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The Sydney Dream: A Special Issue of Not Only Black + White Magazine
Read MoreMarcello 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
Read MoreMarcello 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
Read MoreMarcello 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
Read MoreMarcello 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
Read MoreHal 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. Fischer’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
Read MoreF. Valentine Hooven III
Koln: Taschen, 1995. -
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
Read MoreAnnie 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)
Read MoreTom 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)
Read MoreDian 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)
Read MoreMarcello 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
Read MoreGrace 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
Read MorePlato
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
Read MoreAristotle
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
Read MoreErnle 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
Read MoreJane 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.
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The Barbarian Invasions of The Roman Empire (8 Volumes)
Read MoreThomas Hodgkin
London: The Folio Society, 2001-3.Complete set. Introductions by Peter Heather. Maps by Reginald Piggott. FORD-SMITH 1019, 1020, 1062, 1063, 1095, 1096, 1136 1137. Volumes 1-4 are second printings, 5-8 are first printings.
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An Eyewitness History of the Crusades (4 Volumes)
Read MoreChristopher Tyerman
London: The Folio Society, 2001-3.The First, Second, Third, Fourth Crusade. Edited and introduced by Christopher Tyerman. Maps by Reginald Piggott. FORD-SMITH 1193
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The Folio History of Ancient Greece (4 Volumes)
Read MoreA. R. Burns; Simon Hornblower; F. W. Walbank
London: The Folio Society, 2002.Being: The Lyric Age: The Greek World, c.750-510 BC by A. R. Burn, The Persian Wars: The Greeks and the Defence of the West, c. 546-478 BC by A. R. Burns, The Classical Age: The Greek World, 479-323 BC by Simon Hornblower, and The Hellenistic Age: The Greek World, 336-146 BC by F. W. Walbank. Maps by Reginald Piggottt. FORD-SMITH 1097.
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Historical and Commercial Atlas of China
Read MoreAlbert Herrmann
Taipei: Ch’eng Wen Publishing Company, 1970.Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Volume I. The second Taiwan printing.
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The School for Atheists: A Novella = Comedy in 6 Acts
Read MoreArno Schmidt
Kobenhavn & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2019.Translated from the German with an introduction by John E. Woods.
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The Complete Works of Primo Levi
Read MorePrimo Levi; Ann Goldstein
New York and London: Liveright, 2015. -
Topology of a Phantom City
Read MoreAlain Robbe-Grillet
New York: Grove Press, 1977.Translated from the French by J. A. Underwood
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The Story of the Monster Mine: The Burra Burra Mine and Its Townships, 1845 – 1877
Read MoreIan Auhl
Burra: District Council of Burra Burra, 1986. -
St. George’s Bridge: A Sesquicentennial History
Read MoreCarolyn Nolan
Saint George: Balonne Shire Council, 1996. -
The Ringing Cedars of Russia (9 Volumes)
Read MoreVladimir Megre
Kahului: Ringing Cedars Press, 2008.The complete original Anastasia series in the second issue English covers (a tenth volume, Anasta, was issued in 2010). Written by Russian Valdimir Megre (1950-), they are the source for the new religious movement of Anastasianism, a New Age right-wing esoteric movement of Russian Vedism that began in central Russia in the mid 1990s and has since spread globally, including a strong movement in Australia. Translated from the Russian by John Woosworth, edited by Dr. Leonid Sharashkin. The books have now gone out of print.
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Liber Chaotica (Complete Edition)
Read MoreMarijan von Staufer; Richard Williams
Nottingham: Games Workshop, 2009.Volumes one to five with former investigations diligently compared and revised. … Featuring texts compiled and annotated by the author Richter Kless. Compilation of the first four background books with a new fifth book about the gods and servants of Chaos in Warhammer 40,000.
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The Horus Heresy: Collected Visions
Read MoreAlan Merrett
Nottingham: Games Workshop, 2011.Collected edition consisting of all four volumes of the Warhammer 40,000 art and background books of the Horus Heresy series, with an exclusive short story.
