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Gay Heart Throbs (3 Issues, Complete)
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Fuller; Mike Kuchar
San Francisco: Fulhorne Productions, Larry Fuller Presents, and Inkwell, Inc., 1976-1981.A complete run of the intermittent and short-lived underground gay erotic comix anthology, the three issues published in 1976, 1979, and 1981. The title is thought to be a reference to the romance comic Heart Throbs. The stories are campy and pornographic. Featuring the work of Larry Fuller, Ray Horne, Mike Kuchar, and many others.
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Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJonathan Ott
Kennewick: Natural Products Co., 1993.A comprehensive multidisciplinary reference book on shamanic inebriants and their active agents. Foreword by Albert Hofmann. An unsigned copy of the limited hardbound edition.
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Fata Morgana; or, The Bristol Sculptor’s Idol, A Poem.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. Jephson
Hobart: T. L. Hood, 1881.Early Tasmanian poetry. The story, in narrative verse, of a genius contending with poverty. Henry Jephson (1810-1896) emigrated from England to Hobart in 1857 becoming associated with the Methodist Free Church and joining the Tasmania Operative Lodge of Masons for which Jephson composed Masonic Songs. The preface of this work is written by Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris, who became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania in 1890.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1847.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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The Essential Psychedelic Guide
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1994.A detailed, and very drug nerdy, guide to psychedelic experimentation. An experiential view on many of the classical psychoactive substances.
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Telegraph 3 A.M.: The Street People of Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Misrach
Berkeley: Cornucopia Press, 1974.First photobook of American photographer Richard Misrach (1949-), being street photography of the homeless residents of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.
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Lucifer
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen Skinner; Neville Drury
Sydney: The Lucifer Publishing Company, 1968.One shot Australian underground newspaper edited by Stephen Skinner with artwork by Neville Drury, Bob Smith, C. Foley, and Michele. Writings include an experiential report on the psychedelic STP (DOM), Bob Dylan’s film Don’t Look Back, Flying Saucers, Alchemy, and more.
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.First edition, first printing, in a full leather modern art binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire.
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BEV. Blad van Eva: de boom der vergetelheid afgerukt
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonie Greefkens
Amsterdam: BEV, 1988-1989.A complete set of the 1980s Dutch erotic journal for heterosexual women. Edited by Leonie Greefkens with art design by Willem de Ridder, Paul Kooiker, Henk tur Kulve, and Maud Vink. Numerous contributors of erotic photography, text, and comics. This set has been collected and finely bound in vellum with the original wrappers and housed in a matching slipcase
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The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. C. V. Lane
Adelaide: The Wakefield Press, 1944.One of 375 numbered copies with 18 tipped in examples of the bookplate work of Australian artist Norman Lindsay, with checklist and bibliography.
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The Smallest English Dictionary in the World
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Bryce and Son
Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, No date.Bound in The Curio Shop, Sydney, wrappers and housed in a metal case with magnifying peephole.
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The Adventures of Sweeter Gwen Volume 1 & 2
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. W. Stanton [Eric Stanton]; [John Willie]
Van Nuys: London Enterprises, 1982.Complete set of the first issues of Eric Stanton’s homage to John Willie’s Sweet Gwendoline. Was shortly after reissued in a combined volume.
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Teneriffe, An Astronomer’s Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Piazzi Smyth
London: Lovell, Reeve, 1858.Account of the voyage of British astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) to the island of Tenerife to undertake astronomical observations. The first book to be illustrated with original mounted stereographs. Includes Negretti & Zambra’s Descriptive Catalogue of One Hundred Stereoscopic Views of the Pyramids, the Nile, Karnak, Thebes, Aboo-Simbel, and all the most interesting objects of Egypt and Nubia.
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Sun Bathers
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBertram Park; Yvonne Gregory
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1935.The second nudist / naturist volume from the English ‘Seen by the Camera’ series, a companion to The Beauty of the Female Form. An introduction by Alan Warwick followed by 48 photographs by the husband and wife photography team. Though the second such book in the series, it is credited as being the first book to directly link its intent to nudism.
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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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Art is a Horrible Waste of the Imagination
AU$300.00 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$300.00 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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DeMask Mistress Collection
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteve 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
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames 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
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerbert 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.