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Fantastic Worlds: North Africa’s Magazine of Cinema Fantasy and the Unknown
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Soren
Cambridge, Mass.: Fantastic Worlds Magazine, [1972].Issue one of the horror and Hammer Films fanzine published by American archaeologist David Soren (1946-). “So one day we went to Hammer – we just walked right in a announced that we were publishers of a fanzine (fan magazine) about horror films in the U.S. and we asked for the addresses and phones numbers of David’s favorite Hammer stars so we could interview them – and we got them!! So for the next couple of years, whenever we were in London, we sought out and interviewed stars… To keep us honest, David had to actually produce the fanzine where these interviews were published, and so he wrote and distributed Fantastic Worlds Magazine, Issues 1 and 2, a real collector’s item today!” (Noelle Soren) Indeed rare, with only 1 holding recorded in OCLC, at the University of Georgia.
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Black & Gay: The Survey of Interracial Homosexual Practices
Read MoreVictor Dodson
North Hollywood: Barclay House, 1969.Non-fiction sexological pulp being a survey of interracial homosexual practices by partner team Victor J. Banis and Sam Dodson. Banis was a highly influential gay fiction author and has been called “the godfather of modern popular gay fiction”. This copy signed by Banis to the title page.
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The Crisis by Eugene Field
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene Field; [Colin B. Berckelman]
Athens [ie. Sydney]: The Vaginal Press, 1938.The vulgarity of the sexual slang in this scurrilous, pseudonymously published piece of verse would have been regarded in 1938 Australia as being at the very extremes of obscenity. Written and “hand-printed for subscribers only” by bibliophile Colin Berckelman in an (unsurprisingly) small edition of 25 copies, the publication can now be considered a genuine rarity: 11 of the 25 copies have found their way into public collections. Berckelman’s use of the non-de-plume Eugene Field is almost certainly an allusion to the late nineteenth century American writer of the same name who, aside from producing poetry for young readers, wrote The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896). Berckelman, for reasons that were either genuine or perverse, evidently felt some affinity with Field. “On top, the pumping method; or lying on the side, Or spread upon her billowing bum, a-la the blushing bride, Or stand up, or sitting down, or resting on all four, Whereby the visitor could take his choice of either door, Or dressed, or naked,… every way her genius could invent To catch the silvery substance that tickleth as ’tis spent.”
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Le Marseille Curieux
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre d’Agranon
Paris: L. d’Autrec, No date.The Curious Marseilles. Guide-Souvenir des Touristes et des Etrangers dans l’ancien Quartier Noble de Marseille Devenu Le Celebre Quartier Reserve. 1922 illustrated guide for sex tourists to the brothels of Marseille in the south of France. Copious illustrated with photographs of working women, a folding map of the area, and numerous advertisements.
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Vice Versa or a Lesson to Fathers
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartF. Anstey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882.First edition, first printing of the comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie set in Victorian London in which a stern father and mischevious son body-swap via a magic stone from India.
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The Queensland Aborigines (3 Volumes)
Read MoreWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1984.3 volumes collecting in facsimile various works of Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation. Volume 1 contains Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines, and includes the ethno-pornographical plate reproduced in colour. Volume 2 contains Bulletins 1-8 of North Queensland Ethnography from The Home Secretary’s Department, Brisbane, 1901-1908. Volume 3 contains Bulletins 9-18 of North Queensland Ethnography, Records of the Australian Museum Sydney, 1907-1910. In total, over 1,500 photographs, line drawings, and maps in three volumes.
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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Aboriginal Ethnographica
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.Reproduces the majority of DavidsonĀs Australian ethnographic papers from 1933 to 1953 in facsimile. Topics covered include Aboriginal Axes, Spears, Clubs, Canoes, Baskets, Boomerangs, Petroglyphs, Key Designs, Waningas, Churingas, Fire, Footwear and Death.
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Aboriginal Australian String Figures
Read MoreDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2006.Davidson collected these figures, mainly in WA, in the 1930s. Some 112 are illustrated and their creation described. This is a native art form now lost due to the inroads of TV- videos etc. a microcosm of our own cultural losses. Facsimile edition of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 84, No. 6, 1941.
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Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
AU$135 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.Published in Swedish in 1918 as ‘Bland Stenaldersmanniskor i Queensland’s Vildmarker’, and now available for the first time in English translated by S. M. Fryer and edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritche. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg’s North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. 31 plates. 226 captioned figures and 2 maps, showing rarely seen photographs of North Queensland Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
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Among Wild Animals and People in Australia
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2012.Originally published in Swedish in 1915 as ‘Bland vilda djur och folk i Australien’. Here translated into English for the first time by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman. “From October 1910 to August 1911 biologist Erik Mjoberg and his seven man Swedish team travelled by bullock wagon through the West Kimberley collecting invertebrates, birds, mammals, and ethnographic research material. Their ten month journey took them from Derby, along the Fitzroy River upstream to Mount Anderson Station. Some members then went on to Noonkanbah, the St George Ranges and Fitzroy Crossing, while others went south to Mowla Bluff. After the return to Derby two members went to Sunday Island and then followed the stock route across the Leopold Ranges to Mount Barnett. Extensive collections were also made around Derby and Meda Station. Finally the expedition re-convened in Broome where side trips included a coastal trip by pearling lugger collecting marine specimens and another trip to Beagle Bay, collecting birds. Eric MjƶbergĀs idiosyncratic text remained in the Swedish language until this long-awaited English translation. Now, for the first time, this unique perspective on biota and people is brought to a new generation of readers with an interest in Kimberley history and geography.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Australian Medicine Man
Read MoreHelmut Petri
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2014.Originally published in German as ‘Der Australische Medizinmann’ and available here for the first time in English, translated by Ian Campbell. PetriĀs landmark 1952 book on Aboriginal medicine men, shamans, witchdoctors. With a Foreword by Susan Bradley and Introduction by Kim Akerman.
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Body and Soul: An Aboriginal View
Read MoreAnthony Rex Peile; Peter Bindon
Perth: Hesperian Press and The Pallottines in Australia, 1997.“This extraordinary book describes the conceptualisation of the human body, soul, and health at the Kukatja people, who now live at Balgo, in the far north of Western Australia. It is without a doubt the best book I have read in the past two decades on any topic concerning Australian Aborigines. Packed with absolutely fascinating and new information, it also makes a challenging read; the effort required is, however, amply rewarded. .. The book is aimed primarily at the medical practitioners working in the Aboriginal communities. .. To date, this book represents the only attempt to put together an account of the views of an Aboriginal people concerning the body, its functioning, health, medical practices, and the soul or spirit, showing how these fit together as a coherent system of knowledge.” (W.B. McGregor, Anthropos 1999 1/3)
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Aboriginal Australian and Tasmanian Rock Carvings and Paintings with a Preliminary Consideration of Aboriginal Australian Decorative Art
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.Originally published in 1937 and 1937 in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. “Davidson was the most important ethnographer of his time and his reputation for the quality and quantity of work produced is unmatched. In 1937 F.D. McCarthy described the 1936 volume as “the first monograph of aboriginal rock carvings and paintings”. All subsequent students of Aboriginal Art owe a debt to Davidson’s work. Not only do the volumes extensively cover the rock engravings and paintings but discuss in detail techniques and styles of decoration, on weapons, baskets and containers, pearl shells, baobab nuts, tree carvings, grave posts, bullroarers, churingas, waningas and many others objects. The symbolism and distribution of design elements and originating areas are also discussed. This is an essential volume for anyone with an interest, scientific, aesthetic, or commercial, in Aboriginal art and artifacts.” (publisher’s blurb)
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On the Aborigines of Australia
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartAugustus Oldfield
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.“Oldfield was a botanical collector with a great interest in Aboriginals. This 1864 work with an extensive introduction by M.Helen Henderson is virtually unknown to anthropologists and is not known in most libraries. It describes the natives of the Port Gregory area at the mouth of the Murchison River in a detail that few others aspired to until the 1890s. Graphic descriptions of customs and incidents of life (and death).” (publisher’s blurb) Originally published in the Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 3, 1865, pp. 215-298, here published for the first time with a lengthy introduction in a limited casebound edition of 250 numbered copies. This copy out of sequence.
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Triumphs and Tragedies: Oombulgurri, An Australian Aboriginal Community
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartNeville Green
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.“Oombulgurri emerged from the remnants of Forrest River Mission to become one of the first independent Indigenous communities in Australia. During its 97 years its people have participated in events that captured national headlines; the search for the Southern Cross, the rescue of the crew of a German seaplane, reports of a massacre that sparked a Royal Commission, their service as guides to an elite military force preparing for the anticipated Japanese invasion of Australia and, in recent years, the community’s decline into poverty, depression and suicide. Sixty percent of the school children of 1967 are now dead. The missionaries and most of those they served are gone and so too is the lifestyle of that not so distant past, but in these pages we discover how church and government policies and failures shaped the present and the small achievements of Aboriginal people are soon lost in yet another wave of policies and practices that are presumed to be good for ‘them’. Neville Green is a Western Australian author specialising in Aboriginal history and between 1967, when he was a government teacher at Forrest River Mission, and 2006, he interviewed and corresponded with many people linked to the community to discover the heart and soul of Oombulgurri. Triumphs and Tragedies, his tenth book, is a story of lost innocence in a remote Australian community set amidst the raw beauty of the Kimberley.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Wanjina: Notes on Some Iconic Ancestral Beings of the Northern Kimberley
Read MoreKim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2016.“Wanjina Beings — among the most distinctive of all the Aboriginal Ancestral Beings depicted in Australian rock art — have been a topic of conjecture among Western scholars since their discovery by the explorer George Grey in the northwest Kimberley Region of Australia, in 1838. Their origins have at various times been ascribed to travellers from other continents and even extraterrestrial sources. This essay presents a brief history of past research into the Wanjina cult of the Kimberley: and examines some of the core mythology that embraces the country of the Wanjina and which links people, from the coasts lapping the Timor Sea, to the fastness of the Kimberley Plateau. Drawing together a range of ethnographic data this essay shows that the Wanjinas have played an integral role in underpinning the identity of the Worrorra, Wunambal and Ngarinyin peoples. This cultural connection stretches back for many millenia and continues today, through both oral traditions and the visual arts, playing a major role in defining the bond that holds these three groups of Indigenous Australians together.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Australian Aboriginal Tracking, Water Finding and Smoke Signaling
Read MoreAlexander Thomas Magarey
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.“Magarey was a South Australian explorer with a keen interest in Aboriginal customs. These papers are the result of his investigations among South Australian Aboriginals and are some of the best on the subjects covered, and in the case of smoke signalling, the only detailed description available.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cologne to the Kimberley: Studies of Aboriginal Life in Northwest Australia by Five German Scholars in the First Half of the 20th Century
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret Pawsey; Kim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.18 translated papers by Jos. Bischofs, Ernest Worms, Helmut Petri, A. S. Schulz, and Gisela Odermann.
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Wilgie Mia: Cave of Red Ochre and Raddled Ranters
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“A history of the discovery of the cave, early mining, and the industry that grew around it. Also an examination of the Wadgela myths of the sacred cave, which are less believable than those of the Aboriginal dreamtime. Wishful thinking guides government policy resulting in closure and restriction as the home for a red elephant.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Aboriginal Perth and Bibbulmun Biographies and Legends
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartDaisy Bates; P. J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1992.“A collection of her writings on the now-extinct Aboriginals of the Perth and South West areas of Western Australia. Customs, beliefs, biographies and more.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Western Australian Ethnographic Papers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Dugald Campbell; Peter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.“W. D. Campbell, an English geologist working in New Zealand and Australia undertook pioneering ethnographic work in the Eastern Goldfields, North West and Murchison. This collection is of rare and difficult to obtain papers that are little known to those interested in such material. The items on churingas and phallic objects are sure to ‘raise’ an interest in those so oriented.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Northmost Australia (3 Volumes)
Read MoreR. Logan Jack
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1998.Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, by Robert Logan Jack, Queensland Government Geologist. Facsimile Edition with maps in pocket in a third volume.
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Ludovic de Beauvoir’s Visit to Australia
Read MoreJohn Melville-Jones
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017.“This publication presents a revised English translation of the first volume (Australie) of an account of a voyage around the world undertaken in 1866 by two young French aristocrats. In Australia they visited Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo, and outside Melbourne experienced the life of a squatter at that time. They also visited Hobart, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane before sailing north towards South East Asia. The separate chapters are preceded by a general introduction written by Marie Ramsland (University of Newcastle), and by introductions to the separate chapters written by the editor, and by Nicola Cousen (Federation University), Steve Mullins (Central Queensland University), Stefan Petrow (University of Tasmania, and John and Marie Ramsland (University of Newcastle). The text and the introductions provide a vivid picture of the eastern states of Australia as they were in 1866, seen through the eyes of a young French aristocrat.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Photographs from the Frontier: Kimberley, 1910-1911
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartKim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017.Taken by the first Swedish scientific expedition to Australia from prints held by the National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden. Organised and arranged by Kim Akerman.
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Gold Fields Maps of the Early 1900s
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartWA Mines Department
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.A reprint of the rare booklets of WA goldfields maps, ‘The State of Western Australia Shewing Goldfields & Mining Centres published by the Department of Mines, W.A.’, supplied to the early prospectors. Essential for goldfields historians and modern prospectors.
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Around the Goldfields: A Study of Possibilities and Dreams
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2019.An Overview of the Goldfields During the Great Depression.
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Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Pamphlets Dealing with Western Australia Issued Since its Discovery in 1616
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis G. Steere
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.“This important and interesting bibliography, compiled by the then Parliamentary Librarian, contains many references no longer easily accessible through the library catalogues due to the iniquitous policy of not indexing journal articles. An essential reference for bibliophiles, librarians and historians.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Woodlines of Western Australia: A Comprehensive History of the Goldfields Woodlines
AU$90 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Bianchi
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“Without a source of cheap energy to fuel steam boilers and for ore treatment, only the Western Australian mines with rich ore would have been productive. Firewood companies established privately owned train lines up to 120 miles out from major centres such as Kalgoorlie to bring in firewood. Although the Kurrawang and Lakewood woodlines are the main feature of this book; other woodlines included Lakeside south of Boulder, Kurramia/Kanowna, Cue, Laverton, Gwalia and Westonia. Firewood cutters, carters and loaders from war torn Europe, came to Australia seeking a better life; they lived in hessian walled basic camps with earthen floors and a tin roof. The book features 22 first-hand accounts of the hardships faced by woodliners working, living and growing up on the woodlines. Many a wife and family joining the husband after a few years were shocked at the conditions; suffering flies, heat, cold, loneliness, maggots in meat and poor quality drinking water. Between 1900 and 1964 a total of 21.6 million tons of firewood had been cut; during 1912-16 average production was 650,000 tons per year. By the time the firewood companies ceased operations they had clear-felled a staggering 3.04 million hectares of goldfields woodlands; almost half the area of Tasmania. Other woodline topics discussed include: racism, riots, internment, exploitation and bribery, shanties, sports days, strikes and deaths and accidents.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Western Australian Explorations of John Septimus Roe, 1829-1849
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Hercock
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2014.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “The landscapes and waters, the aboriginal people and their place names, as well as the plants and animals of south-western Australia, were all noted by John Septimus Roe. Naval officer, hydrogrpaher, explorer, founding Surveyor General, settler and father, Roe helped make Western Australia what it is today, while leaving a record of what it was at first contact by European settlers. Roe’s expedition reports, field notes and maps have been annotated, summaries and indexed in The Western Australian Explorations of John Septimus Rose 1829-1849. The reports are complemented by expert analyses of native plant species, native animal species, and navigation and surveying. This volume in the Western Australian Exploration series is a companion to Western Australian Exploration Volume 1 1826-1835 and Western Australian Exploration 1836-1845.” (from jacket)
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Western Australian Exploration Volume One, December 1826 – December 1835
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartJoanne Shoobert
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia: The Letters, Reports & Journals of Exploration and Discovery in Australia. “Western Australian Exploration Volume One, 1826-1835 is the annotated record of all the known extant documents of Western Australian land exploration for the period. This seminal collection of 130 items, many of which have never before been publicly accessible, is a unique view of Western Australia as it was found by the explorers. It is a fundamental source of importance to all Australians who have an interest in our origins.” (from jacket)
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Western Australian Exploration, 1836-1845
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Hercock; Sheryl Milentis; Phil Bianchi
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia: The Letters, Reports & Journals of Exploration and Discovery in Australia. “During the years 1836-1845, the settlements of Albany, Perth, Fremantle and York expanded as immigrants arrived in search of new pastures and other resources. The search for resources, the development of roads between remote settlements, and scientific enquiry provided the impetus for further exploration and discovery in Western Australia in that period. One hundred reports of expeditions of exploration in colonial Western Australia have been annotated, summarised and indexed in Western Australian Exploration 1936-1845. The reports are complemented by expert analyses of native plant species, native animal species and the relations between Aboriginal people and the explorers. This volume in the Western Australian Exploration Diaries series is the companion to Western Australian Exploration Volume 1 1826-1835 and Evidences of an Inland Sea.” (from jacket)
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The Australind Letters of Marshall Waller Clifton, Chief Commissioner for the Western Australian Company
AU$95 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. R. Cameron; P. A. Barnes; Marshall Waller Clifton
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The Australind Journals of Marshall Waller Clifton, 1840-1861
Read MorePhyllis Barnes; J. M. R. Cameron; H. A. Willis; Marshall Waller Clifton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2010.“Marshall Waller Clifton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, and former Secretary of the Royal Navy’s Victualling Board, was Chief Commissioner for the small agricultural colony of Australind. This settlement, on Leschenault Inlet on Australia’s south-western coast, was formed in 1840 by a group of systematic coloniser supporters of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. To keep them informed of his activities, Clifton maintained a detailed daily account that he commenced on 1 December 1840, the day he left England. Unlike its sister colonies in South Australia and New Zealand, the Wakefield-inspired venture in Western Australia did not succeed. Australind failed within three years. Clifton, although freed from having to report to London-based shareholders, maintained his practice of daily journal writing and did so until six days before his death in 1861. The result is a vivid and detailed portrait of life in a small and remote agricultural settlement on the edge of the British Empire. Clifton is an intelligent and insightful, if somewhat haughty, observer of people, events and places. His observations and reflections will appeal to a wide audience because he was heavily involved in colonial life through the activities of his large family and as local magistrate, Legislative Councillor and leading land-holder and horticulturalist. His garden at Australind was much admired, he was a pioneer of Western Australia’s wine industry, one of the first to export local produce through the port of Bunbury, and a major employer of convict labour. Clifton’s Australind Journals are published here for the first time, annotated and comprehensively indexed to make them more accessible and useful for modern readers.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Exploration Eastwards, 1860 – 1869
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge; Kim Epton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “Contains some 30 expeditions including Lefroy and CC Hunt with appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott. Biographical notes on all known expedition members. Resolves the problems of the ‘convicts gold’ and Hunt’s unknown convict helpers.” (publisher’s blurb)
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To the Golden Land: Exploration to the Eastwards, 1869 – 1896
AU$160 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “An important contribution to the history of WA covering all that periods 65 expeditions, including many that were previously unknown. Includes for the first time all the colour plates of Forrest in the 1870s. More than 150 illustrations and maps.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891 – 1892
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Lindsay
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “With appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott, reported by the expedition. Also the full Anthropology report by Richard Helms which has not been available for over a century, which contains 6 colour plates and many b&w photos. Biographies of all the men.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited by Peter J. Bridge, Calliope Bridge, and Celene Bridge.
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Samuel Grau Hubbe and the South Australia to Western Australia Stock Route Expedition, 1895 – 1896
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Grau Hubbe
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “Contains the official and private journals of Hubbe and John Mahar. Biographical notes on the men of the expedition.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited and with an introduction by Andrew Guy Peake.
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A Sexual History of the Internet
Read MoreMindy Seu
: Dark Forest Collective, 2025.The artist book to the participatory lecture performance A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. “This is a polyvocal telling of sexual technologies in five chapters. It’s less an abridged history and moreso a collection of experiences, anecdotes, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of many of our digital tools.” (from introduction). An experiment in the understanding of the internet, sex, and sexual technologies.
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Photographs: Together & Alone
Read MoreKarlheinz Weinberger
: The Song Cave, 2020.“..containing over 200 never-before-published vintage photographic prints that were re-discovered in 2017. Edited by Ben Estes, this unique collection pairs images of Weinberger’s most famous subjects, the “Halbstarke,” a loosely organized group of Swiss “rebels” in the late 1950s and early 1960s, carousing at local carnivals and on a camping trip, with a much more private side of Weinberge’s oeuvre: solo portraits of men from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s whom he invited into his makeshift studio in the rooms of the apartment he shared with his mother. The men in these portraits–construction workers, street vendors, bicycle messengers, outsiders–span a spectrum of fully clothed, arms-crossed poses to campy and flirtatious, fully nude and reclined, while others mimic art historical postures. All of these images, though, reveal a palpable sense of tenderness between photographer and subject, revealing an expansive and uncritical take on the male form in an era when being photographed wasnāt such a casual, ubiquitous record as it is today. Though not a professional photographer–he worked as a warehouse stock manager–Weinberger captured his subjects with a distinctly gay male gaze, both carnal and artistic, and this collection is certain to earn his work a larger following and appreciation.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Hands Off! An Easy Way to Understand E-D-A Consciousness
Read MoreBob Jones
Sydney: Bay Books, 1983.“A unique system of self defence against assault for the women of today” by Australian martial artist and bodyguard to the stars Bob Jones. The techniques, which Jones calls Environmental Defence Awareness, are based around fighting off would-be rapists. Featuring Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac sparring with Jones on the cover, and other cameos by Christine McVie, Agneta and Frida from ABBA, and Linda Ronstadt.
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Along the Fault Line: Late Slippages and Abrasions
Read MoreJames Gleeson
Sydney: The Northwood Press, 2005.Limited to 350 copies, the first 100 signed by Gleeson, this being an unsigned copy.
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Every Second Child
Read MoreArchie Kalokerinos
Melbourne and Sydney: Thomas Nelson, 1974.Archie Kalokerinos’ account of treating Aboriginal children with large doses of vitamin C. Kalokerinos (1927-2012) was a prominent anti-vaccination campaigner and was highly criticised by the medical community for his vitamin C work outlined in this book.
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Flora of South-Eastern Queensland (3 Volumes)
Read MoreT. D. Stanley; E. M. Ross
Brisbane: Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 1983-1989.Illustrations by M. A. Saul and G. Rankin.
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Drugs, Rituals, and Altered States of Consciousness
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian M. Du Toit
Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1977.This book is the result of a 1975 symposium of the Society for Applied Anthology in Amsterdam. An exploration on the realm of drug use and its relationship to secular ritual. Exploring myths and rituals associated with hallucinogen and heroin use in various socio-cultural settings. Includes music-colour synesthesia and out-of-body experiences.
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Birth No. 3 Book 1 & 2: Stimulants: An Exhibition
Read MoreTuli Kupferberg
New York: Birth, 1960.1960s Greenwich Village two part literary zine on drugs. Poetic contributions on alcohol, marijuana, peyote, opium, tobacco, tea, coffee, and other stimulants. Texts by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and many others, edited by American poet and co-founder of The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010).
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Psychedelic Monographs and Essays
Read MoreThomas Lyttle
Naples, Ft Lauderdale, Boca Raton, & Boynton Beach: PM & E Publishing Group, 1985-1993.Complete set of the scarce psychedelic journal edited and published by Thomas Lyttle during the late 1980s and early 1990s. PM&E grew directly out of the earlier psychedelic information exchange paper, The Psychozoic Press. This set with a laid in signed typescript card from the editor, as well as a catalogue and related psychedelic literature material from Rosetta Books, Berkeley.
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Lysergic Acid (LSD 25) & Ritalin in the Treatment of Neurosis
Read MoreThomas M. Ling; John Buckman
: The Lambarde Press, 1963.1960s clinical study on the combined use of psychedelic and stimulant therapies in psychiatric practice.
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Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Bourguignon
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.This copy with the stamps of Japanese anthropologists Takie and William Lebra, and the bookplate of tribal arts dealer Philip Goldman.
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Ephemeris Pharmacologica. Being Terse Synopses relating to Drugs and Modern Scientific Preparations,
Read MoreOppenheimer, Son & Co.
London: Oppenheimer, Son & Co., 1907.Collated with the utmost care from the Most Recent and Most Authentic Publications with References and Notes on Emergencies. A doctor’s diary.
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Coca and Its Therapeutic Application
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo Mariani
New York: J. N. Jaros, 1892.Second Edition in English of the influential cocaine monograph by the inventor of the first coca wine (vin Mariani) which became a popular medicinal tonic in Europe and America from the 1860s and was the forerunner to Coca-Cola. An ardent entrepreneur Mariani marketed heavily the curative properties of his spirited beverage, of which this monograph played an important part.
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Dragibus: Plant Medicine and Mysticism (Complete Set, 12 Volumes)
Read MoreSteve Rudd
Snellville: Dragibus Publishing, 2012-2016.Complete set of the 21st century ethnobotanical magazine with articles on acacia, kratom, cacti, khat, shamanism, salvia divinorum, mushrooms, and more.
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3 Days of Peace & Music. Aquarian Exposition: Woodstock Music & Art Fair
Read MoreMichael Forman
: Concert Hall Publications, Inc., 1969.First edition, first issue of the program for the legendary festival which would became the high point of festival counterculture.
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The Surfing History of Queensland
Read MoreRichard Harvey
Gold Coast: Olympic Productions and Publications, 1985.Scarce history of surfing on The Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast with lots of historical and period photographs of Greenmount, Kirra, Currumbin, Noosa, and other breaks. Also covers the breaks of Northern New South Wales including Byron Bay, Lennox Head, Broken Head.
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Surfing
Read MoreH. Arthur Klein
London: Kaye & Ward, 1965.Early detailed text book on the history and how-to of the art of surfing.
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Surfing
Read MoreH. Arthur Klein
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1965.Early detailed text book on the history and how-to of the art of surfing.
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Mark Warren’s Atlas of Australian Surfing
Read MoreMark Warren
Sydney: HarperSports, 1998. -
Skateboard Techniques, Safety, Maintenance
Read MoreRuss Howell
Sydney: Ure Smith, 1975.Extensive illustrations, including full page photographs, demonstrating skills, safety techniques, and equipment.
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Read MoreW. B. Yeats
London: The Folio Society, 2007.Selected and edited, with an introduction, by W. B. Yeats. Foreword by Paul Muldoon. Illustrations by Linda Farquharson. FORD-SMITH 1398.
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books
Read MoreJohn Milton; Alastair Fowler
London: The Folio Society, 2003.With a preface by Peter Ackroyd, an introduction by John Wain and illustrations by William Blake. FORD-SMITH 1135. The first printing of this folio edition, being the second edition printing by The Folio Society, the first with Blake’s illustrations.
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In Search of Lost Time (6 Volumes)
Read MoreMarcel Proust
London: The Folio Society, 2001.6 volume set in 2 slipcases. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin. Revised by D.J. Enright. Introduced by Jean-Yves Tadie. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Full list of titles: 1. Swann’s Way ; 2. Within a Budding Grove; 3. The Guermantes Way; 4. Sodom and Gomorrah; 5. The Captive; 6. The Fugitive Time Regained. FORD-SMITH 1027.
