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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Prip-Moller
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967.A labour of love originally published in 1937 by Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller (1889-1943). Thoroughly researched and illustrated throughout with photographs, floor plans, and architectural illustrations, this tome is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and provides invaluable insight into Chinese Buddhist monastic life.
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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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Ha! Ha! Houdini!
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatti Smith
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977.Smith’s poetic tribute to illusionist Harry Houdini, dedicated to Jacques Stern. An unsigned, unnumbered copy of the first edition.
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Seen In Three Days
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwin J. Ellis
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893.Written, drawn, and tinted by Edwin J. Ellis. Sixty plates (including the title), each with a large design and text printed in sepia in the manner of William Blake, Ellis being an ardent devotee of Blake’s having edited The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical together with W. B. Yeats, also published by Quaritch in the same year. Despite the clear indications to the dreams of Blake, the work stands as its own: the apocalypse is absent, the women are prettier, and while not of Blake’s mastery, the technical differences are more than appetizing.
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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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Freakshow
Read MoreJacquin Sanders
London: Peter Davies, 1955.The first UK edition of an American sideshow noir featuring strongman Bat Fidler as he falls for beautiful but deformed Fish Girl. An underground classic reprinted as a 1950s pulp, Strip the Heart, and by Loompanics under its original title in 1995.
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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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The Art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKen McGregor; Ralph Hobbs
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2014.The deluxe edition with a signed portrait photograph of the artist and original signed etching. Limited to 20 copies, of which this is number 16.
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Lovers
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNapoleon L. Rambouillet
Brisbane: Napoleon L. Rambouillet, 1994.Original pencil drawing of 2 naked men embracing on a piece of reclaimed marble, captioned Lovers and signed L. R. ’94. A long pencil inscription on the verso signed Napoleon L. Rambouillet with an address in New Farm. A skillful piece of gay erotica by a forgotten 90s Brisbane artist.
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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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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred R. Wallace
London: Reeve and Co., 1853.With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. The rare first edition written from Wallace’s notes of his first fieldwork expedition to the Amazon, 1848-1852, his specimens and most of his work having been lost in a cargo fire on the return voyage.
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Round the World
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. P. Thomson
Brisbane: Outridge Printing Co., 1904.Account of the round the world voyage of James Park Thomson (1854-1941), decorated Scottish born-Queensland geographer and public servant. Includes descriptions of New Zealand, Samao, Fanning Island, Hawaii, North America from California to New York including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and the Mormons, the Rockies, Canada, Niagara, the United Kingdom including London, Westminster Abbey, Scotland, Aberdeen, The Crofters, Edinburgh, Belgium, Cologne, Switzerland, Paris, Rouen, Naples, Pompeii, The Suez Canal, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, home to Brisbane, and more in between. Thomson recounts much of Australia and in particular Queensland to those he meets as well as participating in numerous Geographical Society meetings and the twenty-fourth National Congress of the French Geographical Societies at Rouen. The telling of his meeting with Prince Roland Bonaparte was responsible for putting in motion a series of events leading to the State Library of New South Wales’ eventual acquisition of the prized Tasman Map of Abel Tasman’s 1642 and 1644 voyages.
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The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry 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*.