Books + Art - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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[NATURAL HISTORY] The Great Barrier Reef
BEDFORD, Randolph / E.F. Pollock and Frank Hurley (photographs)
# 997
Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd, 1928. Octavo, pink card wrappers (old
water stain around tail of spine) with paste-down pictorial title label,
unpaginated [13] pp, 7 tipped-in sepia photographic plates. A good
copy.
A short photographic essay using the wonderful images of Pollock and
Hurley accompanied by informative text.
$ 100
The Laneways of Melbourne (Standard)
[IRVING]. ARNOLD, John.
# 114
Researched & written by John Arnold with etchings by Tony Irving
with photographs by Caitlin Littlewood. Melbourne: The Lytlewode
Press, 25 July 2001. Large folio, gilt-decorated polished calf in matching
slipcase by master Queensland binder Fred Pohlmann. The de luxe
edition. Published in an edition of 25 copies, each numbered and
signed by the artist, photographer and publisher. Numbers 1 – 10
were the deluxe edition, and numbers 11 – 25 the standard edition.
Each book features ten original full page etchings by Tony Irving,
individually signed by him; the de luxe also contains an original large
signed Tony Irving drawing of a Melbourne laneway.
$ 1,800