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The Clyster: For the Connoisseur of Enema Delights (July 1989)
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartTrish Turner Labs
Sydney: Trish Turner Labs, 1989.Single issue of The Enema Fanciers Society quarterly newsletter, a Sydney klismaphile club run by Trish Turner Labs from a PO Box at Hurstville. The issue contains two pages of personals, two pages of letters, two further articles, and a one-page second instalment of a serialisation, stated to be by permission, of ‘Klismaphilia: Amplification of the Erotic Enema Deviance’ by Dr Joanne D. Denko (printed as Denco). Denko, a psychiatrist, coined the term klismaphilia in 1973, and this paper first appeared in the ‘American Journal of Psychotherapy’ in 1976. The back page states that the society was launched with a newspaper advertisement about eight months earlier, boasts that their file now includes 5000 names and addresses of interested persons, and announces the next issue for October 1989. The cover story continues from a May issue, so presumably at least one earlier number of the newsletter was published. Despite these markers, no other issues of the newsletter, or any record of the society or of Trish Turner have been traced by this cataloguer, the only record that can be traced is that of their registered company name being dissolved in a 1995 Government Gazette notice. Offered together with the newsletter is a membership application form. Membership offered the newsletter every three months, a three litre enema set, a half-hour VHS ‘Introduction to the Enema’, a 64 page book ‘The Enema a Teaching Manual’, and an outcall enema service for members when in Sydney.
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Cirque Divers
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMichel Antaki
Bruxelles: Editions Lebeer Hossmann, 1986.Oversize self-documentation of the pataphysical cabaret and performance group / artist space in Liege, Belgium. Founded in 1977 by Michel Antaki, Jacques Jaminon, Brigitte Kaquet, Jacques Lizene, and Jean-Marie Lemaire, and operating until 1999. Though the cover states Tome 1, no further volumes were produced. This is the trade issue in wrappers; a deluxe issue of 15 artist copies was also issued. This copy with a trifolded two-sided A3 prospectus for the book, detailing the deluxe issue, a sponsorship card, and a 40 page booklet produced by the group likely in early 1987, largely reproducing mail art, including a contribution sent from Sydney.
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Erekta Prompt
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJudith Ammann
Basel: Judith Ammann, 1981.Anthology of punk, post-punk and new wave lyrics, combined with illustrations by a small group of artists: Judith Ammann, Helgi Thorgils Fridjonsson, Lorenz Vettiger, Christoph Kohlhofer, Beat Muggli, Paul Ott, Lene Adler Petersen, Milo Heller, Rato Graf, Christian Bitenc, Rofa Muller, Felix Fischer, and Abwarts. Conceived, edited, and published by the Swiss artist Judith Ammann. In her introduction she describes the lyrics as personal documents by young, often very young, writers, inseparable from the music, and the drawings and layout as a way to evoke some of its essence rather than replace it. Text is primarily in English, but lyrics also appear in their original language. Lyrics from nearly 100 bands and artists including Joy Division, Dead Kennedys, Crass, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Bauhaus, The Residents, Tuxedomoon, Pere Ubu, Stiff Little Fingers, Sham 69, The Pop Group, Fad Gadget, The Normal, Red Crayola, Glenn Branca, Theoretical Girls, Monte Cazazza, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Der Plan, Palais Schaumburg, Hans-a-plast, Abwarts, Hermann’s Orgie, Grauzone, Lilliput, Tara Cross, Charlotte Pressler, Lynne Tillman, Barbara Ess, Wharton Tiers, Walter Steding, Chrome, Half Japanese, Pylon, Au Pairs, Flesh Eaters, Weirdos, Negative Trend, Units, Geile Tiere, and Radiators From Space. Australia is represented by Sydney industrial group SPK.
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Australian Handbook for Outdoor Growing of Marijuana
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartD. R. Wakefield
Sydney: Doug Wakefield, No date.Scarce example of Australian growing literature, following on from Wakefield’s previous pamphlet on indoor growing. A revised edition followed in 1986.
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An Australian Identity: Houses for Sydney, 1953-63
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJennifer Taylor
Sydney: University of Sydney, 1984.Jennifer Taylor (1935-2015) was Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney at the time of publishing. Through this account of postwar architecture, she contends that the houses featured are culturally distinctive, and that they could play a crucial role in addressing Sydney’s housing needs. Includes “The Sydney School”, Neo-Brutalism, Organic Architecture, and “The Natural House”.
