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Feliccia ou mes fredaines
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea de Nerciat; Louis Icart
Paris: Georges Guillit, 1947.A libertine novel first published in 1775, Nerciat’s Felicia ou mes fredaines was repeatedly suppressed by the authorities, with illustrated editions particularly liable to seizure and prosecution. Louis Icart (1888-1950) the French Art Deco illustrator best known for his erotic and fashionable feminine imagery, supplied twenty original colour etchings for this edition, printed by Joseph Zichieri. One of 30 numbered artist’s copies (from a total edition of 530), this copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet-Riffieux incorporating a textile onlay of a nude female figure.
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Dix Sujets aimables dans le gout antique
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartChevalier Remy [Andre Lambert]
Se trouve a Cyhere: et ne se vend nulle part, 1917 [1920].A detailed collection of hand-coloured erotic plates with a pseudonymous preface by the artist under his Chevalier Remy moniker. The second edition published around 1920 by the artist with the plate L’Amour Astronome replaced by Hesitation aux Portes du Temple. One of 100 numbered copies (from a total edition of 110), the title, colophon, and illustrations each numbered and signed ‘Remigius Eques’. DUTEL 1411, PIA 349, PERCEAU 321.
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[Sex Slave]
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSuzan Pitt
New York: Suzan Pitt, 1984.Beginning in 1984, Suzan Pitt (1943-2019) painted a series of one-of-a-kind wearable artworks for The A. More Store, a project of the New York artists’ collective COLAB. Later that year they were sold through Patricia Field’s East 8th Street boutique alongside works by Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse. Pitt described the coats as unique artworks that could be either worn or hung on the wall, combining imagery drawn from popular culture, her animated films, and her watercolours into layered visual narratives of free association. Pitt is thought to have produced between fifty and one hundred painted coats during the 1980s before concentrating on the production of her animated film Joy Street. She returned to the format in 2016 in collaboration with House of Byfield. Sexuality was a persistent subject in Pitt’s work well before the coats. Her early film Crocus (1971) established a recurring association in her animation between sexuality and vegetal and floral forms, carried further in Asparagus (1979), a film noted on release for its frank sexual imagery and remembered for its pairing with David Lynch’s Eraserhead on the midnight-movie circuit. The present coat, its title taken from the painted text across the upper back, extends this preoccupation into wearable form, setting sexually explicit illustrations and lettering against appropriated cartoon imagery of Mickey Mouse and Goofy. This example belongs to the original 1984 series and is signed and dated by the artist.
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Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d’Exces
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartA. D. M. [Alfred de Musset]
Paris: Pour les Amis de l’Epoque Romantique [Maurice Duflou], [1924].The first serious reprint of Gamiani, with the text revised against the original edition, and the preface, by Louis Perceau, for the first time attempting a bibliography of the much reprinted work. One of 300 numbered copies (from a total edition of 320). The 12 heliogravures after the lithographs of the 1833 Brussels edition, and the title page of that edition reproduced in facsimile. This copy with the plates expertly hand-coloured. PERCEAU 16-36, PIA 529, DUTEL 1635.
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Biba Fashion Catalogues Archive
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Hulanicki; Stephen Fitz-Simon; John McConnell; Helmut Newton; Donald Silverstein; Hans Fuerer; Harri Peccinotti; Sarah Moon; Delisia Howard; Chris Price
London: Biba, 1968-2004.A complete set of the six Biba mail order catalogues (35.5cm x 18cm), four retaining their original Biba logo envelopes. Each catalogue was designed by John McConnell. Offered here together with: the Biba company newspaper ‘Welcome to the New Biba’ [London, 1973], produced to mark the opening of the Big Biba department store in Kensington; a Biba Food Hall paper bag; a Biba plastic carry bag; the exhibition catalogue ‘Biba: The Label, The Lifestyle, The Look’ (Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1993); and ‘In Biba: A Graphic Romance’ by Delisia Howard, illustrated by Chris Price, with foreword and additional illustrations by Barbara Hulanicki (London: Hazard Books, 2004). Biba was founded by Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon in 1964 as a mail-order fashion label, becoming one of the defining names of London’s Swinging Sixties and early 1970s style. Rejecting conventional catalogue photography, the mail-order catalogues were conceived as fashion editorials, featuring original work by Donald Silverstein, Hans Feurer, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and Harri Peccinotti. Combining innovative graphic design with editorial fashion photography, they rank among the landmarks of late-1960s British fashion publishing.
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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
Read MoreEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.Hosoe (1933-2024) co-founded the VIVO photography collective in 1959 with Ikko Narahara, Shomei Tomatsu, Kikuji Kawada, and Akira Sato, and went on to collaborate with Yukio Mishima on ‘Barakei’ (Ordeal by Roses, 1963) and with the butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata on ‘Kamaitachi’ (1969). This volume gathers 125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading twentieth-century artists, photographed in their youth over the course of Hosoe’s career. Subjects include the butoh dancers Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Min Tanaka, and Yoko Ashikawa, alongside Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and Hosoe’s VIVO co-founder Akira Sato, among others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies. This copy signed by Hosoe to the front free endpaper.
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[Manshu Showa Jugonen: Kuwabara Kineo shashin shu]
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1974.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting his trip to Manchuria in 1940.
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The Legman Book of Sex
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Rhoads
: George Rhoads, 1954.A unique artist’s book by the American painter and sculptor George Rhoads (1926-2021) as a gift for his friend, the erotologist and folklorist Gershon Legman (1917-1999). The two met in Paris shortly after Rhoads’ arrival there in 1952, bonding over origami. The discipline of mechanical precision inherent in origami arguably foreshadows his later complex audiokinetic ball machine sculptures. Rhoads is known to have sent Legman letters embellished with foldings and comic drawings throughout the 1950s and 1960s (a small number of models survive in the Legman archive at the Origami Art Museum, Colonia del Sacramento), but the present volume is a substantially more ambitious and apparently earlier production, made in the opening years of their friendship, and directed squarely toward Legman’s lifelong scholarly fascination with erotic folklore and bawdy humour. The 58 leaves are each illustrated on the recto with original cartoon drawings. The first sixteen leaves carry two short erotic tales: one of ten leaves concerns the tale of a sex maniac; the second, of six leaves, recounts the adventures of “five little Fuckers and how they blew”; the remaining forty-two leaves illustrated with standalone erotic cartoons. The front cover with a colour illustrated title, the inside lower board signed by Rhoads with a decorative border, the date supplied in Legman’s hand. Of considerable research interest as a primary-source artefact of the Rhoads-Legman friendship, complementing the surviving body of gifted material preserved in the Legman archive at the Origami Art Museum. The erotic content places it at the intersection of Rhoads’ early Paris work and Legman’s lifelong scholarship on erotic folklore and bawdy humour, later culminating in his major study ‘Rationale of the Dirty Joke’ (First Series 1968; Second Series 1975). Provenance: ex the estate of Gershon Legman by descent via Neil Pearson.
