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Oz Magazine (Australia) Complete Set w/ Newsletter
AU$15,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Neville; Richard Walsh; Martin Sharp
Sydney: Oz Publications Ink, 1963-1970.The foundational Australian edition of Oz, edited by Richard Neville, Richard Walsh, and Martin Sharp and published in Sydney between 1963 and 1969, with the reduced-format fortnightly newsletters continuing into 1970 under Walsh and Dean Letcher. Preceding and inspiring the the better-known London Oz (1967-1973), the Australian edition tackled censorship, homosexuality, police corruption, the White Australia policy, and the Vietnam War, provoking a series of obscenity prosecutions, culminating in a 1964 conviction that was later overturned on appeal. Sharp’s covers and illustrations, ranging from early satirical cartooning to full psychedelic intensity, chart his emergence as one of Australia’s most significant pop artists. Complete in 41 issues of the magazine proper, together with a complete set of the rarely seen newsletters (Nos. 42-82) including the election special (No. 56). A high point of Australian underground publishing.
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The Illegal Relatives
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Moorhouse
[Sydney]: [Tomato Press for The Author], No date.Circa 1973. Pirated edition of illustrated erotic stories planned as an illegal publication in protest of censorship of the printed word, stemming from a case brought against underground newspaper Thor. The Whitlam government passed legislation that brought an end to the censorship yet the printer of this booklet went ahead with privately selling the publication against Moorehouse’s wishes, though also purported that it was delayed because Moorhouse wanted to edit the stories. A competing story has it that Moorhouse commissioned the printing but could not pay for it, so Tomato Press sold the entire inventory to a Sydney secondhand bookdealer to recoup the loss, but this all be hearsay. Illustrated throughout, some Robert Crumb pirates, but largely original unattributed erotic illustrations by Jenny Coopes and others. CAINS 118.
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A Handbook on Hanging
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Duff
London: The Cayme Press, 1928.Capital punishment in Britain. Being a short Introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyixiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry’s method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hangman’s Ready Reckoner and certain other items of interest. This copy with the bookplate of Alan Queale by N. S.
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A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, and the United States
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. M. Mowbray
London: J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1847.Formulas and preparations interleaved with manuscript notes and formulas of EJ Merrifield, with his signature dated 1850.
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777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticae Viae Explicandae, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientiae Summae
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Aleister Crowley]
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1909.First edition, published anonymously, of Crowley’s systematic tables of Qabalistic correspondences, drawing on the work of Mathers, Allan Bennett, and George Cecil Jones. One of 500 copies. The loosely inserted Tree of Life plate and the detachable subscription form for the Equinox are both present.
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Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia and A Psychological Study of Twilight Sleep Made by the Giessen Method
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha Van Hoosen; Elizabeth Ross Shaw
Chicago: The House of Manz, 1915.Van Hoosen (1863-1952), pioneering American surgeon, was the first woman to head a surgical department at a coeducational university and a co-founder of the American Medical Women’s Association in 1915. She was a leading American advocate of scopolamine-morphine anaesthesia in obstetrics, the so-called Twilight Sleep method developed at the University of Freiburg. The technique, which rendered patients semiconscious and eliminated memory of labour pain, became the subject of a national campaign intersecting with first-wave feminist and suffrage-era activism following a widely-read 1914 McClure’s Magazine expose. Van Hoosen’s text, drawing on extensive clinical experience, covers the method’s application in both general surgery and obstetrics, with Shaw contributing a psychological study of patients under the Giessen protocol. Illustrated with a mounted photographic frontispiece and fifteen plates. This copy with a presentation inscription by the author.
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A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrances E. Willard
New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1895.Willard was 53 when she took up cycling in 1893, framing the endeavour as both a personal discipline and a broader statement on women’s physical independence. The bicycle had become a potent symbol within contemporary women’s reform movements, offering practical mobility and challenging restrictive dress codes and expectations of feminine decorum. Published at the height of the late 19th-century bicycle craze, Willard’s account blends memoir with advocacy, arguing that mastering the wheel was an exercise in self-reliance applicable well beyond the road. A notable contribution to the literature of first-wave feminism and women’s sporting history.
