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Morgue
Read MoreJeffrey Silverthorne
London: Stanley / Barker, 2017.Photo book of a series of photographs taken by American photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne (1946-2022) at the state morgue of Rhode Island in 1972 and 1973.
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Winfield and Australia: Together Since 1972 / Brand Manual …anyhow*
Read MoreJackie Blackledge
[Sydney]: British American Tobacco Australia, 2011.Privately produced brand manual chronicling the marketing of Winfield cigarettes in Australia, featuring Paul Hogan’s iconic advertising campaigns. Created by the Sydney office of global marketing agency G2 and issued privately for BATA employees in a very limited run. Unrecorded in Trove or OCLC. “Winfield was the first brand to say to Australians that it was okay to be Australian, that , in fact, it was preferable. As a result, Aussies loved it, they quickly drove Winfield to an 8.4% share in the first year; a never-before-seen result in an industry where getting a 0.5% share was an excellent achievement for a new brand.” (from page 24) The same page also featuring a 1983 photograph by Rennie Ellis, Two Couples.
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Minutes to Midnight
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTrent Parke
Gottingen: Steidl, 2013.Photo book of an uneasy Australia produced from a 2003 road trip around the country by Australian photographer Trent Parke (1971-). In 2007 Parke became the first Australian member of Magnum Photos.
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Kings Cross Sydney: A Personal Look at the Cross
Read MoreRennie Ellis; Wesley Stacey
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1971.Documentation of Sydney’s Kings Cross in the early 1970s. Showgirls, servicemen, freaks, hippies, sex, drugs, music art, and more. Features a spread on The Witch of Kings Cross, Rosaleen Norton.
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The Americans
AU$220.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Frank
New York: Aperture, 1978.Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Third edition of Frank’s classic photo book, being the first edition in the larger format.
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Romance
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYao Jui-Chung
Taipei: Garden City Publishing, 2010.Monograph published to accompany the solo exhibition of Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-Chung. One of 500 signed and numbered copies.
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Expressions of Lovemaking
Read MoreWesley Stacey; Rennie Ellis
Sydney: Pontiac, 1972.Rare early erotic photo book by Australian photographer Wesley Stacey (1941-2023), issued the year before he co-founded the Australian Centre for Photography. A period document of liberated sexuality and countercultural aesthetics, the work pairs Stacey’s intimate colour photographs of a young couple (shot in settings including a cave, penthouse, pool, bedroom, and beach), with the sensual poetry of fellow photographer Rennie Ellis (1940-2003). Stylistically rooted in the late-1960s and early-1970s Australian bohemian milieu. Exceptionally scarce: a single holding recorded in Trove and OCLC (Curtin University). The work is otherwise unrecorded in writings on either Stacey or Ellis. The only public reference to its existence appears in a 1976 ruling of the New Zealand Indecent Publications Tribunal, which described it as “another publication consisting of photographs of sexual intercourse with a small amount of text. It is serious in intention, though not didactic, natural and restrained in presentation with a straightforward text. The photographs depict basic variations of normal intercourse without any of the tasteless or debasing acrobatics which have marred other similar publications… Having regard to the changing times and standards and the dominant effect of this publication the tribunal considers that a restricted classification in this case is not necessary. The tribunal classifies this publication as not indecent.” (The New Zealand Gazette No. 117, 18 November 1976)
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Erotica Varia: A Collection of Drawings by Xaqis
Read MoreCharis Schwarz
Sydney: Herd Publishing Company, No date.The erotic drawings of Charis Schwarz issued in the early 1970s by Australian pornography publisher, Herd Publishing, at the same time as Charis together with husband George were producing a series of ground-breaking pornographic films, including the first explicit Australian sex film to be cleared by the censors for distribution in cinemas. Rare, a single institutional holding, at the State Library of New South Wales, as part of the George and Charis Schwarz collection presented to the State Library by the artists in 2019.
