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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. Published when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. A landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper.
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The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrija Puharich
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959.“The search for the secret plant of the ancients, used to send the mind to another world and into the future.” (from wrapper) A parapsychological researcher conducts an investigation of the Amanita muscaria and its effects on humans. One of the early works of psychedelic mushroom research, published only 2 years after the Wassons’ ethnomycological founding work Mushrooms, Russia and History.
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Hallucinogens: A Comprehensive Guide for Laymen and Professionals
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoe E. Axton; Jeremy Bigwood; Jonathan Ott
Tempe: DIN Publications, 1984.A comprehensive introductory booklet on psychedelics and the psychedelic experience by the Do It Now Foundation. While short, it is quite detailed and covers topics and substances often excluded from similar booklets. Scarce, 5 copies in OCLC, all in the United States.
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High Priest
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTimothy Leary
Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, 1995.The signed and numbered issue of 500 copies of the Second Edition of Leary’s psychedelic cult persona forming record of 16 trips during his Harvard study days led by guides Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, R. Gordon Wasson, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Ralph Metzner, Huston Smith, William S. Burroughs, Michael Hollingshead, and others. Containing the original art from the first edition by Allen Atwell and Michael Green, and with new art for this edition by Howard Hallis.
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Remember, Be Here Now
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRam Dass
San Cristobel: Lama Foundation, 1971.First edition, first printing, of the psychedelic/yoga/philosophy/counterculture classic by LSD spiritualist Ram Dass nee Harvard Professor Richard Alpert.
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Yellow Dog Nos. 1-12
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Schencker; Robert Crumb; John Thompson; Joel Beck
Berkeley: Print Mint, 1973.One of the seminal underground comix series featuring work by R. Crumb, Joel Beck, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, Greg Irons, Trina Robbins, Andy Martin, Franz Cilensek, John Thompson, and others. The special fifth anniversary limited edition printing published in 1973, containing the first 12 numbers (9/10 and 11/12 are double issues) on tabloid newsprint (from number 13 it switched from a tabloid to a magazine format) contained in the original issue envelope.
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Weirdo No. 1
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
Berkeley: Last Gasp, 1981.“Picking up where Zap left off, Weirdo defined a new aesthetic for the ’80s, opening the way towards a new wave of comics literacy for a generation of outcasts, oddballs and revolutionaries. Weirdo #1, helmed by Robert Crumb, features comics from Crumb, satiric ads, photo-funnies from “Stomp” Gamos and Weirdo staff, Stanislav Szukalski, Bruce Duncan, Brueghel, a Sub-Genius spread and more!” (publisher’s blurb)
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R. Crumb Draws the Blues
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
London: Knockabout Comics, 1992.Collection of music comics by underground comix legend Robert Crumb from Zap, Weirdo, et al. One of the limited hardcover edition of 200 signed and numbered copies.
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Grateful Dead Comix
Read MoreJerry Garcia; Jeff Tamarkin; David Schreiner
Princeton and New York: Kitchen Sink Press and Hyperion, 1992.The ultimate Deadhead comix collection. One of 500 numbered copies of the deluxe edition signed by Jerry Garcia with a silver bas-relief to the upper board designed by Peter Poplaski.
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Art & Beauty Magazine: Numbers 1, 2 & 3: Drawings by R. Crumb
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
New York: David Zwirner Books, 2016.Erotic drawings by Robert Crumb. #1 was first published in 1996 by Kitchen Sink Press, with a second volume in 2003 by Fantagraphic. This volume reprinting the first two numbers and publishing for the first time number 3 together in a limited edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered on a bookplate by Crumb, and comes in the original publisher’s shipping box. “Drawings of women in positions ranging from lascivious to modest or mid-sport are accompanied by quotations, many of which are from artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Harvey Kurtzman. Mining his own obsessions and fantasies, Crumb reimagines the history of art, challenging notions of beauty, along with society’s mores and expectations of propriety around the female form.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Virgin Sperm Dancer
Read MoreWilliam Levy
The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978.An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. A classic publication from the age of sexual liberation, The virgin sperm dancer is an early photobook which illustrates the story of Joop, a young Dutch man who experiences a day transformed as Joopie, a sexually awakened woman. Published as a Suck Special Issue of the Amsterdam-based pornography magazine Suck, The virgin sperm dancer clearly aims to titillate with its uncensored graphic photographs of the escapades in this fantasy. However through the lengthy narrative and exploration of the versatility of sexual experience, Sperm Dancer finds itself as a prototype for later works that explore sexual freedom and concepts of gender. Through depictions of free love in Amsterdam in the 70s with a focus on transsexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality, Sperm dancer avoids gender paradigms of masculinity and power, and includes women’s sexual empowerment and orgasm as a focus of the work. Unusually for a sex magazine, this standalone publication does not appear to pitch its eroticism to a particular sexuality but rather embraces the versatility of sexual experience as being its greatest appeal. The Virgin Sperm Dancer was immediately influential and homaged on the cover of the September 1972 issue of London Oz. A second edition was published in 1978. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws.
