NZArt

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Title

Sub-title

Author

Publisher

Published

Pages

Size

Condition

Price

Comment

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Anzac

 

Aberhart, Laurence

Victoria University Press, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

2014

107

Oblong 4to

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

50

The artist's lens captures monuments to the fallen in overseas wars, from the north to the south of New Zealand, and in Australia

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22.000000

48.000000

53.000000

58.000000

Domestic Architecture

 

Aberhart, Laurence

McNamara Gallery Photography

2005

63

8vo

P-B Fine

45

The exhibition book, a 'catalogue raisonne' of this New Zealand photographer's domestic architecture shots 1974-2005, in New Zealand and overseas, numbered and limited to 500 copies

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12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Aberhart

 

Aberhart, Laurence (et al)

Victoria University Press

2007

304

Oblong 4to

D-J  Near Fine

75

A most wonderful exhibition book, with over 220 plates in black and white

13.000000

35.000000

73.000000

82.000000

90.000000

Laurence Aberhart The Invisible Edge 8x10 Polaroids 1979/80

 

Aberhart, Laurence ; Eggleton, David

Marshall Seiffert Gallery

2005

Folded card into 4p

Oblong 8vo

Soft card  Fine

10

With essay by David Eggleton 'Provincial Polaroids', a series of 8 + 2 Aberhart images of man-made structures

3.000000

10.000000

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Laurence Aberhart  Where Shadows Dream of Light

 

Aberhart, Laurence ; Hipkins, Gavin

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1999

Folded card into 8p

4to

Soft card  Fine

15

With essay by Gavin Hipkins 'Delayed Action', 8 images of man-made structures, including war memorials

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10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

The Interior

 

Aberhart, Laurence ; Paton, Justin

McNamara Gallery Photography

2002

32

8vo

P-B Fine

22

With essay by Justin Paton, the exhibition catalogue for a series of interior shots taken from New Zealand and overseas, limited to 1000 copies

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20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Mataora  the living face  contemporary Maori Art Te Waka Toi

 

Adsett, Sandy ; Whiting, Cliff (general eds) ; Ihimaera, Witi (ed)

Bateman

1996

167p (1p)

Folio

D-J Paper over boards Slight foxing top FE  Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the work of contemporary Maori artists, carvers, weavers, sculptors, a wonderful creation

10.000000

35.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Mataora  the living face  contemporary Maori Art Te Waka Toi

 

Adsett, Sandy ; Whiting, Cliff (general eds) ; Ihimaera, Witi (ed)

Bateman

1999 Reprint edition (1996)

167p (1p)

Folio

D-J Paper over boards Slight foxing top FE  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the work of contemporary Maori artists, carvers, weavers, sculptors, a wonderful creation

10.000000

35.000000

95.000000

90.000000

95.000000

Auckland Architecture  a personal view

 

Akkirman, Sait

Sait & Judith Akkirman

1999

400

Folio

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

65

820 photographs of Auckland architectural features, from whole buildings to parts of buildings

9.000000

39.000000

86.000000

96.000000

105.000000

George F Fodor  His family and painting

 

Allbrook, Rosemary

Author Pub

2007

47

4to

P-B Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, a family history of this artist who came to Australasia

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Wonderland  the New Zealand photographs of Whites Aviation

 

Alsop, Peter

Potton & Burton

2020

175

4to

Soft card covers Near Fine

35

With illustrations, Whites Aviation photographs from North to South

8.000000

32.000000

75.000000

75.000000

75.000000

Railways Studios  how a Government design studio helped build New Zealand

 

Alsop, Peter (et al)

Te Papa Press

2020

381p (3p)

4to

Laminated boards Slight bump spine Near Fine

70

With many illustrations, the development of this government department and its effect on advertising in New Zealand, from 1920 to 1987

9.000000

40.000000

85.000000

80.000000

87.000000

Mitchell & Mitchell  A father and son arts legacy

 

Alsop, Peter ; Reed, Anna ; Wolfe, Richard

Potton & Burton

2018

(4 leaves) 419p (6 leaves)

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

70

With illustrations and reproductions, the advertising, poster and fine art work of these two New Zealand artists, in great detail

10.000000

42.000000

90.000000

102.000000

111.000000

Maori Scenes and Portraits

 

Angus, George French ; Reed, AW (ed)

Reed

1979

94

4to

D-J (fading spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards, slight rubbing top, bottom spine  VG

40

With map and illustrations, a selection of 33 plates from Angas' work

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60.000000

60.000000

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Len Lye

 

Annear, Judy (ed)

Art Gallery of New South Wales

2000

59

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Slight signature TP Near Fine

40

With illustrations in colour and B/W, a collection of essays introducing this exhibition booklet and catalogue

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Mau Mahara

Our Stories in Craft

Anon

Craft Council of New Zealand

1990

(2p) 130p

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, published in association with an exhibition of the same name, Maori and pakeha arts and crafts and the memories, events and stories associated with each

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

New Zealand Paintings by C. F. Goldie series 1

 

Anon

New Zealand Art Publications Ltd

1968

8 leaves

4to

Soft card covers, plate mounted on front cover Ribbon tie  Near Fine

25

With seven portraits by CF Goldie, from 'Old Sentinel' (Kapi Kapi) to Tumai Tawhiti, Whiripine Ninia, Kapi Kapi, Harata Tuhaere, Pani, Ena ('meditation'), nice, tidy copy

5.500000

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Waikato Te Awa  The People and the River

 

Anon

Waikato Museum of Art and History

1995

20 leaves

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

A photographic exhibition by Laurence Aberhart, Wayne Barrar, David Cook, Tai Moana and Natalie Robertson

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

A Tribute to McCahon 1919-87

 

Anon

Hocken Library

1987

56

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, an exhibition catalogue and listing of the McCahon works held in the Hocken Library in 1987

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Te Waka Toi  Contemporary Maori Art from New Zealand

 

Anon

Te Waka Toi Council for Maori and South Pacific Arts

1992

23 leaves

4to

P-B Signature TP  VG - Near Fine

35

A celebratory exhibition of modern artists of Maori descent, carvers, painters, weavers, sculptors, with short biographies and illustrations of work

5.000000

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21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Frances Hodgkins 1869-1947

 

Anon

John Leech Gallery

1998

16 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B Signature TP  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the catalogue for this short retro exhibition of the artist's long artistic life

6.000000

18.000000

34.000000

38.000000

42.000000

Kahurangi  Treasures from New Zealand

 

Anon

NZ Govt, Pacific Asia Museum

1984

63

Oblong 8vo

P-B Short inscription HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a catalogue produced for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, showcasing the work of artists such as Stephen Myre, Russell Beck, Erenora Hetet, Marte Szirmay and Paul Mason

7.500000

22.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

The Heritage of New Zealand Art Calendar 1989

 

Anon

Allencal

1988

14 leaves

Oblong Folio

Spiral bound, cover and backing sheet, one image per two months, then the image reproduced full-size on succeeding leaf   Fine

55

Limited edition (#1578 of 4000), with paintings by Sharpe, Walsh, O'Brien, Von Guerard, Blomfield, van der Velden, six images ready for framing

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20.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Paintings from my Palette

 

Ayson, Murray

Author Pub

2019

228

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations and reproductions, this Southern New Zealand artist's painting of Southern landscapes

6.500000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

A Painter in Fiji

 

Badcock, Douglas

W&T

1973

46p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J (short chip) Blue cloth boards  VG

20

With the artist's illustrations, 16 colour plates and other B/W drawings/studies, a nice copy

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

My Kind of Country

 

Badcock, Douglas

W&T

1971

86p (2p)

Oblong 4to

D-J (slight rubbing, in archival wrapper) Blue cloth binding, thin line of fading base  Slight inscription HTP VG

30

Signed by the artist, 34 illustrations from Southern New Zealand, and a Fiji plate

5.000000

22.000000

47.000000

51.000000

54.000000

Sketches from Early New Zealand  Some Nineteenth Century Engravings

 

Barber, Laurie (comp)

David Bateman

1985

112

4to

D-J Near Fine

30

A fascinating collection of engravings from the European settlement period in NZ's history which portray a view of NZ from the English point of view, including views of the NZ Wars

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Bruce Hunt  Paintings  2002-2005

 

Barker, David (et al)

Ferner Galleries

2005

36

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  VG

25

With reproductions, an exhibition publication of landscapes from the South Island high country

4.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Toss Woollaston  an illustrated biography

 

Barnett, Gerald

Random Century, National Art Gallery

1992 Reprint edition

124

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, a study of the development of Toss Woollaston as an artist, as well as a New Zealand artist

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Jeffrey Harris  Recent Work  30 March -21 April 1989

 

Barr, Jim

Deutscher Gertrude Street

1989

8 leaves

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With reproductions, a 1989 exhibition of this New Zealand artist's work

8.000000

23.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Jeffrey Harris

 

Barr, Jim (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1981

24

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

The catalogue for the artist's exhibition in Dunedin, with essay by Jim Barr, catalogue and B/W reproductions

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Philip Clairmont

 

Barr, Jim and Mary

The Sarjeant Gallery

1987

73

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, an exhibition of this New Zealand artist's work, three years after his early death

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

When Art hits the Headlines

A survey of controversial art in New Zealand

Barr, Jim and Mary

National Art Gallery, The Evening Post

1987

48

Folio

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, the reactions to art exhibited in New Zealand as seen through New Zealand newspapers

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13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Michael Smither  an introduction

 

Barr, Jim and Mary

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

1984

112

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

30

Artist Grahame Sydney's copy, with essay and illustrations, an excellent introduction to this New Zealand artist

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Peter Peryer  Photographs

 

Barr, Jim and Mary

Sarjeant Gallery

1985

34

4to

P-B Fine

22

With reproductions, the exhibition catalogue with some photos reproduced in full page, a nice copy

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Neil Dawson Site Works 1981-89

 

Barr, Jim and Mary ; Dawson, Neil

National Art Gallery

1989

96

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, published  in association with the outside installations and exhibition 'Get the Picture' at the National Art Gallery and in Wellington City

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

36.000000

Contemporary New Zealand Painters Volume 1 A-M

 

Barr, Jim and Mary ; Friedlander, Marti

Alister Taylor

1980

176

Oblong 4to

Boxed (light fading spine)  Red cloth binding, yellow and blue titles  VG

50

With illustrations and reproductions, a little miracle in its own time, giving glimpses of 22 contemporary New Zealand artists (most still alive when the book was published), in interview and study, scarce.

13.000000

49.000000

109.000000

102.000000

109.000000

Distance Looks our Way 10 Artists from New Zealand

 

Barr, Mary (ed)

Trustees, Distance Looks our Way Trust

1991

119

4to

P-B  Owner's stamp covered TP VG

25

With illustrations, showcasing Gretchen Albrecht, Gavin Chilcott, Jacqueline Fraser, WD Hammond, Tony Lane, Richard Rddaway, John Reynolds, James Ross, Michael Stevenson, Elizabeth Thomson

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

John Parker Cause and Effect

 

Barr, Mary (ed)

Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery

2016

143p (1p)

Oblong 4to

D-J Plasticised boards Inscription FEP VG - Near Fine

68

With illustrations and essays, a work marking fifty years of pottery and ceramics in the life of one of New Zealand's most innovative potters

9.000000

28.000000

65.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Headlands  Thinking through New Zealand Art

 

Barr, Mary (ed)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Aust), National Art Gallery (NZ)

1992

230

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

95

With illustrations and reproductions, the wonderful exhibition catalogue which includes essays covering contemporary New Zealand art, from painting to film to written critique (including Art magazines)

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Shifting Nature

 

Barrar, Wayne

Sarjeant Gallery

1992

24

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With ilustrtions and essay, the exhibition catalogue, man living in a controlled and modified landscape

6.000000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Shifting Nature

 

Barrar, Wayne ; Park, Geoff

University of Otago Press

2001

120

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

With an essay by Geoff Park - 'Beyond the Beauty Spots of the Uninitiated' - a collection from nine of the author-photographer's series discussing the relationship between culture and nature

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

An expanding Subterra

 

Barrar, Wayne ; Pike, David L ; Kreisler, Aaron

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

2010

128

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the exhibition publication of the photographer's investigation of the underground

6.000000

22.000000

46.000000

51.000000

55.000000

Walters Gimblett Bambury

 

Barrie, Lita

Jonathan Jensen Gallery

1992

15 leaves

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight mark spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, three New Zealand artists who are 'loosely connected as abstract painters' especially by 'the quality of silence which is manifest in their work'

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Andrew Drummond

 

Barrie, Lita

Jonathan Jensen Gallery

1994

15 leaves

Oblong 8vo

D-J Papr over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a study of this New Zealand installation artist

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Maori Wood Sculpture of New Zealand

 

Barrow, Terry

Reed

1969

(frontis) 162p (1p)

4to

D-J (in archival wrapper) Signature FEP Near Fine

35

With illustrations and drawings, a study of some of the finest extant (in 1969) Maori wood sculpture, both inside and outside New Zealand, a landmark book of its time, includes useful bibliograhy, in very nice condition

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

45.000000

Bernard Leach  essays in appreciation

 

Barrow, Terry (ed)

NZ Potter

1960

70

8vo

P-B Rubbing spine  VG

20

With illustrations, essays by Bernard Leach himself, as well as New Zealand potters such as Len Castle and Barry Brickell