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Homosexual Train
Read MoreLee Hunt
Los Alamitos: Manifest Publications, 1968.Gay pulp. A Classic Publication CP 202. 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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An Introductory Lecture to the Venereal Disease
Read MoreJohn Hunter
New York: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1994. -
Collection of Pictures on Japanese Military Germ Warfare
Read MoreJin Chengmin
Hulunbuir: Inner Mongolia Culture Press, 2010.Photographs and details on Japan’s chemical warfare Unit 731.
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Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art: Including the Visionary World of H. R. Giger
Read MoreStanislav Grof
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2015.“In 200 spellbinding pages–including over 100 large, full-color illustrations–Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art takes readers on an enchanting tour of the human psyche and a visual tour of the artwork of H.R. Giger. In this book, Grof illuminates themes related to dreams, trauma, sexuality, birth, and death, by applying his penetrating analysis to the work of Giger and other visionary artists.” with a foreword by Alex Grey.
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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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La Biblioteca Infernal
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartLeopoldo Lugones; Santiago Caruso
Buenos Aires: Insula Editora, 2019.The Infernal Library by Argentine writer Leopoldo Lurgones (1874-1938) with an illustrated frontispiece by symbolist and surreal artist Santiago Caruso (1982-). This is number 23 of the limited deluxe edition of 30 signed and numbered by the artist produced in plain wrappers with an original drawing on the cover together with a signed and numbered engraving and three facsimiles of vintage documents in a wax sealed folder. The text was first published in 1899 in the Tribuna newspaper, then as part of a collection, Las primeras letras de Leopoldo Lugones, in 1963, and here produced in book form in its own right for the first time. Neither the standard or deluxe edition recorded in OCLC.
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The Secrets of Muscular Strength and How to Acquire It!
Read MoreAlfred James Briton
Sydney: Briton Publications, No date.Promotional booklet for the mail order system of strongman physical fitness by gym owner, trainer, writer, and publisher of the Health and Physical Culture magazine, Alfred J. Briton. The first half contains an introduction and pitch, the second half comprising portraits and testimonials of pupils. Cover title: How to Acquire Muscular Strength and Development. Circa 1930.
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The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (2 Volumes)
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Horton
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994. -
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
Read MoreJune McDaniel
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. -
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny
Read MoreCarolyn G. Heilbrun
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.A stimulating search into myth and literature to trace manifestations of androgyny–woman-in-man, man-in-woman–and to reveal the dangers of sexual polarization.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Liddell
Dubbo: Rodney Liddell, 1991.The self published first edition telling the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, without many of the controversial chapters of the later editions. This copy inscribed by the author to Margaret Lawrie, collector of stories and mythologies of the Torres Strait, also with a 1996 postcard from the author addressed to Lawrie laid in.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
Read MoreRodney Liddell
Redbank: Rodney Liddell, 2004.The first printing of the third edition of Liddell’s telling of the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, together with his expanded and controversial chapters on the Aboriginal invasion of Australia. This copy with the three government petitions at the rear.
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Cressida Campbell: 9 July to 3 August, 2013
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCressida Campbell
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries, 2013.Exhibition catalogue with price list laid in.
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Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse by Nicholas Rowe
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cart[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]; Nicholas Rowe
London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753.English translation of the Latin epic by the Roman poet Lucan, on the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
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Fille de Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites
Read MoreVarious Authors
New York: Grove Press, 1967.An anthology of images and text.
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Circus Life: Australian Motorcycle Racers in Europe in the 1950s
Read MoreSydney: Plimsoll Street Publishing, 2012.
