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

London: Tate Publishing, 2008. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 288, illustrated. A fine copy.

Minneapolis : The Hermetic Press, 1979. Small square duodecimo, limp papered boards with title label, unpaginated, text and typecut illustrations. Limited to 100 copies bound by hand. 'Acclaimed artist, poet and master printer Philip Gallo has operated The Hermetic Press since 1965 when he first began printing concrete and visual poetry. For the ten years between 1990 and 2000 he was closely associated with Granary Books and printed many books in collaboration with other artists, including John Cage, Susan Rothenberg and Carolee Schneemann.' - Brooklyn Artists Alliance website https://booklyn.org/artists/Philip%20Gallo%20at%20The%20Hermetic%20Press,%20%20Minneapolis,%20Minnesota.php Rare, no copies recorded on WorldCat.

Sydney : Gould Galleries, 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, slightly creased, pp. [32]. Price list enclosed.  

Melbourne : Kozminsky Gallery, 1999. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 58, illustrated. Includes works by Arthur Streeton, William Dobell, Brett Whiteley, Grace Cossington Smith, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Frederick McCubbin et alia. Price list enclosed

London : Holden & Hardingham, 1914. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt (upper board rubbed and marked; spine faded and a little softened at the ends); top-edge gilt; front pastedown with early owner's inscription; title-page in red and black, pp. i-x, 11-336, [4], 12 publisher's ads.; illustrated with 15 b/w photographic plates; front hinge cracked, occasional marginal spotting, otherwise internally very good. A survey of the practice of polygamy in its many and varied religious and cultural contexts, including in the Islamic, Jewish, Hindu and Mormon faiths, and (more specifically) in Burma, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Afghanistan, Persia, Morocco, Tunisia, Japan, China, and the West. There are also chapters on the harem in different societies throughout history.  

London : Duckworth, 1935. First edition, fourth impression. Thick octavo (215 x 135 mm), in fine signed binding by Zaehnsdorf, London, full morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering; all edges gilt; pp. [viii], 1149; light spotting to first and last few leaves, otherwise contents excellent.

Brimsdown, U.K. : Spear's Games, [1939]. Folding game board of thin card, 210 x 310 mm, in excellent condition; in the original box, 250 x 180 x 25 mm (lid with child owner's name and some pen marks, some minor edge and corner wear); the underside of the box lid has the printed rules; lacking the playing pieces. A simple ""roll and move"" game (with hazards and advances outlined in the rules) designed by Gustav Müller and published shortly before WW2. The box lid features a German Junkers 52. J. W. Spear & Sons was founded by Jacob Wolf Spier (1832-1893) in Fürth, near Nuremberg, in 1879. During the 1930s some members of this Jewish family moved to England to escape Nazi persecution and started to manufacture games under the anglicised name Spear.

[Ballarat and Melbourne], The National Game Company, [ca. 1940]. Folding game board printed directly onto thin card, 250 x 250 mm; in fine condition. A very good example of one of the later editions of this game. A scarce Australian-made and designed board game which reflects what it was still like to drive on Australian roads at this time. The hazards encountered by the players include skidding on gravel, sheep blocking the road, and broken axles and springs due to bumpy country roads.

Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1937. Second edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine a little faded), previous owner's name to pastedown, pp. xii; 270; (2), a very good copy. A landmark study in nuclear physics, the second edition greatly expanded from the first due to the pace of scientific discovery of the period.

 ... Con licencia de la Sancta Inquisicion, Ordinario, y Paco. En Lisboa: En la officina de Pedro Crasbeeck, 1609 [but 1608]. Small folio (240 x 170 mm), later full vellum with ornate gilt-tooled decoration; [9] preliminary leaves, 264 ff (colophon to verso of leaf 264, with date of 1608), [1 errata] page with woodcut decorations; title with printer's device and early ownership inscription; woodcut initials; preliminaries and first 60 leaves with repaired upper margins (small loss of text); leaves 53-66 with repaired worm tracks (some loss of text); leaves 110-130 with small repairs to fore-edge margin (loss to a few letters here and there); leaf 209-250 with repairs at lower outer corners (small loss of text); leaves 246-264 with repairs to upper outer corners (some loss of text); occasional ink marks; lacking the engraved plate, else a good copy. The first edition of the first part of Inca historian Garcilaso de la Vega's Commentarios reales de los Incas, the first work published by an Andean… Read More

Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards reproducing a painting by Howard Arkley, pp. 262, extensively illustrated. New copy, signed by the author. With works from Sidney Nolan, Howard Arkley and more, this richly illustrated work illuminates the untold stories and origins of the most important event of the art world. Before the winds of World War I blew Europe apart, a rowdy and radical group of Australian artists would gather in the salons of Paris and London to embrace new ways of painting and seeing the world. By 1914 twelve of them had shown their works at the Venice International Exhibition, now known as the Venice Biennale. Bundled in with the British, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Thea Proctor were represented alongside legendary artists Corot, Rodin, Klimt and Renoir. Four decades later Australia sent its first official delegation of artists: Sidney Nolan, Russell Drysdale and William Dobell; the works of Rover Thomas, Howard Arkley, Patricia Piccinini and Shaun… Read More