8.000000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Ground-Work  The Art of Pauline Rhodes

 

Barton, Christina

Adam Art Gallery, VUP

2002

136

8to

P-B Fine

35

With illustrations and reproductions, documenting the artist's body of work, especially the installations

5.000000

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21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Billy Apple Life/Work

 

Barton, Christina

Auckland University Press

2020

ix (1p) 390p

8vo

D-J Laminatd boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations and reproductions, the first substantial work on this New Zealand-born world artist, from posters to installing himself

6.500000

31.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Billy Apple

 

Barton, Christina (et al)

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

2009

111

Small 8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations and essays, a life and work study of Billy Apple, the artist as the product

4.000000

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28.000000

Reading Room: a Journal of Art and Culture

Liquid State issue 04, 2010

Barton, Christina (et al, eds)

Auckland Art Gallery, The EH McCormack Research Library

2010

223p (1p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a collection of essays that turn around liquidity, life and movement, including a tribute to Julian Jashper

5.000000

17.000000

31.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Points of Contact  Jim Allen, Len Lye, Helio Oiticica

 

Barton, Christina (et al, eds)

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi

2011

80

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

With illustrations, Jim Allen in conversation and discussion, and the connections with Len Lye and Helio Oiticica

4.000000

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26.000000

Witness to Change Life in New Zealand Photographs 1940-1965

 

Bayly, Janet (et al)

Photoforum Wellington

1985

88

4to

P-B Slight knock base spine Near Fine

35

With essays by Janet Bayly, Wayne Stagg and Athol McCredie, the photography of John Pascoe, Les Cleveland and Ans Weatra, and what they showed of New Zealand emerging from War

3.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

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Chasing the Southern Light  the photographs of Matheson Beaumont

 

Beaumont, Matheson

Longacre Press

2006

158p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

55

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the author/photographe r's photographic journey through the south of New Zealand

8.000000

35.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Chasing the Southern Light  the photographs of Matheson Beaumont

 

Beaumont, Matheson

Longacre Press

2006

158p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the author/photographe r's photographic journey through the south of New Zealand

8.000000

35.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Excavating the Past  Michael Shepherd  artist

 

Bell, Claudia

Gilt Edge Publishing

2005

v 44p

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations and reproductions, the work of this Hamilton-born artist

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Alexander Hare McLintock  Printmaker  Bulletin of NZ Art History Special Series 1

 

Bell, David

Hocken Library

1994

75

4to

P-B Fine

22

An essay and a catalogue of the works of this New Zealand author and printmaker, illustrated from the works

5.000000

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25.000000

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Strangers Arrive  Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand 1930-1980

 

Bell, Leonard

Auckland University Press

2013

(6p) 310p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the effects of the arrival in New Zealand of artist escapees from Europe  from the thirties, from photographers to architects, whose knowledge and points of view would shake up the established order

8.000000

42.000000

95.000000

85.000000

95.000000

The 'Three Castles' Book of New Zealand Birds

 

Benham, Prof WB (adviser)

Coulls Somerville Wilkie

1930

50

4to

Green cloth boards, string to spine Strips of fading to boards VG - Near Fine

40

The two parts of this publication together in boards, 48 illustrations, chiefly reproductions from Buller's second edition New Zealand birds, includes the Moa

7.500000

31.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

New Zealand Art  A modern perspective

 

Bett, Elva

Reed Methuen

1986

(3p) 222p

Folio

D-J (in archival wrapper) Slight rubbing base  Near Fine

50

With reproductions, a survey of well-established and rising artists by this retired art-dealer, scarce

13.000000

30.000000

64.000000

74.000000

77.000000

McCahon 'Religious' works 1946-1952

 

Bieringa, Luit

Manawatu Art Gallery

1975

55

Small 8vo

P-B  Spine staples rusting Owner's small stamp TP VG - Near Fine

25

With reproductions in black & white, the exhibition catalogue with essay by Luit Bieringa

6.500000

22.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Rita Angus

 

Bieringa, Luit (et al)

National Art Gallery

1982

214p (errata slip)

8vo

P-B VG

28

With illustrations, published in association with the detailed exhibition of the same name

6.000000

25.000000

50.000000

54.000000

58.000000

M T Woollaston   Works 1933-1973

 

Bieringa, Luit (et al)

Manawatu Art Gallery

1973

66p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

28

An exhibition catalogue, with essay by Luit Bieringa, biographical notes and illustrations in B-W

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

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Views/exposures  10 contemporary New Zealand photographs

 

Bieringa, Luit (et al)

National Art Gallery

1982

114

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine

25

With reproductions, an exhibition of ten New Zealand photographers, from Laurence Aberhart to Robin Morrison to Peter Peryer

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Living in Landscape

 

Birchall, Allen

John McIndoe

1972

93

4to

D-J (rubbing extremities) Paper over boards VG

40

With illustrations, residential, civic and industrial garden landscaping in New Zealand, in the 1960s and 70s

5.000000

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27.000000

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33.000000

Untouched Horizons

Photographs from the South Island Wilderness

Bishop, Nic

H&S

1989

151

4to

D-J (slight rubbing top, bottom FE, in archival wrapper) Name crossed out FEP  VG - Near Fine

40

With many illustrations, a celebration of the New Zealand South Island's 'wilderness areas', as glorious as the author's photographs

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

I loved you the moment I saw you

 

Black, Peter ; Wedde, Ian

Victoria University Press

2011

101p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

48

With 82 reproductions and essay by Ian Wedde, a portfolio set mostly in Wellington from  2008 to 2010, emphasising differences between people in his street scenes

8.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Albin Martin

 

Blackley, R ; Platts, U

Auckland City Art Gallery

1988

64

Oblong 4to

P-B VG

28

A centenary exhibition book; includes biography, records, paintings (in colour and B-W)

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Goldie

 

Blackley, Roger

Auckland Art Gallery, David Bateman

1997

viii 200p

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fading front cover and spine  VG

40

Signed by the author, a re-evaluation of CF Goldie's work in New Zealand. especially his Maori portraits

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

36.000000

39.000000

Te Mata  the ethnological portrait

 

Blackley, Roger

Adam Art Gallery

2010

40

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a reconsideration of 8 of the Nelson Illingworth busts of Maori commissioned in 1908, and 'ethnological' portraiture

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Art of Alfred Sharpe

 

Blackley, Roger

Auckland City Art Gallery, David Bateman

1992

144

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Fading spine  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations and reproductions, both a biography and art study of a New Zealand water-colourist, finally getting his due

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Aspiring to Art  the William Matthew Hodgkins Memorial Lecture 2012

 

Blackman, Gary

Friends of the Hocken Collections

2014

32

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a discussion of the art the author had grown into in Dunedin, and then his appreciation of the wider art of New Zealand, and his own art practice

6.500000

17.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Gary Blackman  Survey

 

Blackman, Gary ; Paton, Justin (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

2003

80

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

20

With illustrations and reproductions, a survey of the photographic work of this Dunedin photographer, his aim to present 'the quality of what is there', with essays

8.500000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Three Dunedin Designers  Lily Daff, Rona Dyer, Eileen Mayo

 

Blackman, Margery (et al)

Hocken Library

1999

48

Small 8vo

Decorated card covers Near Fine

25

Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1999 in the Hocken Library with an essay for each of these important NZ artists and reproductions of their works, a nice creation

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Colin McCahon  A Question of Faith

 

Bloem, Marja ; Browne, Martin (et al)

Craig Potton Publishing, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

2002

271

4to

Soft card covers with flaps (slight fading) VG - Near Fine

65

With illustrations and reproductions, seventy-seven pieces from the collection of McCahon's work, concentrating on his more 'religious' paintings, gathered together for a travelling exhibition in the Netherlands and Australasia

10.000000

36.000000

100.000000

95.000000

100.000000

Sculpture

 

Booth, Chris

David Bateman, Gow, Langsford Gallery

1993

80p (2 leaves)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  VG - Near Fine

32

A celebration of the artist's work in construction, performance and installation, with over 100 illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Maori Art  the photography of Brian Brake

 

Brake, Brian ; Ihimaera, Witi (et al)

Raupo, Penguin

2011

148

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

35

With Brian Brake's photographs, Maori art and craft through a loving lens

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Art of the Pacific

 

Brake, Brian ; McNeish, James ; Simmons, David

OUP, Arts Council of New Zealand

1979

239p (1p)

Folio

D-J Cloth binding  Near Fine

50

A nice copy of a wonderful book, the luminous illustrations by Brian Brake, the fascinating Pacific people's 'conversations' by McNeish, and the fulsome descriptions by David Simmons

5.000000

23.000000

51.000000

54.000000

59.000000

The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader

 

Brennan, Stella ; Ballard, Sue (eds)

Aotearoa Digital Arts & Clouds

2009

239

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, an anthology of essays, artists' pageworks and personal accounts that explore the production and reception of digital art

8.000000

31.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Other Lives

 

Brimer, Richard

Author Pub

1991

112

4to

P-B  Short inscription FEP VG

35

Signed by the author, photographs of NZ people and places, including NZ artists, especially around the North Island East Coast

5.000000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Jeff Thomson  Any Old Iron

 

Brimer, Richard

Icon Publishing

1992

54 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

35

With illustrations, a lovely celebration of the art of Jeff Thomson, the 'Corrugated Iron Man'

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Long Dream of Waking  New Perspectives on Len Lye

 

Brobbel, Paul (et al, eds)

Canterbury University Press

2017

227

8vo

Card covers with Flaps Near Fine

32

With illustrations, the third substantial collection of essays on the work of Len Lye since 2000, concentrating on the history of the works, the aesthetics, the contexts and the artist at work

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Trusttum   Philip Trusttum Selected Works 1962-1979

 

Brown, Gordon (et al)

Sarjeant Gallery

1980

40

8vo

P-B VG- Near Fine

30

With reproductions tipped in and illustrations, an important exhibition catalogue for this artist, including essays by Brown and Peter Leech, scarce

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

18.000000

Colin McCahon: Artist

 

Brown, Gordon H

Reed

1984

(frontis) x 238p

4to

D-J (light fading spine, short piece of invisible tape top spine,  in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Signature FEP and HTP Otherwise a clean copy VG - Near Fine

60

With illustrations and reproductions, the first edition of this first detailed and serious study of the phenomenon in New Zealand art that was Colin McCahon

8.500000

37.000000

100.000000

95.000000

100.000000

Colin McCahon: Artist  New Edition

 

Brown, Gordon H

Reed

1993

(frontis) x 246p

4to

D-J (fading spine, chips fore-corners, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards, bumped top, bottom spine VG - Near Fine

70

 With illustrations and reproductions, the revised edition of this first detailed and serious study of the phenomenon in New Zealand art that was Colin McCahon

8.500000

37.000000

100.000000

95.000000

100.000000

Visions of New Zealand  Artists in a New Land

 

Brown, Gordon H

David Bateman

1988

192

4to

D-J (fading spine, top FE)  FEP clipped Otherwise VG - Near Fine

60

A detailed study of the early artistic representations of NZ as a place to live in and visit, with illustrations in B-W and colour

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

New Zealand Painting 1920-1940  Adaptation and Nationalism

 

Brown, Gordon H (et al)

QE II Arts Council of New Zealand

1976

88

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, Gordon Brown covering the period of New Zealand art between the Wars

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

An introduction to New Zealand painting 1839-1980 new, revised edition

 

Brown, Gordon H ; Keith, Hamish

David Bateman, Collins

1988 reprint edition

240

4to

P-B Fading spine VG

25

With illustrations, an introduction to New Zealand art history via nine artists and their worlds, from Heaphy and Perkins to McCahon and Hanly

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Intuitive Mind

 

Brown, Nigel

Cosy Nook Press

2014

36 leaves

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

An edition of 150, the artist drawing intuitive pointers to solutions for the nation's 'ills'

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Ian Scott

 

Brown, Warwick

Marsden Press

1997

(frontis) 162p

Oblong 4to

D-J (taped repair back) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

65

Signed by the artist, an illustrated study of the NZ artist, tracing the three main phases of his career, from scenic work to post modernism, including 56 full-page colour plates

10.000000

36.000000

86.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Ian Scott

 

Brown, Warwick

Marsden Press

1998

164

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Light fading of colour spine Slight foxing HTP   VG

45

An illustrated study of the NZ artist, tracing the three main phases of his career, from scenic work to post modernism, including 56 full-page colour plates

6.500000

32.000000

68.000000

63.000000

68.000000

100 New Zealand Paintings by 100 New Zealand Artists

 

Brown, Warwick

Godwit Publishing

1995

ccxvi

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

45

With reproductions, 100 contemporary New Zealand paintings and their creators, an A-Z of modern New Zealand art

5.000000

21.000000

39.000000

44.000000

47.000000

Sean Chen New Zealand Landmarks

 

Brown, Warwick

Wen Trust Publishing

2011

95

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

30

With reproductions, 61 plates that show the artist traversing New Zealand, and its landmarks

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

seen this century  100 contemporary New Zealand artists a collector's guide

 

Brown, Warwick

Godwit, Random House

2009

431p (1p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

85

Signed by the author, with illustrations and reproductions, the author's choice of contemporary New Zealand artists-on-the-rise, in A-Z format

5.000000

21.000000

41.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Marti Friedlander Photographs

