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Exploration Eastwards, 1860 – 1869
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge; Kim Epton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “Contains some 30 expeditions including Lefroy and CC Hunt with appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott. Biographical notes on all known expedition members. Resolves the problems of the ‘convicts gold’ and Hunt’s unknown convict helpers.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Australind Letters of Marshall Waller Clifton, Chief Commissioner for the Western Australian Company
AU$95 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. R. Cameron; P. A. Barnes; Marshall Waller Clifton
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Western Australian Exploration, 1836-1845
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Hercock; Sheryl Milentis; Phil Bianchi
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia: The Letters, Reports & Journals of Exploration and Discovery in Australia. “During the years 1836-1845, the settlements of Albany, Perth, Fremantle and York expanded as immigrants arrived in search of new pastures and other resources. The search for resources, the development of roads between remote settlements, and scientific enquiry provided the impetus for further exploration and discovery in Western Australia in that period. One hundred reports of expeditions of exploration in colonial Western Australia have been annotated, summarised and indexed in Western Australian Exploration 1936-1845. The reports are complemented by expert analyses of native plant species, native animal species and the relations between Aboriginal people and the explorers. This volume in the Western Australian Exploration Diaries series is the companion to Western Australian Exploration Volume 1 1826-1835 and Evidences of an Inland Sea.” (from jacket)
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Western Australian Exploration Volume One, December 1826 – December 1835
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartJoanne Shoobert
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia: The Letters, Reports & Journals of Exploration and Discovery in Australia. “Western Australian Exploration Volume One, 1826-1835 is the annotated record of all the known extant documents of Western Australian land exploration for the period. This seminal collection of 130 items, many of which have never before been publicly accessible, is a unique view of Western Australia as it was found by the explorers. It is a fundamental source of importance to all Australians who have an interest in our origins.” (from jacket)
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The Western Australian Explorations of John Septimus Roe, 1829-1849
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Hercock
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2014.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “The landscapes and waters, the aboriginal people and their place names, as well as the plants and animals of south-western Australia, were all noted by John Septimus Roe. Naval officer, hydrogrpaher, explorer, founding Surveyor General, settler and father, Roe helped make Western Australia what it is today, while leaving a record of what it was at first contact by European settlers. Roe’s expedition reports, field notes and maps have been annotated, summaries and indexed in The Western Australian Explorations of John Septimus Rose 1829-1849. The reports are complemented by expert analyses of native plant species, native animal species, and navigation and surveying. This volume in the Western Australian Exploration series is a companion to Western Australian Exploration Volume 1 1826-1835 and Western Australian Exploration 1836-1845.” (from jacket)
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Woodlines of Western Australia: A Comprehensive History of the Goldfields Woodlines
AU$90 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Bianchi
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“Without a source of cheap energy to fuel steam boilers and for ore treatment, only the Western Australian mines with rich ore would have been productive. Firewood companies established privately owned train lines up to 120 miles out from major centres such as Kalgoorlie to bring in firewood. Although the Kurrawang and Lakewood woodlines are the main feature of this book; other woodlines included Lakeside south of Boulder, Kurramia/Kanowna, Cue, Laverton, Gwalia and Westonia. Firewood cutters, carters and loaders from war torn Europe, came to Australia seeking a better life; they lived in hessian walled basic camps with earthen floors and a tin roof. The book features 22 first-hand accounts of the hardships faced by woodliners working, living and growing up on the woodlines. Many a wife and family joining the husband after a few years were shocked at the conditions; suffering flies, heat, cold, loneliness, maggots in meat and poor quality drinking water. Between 1900 and 1964 a total of 21.6 million tons of firewood had been cut; during 1912-16 average production was 650,000 tons per year. By the time the firewood companies ceased operations they had clear-felled a staggering 3.04 million hectares of goldfields woodlands; almost half the area of Tasmania. Other woodline topics discussed include: racism, riots, internment, exploitation and bribery, shanties, sports days, strikes and deaths and accidents.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Pamphlets Dealing with Western Australia Issued Since its Discovery in 1616
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis G. Steere
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.“This important and interesting bibliography, compiled by the then Parliamentary Librarian, contains many references no longer easily accessible through the library catalogues due to the iniquitous policy of not indexing journal articles. An essential reference for bibliophiles, librarians and historians.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Around the Goldfields: A Study of Possibilities and Dreams
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2019.An Overview of the Goldfields During the Great Depression.