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Les Amies de Lady Chattieley
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges de Chanrosey [Chanrosay]
Paris: Librairie des Editions Modernes, No date.1930s French flagellation and sadomasochistic novel with the title recalling D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates by W. Floger [Edouard Bernard / Edward Alexander Bernard].
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Confidences Egarees
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane Laure [Liane de Lauris]
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, 1932.1930s French flagellation. Jean Fort publication under his sadomasochistic imprint Collection des Orties Blanches. Illustrated with 16 plates by Dagy [Daniel Girard], this copy with 5 of the plates hand-coloured.
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Flagellees: La Flagellation des Femmes dans la Rome Antique
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean de Virgans
Paris: Librairie Franco-Anglaise, 1922.1920s French flagellation novel with illustrations by Gaston Smit signed in the image as both G. Smit and G. Topfer.
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Gisele et Pierrette ou Les Esclaves d’Island Castle
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Starbine
Paris: Libraire Artistique et Edition Parisienne Reunies, 1932.French 1930s sadomasochist novel. With illustrations by Gaston Smit, signed in the images as G. Topfer.
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Orgies Demoniaques: Orgies a bord d’un yacht
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGuy d’ Echara
: Collection des Lits Clos, No date.1950s Eric Losfeld clandestine publication of [Demonic Orgies on a Yacht], with the 6 plates in sepia depicting group sex scenes. DUTEL 2121.
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Chansons Folles
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Gustave Nadaud]
Evreux: Charles Herissey, 1887.Collection of 41 erotic songs with musical score by Gustave Nadaud and published anonymously with a fine frontispiece engraving by Henry Somm. One of 75 numbered copies on Japon (of a total edition of 300). This copy with a two-page signed letter by the author in purple ink dated 29 Avril 1882, written on nice stationery that features the letterhead Rue Charles Laffitte, 63, Neuilly, (Seine); and a two-page song composed on the same stationery in the same purple ink.
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Le Panier aux Ordures suivi de Quelques Chansons, Ejusdem Farine
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Armand Gouffe]
Canton [Bruxelles]: W. Field et Tching-Kong [Gay & Douce], No date.Belgian clandestine publication of the erotic poems of Armand Gouffe. The erotic title vignette depicts a young lady lifting her skirt to a priest in a kitchen. This copy from the collection of erotophile Gershon Legman, with bibliographical notes in his hand and signed by him. Legman’s note reads as follows: “[Bruxelles: Gay & Douce 1875] Enfer 29; BM. PC. 1769. 1st ed. as : Le Panier aux ordures, par Armand Gouffe et autres. [Paris – London: John Camden Hotten, for Lord Houghton, 1865.]. 36 f., lg 8vo. Hand-drawn facsimile by H.J. Bellars, erotic drawings by Ulm. No copy.* 2nd ed. (first typographical): [title as here,] [Libreville, a a la Society pour la propagation des livres de l’Enfer’ [Bruxelles: Jules Gay], 1866. vi, 154 p. smal 8vo. (106 copies.) BM.PC. 31 g. 4; Coll. G.L. 1957 G. Legman.” The asterisk from above reads, at bottom of page, “except that of Pierre Louys, coll. Bottin, Nice, in 1962].” Laid in also is a folded piece of typescript from Legman noting “SOLD to RP02/2016” (that is, Richard Press, from his widow) and then the explanation of the woodcut engraving at title page, “probably by Gilbert,” “showing a priest kneeling before a woman holding up her skirts before a kitchen fireplace to show her cunt.” 151 pp. And with occasional pencil marginalia translations into English (mostly of titles).
