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The Sydney Dream: A Special Issue of Not Only Black + White Magazine
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2000.A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring nude photography of Australian Olympic Athletes for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, this being the scarce hardcover edition. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events.
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The Album: A Visual Celebration of Australian Music (A Special Issue of not only Black+White Magazine
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [1997].A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring photography, some nude, of Australian musicians. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events.
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2Blue: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2004.2Blue explores the many facets of male coupling, from sex and friendship to romance and play. Be they partners, lovers or friends, the pairs in 2Blue reflect the breadth of relationships between men around the world. In this volume, 58 photographers interpret the bonding theme with artistic rigour and sensitivity. A lingering kiss, a rough embrace, a moment of anticipation – all are captured with an eye for passion and emotional honesty. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Manatomy: The Desirable Male Body in Close Up
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Blue Books / Studio Magazines, 2004.A special issue of Blue focussing on focussing in on the male body. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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The Gay Seventies
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHal Fischer
San Francisco: Gallery 16, 2019.Collected edition of the photo-text works of Hal Fischer produced between between 1977 and 1979 including the highly important Gay Semiotics. FischerÂ’’s works were major investigations of gay life in late 1970s San Francisco. Contains: Gay Semiotics; 18th near Castro St. x 24; Boy-Friends; A Salesman; Civic Center; Cheap Chic Homo; At the Center of the Gay Universe.
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Beefcake: The Muscle Magazines of America 1950-1970
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. Valentine Hooven III
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The Graphic Man I
Read MorePlaygirl Press
Santa Monica: Playgirl Inc, 1979.Monograph of naked male photography by the women’s magazine founded in 1973.
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Graphic Man II
Read MorePlaygirl Press
Santa Monica: Playgirl Inc, 1981.Monograph of naked male photography by the women’s magazine founded in 1973.
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International Mr. Leather: 25 Years of Champions
Read MoreJoseph W. Bean
Las Vegas and Chicago: Nazca Plains and The Leather Archives & Museum, 2004.A detailed year-by-year history of the International Mr. Leather Competition. Australia represented from the second ever championship, Patrick Brooks, being the winner of IML 1980. Controversially, Brooks and his sponsor mistakenly thought being the winner gave them the right to host IML 1981 in Australia, though this was put down and the event continued in Chicago to this day. Despite the legal hoo-ha, with thanks to the gay paper, The Sydney Star, Mr. Australia Leather continued and sent a representative the following year, however Brooks never showed to take his place as a judge.Australia continued to send representatives to the competition many times over the years, notably with two second places, being Brent Lacey of Mr. Laird Leather Image, Melbourne in 1993, and Andrew Lennon, Mr. Mephisto of Mephisto Leather 1998.
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnie Sprinkle; Beth Stephens; Jennie Klein
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.“In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment. Ever since, they have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology, creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, materialist, exuberant, and steeped in humor.” (publishers blurb) This copy inscribed Sprinkle and Stephens with scribble drawings and stamps.
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The Complete Reprint of Physique Pictorial, 1951-1990 (3 Volumes)
Read MoreWayne E. Stanley
Koln: Taschen, 1997.Taschen edition featuring the original series of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG with an essay by Wayne E. Stanley. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection (5 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTom of Finland
Koln: Taschen, 2005.Taschen compilation edition of the homoerotic comics of Tom of Finland AKA Tuko Laaksonen.
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Private, 1970-1979 (5 Volumes)
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2009.Taschen compilation edition of the Swedish pornography magazine Private, edited and with an introduction by Dian Hanson.
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Not Only Sport (Complete Set, 6 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1997-2000.A spin-off of the successful photography magazine, Black+White. Not Only Sport was a coffee table magazine light on the articles and heavy on the quality photography, including sports photography and nude and semi nude portraits of athletes by some of the world’s best photographers. Athletes include Karla Gilbert, Shane Crawford, Michael Slater, Muhammad Ali, Juanita Little, Miles Stewart, Vici Andronicus, Adrian Lam, Victoria Roberts, Cathy Freeman, Bruce Lee, Pat Rafter, Sarah Straton, the Danish National Gymnastics Team, Guy Andrews, Adidas Vs Nike, Shane Kelly, Stuart MacGill, Anna Kournikova, Matthew Nicks, Jackie Allen, Zali Steggall, Jacqques Cousteau, Nicole Sanderson, Shannon Taylor, Michael Klim, Linford Christie, Anthony Mundine, Rex Dupain, and many others.
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The Ten Stage Secrets of Beauty and Social Success
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGrace Duncan
Sydney: H. H. Watson Printing Co., No date.Dedicated to the Women who have Helped Themselves and used their Charms – to my Many Friends on and off the Stage – and to the Women who are Willing to Try. Grace Duncan of 178 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, a former actress turned business woman writes on the beauty and understanding pertaining to actresses before providing further guidance to the domestic woman and how to harness the power of attraction through the power of the mind, wardrobe, grace, bust, hair, and body. Many recipes are provided for the creation of shampoos, moisturisers, and lotions. Undated, Duncan’s acting resume is not widely noted, however her advertisements for obtaining the most remarkable complexion treatment ever known appeared in Australian and New Zealand newspapers between 1916-1918. 1 copy recorded in OCLC at Monash, however a likely near identical (and equally scarce with 1 holding at Southern Methodist University, Dallas) publication was marketed in the United States from 1913 attributed to Pearl LaSage of Chicago and in 1920 in Montreal.
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Republic
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPlato
London: The Folio Society, 2003.Translation, Introduction and Notes by Robin Waterfield. Preface by A. C. Grayling. Frontispiece engraving by Simon Brett. FORD-SMITH 1168.1. Stated second printing but is the first issue in a single-volume slip case, being a separate impression from the Great Philosophers of the Ancient World set.
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Ethics
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAristotle
London: The Folio Society, 2003.Translation by J. A. K. Thomson. Revised with Notes and Appendices by Hugh Tredennick. Preface by A. C. Grayling. Frontispiece engraving by Simon Brett. FORD-SMITH 1168.2. Stated second printing but is the first issue in a single-volume slip case, being a separate impression from the Great Philosophers of the Ancient World set.
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On the Good Life
Read MoreCicero
London: The Folio Society, 2003.Translation, Introduction and Notes by Michael Grant. Preface by A. C. Grayling. Frontispiece engraving by Simon Brett. FORD-SMITH 1168.4. Stated second printing but is the first issue in a single-volume slip case, being a separate impression from the Great Philosophers of the Ancient World set.
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Hannibal
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnle Bradford
London: The Folio Society, 2001.Introduced by Kenneth McLeish. Maps by Reginald Piggott. First published by Macmillan in 1981, this work was issued in Folio’s series of classical biographies. The plates reproduce antiquities and photographs of the AlpsFORD-SMITH 933.
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Persuasion
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJane Austen
London: The Folio Society, 1997.Introduction by Richard Church, wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. For this reprint pulls from the original wood-engravings were used to ‘re-originate’ the illustrations and improve the quality of their reproduction. FORD-SMITH 379.