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The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Mitchell
New York: Calamus Books, 1988.1970s queer communal living fantasy classic. “The queens luxuriate in variety. They often make fun of the men’s fashions. The queens display infinite weirdnesses to the world. For them, style is the path into the unique self and so to transcendence. They long for everyone to reveal themselves wherever they are.” (page 63). Illustrations by Ned Asta. YOUNG 2736*.
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Raging Womyn in Reply to Breaching the Peace [TOGETHER WITH] Wymn’s Land
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Freer
London: The Wymn’s Land Fund, No date.A comment on the women’s liberation movement and the Common Womyn’s Peace Camp at Greenham. Illustrations by Cathy Giles. With a handbill ‘Wymn’s Land’ laid in: “A land base for womyn? Is this what Greenham Common is becoming? Will the Americans and the MoD leave, giving us full access to the 850 acres of land, enough to create an open [women’s] community committed to womon-loving anarchy and nonviolence?”
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Lee Marrs’ Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos Nos. 1-3 (Complete Set)
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLee Marrs
El Cajon: Blackthorne Publishing, 1986-1987.A group of Australian exchange students to the United States are transformed into kung fu kangaroos after an explosion at a biogenetics lab, a spoof of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first issue features a contribution from TMNT co-creator Peter Laird). Lee Marrs (1945-) was one of the first women working in underground comix and a founding member of the Wimmen’s Comix collective. Unrecorded in Australian institutions, 7 holdings in OCLC, all in the US, only 2 of those being complete sets.
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Human Body
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1982.Hosoe’s collection of photographic works exploring the human form. This copy inscribed by the photographer on the title page.
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Andy Warhol Attentat Sound Performance [Who Shot Andy Warhol]
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartAl Hansen; Lisa Cieslik; S. Zierold; G. Stockinger; D. Hebben; P. Keinertz
Cologne: Hundertmark Editions, 1986.Recording of a live performance by Fluxus artist Al Hansen, recreating radical feminist Valerie Solanas’ attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Hansen was a founding figure of the Happenings movement and a longstanding presence in Warhol’s circle: he was a frequent visitor to the Factory, and his daughter Bibbe Hansen was one of Warhol’s superstars, appearing in two of his 1965 films. Hansen arrived at the Factory on the day of the shooting and narrowly missed Solanas as she fled the building after shooting Warhol with a pistol. One of 80 numbered copies signed by Hansen and Cieslik with a photograph of the performance mounted to the lid and accompanied by three A3 and one A4 xeroxed sheets reproducing articles about the performance.
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Mischmasch (Complete Set, 8 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Mandeville
Kansas City: Mischmasch Antigraphics, 1977-88.Dada art-zine, complete in 8 issues, No. VII with the supplemental booklet ‘The Pleasure Car’ laid in. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Advantage Receiver
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea and Christine Webb], No date.Self-published collection of poems by Australian poet Shelton Lea with illustrations by Chrissy [Christine Webb] published during their prolific 1980s photocopy output from their cottage at Mountain View. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria and Monash, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Brando Meets Kookaburra: Poems
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Karl Gallagher
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, No date.Self-published collection of poems by Shelton Lea and Karl Gallagher under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Podsucker Press. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Ballad of the Latrobe Valley-O
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: Clough Press, No date.Self-published collection of poems by Australian poet Shelton Lea with illustrations by Christine Webb under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Clough Press (the cottage they lived in also known as Clough Cottage). A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW. This copy matching the record at SLV with the additional loosely inserted single sheet with the untitled poem with the first line “i’m here today for a winge.”