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Mnemosyne
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBill Henson
Zurich and Sydney: Scalo and Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005. -
Series of Five Colour Woodblock Prints on the 1998 Australian Waterfront Dispute
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaula Bloch (1937-2010)
Sydney: Paula Bloch, 2001-2003.A complete set of Australian printmaker and activist Paula Bloch’s woodblock series inspired by her participatoin on the picket line at Port Botany during the 1998 Maritime Union of Australia dispute with Patrick Corporation and the Howard Government. The series documents the artist’s direct experience of one of the most significant industrial confrontations in modern Australian history, in which Patrick sought to sack its unionised workforce in an attempt to break the M.U.A. The complete series is here offered together with 2 variants and 2 original sketch concept drawings. Full list of items: 1. M.U.A. Here To Stay: Port Botany at the Picket Line. Signed and numbered colour woodblock. 2/5 dated 2001; 1b. Colour variant, unsigned; 1c. Original sketch concept drawing; 2. M.U.A. Supporters Stay: Jennie George Reports at Port Botany. Signed and dated 2003.; 2.b Original sketch concept drawing.; 3. Sydney Town Hall Square: Rally of Unionists and Supporters. Unsigned.; 4. Maritime Union of Australia: Protest Meeting at Darling Harbour.; 4b. Black and white variant.; 5. [MUA Here To Stay]. Smaller format: 31cm x 30cm, unsigned. Bloch, who fled Nazi Germany with her parents as a child, wrote of the dispute: “I escaped Hitlers Germany with my parents just before the war, and grew up with a strong commitment to peoples rights. The waterfront lock-out was such a shock – fascist tactics in Australia.” Her prints combine a personal political conviction with a formal language drawn from European protest graphics and the screenprint traditions of the 1970s Tin Sheds poster workshops. Four of the five prints are held in the National Library of Australia (the present third print, Sydney Town Hall Square, apparently unrecorded.)
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International Mr. Leather: 25 Years of Champions
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph W. Bean
Las Vegas and Chicago: Nazca Plains and The Leather Archives & Museum, 2004.A thoroughly illustrated year-by-year chronicle of the world’s premier gay leather contest, founded by Chuck Resnlow in Chicago in 1979. Australia entered the IML story early: Patrick Brooks, the winner of IML 1980, became the first non-American titleholder and remains one of the most competition’s most controversial champsions. Brooks and his sponsor reportedly believed that winning the titled conferred hosting rights for the following year’s event, and briefly announced plans for IML 1981 to be held in Sydney before organisers clarified that the contest would remain in Chicago. Despite this misunderstanding, the Australian leather scene flourished, with Mr. Australia Leather contests continuing through the 1980s and 1990s, regularly sending representatives to IML. Notably, Australians achieved two runner-up finishes: Brent Lacey, Mr. Laird Leather Image (Melbourne), placed second in 1993, and Andrew Lennon, Mr. Mephisto Leather (Sydney), placed second in 1998. Bean’s volume documents these milestones among hundreds of photographs and profiles of titleholders, capturing a global leather brotherhood that prominently included Australia from its earliest days. Unrecorded in Australian institutional collections.
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Of Those Alone
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Hutton
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1958.The pseudonymous autobiography of Horace Charles Forbes Cheston, published under the name Robert Hutton shortly after the release of the Wolfenden Report. Written at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised and taboo, Of Those Alone offers an unusually candid account of Cheston’s sexual and emotional life. Moving between Paris, California, New York, and the South of France before returning to England, he recounts his affairs, his ill-fated marriage to an American woman, and his descent into alcoholism, concluding with redemption through Alcoholics Anonymous, an organisation he later helped to establish in Britain. One of the earliest openly homosexual autobiographies of the postwar period, it precedes the more widely known works of the 1960s gay liberation era and is quite likely the first memoir of a gay alcoholic writer.
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Transactor: WATSUP December 93
Read MoreWATSUP
Perth: WATSUP, 1993.Newsletter of the Western Australian Trans* Support, Unity, Pride. Contains a Presidents Report, A History of Female Impersonation, a copy of the Ministry of Justic, Corrective Services Division Transsexual Assessment and Placement Policy February 1992 issue regarding prison policy on transgender prisoners, membership application/renewal form, and more. Unrecorded in Trove or OCLC. A single copy can be located in the Rikki Swin collection of the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada.