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The Laws of Piquet
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCavendish
London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., 1873.The Laws of Piquet edited by Cavendish and adopted by The Portland Club with A Treatise on the Game by Cavendish. Guide to one of the oldest card games still being played today.
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Westminster School: Past and Present
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartFrederic H. Forshall
London: Wyman & Sons, 1884.A history of the Westminster School in London, though also a recording of its past customs and a lengthy biographical recording of headmasters and numerous distinguished students, and personal reminiscences. Frederic H. Forshall was a Queen’s Scholar at Westminster and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but left after a year, moving to Sydney. He was part of the first cohort at The University of Sydney in 1852, and while still a student was appointed the University Librarian. In 1853 he was the first prizewinner for Greek verse composition which are printed here (pp. 358-360). Plates illustrating various interiors, Westminster beating Eton at rowing in 1845, and others.
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Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class, For Artists and Students including Anthropometry and Anatomy (2 Volumes)
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington
London: John S. Barrington, 1970.John S. Barrington (1920-1991) was a prolific 20th century British physique photographer. Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century. Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class is one of his scarcest works, unrecorded in public collections, and with a stated limited edition of 100 copies (though this could be Barrington’s marketing at work). It combines his photography and visual art with detailed instruction in the art of the measurements and proportions of the male body, and features numerous photographs and drawings of many of his favourite models, who were also his lovers or unrequited lusts. A prospectus at the end of volume two alludes to a third and fourth volume to be published and available only to subscribers of the first two volumes, though no record can be found of them ever having been published.
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The Dansant at the Cafe Royal, London, 1971 [Programme]
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDerek Roe; Margot Macrae; Cecil Beaton; Hettie Jacques
Paris and London: Nina Ricci, 1971.Programme for The Dansant ’71 insired by L’Air du Temps by Nina Ricci, created by Derek Roe. Texts by Margot Macrae and Cecil Beaton. The occasion presented fifty years of fashion from the Cecil Beaton Collection. The programme consists primarily of British advertisements, highlights include an advert for Valium Roche. This copy signed by English actress Hettie Jacques (1922-1980) to the front cover. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Pleasure of the Gaze: Image and Appearance in Recent Australian Art
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce Adams
Perth: The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985.Exhibition catalogue. Full list of artists: Julie Brown-Rrap, Peter Callas, Richard Dunn, Merilyn Fairskye, Marinka Kordis, Maria Kozic, Lindy Lee, John Lethbridge, Akio Makigawa, Sue Paull, Stieg Persson, Robert Randall, Frank Bendinelli, Carol Rudyard, Peter Tyndall, Vicki Varvaressos, and John R. Walker. Essays by Adrian Martin, Eaghan Morris, and Peter Callas. Curated by Bruce Adams.
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Never Love a Stranger
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartHarold Robbins
London: Robert Hale, 1958.The second UK printing, in the dustwrapper, of Harold Robbins first novel, a tale of crime and gangsters in New York. Published the same year as the film release starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray.
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1987 Field Conference: Gympie District
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartC. G. Murray; J. B. Waterhouse
Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, 1987. -
Fish Oregon Waters, Drive Oregon Highways
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartTravel and Information Department of the Oregon State Highway Commission
Salem: Travel and Information Department of the Oregon State Highway Commission, No date.1930s fishing travel guide to Oregon.
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Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartNoah Riseman
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023.“The first book on Australian trans history exploring the lives and impacts of trans and gender-diverse Australians. Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they’ve lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, worked on the streets or run for parliament. But over the last century there have been remarkable changes in how they have identified and expressed themselves. Transgender Australia is the first book to chart the changing social, medical, legal and lived experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia since 1910. Drawing on over a hundred oral history interviews and previously unexamined documents and media reports, it highlights how trans people have tried to live authentically while navigating a society that often treated them like outcasts.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Mistress and the Slave: A Masochist Realistic Love Story
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartDelectus Books
London: Delectus Books, 1995.Facsimile of edition originally published Erotika Biblion Society, Athens, 1905. Translated from French.