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Gold Fields Maps of the Early 1900s
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartWA Mines Department
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.A reprint of the rare booklets of WA goldfields maps, ‘The State of Western Australia Shewing Goldfields & Mining Centres published by the Department of Mines, W.A.’, supplied to the early prospectors. Essential for goldfields historians and modern prospectors.
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Photographs from the Frontier: Kimberley, 1910-1911
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartKim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017.Taken by the first Swedish scientific expedition to Australia from prints held by the National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden. Organised and arranged by Kim Akerman.
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Western Australian Ethnographic Papers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Dugald Campbell; Peter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.“W. D. Campbell, an English geologist working in New Zealand and Australia undertook pioneering ethnographic work in the Eastern Goldfields, North West and Murchison. This collection is of rare and difficult to obtain papers that are little known to those interested in such material. The items on churingas and phallic objects are sure to ‘raise’ an interest in those so oriented.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Aboriginal Perth and Bibbulmun Biographies and Legends
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartDaisy Bates; P. J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1992.“A collection of her writings on the now-extinct Aboriginals of the Perth and South West areas of Western Australia. Customs, beliefs, biographies and more.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Wilgie Mia: Cave of Red Ochre and Raddled Ranters
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“A history of the discovery of the cave, early mining, and the industry that grew around it. Also an examination of the Wadgela myths of the sacred cave, which are less believable than those of the Aboriginal dreamtime. Wishful thinking guides government policy resulting in closure and restriction as the home for a red elephant.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cologne to the Kimberley: Studies of Aboriginal Life in Northwest Australia by Five German Scholars in the First Half of the 20th Century
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret Pawsey; Kim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.18 translated papers by Jos. Bischofs, Ernest Worms, Helmut Petri, A. S. Schulz, and Gisela Odermann.
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Triumphs and Tragedies: Oombulgurri, An Australian Aboriginal Community
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartNeville Green
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.“Oombulgurri emerged from the remnants of Forrest River Mission to become one of the first independent Indigenous communities in Australia. During its 97 years its people have participated in events that captured national headlines; the search for the Southern Cross, the rescue of the crew of a German seaplane, reports of a massacre that sparked a Royal Commission, their service as guides to an elite military force preparing for the anticipated Japanese invasion of Australia and, in recent years, the community’s decline into poverty, depression and suicide. Sixty percent of the school children of 1967 are now dead. The missionaries and most of those they served are gone and so too is the lifestyle of that not so distant past, but in these pages we discover how church and government policies and failures shaped the present and the small achievements of Aboriginal people are soon lost in yet another wave of policies and practices that are presumed to be good for ‘them’. Neville Green is a Western Australian author specialising in Aboriginal history and between 1967, when he was a government teacher at Forrest River Mission, and 2006, he interviewed and corresponded with many people linked to the community to discover the heart and soul of Oombulgurri. Triumphs and Tragedies, his tenth book, is a story of lost innocence in a remote Australian community set amidst the raw beauty of the Kimberley.” (publisher’s blurb)
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On the Aborigines of Australia
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartAugustus Oldfield
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.“Oldfield was a botanical collector with a great interest in Aboriginals. This 1864 work with an extensive introduction by M.Helen Henderson is virtually unknown to anthropologists and is not known in most libraries. It describes the natives of the Port Gregory area at the mouth of the Murchison River in a detail that few others aspired to until the 1890s. Graphic descriptions of customs and incidents of life (and death).” (publisher’s blurb) Originally published in the Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 3, 1865, pp. 215-298, here published for the first time with a lengthy introduction in a limited casebound edition of 250 numbered copies. This copy out of sequence.