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The Illegal Relatives
Read MoreFrank Moorhouse
[Sydney]: [Tomato Press for The Author], No date.Circa 1973. Pirated edition of illustrated erotic stories planned as an illegal publication in protest of censorship of the printed word, stemming from a case brought against underground newspaper Thor. The Whitlam government passed legislation that brought an end to the censorship yet the printer of this booklet went ahead with privately selling the publication against Moorehouse’s wishes, though also purported that it was delayed because Moorhouse wanted to edit the stories. A competing story has it that Moorhouse commissioned the printing but could not pay for it, so Tomato Press sold the entire inventory to a Sydney secondhand bookdealer to recoup the loss, but this all be hearsay. Illustrated throughout, some Robert Crumb pirates, but largely original unattributed erotic illustrations by Jenny Coopes and others. CAINS 118.
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DeMask Mistress Collection
Read MoreSteve English; Trevor Watson
Amsterdam: DeMask Disribution, 2003.Deluxe trade catalogue of femdom fetishwear photographed by Trevor Watson of Dutch latex and leather store DeMask. Opened in 1990 by Steve English in the Red Light District of Amsterdam (with Xaviera Hollander attending the launch) the store still operates today. Throughout the 1990s DeMask helped shape the international fetish scene hosting events (Europerve, Rubber Ball et al.) in collaboration with Skin Two magazine.
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The Harlem Book of the Dead
Read MoreJames Van Der Zee; Owen Dodson; Camille Billops
Dobbs Ferry: Morgan & Morgan, 1978.Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City. Foreword by Toni Morrison.
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Golden Boy as Anthony Cool: A Photo Essay on Naming and Graffiti
Read MoreHerbert Kohl; James Hinton
New York: The Dial Press, 1972.Important early study of urban text graffiti and tagging in New York. More than just a photobook, though Hinton’s work definitely gives it that distinction, Kohl, founder of the 1960s Open School movement, provides lengthy and invaluable insight into language and identity.
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The Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists
Read MoreGiovanni Maciocia
Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1991. -
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
Read MoreRosalie Gilbert
Coral Gables: Mango Publishing Group, 2020.“An inside look at sexual practices in medieval England. Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated. Romance, courtship, and behind closed doors. The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern woman. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty. Having sex was complicated. Not having sex, was even more so.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cunt Coloring Book
Read MoreTee Corinne
San Francisco: Last Gasp, [2016].“First published in 1975 by lesbian activist and artist Tee Corinne, the Cunt Coloring Book was created as a resource for sex education.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Brisbane: 150 Stories, 1859-2009
Read MoreFrank McBride; Helen Taylor; Carmel Black; Brian Rough; Heather Richards
Brisbane: Brisbane City Council, 2009.A history of Brisbane incorporating and expanding upon the 1997 publication, Brisbane: 100 Stories.
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Tracks and Times: A History of the Pine Rivers District, 1788, 1888, 1988
Read MoreLawrence S. Smith
Brisbane: Pine Rivers Shire Council, 1988.Compiled to commemorate the centenary of Pine Rivers Shire and bicentenary of Australia.
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Chains
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1994.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 Leatherman’s Handbook II
Read MoreLarry Townsend
New York: Modernismo Publications, 1983.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene.
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II: Updated Second Edition
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene.
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Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook
Read MoreDavid Lee
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1976.The handbook was an essential reference with numerous printings totaling well over a hundred thousand during the 1970s. Its primary aim was harm minimisation providing information on the chemistry, testing, purification, culture, and law of one of the 20th century’s most notorious stimulants.
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Feelings: A Transsexual’s Explanation of a Baffling Condition
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartStephanie Castle
Vancouver: Perceptions Press, 1992.A personal introduction to the subject by Canadian trans activist and founder of the Zenith Foundation Stephanie Castle (1925-2017).
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Perry: A Transformed Transexual
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartPerry Desmond; R. L. Hymers
Ironton: Metamorphis Books, 1978.First edition, first printing, of the self-told story of Perry Desmond (1936-1984), who worked as a male prostitute before opening an occult shop, transitioning, finding God, and detransitioning. This copy inscribed by Perry to the front flyleaf with another religious gift inscription to the same owner below.