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Cloches de Noel et de Paques
Read MoreEmile Gebhart; Alphonse Mucha
Paris: F. Champenois & H. Piazza et Cie, 1900.Copy No. 1 of 10 on Japon containing an original Mucha drawing. Emile Gebhart’s three medieval tales: Les trois rois, La derniere nuit de Judas, and Alleluia! presented in one of the great illustrated books of the Art Nouveau period. Alphonse Mucha provided the complete decorative programme: cover design, title-page decoration, limitation page, colophon, and 78 individual headpiece compositions with elaborate floral borders enclosing the text, each hand-coloured by au pochoir. This copy, No. 1, contains an original full-page mixed-media drawing in pencil and watercolour on Japon, signed ‘Mucha’ at lower right, depicting a young woman in flowing drapery and broad knotted sash, her hair loose to her waist beneath a patterned headband, in profile with her hands raised to her collarbone, a detailed study for the main figure featured in the vignette on page 69. Also bound in are a complete suite in colour on Japon of the 78 borders and vignettes and the three designs for the title, limitation, and colophon, together with a second state in black on China paper. The original wrappers and prospectus are retained. The prospectus established a hierarchy of 252 copies in five categories, of which the ten copies on Japon with original watercolours (priced at 550 francs each) ranked only below the unique parchment and satin copies (priced at 1,000 and 800 francs), both entirely reworked by the artist, and above 25 further copies on Japon without watercolour and 215 copies on velin de Rives. The prospectus also noted explicitly that trade discount on the watercolour copies excluded “the cost of the watercolour executed by the artist”, formally distinguishing the value of the Mucha original from that of the book at the point of publication. Provenance: Acquired in 1947 by Albert Quesnot (1882-1954), first violinist with the Paris Opera, thence by descent, retained in the family home until 2026, when acquired at auction in Paris. Fresh to the market after nearly eighty years of unbroken family ownership.
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Sibylla TrygAndriana seu de Virginitate, Virginum statu & iure Tractatus Nouus & iucundus [WITH] Linea Amoris, sive Commentarius…
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartHeinrich Kornmann
Frankfurt: M. Becker for J. Fischer, 1610.First edition of two related works often bound together by the German jurist Heinrich Kornmann examining sexuality, chastity, and the regulation of relations between the sexes in early modern Europe. Sibylla TrygAndriana is a learned treatise on virginity, female chastity, and the legal status of unmarried women, enriched with discussions of astrology, superstition, folklore, and other strands of early modern learning, while Linea Amoris considers love, courtship, and adultery through the lens of civil and canon law, classical literature, and biblical authority.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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Spit in the Ocean (Shirley Abicair’s Set w/ ephemera)
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Kesey; Ken Babbs
Pleasant Hill: Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1976-1981.Issues 1-6 of the Merry Pranksters literary journal (a 7th and final number not included here was published in 2003) from the collection of Australian zither player Shirley Abicair (1928-2025), with guest editors inlcuding Timothy Leary, Lee Marrs and Richar and Elaine Loren. The set is offered together with seven pieces of related ephemera: promotional poster (35cm x 21.5cm) advertising the series with a coupon for either $1 for the first tissue or $5 for the first seven and on the verso a prose piece ‘Food Stamp Raga’ by Corn Twang (Babbs); Key-Z Productions (Zane and Stephanie Kesey) catalogue of books, videos, audio tapes, attire, and posters; two guest pass tickets to Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Lyceum; a guest pass to Grateful Dead at Wembley Stadium; a ticket to The Second Perennial Poetic Hoohaw May 7th 1977 Eugene Oregon; and a broadside promoting Ken Babbs speaking/performance tour for Spit In The Ocean No. 1.
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R and R: A Flight Fare Story
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Babbs
: Ken Babbs, 1984.Self-published short story by Merry Prankster and psychedelic icon Ken Babbs, featuring Marine helicopter pilots Huckelbee and Cochran on R&R at a Japanese brothel, the Five Hundred Club. An early version of what would become, in heavily edited form, chapter 7 of Babbs’ 2011 Vietnam novel, Who Shot the Water Buffalo?. The novel originated from a manuscript Babbs began during his service as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam (1962-63) and took nearly fifty years to reach publication. The present pamphlet is the only known separate printing of any portion of that manuscript, preserving a pre-publication text substantially different from the finished novel. Inscribed by Babbs to counterculture collector and historian Rick Synchef. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Art is a Horrible Waste of the Imagination
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartRon English
New York: English & Eichman, 1988.First published book by the American contemporary artist Ron English (1959-), being a collection of line drawings. The cover photograph by Charles D. Herold shows English painting a street mural. Introduction by Mark Kostabi. Only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at New York University.
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L. A. Digger News; DNA: Digger News Association; Extra Digger News
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartLos Angeles Diggers
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Diggers, 1967.Complete run of the three issues published by the Los Angeles Diggers, also known as the Digger Creative Society, an underground counterculture group active in Los Angeles during the summer of 1967. The paper changed its title with each issue. Inspired by the San Francisco Diggers but apparently not organisationally linked to them, the Los Angeles group ran a free store, distributed free food, and arranged emergency housing and free medical care in anticipation of a mass influx of hippies to the city over the summer. The papers were distributed free through local head shops with an optional donation, and reported on these activities alongside coverage of love-ins and related events.
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Transceiver: The Newsletter of the Chameleon Society (4 Issues & Charter of the Society)
Read MoreThe Chameleon Society of Western Australia
Perth: The Chameleon Society of Western Australia, 1993-5.Newsletter of the Perth based crossdressing social and support group active 1974-2015. This lot includes the Charter of the Society (Version 1.2 – 2/9/1993), and 4 issues of the newsletter: November 1993, January 1994, April/May 1994, and March 1995. As per the Charter, the aims of the Society were to “promote the emotional and social well-being of its members, and crossdressers in general; educate its members and the public as to the conditions of crossdressing; provide venues and media through which to further the first two aims.”
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Nu-Scene International (Four Issues, 153, 154, 155, 160)
Read MoreElaine Barrie
Melbourne: The Elaine Barrie Project, 1994.Newsletter magazine of the Elaine Barrie Project, a Melbourne crossdressing and transgender support and social group formed in 1979 as a breakaway from Seahorse Victoria, meeting at The Hub, a West Melbourne community centre run by pastor John Willis. The group began with three members, growing to five or six within about eighteen months; by the date of these issues membership stood at just over 100, with around thirty attending the monthly meetups. Issue 160 contains a brief history of the EBP.
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Feminique
Read MoreTrina Beaumont; Caroline Joyce
Sydney and Ulladulla: The Seahorse Club of Australia, 1976-1984.Collection of newsletter magazines issued by the Australian crossdressing organisation The Seahorse Society in its founding form as The Seahorse Club of Australia. Founded in 1971, “the club identified as being for heterosexual transvestites, intentionally distinguishing themselves from homosexuals, fetishists and transsexuals. This was part of an effort to portray transvestism as ‘normal’ and club membership as respectable.” (Noah Riseman: Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910) From the late 1990s, Seahorse began evolving to adopt broader transgender language and advocacy, and is now regarded as Australia’s earliest known trans organisation. The collection comprises: Feminique Numbers 11 (1976), 16 (1977), 22 (1980), and 25 (1984). The first three issues edited by Trina Beaumont (formerly Trina Taylor), the last by Caroline Joyce taking the reins.
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Seahorse Times, October 1994
Read MoreThe Seahorse Society of New South Wales
Melbourne: Seahorse Club of Victoria, 1994.Single issue of the newsletter of the Victoria branch of the Australian crossdressing organisation The Seahorse Society. Founded in 1971, “the club identified as being for heterosexual transvestites, intentionally distinguishing themselves from homosexuals, fetishists and transsexuals. This was part of an effort to portray transvestism as ‘normal’ and club membership as respectable.” (Noah Riseman: Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910) From the late 1990s, Seahorse began evolving to adopt broader transgender language and advocacy, and is now regarded as Australia’s earliest known trans organisation.
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A Booke of Secret Charmes
Read MoreZingarella H. [Christine Webb]
[Mountain View]: Apasavello Press, 1987.Collection of spells and charms by Christine Webb writing as Zingarella H. under another of her Mountain View imprints, Apasavello Press, possibly produced independently of Shelton Lea during one of the periods of separation occasioned by his recurring “alcoholidays”, as Webb and Lea called them. Diana Georgeff’s biography of Lea records that their garden there was given over largely to herbs and useful plants, and that Webb was fully occupied making tinctures, compounds and extracts; Lea called her the best herbalist in Australia. Unrecorded in Trove.
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The Outrageous Adventures of Tulips in Whatta Piss-off!! or Arfa Masbah cops a bewdy
Read MoreHypoteneuse [Christine Webb]
[Mountain View]: [Christine Webb], No date.Cartoon strip narrative by Christine Webb, writing as Hypoteneuse, following the misadventures of Johnny Tulips in Melbourne. Shelton Lea makes a brief appearance. Circa 1985-6. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria and Monash.
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Where Bees Dare
Read MoreChristine Annisette Hypoteneuse Webblea [Christine Webb]
[Mountain View]: [Christine Webb], No date.Unpublished illustrated prose work centred on gardens and herbalism, with autobiographical reminiscences. Webb recounts her early years as a hippie in Melbourne, a period teaching in the city’s western suburbs, subsequent travels, and her return to a changed Melbourne, where she became immersed in the bohemian circles of Fitzroy and Carlton. The narrative concludes with a fictionalised account of her first meeting with Shelton Lea, which concludes with “let’s get out of the city”. A photocopied draft of text and illustrations in the style of the collaborative works produced by Webb and Lea during their prolific period of the mid to late 1980s from that “out of the city” cottage at Mountain View. Page 9 bears an additional paragraph in Webb’s autograph. Probably dating from around late 1985/early 1986, on the evidence of a letter addressed to Webb on 17 May 1986 referring to a rumour that she had “ditched” her gardening book, but credits her with having redeemed herself by delivering “a healthy, robust comic-book” into the world, quite likely ‘Outrageous Adventures of Tulips in Whatta Piss-off!!’, which appears from the letter already to have been completed and circulating.
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Caloundra Capers: Drawings & Sea Songs
Read MoreChristine Webb; Shelton Lea
: Merripen Press, No date.Collection of drawings by Christine Webb with accompanying poems by Shelton Lea and Don Maynard, recording a trip together with Barrett Reid for some lollygagging in the Queensland sun at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast. Unrecorded in Trove; the only copy traced is held among the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW Canberra. This copy inscribed by Webb to Lea, with the illustrations hand-coloured by her.
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Spare Angels: Poems
Read MoreShelton Lea; Christine Webb
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, 1987.Second of the Webb-Lea Podsucker Press poetry pamphlets, gathering works by Terry Harrington, Ruth Cowen, Phil Motherwell, Mal Morgan, Rosemary Nissen and Barrett Reid, Lea’s long-time mentor, with illustrations throughout by Webb. Georgeff’s biography of Lea, Delinquent Angel, names Spare Angels specifically as representative of the couple’s photocopied, hand-distributed chapbook production of this period, and quotes a letter from Webb to Reid describing a photocopying mishap that displaced the poem ‘Point Lonsdale’ from its intended place at the front of the pamphlet to the back, where Ruth Cowen’s ‘Forever Vere’ was meant to sit. A single copy recorded in Trove, at Monash.
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Dressing My Girl in a Tu-Tu
Read MoreShelton Lea
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, 1988.Self-published collection of Lea’s poetry, illustrated by Webb, produced at the couple’s Mountain View cottage under the Podsucker Press imprint, continuing the series begun with Split Lips and Spare Angels. A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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A Stillness Reserved Only For Stones
Read MoreShelton Lea; Frank Kellaway
Mountain View: Clough Press, No date.Tribute pamphlet issued under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Clough Press (the cottage they lived in also known as Clough Cottage): two poems by Lea and one by Frank Kellaway in memory of John Reed, the Heide patron with which both Lea and his mentor Barrett Reid were closely associated. The rear cover carries an acknowledgement of the Ministry for the Arts grant that, per Georgeff, supported Lea’s prolific output during this period. A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria.
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The Love Poems
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Jenni Mitchell
Melbourne: Eaglemont Books, 1993.Collection of Lea’s love poems, published by his own Eaglemont Press in June 1993, limited to 1000 unnumbered copies, with drawings throughout by Jenni Mitchell, whose portrait of Lea from her Australian poets’ portraits series appears on the cover. Poems selected by Patrick McCauley; some had previously appeared in Overland and in Lea’s earlier collection Poems From A Peach Melba Hat. This copy signed by both Lea and Mitchell, with a flyer for Lea’s Eaglemont Books, at 81 Silverdale Road, ‘Specialising in Australian poetry. Call Shelton’, laid in.
