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The Place of Love
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Shapiro
Melbourne: A Comment Publication, 1942.Love poems by the American poet published while stationed in Australia during WWII. “[B]anned by several Australian bookshops because of its explicit love poetry.” (Patricia Clarke, Literary Sidelights in Wartime Brisbane) CAINS 157. This copy from the collection of Australian artists Geoffrey and Dahl Collings, with their stamp, and with the bookseller’s label of Australian painter Carl Plate’s Notanda Gallery, Plate seemingly not ashamed in the slightest.
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The Cosmic Conspiracy
Read MoreStan Deyo
Perth: West Australian Texas Trading, 1981. -
All Her Labours: One, Working it Out
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWomen And Labour Publications Collective
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1984.Feminist perspectives on women’s paid and unpaid work in Australia.
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Black or White? A Coffee Lovers’ Quest
Read MoreRobert Swales
Maleny: Dreaming Fields Publications, 1999.A short story of some larrikin travellers from colonial Sydney to the Sunshine Coast mountains in 1799.
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Tripping Yarns
Read MoreMonty Webber
Angourie: Monty Webber, 2015.20 short stories by the Bukowski of Bondi. The true first printing, inscribed by the author.
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Illuminated Adventures
Read MoreFlloyd Davis; Skeeta Power; Mango Frangipanni; Nina Rae
Mullumbimby: Psychedlia Australis Publishing, 1998.1990s Northern New South Wales Australian psychedelic hippie poetry and art.
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The Boys Own Book of Debauchery
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Grosz; James Cockington
Sydney: Hutchinson, 1988.Captioned cartoons, text by Australian author James Cockington, illustrations by New Zealand cartoonist Chris Grosz.
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Artists and Sculptors Agree… that a lovely Bosom is Nature’s most appealing line
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHordern Brothers; Berlei
Sydney: Hordern Brothers, No date.Advertising flyer for Berlei brassieres by Sydney department store, Hordern Brothers, whose pitch is to let them show you the new woman you could be… Berlie is an Australian lingerie company, 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.”
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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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Semantography (Blissymbolics): A Logical Writing for an Illogical World
Read MoreC. K. Bliss
Sydney: Semantography (Blissymbolics) Publications, 1965.The ideographic writing system of Austro-Hungarian (current Ukraine) Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985). Jewish, Bliss conceived his Blissymbols while a refugee in Shanghai and Sydney with the goal of creating an easy to learn international auxiliary language. He migrated with his wife to Australia in 1946.
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The Cambridge Ancient History
Read MoreCambridge University Press
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Complete set of the second series. “Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies.” (publisher’s blurb) Vol. I Part 1 printed in 2006, all other volumes in 2007. Volume I Part I: Prolegomena and Prehistory; Part II: Early History of the Middle East; Vol. II Part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380; Part II: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000; Vol. III Part I: The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.; Part II: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C; Part III: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C; Vol. IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C.; Vol. V: The Fifth Century B.C.; Vol. VI The Fourth Century B.C.; Vol. VII, Part I: The Hellenistic World; Part II: The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C.; Vol. VIII: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C.; Vol. IX: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C.; Vol. X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69; Vol XI: The High Empire, A.D. 70-192; Vol. XII The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193-337; Vol. XIII: The Late Empire, A.D. 337-425; Vol. XIV: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425-600.
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Vice Versa or a Lesson to Fathers
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. Anstey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882.First edition, first printing of the comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie set in Victorian London in which a stern father and mischevious son body-swap via a magic stone from India.
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The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval Fragment
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeah Tether; Laura Chuhan Campbell; Benjamin Pohl
Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2021.Study of the seven Arthurian manuscript fragments of the Old French ‘Suit Vulgate du Merlin’ discovered in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library in 2019.
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Terra Straniera: The Story of the Italians in Ireland
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUna Power
Carlow: Nationalist and Leinster Times, 1988. -
Burnt Sugar
Read MoreF. E. Baume
Sydney: The Macquarie Head Press, 1938.A novel of the progress of a young Australian-born Italian in his efforts to be accepted by the “white” community in Northern Queensland and become a successful businessman. Jacket illustration by Dick Alderton.
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Arthur and Gorlagon: Versions of the Werewolf’s Tale
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. L. Kittredge
New York: Haskell House, 1966.Reprint of the offprint from the Harvard Studies and Notes in Philosophy and Literature, VIII (1903).
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The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature
Read MoreW. R. J. Barron
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001. -
The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature
Read MoreW. H. Jackson; S. A. Ranawake
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. -
The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature
Read MoreGlyn S. Burgess; Karen Pratt
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006. -
The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCorin F. V. Corley
London: The Modern Humanities Research Association, 1987.