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Sprint Start: Instruction Pamphlet
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. A. L. Chapman
Edinburgh: Athletic Coaching Committee, Central Council of Physical Recreation, No date.Charming fold out illustrated running booklet by Hugh A. L. Chapman, the Chief Athletic Coach for Scotland. Scarce, 1 copy recorded in OCLC at September, 2022.
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The Gay Cookbook
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLou Rand Hogan; David Costain
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.First edition, first printing, of “the complete compendium of campy cuisine and menus for men…or what have you” by Chef Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. The first cookbook marketed to the gay man. Hogan, after a failed attempt at a career in show business, learned the art of cooking fine cuisine working luxury cruises where he was part of a deliciously camp work culture, the humour of which is evident in his writing style. A good copy of this early example of positive gay culture in 20th century print media.
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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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Codex Seraphinianus
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2013.The deluxe 2013 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 deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60.
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A Dissertation Upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue / Two Dissertations / Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon / Seven Letters Containing a New and Easy Method of Learning the Hebrew Language / An Hebrew Lexicon
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Sharpe
London: John Millan, 1751.Two scarce works on Latin and Hebrew language by English theologian Gregory Sharpe (1713-1771) bound in one volume, being: A Dissertation Upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue: Containing a Rational and Compendious Method of learning Latin: Taken from The Powers of the Servile Letters, The Uses of the Greek Digamma, and The Cuases of the Latin Tongue TOGETHER WITH Two Dissertations: I. Upon the Origin, Construction, Division, and Relation of Languages. II. Upon the Original Powers of Letters; wherein is proved from the Analogy of Alphabets, and the Proportion of Letters, that the Hebrew ought to be read without Points. To which is added, The Second Edition, enlarged, of a Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon, Without Points BEING Seven Letters Containing a New and Easy Method of Learning the Hebrew Language: The Second Edition Enlarged AND An Hebrew Lexicon, Containing all the Primitive Words in Hebrew, and Many Deriv’d Words in that and other Languages: with their Various Significations in Hebrew and English. Free from the Masoretic Points. To which is added An Alphabetical Table or Index of all the English and other Words in the Lexicon; with a Reference by Figures to the original Hebrew, The Second Edition, Enlarged, Answering to, or Derived from the Hebrew: in which The Hebrew Letter is the First Radical, and the numerical Figure refers to the Third Radical. The Greek, and all Words in Italic Character, are Derivatives.
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Cryptogamie Illustree ou Histoire des Familles Naturelles des Plantes Acotyledones d’Europe:Â Famille des Champignons
AU$480.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCasimir Roumeguere
Paris, London, Madrid & New York: J. -B. Baillere & Fils, F. Savy, H. Baillere, C. Bailly-Baillere, and Baillere-Brothers, 1870.Illustrated Cryptogamy or History of the Natural Families of the Acotyledonous Plants of Europe: Coordinated According to the Latest Classifications and Completed by the Most Recent Scientific Researches. Fungi Family. Containing 1,700 figures, representing, at its different ages, the plant in natural size and the anatomy of its organs of vegetation and reproduction, drawn under the microscope. 20 page Index Synonymqie de la famille des Champignons supplement dated 1873 bound in at rear.
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Hilma af Klint: The Complete Catalogue Raisonne (7 Volumes)
Read MoreHilma af Klint; Daniel Birnbaum; Kurt Almqvist
Stockholm: Bokforlaget Stolpe, 2022.“Hilma af Klint became known to a wider audience in 2013, nearly 70 years after her death, in conjunction with Moderna Museet’s Stockholm exhibition Hilma af Klint: Abstract Pioneer. Six years later, her work was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Both exhibitions saw record numbers of visitors, and today she is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists. The paintings in the catalogue raisonne are presented in the same order as Olof Sundstrom, also a follower of anthroposophy, numbered them in 1945, based on Hilma af Klint’s notes. The forewords to the volumes are short and concise. They present facts about the works rather than interpretations. The works are printed in an exclusive edition designed by Patric Leo housed in a specially produced slipcase to hold all seven volumes.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Kurt Almqvist.
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Poignant Regalia: 19th Century Aboriginal Images & Breastplates
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTania Cleary
Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1993.A catalogue of Aboriginal breastplates held in public, regional and private collections in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. This copy signed by Cleary.