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The Maggie Poem
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea], No date.Poem printed in Lea’s usual 1980s photocopy Mountain View output, this piece about his relationship with the red-headed Irish prostitute Maggie, and her death by his side in a Melbourne park. Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel tells the story: “Shelton had, at various times, fallen into the arms of prostitutes. There was a history of unconditional mateship between Shelton and those girls, even from his early days in Kings Cross. They’d provided a safety net for him and he had reciprocated. Shelton believed in the notion of the good-hearted prostitute. ‘I’ve met a whole lot of them in my life and they’ve treated me kindly. They don’t treat themselves very kindly.’ Maggie was an Irish girl with mad flaming hair. She was a junkie. She was the girl Shelton had gone to after the break up with Barbara. Candle, her hoon (pimp) had her installed upstairs in a building in Fitzroy. ‘Any nap-jack could come and fuck her for ten bob, and Candle would take the money.’ She wanted to get away and Shelton had fought Candle to take her. They went to the seaside for a few days. When they came back, they took a flagon of port and went to the park, the dying ground, with the blackfellas and shared it with them. Shelton fell asleep in the sun on the grass, near the highrise flats. ‘Maggie slid around the corner for a dose of methadone. She came back and drank more port and when I woke up she was lying next to me dead.’ He wrote a poem for Maggie and said he thought it was grand and full of life. ‘That’s what it is to be a poet, to sing about life. There’s no time for bitterness, but I don’t walk through that park when I don’t think about Maggie …’ A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Ballad of the Latrobe Valley-O
Read MoreShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: Clough Press, No date.Self-published collection of poems by Australian poet Shelton Lea with illustrations by Christine Webb under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Clough Press (the cottage they lived in also known as Clough Cottage). A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW. This copy matching the record at SLV with the additional loosely inserted single sheet with the untitled poem with the first line “i’m here today for a winge.”
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Advantage Receiver
Read MoreShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea and Christine Webb], No date.Self-published collection of poems by Australian poet Shelton Lea with illustrations by Chrissy [Christine Webb] published during their prolific 1980s photocopy output from their cottage at Mountain View. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria and Monash, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Two Poems: By Shelton Lea: New Poems
Read MoreShelton Lea
Melbourne: Shelton Lea, 1969.Self-published broadside of two poems (Vietnam; Wrecked lungs) by Australian poet Shelton Lea published 26/5/1969 from his 84 Bridge Rd, Richmond address.
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Brando Meets Kookaburra: Poems
Read MoreShelton Lea; Karl Gallagher
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, No date.Self-published collection of poems by Shelton Lea and Karl Gallagher under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Podsucker Press. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Split Lips
Read MoreShelton Lea; Christine Webb
[Mountain View]: Podsucker Press, 1986.Australian poetry anthology self-published by Christine Webb and Shelton Lea from their cottage at Mountain View, Victoria, under the imprint Podsucker Press. Bringing together Lea and others from the Melbourne poetry scene: Phil Motherwell, Solly Elenberg, Robert Harris, David Shepherd, Eric Beach, Don Maynard, Ken Smeaton and Robin Horowitz, with illustrations throughout by Webb. The earliest of the couple’s home productions under this imprint.
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La Mama Poetica
Read MoreShelton Lea
Melbourne: La Mama Theatre, [1990].Poster printed in a single red ink, for the long running poetry and spoken word event La Mama Poetica at La Mama Theatre, Carlton. Monday March 19 [1990] featuring Alison Croggon, Shelton Lea, Janet Boddy, Stephen H. Williams, John Irving, Tony Page, and George Gogos. This copy inscribed on the verso from Mal Morgan (who convened La Mama Poetica from 1985 to 1991) to Shelton Lea “Hi Shelley, Put these up for us, yrs – Mal”.
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Lives of the Poets Postcard Series
Read MoreMichael Sharkey
[Armidale]: Fat Possum Press, 1985.Australian poet Michael Sharkey’s postcard series, Lives of the Poets, published in the final years of his and Winifred Belmont’s regional NSW small press. Included with the series is a typed letter signed from Michael to Australian librarian and editor Barrett Reid gifting the cards, providing details for publication or bibliographical credit. All contained in the original hand-addressed postage envelope.
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Fitzroy Brothel: Poems
Read MorePi O
Melbourne: Strawberry Press, 1974.First poetry collection by Greek-Australian anarchist poet Pi O, who describes himself on the rear cover as an Armchair Libertarian. Tirades against the Trendies of Fitzroy interspersed with mathematically influenced concrete poems. He won the 2024 Patrick White Literary Award.
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Monster
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobin Morgan
Melbourne: Melbourne Radical Feminists, No date.American radical feminist Robin Morgan’s first book of poems, originally published by Random House in 1972. The title poem, ‘Monster’, quickly became one of the best-known poems of the women’s liberation movement, with the collection selling thirty thousand copies in its first six months. Its most controversial poem, ‘Arraignment’, accused Ted Hughes of complicity in Sylvia Plath’s death through his infidelity and alleged violence. Although Morgan revised the poem before publication, Hughes threatened legal action. Without informing Morgan, Random House agreed to withdraw the book from Commonwealth markets in return for Hughes dropping the matter. Feminist presses across the Commonwealth responded with unauthorised ‘pirate’ editions, most produced with Morgan’s blessing. The first appeared in Canada and followed shortly after by editions in Australia and New Zealand. Each varied in content: some carried graphics by women artists, others photographs of Plath, others, as here, both versions of ‘Arraignment’. This Australian edition includes illustrations and a bibliographical preface by Melbourne Radical Feminists.
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Fallopian Tube Fallopianna & Madness (2 Volumes)
Read MoreGaby [Gabrielle Antolovich]
Sydney: Fallopian Tube Press, 1974.The first two (and likely only) publications of the Sydney lesbian feminist press Fallopian Tube, featuring feminist and lesbian poetry and texts. Gabrielle Antolovich was a prominent figure in Sydney’s gay liberation and feminist movements, an early member of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) who, with her then-partner Sue Wills, appeared on the ABC’s landmark Chequerboard documentary in 1972 as one of the first openly lesbian couples on Australian television. Antolovich resigned from CAMP’s executive in 1974, citing sexism within the organisation, the same year these publications appeared, amid a broader shift among lesbian activists toward autonomous feminist publishing. Fallopianna is one of 100 numbered first printing copies produced in April 1974. Madness is one of 200 numbered first printing copies produced in December of the same year. Contains an erotic text by pioneering Australian feminist artist Vivienne Binns, noted as ‘the piece that no other publication would print’, along with contributions by Kerryn Higgs, Kate Jennings, and others.
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Mischmasch (Complete Set, 8 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Mandeville
Kansas City: Mischmasch Antigraphics, 1977-88.Dada art-zine, complete in 8 issues, No. VII with the supplemental booklet ‘The Pleasure Car’ laid in. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Leaves from the Diary of a Would-Be Initiate
Read MoreJay Mandeville
Kansas City: Cloud_Merchant for Mischmasch Antigraphics, No date.Dada occult art-zine being the narrative of an aspiring alchemist. This copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the rear cover. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Magazine of Further Studies (Complete Set) together with Britannia and The Western Gate
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Clarke; Albert Glover; George Butterick; Fred Wah; Daniel Zimmerman
Buffalo: Institute of Further Studies, 1965-1970.Poetry journal published at the University at Buffalo during the mid to late 1960s by a group of poets and scholars associated with Charles Olson and the literary community that developed after his arrival at SUNY Buffalo following the closure of Black Mountain College. Contributions from the editors alongside Olson, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Sanders, Duncan McNaughton, Ruth Fox, Stephen Rodefer, Harvey Brown, David Tirrell, and others. This complete set in 6 issues offered together with two further publications, Britannia and The Western Gate, both edited in Buffalo by Daniel Zimmerman in 1970, with continued output from many of the same contributors. No. 1 with a two leaf typescript, Up Rising, by Robert Duncan laid in.