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Modern Slaves: A Profound Study of the Forces of Destiny
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartClaire Willows
London: Delectus Books, 1995. -
Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartEric C. Dahlberg
New York: Springer, 1995. -
Escape to Elysium
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartL. J. J. Nye
Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1972.Australian utopian literature by Queensland doctor Leslie John Jarvis Nye (1896-1976). This copy inscribed by Nye.
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The Inseparables
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Braddon
London: Michael Joseph, 1968.A German medical student’s Christmas day pilgrimage to Dachau on LSD.
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The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJudith Noble; Tilly Craig; Victoria Ferentinou
Lopen: Fulgur Press, 2023.“Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until recent years. This volume is the first critical examination of her diverse legacy, compiling papers from a 2018 conference on Colquhoun and her contemporaries Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Stella Snead. Colquhoun occupies a unique place within the lineage of occult Surrealist painters such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, as her presence in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Milk of Dreams demonstrated.Contributors explore themes of authorship and agency, ColquhounÂ’s drawing practice, her Celtic motifs, British Surrealism and alchemy.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartCraig Seligman
Sydney: Hachette, 2023.“An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish. In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that welcomes and even celebrates queer people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’s short but overstuffed life as a way to provide some answers. There were effectively three Dorises – the quiet visual artist, the glorious drag queen, and the hunky male prostitute who supported the other two. He started performing in Sydney in 1972 as a member of Sylvia and the Synthetics, a psycho troupe that represented the first anarchic flowering of queer creative energy in the post-Stonewall era. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-70s, he became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash – which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire’s deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it. Seligman recounts this dynamic period in queer history – from Stonewall to AIDS – giving insight into how our ideas about gender have broadened to make drag the phenomenon we know it as today. In a book filled with interviews and letters about a life that ricocheted between hilarity and tragedy, he revisits the places and people Doris knew in order to shed light on the multi-hued era that his remarkable life encapsulated.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Myth of the Wrong Body
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartMiquel Misse
Cambridge: Polity, 2022.“The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body — that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Misse, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical intervention – to the use of hormones and surgical operations. By proposing a particular solution (modifying oneÂ’s body), doctors and psychiatrists make it difficult for trans people to overcome malaise about their body in other ways and prevent them from recognizing the burden of social norms. Drawing on his own personal experience, Misse makes the case for a different way of thinking about trans embodiment which focuses on gender identity. The trajectory that leads people to become trans is shaped by the rigidity of gender norms, where the only two models available to individuals are the masculine man and the feminine woman. But these are not the only possible choices, and by critically interrogating the rigidity of gender norms, Misse opens up a different way of thinking about being trans, beyond the essentialism of the medical paradigm.” (publisher’s blurb) Translated from Spanish by Frances Riddle.
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LGBTQ Social Movements
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartLisa M. Stulberg
Cambridge: Polity, 2018.“In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the US, illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-twentieth century. Covering a range of topics, including the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation, AIDS politics, queer activism, marriage equality fights, youth action, and bisexual and transgender justice, Lisa M. Stulberg explores how marginalized people and communities have used a wide range of political and cultural tools to demand and create change. The five key themes that guide the book are assimilationism and liberationism as complex strategies for equality, the limits and possibilities of legal change, the role of art and popular culture in social change, the interconnectedness of social movements, and the role of privilege in movement organizing. This book is an important tool for understanding current LGBTQ politics and will be essential reading for students and scholars of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, and social movements, as well as anyone new to thinking about these issues. (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dead Accuse: Collection of Letters from Behind the Iron Curtain
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartArturs Plaudis
Melbourne: JAJM Fund, 1984.Collection of letters telling of life in Latvia from 1944 to 1980.
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Synthesis
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartKohei Nawa
Tokyo: AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2011.The extensive catalogue accompanying the 2011 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the first to present a comprehensive view of all of Nawa’s work to date. Includes an original work by Kohei Nawa mounted in an enclosure on the lower board.