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The Maggie Poem
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea], No date.Poem printed in Lea’s usual 1980s photocopy Mountain View output, this piece about his relationship with the red-headed Irish prostitute Maggie, and her death by his side in a Melbourne park. Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel tells the story: “Shelton had, at various times, fallen into the arms of prostitutes. There was a history of unconditional mateship between Shelton and those girls, even from his early days in Kings Cross. They’d provided a safety net for him and he had reciprocated. Shelton believed in the notion of the good-hearted prostitute. ‘I’ve met a whole lot of them in my life and they’ve treated me kindly. They don’t treat themselves very kindly.’ Maggie was an Irish girl with mad flaming hair. She was a junkie. She was the girl Shelton had gone to after the break up with Barbara. Candle, her hoon (pimp) had her installed upstairs in a building in Fitzroy. ‘Any nap-jack could come and fuck her for ten bob, and Candle would take the money.’ She wanted to get away and Shelton had fought Candle to take her. They went to the seaside for a few days. When they came back, they took a flagon of port and went to the park, the dying ground, with the blackfellas and shared it with them. Shelton fell asleep in the sun on the grass, near the highrise flats. ‘Maggie slid around the corner for a dose of methadone. She came back and drank more port and when I woke up she was lying next to me dead.’ He wrote a poem for Maggie and said he thought it was grand and full of life. ‘That’s what it is to be a poet, to sing about life. There’s no time for bitterness, but I don’t walk through that park when I don’t think about Maggie …’ A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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A Stillness Reserved Only For Stones
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Frank Kellaway
Mountain View: Clough Press, No date.Tribute pamphlet issued under another Webb-Lea Mountain View imprint, Clough Press (the cottage they lived in also known as Clough Cottage): two poems by Lea and one by Frank Kellaway in memory of John Reed, the Heide patron with which both Lea and his mentor Barrett Reid were closely associated. The rear cover carries an acknowledgement of the Ministry for the Arts grant that, per Georgeff, supported Lea’s prolific output during this period. A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria.
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Dressing My Girl in a Tu-Tu
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
Mountain View: Podsucker Press, 1988.Self-published collection of Lea’s poetry, illustrated by Webb, produced at the couple’s Mountain View cottage under the Podsucker Press imprint, continuing the series begun with Split Lips and Spare Angels. A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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Split Lips
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Christine Webb
[Mountain View]: Podsucker Press, 1986.Australian poetry anthology self-published by Christine Webb and Shelton Lea from their cottage at Mountain View, Victoria, under the imprint Podsucker Press. Bringing together Lea and others from the Melbourne poetry scene: Phil Motherwell, Solly Elenberg, Robert Harris, David Shepherd, Eric Beach, Don Maynard, Ken Smeaton and Robin Horowitz, with illustrations throughout by Webb. The earliest of the couple’s home productions under this imprint.
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Spit in the Ocean (Shirley Abicair’s Set w/ ephemera)
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Kesey; Ken Babbs
Pleasant Hill: Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1976-1981.Issues 1-6 of the Merry Pranksters literary journal (a 7th and final number not included here was published in 2003) from the collection of Australian zither player Shirley Abicair (1928-2025), with guest editors inlcuding Timothy Leary, Lee Marrs and Richar and Elaine Loren. The set is offered together with seven pieces of related ephemera: promotional poster (35cm x 21.5cm) advertising the series with a coupon for either $1 for the first tissue or $5 for the first seven and on the verso a prose piece ‘Food Stamp Raga’ by Corn Twang (Babbs); Key-Z Productions (Zane and Stephanie Kesey) catalogue of books, videos, audio tapes, attire, and posters; two guest pass tickets to Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Lyceum; a guest pass to Grateful Dead at Wembley Stadium; a ticket to The Second Perennial Poetic Hoohaw May 7th 1977 Eugene Oregon; and a broadside promoting Ken Babbs speaking/performance tour for Spit In The Ocean No. 1.
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[Sex Slave]
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSuzan Pitt
New York: Suzan Pitt, 1984.Beginning in 1984, Suzan Pitt (1943-2019) painted a series of one-of-a-kind wearable artworks for The A. More Store, a project of the New York artists’ collective COLAB. Later that year they were sold through Patricia Field’s East 8th Street boutique alongside works by Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse. Pitt described the coats as unique artworks that could be either worn or hung on the wall, combining imagery drawn from popular culture, her animated films, and her watercolours into layered visual narratives of free association. Pitt is thought to have produced between fifty and one hundred painted coats during the 1980s before concentrating on the production of her animated film Joy Street. She returned to the format in 2016 in collaboration with House of Byfield. Sexuality was a persistent subject in Pitt’s work well before the coats. Her early film Crocus (1971) established a recurring association in her animation between sexuality and vegetal and floral forms, carried further in Asparagus (1979), a film noted on release for its frank sexual imagery and remembered for its pairing with David Lynch’s Eraserhead on the midnight-movie circuit. The present coat, its title taken from the painted text across the upper back, extends this preoccupation into wearable form, setting sexually explicit illustrations and lettering against appropriated cartoon imagery of Mickey Mouse and Goofy. This example belongs to the original 1984 series and is signed and dated by the artist.
