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The Littlewood Press
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartKatherine N. Simitian
Stoke-on-Trent: The Lytlewode Press, 2007.Being a monograph dealing with the development of an Australian private press featuring eighty-nine etchings printed in the atelier of The Press. A short history of the Littlewood Press from 1996 to 2007 featuring original etchings printed at the Press editioned from its published works and commissioned artists including Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Derham Groves, Allan Jordan, Trish Hart, Tony Irving, Pro Hart, Andrew Sibley, Caitlin Littlewood, Robbie Harmsworth, Peter Jones, Marc Severin, and Leslie Tarrant. Bound in stingray, likely the first Australian publication using this skin, the natural white star of the skin forming a decorative emblem to the spine. The idea for this book originated in 1996 when the publisher undertook to print ten additional copies of every etching printed at the press with the intention of creating a history volume at a later date. A number of the etchings are ex libris bookplates. One of the finest Australian art publications, limited to just 10 copies, signed and numbered by the author and the publisher, 5 of which are housed in Australian institutions. This copy is number 10 and includes the original prospectus, The History of The Littlewood Press, featuring an additional Trish Hart etching and signed by the publisher, Robert Littlewood. Issued with 81 of the 89 listed etchings, and with 4 of the Pro Hart etchings supplied twice, making for a total of 85 etchings and photographic portrait of the publisher. The plates not included as per the checklist are: 10. Trish Hart: Nesting Gull; 34. Tony Irving: The Old Kiosk [Black]; 37. Tony Irving: Home Alone [Black]; 39. Tony Irving: Ramsen Place; 40. Tony Irving: Drewery Lane; 42. Tony Irving: Hosier Lane; 43. Tony Irving: Waratah Place; 44. Tony Irving: China Town. The four Pro Hart plates that are included in duplicate are: 45. Singers at the Southern Cross Hotel; 46. Miner’s Kids; 47. Yabbie Picnic; 48. Gethsemane. The plates not included do not appear to have been removed, but as in true Private Press fashion, the difference in actual issue to the stated intention differing as per the whim, requirement, or temperament of the publisher.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,000 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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A Portfolio by Howard Chaykin Illustrating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Chaykin
Denver: Middle Earth, 1977.Portfolio by American comic book artist Howard Chaykin, the first plate signed and numbered by him and with a COA signed by the publisher. Edition of 1,000 numbered copies.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity (30 Volumes)
AU$5,500 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Viner
London and Dublin: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Payment, E. and R. Brooke, T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and L. White, 1791-1806.Second Edition of Viner’s monumental digest of English law, together with the six volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity. (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). The work is alphabetically arranged under subject headings, with extensive notes and references throughout. This edition comprises the twenty-four-volume second edition of the General Abridgment and the complete six-volume supplement, issued over a period of fifteen years. The English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted much of his life to the compilation of this vast legal encyclopaedia, an undertaking ultimately derived from Rolle’s Abridgment but greatly expanded in scope. Drawing upon reported cases, manuscript authorities, statutes, and earlier legal compilations, it became one of the principal reference works of the common law tradition. J. G. Marvin described it as “the most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law”, nothing that Viner had “translated, abridged, remodelled” and incorporated material from the older abridgments and reports. A substantial and influential legal reference work, forming one of the foundations of eighteenth-century English legal scholarship.
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Blow Away the Morning Dew: An Autobiography of a Childhood in the Australian Bush
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Briggs
Brisbane: Ernest Briggs, 1967.The unpublished childhood memoir of Australian poet, broadcaster, and critic Ernest Briggs (1905-1967), prepared in Brisbane in 1967, the year of his death from myocardial infarction. The typescript offers a vivid first-hand account of early 20th-century life in rural New South Wales, particularly around Marsden Park and Riverstone, then bush settlements on Sydney’s north-western fringe. Laced with his verse and literary flourishes, Briggs recalls his early years in a cottage at Marsden Park, the death of his mother when he was three, and the following three years spent at the Ashfield Infants’ Home under the care of Matron Rebecca Marston. Returning home at six, a frail child excused from school by doctor’s order, he spent his days in his father’s bootmaking workshop at Riverstone or exploring the surrounding bush. Family reminiscences extend further back: his father’s recollections of childhood in Ballarat and Clunes, Victoria, and colonial family correspondence from the early to mid-nineteenth century, marking Briggs as a fifth-generation Australian. The memoir also recounts his reluctant return to schooling, the regular corporal punishment, and his growing sense of creative independence. Domestic scenes reveal the artistic atmosphere that shaped his imagination: “Once when a visitor had said, ‘Quite an art-showing you’ve got here, Charlie,’ my father walked around the room saying, ‘It comes of mixing with artists in my younger days … This is a Burket-Foster; here are a couple by the noted water-colourist Miss Allingham … this is by Uncle Tom Roberts, the first man in Australia to paint extensive oils…” Briggs also recalls excursions with his father into Sydney on public holidays, evocative tours of the city’s landmarks and recollections of its colonial past, as well as chance encounters with actress Nellie Stewart and, later, Dame Nellie Melba during his brief employment as a messenger-boy, moments that helped form his artistic sensibility. Other recollections include trips to Campbelltown, Windsor, Richmond, and Camperdown Cemetery, each described with a historian’s eye and a poet’s nostalgia. A richly detailed and intimate account of childhood, environment, and creative formation, this unpublished typescript provides valuable insight into Briggs’s literary development and into everyday colonial heritage in early twentieth-century New South Wales.