 

Brownson, Ron

Godwit, Random House, Auckland Art Gallery

2001

182

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Slight browning inside front covers VG -  Near Fine

80

With illustrations, a retrospective of Marti Friedlander's photography which becomes a celebration of the times she saw through her viewfinder

5.500000

21.000000

43.000000

47.000000

51.000000

John Kinder's New Zealand

 

Brownson, Ron (et al)

Auckland City Art Gallery, Godwit, Random House

2004

159p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Fine

55

With illustrations, reproductions and four essays, an excellent accompaniment to the exhibition of John Kinder's early watercolours and photographs of New Zealand

6.000000

27.000000

65.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Gretchen Albrecht  illuminations

 

Brownson, Ron ; Kisler, Mary ; Fletcher, Bronwyn

Auckland Art Gallery, Godwit

2002

71

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

40

With many reproductions, both a guide to the exhibition of Albrecht and to the artist herself, with three essays by the authors

5.000000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Aspects of recent New Zealand Art 2 The Grid

 

Brownson, Ronald (ed)

Auckland City Art Gallery

1983

61

4to

P-B Fine

28

With illustrations and text by Andrew Bogle, the concerns of contemporary New Zealand artists with grids

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Aspects of recent New Zealand Art 1 New Image

 

Brownson, Ronald (ed)

Auckland City Art Gallery

1983

55

4to

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations and loosely inserted catalogue, and pieces on the chosen artists by Francis Pound and Andrew Bogle

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Gemini  the photographic art of Alan Brydon

 

Brydon, Alan

Brydon Books

2011

46 leaves

4to

Laminated boards  Slight bump top, base spine  Near Fine

45

Nude photography that spins into body sculpture, and using twins producing their own reflection

5.000000

17.000000

35.000000

38.000000

41.000000

Frances Hodgkins  Paintings and Drawings

 

Buchanan, Iain ; Dunn, Michael ; Eastmond, Elizabeth

Auckland University Press

1994

(frontis) ix 185p

Oblong 4to

D-J Fine

60

With reproductions in colour and B-W, a study of this New Zealand artist focussing on her paintings and drawings, with three important essays describing the development of her artistic practice

5.500000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

beauty, even  a tribute to Joanna Margaret Paul 1945-2003

 

Bugden, Emma (et al)

City Gallery, Wellington

2004

44

8vo

D-J over soft-card covers  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of pieces assembled on the death of JMPaul from a tragic accident in 2003

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Cultural Safety  Contemporary Art from New Zealand

 

Burke, Gregory (et al)

Frankfurter Kunstverein, City Gallery, Wellington

1995

(frontis) 159p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

58

With illustrations, with text in English and German, studies of Julian Dashper, Luise Fong, Jacqueline Fraser, Fiona Pardington, Michael Parekowhai, Peter Robinson, Ruth Watson

5.000000

17.000000

31.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Art and Organised Labour

images of working and trade union life in New Zealand

Burke, Gregory ; Calhoun, Ann

Wellington City Art Gallery

1990

143

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, an exhibition publication examining the historical and contemporary relationship of art to organised labour in New Zealand

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

36.000000

Toi Toi Toi Three Generations of Artists from New Zealand

 

Burke, Gregory ; Curnow, Wystan (et al)

Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Auckland Art Gallery

1999

199p (1p)

4to

P-B VG

52

With reproductions, a German/New Zealand exhibition of New Zealand art and artists, covering McCahon, Lye, Gascoigne, Apple, Culbert, Hotere, Budd, Webb, Fraser, van Hout, Reihana, Robinson, Stevenson, Yuk King Tan, scarce

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Lee Bul  Mon Grand Recit because everything

 

Burke, Gregory ; Huddleston, Charlotte (eds)

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

2007

32

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, to accompany the exhibition Lee Bul international artist in residence 25 June - 18 September 2005

7.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Second Nature  Peter Peryer, Fotografien, Neuseeland

 

Burke, Gregory ; Weiermair, Peter (eds)

Edition Stemmle

1995

139p (1p)

4to

P-B Fine

40

With reproductions, a selection of Peter Peryer's photographs, from 1977 - 1994, text in German, a lovely copy

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Within and Beyond  The paintings of Heather Busch

 

Busch, Heather ; Roberts, John (et al)

Hazard Press

1989

112

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

135

Inscribed and signed by the author/artist, with 48 plates, from 1980-1989, a review of a very individual artist, scarce

9.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Volume 1

 

Butler, Brian (ed)

ArtspaceNZ, Clouds

2008

132

4to

P-B  Near Fine

45

With many illustrations, highlighting the work of Daniel Malone, Francis Alys, Mark Adams, Eve Armstrong, Fiona Banner, Veronica Janssens

8.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

From Still to Life

 

Buxton, Nigel ; Maguire, Marian

PaperGraphica

2009

36

4to

P-B Near Fine

32

With illustrations and reproductions, the recent work of Nigel Buxton, including his live still lifes

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Mirror Steamed Over  Love and Pop in London 1962

 

Byrt, Anthony

Auckland University Press

2020

(3p) 268p0

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

With illustrations, Pop Art at its turning point, with Barrie Bates/Billy Apple, David Hockney and Ann Quin

8.000000

32.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Simplicity and Splendour  the Canterbury Arts & Crafts movement from 1882

 

Calhoun, Ann

Christchurch Art Gallery

2005

59

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Slight creaseTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations and biographies, an exhibition booklet of the evidence of the A&C movement in Canterbury, from furniture to impliments to wallpaper design

3.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

The Arts & Crafts Movement in New Zealand 1870-1940

Women make their mark

Calhoun, Ann

Auckland University Press

2000

(frontis) 232p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

105

With illustrations and reproductions, an important study of the artists and craftswomen of this period of New Zealand applied arts, arts and crafts and the artcrafts

8.000000

35.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Real Art Roadshow The Book

 

Campbell, Fiona (ed)

The Real Art Charitable Trust

2009

xvi 264p

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

50

An A-Z tour - with explanations - of contemporary New Zealand art and artists

5.500000

26.000000

58.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Artists & Craftsmen in New Zealand

 

Cape, Peter

Collins

1969

176

4to

D-J (chips, small piece missing back, in protective plastic)  VG

28

With many colour and B-W illustrations, the author studies 23 NZ artists, from potters to sculptors, to jewellers - goldsmiths, to weavers and glass worker, showng their work and the artist in work

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

New Zealand Painting since 1960

A study in themes and development

Cape, Peter

Collins

1979

224

4to

D-J (fading spine, closed tear front, back top, in archival plastic)  VG - Near Fine

55

With illustrations and reproductions in B/W and colour, a timely study of the new artists of the 1960s to beginning 80s

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Sydney Parkinson  Artist of Cook's Endeavour Voyage

 

Carr, DJ (ed)

Nova Pacifica, British Museum, Australian National University Press

1983

(frontis) xv (1p) 300p

4to

D-J (small patches fading, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards  Small owner's stamp TP  VG - Near Fine

65

With illustrations, a study of Parkinson's work, both of flora and fauna and the natural features he saw and mapped

9.000000

21.000000

58.000000

66.000000

70.000000

Making the Molecules Dance  Len Castle Ceramics  a retrospective exhibition 1947-1994

 

Castle, Len (et al)

Dowse Art Museum

1994

8 plates  Book (28p) Catalogue (14p) (1 sheet Marks)

4to

Card folder 8 mountable plates 2 PB books VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, an exhibition of this New Zealand potter's ceramics, scarce

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

People, Places, Perspectives  Artworks from the collections  The Suter Gallery

 

Catchpole, Julie ; Warren, Julia (text) ; Watson, Judith (ed)

The Suter Gallery

2016

172

Oblong 8vo

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a selection from the Suter collections, with descriptions, pubished on the occasion of the Gallery reopening

5.500000

23.000000

48.000000

53.000000

58.000000

Contemporary New Zealand Art 4

 

Caughey, Elizabeth ; Gow, John

David Bateman

2005

112

4to

Soft card covers with flaps   Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, featuring another 20 New Zealand artists, with short biographies, across media, including painting, sculpture, multi-media, photography and installation

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Contemporary New Zealand Art 2

 

Caughey, Elizabeth ; Gow, John

David Bateman

2003 Reprint edition (1999)

111

4to

Soft card covers with flaps   Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, featuring another 20 New Zealand artists, with short biographies, across media, including painting, sculpture, multi-media, photography and installation

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Contemporary New Zealand Art 3

 

Caughey, Elizabeth ; Gow, John

David Bateman

2002

112

4to

Soft card covers with flaps   Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, featuring another 20 New Zealand artists, with short biographies, across media, including painting, sculpture, multi-media, photography and installation

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Art New Zealand Today

 

Caughey, EM (ed)

Saint Publishing

2004 2nd edition, revised (2002)

128

Oblong 4to

D-J Laminated boards  Fine

55

With reproductions, the works of 60 exhibiting New Zealand artists, with short biographies

5.000000

20.000000

35.000000

39.000000

41.000000

Figure Work  the nude and life modelling in New Zealand art

 

Chesterman, Sandra

University of Otago Press

2002

viii 146p

4to

P-B Fine

45

With illustrations and reproductions, a study of the tradition of 'life drawing' in New Zealand painting, from William Hodges to Di Ffrench

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

New Zealand Bird Paintings

 

Ching, Ray

Potton & Burton

2021

203

4to

D-J Laminated boards  Near Fine

80

With the artist's text, his tribute to the New Zealand birds that started him on his career

9.000000

41.000000

95.000000

90.000000

95.000000

Measured Drawings

 

Ching, Ray

Tinakori Gallery

2002

21 leaves

4to

P-B Near Fine

45

With a reassessment by Michael Dunn, 27 measured drawings from the 2002 exhibition

3.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Aesop's Outback Fables

 

Ching, Ray

Artis Gallery

2018

263p (4p)

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

95

Limited edition (#65/460), with the Artist's illustrations, Aesop hits Australia as a wreck, and travels to learn, telling his learnings in his fables

7.000000

39.000000

92.000000

85.000000

92.000000

Dawn Chorus

 

Ching, Ray ; Ching, Carolyn

David Bateman

2014

245p (3p)

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps Slight initials top p5  VG - Near Fine

48

The illustrated 'journey' to New Zealand of Aesop, the fabled teller of tales, and the concert held in his honour

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Aesop's Kiwi Fables

 

Ching, Ray ; Wolfe, Richard

David Bateman

2012

226p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J (light browning spine)  Laminated boards VG - Near Fine

45

With Ray Ching's wonderful illustrations, following on from his Ark project, Aesop set in Kiwiland, wonderful

5.000000

21.000000

40.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Aesop's Kiwi Fables

 

Ching, Ray ; Wolfe, Richard

David Bateman

2013 reprint edition (2012)

226p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

45

With Ray Ching's wonderful illustrations, following on from his Ark project, Aesop set in Kiwiland, wonderful

5.000000

21.000000

40.000000

46.000000

50.000000

New Zealand Birds  An Artist's Field Studies

 

Ching, Raymond

Reed Methuen

1986

232

Folio

D-J (chips, closed tears, in archival wrapper)  Paper over boards  Rubbing base VG

80

With paintings, drawings and text by the author, studies of over 73 New Zealand bird species, including kiwi and takahe

13.000000

36.000000

73.000000

83.000000

87.000000

New Zealand Birds  An Artist's Field Studies

 

Ching, Raymond

Reed Methuen

1986

232

Folio

D-J (light fading spine, in archival wrapper)  Paper over boards  VG -Near Fine

130

With paintings, drawings and text by the author, studies of over 73 New Zealand bird species, including kiwi and takahe

13.000000

36.000000

73.000000

83.000000

87.000000

Studies and Sketches of a Bird Painter

 

Ching, Raymond ; Fuller, Errol

Lansdowne Editions

1981

260

Folio

D-J enclosing box  Blue cloth binding, gilt titles  Near Fine

150

With extra text by Errol Fuller, the author's third book, showing the bird in its many guises, with over a hundred plates, a nice copy

14.000000

57.000000

130.000000

130.000000

140.000000

The Art of Raymond Ching

Paintings and Drawings 1972-1979

Ching, Raymond ; Hansard, Peter

Collins

1981

194

Folio

Boxed  D-J Near Fine

145

With an extensive introduction, a study of the artist beyond the 'bird artist', with numerous studies and then final works, showing the artist in process, a nice creation

13.000000

38.000000

70.000000

79.000000

86.000000

Recent Paintings and Drawings

 

Ching, Raymond ; Hansard, Peter

Folio Prints

1977

(frontis) 78p (1p)

4to

Boxed Soft card covers Slight bump fore-corner  Near Fine

80

Signed, numbered edition (#656/1000) of the exhibition catalogue, covering people, birds, land- and seascapes, in astounding colour and B/W

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Bird Paintings

Water colours and pencil drawings 1969-1975

Ching, Raymond ; Snow, David ; Chisholm, AH ; Soper, MF ; Hansard, Peter

Collins

1978

142p (1p)

Folio

Boxed (patches of yellowing)   D-J Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

150

With 24 plates in colour and 31 figures in B/W, the artist captures the essence of his bird subjects

14.000000

85.000000

175.000000

165.000000

175.000000

The Bird Paintings

Water colours and pencil drawings 1969-1975

Ching, Raymond ; Snow, David ; Chisholm, AH ; Soper, MF ; Hansard, Peter

Collins

1978

142p (1p)