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A Field Companion to Australian Fungi
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce Fuhrer
Melbourne: The Five Mile Press, 1985. -
Bewitching Bitches
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter X
London: [Swish Publications], No date.“Are you prepared for another journey into the bizarre fantasy world of the fabulous Peter X?” The second of two collections of fetish drawings by the fantasist of dominant women and lady rubberists published by the English femdom magazine Madame. Circa 1986-87. Both of Peter X’s works unrecorded in OCLC.
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Yip Cheong Fun’s Pictorial Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartYip Cheong Fun
[Singapore]: [Yip Cheong Fun], [1985].Late career monograph of the Singaporean photographer Yip Cheong Fun. This copy signed and dated by the photographer.
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DoodleBug
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRoyston Robertson; Colin Robinson; Criss; Siggy
North Yorkshire: DoodleBug, 1987-88.The first five issues (of eight) of a self-published comic created in North Yorkshire by cartoonist Royston Robertson (b. 1968) with a group of sixth-form friends, in imitation of the recently-successful Viz. Each issue was printed in a run of 1,000 copies and distributed by the group themselves to local shops and pubs. The comic was reviewed in Record Mirror and championed on BBC Radio One by John Peel. Ending after eight issues when Roberston went onto university; he later worked as a journalist and sub-editor at The Times, before becoming a full-time cartoonist in 2004 contributing to Private Eye, The Spectator, and other periodicals. “Hundreds of zany japes about things such as Australians, baseball, beards, bears, beasties, birds, boredom, cartoonists, cliches, cockneys, doors, drugs, eggs, fish, game-shows, Geordies, graffiti, hangovers, Hitler, hooliganism, ignorance, Max Headroom, money, mops, murder, necks, nonsense, noses, nuclear waste, pearls, Picasso, prisons, punctuality, quadrangles, sado-masochism, sex, sex, spiders, spontaneous combustion, suicide, toe nails, tortoises, the obvious, werewolves and yuppies!” (from the cover of No. 1) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Ce Soir… Catalogue – Catalogus
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCe Soir; Alain Verdier
Brussels: Ce Soir, 1982.1980s catalogue of latex, rubber, and plastic fetishwear for men and women by Belgian label Ce Soir, photographed by Alain Verdier. Pricelist laid in.
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Considerations
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMirka Lugosi
Paris: A.P.A.A.R., 1987.The first publication of France-based Romanian-born artist Mirka Lugosi (1958-), a collection of sexuality themed black and white drawings from the 1980s issued in an edition of 250 copies.
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An Individual View
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Thake
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1982.Photobook of the Australian artist. Thake had carried a camera alongside his sketchbook from the 1950s, and the book records the photographic side of an artist otherwise known almost wholly for his printmaking, here presenting 28 plates. Produced in the year of Thake’s death in an edition of 250 numbered copies, this an out of sequence proof copy. Text by Elizabeth Summons, preface by Patrick McCaughey.
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R and R: A Flight Fare Story
AU$500 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.
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Love, Politics and Rescue In Lesbian Relationships
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartDiana Rabenold
Santa Cruz: HerBooks, 1987.HerBooks Lesbian-Feminist Essay Series, No. 2. Tools for lesbians to identify and resolve relationship problems.
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Drugs in Western Pacific Societies: Relations of Substance
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartLamont Lindstrom
Lanham: University Press of America, 1987.ASAO Monographs No. 11. Explores drug use within interpersonal relations in the Pacific.
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Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Grof
Albany: SUNY Press, 1985.“Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by psychedelic drugs and by other means, Grof concludes that our present scientific world view is as inadequate as many of its historical predecessors. In this pioneering work, he proposes a new model of the human psyche that takes account of his findings. Grof includes in his model the recollective level, or the reliving of emotionally relevant memories, a level at which the Freudian framework can be useful. Beyond that is perinatal level in which the human unconscious may be activated to a reliving of biological birth and confrontation with death. How birth experience influences an individual’s later development is a central focus of the book.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Timing and the Times: Chronicity In The American Practice Of Oriental Medicine
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Flaws; Charles Chace; Michael Helme
Boulder: Blue Poppy Press, 1986. -
Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn O’Connor; Dan Bensky
Chicago: Eastland Press, 1981.The first printing.