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Aboriginal Australian and Tasmanian Rock Carvings and Paintings with a Preliminary Consideration of Aboriginal Australian Decorative Art
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.Originally published in 1937 and 1937 in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. “Davidson was the most important ethnographer of his time and his reputation for the quality and quantity of work produced is unmatched. In 1937 F.D. McCarthy described the 1936 volume as “the first monograph of aboriginal rock carvings and paintings”. All subsequent students of Aboriginal Art owe a debt to Davidson’s work. Not only do the volumes extensively cover the rock engravings and paintings but discuss in detail techniques and styles of decoration, on weapons, baskets and containers, pearl shells, baobab nuts, tree carvings, grave posts, bullroarers, churingas, waningas and many others objects. The symbolism and distribution of design elements and originating areas are also discussed. This is an essential volume for anyone with an interest, scientific, aesthetic, or commercial, in Aboriginal art and artifacts.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Among Wild Animals and People in Australia
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2012.Originally published in Swedish in 1915 as ‘Bland vilda djur och folk i Australien’. Here translated into English for the first time by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman. “From October 1910 to August 1911 biologist Erik Mjoberg and his seven man Swedish team travelled by bullock wagon through the West Kimberley collecting invertebrates, birds, mammals, and ethnographic research material. Their ten month journey took them from Derby, along the Fitzroy River upstream to Mount Anderson Station. Some members then went on to Noonkanbah, the St George Ranges and Fitzroy Crossing, while others went south to Mowla Bluff. After the return to Derby two members went to Sunday Island and then followed the stock route across the Leopold Ranges to Mount Barnett. Extensive collections were also made around Derby and Meda Station. Finally the expedition re-convened in Broome where side trips included a coastal trip by pearling lugger collecting marine specimens and another trip to Beagle Bay, collecting birds. Eric MjöbergÂ’s idiosyncratic text remained in the Swedish language until this long-awaited English translation. Now, for the first time, this unique perspective on biota and people is brought to a new generation of readers with an interest in Kimberley history and geography.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
AU$135 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.Published in Swedish in 1918 as ‘Bland Stenaldersmanniskor i Queensland’s Vildmarker’, and now available for the first time in English translated by S. M. Fryer and edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritche. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg’s North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. 31 plates. 226 captioned figures and 2 maps, showing rarely seen photographs of North Queensland Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
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Aboriginal Ethnographica
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.Reproduces the majority of DavidsonÂ’s Australian ethnographic papers from 1933 to 1953 in facsimile. Topics covered include Aboriginal Axes, Spears, Clubs, Canoes, Baskets, Boomerangs, Petroglyphs, Key Designs, Waningas, Churingas, Fire, Footwear and Death.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Bad
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Robertson
Sydney: Blue Books / Studio Magazines, 2004.A special issue of Blue focussing on leather and SM. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published 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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Lads
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Robertson
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BelAmi’s Secret Eye
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobo Melo
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2013.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Shiriaitai: Eriko Sato
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartNishida Koki
Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2016.Glamour / soft erotica photobook of Japanese actress Eriko Sato.
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Warning: Noriko Tachikawa
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartHajime Sawatari
Tokyo: Wanibukkusu, 1999.Glamour / soft erotica photobook of 1990s Japanese actress Noriko Tachikawa.