New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., November 1932. Large quarto format (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the front cover design a lampoon of Adolf Hitler by Italian artist Paolo Garretto; 72 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; the wrappers have some very light handling wear, and the paper spine is chipped in a few places; contents clean and sound. Like the front cover of Vanity Fair's October 1932 issue, which featured a grotesque caricature of the fascist dictator Mussolini by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, the cover of its November 1932 issue has achieved notoriety for Italian artist Paolo Garretto's anti-Nazi depiction of Adolf Hitler. At the time, Hitler was not yet in power: he would not become Chancellor of the Reichstag until January, 1933. 'When the editors of Vanity Fair sat down to plan the layout for their November 1932 cover, they probably had only one thing on their minds: How can we top our Mussolini cover? Perhaps the October issue of that year… Read More

New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., July, 1935. Large quarto format (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the front cover design by Italian artist Paolo Garretto; 64 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; the front wrapper has some light handling wear; contents clean and sound. This issue includes articles on Hollywood, colour photographic essay by Earl Carroll on the world's most beautiful women; b/w photographic essay on the construction of the Oakland Bridge; full-page photographic portraits of Katharine Hepburn and Jean Cocteau, by Cecil Beaton, of boxer Joe Louis and actress Ann Sothern, by Lusha Nelson, and of tennis star Helen Jacobs by Edward Steichen.

Melbourne : Working Men's College, 1933. 'This is the only issue of ""Imprimatur"" that will appear and 500 copies were printed on the 20th September, 1933, at the Working Men's College, Latrobe Street, Melbourne, Australia'. Single folio sheet folded into 4 pp, horizontal fold line but a good copy of a very scarce printing publication. THP 704. Copies are held in four Australian collections (State Library of Victoria; State Library of Queensland; National Library of Australia; Monash University Library).

Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 62, illustrated throughout in colour, essay on the artist by Deborah Edwards, preface by Edmund Capon, text by James Mollison and Steven Heath, includes list of plates, catalogue of works and biographical notes. Published for the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, held 14 November 1997 - 11 January 1998. A very good copy.

the Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, 5 September-8 October 2000. Canberra : Drill Hall Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 63, illustrated. Scarce.

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2023. ""Red-Letter Series"". Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Claire Gaskin Weather Event, 24 pp.; 2. LK Holt Merry War (of Never Meeting and Never Ending), 24 pp.; 3. Philip Mead Clouded, 28 pp.; 4. Peter Rose Catullan Rag LXV-LXXXI, 20 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by major award-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers, created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the third instalment of four titles in the Red-Letter series, offered only as a complete set… Read More

Moscow : D. IA. Makovskii, 1914. First Russian edition of Noa Noa : voyage à Tahiti. Quarto, original pictorial yellow wrappers, title with vignette illustration, frontispiece plate of Gauguin's self-portrait, 125 pp, 10 full-page black and white plates, one tipped-in illustration and vignette head- and tail-pieces; a fine copy. Text in Russian. The Paris-based Russian art historian and critic Yakov Tugendhold was a champion of Gauguin's work. The rare first Russian edition of the artist's now-famous Tahiti journal was the product of Tugendhold's own initiative, and it includes his essay on Gauguin's life and work. A second edition, more common than the first, was published in 1918.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted 'Photographed from life by Gaul, 75 & 77 Swanston St., Melbourne' and with an extensive inscription in ink: 'Gertrude Sophia Jane Plantagenet Colleton, only child of Frederick Nassau William Graves Colleton and great-grandchild of Admiral Richard Graves of Hembury Fort, County Devon. / Taken November 1866'; both the print and mount are in very good condition. In the wake of abolition - but especially after 1838, when slaves were finally emancipated in British colonies and slave-owners received compensation - there was a significant influx into the Australian colonies of families and individuals who brought with them accumulated wealth that was the legacy of slave ownership, especially in the Caribbean, North America, or Mauritius. For almost 200 years, from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, the Colleton family, originally wealthy wool merchants from Exeter in Devon, played a major part in the… Read More

London : T. and W. Boone, New Bond Street, 1847. Octavo, disbound, pp iv, 30; title with offsetting at corners and left margin, else a very good copy. Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler (1795-1869) served as the second Governor of South Australia from October 1838 until May 1841. After his retirement in 1841, Gawler returned to England and devoted himself to religious and charitable works. One of his abiding and deep interests was the welfare and fair treatment of the Jews by peoples and governments of other faiths. He published a number of tracts in relation to this topic, including The Tranquillization of Syria and the East (1845), in which he promulgated the idea that Jews be allowed to establish autonomous agricultural settlements in Palestine as recompense for their suffering under Ottoman rule; The Emancipation of the Jews (1847); and Syria and its Near Prospects (1853). He also toured Palestine in 1849 with Moses Montefiore, the British financier and philanthropist. For a gentile… Read More