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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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Dobangaka kiyohara keiko sakuhinshu
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKeiko Kiyohara
Tokyo: Abe Shuppan, 2017.Monograph of Japanese printmaker Keiko Kiyohara (1955-1987). This copy with the catalogue, The Etcher, Kiyohara Keiko Retrospective, from the Hachioji Yumi Art Museum (2017) laid in.
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
AU$8,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward L. Youmans
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856.Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest Views of the Subjects Illustrated. Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887) was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer, and founder of Popular Science magazine. Youmans’ Chemical Atlas is one of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization, with striking colour plates both conveying information and capturing the imagination, and was featured in the William Reese exhibition Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: “This chemistry textbook was a pioneering publication in the use of color to convey quantitative information”. There are recorded printings each year between 1854 and 1857. This 1856 edition being the third year of printing and from the collection of the renowned neurologist, author, and educator Dr. Oliver Sacks, with his bookplate laid in.
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Bush Medicine: A Practical Handbook for Managing Serious Illnesses and Accidents in the Outback
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor H. Webster
Tennant Creek: Jackhammer Press, No date.Victor H. Webster (1905-1980) was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council for Tennant Creek from 1947 to 1950. During this time he published Bush Medicine, an early Northern Territory medical handbook for surviving medical emergencies in the remote outback. Includes a chapter ‘Some Remarks on Sickness in Natives’.
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Autoerotic Phenomena in Adolescence: An Analytical Study of Psychology and Psychopathology of Onanism
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Menzies
London: H. K. Lewis, 1919.Early 20th century psychoanalytical study of masturbation written for a lay audience. With a foreword by Dr. Ernest Jones. An important text in helping to normalise healthy self-pleasure and provide a balanced approach to unhealthy behaviours in the early 20th century.
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E’tude Medico-Legale et Clinique sur L’Empoisonnement
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmbroise Tardieu; Z. Roussin
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1875.Medico-Legal and Clinical Study on Poisoning.
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Crash Injuries: The Integrated Medical Aspects of Automobile Injuries and Death
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacob Kulowski
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1960.The leading 20th century monograph on human injury as a result motor vehicle accidents written by an orthopaedic surgeon for a medical audience. Crash Injuries was a source of inspiration for J. G. Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash.
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The Ethics of Service
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Sewall
London: James Speirs, 1888.An essay on ethics read before the Ruskin Society of the Rose in Glasgow, January 1888, by the Swedenborgian clergyman Frank Sewall (1837-1915). Scarce, 3 copies recorded in OCLC.
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Electronic Revolution, 1970-71
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Burroughs
Cambridge: For Henri Chopin .. at the Blackmoor Head Press, 1971.One of the standard edition of 450 numbered copies (of a total edition of 500) with drawings by Brion Gysin. “Bilingual French and English text of a two-part 52-page essay on media and manipulation, about equal parts paranoia and genius, as much of Burroughs’ work tended to be.” SHOAF 23. MAYNARD & MILES A21
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Hyakunin Joro Shinasadame [One Hundred Women Classified According to Their Rank]
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNishikawa Sukenobu
Kyoto: Unsodo, No date.One of the masterpieces of Ukiyoe art. Depicts women from various social classes of the Edo period, from court and samurai ladies to geisha and sex workers, and the many town and country women in between. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1723 and here reprinted together in 1 volume circa late 19th/early 20th century.
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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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Victorian Butterflies And How To Collect Them
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Anderson; Frank Palmer Spry
Melbourne: H. Hearne & Co., 1893.Early work on Australian butterflies. FERGUSON 5965. Issued without the 4 pages of advertisements cited in Ferguson. This copy with the ownership signature of Australian cartoonist Vane Lindesay.
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The Shulgin Index Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander T. Shulgin; Tania Manning; Paul F. Daley
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2011.The first and only volume (to date) of The Shulgin Index: a comprehensive survey of all known psychedelic phenethylamines and related compounds. Alexander Shulgin (1925-2014) is considered one of the greatest figures of the psychedelic movement and is known for introducing MDMA to American psychologists and first synthesising many of the psychedelic phenethylamines.
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Die Wirkstoffe der dritten aztekischen Zauberdroge oder Die Losung des Ololiuqui-Ratsels
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann; A. Cerletti
Stuttgart: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1961.Reissue from Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Nr. 18, pp. 885-888. Paper by the Swiss chemist and psychedelic icon who first synthesised and ingested LSD and his colleague at Sandoz Aurelio Cerletti on the “third aztec magical drug”, Ololiuqui (Ipomoea corymbosa), a species of morning glory.
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Reminiscences from Early Life and Including Cycling & Touring Experiences
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Pearson
Sydney: Vale & Pearson, 1933.Biography of Joseph Pearson (1849-1939), draper, one of Australia’s early cyclists, and map publisher. First published in 1925, Pearson published this revised edition in 1933. “When Pearson toured Britain and the Continent in 1893, he rode some 3500 miles (5633 km). He bought road maps and, inspired by them, vowed to persuade his fellow cyclists ‘to take an occasional tour in the country … to get into our wide spaces’. In 1896 he published the Cyclists’ Touring Guide of New South Wales, which contained many practical hints. He agitated for the erection of road signs and that year helped to found the New South Wales Cyclists’ Touring Union, serving on the executive board. His early road and touring material provided the basis for the union’s two-volume Handbook, and Guide to the Roads of New South Wales (Sydney, 1898), the most detailed guide ever published in Australia.” (ADB) This copy signed on the wrappers upper panel, as usual.
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Direct Action (Nos. 1 – 103, September 1970 – December 1975)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSocialist Youth Alliance
Sydney: Socialist Youth Alliance, 1970-1975.An unbroken run of the first 103 issues bound in two volumes of the Australian socialist newspaper, Direct Action, which became the Green Left Weekly in 1991. The SYA was a Trotskyist youth organisation of eco-socialist and anti-capitalist politics which emerged out of the Sydney University Socialist Club and the Vietnam Action Campaign, and later merged into the Socialist Alliance. Direct Action was a large format newspaper, brightly illustrated throughout, running stories on local and international politics, with calls to action.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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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 Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
Read MoreLarry Mitchell
New York: Calamus Books, 1977.First edition, first printing. 1970s queer communal living fantasy classic. “The queens luxuriate in variety. They often make fun of the men’s fashions. The queens display infinite weirdnesses to the world. For them, style is the path into the unique self and so to transcendence. They long for everyone to reveal themselves wherever they are.” (page 63). Illustrations by Ned Asta. YOUNG 2736*.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839.The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy edited by his brother, John Davy, Vol. III: Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. An early edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.