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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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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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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1863.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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Oeuvres Libres
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Verlaine
Segovie: Pablo de Herlagnez, 1868 [c. 1930].Clandestine 20th century anthology of Verlaine’s Amies, Femmes, Hombres (except the last 4 quatrains of Balanide I), and Sonnet du trou du cul [Sonnet to an Asshole] by Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. With erotic chapter initials and accompanied by 6 erotic etchings by an anonymous artist. Edition of 400 copies, though often found without the suite of plates, here the plates are on thick Holland laid paper and not vellum as described in PIA 1440, DUTEL 2092.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLenny Bruce
[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution.
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The Littlewood Press
AU$10,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKatherine N. Simitian
Stoke-on-Trent: The Lytlewode Press, 2007.Being a monograph dealing with the development of an Australian private press featuring eighty-nine etchings printed in the atelier of The Press. A short history of the Littlewood Press from 1996 to 2007 featuring original etchings printed at the Press editioned from its published works and commissioned artists including Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Derham Groves, Allan Jordan, Trish Hart, Tony Irving, Pro Hart, Andrew Sibley, Caitlin Littlewood, Robbie Harmsworth, Peter Jones, Marc Severin, and Leslie Tarrant. Bound in stingray, likely the first Australian publication using this skin, the natural white star of the skin forming a decorative emblem to the spine. The idea for this book originated in 1996 when the publisher undertook to print ten additional copies of every etching printed at the press with the intention of creating a history volume at a later date. A number of the etchings are ex libris bookplates. One of the finest Australian art publications, limited to just 10 copies, signed and numbered by the author and the publisher, 5 of which are housed in Australian institutions. This copy is number 10 and includes the original prospectus, The History of The Littlewood Press, featuring an additional Trish Hart etching and signed by the publisher, Robert Littlewood. Issued with 81 of the 89 listed etchings, and with 4 of the Pro Hart etchings supplied twice, making for a total of 85 etchings and photographic portrait of the publisher. The plates not included as per the checklist are: 10. Trish Hart: Nesting Gull; 34. Tony Irving: The Old Kiosk [Black]; 37. Tony Irving: Home Alone [Black]; 39. Tony Irving: Ramsen Place; 40. Tony Irving: Drewery Lane; 42. Tony Irving: Hosier Lane; 43. Tony Irving: Waratah Place; 44. Tony Irving: China Town. The four Pro Hart plates that are included in duplicate are: 45. Singers at the Southern Cross Hotel; 46. Miner’s Kids; 47. Yabbie Picnic; 48. Gethsemane. The plates not included do not appear to have been removed, but as in true Private Press fashion, the difference in actual issue to the stated intention differing as per the whim, requirement, or temperament of the publisher.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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Listen, Little Man! A Document from the Archive of the Orgone Institute
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilhelm Reich; William Steig
New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1948.First edition in the English language of Reich’s antiauthoritarian classic calling for direct action by the working class. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Illustrated by William Stieg. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austro-Hungraian-American doctor and psychoanalys, and is one of psychiatry’s most radical figures. In the late 1950s many of his books were burned by order of the court in one of the largest cases of modern censorship making early editions of his work scarce.
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The Interpersonal Dimension of Personality
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMervin B. Freedman; Timothy F. Leary
: Journal of Personality, 1951.First separate printing, offprinted from Journal of Personality Vol. 20, No. 2, December, 1951 in a limited number of copies for the authors’ use. One of the first works co-authored by Leary. This copy signed by him on the front cover. “..first in a series of papers designed to present a comprehensive schema for the organization of personality data.” Years later when Leary was imprisoned he took personality tests he had himself helped design. HOROWITZ, WALLS & SMITH AA7, Variant A.
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Codex Seraphinianus (2 Volumes)
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981.The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017), all housed in the original shipping cartons. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page book hand-bound with treated pages from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 10, of which this is number 10.
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Light Through Darkness
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
New York: The Orion Press, 1963.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, on mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. Originally published in French in 1961, then translated into English by Haakon Chevalier and first published in America in 1963. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy in a fine signed full leather binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire based on the original jacket design.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.
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The Savoy Taylors’ Guild Ltd.: Designers and Makers of Savoyard Fine Clothing
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Savoy Taylors’ Guild Ltd.
