Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Produced in partnership with Banduk Marika and other members of the Rirratjingu clan, north-east Arnhem Land ; edited by Margie West. Darwin, N.T. : Charles Darwin University Press, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 208, illustrated. ""Yalangbara is the first indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf of members of the Rirratjingu clan to celebrate Yalangbara (Port Bradshaw), the landing site of the Djangkawu ancestors, the law-givers and progenitors of the people throughout north-east Arnhem Land. Their creative activities are depicted by three generations of talented Marika artists, including Mawalan 1, Mathaman, Milirrpum, Roy, Wandjuk, Banduk, Dhuwarrwarr, Mawalan 2, Jimmy Barrmula and Wanyubi Marika. The accompanying text examines aspects of Yolngu (Aboriginal) aesthetics and material culture, history, myth, land ownership and copyright to show the complex interrelationship of these themes in Yolngu life. Margie West AM holds the… Read More

Translation into French by Flore Gregorini. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2010. Quarto, white lettered black buckram in dustjacket, matching slipcase, illustrated endpapers, pp 248, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 numbered copies, with a large and magnificent original colour etching by Watson loosely enclosed, limited to 50 numbered copies signed with his monogram 'X'. This monograph presents the spectacular painting of a master colourist. A Pitjantjatjara elder who maintained his home and studio in Alice Springs, travelling extensively across his 'country' to fulfil traditional obligations.

Translation into French by Flore Gregorini. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2010. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. 248 extensively illustrated. A fine copy of a rare title on the acclaimed indigenous artist Tommy Watson (1935 - 2017). 'This monograph presents the spectacular painting of a master colourist. A Pitjantjatjana elder who maintains his home and studio in Alice Springs, he still travels extensively across his 'country' to fulfil traditional obligations.' - the publisher.  

Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010.  Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 11. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy.

Albumen print photograph, in large format 190 x 240 mm; laid down on its original mount of thin card, with a fully contemporary caption in pencil to the lower margin: 'The Yarra. December 17th, 1863'; no photographer's imprintthe print has some minor scattered foxing and what appears to be a crude attempt at retouching in the bottom right corner.; the mount has been removed from a frame at some point. An apparently unrecorded image of the great Melbourne flood of December, 1863. The view looks east along the swollen Yarra, most likely from a vantage point on the sloping ground overlooking the river in the vicinity of Richmond. Only a small number of other photographs documenting this catastrophic weather event have survived. They were taken by one of the Melbourne's leading professional photographers of the day, George William Perry. Perry's views of his inundated city include, for example, Corner of Flinders and Spencer Sts; under flood, held in the State Library of Victoria (PCLTA 359), and… Read More

Melbourne : Sands & McDougall, Collins Street, 1881. Invitation card, 113 x 153 mm, printed on both sides in blue ink; the recto provides general information about the event, with text written in faux-Elizabethan English, and the verso advertises a doll-making competition to be run in conjunction with the Fayre, with a prize of ten guineas for the best handmade Elizabethan doll; annotated in the margin recto 'In aid Building Fund Trinity Church Balaclava'; the invitation is in superb condition, and is accompanied by its original mailing envelope (also printed by Sands & McDougall) addressed to 'Mr. Hill, Westbury St., St. Kilda' and postmarked 22 November 1881 - also very well preserved. Scarce and quaynte piece of nineteenth-century Melbourne ephemera.  

Sydney : Joshua Yeldham, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, approx. 150 pages, small tear to half-title, illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Bestowed with a writer's grant from the Queen's Trust, artist Joshua Yeldham packed his Combi Volkswagen to make his way along the Australian dingo fence. His car broke down 300 kilometres north of Broken Hill. He spent the next 6 years there, on the wilderness of Wild Dog Flat, using an abandoned bus as his studio. Not far from the camp-site he discovered a lonely gravestone.

New Orleans : Toye Bros. Yellow Cab Co., c. 1927. Duodecimo, printed yellow wrappers, pp. 28. Wonderful early tourist brochure for NOLA, including trips to the plantations, Mardi Gras, et. Rare, a single example recorded in collections (Louisiana State University)

London : Soul Jazz Records, 2022. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. Over 250 rarely seen stunning images documenting the rise of hip-hop in the early 1980s. Photographs by Sophie Bramly, Introduction by Bill Adler, Text by Fab Five Freddy, Grand Mixer D.ST, Rahiem (The Furious Five), Arthur Baker, Zephyr Muhamad (The Magnificent Force), Lady Pink, Mister Freeze (The Rock Steady Crew), Slick Rick, and Patti Astor “In 1981, photographer Sophie Bramly moved from France to New York and for two years documented the Big Apple’s burgeoning hip-hop scene, taking pictures of graffiti artists, breakdancers and rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC.” – The Guardian “This wonderfully hefty photography title documents the early years of hip hop”. – Record Culture “During the early 80s, on Saturday nights at the Roxy in downtown Manhattan and at the Bronx River Center, acts like Run-D.M.C., Afrika Bambaataa and Fab 5 Freddy created a totally new scene in… Read More

Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo: 勝村治右衛門 [Katsumura Jihei], 柳原喜兵衛 [Yanahara Kihei], 北畠茂兵衛 [Kitahata Mohei] et al.. 1874. Two volumes, small quarto (250 x 180 mm), Japanese 5 hole stab binding, original yellow paper covers (rubbed) and title labels; with volvelle showing the earth's orbit, 3 double page copper engraved colour maps, and numerous black and white maps and illustrations; damp staining at upper margins of a few leaves, else a very clean and attractive set. Two volumes published to accompany Murata's Japanese translation of German cartographer Hermann Berghaus's work Chart of the World. The first volume includes chapters titled ""On maps"", ""Quick Time Chart in Different Places"", ""Five Zones of the Earth"", ""Zones Differentiated by Temperature"", ""Distribution of Metal, Mountain ranges, Volcanos, and High and Low Lands"", ""Comparison of High Mountains and Great Rivers"", ""Comparison in Size of Lakes"", and ""Comparison in Size of Various Islands"". The… Read More

Vancouver : Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2006. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 8, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue for the conceptual artist.

Silver gelatin print photograph on card stock, 80 x 130 mm, tipped onto a page (165 x 125 mm) removed from a disbound traveller's album, photographer's inscription beneath image in ink: 'Native Watchman. Shewing how he protects himself from wild animals during the night'; lengthier pencil inscription in the same hand to verso of print (only partially legible); the print has lost a little contrast but has excellent detail. From an album compiled by an anonymous English visitor working on the railway in and around Jebba, Northern Nigeria, prior to World War One. Jebba is a Yoruba township situated near the great bend in the middle River Niger.

With a preface by Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. A fine copy, as new. 'The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner's Australian years and provides well-researched and previously unpublished insights into the artist's principal themes. Bergner first exhibited with Arthur Boyd and Noel Counihan in Melbourne in 1939 and from then he developed an increasingly social-realist approach to painting. Today, he is one of Israel's leading painters, but he continues to visit and exhibit works in Australia.' - the publisher Yosl Bergner passed away in 2017 at the age of 96.

Nissim Aloni : the longing and the grotesque. Rodi Bineth-Perry : painterly aspects and the subject. Jerusalem : Keter Publishing House, 1981. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, in original cardboard carton, pp. 214, illustrated. Text in English and Hebrew. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper 'For my first painter friend in Australia Albert Tucker and for Barbara with lots of love from Yosl Bergner 24.1.1982' with a small drawing of an apple. Bergner and Tucker were key members of Melbourne's Angry Penguins group in the 1940s. Their work each delved into social and urban themes, and after Bergtner left Australia for Israel in 1948, the two remained lifelong friends. A significant presentation copy. The book includes paintings from Bergner's time in Australia.

Jerusalem : Bineth Publishers, 1969. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, in original cardboard carton, numerous colour and black and white plates. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page 'For my old and loyal friend Albert Tucker with best regards, Yosl Bergner 1969', the box with 'Tucker' inscribed in pen. Loosely enclosed, a black and white photograph of Bergner with one of his portraits in his studio. Limited to 1500 copies. Bergner and Tucker were key members of Melbourne's Angry Penguins group in the 1940s. Their work each delved into social and urban themes, and after Bergtner left Australia for Israel in 1948, the two remained lifelong friends. A significant presentation copy.

Tel Aviv : Bineth Gallery, 1977. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slightly marked), signed in pen by artist on title page, 32 pp. illustrated, catalogue, English and Hebrew printed dos-a-dos. Yosl Bergner was an important member of the Angry Penguins circle in Melbourne in the 1930s and 1940s.

[Perth, W.A. : Government Tourist Bureau, 1937 or 1938]. Octavo (215 mm), pictorial wrappers (pale foxing), staple bound, [40] pp, with sepia tone photographic illustrations and [4] full-page colour plates of native flowers; a very good copy. The text begins ""Looking back 109 years"", which suggests a publication date of 1937 or possibly 1938.

[Perth, W.A. : Government Tourist Bureau, 1937 or 1938]. Octavo (215 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [40] pp, with sepia tone photographic illustrations and [4] full-page colour plates of native flowers; a very good copy. The text begins ""Looking back 109 years"", which suggests a publication date of 1937 or possibly 1938.

[Los Angeles : Athletic Model Guild], 1963. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 66, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with photographs of near fully nude young men in various poses to display their youthful physique. The first issue of one of Bob Mizer's 'beefcake' magazines, which published images of athletic and attractive young men primarily for a homosexual clientele, commencing prior to the relaxation of pornography laws in the 1960s. A fine, uncirculated copy.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 89 x 140 mm, printed on postcard stock; captioned in the negative '374. Goodradigbee River, Burrinjuck, Aug. 1914. H & S'; verso imprinted 'Howard & Shearsby, Yass, N.S.W.'; a very sharp image with great depth of field; not postally used, in superb condition. We have not been able to locate any example of this image in Australian institutional collections.