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Our Girls: Aussie Pin-ups of the 40s and 50s
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMadeleine Hamilton
Melbourne: Arcade Publications, 2009.The art of the pin-up and personal stories of the ladies who graced the pages of Pix, Man, and other Australian men’s magazines of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Dreamboys 4: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2003.The fourth instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 50 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published 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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Dreamboys Volume III: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2002].The third instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 46 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published 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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Dreamboys Volume 2: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2001].The second instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 66 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published 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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Dreamboys: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2000.The first instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published 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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MAX. Photographs by Max Vadukul
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Vadukul
New York: Callaway, 2000.Large format fashion photobook.
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Les Passagers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartChristophe Bourguedieu
Cherbourg-Octeville: Point du Jour, 2007.Photobook by French photographer Christophe Bourguedieu taken in Perth and regional Western Australia between 2004 and 2006.
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Portrait of a Revolution
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBohdan Warchomij
: backpackbook, 2006.Photobook of the 2004 political protests in Ukraine. With an introduction by Australian photojournalist, David Dare Parker. This copy inscribed by the photographer.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page.
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Postcards From Home, 2008-2011
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartSam Harris
: Sam Harris, 2011.Self published photobook of a forest community in Western Australia by English photographer Sam Harris, limited to 50 signed and numbered copies. Winner of the Australian Photobook of the Year 2011. This copy also inscribed by Harris to the endpaper, and with a lengthy manuscript note on the verso of a print laid in.
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Iranian Living Room
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Bossan
Treviso: Fabrica, 2013.Photobook showing the intimate world of private living rooms in Iranian homes. “The living room is a place where you can feel free, a space where you are not subjected to perennial observation or the control of others and are beyond judgement: a place where you are free to be yourself and not obliged to act out a role imposed on you by other people and society.” (from preface). Photographs by Mohammad Mahdi Amya, Majid Farahani, Saina Golzar, Sanaz Hajikhani, Hamed Ilkhan, Ali Kaveh, Mashid Mahboubifar, Mehdi Moradpour, Sahar Pishsaraeian, Negar Sadehvandi, Hashem Shakeri, Sina Shiri, Morteza Soorani, Nazanin Tabatabaei Yazdi, and Ali Tajik. Edited by Enrico Bossan.
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Line Zero: Photo-Reportage, 1958-2003
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Williams
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004.Retrospective monograph of Australian photographer John Frank Williams (1933-2016). This copy inscribed by Williams.
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Dead Light
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartOlivier Pin-Fat
: Editions Bessard, 2014.Zine Collection No. 16. One of 300 copies, numbered out of 250, this copy marked AP, with a signed tipped-in photographic print.
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Buzzing at the Sill
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter van Agtmael
Heidelberg and Berlin: Kehrer, 2016.Photobook by Magnum Photos photographer Peter van Agtmael on returning to America after years abroad covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Decisive Moment: Photography by Henri Cartier Bresson
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Cartier Bresson
Gottingen: Steidl, 2014.The 2014 Steidl reissue of Bresson’s classic 1952 photobook. Includes the 32 pages supplementary booklet.
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Lago
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartRon Jude
[London]: MACK, 2015.Photo book of the California desert.
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John Cowan: Through the Light Barrier
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Cowan; Philippe Garner
London: Shirmer / Mosel, 1999.Monograph of John Cowan’s fashion photography of England in the early 1960s.
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Hijacked Volume One: Australia and America
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMark McPherson; Max Pam
Perth: Big City Press, 2008.Anthology of young Australian and American photographers edited by Mark McPherson and Max Pam. This copy inscribed by Max Pam to the publisher of his later books, Atlas Monographs and Narcolepsy, Gianni Frinzi.
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An Ingenious Reverie: The Photography of Yip Cheong Fun
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartBridget Tracy Tran; Yip Cheong Fun
Singapore: National Library Board, 2006.Posthumous retrospective monograph on the Singaporean photographer.
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Eikoh Hosoe : Meta
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Curatorial Assistance, Inc., 1991.Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe (1933-2024), including many of butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi from the Kamaitachi series, and others of his avant garde circle. This copy inscribed by Hosoe.