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Transsexual Transgender: HIV / AIDS, Safer Sex, STDs, Safer IVDU Information
Read MoreSIERA Transsexual Outreach Project
[Perth]: SIERA Transsexual Outreach Project, No date.Australian sexual health brochure. The final page with contact information for Transsexual Outreach Officers in each state and territory updated in manuscript.
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African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today
Read MoreEsi Sagay
London: Heinemann, 1985.Iconic guide to African hair styling.
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The Customized Body
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartHousk Randall; Ted Polhemus
London: Serpent’s Tail, 2000. -
Oiran
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartTetsuji Takechi
Tokyo: Tokyo Academy of Arts, 1983.First edition photobook issued to accompany Takechi Tetsuji’s controversial late-career film Oiran, “A mixture of romance and sex combined with surrealistic horror elements.” The story is loosely based on the work of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki in which a 19th century Japanese prostitute moves to America and her dead lover manifests as a mole on her leg. Takechi was a prominent critic and kabuki director before moving into directing films in the 1960s. His 1964 feature Hakujitsumu is regarded as the first big budget pink film (Japanese movies with nudity or sexual content), and also the first Japanese production subjected to systematic fogging censorship. The following year, Black Snow (1965), led to his arrest on indecency charges, a landmark case he ultimately won, significantly reshaping Japanese film censorship and opening the way for the flourishing of the pink eiga genre through the late 1960s and 1970s. After a decade-long hiatus from cinema, Takechi returned with a more explicit remake of Hakujitsumu before directing Oiran in 1983. The film again brought him into conflict with the censors whom “edited and fogged in 98 different places, altering the film from a near-hardcore opus to a very soft costume drama.” Takechi promoted the film by proclaiming it featured “the first multicoloured penis in Japanese cinema.” The present photobook, issued uncensored, retains many of the film’s erotic stills and remains an important visual record of Takechi’s work. As usual for the period, explicit male nudity is absent. References: WEISSER: The Sex Films: Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia.
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The Power Age
Read MoreRoss Halfin; Pete Makowski
London: Eel Pie Publishing, 1982.Photobook documenting the heavy rock of AC/DC, Aerosmith, Pat Benatar, Blackfoot, Black Sabbath, Blizzard of Ozz, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Def Leppard, Foreigner, Girl, Girlschool, Molly Hatchet, Heart, Iron Maiden, Journey, Judas Priest, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Nazareth, Ted Nugent, Rainbow, Riot, Rose Tattoo, Rossington Collins Band, Rush, Saxon, Schenker, Status Quo, Styz, Thin Lizzy, Triumph, UFO, Van Halen, Vardis, Whitesnake, and Z.Z. Top.
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Angry: Scarred For Life
Read MoreKaren Dewey
Sydney: Ironbark, 1994.Biography of Gary Stephen “Angry” Anderson AM (1947-), vocalist of Australian hard rock band Rose Tattoo.
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Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond
Read MoreAndrea Bubenik
Brisbane: UQ Art Museum, 2017. -
Spinning Tops and Gumdrops: A Portrait of Colonial Childhood
Read MoreEdwin Barnard
Canberra: NLA Publishing, 2018. -
Songs of Colour: The art of Vida Lahey
Read MoreBettina MacAulay; Vida Lahey
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 1992. -
Good Faeries / / Bad Faeries
Read MoreBrian Froud; Terri Windling
New York: Pavilion, 2000. -
The Illustrated Delta of Venus
Read MoreAnais Nin; Bob Carlos Clarke
New York: Gallery Books, 1980.The first book of erotic photography by British-Irish photographer Robert Carlos Clarke (1950-2006) that has been called “the British Helmut Newton”.
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Alchemy and the First Degree of Craft Freemasonry
Read MorePaul Hardacre
Bangkok: Salamander and Sons, 2013.Paper presentation as part of the Regular Meeting of Lodge Lane Xang No. 1632 SC, Saturdary 07 December 2013, Bangkok, Thailand.