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Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClinton Walker
Sydney: NewSouth, 2018.Illustrated survey of Black women in Australian music, the first such book of its kind, containing micro-biographies of over 100 artists each accompanied by an original artwork produced by Walker in a style reminiscent of R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country. Withdrawn shortly after publication following backlash from several of the women featured over biographical errors. Most copies were pulped, with only a small number sold before withdrawal. One of the most recent cases of Australian literature suppression. CAINS 171.
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The Emperor Jones; Diff’rent; The Straw
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene G. O’Neill
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921.First edition, first state binding, in the original pictorial jacket. The Emperor Jones was a watershed in American theatre, one of the first major Broadway productions to feature a Black actor in a leading dramatic role of such prominence, originally performed by Charles S. Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson in a role that helped establish his international stage reputation. A bold expressionist exploration of fear, power, and racial consciousness, the play remains a landmark text in both African-American theatrical history and the development of modern American drama. ATKINSON A 15-I-i.a. Also includes Diff’rent, a two-act study of sexual repression in a New England fishing village, and The Straw, a naturalistic drama drawn from O’Neill’s own experience in a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Death and the Lover
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHermann Hesse
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932.First edition in English, translated from the German, Narziss Und Goldmund by Geoffrey Dunlop, and later published as Narcissus and Goldmund.
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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Wolfe
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.Wolfe’s debut novel, a landmark autobiographical coming-of-age narrative in American literature. First edition, second state dust jacket. JOHNSTON A2.1.a.
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Haschisch: A Novel
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThorold King [Charles Gatchell]
New York: Brentano’s, 1888.First published in 1886 under the pseudonym Thorold King, a novel of narcotic experience following a young Englishman who travels to Egypt, becomes addicted to hashish, and experiences vivid hallucinations. Gatchell was known for his interest in and personal experimentation with cannabis indica extract. In an 1889 letter (sold at auction by Alex Autographs, 2012), he provided detailed instructions on smoking the resinous extract, stating that in his book “there are many facts and many actual experiences” and that it was “possible for you to repeat everything there described.” This copy, probably the author’s own, with a manuscript note on the title page reading: “Published originally by A. C. McClurg, who sold 3 editions. Then I turned it over to Brentano’s who published and sold 3 more editions. C.” Various advertisements and promotional materials for the book are glued to the pastedowns and endpapers. Among the relatively few 19th-century novels to treat cannabis, marijuana, and hashish in a broadly positive or experiential light.
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Phanerothyme: A Western Approach to the Religious Use of Psychochemicals
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLisa Bieberman
Cambridge: Psychedelic Information Center, 1968.An uncommon pamphlet by one of the lesser-known figures in the early psychedelic movement. Lisa Bieberman founded the Psychedelic Information Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was one of relatively few women to publish independently within a scene dominated by male voices: Leary, Alpert, Metzner, and Watts chief among them. While associated with, though not central to, the Harvard psychedelic milieu, she maintained a degree of distance from Leary’s more overtly charismatic and spiritual positioning. Here Bieberman proposes a Western religious and philosophical framework for understanding psychedelic experience, pushing back against the prevailing tendency to graft Eastern mysticism onto what she regarded as a distinct mode of encounter.
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The Doors Of Perception
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAldous Huxley
London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.First Edition of Huxley’s classic psychedelic essay, The Doors of Perception, wherein he recalls his first experience on mescaline. The first English Edition with the jacket designed by John Woodcock. BROMER A68.2.
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The Gourmet Cokebook: A Complete Guide to Cocaine
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: White Mountain Press, 1972.Deluxe leather issue of a guide to cocaine presented in the style of a gourmet cookbook, published anonymously during the early 1970s revival of recreational cocaine culture.