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1241/2004
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartYuko Shindo
[Fukuoka]: Shindo Yuko Studio Inc, 2004.Photo book of the 2004 Hakata Gion Yamakasa by local Japanese photographer Shindo Yuko. This copy signed by the photographer.
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Traces: Dark Clouds
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartIan Teh
Great Britain: Deep Sleep Editions, 2011.Photobook of industrial China. This copy inscribed the photographer.
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YellowKorner Portfolio 3: Xabi Etcheverry
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartXabi Etcheverry
: YellowKorner, 2011.Photobook of works by Xabi Etcheverry from his years in Japan.
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Refocus: Dragon 2010-2011
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartWang Chuan
Beijing: Pekin Fine Arts, 2011.“Published on the occasion of Wang Chuan’s second solo exhibition ‘Refocus: Dragon’ at Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, April to May 2011. This exhibition is also part of Caochangdi Photospring 2011. Wang takes a contrarian approach to digital photography by enlarging the pixels and making them obvious to the viewer in order to draw attention to overlooked details of Beijing’s landscape. ‘In Refocus: Dragon, Wang demonstrates a simple enough premise: The dragon is still everywhere in Beijing; its portrait shows up in the oddest and most unexpected places.[…] Wang’s works implicitly question how these dragon legends play out on a contemporary stage. Wang shows us, using his impressionistic pixels, a variety of places where he recently “discovered” dragons still alive and kicking, lodged deeply in the psyche of local people around Beijing.’ (from foreword by Meg Maggio) Includes an essay by Gu Zheng and artist statement by Wang Chuan. Artist biography and list of works provided. Chinese text is printed in a separate booklet attached.” (publisher’s blurb). This copy inscribed by the photographer.
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Of Those Alone
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Hutton
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1958.The pseudonymous autobiography of Horace Charles Forbes Cheston, published under the name Robert Hutton shortly after the release of the Wolfenden Report. Written at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised and taboo, Of Those Alone offers an unusually candid account of Cheston’s sexual and emotional life. Moving between Paris, California, New York, and the South of France before returning to England, he recounts his affairs, his ill-fated marriage to an American woman, and his descent into alcoholism, concluding with redemption through Alcoholics Anonymous, an organisation he later helped to establish in Britain. One of the earliest openly homosexual autobiographies of the postwar period, it precedes the more widely known works of the 1960s gay liberation era and is quite likely the first memoir of a gay alcoholic writer.
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Romance
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartYao Jui-Chung
Taipei: Garden City Publishing, 2010.Monograph published to accompany the solo exhibition of Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-Chung. One of 500 signed and numbered copies.
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Human Negotiations
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartKatharina Hesse; Lara Day
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2011.Photo book of Bangkok female and transsexual sex workers. Photography by Katharina Hesse with text based on interviews by Lara Day. This copy signed by Hesse.
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Old Women
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartFrantisek Halas; Ivan Ruzicka; Robert E. Marx
New York: Vestal, 1966.Old Women by Frantisek Halas, written in Czech, was first published in 1935, and here translated into English by Ivan Rizicka with etchings by Robert Marx. One of 25 signed and numbered copies printed in colour (a further 20 numbered copies in black and white also produced).
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Public Fitting
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRonald M. Berndt
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. -
Language and Society: Anthropological Issues
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam C. McCormack; Stephen A. Wurm
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
Approaches to Language: Anthropological Issues
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam C. McCormack; Stephen A. Wurm
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978. -
Concepts for Communication and Development in Bilingual-Bicultural Communities
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartFlorencio Sanchez Camara; Felipe Ayala
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
The Performing Arts: Music and Dance
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn A. R. Blacking; Joann Keali’inohomoku
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
The Fabrics of Culture: The Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJustine M. Cordwell; Ronald A. Schwarz
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
Scientific Expeditions in the Portuguese Overseas Territories (1783-1808)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Joel Simon
Lisboa: Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, 1983.and the Role of Lisbon in the Intellectual-Scientific Community of the late Eighteenth Century.
