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The Virgin Sperm Dancer
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy
The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978.An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. A classic publication from the age of sexual liberation, The virgin sperm dancer is an early photobook which illustrates the story of Joop, a young Dutch man who experiences a day transformed as Joopie, a sexually awakened woman. Published as a Suck Special Issue of the Amsterdam-based pornography magazine Suck, The virgin sperm dancer clearly aims to titillate with its uncensored graphic photographs of the escapades in this fantasy. However through the lengthy narrative and exploration of the versatility of sexual experience, Sperm Dancer finds itself as a prototype for later works that explore sexual freedom and concepts of gender. Through depictions of free love in Amsterdam in the 70s with a focus on transsexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality, Sperm dancer avoids gender paradigms of masculinity and power, and includes women’s sexual empowerment and orgasm as a focus of the work. Unusually for a sex magazine, this standalone publication does not appear to pitch its eroticism to a particular sexuality but rather embraces the versatility of sexual experience as being its greatest appeal. The Virgin Sperm Dancer was immediately influential and homaged on the cover of the September 1972 issue of London Oz. A second edition was published in 1978. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws.
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The Berlei Review Volume 15, 1936
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBerlei
Sydney: Berlei Ltd., 1936.A bound set of the complete volume 15 of The Berlie Review, being the company journal for Australian lingerie company Berlie for the year 1936. Volume 15 comprises 10 parts, with January/February and October/November being double issues. Founded by Fred R. Burley and first operating in Sydney from 1910 as Unique Corsets, before Frenchifying to Berlie in 1917, with the vision “To Design and Manufacture Corsets and Brassieres of such perfect Fit, Quality, and Workmanship, as will bring pleasure and profit to all concerned, while at the same time rendering such excellent service to our Clients and Consumers as will merit their permanent patronage.” Burlei Australia is still operating today.
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Le Marseille Curieux
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre d’Agranon
Paris: L. d’Autrec, No date.The Curious Marseilles. Guide-Souvenir des Touristes et des Etrangers dans l’ancien Quartier Noble de Marseille Devenu Le Celebre Quartier Reserve. 1922 illustrated guide for sex tourists to the brothels of Marseille in the south of France. Copious illustrated with photographs of working women, a folding map of the area, and numerous advertisements.
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The Crisis by Eugene Field
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene Field; [Colin B. Berckelman]
Athens [ie. Sydney]: The Vaginal Press, 1938.The vulgarity of the sexual slang in this scurrilous, pseudonymously published piece of verse would have been regarded in 1938 Australia as being at the very extremes of obscenity. Written and “hand-printed for subscribers only” by bibliophile Colin Berckelman in an (unsurprisingly) small edition of 25 copies, the publication can now be considered a genuine rarity: 11 of the 25 copies have found their way into public collections. Berckelman’s use of the non-de-plume Eugene Field is almost certainly an allusion to the late nineteenth century American writer of the same name who, aside from producing poetry for young readers, wrote The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896). Berckelman, for reasons that were either genuine or perverse, evidently felt some affinity with Field. “On top, the pumping method; or lying on the side, Or spread upon her billowing bum, a-la the blushing bride, Or stand up, or sitting down, or resting on all four, Whereby the visitor could take his choice of either door, Or dressed, or naked,… every way her genius could invent To catch the silvery substance that tickleth as ’tis spent.”
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Fantastic Worlds: North Africa’s Magazine of Cinema Fantasy and the Unknown
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Soren
Cambridge, Mass.: Fantastic Worlds Magazine, [1972].Issue one of the horror and Hammer Films fanzine published by American archaeologist David Soren (1946-). “So one day we went to Hammer – we just walked right in a announced that we were publishers of a fanzine (fan magazine) about horror films in the U.S. and we asked for the addresses and phones numbers of David’s favorite Hammer stars so we could interview them – and we got them!! So for the next couple of years, whenever we were in London, we sought out and interviewed stars… To keep us honest, David had to actually produce the fanzine where these interviews were published, and so he wrote and distributed Fantastic Worlds Magazine, Issues 1 and 2, a real collector’s item today!” (Noelle Soren) Indeed rare, with only 1 holding recorded in OCLC, at the University of Georgia.
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Cannabinoids as Therapeutics
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaphael Mechoulam
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2005.A new selection of research papers on the present therapeutic uses and research of cannabis. Contributors include Ethan Russo, Lumir O. Hanus and Raphael Mechoulam, Roger G. Pertwee, Mauro Maccarrone, Javier Fernandez-Ruiz, Sara Gonzalez, Julian Romero, Jose Antonio Ramos, Stpehen A. Varvel, Aron H. Lichtman, Richard E. Musty, Susan M. Huang, J. Michael Walker, Luciano De Petrocellis, Maurizio Bifulco, Alessia Ligresti, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Linda A. Parker, Cheryl L. Limebeer, Magdalena Kwiatkowska, Itai A. Bab, Daniela Parolaro, Tiziana Rubino, Francis Barth, Murielle Rinaldi-Carmona, Geoffrey W. Guy, and Colin G. Stott. Edited by Raphael Mechoulam (1930-), an Israeli chemist known for the first isolation and synthesis of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive in marijuana.
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Cocaine Handbook: An Essential Reference
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Lee
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1981.First printing of the revised edition of the Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook. The handbook was an essential reference with numerous printings totaling well over a hundred thousand during the 1970s. This revised edition first published in 1981 continued its aims of harm minimisation with corrected, revised, and expanded information on the chemistry, testing, purification, culture, and law of one of the 20th century’s most notorious stimulants.
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Portraits from a Land Without People (Limited Edition)
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2008.Limited Edition box set of 100 copies including a signed a numbered copy of the book, being a pictorial anthology of Indigenous Australia, 1847-2008, signed and numbered by Jimmy Little and signed by John Ogden, and 3 signed and numbered photographic prints housed in a custom folder: 1. Wik Elder, Gladys (2000) by Ricky Maynard; 2. Australienation, Central Australia, Northern Territory, (1984) by John Ogden; 3. Three Worora girls, photographer unknown. Supplied by Western Australian Museum (signed and numbered WAM).
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Hartwich
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1911.[Human Stimulants: Their Origin, Distribution, History, Use, Components and Effects.] Monumental encyclopedia of ethnopharmacology by German pharmacist Carl Hartwich (1851-1917) based on anthropological and ethnological studies from remote sources.