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The Tea Planter’s Manual
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. C. Owen
Colombo: A. M. & J. Ferguson, 1886.Practical handbook for the Ceylon tea industry, compiled from the contributions of working planters and covering the full cycle of estate management from land selection through manufacture, yield, and plant diseases. Illustrated with two large factory plans; the advertisements, including three chromolithographic plates, document aspects of the material culture of the colonial plantation economy. This copy with the bookplate of theatre producer and noted cookbook collector Crosby Gaige (1882-1949).
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Garden of Eden: The Shamanic Use of Psychoactive Flora and Fauna, and the Study of Consciousness
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSnu Voogelbreinder
[Melbourne]: Snu Voogelbreinder, 2009.First and only printed edition of the encyclopaedic magnum opus of Australian ethnobotanist Snu Voogelbreinder in which is explored “the vast world of psychoactive plants, animals and other organisms, and their uses in shamanism, spiritual exploration and healing. Encompassing scientific research, personal experience, ancient knowledge and esoteric philosophies, a multidisciplinary approach is taken, giving a wide view of the effects of natural substances on the mind, with an emphasis towards beneficial outcomes. Preliminary information is given regarding neurochemistry, drug-free consciousness alteration, and methods of use, from cultivation or wild-sourcing through to harvesting, processing, consumption, and navigation of the effects. Thousands of species from over 1700 genera are discussed, with over 440 genera covered in greater detail, including botanical and zoological descriptions. Also included are a detailed index of natural chemicals of particular interest, and a huge bibliography containing thousands of reference entries.” (rear cover) Initially published in a limited run of 500 copies, less were distributed due to printing errors. Only 2 copies held in institutions, at Purdue University and the National Library of Australia. This copy signed by Snu on the date of launch at the Australian psychedelic symposium EGA, 2009.
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Birth No. 3 Book 1 & 2: Stimulants: An Exhibition
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTuli Kupferberg
New York: Birth, 1960.1960s Greenwich Village two part literary zine on drugs. Poetic contributions on alcohol, marijuana, peyote, opium, tobacco, tea, coffee, and other stimulants. Texts by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and many others, edited by American poet and co-founder of The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010).
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Fallopian Tube Fallopianna & Madness (2 Volumes)
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGaby [Gabrielle Antolovich]
Sydney: Fallopian Tube Press, 1974.The first two (and likely only) publications of the Sydney lesbian feminist press Fallopian Tube, featuring feminist and lesbian poetry and texts. Gabrielle Antolovich was a prominent figure in Sydney’s gay liberation and feminist movements, an early member of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) who, with her then-partner Sue Wills, appeared on the ABC’s landmark Chequerboard documentary in 1972 as one of the first openly lesbian couples on Australian television. Antolovich resigned from CAMP’s executive in 1974, citing sexism within the organisation, the same year these publications appeared, amid a broader shift among lesbian activists toward autonomous feminist publishing. Fallopianna is one of 100 numbered first printing copies produced in April 1974. Madness is one of 200 numbered first printing copies produced in December of the same year. Contains an erotic text by pioneering Australian feminist artist Vivienne Binns, noted as ‘the piece that no other publication would print’, along with contributions by Kerryn Higgs, Kate Jennings, and others.
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R and R: A Flight Fare Story
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Babbs
: Ken Babbs, 1984.Self-published short story by Merry Prankster and psychedelic icon Ken Babbs, featuring Marine helicopter pilots Huckelbee and Cochran on R&R at a Japanese brothel, the Five Hundred Club. An early version of what would become, in heavily edited form, chapter 7 of Babbs’ 2011 Vietnam novel, Who Shot the Water Buffalo?. The novel originated from a manuscript Babbs began during his service as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam (1962-63) and took nearly fifty years to reach publication. The present pamphlet is the only known separate printing of any portion of that manuscript, preserving a pre-publication text substantially different from the finished novel. Inscribed by Babbs to counterculture collector and historian Rick Synchef. Unrecorded in OCLC.