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RANKIN, Jennifer and OLSEN, John
# 1327
London : Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1978. Quarto, giltillustrated
leather in cloth slipcase, 56 pp., illustrated with full page
plates by Olsen. Ex libris bookplate from Richard Griffin on front
pastedown. The deluxe edition, limited to 176 copies (of which 150
were for sale), with an original signed Olsen etching ‘Banksia’ tipped-in.
Signed by the author Jennifer Rankin on the title page, who passed
away the following. year at the age of 38.
$ 850
John Olsen. My
complete graphics
1957 – 1979.
OLSEN, John.
# 1868
Introduction by Lou Klepac. Melbourne: Australian Galleries and
Gryphon Books, 1980. Folio, gilt-decorated cloth in illustrated dust
jacket, 248pp. illustrated throughout. Limited to 1000 copies. ‘My
complete graphics’ was successfully released late in 1980, but not
before a major disagreement between Olsen, publisher Richard Griffin
and Australian Galleries where the book was launched at an earlier
exhibition. Dissatisfaction with the quality of product (advance copies
of which actually arrived late on the night of the launch) saw Griffin
pull the book from sale, and pulp the entire edition. Only a handful of
copies escaped this fate. This copy is one of the corrected later copies,
signed by Olsen, out of series and inscribed by the publisher ‘For Tony -
The Final Version - Richard’.
$ 450