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Myths + Legends of India
Read MoreWilliam Radice
London: The Folio Society, 2003.“The text has been selected and adapted from a range of Indian sources, including a lengthy section from P. Lalās English version of the Mahabharata. The plates reproduce traditional Indian art.” FORD-SMITH 1072.
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Secrets of East Anglian Magic
Read MoreNigel Pennick
Milverton: Capall Bann Publishing, 2004.“A rich sourcebook for talismanic magic, charms against evil, household and animal magic, folk recipes, ceremonies of protection, curative spells and recipes, offering a unique and fascinating insight into the little-known techniques and traditions of East Anglia, with emphasis on the practical, useful nature of ‘nameless art’ as a magical path to self-awareness.” (from cover blurb)
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The Faceless God
Read MoreTomas Vincente
Munich: Theion Publishing, 2016. -
The Cult of the Black Cube: A Saturnian Grimoire
Read MoreArthur Moros
[Munich]: Theion Publishing, 2021.Including Clavis Saturni: A Kosmic Heresy by David Beth.
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The Benighted Path
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Gavin
[Munich]: Theion Publishing, 2015.Primeval Gnosis and the Monstrous Soul.
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Underworld: A Practical Guide to Necromancy
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Sepulcher Society
Munich: Theion Publishing, 2018. -
Wolfs-Head: Odinn, The Ecstatic God of Tethers and Skin-Turning
Read MoreShani Oates
Montreal: Anathema Publishing, 2020.Volume II of the Odinn Trilogy in Two Parts: Skin-Turners & Shape-Shifters, Tethers of Law and Death. One of 700 numbered copies of the standard edition.
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Serpent Songs
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartNicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
[London]: Scarlet Imprint, 2013.An Anthology of Traditional Craft Curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold. One of 750 numbered copies of the Sylvan Edition.
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The Star Crossed Serpent Volume I – Origins: Evan John Jones 1966-1998
Read MoreEvan John Jones; Shani Oates
Oxford: Mandrake, 2012.The Legend of Tubal Cain.
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Grimoire of the Baron Citadel: The Book of the Four Ways
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Hamilton-Giles
: Three Hands Press, 2015.One of 750 unnumbered copies of the first edition in wrappers.
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Snakewand & The Darker Strain
Read MoreKenneth Grant
London: Starfire Publishing, 2000.Two novellas. With a frontispiece by Austin Osman Spare. BOGDAN C2.
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Gamaliel: The Diary of a Vampire & Dance, Doll, Dance!
Read MoreKenneth Grant
London: Starfire Publishing, 2003.Two novellas. With a frontispiece by Steffi Grant. BOGDAN C3.
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Against the Light: A Nightside Narrative
Read MoreKenneth Grant
London: Starfire Publishing, 1997.With a jacket design by Steffi Grant. BOGDAN C1.
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The Other Child and other tales
Read MoreKenneth Grant
London: Starfire Publishing, 2003.6 short stories. With a frontispiece by Steffi Grant. BOGDAN C4.
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Convolvulus and other poems
Read MoreKenneth Grant
London: Starfire Publishing, 2005.Back to Black, The Gull’s Beak, Poems of Love and The Other Darkness. With drawings by Austin Osman Spare. BOGDAN B3.
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At the Feet of the Guru
Read MoreKenneth Grant
London: Starfire Publishing, 2006.Grant’s final major non-fiction work. Twenty-five essays pertaining to Eastern Mysticism. BOGDAN A14.
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The True Grimoire
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartJake Stratton-Kent
[London]: Scarlet Imprint, 2009.The Encyclopaedia Goetica Volume One. One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy with a signed Weiser Books plate and an occult themed bookplate, and butterfly talisman laid in.
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The Magickal Union of East and West
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Peters
Woodbury: Llewellyn Publications, 2014.The Spiritual Path to New Aeon Tantra
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Pagans and Witches of Essex
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Power
: Phoenix of Chelmsford, 2013.The second issue cover design.
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Iban Shamanism: An Analysis of the Ethnographic Literature
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPenelope Graham
Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1994.An occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. With a foreword by Derek Freeman.
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Rites Necromantic: The Witch as Intercessor Between the Quick and the Dead
Read MoreMartin Duffy
: Three Hands Press, 2020.Law of Contagion Monograph Series, 1. One of 400 numbered copies.
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Holy Daimon
Read MoreFrater Acher
London: Bibliotheque Rouge, 2018.“…the result of more than ten years of ritual and theoretical magical research. The book is comprised of three parts: History, Memory & Practice, providing a well-ground introduction, as well as a practical path to creating communion with one’s holy daimon.” (rear cover)
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Surf Beaches of Australia’s East Coast
Read MoreJeff Carter
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1968. -
The Ultimate Kiss: A Guide to Oral Sex
Read MoreJacqueline Franklin; Steven Franklin; Caesar Guest
Los Angeles: Helios Publications, 1978.A heterosexual guide to oral sex. Includes Male to Female and Female to Male guides, as well as discussion of the culture of oral sex in the mid 20th century.
