Highlights

Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale. Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights you can expect to see at the Fair in 2022!

Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly: Appearing in December, March, June and October.
$1850
The first volume of the most celebrated and influential Parisian art magazine published in 1937 with five original lithographs by Matisse, Leger, Miro, Rattner and Bores. Large quarto, 128pp, published December 1937, Paris, with colour lithographed cover by Henri Matisse and four colour lithographs of the Four elements, as listed below. Also writings by Gide, Lorca, Dos Passos and Malraux as well as photos by Bresson, Man Ray and Brassai. 355mm x 265mm, Soft cover, Condition-Minor split at top of spine, few minor spots to front cover otherwise in good condition.
Linnean Society of New South Wales. The Macleay Memorial Volume.
$350
C1893 Author:Joseph James Fletcher (1850? - 1926) Rare volume published by the Linnean Society containing a comprehensive illustrated collection of zoological articles, as a memorial to William Macleay (1820-1891). Quarto, 308 pp, with original woodburytype photograph frontispiece of William Macleay, with offsetting onto title page as usual, 41pl. (pl 28 seems not to have been included in "most" copies, partly uncut and unopened in the original green wrappers. Fletcher had become the Society's librarian in 1883. Soft Cover, 322mm x 260mm, Condition-Good.
MILTON, John. The Poetical Works of Mr John Milton.
$3000
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespeare's Head in the Strand, 1720. Complete in two volumes : Quarto : pp. (12) 590 (13); (8) 527 (1, blank) : cream endpapers : portrait frontis of Milton to both volumes (G. Vertue sculp.), and numerous elaborate head- and tailpieces and historiated initials : contemporary calf boards with gilt tooled edges : five raised bands to spines : red leather title panels and green leather volume panels lettered in gilt : foliated gilt decorations to the other panels : vol. two with armorial bookplate to front paste-down. (Bookseller inventory #2375)
Hockneys Alphabet.
$2200
HOCKNEY’S ALPHABET. The Deluxe first edition, Illustrated with twenty seven full Page Colour plates by Hockney and printed on fine art paper. Lond. Faber & Faber. 1991. Fine in the slip-case and signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. Stephen Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney's specially drawn alphabet. The authors included William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro et al. Norman Mailer declined but was included anyway.