Sidney Nolan ‘Paradise Garden: Paintings, drawings and poems' with an introduction by Robert Melville, published by R Alistair McAlpine, London, 1971.
An illustrated book of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. Examples of this important book are included in public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“It should be called a bestiary of wild flowers, for these specimens are the gorgons…griffons…phoenixes of the plant world.” — Robert Melville Introduction to Sidney Nolan, Paradise Garden, 1971.
Title: Paradise Garden: Paintings, drawings and poems
Author: Sidney Nolan with an introduction by Robert Melville
Publication Date: 1971 (First edition)
Publisher: R Alistair McAlpine, London
Format: Hardcover Quarto, bound in green cloth with gilt decoration and gilt titles with double dust-jacket of paper and glassine
Pages: 110
Condition: Good. The paper jacket price clipped and with a few small chips and closed tears. The glassine toned with several marks and tears. Front end paper has a vertical linear crease mark. Pages tanned towards extreme edge, smooth and clean otherwise. A good copy of an uncommon publication.
An illustrated book of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. Examples of this important book are included in public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“It should be called a bestiary of wild flowers, for these specimens are the gorgons…griffons…phoenixes of the plant world.” — Robert Melville Introduction to Sidney Nolan, Paradise Garden, 1971.
Title: Paradise Garden: Paintings, drawings and poems
Author: Sidney Nolan with an introduction by Robert Melville
Publication Date: 1971 (First edition)
Publisher: R Alistair McAlpine, London
Format: Hardcover Quarto, bound in green cloth with gilt decoration and gilt titles with double dust-jacket of paper and glassine
Pages: 110
Condition: Good. The paper jacket price clipped and with a few small chips and closed tears. The glassine toned with several marks and tears. Front end paper has a vertical linear crease mark. Pages tanned towards extreme edge, smooth and clean otherwise. A good copy of an uncommon publication.
An illustrated book of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. Examples of this important book are included in public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“It should be called a bestiary of wild flowers, for these specimens are the gorgons…griffons…phoenixes of the plant world.” — Robert Melville Introduction to Sidney Nolan, Paradise Garden, 1971.
Title: Paradise Garden: Paintings, drawings and poems
Author: Sidney Nolan with an introduction by Robert Melville
Publication Date: 1971 (First edition)
Publisher: R Alistair McAlpine, London
Format: Hardcover Quarto, bound in green cloth with gilt decoration and gilt titles with double dust-jacket of paper and glassine
Pages: 110
Condition: Good. The paper jacket price clipped and with a few small chips and closed tears. The glassine toned with several marks and tears. Front end paper has a vertical linear crease mark. Pages tanned towards extreme edge, smooth and clean otherwise. A good copy of an uncommon publication.