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Illustrated Sex Quiz
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMyron D. Jacoby
New York: Herald Publishing Co., 1943.1940s American sex guide manual by the spurious Dr. Myron D. Jacoby, who had repeated run-ins with the law relating to unregulated medical practices.
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Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDany Jobus; Lisa Downing
London: H. Karnac, 2006. -
Bodyjamming
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJenna Mead
Sydney: Vintage, 1997.Sexual harassment, feminism, and public life. Contributions by Alice Blake, Rosi Braidotti, Kaz Cooke, Ann Curthoys, Mark Davis, Judy Horacek, Foong Ling Kong, Amanda Lohrey, Jenna Mead, Jenny Morgan, Meaghan Morris, Elspeth Probyn, Matthew Ricketson, Natasha Stott Despoja, and XX (Ormond College Complainant). Edited by Jenna Mead.
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Working Hot
Read MoreMary Fallon
Melbourne: Sybylla Co-Operative Press & Publications Ltd, 1993.An experimental novel about dykes in Sydney.
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Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise
Read MoreMichelle Cliff
Watertown: Persephone Press, 1980. -
Travelling on Love in a Time of Uncertainty
Read MoreGary Dunne
Sydney: BlackWattle Press, 1991.Collection of Australian gay fiction. This copy inscribed by the editor to Dr. Gary Simes.
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Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film, 1957-1981
Read MoreDavid McGillivray
London: Sun Tavern Fields, 1992.A detailed history of the British sex film illustrated throughout with production frames, promotional photographs, and posters. This copy inscribed by the author and with the Scala Club Cinema, London, August 1992 program poster with the event for the film/book launch laid in.
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Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartA. W. Stencell
Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999. -
Stripped: The Illustrated Male
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartClaus Kiessling; Joris Buiks
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2006.Anthology of contemporary homoerotic art.
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Kontrol
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war sci-fi thriller. “..an exuberant Scientific Romance with thriller elements, in which a Mad Scientist switches genius brains into athletes’ bodies, then wipes their minds clean, in order to create a race of obedient Supermen; he is under the control of a Soviet master operator, whose network operates a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-off aerial juggernauts and a Dystopian supercity on a secret Island. All ends in flames.” (SFE)
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Access Denied: A Bibliography of Suppressed Australian Literature
Read MoreGeoffrey Cains
Sydney: Longueville Media, 2021.Now out of print. “Book collector and scholar Dr Geoffrey Cains wrote this groundbreaking bibliography of suppressed Australian books after frequently reading in rare book catalogues that certain books were ‘suppressed’. This word raised several questions: What lay behind the suppression? Who instigated it? And who benefitted from it? Over a period of thirty years, he sought out these books, delving into the circumstances of their suppression and collecting 184 that had a credible and interesting back story. Until Access Denied, there has not been a bibliography or even a listing of these works. They do not have catalogue entries in any of the state libraries in Australia. Indeed, there appears to be no international database of suppressed books in existence. Certainly, censored books are listed and have bibliographies devoted to them, but censorship is a stateĀbased and politically driven action that, when modified by changing community standards and mores, may be relaxed over time. In contrast, suppression seeks to permanently remove a book from access by the average reader. Access Denied is the story of these near-invisible books.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Australasian Fruit Culturist
Read MoreDavid Alexander Crichton
Melbourne: Alex. McKinley & Co., 1893.2 volumes in 1. Containing Full and Complete Information as to the History, Traditions, Uses, Propagation and Culture of such Fruits as are suitable for Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand; Also Descriptive Lists of the Principal Varieties of Fruits, With Remarks as to their Adaptability for Particular Purposes.
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Australian Rainforest Plants: In the Forest & in the Garden (6 Volumes)
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartNan Nicholson; Hugh Nicholson
The Channon: Hugh and Nan Nicholson / Terania Rainforest Publishing, 1991.Volume I: Fourth Edition (1992); Volume II: Second Edition (1991); Volume III: First Edition (1991); Volume IV: First Edition (1994); Volume V: First Edition (2000); Volume VI: First Edition (2004).
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Das Musikalische System der Griechen in Seiner Urgestalt.
Read MoreC. Fortlage
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1847.Aus den Tonleitern des Alypius zum ersten male entwickelt von Dr. C. Fortlage, Ausserordentlichem Professor der Philosophie in Jena. Mit II Tabellen. [The Musical System of the Greeks in its Original Form. Developed for the first time from the scales of Alypius]. This copy with the stamp of musician Immanuel Gotthold Reimann (1859-1932), founder of the Adelaide College of Music.