Folio

Boxed (patches of yellowing)   D-J Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

225

Signed by the artist, with 24 plates in colour and 31 figures in B/W, the artist captures the essence of his bird subjects

14.000000

85.000000

170.000000

160.000000

170.000000

Wild Domain  the natural history of Jane Dodd Jewellery

 

Chitham, Karl (et al)

The Dowse Art Museum

2021

155p (1p)

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations and essays, the work of this New Zealand jeweller

8.500000

32.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Cliff Whiting  He Toi Nuku He Toi Rangi

 

Christensen, Ian

He Kupenga Hao I Te Reo

2013

195

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

60

With maps and illustrations, a bi-lingual study of this Maori artist, wonderful

14.000000

23.000000

47.000000

51.000000

57.000000

Pleasures and Dangers  Artists of the 90s

 

Clark, Trish ; Curnow, Wystan (eds)

Longman Paul

1991

xi 173p (1p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fading spine VG - Near Fine

30

An illustrated discussion (with interviews) of 7 contemporary New Zealand women artists: Fiona Pardington, Alexis Hunter, Alison MacLean, Julia Morison, Christine Webster, Lisa Reihana, Judy Darragh and Merylyn Tweedie, a nice creation

6.000000

29.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Exercising the Black Dog

 

Cleavin, Barry

PaperGraphica

2011

52

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Inscribed by the author, twenty-two depictions involving dogs and shadows

6.500000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Ewe and Eye

 

Cleavin, Barry ; Brownson, Ronald (ed)

Auckland City Art Gallery

1982

(frontis) 47p

Oblong 8vo

Soft card jacket over card covers VG

35

With illustrations, and introductory essay, the catalogue for this 1982 exhibition, scarce

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

A Series of Allegations

or Taking Allegations Seriously

Cleavin, Barry ; Grant, AK

Hazard Press

1988

18 leaves

4to

D-J (chip, short tape repairs, in archival wrapper)  Cloth binding Signature and short inscription FEP  VG

42

With Barry Cleavin's illustrations, a whimsical public alert: public allegations are very dangerous, whether a series or mounting

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Pofessional Man

 

Clegg, David ; Kreisler, Aaron

Manawatu Art Gallery

2000

10 leaves

8vo

P-B Near Fine

15

With illustrations, the exhibition booklet of this installation

5.000000

12.000000

30.000000

25.000000

30.000000

Message From the Exterior  Six Decades

 

Cleveland, Les (et al)

City Gallery, Victoria University Press

1998

119p (1p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

With essays and photographs, an exhibition catalogue celebrating the photographer's B/W vision of a world now gone

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

34.000000

John Parker Cause and Effect

 

Clifford, Andrew (et al)

Te Uru Watakere Contemporary Gallery

2016

143p (1p)

Oblong 4to

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

75

Signed by the artist, the work of this New Zealand potter, and the exhibition 'Clear and Present Danger'

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Past Tense  an exhibition at Vogel House 1986

 

Cochran, Chris ; Ansell, Rob

Fletcher Challenge, Ministry of Works and Devpt

1986

47

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations in colour and B/W, the catalogue for an exhibition of four centuries of furniture and the applied arts and New Zealand architectural drawings 1855-1985

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Beretara   Contemporary Pacific Art

 

Cochrane, Susan

Halstead Press

2001

200

4to

D-J  Laminated boards  Bumped fore-corners  Near Fine

60

With map and illustrations, a survey of the art and artists of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia, including painting, installation and artefact

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Jane Evans

 

Coley, John

Hazard Press

1997

112

4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations and reproductions, a monograph on this exuberant, colourful New Zealand artist

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

35.000000

39.000000

Jane Evans

 

Coley, John

Hazard Press

2000

112

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

20

With illustrations and reproductions, a monograph on this exuberant, colourful New Zealand artist

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Charles Meryon a bibliography

 

Collins, RDJ

University of Otago Press

1986

237

8vo

D-J over card covers Near Fine

20

A nearly complete - up to 1986 - capturing of references to this French etcher

8.500000

24.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Francis Shirrock Revisited  in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 18 25th Anniversary Issue

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1997

135

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on Louis-Auguste de Sainson, Edward Fristrom, Alison Duff, Sculptor, RN Field

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Travel art and its complications Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming's 1877 visit to NZ  in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 16

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1995

87

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on Maori Figurative Paintings and the sculpture of RN Field in the context of English Modernism

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

'As one feels so one writes' The Letters of Frances Hodgkins  in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 15

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1994

88

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on JT Thompson as an artist, Grace J Joel, American Architectural influences in Christchurch

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Women's Suffrage Centenary 1893-1993  in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 14

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1993

107

4to

P-B Fine

10

Celebrating Women's Suffrage Cent: articles on NZ women artists, incuding Francis Hodgkins

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

From the 'Athens of the North' to the 'Edinburgh of the South'  The Architecture of Robert Arthur Lawson in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 13

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1992

46

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on James F Scott and the spiritual landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and Colin McCahon

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 20

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1999

58

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on Frances Hodgkins and Rodney Kennedy

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Visual Women  an index of women artists and patrons in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 19

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1998

115

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on Andrew Hamilton, Thomas Woolner's statue of JR Godley, and Milan Mrkusich

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Colin McCahon's Bridging Numbers of 1965-1966 in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 11

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1990

76

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on the architectural history of Christchurch Hospital and Mabel Hill

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Edward Lear  Globular Topographer in Bulletin of NZ Art History Vol 10

 

Collins, RDJ (ed, et al)

Hocken Library

1989

78

4to

P-B Fine

10

Includes articles on such as WM Hodgkins, French Draughtsmen in NZ, and Albin Martin

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Felix Kelly and New Zealandness  in Bulletin of New Zealand Art History Volume 22

 

Collins, RDJ (et al, eds)

Hocken Library

2001

81

4to

P-B Fine

10

With illustrations and reproductions, includes pieces on Queen Victoria Memorials in New Zealand, Mina Arndt in Berlin, Arts and Crafts, Frances Shurrock

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

McCahon's word-paintings as commercial lettering  in Bulletin of New Zealand Art History Volume 21

 

Collins, RDJ (et al, eds)

Hocken Library

2000

117

4to

P-B Fine

10

With illustrations and reproductions, includes pieces on Grace Joel, Minnie Francis White, Milan Mrkusich, Gordon Walters

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Owen Merton  Expatriate Painter

 

Collins, Roger (et al)

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

2004

31

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations and reproductions, a study of this New Zealand painter, in New Zealand and around the world

6.000000

18.000000

36.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Pavilioned in Splendour

George O'Brien's vision of colonial New Zealand

Collins, Roger ; Entwisle, Peter

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1986

(frontis) 120p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp HTP Near Fine

35

With many illustrations and plates, both an exhibition catalogue and a study of the artist and his developing vision of NZ countryside, with essays and chronology

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

Bouncing with Billie  Dinah Ella Bunny Louis  Benny  Mahalia

 

Collinson, Fergus

Steele Roberts

1999

128

Folio

P-B VG

35

With illustrations, verse and paintings, a journey through a life

9.000000

20.000000

42.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon  the 4th Auckland Triennial

 

Conland, Natasha (et al)

Auckland Art Gallery

2010

135p (1p)

4to

Card covers Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the work of 28 artists from NZ and abroad, with artist statements

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Crafted by Design

inside New Zealand craft artists' studios

Cook, Jeanette

Godwit, Random House

2005

192

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

45

With illustrations, an A-Z of New Zealand craft artists, with biographies and studies, lovely

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

John Panting Sculpture

 

Cornish, Sam

Sansom & Coy

2012

176

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

56

A life, and the art and sculpture of this New Zealand-born sculptor

5.000000

19.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Signal

 

Cousins, James ; Watson, Ruth

Gow Langsford Galley

2009

16 leaves

4to

P-B Fine

38

Signed by the artist, with essay, the cataliogue for the artist's multi-coloured exhibition

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Hot Pants in a cold cold world Works 1987-2007

 

Cranston, Meg

Artspace, Clouds, JRP Ringier

2008

200p (3p insert)

8vo

Card covers with front flap Near Fine

28

With illustrations, published to tie in with the exhibition 'The Pleasure of Obvious Problems' in New Zealand 2007-8

6.000000

25.000000

50.000000

54.000000

58.000000

Light Wine Things

 

Culbert, Bill ; Paton, Justin

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

2005

60 leaves

4to

Laminated boards  Near Fine

40

With reproductions, the photographs of this New Zealand photographer

5.000000

17.000000

33.000000

36.000000

40.000000

Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction

 

Cunnane, Abby (et al)

City Gallery Wellington

2011

17 leaves

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, to accompany the exhibition, its basis being a series of collector's collections

6.000000

21.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Greer Twiss theatre workshop

 

Curnow, Ben ; Smith, Allan (eds)

Auckland Art Gallery

2003

82

Oblong 4to

Card covers Spiral binding set into cover VG - Near Fine

50

With illustrations, an in-depth survey of the artist's work, sculpture in the round or on the table-top, a nice creation

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

I Will Need Words

Colin McCahon's Word and Number Paintings

Curnow, Wystan

National Art Gallery

1984

24 leaves (2 folding)

4to

Soft card covers  Slight marks back cover  Near Fine

50

With essay by Wystan Carnow, the exhibition catalogue to accompany this Colin McCahon retrospective, a nice copy

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Constructed Intimacies

 

Curnow, Wystan (et al)

Moet & ChandonNew Zealand Art Foundation

1989

25 leaves

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With reproductions, the exhibition catalogue of the year's art foundation choices, all by 'younger artists', from Stephen Bambury to Julian Dashper to Fiona Pardington to Andrew Drummond to James Ross, 21 in all

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Max Gimblett  The Brush of all Things

 

Curnow, Wystan ; McEvilley, Thomas ; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara

Auckland Art Gallery

2004

72

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near  Fine

38

With many illustrations, both an exhibition catalogue with essays and an expose of how the artist works

5.000000

17.000000

29.000000

33.000000

34.000000

Bambury Works 1975-1999

 

Curnow, Wystin (et al)

City Gallery

1999

44

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Signature FEP Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the exhibition booklet for this collection of the artist's work, including an interview with the artist

6.000000

18.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

New Zealand Home & Building Souvenir Edition

 

Daley, Debra (ed)

New Zealand Home & Building

1992

111p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a collection of items about Auckland in the 1950s, its art and architecture, including Modernism and Milan Mrkusich

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Susan Holmes  Fabric Artist

 

Dallaway-Davidson, Cerys

David Bateman, Objectspace

2016

144

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

42

With illustrations, over four decades of New Zealander Susan Holmes' life in fabric art, including her award-winning 'Wearable Arts' creations

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Nameless/Redux  2 vols, DVD, in box

 

Davis, Leigh ; Bambury, Stephen

Jack Books

2013

215p ; 127p (1p)

Folio

Card box, vol 1 cloth, title impressed front board vol 2 P-B, DVD in rear sleeve  Near Fine

75

Volume 1 is 'a play', in verse form, volume 2, designed by Stephen Bambury, almost the visual reproduction of the words of the play

12.000000

52.000000

134.000000

125.000000

130.000000

Lady Painters

the flower painters of early new zealand

Dawson, Bee

Viking, Penguin

1999

xi (2p) p14 - 144

Oblong 4to

D-J Near Fine

30

A lovely copy of a lovely book, covering the painters, such as Fanny Osborne and Sarah Featon, with reproductions of their flower and other botanical paintings

6.500000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Highway One

 

De Thier, Bret

Author Pub

1999

156

Oblong 4to

Boxed (fading front)  Black paper over boards, facsimile Highway 1 sign front cover, silver titles  VG - Near Fine

45

Signed by the author, a photographic journey from North to South down Highway One in New Zealand

8.000000

28.000000

57.000000

65.000000

66.000000

Rannoch

 

Devitt, Simon

Author Pub

2016

(4 leaves) 118 leaves

8vo

Laminated boards with cloth spine Gilt titles Near Fine

70

The collection, the house, and the property which is Rannoch, on the slopes of Mt Eden, in Auckland, a nice creation

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

40.000000

44.000000

The Large Works of Paul Dibble

 

Dibble, Fran and Paul

Bateman

2012

227

Oblong 4to

D-J Laminated Boards  Near Fine

70

With illustrations, the artist/sculptor's works in bronze, both public and private, wonderful

13.000000

40.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

X a decade of sculpture 2010-2020

 

Dibble, Paul

David Bateman Ltd

2020

180

Folio

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a study by the artist of his work, paring back the realistic to the abstract

12.000000

34.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Paul Dibble

 

Dibble, Paul ; Vial, Jane (et al)

David Bateman

2006 2nd up-dated edition

205p (2p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

35

With many illustrations, the life and work of this New Zealand sculptor

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Grace Joel Paintings and Drawings

 

Dickinson, Frank

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1980

32

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP VG

20

With reproductions in colour and B/W, an assessment of this ex-patriate New Zealand artist

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

New Zealand Drawing 1982

 

Dickinson, Frank (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1982

69

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a touring exhibition booklet, highlighting the practitioners who had, or would become, well-known in New Zealand art

3.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

New Zealand Drawing 1982

 

Dickinson, Frank (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1982

69

Small 8vo

P-B  Title written on spine VG

25

B-W reproductions of the drawings in a touring show in NZ 1982, including artists as disparate as Don Binney, Richard Killeen, Ian Scott and Robin White

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Drawn to the Wild  paintings of New Zealand birds

 

Dillon, Nicolas

Potton & Burton

2020

159p (1p)

Oblong 4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations and sketches, this New Zealand artist draws masterfully on the birdlife in New Zealand

10.000000

35.000000

85.000000

85.000000

85.000000

A Journal of Their Own

An Index to 'Art in New Zealand' 1928-1946

Dingwall, Richard (et al, eds)

Hocken Library

1997

156

4to

P-B Near Fine

50

An essential catalogue-index of 'Art in New Zealand', covering the artists and the works

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting 2nd edition

 

Docking, Gil

Reed

1982 2nd edition (1971)

212

4to

D-J (chip top spine, fading) Paper over boards VG

30

Wih many illustrations, the author's choice of art associated with New Zealand, and the  artists, from the arrival of Cook's artists in 1769 to 1969

8.000000

26.000000

56.000000

62.000000

66.000000

New Zealand Painting 1966

 

Docking, Gil (et al)

Auckland City Art Gallery

1966

14

4to

Soft card covers  Near Fine

40

With reproductions in B-W, the 10th 'Anthology' of New Zealand painting organised as a travelling exhibition, with artists pictured including Michael Illingworth, Philip Trusttum, Don Driver, Gordon Walters, Don Binney and Colin McCahon, scarce

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

18.000000

Painting out the Past

the life and art of Patricia France

Donald, Richard

Longacre Press

2008

(frontis) 160p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations, reproductions and extracts from her correspondence, a detailed life of this New Zealand artist 1911-95

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Country Churches of New Zealand

 

Donovan, Don

New Holland Publishers

2002

126p (2p index)

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A collection of watercolours with descriptors by the artist, representing the varied architectural forms of many of NZ's surviving country churches

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

The Good Old Kiwi Pub

 

Donovan, Don

Saint Publishing

1995

82p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Owner's small stamp HTP  Near Fine

25

With the artist's illustrations, a journey around New Zealand's town and country hotels

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

New Zealand Odyssey

A graphic journey

Donovan, Don ; Sarginson, Euan

Heinemann Reed

1989

233p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

A trip through New Zealand with this photographer and illustrator, a lovely creation with reversable jacket

6.500000

35.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Tanya Ashken  jeweller, silversmith, sculptor

 

Drawbridge, Cameron (ed)

Cameron Drawbridge Publications

2016

(frontis) (4p) 158p (3p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

45

With illustrations and essays, the work and place of this New Zealand artist

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

36.000000

40.000000

Frances Hodgkins  a private viewing

 

Drayton, Joanne

Godwit, Random House

2005

304

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

40

With illustrations and reproductions, a life of this New Zealand-born artist with much from her correspondence

8.000000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

John Panting 1940-1974  Sculpture

 

Drew, Joanna ; Grayson, Sue

Serpentine Gallery

1975

52

8vo

P-B VG

25

Catalogue of the memorial exhibition of this NZ - English teacher and sculptor, with many illustrations from the works assembled

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

New Zealand Painting

 A concise history

Dunn, Michael

AUP

2003

vi 218p

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

With many reproductions, the revised and expanded edition of this important single-volume survey of NZ art and artists

8.000000

35.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

John Kinder

 Paintings and Photographs

Dunn, Michael

SeTo Publishing

1985

xiv 209p

Oblong 4to

Gray-brown cloth binding, gilt titles rules  Print mounted front cover  Near Fine

225

No 200 of limited edition of 750, a biographical and catalogue raisonne of this English New Zealander's work, especially important for his early photographs of New Zealand society, a nice copy lacking the facsimile print

5.000000

28.000000

61.000000

70.000000

74.000000

Nerli an Italian painter in the South Pacific

 

Dunn, Michael

Auckland University Press

2005

(frontis) vi 154p

Oblong 4to

D-J Fine

65

With illustrations and reproductions, the life and paintings of this Italian artist who spent the last 20 years of the 19th century in Australia and New Zealand

9.000000

23.000000

51.000000

55.000000

60.000000

In the Steps of Kinder  the European sketches of John Kinder 1840-45

 

Dunn, Michael

Kinder House Society

2004

43p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, John Kinder's artistic work before he came to New Zealand in 1855

3.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Roland Hipkins  Artist/Educator

 

Dunn, Michael

Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery

2005

82

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

25

With illustrations and essay, an exhibition catalogue for this New Zealand artist 1894-1951, his work and his role as an educator

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

New Zealand Sculpture  a history

 

Dunn, Michael

Auckland University Press

2003 Reprint edition (2002)

190

Oblong 4to

D-J Fine

80

With illustrations, a history of public and private sculpture in New Zealand, with a selected bibliography, an important discussion

13.000000

22.000000

44.000000

47.000000

49.000000

New Zealand Painting   A concise history  Revised and expanded edition

 

Dunn, Michael

AUP

2004 (2003)

vi 218p

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

With many reproductions, the revised and expanded edition of this important single-volume survey of NZ art and artists

10.000000

38.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

The Drawings of Russell Clark

New Zealand Artist and Illustrator

Dunn, Michael

Collins

1976

88

Oblong 4to

D-J ( in protective plastic)  Near Fine

45

A representative selection of this New Zealand artist's work, in colour and B-W, with an introduction by the author and plate descriptors

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

45.000000

47.000000

Robert Nettleton Field

Retrospective Exhibition

Dunn, Michael (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1979

14

8vo

P-B Fine

20

With reproductions in colour and B&W, the exhibition catalogue of this 'Dunedin' painter who influenced the direction of New Zealand art

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

18.000000

The Legend of Io

 

Dyer, Ruth

John McIndoe

1956

23

4to

Paper wraps over card covers  Faint signature front cover Slight rubbing spine, front cover where a label has been removed  VG

30

With wonderful woodcuts by the author-artist, a version of the Maori creation story

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Women and the Arts in New Zealand

Forty Works 1936-86

Eastmond, Elizabeth ; Penfold, Merimeri

Penguin Books

1986

50 leaves

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

With 40 plates and descriptors, a good coverage of New Zealand women artists in a variety of media, including flax

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Winkelmann  Images of Early New Zealand

 

Edwards, Vivien

Benton Ross

1987

(6p) 146p

4to

D-J (slight rubbing top spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards, slight rubbing base  VG - Near Fine

50

With illustrationsand reproductions, a detailed study ofg this early New Zealand photographer, especially his maritime works

13.000000

22.000000

46.000000

50.000000

54.000000

Into the Light

a history of New Zealand photography

Eggleton, David

Craig Potton

2006

188

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

45

With many illustrations, a contemporary survey of New Zealand's most significant photographers (including portrait and landscape) and their 'masterworks'

8.000000

35.000000

85.000000

85.000000

85.000000

Towards Aotearoa

a short history of 20th Century New Zealand art

Eggleton, David

Reed

2007

280

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

40

With reproductions, a study/anthology of the artists of the 20th century, the art movements and the lasting influences

5.000000

24.000000

52.000000

55.000000

58.000000

Laurence Aberhart  The Invisible Edge

8" x 10" Polaroids 1979/80

Eggleton, David (essay)

Marshall Seifert Gallery

2005

Folded card in 4 sides

Oblong 8vo

Decorated card Fine

15

With reproductions and essay,  the catalogue of these Aberhart colour polaroids

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Venus on a Beach Towel  The paintings of Lindsay Crooks

 

Eggleton, David (et al)

Longacre Press

2003

158

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Fine

42

With illustrations and reproductions, a collection of over 70 Lindsay Crook paintings, and how they are responded to by chosen viewers - a nice idea

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Pacific Parallels  Artists and the Landscape in New Zealand

 

Eldredge, Charles C ; Barr, Jim and Mary

The New Zealand - United Stated  Arts Foundation, San Diego Museum of Earth

1991

175p (1p)

4to

P-B Slight signature HTP Near Fine

30

With map and illustrations, a catalogue with essay to accompany the exhibition, a selection of modern and 19th century New Zealand artists and photographers revealing views of New Zealand

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Early Prints of New Zealand 1642-1875

 

Ellis, EM & DG

Avon Fine Prints

1978

328p (33p Index) (3p notes)

4to

Brown cloth binding, gilt titles, decoration  Bump top, bottom spine  Near Fine

40

Still an essential reference work for information about, and identification of, the earliest prints of New Zealand

8.000000

26.000000

57.000000

65.000000

69.000000

Stanley Palmer  Poor Knights

 

Ensing, Riemke

The Fisher Gallery

1992

(frontis) 67p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

With illustrations, the catalogue for this Stanley Palmer exhibition

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

William Mathew Hodgkins & His Circle

 

Entwisle, Peter

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1984

166

4to

P-B Crease front fore-corner VG

30

With illustrations and reproductions, a significant review of the careers of Hodgkins and those who came around him in Dunedin, including John Gully, George O'Brien, Nerli, Grace Joel, Isabel Jane Field, and Hodgkins' daughter Frances, scarce

5.500000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

RN Field and his Circle

The Birth of Modernism in New Zealand Painting

Entwisle, Peter

Author Pub

1999

418

4to

Soft card covers, black cloth spine  VG

95

A study of the development of New Zealand art through the gathering of artists around RN Field in Dunedin, with biographies of the artists, including WH Allen, RN Field, Russell Clark, Toss Woolaston, Doris Lusk, Colin McCahon

9.000000

24.000000

52.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Treasures of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery

 

Entwisle, Peter

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1990

191

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a short history of the DPAG, and a catalogue of the exhibition of the Treasures, from New Zealand and abroad

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Nerli  an exhibition of paintings & drawings

 

Entwisle, Peter ; Dunn, michael ; Collins, Roger

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1988

185p (7p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations and reproductions, an exhibition catalogue with essays about the art of Girolamo Nerli and his time in New Zealand at the end of the 19th century, his influences in Australia, towards a Nerli chronology and a catalogue raisonne

5.000000

21.000000

40.000000

46.000000

49.000000

A Women's Picture Book  25 Women Artists of Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Evans, Marian (et al)

GP Books

1988

xii 289p

4to

P-B Signature HTP VG

30

With illustrations and reproductions, a compilation of 80s New Zealand women artists and activists

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Frances Hodgkins

 

Evans, Myfanwy

Penguin

1948

18p (2p) (32p plates)

Oblong 8vo

D-J over card covers   Light foxing inside covers  VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations in B/W and colour, a study and biography of this New Zealand-born artist, in the 'Penguin Modern Painters' series

6.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Twenty-Eight Days in Kiribati

 

Eyley, Claudia Pond ; White, Robin

New Women's Press

1987

104

4to

P-B Name on HTP VG - Near Fine

55

Images of the Central Pacific, the results of the painters' stay on Tarawa in Kiribati, and her author friend's text, after a visit of 28 days, now scarce

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Eric Lee-Johnson Exhibition

 

Fairburn, GE (et al)

Waikato Art Museum

1981

48

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations and essays, an exhibition of this New Zealand artist, including his War work

6.000000

17.000000

42.000000

37.000000

42.000000

Taeao Fou I Mea Sina

 

Fatu Feu'u (et al)

Office of the 7th Pacific Festival of Arts

1996

iii 73p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the catalogue of the 7th Festival, with mixed media art from around the Pacific

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Laurence Aberhart  Across the Bridge of Sighs

 

Fay, Peter

Brett McDowell Gallery, Kilmog Press

2010

12 leaves

8vo

Paper over boards, cloth spine  Fine

95

Limited edition of 54, with 10 reproductions, the exhibition catalogue for this Aberhart showing, B/W  photos from 1979 - 2004

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Radical, the Reactionary and the Canterbury Society of Arts 1880-1996

 

Feeney, Warren

Canterbury University Press

2011

223p (1p)

4to

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

50

With illustrations and reproductions, a history of the CSA and its role in the development of local and New Zealand art

9.000000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Painting the Frontier  the art of New Zealand's pioneers

 

Filer, David

David Bateman

2009

144

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a selection of artistic treatments of life in peace and war in the 19th century in New Zealand, including the more well-known artists, from the collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library

5.000000

19.000000

47.000000

40.000000

43.000000

This Thing in the Mirror

Self-Portraits by New Zealand Artists

Finlayson, Claire

Craig Potton

2004

132

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards Fine

40

Signed by the author, with reproductions, an A-Z of New Zealand artists revealing their selves in their self-portraits

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

This Thing in the Mirror

Self-Portraits by New Zealand Artists

Finlayson, Claire

Craig Potton

2004

132

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards Fine

40

With reproductions, an A-Z of New Zealand artists revealing their selves in their self-portraits

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Charts & Soundings

some small navigation aids

Fitchett, Sue ; Zusters, Jane

Spiral

1999

56

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

A combination of verse and photograph, with some startling images

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

George Edward Lodge

 The Unpublished New Zealand Paintings

Fleming, CA (text)

Nova Pacifica, National Museum NZ

1982

xiv 407p

Folio

D-J (very light foxing top FE) Near Fine

125

89 plates that were in the care of the National Museum are finally brought into the light  in this wonderful production