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Residu (Complete Set, 2 Volumes)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Richter
Athens, London, and Provincetown: Residu/ Richter, 1965-66.Complete set, in two issues only. Avant-garde literary journal featuring contribution by Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Philip Lamantia, William Burroughs, Gerogry Corso, Simon Vinkenoog, Jack Nuttall, Alexander Trochi, and others. Includes several pieces on LSD, hash, and other psychedelics.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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Omphale: Histoire Rococo
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1896.First published in book form within ‘Une larme du diable’ in 1839, and here published separately for the first time with illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Drawing on the myth of Omphale, the Lydian queen to whom Hercules was sold into servitude, Gautier evokes the gender role-reversal in which the hero spins wool in women’s clothing while Omphale dons his lion skin and wields his club. One of 50 numbered copies on Japon with a second state of the illustrations with remarques (from a total edition of 300), in a fine half leather binding, signed E. Carayon, retaining the original wrappers and with the prospectus bound in.
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Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste
Read MoreJules Gay
Turin: J. Gay et Fils, 1869.Anthology of rare and curious French texts from earlier centuries, largely comprising satirical and facetious verse, dialogues, chansons, and other literary pieces on love, women, marriage, and sexuality. Published by Jules Gay and his son Jean at Turin in 1869 for the bibliophile market cultivated through Gay’s work as a publisher and bibliographer of erotic and prohibited literature, it remains a useful sourcebook of French literary curiosa. One of 100 numbered copies on papier verge dit Hollande (from a total edition of 175), with three plates printed on chine, being portaits of Marguerite de Navarre, Francois Villon, and Clement Marot.
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Un Coeur Simple
Read MoreGustave Flaubert
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1894.23 illustrations by Emile Adan engraved by Champollion. The unique binding with silver plates, signed Moens. One of 250 numbered copies on d’Arches (from a total edition of 500).
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La Chatte
Read MoreColette
Paris: Artheme Fayard, 1945.The story of a love triangle involving two humans and a cat. Colour lithographs by Jean A. Mercier. One of 650 numbered copies on velin d’Arches (from a total edition 998) in a charming cat themed binding.
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Histoire du Portefaix avec Les Jeunes Filles: Conte Des Mille et Une Nuits
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartDr J. -C. Mardrus
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1920.Illustrated by Joe Hamman. One of 500 numbered copies on velin de cuve (of a total edition of 550), this copy bound in Kieffer’s stunning relief design of female nudes and monkeys with his ticket to the verso of the front free endpaper
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Thais
Read MoreAnatole France; Raphael Freida
Paris: A. Plicque & Cie, 1924.One of 700 numbered copies on velin de Rives (from a total edition of 781), in a unique fine binding, signed E. Berthet. The upper board with a large painted and incised panel after one of Freida’s plates, the lower board with a smaller panel after a tailpiece, and the central spine compartment with an additional design by the binder. First published in 1890, after serialisation in the Revue des Deux Mondes (1889), Thais is among France’s best-known contes philosophiques: the story of the Alexandrian courtesan Thais and her conversion by the ascetic monk Paphnuce, whose own spiritual certainty disintegrates in the process. Issued in the year of France’s death, this edition is the most desirable of the few books illustrated by Raphael Freida (1877-1942), a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens. His illustrations emphasise the workÂ’s underlying eroticism, sharpening the tension between ascetic renunciation and sensual desire that defines the narrative.
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Le Roman de la Momie
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier; Alex. Lunois
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1901.The principal deluxe illustrated edition of Gautier’s 1858 Egyptological romance, centred on the discovery of the mummy of Tahoser and the narrative of her love for a young Hebrew. Illustrated by Alexandre Lunois (1863-1916), who travelled extensively in Egypt and based his compositions on direct observation of ancient architecture, ornament, and costume. One of 50 copies on Japon, issued with a supplementary suite of the illustrations, bound with the original wrappers and prospectus, in a signed, richly tooled Egyptian style binding by Chambolle-Duru.
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Insolation
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLes Freres Siamois; [Joseph Hemard]
: n.p., [c. 1935].A collection of fourteen ribald verses with like illustrations by Hemard; including 1 hand-painted plate depicting a grotesque erotic orgy. DUTEL 1756.
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Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine (2 Volumes)
Read MoreJean de La Fontaine; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1937-38.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies. This copy rebound in quarter vellum with hand-painted decorations to the spines replicating the original wrappers, which are bound in.
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Les Fleurs du Mal
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTatsuhiko Yokoo
Tokyo: [Yoshihara], 1975.Ten etchings by the Japanese painter Tatsuhiko Yokoo (1928-2015), each responding to a different poem from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. One of 15 numbered copies on Fukui paper reserved for the artist and collaborators (from a total edition of 50). Each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Accompanied by a title leaf with a list of plates in French and Japanese, an artist’s preface with an excerpt from the corresponding poem for each plate on its verso, and a printed plate with a portrait and Japanese text after Baudelaire’s ‘Spleen’. A colophon leaf with the limitation statement in French and Japanese is mounted to the verso of the box lid.
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium & Haschisch
Read MoreCharles Baudelaire; Henry Chapront
Paris: Societe des Medecins Bibliophiles, 1921 [1923].An illustrated bibliophile edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship to creative expression, comprising his essay on hashish and, in the second part, his adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Illustrated throughout by Henry Chapront with colour plates and text illustrations. One of 150 numbered copies printed for members, this being one of 100 subscriber copies on laid linen-and-hemp paper, additionally issued with a suite of 21 colour proofs on Chine paper, including the facsimile portrait of Baudelaire.
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Le Livre Blanc
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Cocteau
Paris: Editions du Signe, 1930.One of the foundational texts of modern gay literature. The text was first published anonymously in 1928, without illustration, in an edition of just thirty-one copies. This 1930 edition, the first illustrated and first commercially distributed edition, added eighteen drawings by Cocteau, hand-coloured by M. B. Armington, together with a facsimile of an autograph note in which Cocteau alludes to, without explicitly acknowledging, authorship. Edition limited to 450 copies. This copy on Arches paper, lacking the justification leaf.
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Escales
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAndre Lhote; Jean Cocteau
Paris: Editions de La Sirene, 1920.Homage to the brothels of Marseille’s Vieux Port district. One of 400 numbered copies on Lafuma (from a total edition of 440). PIA 417.