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CONTACT 1, 2, 3 (3 Volumes)
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJeff Goldberg
Philadelphia: Red Room Books, 1972.First three issues of the literary journal CONTACT edited by Jeff Goldberg, all published in the space of 5 days in December 1972. These initial issues containing Goldberg’s A Week in Philadelphia, and other writings by Goldberg, Victor Bockris, Andrew Wylie, Marty Watt, and Ken Bluford. CONTACT ran for only 7 issues, however after issue 3 there was a change in editorial direction with the remaining issues largely focusing on an individual writer and running with contributions from a wider pool rather than the focused combined output of these Philadelphians, from their young and heady days trying to make their lives as poets.
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Eye 5 Eroticisma
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Seamster
Santa Barbara: Eye Magazine, 1983.Artists book/magazine published in a numbered edition of 152 copies. This issue devoted to eroticism, and containing numerous signed original artworks, photographs, and collage. The artists are: Jas R Babbe, Chris Bastian, David Bottoms, Tom Clark, Flora Durham, Doug Edges, Sam Erenberg, Pat Fish, Tim Goetz, Marsea Goldberg, Jeff Greenwald, Jenny Hankwitz, Ken Hendrickson, David Holland, Michael Irwin, Starke Jett, Susan Jorgensen, Barbara Kapusnak, Steve Knauff, Penny Mast, Paul McCarthy, Michael Napper, Dwayne Newton, David Ossman, Somers Randolph, Jim Risser, Richard Ross, Mary Seamster, Elena Siff, James Taylor, Kerry Tomlinson, Dug Eyesaka, Shelly Vogel, and Seyburn Zorthian.
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Anima Mundi
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Ryden
San Francisco: Porterhouse Fine Art Editions and Last Gasp, 2001.Monograph from the early-mid career of the highly influential lowbrow pop surrealist American painter Mary Ryden (1963-). This copy signed by Ryden to the title page.
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Holee Sheet
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Mann
San Francisco: Chthon Press, 1969.One-shot psychedelic periodical edited by John Mann, a precursor to his The Church of the Tree of Life mail-order psychoactive supply business. Features articles on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Shunga: Classical Erotic Art of Japan, diary entries from the Vietnam War, and a marijuana Q&A with Mary Jane Superweed.
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Lysergic World
Read MoreMichael Horowitz
San Francisco: Lysergic World, 1993.One-shot psychedelic publication published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD. Includes a contributions by Hofmann and Genesis P-Orridge, a chronology of LSD and important LSD publications, an LSD themed crossword, a Map of Historic Sites of LSD Discovery, Research & Culture, and more.
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Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses
AU$1,250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Hewitt, Jr.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872.19th century history of coffee. Brief mention of Australia’s potential as a coffee growing region, as well a global listing of tariffs on coffee, including Australian colonies. This copy signed by the author, and with the world map, A Chart of the Globe Showing the Several Places Where Coffee is or May be Produced and Where it is also used together with The Telegraph Lines in operation or contemplated for completing the Circuit of the Globe, considered the first American map on coffee.
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A Manual of Homoeopathic Cookery, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Such Persons as Are under Homoeopathic Treatment.
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Wife of a Homoeopathic Physician
London: G. Borwon, 1846.A cookbook for the burgeoning devotees of homeopathy.
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The Olive and Its Products
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis A. Bernays
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1872.A Treatise on the Habits, Cultivation, and Propagation of the Tree; and upon the Manufacture of Oil and Other Products Therefrom. Early publication on developing an olive industry in Queensland. Lewis Adolphus Bernays (1831-1908) was the first Clerk of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and as a foundation member of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society devoted to introducing exotic species for commercial purposes wrote a number of papers on economic botany. FERGUSON 6952.
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The Olive: Its Culture and Products in the South of France and Italy
Read MoreWilliam R. Boothby
Adelaide: W. C. Cox, Government Printer, 1878.Boothby, as Sheriff of South Australia, “After his tour of European prisons in 1876-77, he effected other reforms, among them the introduction of olive-growing in prisons for the sale of oil.” (ADB). “The extensive cultivation of the olive in South Australia has been frequently urged. The similarity of the soil and climate between this Province and Southern Europe is remarked by every traveller who has visited both places. .. It will be known that I have given a large amount of attention to the subject of olive culture; and, as Sheriff of the Colony, and with a view to provide means of useful employment to the short-sentenced prisoners, it has been my duty to superintend the olive plantations which have been formed near the Adelaide Gaol. This being the case, it was a matter of much gratification to me, when, availing myself of a holiday, in the years 1876 and 1877, to visit the olive countries of Europe, and make myself acquainted with the processes of olive cultivation and manufacture of oil.” FERGUSON F7285. Provenance: Ex-Royal Geographical Society of Australia, stamps; Bookplate of Charles Richmond John Glover, Mayor of Adelaide; Bookseller’s label of Gaston Renard.