5.000000

37.000000

70.000000

80.000000

90.000000

New Zealand Photographs

 

Freeman, Scott ; Turner, Brian

Craig Potton Pub

2000

106

Oblong 4to

D-J Near Fine

55

With an introduction by Brian Turner, 80 exquisite photographs of NZ and its surrounds, highlighting the natural world

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Walking through Graham Bennett's Reasons for Voyaging

 

Freeman-Moir, John (ed)

South Walk

2003

74

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

32

With plans and illustrations, the making and installation of artist Graham Bennett's entrance sculpture at Christchurch Art Gallery in 2003

3.000000

15.000000

27.000000

31.000000

34.000000

Larks in a Paradise  New Zealand portraits

 

Friedlander, Marti ; McNeish, James

Collins

1974

88 leaves

4to

D-J (slight rubbing top of spine) Paper over boards Signature FEP  VG - Near Fine

35

With photographs by Marti Friedlander and text by James McNeish, studies of ordinary people captured in ordinary life

5.500000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Wi Taepa  Retrospect

 

Friend, Reuben

Pataka Art + Museum

2016

46

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life and art of this Maori ceramicist

6.000000

18.000000

36.000000

40.000000

44.000000

Portrait of a Serious Artiste

 

Frizzell, Dick (et al)

GP Publications, City Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1997

48 leaves

4to

Soft card wrapper over card covers  Near Fine

70

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, a colourful creation, with essay, reproductions, and chronology

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Dick Frizzell The Painter

 

Frizzell, Dick ; Keith, Hamish

Godwit, Random House

2009 Reprint edition (2009)

319p (1p)

4to

Laminated Boards Near Fine

75

With illustrations, a life in art, from pop culture to kiwiana and landscapes in between

5.000000

30.000000

67.000000

74.000000

80.000000

Fumpston Prints 1973-2003

 

Fumpston, Rodney ; Rankin, Elizabeth ; Skinner, Damian

Magazzino

2004

96

8vo

Card covers VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, essays and interview with the artist, a three-decade exhibition of Rodney Fumpston's print-making

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Di ffrench Light and Illusion

 

Garrett, Rob ; Hay, Jennifer

Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Annex

2000

30p (16p plates) (2p)

4to

P-B Fine

20

With illustrations, two essays and the exhibition catalogue for this New Zealand performance artist and photographer

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Darryn George

 

George, Darryn (et al)

Mihi Publishers

2010

113p (1p)

4to

Cloth spine, paper over boards Near Fine

30

With reproductions and a piece by Lara Strongman and the artist in conversation with Deirdre Brown

5.000000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Darren George

 

George, Darryn ; Strongman, Lara ; Brown, Deidre

Mihi Publishers

2010

113p (2p)

4to

Paper over boards, cloth spine Near Fine

45

With illustrations, interview and essay, a study as well as an exhibition of this New Zealand artist

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Colin McCahon  Gates and Journeys

 

Gifkins, Michael (ed)

Auckland City Art Gallery

1988

157

Oblong 8vo

P-B  Near Fine

65

With illustrations and essays by Gordon Brown, Tony Green, Wystan Curnow,  and Alexa Johnston, the exhibition catalogue

6.500000

32.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Telling Stories

 

Gill, Janice

Steele Roberts

2009

159

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

25

With reproductions, a conducted tour through the stories invloved in the art of New Zealand artist Janice Gill

8.000000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Letters of Frances Hodgkins

 

Gill, Linda (ed)

Auckland University Press

1993

x 584p

8vo

D-J (fading spine, top FE) Paper over boards, shelf rubbing base  VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, 80 years of letters from Frances Hodgkins to family and friends, fascinating

8.000000

21.000000

58.000000

67.000000

71.000000

Max Gimblett

 

Gimblett, Max ; Curnow, Wystan ; Yau, John

Craig Potton, Gow Langsford Gallery

2002

172

4to

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

70

Signed by the artist, with delightful painting/inscription, with many reproductions, a study of the work of this NZ-born artist, with text by Curnow and Yau

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Figure in the New Zealand Landscape

 

Ginn, Victoria

OTS Publications, Tortika

2005

126p (1p)

Oblong 8ve

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

55

Signed by the author/photographe r, performance artists, dancers and choreographers are juxtaposed in image with an environmental counterpart, from mountains high to seaside, with original and often humorous effect

5.000000

17.000000

30.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Drawing from Nature

Photographic Works

Godman, Lloyd

Author Pub

1991

49

8vo

Spiral bound, card covers  Slight tea spot FE

40

Signed, limited edition (#41), an exhibition catalogue of this photographer-artist's work, an outsider's view of Auckland, with illustrations in drawing and photographic image outside the square

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Kermadec  Nine Artists explore the South Pacific

 

Golder, Bronwyn ; O'Brien, Greg (eds)

Pew Environment Group, Tauranga Art Gallery

2011

144

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With illustrations and reproductions, 9 artists: Phil Dadson, Bruce Foster, Fiona Hall, Gregory O'Brien, Jason O'Hara, John Pule, John Reynolds, Elizabeth Thomson and Robin White, travel through the Kermadec group of islands in 2011

8.000000

31.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Te Maunga Taranaki  views of a mountain

 

Goldsmith, Susette (ed)

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

2001

96

4to

P-B Slight bump top spine  Near Fine

40

With essays and a short anthology of historical writings, the exhibition catalogue of this collection of artistic views of Taranaki/Mt Egmont

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Frances Hodgkins  The Expatriate Years 1901-1947

 

Gooderham, Jonathan (et al)

Jonathan Grant Galleries

2012

12 leaves

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations and reproductions, twelve works by Frances Hodgkins and discussion

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Frances Hodgkins  a New Zealand modernist

 

Gooderham, Jonathan ; Wolfe, Richard

Jonathan Grant Galleries

2019

16 leaves

4to

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations and reproductions, a study and biography of this New Zealand expatriate painter

4.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Shadows and Silence

 

Goodwin, Clare

Steele Roberts

2004

66

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the shadows, with stories and memories, of New Zealand's past psychiatric hospitals

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Charles Heaphy

 

Gordon, Briar ; Stupples, Peter

Pitman

1987

22p text (24p plates)

Folio

P-B VG

20

With essays and reproductions, a study of this early New Zealand artist, soldier, explorer, farmer, politician

9.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Coromandel Collection

 

Gore, Da'Vella

Collins

1981

60

Oblong 8vo

D-J  VG - Near Fine

28

With reproductions, a portfolio of landscapes and countryside vignettes from around the Coromandel Peninsula

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Southern Scenic Collection

 

Gore, Da'Vella

Craig Printing

1992

64

Oblong 8vo

D-J  Paper over boards  Birthday inscription verso FEP VG - Near Fine

75

Signed by the artist, twenty-eight full-page paintings, and others, from the artist's South Island views, from the iconic (Milford Sound/Mitre Peak) to the out-of-the-way (Mt Earnslaw woolshed)

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

37.000000

41.000000

New Zealand

land for the artist

Goudie, RC ; Johnson, Robert ; Ruhen, Olaf

Legend Press

1953

28

4to

D-J (repaired chips)  VG

25

A discussion, with examples, of the New Zealand paintings of Robert Johnson

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Contemporary New Zealand Art 2

 

Gow, John ; Caughey, Elizabeth

David Bateman

1999

111

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

45

With illustrations and reproductions, the second collection of New Zealand artists working at the end of the 20th century, from Patrick Hanly and Robin White to Dick Frizzell and Grahame Sydney to Fiona Pardington and Bill Sutton, with short biographies

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Contemporary New Zealand Art Pt 3

 

Gow, John ; Caughey, Elizabeth

David Bateman

2002

112

4to

Soft card covers with flaps   Fine

35

With illustrations and portraits, the third collection of New Zealand artists working at the beginning of the 21st century, from Nigel Brown and Shane Cotton to Don Peebles and Denys Watkins

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Maori Paintings by Gottfried Lindauer  from the Partridge Collection

 

Graham, JC (ed)

Reed

1965

117

4to

D-J (small pieces missing top, bottom spine, top FE, in protective wrapper)  Cloth binding    VG

45

A reproduction of 48 of the 70 paintings in the Partridge collection

8.500000

28.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Maori Paintings by Gottfried Lindauer from the Partridge Collection

 

Graham, JC (ed)

Reed

1977 3rd revised edition (1965)

116

4to

D-J (fading spine, in protective wrapper)  Cloth binding (light spotting to covers)  VG - Near Fine

40

With 48 reproductions, the fruits of the collaboration between artist Gottfried Lindauer and patron Henry Edward Partridge

8.500000

28.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

About Strange Lands and People

 

Graham-Stewart, Michael ;  Stevenson, Michael (comp)

Author Pub

2001

41 leaves

Oblong 8vo

Paper wrappers over soft card covers  Near Fine

30

With illustrations of paintings, etchings, artefacts, photographs, a lovely combination of images from the lands which were (mostly) part of the earlier British Empire

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Kiwa  Pacific Connections Maori Art from Aotearoa

 

Grant, June Northcroft (et al)

The Spirit Wrestler Gallery

2003

86

4to

P-B VG

45

With wonderful illustrations, the Maori artists and their art at the Gallery's exhibition in 2003, Maori art in the North Pacific

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

By the Waters of Babylon

The Art of A Lois White

Green, Nicola

Auckland City Art Gallery, David Bateman

1993

(frontis) 128p

4to

Card covers with flaps Fading spine  VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the superb publication to accompany the artist's exhibition, includes the exhibition catalogue

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Greer Twiss A survey 1959-1981

 

Green, Tony (et al)

City Art Gallery

1981

95

8vo

Aluminium covers, spiral binding VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a survey of the early work of this New Zealand sculptor and artist

6.000000

18.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Blast!   Pat Hanly - the painter and his protests

 

Gribben, Trish

Lopdell House Gallery

2009

47p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards  Near Fine

25

Mostly in bright, vivid colours, some of Pat Hanly's social and political message paintings, including a submarine Pintado protest and anti-nuclear works

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

With my little eye

 

Gribben, Trish ; Smither, Michael

Pyjamas Press

2004

30 leaves

8vo

Laminated boards Light fading spine Near Fine

28

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations by Michael Smither, an art appreciation book for children, with biographical detail

6.000000

20.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

New Art in New Zealand

Artists from the "1984 Art in Dunedin" Project

Griffiths, Stuart (et al)

1984 Art in Dunedin Group

1984

64

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of the work and responses of some of the 60 or so artists who took part in the Art in Dunedin project, including performance art, installations, music, painting and photography

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Memories Two

 

Guthrie, Noel

Author Pub

1993

95

Oblong 8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

24

The second book of the artist's sketches of early buildngs from the South Island, with accompanying history

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Augustus Earle  Travel Artist

 

Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn

Alister Taylor

1980

ix 157p

4to

D-J (fading spine)  Cloth binding  Near Fine

30

Signed by the publisher, the New Zealand edition of this 'catalogue' of Earle's paintings, including his views of New Zealand and Australia

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Te Kahui o Matariki  Contemporary Maori Art of Matariki

 

Hakaraia, Libby ; Urlich, Colleen Waata (eds)

Raupo

2008

112

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Fine

50

With illustrations, a selected work of 41 contemporary Maori artists, with short artist statements, carving, painting, sculpture, weaving

5.000000

18.000000

34.000000

38.000000

41.000000

Hanly  A New Zealand Artist

 

Haley, Russell

H&S

1989

xi (1p) 240p

4to

D-J (fading spine)  Paper over boards  Near Fine

40

With illustrations and reproductions, a work of a life in 'mid-flight', in public and private

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Ralph Hotere  (Waikato Art Gallery Bulletin No 4)

 

Hall, Garth (et al)

Waikato Art Gallery

1973

9p (10 leaves)

4to

P-B Strips fading VG

60

Produced as a comment on the work (up till then) of Ralph Hotere, coinciding with the artist's exhibition at the Waikato Art Gallery, and completion of the Hamilton Founders Theatre Mural, August 1973

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

George D Valentine a 19th century photographer in New Zealand

 

Hall, Ken

Craig Potton Publishing

2004

132

Oblong 4to

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the travels, and photographs, of a significant early New Zealand photographer

8.000000

30.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

Te Wheke  Pathways Across Oceania

 

Hall, Ken (et al)

Christchurch Art Gallery

2020

232

8vo

Laminated boards Taped spine All edges silver  VG - Near Fine

30

A collection of art from the Christchurch Art Gallery which offers a way to understand how we are connected across time and place

8.000000

30.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

No Man's Land

Extending the boundaries of Women and Art in Aotearoa

Hall, Laurence (et al)

Dowse Art Museum

1992

62 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B with glassine wrapper Near Fine

25

With illustrations, an exhibition of New Zealand women artists designed to mark the centennial of Women's Suffrage, a blend of the art in craft and the craft in art

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Mervyn Williams  from modernism to the digital age

 

Hanfling, Edward

Ron Sang Pubs

2014

333p (2p)

Folio

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

110

With illustrations and reproductions, a 50-year lifetime of achievement for this New Zealand artist, from painting to sculpture and digital ways between, another wonderful Ron Sang publication

10.000000

40.000000

88.000000

99.000000

108.000000

Ian Scott: Lattices

 

Hanfling, Edward

Ferner Galleries

2005

70p (2p)

