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Excellent Stranger
[TUCKER]. KERSHAW, Alister
# 2206
Melbourne & Adelaide : Reed & Harris, 1944. Octavo, boards in dust
jacket reproducing a surrealist watercolour by Albert Tucker (slight
chip at head of front panel), green endpapers, portrait frontispiece of
the author, a fine copy. Printed in an edition of 200 copies (COWLEY,
Des, A checklist of Reed & Harris Publications, in The La Trobe Journal
No 64, Spring 1999, p. 45).
$ 250
Catalogue of
the etchings of
Sydney Ure Smith
[URE SMITH]
# 171
With an original etching and twelve reproductions of etchings by
the artist and an introduction by Bertram Stevens. Sydney: [privately
printed], 1920. Quarto, papered boards with title label, 40pp, twelve
tipped-in plates plus one original etching bound in as frontispiece,
titled, signed and editioned by the artist, all edges uncut. Limited to 50
copies only, signed and numbered by Sydney Ure Smith. Printed on
the Hand-Press by Percy G. Green, at the Smith & Julius Art Studios
Sydney (from the colophon). A rare deluxe edition. Baldwin Spencer’s
copy, with his initials in pencil.
$ 875