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Aucassin and Nicolete
Read MoreMichael West; Main R. Bocher; Horace Mansion; Evelyn Paul
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1917.Copy no. 1 of 125 numbered copies, signed by Evelyn Paul. An elaborate medieval-revival illumination of the anonymous chantefable, translated from the Old French by Michael West, with music by Horace Mansion. Evelyn Paul’s decorations draw on Pre-Raphaelite, Gothic Revival, and Arts and Crafts models, combining ornamental borders, initials, and binding into one of the more distinctive British gift-book productions of the period. The colour plates are by American illustrator Main Rousseau Bocher (1890-1976), then active between New York and Paris, shortly before the launch of the couture career for which he would become internationally known. After working as a fashion illustrator for Harper’s Bazaar and later as editor of French Vogue, he established the Paris house of Mainbocher in 1929, becoming the first American to achieve lasting success as a Paris couturier.
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Death and the Lover
Read MoreHermann Hesse
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932.First edition in English, translated from the German, Narziss Und Goldmund by Geoffrey Dunlop, and later published as Narcissus and Goldmund.
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Kontrol
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war science fiction 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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Acid Temple Ball
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Sativa
London: The Olympia Press, 1971.The first UK printing of this psychedelic erotica classic, following two printings in New York. “Mary Sativa tells the rather simple, but very beautiful story of a young art student’s life and loves in New York City and San Francisco. Her experiences are passionate, searching and tender, as she moves from east to west coat looking to learn a little more about the bemusing experience of living.” (while taking lots of drugs and having lots of sex). Cover photo by Don Snyder.
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Haschisch: A Novel
Read MoreThorold King [Charles Gatchell]
New York: Brentano’s, 1888.First published in 1886 under the pseudonym Thorold King, a novel of narcotic experience following a young Englishman who travels to Egypt, becomes addicted to hashish, and experiences vivid hallucinations. Gatchell was known for his interest in and personal experimentation with cannabis indica extract. In an 1889 letter (sold at auction by Alex Autographs, 2012), he provided detailed instructions on smoking the resinous extract, stating that in his book “there are many facts and many actual experiences” and that it was “possible for you to repeat everything there described.” This copy, probably the author’s own, with a manuscript note on the title page reading: “Published originally by A. C. McClurg, who sold 3 editions. Then I turned it over to Brentano’s who published and sold 3 more editions. C.” Various advertisements and promotional materials for the book are glued to the pastedowns and endpapers. Among the relatively few 19th-century novels to treat cannabis, marijuana, and hashish in a broadly positive or experiential light.
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Opiologia ad mentem Acadamiae Naturae Curiosorum
Read MoreGeorg Wolfgang Wedel
Jenae: Johannis Fritschii, 1674.First edition of this rare and early treatise on the pharmacological and therapeutic aspects of opium. The large title vignette one of the earliest illustrations of scoring and bleeding the poppy. Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645-1721) was a German professor of surgery, botany, theoretical and practical medicine, and chemistry.
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Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia and A Psychological Study of Twilight Sleep Made by the Giessen Method
Read MoreBertha Van Hoosen; Elizabeth Ross Shaw
Chicago: The House of Manz, 1915.Van Hoosen (1863-1952), pioneering American surgeon, was the first woman to head a surgical department at a coeducational university and a co-founder of the American Medical Women’s Association in 1915. She was a leading American advocate of scopolamine-morphine anaesthesia in obstetrics, the so-called Twilight Sleep method developed at the University of Freiburg. The technique, which rendered patients semiconscious and eliminated memory of labour pain, became the subject of a national campaign intersecting with first-wave feminist and suffrage-era activism following a widely-read 1914 McClure’s Magazine expose. Van Hoosen’s text, drawing on extensive clinical experience, covers the method’s application in both general surgery and obstetrics, with Shaw contributing a psychological study of patients under the Giessen protocol. Illustrated with a mounted photographic frontispiece and fifteen plates. This copy with a presentation inscription by the author.
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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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A Translation of the Corrected Edition of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Published in July 1815. with Notes
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartA London Physician
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, and S. Highley and Son, 1815.Translation from Latin into English of the Royal College of Physicians’ Pharmacopoeia, providing a list of plants and their parts for use in medicines and other preparations, and recipes for mixing and compounding. The unnamed translator makes an appeal to Lord Stanhope to look into the Royal College of Physicians, which he accuses of quackery, and bring it before the Legislature for ‘reformation and redress’.
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An Herbarium for the Fair: Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty Shaw-Lawrence; Thomas Fassam
London: The Hand & Flower Press, 1949.Together with Curious Notes on their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love (such as for Taking Away Hair, Bettering the Breasts, the Ease of Sighings, Making a Person Chaste, Loth to Love, and Turning a Person’s Head). One of 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 260), signed by Fassam, each of the 20 plates signed by the artist.
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
AU$8,000 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward L. Youmans
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856.Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest Views of the Subjects Illustrated. Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887) was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer, and founder of Popular Science magazine. Youmans’ Chemical Atlas is one of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization, with striking colour plates both conveying information and capturing the imagination, and was featured in the William Reese exhibition Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: “This chemistry textbook was a pioneering publication in the use of color to convey quantitative information”. There are recorded printings each year between 1854 and 1857. This 1856 edition being the third year of printing and from the collection of the renowned neurologist, author, and educator Dr. Oliver Sacks, with his bookplate laid in.
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Sweet Gwendoline & Sir Dystic d’Arcy No. 1: The Race for the Gold Cup
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Willie [John Alexander Scott Coutts]
Los Angeles: J. A. S. Coutts, 1958.The complete cartoon serial of Sweet Gwendoline, reworked, finished, and published by the artist. The character first appeared in Coutts iconic fetish magazine Bizarre, which ran for 26 issues between 1946 and 1959 and remains the most influential fetish periodical of its era. Publishing under the pseudonym John Willie, Coutts work profoundly shaped later artists including Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, and erotica publisher Leonard Burtman. Born in Singapore to British parents, Coutts lived in Brisbane and Sydney from 1926 to 1945, where he developed his signature aesthetic centred on high heels, corsetry, and bondage. During this period he produced photographs and drawings, often featuring his wife and model Holly Anna Faram, much of which informed the imagery of Bizarre’s early issues. After a short stint in the Australian Military Forces, Coutts emigrated to North America in 1945, publishing Bizarre soon after. This standalone title was published after Coutts had sold the magazine and relocated from New York to Los Angeles. The final 55-page narrative that Coutts published in magazine form in November 1958 was a significant reworking of the original Sir d’Arcy d’Arcy comic–almost a complete reimagining. The journey to this completed work had been long and winding, beginning in Bizarre, passing through Wink magazine, and briefly distributed by Irving Klaw as 10×8″ photographic sheets. The bound edition Coutts eventually published remains the only complete version.” (Richard Perez Seves, John Willie: The Story of John Alexander Scott Coutts). Two institutional holdings, at Yale University and the Kinsey Institute.