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French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartChristopher E. Forth; Bertrand Taithe
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.This copy inscribed by Christopher Forth
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Early Charts of New Zealand, 1542-1851
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Bromley Maling
Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1969.Maps detailing New Zealand from 1542 to 1851. Limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 238.
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John Rigby: Art and Life
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Millington; Mark Rigby
Sydney: Playright Publishing, 2003. -
Dreams
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartH. Tasman Lovell
Sydney: The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, 1923.The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy Monograph Series No. II. This copy with the ownership stamp of K. Thompson Matthews, interleaved with numerous blanks, copiously underlined and with some marginalia.
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Engineering The Outback: A History of the Western Queensland Consulting Engineers, George Bourne & Associates
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Forrest; Sheila Forrest
Barcaldine: George Bourne and Associates, 2006. -
Australasian Spartacist (No. 1 – 212, 1973-2011)
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartSpartacist League of Australia and New Zealand
Sydney and Melbourne: Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand, 1973-2011.A significant unbroken run of Australasian Spartacist: Organ of Revolutionary Marxism for the Rebirth of the Fourth International, from No. 1, 1973, through to No. 212, 1986. Nos. 1 through 5 were published as mimeographed copies (and here an original mimeograph of No. 3 together with 2 additional copies in facsimile, and with Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 5 supplied as facsimiles in triplicate and also including the B versions of Nos. 2 and 5), the rest (6-212) as original tabloid newsprint (except No. 125 and 136 supplied in facsimile). Also included is an original duplicate of No 143, and the original supplements for 7 June 1975, 2 July 1975, 24 June 1977, 1 February 1980, 8 September 1989 (2 copies), 2 September 1991, 2 June 1993, December 1999, and November 2001, and A Spartacist Pamphlet: For a Workers Republic of Australia, Part of a Socialist Asia! (Sydney: Spartacist ANZ Publishing Co., 1998). In total Australasian Spartacist ran until No 240, 2020, and in 2024 has re-emerged as Red Battler: Newspaper of the Spartacist League of Australia with 1 issue published to date.
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Cannabinoids as Therapeutic Agents
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartRaphael Mechoulam
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1986.A summary of past and present therapeutic uses and research of cannabis sativa. Contributors include Paul Consroe, Stuart R. Snider, Martin W. Adler, Ellen B. Geller, Martin Levitt, Robert A. Archer, Paul Stark, Louis Lemberger, Mark Segal, M. Ross Johnson, Lawrence S. Melvin, and James D. P. Graham. 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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(not only) Blue (Complete Set, 67 Volumes)
AU$2,200 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1995-2007.A complete set of Australian gay men’s magazine, (not only) Blue, from issue 00 to 66 (67 total). Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, publishers of the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden, and countless others.
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Behold !!! The Protong
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Szukalski
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2000.Introduction by Robert Williams. Edited by Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve.
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Belfast Punk: Warzone Centre, 1997 – 2003 (Deluxe Edition)
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartRicky Adam
Bologna: Damiani Editore, 2017.The deluxe edition, limited to 15 copies, with an original signed and numbered photograph by Ricky Adam. “The Warzone Collective began in 1984 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and find their own venue, practice, and social space. In 1986, the Collective opened Giros, its first premises in Belfast, which contained a vegetarian cafe, practice space, and screen printing facilities. It soon became a focal point for anarchists and punks. In 1991 the Collective moved Giros to a larger and more ambitious venue, the spot where all of the photographs in this book were taken. Over the years, thousands of people passed through Giros’ doors. A strong D.I.Y. ethic defined the way gigs and events were organized. It didn’t have an alcohol license, and it was an all ages venue. The Warzone Centre, or The Centre as it was called by some, became the countercultural hub for the greater Belfast area and beyond. Bands from all over the world played there, and it was famous for being one of the best in Europe for D.I.Y. punk. The photographs in this book were taken between 1997 and 2003. Toward the end of 2003, the Centre closed, leaving a huge gap in radical Belfast culture. It reopened in 2011, in a different venue on the opposite side of town and is still going strong today.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; Irene Gammel; Suzanne Zelazo
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. The first major published poetry collection of German-born artist and poet, active in New York from 1913 to 1923.
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Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert A. F. Thurman
New York: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies, 2010.(Rim Ing rab tu gsal ba ‘i sgron me) Practical Instruction in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Khapa Losang Drakpa. Introduction and Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman. Edited by Thomas F. Yarnall. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series. Tengyur Translation Initiative. Jey Yabsey Sungbum Collection.
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Tristan and Isolt: A Study of the Sources of the Romance (2 Volumes)
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartGertrude Schoepperle Loomis
New York: Burt Franklin, 1963.