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Sydney Australia: Ure Smith, 1948. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Small folio, terracotta colored cloth covered boards with gilt facsimile intials of the painter and gilt spine titles. 75 pp. LIMITED EDITION 1/1200, printed on heavy cream rag with untrimmed edges. Illustrated with 10 full color tipped-in plates and 32 black and white plates. With an appreciation by Clive Turnbull and a biographical sketch by Tristan Buesset. A beautifully produced and elegant work with decorations and titles in a matching terracotta ink. Bunny was the first Australian artist to ever exhitibt at the Old Salon in Paris and to have his paintings purchased for the French National collection. A tight, clean, bright, volume with brililant pages and bright, fine plates, unmarked. Slight offsetting to endpapers from foldover typical with this title, else fine, in a tight, crisp, sharp, clean, unclipped dust jacket which has one thumbsized chip next to top of spine and slight loss at the spine ends, else fine. Very near… Read More

Sydney : Ure Smith, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 75 p. : ill. ; 33 cm. Notes; Limited edition of 1200 copies. Includes an inscription from previous owner. Subjects; Rupert Bunny. Art. Bigoraphy.