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Archive of Homoerotic Prints with Catalogue and TLS
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRudolf von Keller
London: Rudolf von Keller, 1993.Archive of late 1980s / early 1990s homoerotic prints by Rudolf von Keller, sent to Jurgen Boedt, editor of the Belgian fetish magazine Secret, in the original postmarked envelope from London to Brussels. One of the two signed typed letters lists the contents of the packet as sent: the artist’s biography, advertising card, catalogue and price list, 8 sets of A4 posters (some in series of 3, others of 4), and 4 greeting cards. Of these, one three-poster series and one greeting card are absent from the surviving archive, while a second packet of A3 posters, also described in the letter, is no longer present. The artwork features hardcore homoerotic themes centred on leather, BDSM, and sadomasochism. Von Keller’s biographical note describes him as born in the late 1940s and educated in Germany, England and the Netherlands, before studying fine art at a college in the English Midlands. After working as a freelance designer while travelling Europe, he returned to the family jewellery business, but continued to produce fetish and BDSM drawings, watercolours, and paintings for a private circle. A series of exhibitions brought this work to a wider audience, leading to print reproduction and, in late 1990, his first ‘Artwork’ catalogue (included here), offering posters, cards, and limited edition prints. The operation was based in London, with a small studio later opened in Amsterdam for developing new work; the note describes him dividing his time between the two cities and a family home in the Rhineland.
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RoXY Pinups
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartErwin Olaf
Amsterdam: Max Studio’s, 1994.1994 calendar for the Amsterdam club RoXY. Operating from 1987-1999, RoXY (Radical outlet for the Xenomaniac in You) was a Dutch rave club emerging at the beginnings of rave culture. Known for its theatrical and glamorous atmosphere, which is on show here with 13 elaborately staged portraits by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf.
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Archive of 31 Kinbaku Photographs and 2 Typed Letters Signed, Supplied to Jurgen Boedt for Secret Magazine, Fetish Photo Anthology, and Extreme
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMaster K
Los Angeles: Master K, 1999-2002.Archive of kinbaku photographs supplied by Master K to Jurgen Boedt, editor and publisher of the Belgian fetish magazine Secret, accompanied by two signed letters detailing their intended editorial use. The first letter accompanied twelve black-and-white photographs (“Each is an illustration of classical shibari”) and a printed copy of his article ‘A Brief History of Shibari,’ subsequently published in Secret #20. It includes an authorial biography and acknowledges collaborators by name: “Although he usually only works with shibari enthusiasts, for this series of stills he collaborated with some of America’s best known fetish models. For helping in the mutual search for the artistic in the erotic he would like to thank: Devon, subgirl, Julie Simone and Michelle.” The second letter, warmly signed, accompanied further photographic contributions intended for two Boedt-edited hardcovers: the fourth volume of ‘Fetish Photo Anthology’ and ‘Extreme’, with Master K explaining: “I tried to combine the best of traditional kinbaku art with interesting photography in order to show the excitement, drama and passion felt by the truly engaged submissive. All the emotions shown here are real. There was no posing and everyone involved had a great time.” The material predates Master K’s book publications and documents an early phase of his public output and self-positioning within Western fetish publishing. He would later publish ‘Shibari, the Art of Japanese Bondage’ (2004) and ‘The Beauty of Kinbaku’ (2008; revised edition 2015), the latter translated into Japanese as ‘A Cultural History of Kinbaku’ (Suriensha, 2013). Beyond print, he served as rigger for the 2016 film ‘The Neon Demon’, starring Keanu Reeves and Elle Fanning, and was co-founder of the Los Angeles study groups Spring Tiger Ryu and LA Rope.
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Les 120 Journees de Sodome ou l’Ecole du Libertinage par le Marquis de Sade
AU$6,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade; Eugene Duhren [Iwan Bloch]
Paris: Club des Bibliophiles, 1904.The first printed edition and editio princeps of the text, based on the notorious manuscript written by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade in the Bastille in 1785. The manuscript, composed in minute script on a continuous paper roll, was long presumed lost following the storming of the Bastille, before resurfacing in the late nineteenth century and coming into the hands of the Berlin physician and pioneering sexologist Iwan Bloch. Bloch prepared the first edition, editing and annotating the text under the pseudonym Eugene Duhren, and issued it via the Berlin bookseller Max Harrwitz, using a fictive Paris imprint to mitigate censorship concerns. In his introduction, Bloch framed the work as a document of scientific and anthropological interest, intended for specialists in sexual pathology, jurisprudence, and cultural history. The text, as here presented, is incomplete and editorially imperfect, deficiencies later addressed in Maurice Heine’s critical edition of 1931-35, prepared from direct examination of the autograph manuscript, yet this remains the foundational printed appearance. One of 200 numbered copies, this being one of 160 printed on laid paper. Together with the rare original subscription prospectus by Max Harrwitz, three leaves (29cm x 11.cm), folded vertically and complete with original cord.
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Les 120 Journees de Sodome, ou l’Ecole du Libertinage, par le Marquis de Sade
AU$3,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade; Maurice Heine; Andre Collot
Paris: S. & C., aux Depens des Bibliophiles Souscripteurs, 1931-36.The first critical edition of the text, and the first established directly from the autograph manuscript written by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade in the Bastille in 1785. The manuscript, composed in minute script on a continuous paper roll, was long presumed lost following the storming of the Bastille, before resurfacing in the late nineteenth century and coming into the hands of the Berlin physician and pioneering sexologist Iwan Bloch, whose foundational but flawed 1904 edition first brought the text into print. Following Bloch’s death, the manuscript entered French ownership (often associated with the patronage circle of Charles de Noailles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, a descendant of Sade), enabling the Sade specialist Maurice Heine to prepare the present edition under their support. Working directly from the autograph roll, Heine produced a transcription of far greater fidelity than Bloch’s, accompanied by a substantial critical apparatus keyed to the original manuscript and including a photographic facsimile as frontispiece. Heine’s engagement with Sade was both scholarly and personal: he first encountered the work through Bloch’s edition in 1912, later recalling (most notably in the 1933 ‘Minotaure enquete’ organised by Andre Breton and Paul Eluard) that discovery as decisive. Pascal Pia would subsequently credit Heine with establishing the modern text of Sade. Issued in a limited edition of 396 numbered copies, this example is one of 300 on velin de Rives. It is here bound with the complete suite of sixteen lithographs by Andre Collot, separately issued in a limited edition (c. 1936) and intended for addition to subscribers’ sets and unsold copies.