Oblong 4to

Decorated laminated boards  Near Fine

45

With illustrations and reproductions, 19 of Ian Scott's Lattices from 1976 to 1995 and 6 other works, including from the 'Model' series, with essay by Edward Hanflung

7.000000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Ian Scott: Lattices

 

Hanfling, Edward

Ferner Galleries

2005

(frontis) 70p (2p)

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, 19 of Ian Scott's Lattices from 1976 to 1995 and 6 other works, including from the 'Model' series, with essay by Edward Hanflung

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Ian Scott  The Model Series Paintings 1996-2004

 

Hanfling, Edward (et al)

Ferner Galleries

2004

(frontis) 70p

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

38

With illustrations, including a selection of reproductions, the playful 'Model' paintings of Ian Scott, with a very useful essay which contextualises the series in terms of Scott's work

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Boyd Webb

 

Harper, Jenny (et al)

Auckland Art Gallery, Museums Aotearoa

1997

187

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

45

With illustrations and reproductions, a monograph and exhibition accompaniment to the work of this ex-patriot Kiwi artist, from before his overseas departure in 1972 till 1997

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Renaissance Days

 

Harris, Jeffrey (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

2016

72

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

40

With reproductions, an exhibition of the artist's work, including the Cricifixion series and the family at Okains Bay

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

5 Large Paintings from 1981  Jeffrey Harris

 

Harris, Jeffrey ; Dawson, Pauline

The Gumtree Press

2010

11 leaves

8vo

Green cloth binding, silver titles  Fine

125

An edition of 50 copies, signed by the artist, with text by Pauline Dawson and artist's portrait by Adrienne Martyn

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Text and Image

 

Harris, Miriam (et al)

Lopdell House Gallery

2000

45p (1p) (catalogue of works tipped in rear cover)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

25

With illustrations, an exhibition dealing with the use of words in a range of artists' works, from painting, sculpture, photography, to interactive hypermedia, including such as Nigel Brown, Shane Cotton, Dick Frizzell, John Reynolds

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Voice from the Wilderness

 

Harris-Ching, Ray

Saint Publishing

1994

200

Oblong 4to

D-J (slight chips top spine, fading front, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

75

With introductory essay by David Lank, the artist's seventh book, addressing his concerns for our earthly creatures and their protection, with reproductions

10.000000

29.000000

64.000000

71.000000

76.000000

Kiwis

A Monograph of the Family Apterygidae

Harris-Ching, Ray ; Fuller, Errol (ed)

SeTo

1990

187p (1p)

Folio

D-J Near Fine

80

The wonderful Ching paintings and drawings illuminate the 11 essays in this outstanding book

14.000000

30.000000

64.000000

74.000000

77.000000

Journey of an Artist  Masters of the Wild

 

Harris-Ching, Ray ; Smith, Carol Sinclair

Gulf Publishing Company

1990

175

Oblong 4to

D-J (fading spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

75

With illustrations and reproductions, a biographical artist's journey to becoming 'one of the most remarkable portraitists, landscape and marinescape artists of his generation'

9.000000

36.000000

95.000000

90.000000

95.000000

Wild Portraits

paintings and drawings

Harris-Ching, Raymond ; Hansard, Peter

SeTo Publishing

1988

216

Oblong 4to

D-J (slight dents by spine) Cloth binding Near Fine

80

With illustrations and reproductions, the fruit of the artist's wanderings from the Arctic to Australasia, his sixth book, a nice copy

13.000000

34.000000

57.000000

79.000000

83.000000

Colin McCahon  Focus Exhibition

 

Hart, Deborah (et al)

National Gallery of Australia

2007

22

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With reproductions, an Australasian touring exhibition of Colin McCahon's paintings and prints

8.000000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Wild beast: the art of Dean Buchanan

 

Harvey, Bob

Exisle Publishing

2007

120

Oblong 8vo

D-J   Paper pver boards  Fine

60

With illustrations and reproductions, the artistic life of this colourful and vibrant Auckland artist

5.000000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Andrew Drummond  Observation/Action/ Reflection

 

Hay, Jennifer (et al)

Christchurch Art Gallery

2010

207

4to

Laminated boards  Slight fading spine  Near Fine

50

With illustrations, a series of essays dealing with the artist and his work of the last 30 years, including a conversation

6.000000

35.000000

65.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Public Spaces/Personal Views

 

Hedwig, Murray

Head & Heart Press

2005

46 leaves

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

48

Signed, limited edition (1000), a New Zealand photographer depicts city scenes around the world

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Drawings

A medley in line and wash

Henderson, Kennaway

Author Pub, Simpson & Williams

1959

(frontis tipped in) 36p plates

4to

Decorated paper over boards, browning spine, slight foxing FEs  Inside clean  VG

110

Illustrated in B-W (with one colour reproduction) a mixture of cartoons, caricatures (including Hillary on 'Everest hair-do' ) and contemporary comments, scarce

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Kura Te Waru Rewiri  a Maori woman artist

 

Highfield, Camilla

Gilt Edge Publishing

1999

vii 35p

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations and reproductions, discussions with, and about, this Maori artist

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Crossing the Line

 

Hight, Michael ; O'Brien, Gregory ; Green, Paula

Gow Langsford Gallery, Michael Hight

2014

129p (4p)

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

80

Signed by the artist and contributors, with essays and interview, the exhibition book to Michael Hight's work, including the 'Phantom Beekeeper'

5.000000

20.000000

41.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Seeds of Life  the bone art of Bruce Mahalski

 

Hilton, Craig ; Mahalski, Bruce

Rim Books

2018

63p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

Signed by the artist, with illustrations, art using bones that speaks about ourselves as humans, and our fellow vertibrates who live, die and leave their remnants scattered about, like seeds of life on the organic skin of the world

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The Habitat

 

Hipkins, Gavin ; Walker, Paul

Artspace, Adam Art Gallery

2000

21p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, an exhibition booklet of the photographers depiction of 'the gulag archipelago of New Zealand University campuses'

5.000000

12.000000

30.000000

25.000000

30.000000

Artists of Golden Bay

 

Hollis, Renee

Author Pub

2008

70

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fine

30

With many illustrations, artists from the top of the South Island, in paint, wearable art, pottery and ceramics, photographers, jewellers, print makers, sculptors, weavers, quiltmakers and spinners

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

New Zealand's South Pacific and Tasman Sea

 

Hooper, Chris ; Childs, Cyril

Robert Mann Gallery

2007

26 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

Inscribed by the photographer to the poet, with haiku and illustrations, black and white photographs of the land and sea off the South Island's east and west coasts

8.000000

27.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Len Lye  a biography

 

Horrocks, Roger

Auckland University Press

2002 Reprint edition (2001)

(3p) 436p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Crease spine  VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the first full-length biography of this gifted innovator, starting as a New Zealander but giving his gifts to the world

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Art that moves  the work of Len Lye

 

Horrocks, Roger

Auckland University Press

2009

(2p) 257p (1p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  DVD in rear pocket  Near Fine

55

With illustrations and a DVD of films and sculptures by the artist, a companion piece to the author's wonderful 2001 biography of Len Lye

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Len Lye

 

Horrocks, Roger (et al)

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

2002

59

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations and essays, a discussion and exhibition of the work across media in the artist's centennial year

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

New Zealand Tattoo  in the home of the Tattooist's art

 

Hoult, Chris ; Forbes, Steve

Libro International, Oratia Media Ltd

2012

175p (1p)

Folio

Laminated boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, New Zealand tattooists and their art

12.000000

38.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Dot...

 

Hughes, Sara ; Vrbancic, Mario

Author Pub

2002

10 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fine

15

With illustrations, the exhibition catalogue for this exhibition-installation, playing with the sublime and the ridiculous

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Pacific Journey A Celebration

Paintings Weaving Voices

Hunton, Valerie

Resource Books Ltd

1997

131

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards  Fine

45

Signed by the artist, a 'celebration' of the colourful works the artist has produced from her life in the Pacific Islands

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Stimulus to Style

 

Hurrell, John

CSA Gallery

1994

60p (folding Errata sheets)

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With essay and artist statements, the metamorphosis of an artwork, with installations

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Pen, Pigment and Pencil

 

Husband, John

Craig Printing Co

2002

156

Oblong 8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP  VG - Near Fine

25

A collection of drawings and paintings of Invercargill city and suburbs, including its citizens

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The Robin Morrison Collection

 

Ireland, Kevin (intro)

Auckland Museum

1997

119

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

30

A collection of 100 images from the Morrison collection donated to the Museum after the photographer's death

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Nature Morte 105 photographs 1971-1989 by Laurence Aberhart

 

Ireland, Peter ; Leonard, Robert

National Art Gallery

1990

32

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

The exhibition catalogue for twenty years of photographs - 'still lifes' - by Laurence Aberhart

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Mission Impossible: the art of Arthur Dagley

 

Jackson, Penelope

Tauranga Art Gallery

2007

30p (3p)

Oblong 8vo

Card covers Near Fine

22

With illustrations and reproductions, the catalogue of a summary exhibition of this long-term Tauranga artist

6.500000

24.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

White Camellias  a century of women's artmaking in Canterbury

 

Jackson, Penelope (et al)

Robert McDougall Art Gallery

1993

61

4to

P-B VG

22

With illustrations, an exhibition publication, celebrating 100 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand, and women's art making

3.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

E Mervyn Taylor Artist Craftsman

 

James, Bryan

Steele Roberts

2006

160

4to

D-J Paper over boards Three tiny spots fore-edges Near Fine

55

With illustrations and reproductions, a life of this New Zealand engraver, including a catalogue of wood engravings

6.000000

28.000000

65.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Focused a life behind the lens

 

Jaquiery, Stephen

Allied Press

2019

280

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, a record of the ODT photographer's 40 years at the Dunedin newspaper, from great and small events to great and small people

6.000000

30.000000

62.000000

63.000000

68.000000

Doris Lusk 1916-1990 Moods, Metaphors & Symbols

 

Jarvis, Adrienne

Ferner Galleries

1998

20

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations and reproductions, a major retrospective exhibition of this New Zealand artist's work

8.000000

18.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Gavin Hipkins  The Domain

 

Johnston, Courtney (et al)

Victoria University Press, The Dowse Art Museum

2017

240

4to

Paper over thick boards Near Fine

55

With illustrations and reproductions, a major survey of this New Zealand artist photographer, including essays and archival texts

5.500000

24.000000

48.000000

50.000000

52.000000

Lateral Inversions  the prints of Barry Cleavin

 

Johnston, Melinda (et al)

Canterbury University Press

2013

288

8vo

Laminated boards, papered spine Slight marks covers Near Fine

52

With illustrations, a mjor survey of this New Zealand artist's prints and drawings from 1966 to 2012

5.000000

19.000000

39.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Race Day

 

Jowitt, Glenn

William Collins

1982

96

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With introduction by Vincent O'Sullivan, an inside-racing photographic commentary taken in 1978 when the photographer visited horse-racing and -raising sites throughout New Zealand

8.000000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Race Day

 

Jowitt, Glenn ; O'Sullivan, Vincent

Collins

1982

96

Oblong 8vo

D-J VG - Near Fine

30

A collection of photographs taken during 1978 at race meetings and stables

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Listen to the Heartbeat of the Earth

 

Juneau, Jane Dove

South Pacific Light Press

2008

120

Oblong 8vo

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

25

Photographs of natural splendour from New Zealand and around the world

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Forever Buck Nin

 

Kedgely, Helen ; Nicholas, Darcy (eds)

Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures, Te Wananga o Aotearoa

2004

24

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a tribute to the life and art of Buck Nin 1942-1996

6.500000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

New Zealand Art Painting 1827-1890

 

Keith, Hamish

Reed

1968

32

8vo

P-B Fine

15

With illustrations, a selection of the 'principal artists' and the movements in this 'first period' of New Zealand art, from Charles Heaphy to Edward Arthur Williams, with small biographies

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Boyd Webb  Photographic Works 1976-1981

 

Keith, Hamish

The Auckland City Art Gallery

1981

14 leaves

4to

P-B VG

22

With tipped-in colour, and B/W illustrations, a catalogue of story photographs that bear some scrutiny

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Early Watercolours of New Zealand

 

Keith, Hamish (ed)

Auckland City Art Gallery

1963

71

Oblong 8vo

P-B Slight marks covers Small inscription TP   VG

30

An illustrated supplement to the exhibition of the same name, with reproductions in B-W,  intended primarily as a reference guide to NZ watercolours of the 19th century

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

John Kinder

 

Keith, Hamish (essay)

The Auckland City Art Gallery

1958

35

Small 8vo

P-B VG

25

With reproductions, and introductory essay by Hamish Keith, the exhibition catalogue of Kinder's works at that stage in the Auckland City Art Gallery holdings, scarce

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

New Zealand Art 1827-1967 3 Parts

 

Keith, Hamish ; Tomory, PA ; Young, Mark

Reed

1968

32p ; 32p ; 32p

8vo

Card box P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a survey of 140 years of art associated with New Zealand and painted by New Zealanders

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Sound Full/Among the Machines  Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art

 

Kelly, Caleb; Kreisler, Aaron

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

2013

72p; 76p

8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

28

In two sections, with illustrations, the works of thirty-odd New Zealand and Australian artists, including Fiona Pardington and Robin Fox

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Elizabeth Stevens  A Survey

 