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Life in Southern Nigeria: The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Amaury Talbot
London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. -
From the Womb of Earth: An Appreciation of Yoruba Bronze Art
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartEvelyn Roache-Selk
Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1978. -
Ashanti Proverbs (The Primitive Ethics of a Savage People)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Sutherland Rattray
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1916.Translated from the Original with Grammatical and Anthropological Notes by R. Sutherland Rattray. With a Preface by Sir Hugh Clifford. This copy signed by the author to the front free endpaper.
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The Wit and Wisdom of the Christian Fathers of Egypt
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest A. Wallis Budge
London: Oxford University Press, 1934.The Syrian Version of the Apophthegmata Patrum by Anan Isho of Beth ‘Abhe translated by Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
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Through Eastern Lands
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartA. M. Snadden
Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1904.Travel account from the UK to Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine, including Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, and more, before returning through Italy. This copy signed “With the author’s regards” to the front free endpaper, and with the bookplate of tribal art dealer Philip Goldman.
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The Indo-Aryan Languages
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCollin P. Masica
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. -
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: 2. Collections in Pakistan
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartSayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah; Asko Parpola
Helsinki: Soumalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991. -
Krishna: The Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Isacco
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. -
The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartVerrier Elwin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. -
Himalayan Anthropology
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJames F. Fisher
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978. -
Catalogue of the Himalayan Literature
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartYoshi Yakushi
Tokyo: Hakusuisha Publishign Co., 1984.The standard bibliography for works on the Himalayas.
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Nepal (2 Volumes)
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPerceval Landon
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1993. -
Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Hitchcock; Rex L. Jones
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1976. -
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[Bhutan and Tibet]: An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Turner
New Delhi: Manjusri Publishing House, 1971.Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet by Captain Samuel Turner. Cover title: Bhutan and Tibet. The first facsimile edition after the 1800 London Edition, one of the 900 standard copies from a total edition of 1,000 numbered copies. Bibliotheca Himalayica. Series I, Volume 4.
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Records of Tho.ling: A Literary and Visual Reconstruction of the Mother Monastery in Gu.ge
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberto Vitali
Dharamsala: High Asia, 1999. -
Tibetan Pilgrimage
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert B. Ekvall; James F. Downs
Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Language and Cultures of Asia & Africa, 1987.With an appreciation by James F. Downs and Shigeru Iijima.
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The Yar-Lun Dynasty
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartErik Haarh
Kobenhavn: G. E. C. Gad’s Forlag, 1969.A study with particular regard to the contribution by myths and legends to the history of Ancient Tibet and the origin and nature of its kings.
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Lao Textiles: Ancient Symbols – Living Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Cheesman
Bangkok: White Lotus Co., 1988. -
An Analysis of the Decorative Motifs of Some Philippine Cultural Minorities
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPhilippine College of Arts and Trades Design Center
Manila: Philippine College of Arts and Trades, 1973. -
Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Texts and Textiles
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartS. A. Niessen
Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1985. -
Akono’anga Maori / Cook Islands Culture
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRon Crocombe; Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe
Suva and Rarotonga: Institute of Pacific Studies, 2003. -
Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922-39
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartF. E. Williams; Michael W. Young; Julia Clark
Adelaide: Crawford House, 2001. -
Aida: Life and Ceremony of the Gogodala
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartA. L. Crawford
Bathurst: Robert Brown and Associates in association with The National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea, 1981. -
Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartW. O. Oldman
London: W. O. Oldman, 1976.Limited Edition Facsimile of 130 catalogues of British ethnographic dealer William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949). One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy with the bookplate of tribal art dealer Philip Goldman.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Bangkok: SDI Publications, 1996.Originally published as An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of Natives of the Pacific Islands. Second Edition expanded and edited by Bruce L. Miller with additional maps and portraits of Pacific Island natives. One of 999 unnumbered copies.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Third Series: An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands.
