Books + Art - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Ola Cohn : a holograph note
COHN, Ola, 1892-1964
# 2223
Manuscript in ink (octavo, single sheet, folded into 4 pp), on Cohn's
embossed letterhead, Ola's Home, 41-43 Gipps St. East Melbourne,
dated 20.2.58, signed Ola Cohn, a note to an unnamed recipient
regarding one of Cohn's terra-cotta sculptures which the adressee
has in his/her collection. Cohn's note quotes lines from a poem by
the American writer Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Precious Moments,
which she says remind her of this 'little terra-cotta'. On the inner
pages the letter's recipient has written out the poem in full.
$ 90
Eureka 1854 – 1954 : a folio
of lino-cuts
COUNIHAN, Noel et alia
# 1183
Melbourne: Popular Print Art Group, 1954. Quarto, lettered paper
portfolio (the tipped-on Noel Counihan linocut missing from the
front panel), four sheets letterpress and fourteen original linocuts of
the Eureka Rebellion by Ray Wenban, Noel Counihan, Pat O’Connor,
Peter Miller, Alisa O’Connor, Len Gale, Ernie McFarlane, Maurice
Carter, Naomi Shipp and Mary Zuvella. An important and complete
portfolio of artworks, produced by the left-wing Melbourne collective
sympathetic to the unionist sentiments of the Ballarat miners. This copy
- like most - is missing the delicately placed cover image, and priced
accordingly. See: Robert Smith, Noel Counihan Prints 1931 - 1981,
Sydney, Hale & Ironmonger, 1981, pp. 68 - 70 (illustrated).
$ 1,400
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