Kempthorne, Liz

Eastern Southland Gallery

1997

v 21p

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

An exhibition catalogue, and biographical piece, on the Southland artist, with reproductions in B-W and colour

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Pop

 

Kerr, Sean ; Conland, Natasha

Clouds, Michael Lett

2009

64

4to

Laminated boards  Near Fine

35

With reproductions, an exhibition of the 'slapstick technology' of this New Zealand artist

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Flowers into Landscape  Margaret Stoddart 1865-1934

 

King, Julie

Hazard Press

1997

111

4to

P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine

25

With illustrations and reproductions, the delicate flower studies and landscapes of this NZ painter

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Olivia Spencer Bower  making her own discoveries

 

King, Julie

Canterbury University Press

2016 Reprint Edition (2015)

207

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations and reproductions, a study of the artist's life and work and her importance in New Zealand art

5.500000

23.000000

46.000000

48.000000

50.000000

Sydney Lough Thompson  At Home and Abroad

 

King, Julie

Robert McDougall Art Gallery

1990

141p (1p)

8vo

P-B  Slight fading spine  Near Fine

38

An important discussion of Thompson and his importance in the history of NZ Art, with many reproductions of his work in colour and B-W, as well as a catalogue of his works

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Splendours of Civilisation   The John Money Collection at the Eastern Southland Gallery

 

King, Michael (et al)

Eastern Southland Gallery, Longacre Press

2006

96

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

42

With illustrations and reproductions, a celebration of the great gift John Money made to Gore, and New Zealand, with the John Money wing and Eastern Southland Gallery, including pieces by Janet Frame, Hone Tuwhare and Cilla McQueen

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Virginia King  Sculptor

 

King, Virginia ; O'Brien, Gregory (et al)

David Bateman

2005

120

4to

D-J Fine

55

With illustrations, the work of this New Zealand sculptor, especially in wood, nice book

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Bea Maddock Prints 1960-1982

 

Kirker, Anne

National Art Gallery

1982

52p (6p)

8vo

P-B VG

15

With illustrations and essay, an exhibition by this New Zealand print-maker

5.000000

14.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

New Zealand Women Artists a survey of 150 years

 

Kirker, Anne

Craftsmen House

1993 Revised edition (1986)

255

4to

D-J (slight chip, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

50

With illustrations, a revised and up-dated edition of this study of women's art and women artists born in New Zealand

8.000000

38.000000

95.000000

90.000000

95.000000

Provocations  the work of Christine Webster

 

Kirker, Anne

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

2010

96

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

30

With illustrations, an exhibition drawn from the artist's work, photographs designed to inspire an emotional reaction in the viewer

3.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Face to Face  A Survey of Artists' Prints

 

Kirker, Anne ; Calhoun, Ann

National Art Gallery

1986

(frontis) 110p

8vo

Soft card wraps over card  Near Fine

32

A nice copy of this exhibition catalogue of the prints held by National Art Gallery, Wellington, from the Birth of Printmaking into the end of the 20th century, with colour and B-W illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Angels & Aristocrats early European art in New Zealand public collections

 

Kisler, Mary

Godwit, Random House, Auckland Art Gallery

2010

392p (6p)

4to

Laminated boards  Near Fine

45

Signed by the author, with many illustrations, a wonderful almost catalogue of the riches from early European art held in New Zealand art galleries

8.000000

42.000000

70.000000

78.000000

83.000000

Finding Frances Hodgkins

 

Kisler, Mary

Massey University Press

2019

431p (1p)

8vo

D-J over soft laminated boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations and reproductions, the author travels the byways taken by the artist and finds her

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Frances Hodgkins  Leitmotif

 

Kisler, Mary (et al)

Auckland Art Gallery

2005

26p (2p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, published to accompany the exhibition, a study of the artist's motifs

4.000000

14.000000

30.000000

25.000000

30.000000

Frances Hodgkins  a personal perspective

 

Kisler, Mary (et al)

Jonathan Grant Galleries

2022

41

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations and reproductions, a Frances Hodgkins Exhibition which introduces the paintings and looks at their circumstances, including a section on FH's 'Circle', their art and their relationship with FH

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Joseph Weaver Allen Photography

 

Knight, Hardwicke

Author Pub

1997

128

Oblong 8vo

Spiral binding, soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

90

With illustrations, a detailed study of the life and work of this early Dunedin photographer, and the connections with the Morris family

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

38.000000

42.000000

Photography in New Zealand

A social and technical history

Knight, Hardwicke

John McIndoe

1971

(frontis) 196p

4to

D-J Near Fine

35

With illustrations and lists, early photography in New Zealand,  with biographies

6.500000

31.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Coxhead Brothers Photography

 

Knight, Hardwicke

Author Pub

1996

xvii 81p

Oblong 8vo

Spiral binding, soft card covers with flaps  Proof copy, p19-46 have punch holes on fore-edge VG - Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the work of these early New Zealand photographers, in Dunedin, Invercargill and Timaru, in the 19th century

6.000000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

New Zealand Photographers

A selection

Knight, Hardwicke

Allied Press

1981

(55 leaves)

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations and reproductions, biographies of 23 early New Zealand photographers and a useful listing of NZ photographers practising before 1900

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Morris Photography

the photography of John Richard Morris

Knight, Hardwicke

Author Pub

1995

xiv 44p

Oblong 8vo

Spiral bound, laminated card covers with flaps  Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

60

With illustrations and plates, the work of this 19th century Dunedin photographer in portraiture and landscapes, and their now-historical significance

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Bill Hammond 23 Big Pictures

 

Kraus, Chris (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1999

47

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Light fading spine Near Fine

40

With reproductions in B/W and colour, the catalogue for this major Hammond exhibition, with pieces by Kraus, Justin Paton, Priscilla Pitts and Gwynneth Porter

8.000000

24.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Denys Watkins Heavenly Chance

 

Laird, Tessa (et al)

City Gallery

1999

31

4to

Soft card covers Signature FEP Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the catalogue/booklet for this exhibition following on from the artist's work in Vietnam

6.000000

16.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Pottery in New Zealand

Commercial and Collectable

Lambert, Gail

Heinemann

1985

(7p) 166p (1p)

4to

D-J (strip of fading spine, in archival wrapper)  VG - Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the first edition of this important study of the New Zealand ceramic's industry

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

No Road to Follow  autobiography of a New Zealand artist

 

Lee-Johnson, Eric

Godwit

1994

180

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations and reproductions, the life and work of this New Zealand artist, completed just before his death

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Barry Brickell  A head of steam

 

Leov-Lealand, Christine

Exisle

1996

168

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, the ceramics and private railway of this NZ potter

6.000000

22.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

William Ferrier  Photographer

 

Lester, John

Aigantighe Gallery

1985

60

Oblong 8vo

P-B Marks on covers Slight owner's details front cover, TP VG

25

With illustrations, a biography and exhibition catalogue of this Canterbury photographer

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

I Was No Soldier  An artist's war diary

 

Lewis, Ted

Steele Roberts

2001

126p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Fine

40

With many illustrations, the author's war service in diary form in the New Zealand army, at first in the medical corps, then as mapmaker with General Freyberg

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Marilynn Webb prints and pastels 1966-1990 Heartland

 

Lonie, Bridie (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1992

49

4to

D-J over card covers Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a major survey exhibition, with accompanying discussion, of this New Zealand artist's art work and life

8.000000

24.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Figures of Motion  Selected Writings

 

Lye, Len ; Curnow, Wystan ; Horrocks, Roger (eds)

AUP - OUP

1984

xxiv p25-152

4to

D-J  Black paper over boards, silver titles Near Fine

85

With illustrations in colour and B-W, this selection of Len Lye's writings reveals the scope of an extraordinary artist, from kinetic sculpture to film-making

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Zizz! The life and art of Len Lye

 

Lye, Len ; Horrocks, Roger

Awa Press, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Len Lye Foundation

2015

191p (1p)

8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a combination of memoir and selected author writings of Len Lye

8.000000

26.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Woodwork My first seventy years

 

Lynn, Bob

Lynn Historical Woodworking Trust

1992

119p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

75

With illustrations, the author sets out to describe some of the time-honoured woodworking techniques which time may have forgotten, including a comprehensive section on ornamental turning, a little gem of a woodworking book

6.000000

24.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Fiona Hall Force Field

 

MacGregor, Elizabeth Ann (et al)

Museum of Contemporary Art, City Gallery

2008

96

Oblong 8vo

D-J over soft card covers  Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a major exhibition of the latest work of this artist/photographer, including her 'meditations' upon colonialism

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Old New World

photographs by Mary Macpherson

Macpherson, Mary ; O'Brien, Gregory

Lopdell House Gallery

2012

96

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

42

Sixty-two photographs of small-town New Zealand, images fixed in time, but also representiing places in transition

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

New Zealand Photography from the 1840s to the Present

 

Main, William ; Turner, John B

PhotoForum Inc

1993

88

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With reproductions, a catalogue of photographers (with short biographies) from Insley in the 1850s, covering a spread from landscape to social comment and history

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Speaking in Colour  conversations with artists of Pacific Island heritage

 

Mallon, Sean ; Pereira, Pandora Fulimalo

Te Papa Press

1997

155

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

The work of ten artists of Pacific Island heritage, Fatu Feu'u, Pauling Hoeft-Cocker, John Ione, Lily Laita, Iosefa Leo, Lyle Penisula, John Pule, Filipe Tohi, Michel Tuffery, Jim Vivieaere, with illustrations

6.000000

20.000000

45.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Endangered Birds of New Zealand

 

Martinson, Paul

Ferner Gallery

1992

24

8vo

P-B  VG

25

With reproductions, a catalogue of 23 endangerd birds of New Zealand

5.500000

20.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

New Zealand Birds

 

Martinson, Paul

Grantham House

1991

100

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight fading) Paper over boards Slight foxing prelims, bach EP VG -  Near Fine

35

A collections of the artist's bird paintings, sometimes with human interlopers

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

34.000000

38.000000

Adrienne Martyn

Portraits  A survey 1979-1987

Martyn, Adrienne (et al)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1988

48

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations in B-W, the exhibition catalogue of this NZ photographer

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

10.98 seconds of Wellington Artists

 

Maschmeyer, Lennart

Author Pub

2011

57 leaves

Oblong 8vo

Decorated paper over boards  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a collection of Wellington contemporary artists, from working with paint to producing music

5.000000

21.000000

40.000000

47.000000

51.000000

Public Private Tumatanui Tumataiti  The second Auckland Triennial

 

Mason, Ngahiraka ; McDonald, Ewen (et al)

Auckland Art Gallery

2004

176

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, interviews with, or pieces on, the many artists whose work made up the Triennial, from New Zealand and abroad

6.000000

24.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Home And Away

Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection

McAloon, William

Auckland Art Gallery, David Bateman

1999

143

4to

P-B  Near Fine

35

With many illustrations, a selection of 48 of the Chartwell Collection's paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs by some of Australasia's leading artists, including Ralph Hotere and Shane Cotton

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Rita Angus Life and Vision

 

McAloon, William ; Trevelyan, Jill (eds)

Te Papa Press

2008

232

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Light fading spine VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a major exhibition marking the centenary of the artist's birth

10.000000

38.000000

95.000000

90.000000

95.000000

Colin McCahon a survey exhibition

 

McCahon, Colin ;O'Reilly, RN

Auckland City Art Gallery

1972

41

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight foxing, slight chips) over card covers  VG

40

With reproductions mostly in B/W, an exhibition catalogue with notes, scarce

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Three Paintings by Colin McCahon

 

McCahon, William ; Brown, Gordon

Martin Browne Fine Art

1992

32

4to

P-B  Fading spine Near Fine

30

An auction catalogue for the three McCahon paintings 'Crucifion: the Apple Branch', 'Elias will he come', 'The days and nights in the wilderness', with descriptions by William McCahon and essay by Gordon Brown

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Midwest number seven 1995

an art magazine

McCormack, John ; Leonard, Robert (eds)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1995

52

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fine

10

With advertisements and illustrations, includes a piece on 'Maoriana' and an interview with Kathy Temin

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Midwest number one 1992

an art magazine

McCormack, John ; Leonard, Robert (eds)

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

1992

31

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

10

With illustrations, the first issue of this New Zealand art magazine, includes pieces on Peter Peryer's photography and Julian Dashper

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Midwest number five 1994

an art magazine

McCormack, John ; Leonard, Robert (eds)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1994

44

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

10

With advertisements and illustrations, includes a piece by Imants Tillers and an interview with Shane Cotton

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Midwest number six 1994

an art magazine

McCormack, John ; Leonard, Robert (eds)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1994

44

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

10

With advertisements and illustrations, includes a piece on 'Once Were Warriors', an interview with Ronnie van Hout and the art of Louise Fong

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Midwest number eight 1995

an art magazine

McCormack, John ; Leonard, Robert (eds)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

1995

53p (1p)

4to

P-B Fine

10

With advertisements and illustrations, includes an obituary for Gordon Walters and interviews with Michael Harrison and Graeme Cornwell

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand

 

McCormick, EH

Auckland City Art Gallery

1954

(frontis) xvi 278p (16 leaves plates)

8vo

D-J (chips, small pieces missing, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding VG

25

With illustrations, both a biography of Frances Hodgkins and her work, and a catalogue