings in Ballarat and surrounding districts. Anecdotes of successful gold diggers are also recounted, and advice given on overland travel from Portland to Melbourne and from Sydney to Melbourne. The author, known also as Moses Kahn, was born into Stockholm's… Read More

[Cover title : Mount Gambier Illustrated]. Mount Gambier : B. Kannenberg, circa 19Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, string bound, pp. [14], black and white illustrations. The cover indicated 'Colour supplement of Blue Lake', which is not present in this copy.

Göttingen : Steidl, 2020. Two volumes, octavo, 15.9 x 22.5 cm, cloth in illustrated slipcase, pp. 752, illustrated. New copy. The powerful religious sites of Uluru and Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory of Australia have been of deep interest to the artist Anish Kapoor since he first visited them in the 1980s. At Uluru he found a landscape of monumental scale which contained intimate and ritually resonant sites. A landscape of hollows and voids which he has read as resonant of primal or even “original” structure. Kapoor describes Uluru as “an object with a perforated skin which lends itself to mythic meaning.” On his visit in 1991, Kapoor noted in his sketchbook “a white bump on a white wall.” He later made the sculpture When I am Pregnant (1992), describing it as “an object in a state of becoming.” The idea of the proto-object is central to Kapoor’s work. In 2012 Kapoor returned to Uluru and Kata Tjuta. These two photographic volumes trace his journey. They reveal through his… Read More

New York : Harry Abrams, 1966.  Thick quarto, lettered hessian, original acetate wrapper, pp. 341, extensively illustrated. A little staining along the top edge, else a very good copy. An important book of experimental art in the 1960s. 'In the 1950s, artist and lecturer Allan Kaprow coined the term “happening” to describe many performances and events. These included a number of theatrical productions that were traditionally scripted and invited only limited audience interaction. Above all, happenings emphasized the organic connection between art and its environment. The Guggenheim Museum Library Special Collections and Archives holds ephemera and materials influential to this movement. One of the movement’s major texts, Assemblage, environments & happenings is in the special collections. It features Kaprow’s theory of the evolution of abstract expressionist painting into Neo-Dada, assemblage, environments, and happenings of the early 1960s. This rare book documents works by Kaprow and… Read More

Maitland, NSW : Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021. Small quarto (240170 mm), pictorial card covers printed in black on silver (lightly rubbed); pp. 72, illustrated in colour and b/w; texts by the exhibiting artists as well as Wesley Enoch and Keri Glastonbury; an as new copy. Superbly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibition Shadow Boxer, June 8 2021- September 26 2021, which presented works made in response to different aspects of the sport of boxing (eg. race, gender, violence) by contemporary Australian artists Karla Dickens, Black Douglas, Richard Lewer, Michael Willson, Nigel Milsom, Fiona McMonagle, Bianca ""Bam Bam"" Elmir, and David Matthews.

Six volumes, each signed by the photographer.

Twenty illustrations in half-tone, with Biography and Essay by Leslie H. Beer. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, 1919. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Folio, printed green card wrappers (a few marks and edge tears) over boards, endpapers (lightly foxed),18 pp, with 20 pp of plates. Probably the first monograph on an Australian photographer to be published (Gael Newton, ‘Silver and Grey’). The book showcases the photography of South Australian-born and European-trained Kauffmann, widely regarded as the father of Pictorialist photography in Australia. His works are characterised by soft focus and a dark tonality.  

Twenty illustrations in half-tone, with Biography and Essay by Leslie H. Beer. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, 1919. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Folio, printed green card wrappers (a few marks and short edge tears) over boards, endpapers (lightly foxed),18 pp, with 20 pp of plates. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the photographer in the year of publication, in his coloured pencil on the endpaper 'To Elsie F. Barlow with compliments & best wishes from J. Kauffmann Nov 1919'. Probably the first monograph on an Australian photographer to be published (Gael Newton, 'Silver and Grey'). The book showcases the photography of South Australian-born and European-trained Kauffmann, widely regarded as the father of Pictorialist photography in Australia. His works are characterised by soft focus and a dark tonality. 'Elsie Frederica Barlow (1876 – 15 November 1948), was an Australian painter and printmaker. She was a founding member of Twenty Melbourne Painters. She was also… Read More

and published by the authority of the Meeting. Edited by the Rev. John Kay, Coatbridge, Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), disbound; pp. [i]-iv, [5]-91; last few leaves with some marginal toning, otherwise fine condition throughout. Rare. 

Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2022. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 248, illustrated. Text by Dodie Kazanjian and Sophia Al Maria. New copy, sealed in shrink-wrap. Edited by curator Masimilliano Gioni, this book focuses in particular on Koons’ art as seen in relation to contemporary American culture. With his aesthetics of plenitude and his pop-up dreams of social mobility and acceptance, throughout his career Koons has composed a “fantasy America […] custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions” -to use Warhol’s description of his own interpretation of American culture. Through the inclusion of source materials, personal recollections and biographical narratives, the book reads each of Koons’ celebrated series through the prism of his biography and the ways in which his individual history intersects with that of his country and culture. Ranging from his upbringing in rural Pennsylvania to his fascination for popular culture and vernacular art, the publication composes an… Read More

Norton Summit, South Australia : Marble Hill Press, 1996. First edition, limited to 82 copies, 75 being for sale and numbered and signed by the compiler (this is copy no. 82). Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, frontispiece, pp xiv, 146; a pristine copy. A listing of the items, numbers of private press, limited and special editions of The Hawthorn Press; includes title index and index; reproductions of many covers in the middle section.

London : Tinsley Bros., 1881. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth over bevelled boards (spine discoloured, chip with loss to centre of spine, head and foot worn), bookplate for W. Arthur Jeffrey to front pastedown, signed by Jeffrey on the front free endpaper, old bookseller's label removed, hinges a little cracked, pp. viii; 212, internally clean, a good copy. The lively and engaging account of Englishman John Fryer Keane's travels to Mecca and Medinah, disguised as the pilgrim Haj Mohammed Khan. 'Arthur Jeffery (18 October 1892 in Melbourne, Australia – 2 August 1959 in South Milford, Canada) was a Protestant Australian professor of Semitic languages from 1921 at the School of Oriental Studies in Cairo, and from 1938 until his death jointly at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is the author of extensive historical studies of Middle Eastern manuscripts. His important works include Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an: The Old Codices, which… Read More

Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 222, illustrated. New copy. This is the remarkable and revealing story of Catherine Duncan, a leading Australian actress and playwright during the golden years of radio, the winner along with Peter Finch of the 1947 Macquarie Award and Australias first official female film director: a woman with such belief in herself that she could begin a radio talk with the statement, ""History begins with me!"" Replete with romance and adventure, this biography traces her early years in Melbourne, her association with the radical New Theatre, her several marriages and ultimate decision to spend more than half her life in Paris where she joined the vibrant literary and artistic circles of those decades. The book is illustrated with many of the important creative individuals with whom she associated during her extraordinary life.

Brisbane : Institute of Modern Art, 2009. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated.

Sydney : Lyre-Bird Writers, 1951. Octavo, printed wrappers over cards (split along spine) : pp. [vi]; 28; [1]; frontispiece illustration by Norman Lindsay, signed by author on the title page; internally very good. Nancy Keesing (1923-1993) was an Australian poet, critic and reviewer. Imminent summer is her first published collection of poems. Provenance: Queensland poet Robert S. Byrnes, his ownership signature dated 1951 to half-title page.

[Melbourne, Vic. : sn, ca. 1909]. Sepia tone lithographic postcard from an original photograph, 88 x 138 mm; not mailed, and without any inscription; in fine condition. Trove locates only one example of this rare postcard (City of Boroondara Library). The following article appeared in Table Talk (Melbourne), 23 September 1909: 'THE GLEN TEA GARDENS. The Glen Tea Gardens, on the banks of the Yarra, at Hawthorn, which were opened on Sept. 4 by Mrs. E. Kegele, are in a most picturesque spot at the bottom of Callantina road and near Heyington station, and will no doubt be largely availed of in the summer months by the many boating parties who frequent the river in motor boats, steam launches and pleasure boats. The gardens are on the same site as the old Glen Tea Gardens, which were destroyed by the floods about, sixteen years ago and never rebuilt. Mr. and Mrs. Kegele have spared no effort to make the grounds as comfortable and accommodating as possible, and anyone visiting them can be sure… Read More

[=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain at bottom centre margin of first 50 pages, otherwise a good copy. Text in German in Fraktur. A work of fiction for children which recounts the voyage of an English convict to the penal colony in New South Wales, as told through the diary of the ship's doctor. Daily life in Sydney is described in great detail, and the narrative includes encounters with Aborigines and hunting game in the bush. An earlier version, also published in Leipzig, appeared in 1832, with the pseudonymous authorship of Peter Cunningham, Surgeon, R. N. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New… Read More