Sainsburys Books

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For over 35 years, we have operated out of our bright and sunny shop in Camberwell where you will find a wide range of quality books including art, architecture, photography, history and literature.

We issue regular catalogues on specialist subjects as well as recent acquisitions via email. We have an extensive collection so please contact us if you are looking to view a specific item as it may not be located at our Camberwell store upon your arrival.

Contact Information
Phone: +61 3 9882 7705
Website: https://www.sainsburysbooks.com.au/
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Store Hours

Monday - Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday to Saturday: 10-5pm

Sunday: 12-4pm.

Highlights
Blue Chicory - Lorine Niedecker
$150
Designed by Martino Mardersteig and limited to 400 copies printed from Dante type on Magnani rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega. From the editor: "The poems in the first part of this collection, heretofore unseen in bookform, are those that seem largely to have been 'abandoned' by the poet as perhaps not up to her best work, since they were available for the Fulcrum edition of the Collected Poems 1968. Nevertheless, they seem to me to warrant safer keeping here they are variants upon other pieces. Those in the second part are clearly poems she wanted published"
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Float - Anne Carson
$250
A collection of twenty-two chapbooks whose order is unfixed and whose topics are various. Part of a collection of contemporary literature being exhibited at the 2026 Melbourne Rare Book Fair.
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Nobody's Fool - Yoshitomo Nara
$250
Catalogue of the first major New York exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara (1959), and features more than one hundred works ranging from his early career in the 1980s to his most recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and large-scale installations.
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© MURAKAMI - Takashi Murakami
$150
This book was published on the occasion of © MURAKAMI, the first comprehensive survey of Takashi Murakami's work, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles between 2007-2008. With contributions from Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf, Paul Schimmel, Jeremy Strick and Mika Yoshitake.
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Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan [Proof Copy]
$300
Proof copy of Brautigan's cult-classic. Scarce in dust jacket.
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Gallipoli - Alan Loney
$200
We were saddened this year by the loss of Alan Loney, a poet, handpress printer, publisher and friend. Alan had been printing poetry since 1971, with fine publications from the likes of Hawk Press, Blacklight Press, Holloway Press and Electio Editions, to name a few. All of his publications are works of art in their own right and we will be exhibiting a number these this year as a testament to his lifetime of work. Gallipoli is a collection of nine short poems published by Barbarian Press in 2005.
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An Essay on Silence - Michael Chater
$250
"This volume is dedicated to those who enjoy the sight and feel of good books but to their sorrow have little time for reading them." Contains five different paper products of Abbey Mills, a small and independent paper mill in the British Isles, each with detailed description.
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Imago Mundi - Alan Loney & Bruno Leti
$400
Comprises a collection of images gathered by Leti over the course of 30 years alongside poems by Loney "composed as a response to the whole collection of images and their gathering into a book". Limited to 26 copies signed and numbered by the poet and artist. This is copy number 2.
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