Books + Art - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

In focus : Australia’s heritage in stamps : 150 years of
Australian photography
COLLIGAN, Mimi / Australia Post Philatelic Group
# 1359
Melbourne : Australia Post, 1991. Octavo, illustrated boards, 32 pp,
illustrated; ex Richard King collection, with 4 tipped-in First Day
of Issue philatelic cards, two of which are signed and dated by the
renowned photographer Max Dupain; also signed by King, and with his
collection wet stamp. A unique copy.
A brief survey of the history of Australian photography, from the mid
19th century onwards, with featured sections on the work of four
luminaries: Max Dupain himself, Harold Cazneaux, Olive Cotton and
Wolfgang Sievers.
$ 275
Riders in the chariot (signed copy)
[PATRICK WHITE]
# 2269
London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. First edition. Octavo, purple
cloth with pictorial dust jacket (from a painting by Sidney Nolan),
price-clipped, front board slightly bowed, text block shaken, owners'
inscription MAISIE & RUSSELL DRYSDALE, BOUDDI FARM, 1966
to front free endpaper, in the hand of Russell Drysdale, SIGNED ON
THE TITLE PAGE BY PATRICK WHITE, owner's red seal at foot of title
page, 552 pp (mild foxing to edges). A good copy.
Patrick White (1912-1990), the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize
in Literature (1973); Russell Drysdale (1912-1981), one of Australia's
most celebrated artists of the twentieth century.
$ 500
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