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Profile (Volume 1 No 1, 2, 3, 4)
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Handen
London: European Publications, 1973.British “bizarre” periodical, edited by Carl Handen with art direction by Hans Deiter. Each cover is illustrated by the American artist Eric Stanton, whose bondage and fetish comics also run throughout all four issues; the cover of number four is billed as “More from America’s leading bizarre illustrator – Stanton. Exclusive to Profile.” The same issue announces that Profile has “obtained the exclusive rights to the creative and erotic writing of John Cleve,” the principal pseudonym of the American writer Andrew J. Offutt, extensively used for erotic fiction between 1969 and the mid 1980s; the story “The Chain,” appearing in this number. Also included is a feature on the pseudonymous French novelist Alan Mac Clyde and the illustrator Carlo, both associated with the interwar French sadomasochistic novel genre. Further contributors across the four numbers include Audrey Kendell, Iago, Maud Cameron, Bernard Valonnes, Gee Kay, Earle Dexter, Mark Ralphs, Victor Rhodes, Julie Hamilton, and Sally Fleming. Number four states that a fifth issue was planned; it is not known whether publication continued. Unrecorded in OCLC, and not mentioned in Richar Perez Seves: Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground. A complete run (Nos. 1-4) is held by the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive, London.
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[Sex Slave]
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSuzan Pitt
New York: Suzan Pitt, 1984.Beginning in 1984, Suzan Pitt (1943-2019) painted a series of one-of-a-kind wearable artworks for The A. More Store, a project of the New York artists’ collective COLAB. Later that year they were sold through Patricia Field’s East 8th Street boutique alongside works by Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse. Pitt described the coats as unique artworks that could be either worn or hung on the wall, combining imagery drawn from popular culture, her animated films, and her watercolours into layered visual narratives of free association. Pitt is thought to have produced between fifty and one hundred painted coats during the 1980s before concentrating on the production of her animated film Joy Street. She returned to the format in 2016 in collaboration with House of Byfield. Sexuality was a persistent subject in Pitt’s work well before the coats. Her early film Crocus (1971) established a recurring association in her animation between sexuality and vegetal and floral forms, carried further in Asparagus (1979), a film noted on release for its frank sexual imagery and remembered for its pairing with David Lynch’s Eraserhead on the midnight-movie circuit. The present coat, its title taken from the painted text across the upper back, extends this preoccupation into wearable form, setting sexually explicit illustrations and lettering against appropriated cartoon imagery of Mickey Mouse and Goofy. This example belongs to the original 1984 series and is signed and dated by the artist.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste
Read MoreJules Gay
Turin: J. Gay et Fils, 1869.Anthology of rare and curious French texts from earlier centuries, largely comprising satirical and facetious verse, dialogues, chansons, and other literary pieces on love, women, marriage, and sexuality. Published by Jules Gay and his son Jean at Turin in 1869 for the bibliophile market cultivated through Gay’s work as a publisher and bibliographer of erotic and prohibited literature, it remains a useful sourcebook of French literary curiosa. One of 100 numbered copies on papier verge dit Hollande (from a total edition of 175), with three plates printed on chine, being portaits of Marguerite de Navarre, Francois Villon, and Clement Marot.
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Portraits from a Land Without People (Limited Edition)
Read MoreJohn 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 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 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.