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Life’s a Beer
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Ross Books, 1984.A continuation of Rennie Ellis’ ‘Life’s a…’ series. Australians enjoying beer, casually at the beach or in private settings, or wildly, at raucous parties in all of their 1980s glory.
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aka: Joe D’Amato: The Man and His Movies
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Smith
Upton: Festival Promotions, 1995.Booklet on Italian film director Joe D’Amato (1936-1999). Includes a couple of short essays, an interview between D’Amato and Manilo Gomarasca, and a filmography. Illustrated throughout with frames and poster art, largely from his erotic and horror films. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC.
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Herbier de la France: Histoire des Champignons
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Bulliard; M. Walhein
Paris: Pierre Bulliard, No date.219 manuscript watercolour plates by M. Walhein, a Member of French Mycological Society, from the originals by French physician and botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1752-1793). Bound in quarter leather with a typescript index to the plates.
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The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Darwin
London: John Murray, 1890.Darwin’s first published work after the Origin of Species, providing evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection. Darwin believed this volume tackled the question of design in nature. He maintained that the complex internal arrangements and ornate ridges of orchids were not created for the sake of beauty, but for the functional purpose of facilitating reproduction. This copy with the advertisements dated June, 1897, and from the collection of the former Premier of Queensland, Sir Thomas McIlwraith, with his embossed stamp.
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (6 Volumes)
AU$750.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.Complete set of Dian Hanson’s history of 20th century men’s magazines,
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Mind Field
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Corso
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1989.Hanuman Books 27, first edition of beat poet Gregory Corso. Cover photo by Allen Ginsberg. This copy signed by Corso on the front flyleaf.
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Quatrefoil
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Barr
London: Vision Press, 1953.First UK edition of one of the first modern books to portray homosexual characters positively written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr.
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Roberta Cowell’s Story by Herself
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberta Cowell
London: William Heinemann, 1954.Scarce autobiography of British race car driver, WWII fighter pilot, and first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1948 after Michael Dillon (British physician and the first trans man to undergo FtM surgery) performed an inguinal orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) on Cowell.
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The Narrow Road To The Deep North
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Flanagan
Sydney: Knopf, 2013.The first printing of the Australian–being the true–first edition of Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize winning novel. This being the variant without the printed signature on the half-title (the variant with often found erroneously described as signed). This copy signed by Flanagan in purple marker on the title page and with a signed by author sticker on the jacket upper panel.
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(not only) Black+White (Complete Set, 89 Volumes)
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1992-2007.A complete set of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White, from issue 00 to 88 (89 total). 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. The premiere issue featured articles on Agenda: Gender, Marcus Graham, Dykes on Bikes, and Teen Satanists, and featured photography by or of Simon Denny, Helmut Newton, Kym Wilson, Angie Bowie, and others. Over its 15 year history (not only) Black+White featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Toni Collette, Alan Moore, Bettina Rheims, Alain de Botton, Keira Knightley, Billie Piper, Tara Moss, Kylie Minogue, Nobuyoshi Araki, Natalie Portman, Patti Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Olaf Martens, Scarlett Johansson, Peaches, Anton Corbijn, Ellen von Unwerth, Gottfried Helnwein, Dolly Parton, Bruce Weber, Kate Moss, Bob Carlos Clarke, Mario Testino, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Lindbergh, Radiohead, Serge Gainsbourg, Harrsion Ford, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, David Cronenberg, Bill Henson, PJ Harvey, John Waters, Irvine Welsh, Chloe Sevigny, Johnny Depp, David Bowie, Arthur C. Clarke, William Klein, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Nick Cave, Spike Lee, Jan Saudek, Dennis Hopper, Devo, Madonna, Woody Harrelson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Naomi Watts, Albert Watson, David Hamilton, Pierre et Gilles, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, and countless others. International buyers please contact for shipping quote.
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Derricks
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Barr
New York: Greenburg, 1951.A collection of short stories. The second published work by of one of the first modern authors to portray homosexual characters positively. Written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr. YOUNG 185*.
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Synthesis
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKohei Nawa
Tokyo: AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2011.The extensive catalogue accompanying the 2011 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the first to present a comprehensive view of all of Nawa’s work to date. Includes an original work by Kohei Nawa mounted in an enclosure on the lower board.