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Mistress Candida’s Journal (Complete Set, Volume 1: Number 1 & 2)
Read MoreOlympia Press International
[London]: Olympia Press International, 1993.From the publisher’s of Pleasure Bound International, a fem/dom series that went for only 2 issues (a special issue, being a reprint of issue 2 with a new cover is known to also exist). Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Key (Issue One)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid
Haywards Heath: Sussex Mailbox, 1995.English fetish contact magazine, edited and published by a one-man operation “David” trading as Sussex Mailbox. Contains more than 200 detailed contact advertisements (the editor states his aim was to produce a higher-quality contact magazine than otherwise available in England at the time), interspersed with lengthy profiles of individual fetishists or their desires and minor fetish trade advertisements, a letters to the editor section, and a guide to advertising in a planned second issue. Laid in is a key to the codes used in the advertisements. The editorial reports that the publisher had been raided by police on 8 March [1995] in connection with the magazine. Several letters, dated April and May [1995], refer to the raid and offer sympathy. No second issue has been traced, and it is possible the police attention curtailed the title after a single number. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Westward Bound Connoisseur Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartWestward Bound
London: Westward Bound, 1992.First trade catalogue issued by the British fetishwear company Westward Bound. The business grew out of Der Putsch, the influential London fetish club founded in 1983, and the associated Westward Bound Bed, Breakfast & Dungeon in Cornwall, whose national television exposure helped establish the company’s profile. Issued as the firm expanded into mail-order retail in the early 1990s, the catalogue offers fetishwear in rubber, PVC, leather, footwear, corrective and disciplinary clothing, boned corsetry, jewellery, wigs, and related accessories. Westward Bound went on to become one of Britain’s best-known fetishwear brands and remains in business today. Sinead O’Connor wore a Westward Bound latex dress on the cover of her 2014 album, ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss’. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Corset Fetish Vol. 1 No. 1
Read MoreCandy Lane
Nottingham: Candy Lane, No date.Dedicated to Fashions, Fads, Fancies and Fetishes. Largely full page black and white photographs of women in corsets accompanied by several John Willie illustrations. Text is mostly the story, The Thrill of Corsets, by H. T. Lowe, together with a couple of short introductory remarks on corset and fetish appreciation.
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Gently In Her Hands
Read MoreLaura Williams
New York: Lee’s Mardi Gras Ent., Inc., 1988.Erotic crossdressing fiction from Lee G. Brewster’s Mardi Gras Enterprises. Originally operating by mail-order from the late 1960s before opening a boutique on Tenth Avenue in 1976 and then a second location on West 14th in the later 1980s providing a wide range of clothing, wigs, and cosmetics to drag queens and crossdressers, as well as publishing and distributing a wide range of magazines, catalogues, and erotic works.
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The Gay Jungle
Read MoreDonald Evans
New York: Selbee Publications, 1965.The story of a male hustler on Times Square. Cover illustration by Gene Bilbrew, also reproduced as a black and white frontispiece. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Bottoms Up
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartNed Winslow
: Unique Books, 1966.A gay bar in gay San Francisco. Cover illustration by Gene Bilbrew and 6 interior black and white illustrations by various artists. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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The Boy Avengers
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Flinders
New York: The Traveller’s Companion, 1971.Gay pulp TC-516. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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The Gas
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Platt
New York: Ophelia Press, 1970.Erotic science fiction pulp OPH-216. “Passion and violence are terrifyingly unleashed upon the South of England when a mysterious gas leaks from a biological warfare plant. Every unthinkable desire rises to the surface, both the ecstatic and the agonizing.” (from cover blurb)
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The Young Married Lesbian
Read MoreGene Wyman
New York: Star Distributors, 1975.One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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Venus of Lesbos
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSteve Bell
[London]: Gadoline, 1975.Bedside Books BB1337, the English edition of the Newstand Library pulp. Cover illustration by Robert Bonfils. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The French Way
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMonique Monet
North Hollywood: All Star Books, 1965.Lesbian pulp AS 54. “A lesbian nympho, she turned whore to find the man who raped her!” One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The Gay Cookbook
Read MoreLou Rand Hogan; David Costain
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.First edition, first printing, of “the complete compendium of campy cuisine and menus for men…or what have you” by Chef Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. The first cookbook marketed to the gay man. Hogan, after a failed attempt at a career in show business, learned the art of cooking fine cuisine working luxury cruises where he was part of a deliciously camp work culture, the humour of which is evident in his writing style. A good copy of this early example of positive gay culture in 20th century print media.
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The Federal Liquor Service
Read MoreTullie Wollaston
Melbourne: Thomas C. Lothian, 1910.Adelaide opal merchant Tullie Wollaston here turns to social reform amid the intense Federation-era debate over alcohol regulation, as the temperance movement pressed for change, proposing a Commonwealth monopoly over the liquor trade. He opens with a tale of a berry on a Pacific island, drawing the conclusion that Australians were “worse lunatics over the sale of ALCOHOL than the islanders over their berry.” Wollaston reviews and rejects the principal liquor-control systems then under discussion internationally, including prohibition, government monopoly schemes, the Public House Trust movement, and the Gothenburg system. Finding each inadequate (though sympathetic to prohibition, he acknowledges that its adoption in Australia would be “insuperably difficult at this late stage”), he advances his own solution: a “Federal Liquor Service” that would replace private licence holders with a centrally administered national authority. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the Reverend A. E. Gifford, dated 31/3/10.
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Drug Addiction: A Process Statement
Read MoreThe Process Church of the Final Judgement
Printed in Canada by Graphic Centre: The Process Church of the Final Judgement, No date.A short biography of the junkie Lord Shayne together with short introductions by him to heroin, cocaine, methedrine, physeptone, morphine, drinamyl, dexedrine and benzedrine, phenobarbitone, and marijuana. This is followed by statements on addiction by The Process Church, a religious group active in the United Kingdom and North America in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Le Diable Amoureux
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Cazotte; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: La Tradition, 1936.The Devil in Love. Occult romance first published in 1772. This the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. One of 450 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 500).
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A Dissertation on Milk
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Ferris
London: John Abraham, [1785].In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases: Likewise to point out the varieties in the food of the animal, from which it is taken; and the circumstances in the mode of life and conduct of those women, who afford it, which more especially tend to change its appearance, and to impair its salutary qualities: and particularly to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race. One of the more substantial English-language eighteenth-century monographs devoted wholly to milk, combining experimental chemistry with medical, moral, and social thought on infant feeding, motherhood, female bodies, and the transmission of health and character. Ferris undertakes comparative chemical experiments on six milks (ass, human, mare, cow, goat, and ewe) and uses the results to advance a sustained argument for maternal breastfeeding against both wet-nursing and the nursery customs of the day. He maintains that a mother’s own milk is the best possible nutriment and casts a woman’s refusal to nurse her child as ‘one of the worst species of inhumanity’. He approvingly cites the late Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), who believed cancers of the breast occurred disproportionately among women who declined to breastfeed, and condemns the common practice of withholding the breast during the first days after birth. Where maternal nursing proves impossible, Ferris subjects the wet nurse to detailed scrutiny. Her diet, habits, mode of life, and even emotional state are made objects of prescription, the infant being thought to absorb the consequences of her conduct through her milk. The nursing body is thus framed throughout as an object of medical and social management, ordered in the interests of the ‘infant race’. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ferris to The Revd. Mr Tonyn, likely the Revd Charles William Tonyn (1732-1805), Rector of Radnage, Buckinghamshire, a parish situated near Great Missenden, where Ferris settled in 1785.