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.

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Phone: +61 3 9882 7705
Website: https://www.sainsburysbooks.com.au/
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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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Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan [Proof Copy]
$300
Proof copy of Brautigan's cult-classic. Scarce in dust jacket.
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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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My Complete Graphics - John Olsen
$600
Inscribed by Olsen to Fred Williams 'in appreciation of himself & contribution to our sense of place'. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies of which this is number 632.
The Plains - Gerald Murnane [First Edition]
$800
A fine first edition copy of Murnane's classic of the interior printed in an edition of 1500 by the Globe Press, Fitzroy. This copy with the second version of the dust jacket that was designed by Marius Foley.
Selected Poems - Robert Creeley
$300
Inscribed by Creeley to New Zealand-born poet and printer Alan Loney "As ever my friend - with my love".
Robert Burns: A Poem - Algernon C. Swinburne [Thomas J. Wise]
$600
An unusual item. Presumably a forgery by Thomas J. Wise as it resembles the copy described by Barker and Collins (1983) in all ways except for the wrappers which are noted to be of a dark red colour. Arranged by Wise, there were also 16 original copies issued to the members of the Burns Centenary Club (which according to Barker and Collins may never have actually existed). This suggests that this is then either a variant of the dark red forgery, or, one of the 16 originals.