London: Savoy Taylors’ Guild, No date.1920s men’s fashion catalogue for the well dressed man. Founded in 1906 Savoy Taylors Guild based in London’s Strand (and operating there until only recently) aimed “to supply high-grade outfitting for men, in commodious surroundings, giving honest value and exercising an unceasing effort to satisfy the wishes of its customers”. This early catalogue, illustrated by Minister & Co., shows a range of suits for everyday, lounging, formal occasions, around town, playing golf, and while driving the automobile or travelling aboard the steamer. OCLC shows no holdings of any Savoy Taylors Guild catalogue or archive. This copy with two 1928 newspaper clippings laid in, being Parts II and III of Clothes and the Man by Clive Hamilton.
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Practical Observations on Insanity
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph Mason Cox
London: R. Baldwin and Thomas Underwood, 1813.“In which some Suggestions are offered towards an improved Mode of treating Diseases of the Mind, and Some Rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more Humane and successful Method of Cure: to which are subjoined, Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence, as it relates to Diseased Intellect.” The third and final revised edition of the major work by English physician Joseph Mason Cox (1763-1818). Cox was one of the first medical graduates to specialise in the treatment of the insane. Throughout his career he advocated for more humane treatment of lunatics and maniacs. In this work he introduces his swinging technique, based on a design by Erasmus Darwin, of spinning a patient’s body round a vertical axis in a specially designed chair which would produce nausea, vomiting, and convulsions, but would ultimately lead to a restful slumber, which he believed to be a positive outcome for the maniacal. This copy warmly inscribed by Cox.
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The Temple Dances in Bali
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyra de Kleen
Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1936.Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). Kleen studied painting in Germany and France, lived and socialised with the cultural elite in Rome at the turn of the 19th century, and travelled, exhibited, and socialised extensively around the world. A fiercely independent character, despite rampant misogyny, she managed to skilfully manoeuvre and at times manipulate to achieve her ambitious goals. She spent many years throughout the 1910s and 1920s in Indonesia, studying ceremonial dance, and produced a number of books on dance, theatre, and ritual in Java and Bali, and in 1938 was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg for her work there. The Temple Dances in Bali includes short text on the Legong, Chalon Arong, and Joghed dances, costume, and music, with illustrations in the text, complimented by numerous captioned plates by Kleen. First published in Swedish in a limited edition of 300 copies as Tempeldanser och musikinstrument pa Bali, and here translated into English for the first time. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm (Statens Etnografiska Museum) New Series, Publication No. 2.
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Wine and Wine Countries; A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers
Read MoreCharles Tovey
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1862.On wine and related beverages around the world, including a section on the burgeoning Australian winemaking trade. This copy with the bookplate of Australian winemaker Max Lake.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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The Bells and other Poems
Read MoreEdgar Allan Poe; Edmund Dulac
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.The deluxe edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe featuring The Bells, The Raven, and others. Illustrated with 28 tipped in colour plates and additional vignettes by Edmund Dulac and published in a numbered edition of 750 copies signed by Dulac.
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Suck: First European Sexpaper
Read MoreWilliam Levy; Heathcote Williams; Germaine Greer; Susan Jansen; Lynne Tillman; Jim Haynes; Willem de Ridder
London and Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1969-74.A complete set of Suck, touted as the first European sex newspaper tasked with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”. Launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws. Heathcote Williams in his Suck manifesto declares “SUCK is Group Sex, Police Sex, Animal Sex, Teeny Sex, One Armed Bandit Sex, Geriatric Sex and Cosmic Sex”, highlighting the nothing is off-limits approach of the editorial board. Though Suck was no mere porno rag, as Australian feminist writer and Suck co-founder Germaine Greer told the academic journal Women’s Studies International Forum, Suck was “a new kind of erotic art, away from the tits ‘n’ ass and the peep-show syndrome.” Greer’s involvement helped push a wave of radical feminist pornography, though she fell out with her co-editors and resigned after they published a photograph of her naked with her legs over her head, not because of the nudity, but the context of its publishing, which is outlined in Greer’s resignation letter printed in the final issue. Greer’s involvement was not the only tip to a radical cause with noted contributors including William S. Burroughs, Valerie Solanas, Michael McClure, W. H. Auden, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Girodias, and many others. Primary editors were William Levy, Heatcote Williams, Germaine Greer, Susan Jansen, Lynne Tillman, and Jim Haynes, with art direction by Willem de Ridder.