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Manchester: Lithographed by Palmer Howe & Co., 1898.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. One of 175 numbered copies initialed by Edge-Partington and Heape. This copy with the 7 leaves of additional notes for all 3 parts.
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Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Schuster; Edmund Carpenter; Lorraine Spiess.
New York: Rock Foundation, 1986-88.Based on the Researches & Writings of Carl Schuster. Edited & Written by Edmund Carpenter. Assisted by Lorraine Spiess. A cornerstone of comparative anthropology, mythology, and art history. This monumental work draws on the vast ethnographic record assembled by American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969). Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished. Carpenter spent nearly two decades editing Schuster’s archive into this twelve-volume synthesis. The result is an epic survey of visual and mythic patterns: from Paleolithic Europe to the tribal societies of Oceania, the Americas, and Africa. Issued privately in a very small edition distributed directly to museums and researchers Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism is likely the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of traditional symbolism ever published.
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Oiran
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartTetsuji Takechi
Tokyo: Tokyo Academy of Arts, 1983.First edition photobook issued to accompany Takechi Tetsuji’s controversial late-career film Oiran, “A mixture of romance and sex combined with surrealistic horror elements.” The story is loosely based on the work of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki in which a 19th century Japanese prostitute moves to America and her dead lover manifests as a mole on her leg. Takechi was a prominent critic and kabuki director before moving into directing films in the 1960s. His 1964 feature Hakujitsumu is regarded as the first big budget pink film (Japanese movies with nudity or sexual content), and also the first Japanese production subjected to systematic fogging censorship. The following year, Black Snow (1965), led to his arrest on indecency charges, a landmark case he ultimately won, significantly reshaping Japanese film censorship and opening the way for the flourishing of the pink eiga genre through the late 1960s and 1970s. After a decade-long hiatus from cinema, Takechi returned with a more explicit remake of Hakujitsumu before directing Oiran in 1983. The film again brought him into conflict with the censors whom “edited and fogged in 98 different places, altering the film from a near-hardcore opus to a very soft costume drama.” Takechi promoted the film by proclaiming it featured “the first multicoloured penis in Japanese cinema.” The present photobook, issued uncensored, retains many of the film’s erotic stills and remains an important visual record of Takechi’s work. As usual for the period, explicit male nudity is absent. References: WEISSER: The Sex Films: Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia.
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The Customized Body
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartHousk Randall; Ted Polhemus
London: Serpent’s Tail, 2000. -
Perry: A Transformed Transexual
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartPerry Desmond; R. L. Hymers
Ironton: Metamorphis Books, 1978.First edition, first printing, of the self-told story of Perry Desmond (1936-1984), who worked as a male prostitute before opening an occult shop, transitioning, finding God, and detransitioning. This copy inscribed by Perry to the front flyleaf with another religious gift inscription to the same owner below.
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Feelings: A Transsexual’s Explanation of a Baffling Condition
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartStephanie Castle
Vancouver: Perceptions Press, 1992.A personal introduction to the subject by Canadian trans activist and founder of the Zenith Foundation Stephanie Castle (1925-2017).
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II: Updated Second Edition
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene.
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Chains
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1994.One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse by Nicholas Rowe
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cart[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]; Nicholas Rowe
London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753.English translation of the Latin epic by the Roman poet Lucan, on the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
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Cressida Campbell: 9 July to 3 August, 2013
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCressida Campbell
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries, 2013.Exhibition catalogue with price list laid in.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Liddell
Dubbo: Rodney Liddell, 1991.The self published first edition telling the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, without many of the controversial chapters of the later editions. This copy inscribed by the author to Margaret Lawrie, collector of stories and mythologies of the Torres Strait, also with a 1996 postcard from the author addressed to Lawrie laid in.
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The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (2 Volumes)
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Horton
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994.