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Inland
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartGerald Murnane
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. -
Biker, Drifter
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartStella Chance
New York: Star Distributors, 1988.Biker themed gay pulp, with cover illustration by Craig Esposito. Young Stallions YS-125. 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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The Slaves of Carla
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMistress Carla
Wilmington: Eros Publishing, 1982.BDSM pulp. Bizarre Book BB-191. Cover illustration and 16 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Bill Ward.
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Spots
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Clay Wilson
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1989.The lowbrow artwork of S. Clay Wilson.
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Baining Life and Lore
AU$70 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Hesse; Theo Aerts
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The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCorin F. V. Corley
London: The Modern Humanities Research Association, 1987. -
All Her Labours: One, Working it Out
AU$40 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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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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Art Bakongo: Les Centres de Style
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartRaoul Lehuard
Arnouville: Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1989. -
Krishna: The Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Isacco
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. -
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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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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Lao Textiles: Ancient Symbols – Living Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Cheesman
Bangkok: White Lotus Co., 1988. -
Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Texts and Textiles
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartS. A. Niessen
Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1985. -
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. -
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 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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Art is a Horrible Waste of the Imagination
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartRon English
New York: English & Eichman, 1988.First published book by the American contemporary artist Ron English (1959-), being a collection of line drawings. The cover photograph by Charles D. Herold shows English painting a street mural. Introduction by Mark Kostabi. Only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at New York University.
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1989 Field Conference: Rockhampton Region
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartW.G. Whitaker
Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia Incorporated, Queensland Division, 1989. -
Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartNeal L. Evenhuis
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press and E. J. Brill, 1989. -
Spondylus: Spiny Oyster Shells of the World
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartKevin Lamprell; Thora Whitehead
Bathurst: Robert Brown & Associates, 1986. -
The Genera of Fungi: Sporulating in Pure Culture
AU$90 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. A. von Arx
Vaduz: J. Cramer, 1981. -
A Monograph of Harknessia and Mastigosporella with notes on associated teleomorphs
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartT. R. Nag Raj; Frank DiCosmo
Vaduz: J. Cramer, 1981.Bibliotheca Mycologica Band 80.
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They All Ran Wild: The Animals and Plants that Plague Australia
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartEric C. Rolls
London: Angus & Robertson, 1984.Pests and feral animals, both native and introduced. This copy with a newspaper clipping Rabbit Plan Slammed by Farmers mounted to half-title.
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Studies in Ingrian Laments
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAili Nenola-Kallio
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1982.Collection and analysis of Ingrian lament traditions, exploring ritual expression, grief, and regional folk poetics. FF Communications No. 234 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia: A Study of Traditional Religion, Christianity and Nativistic Movements
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJukka Siikala
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1982.Ethnographic study of religious practices and intergroup tensions in tropical Polynesia, analysing ritual, belief, and social conflict. FF Communications No. 233 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Art of Mixing Metaphors: A Folkloristic Interpretation of the Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Dundes; Claudia A. Stibbe
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981.FF Communications No. 230 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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BEV. Blad van Eva: de boom der vergetelheid afgerukt
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonie Greefkens
Amsterdam: BEV, 1988-1989.A complete set of the 1980s Dutch erotic journal for heterosexual women. Edited by Leonie Greefkens with art design by Willem de Ridder, Paul Kooiker, Henk tur Kulve, and Maud Vink. Numerous contributors of erotic photography, text, and comics. This set has been collected and finely bound in vellum with the original wrappers and housed in a matching slipcase
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Eye 5 Eroticisma
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Seamster
Santa Barbara: Eye Magazine, 1983.Artists book/magazine published in a numbered edition of 152 copies. This issue devoted to eroticism, and containing numerous signed original artworks, photographs, and collage. The artists are: Jas R Babbe, Chris Bastian, David Bottoms, Tom Clark, Flora Durham, Doug Edges, Sam Erenberg, Pat Fish, Tim Goetz, Marsea Goldberg, Jeff Greenwald, Jenny Hankwitz, Ken Hendrickson, David Holland, Michael Irwin, Starke Jett, Susan Jorgensen, Barbara Kapusnak, Steve Knauff, Penny Mast, Paul McCarthy, Michael Napper, Dwayne Newton, David Ossman, Somers Randolph, Jim Risser, Richard Ross, Mary Seamster, Elena Siff, James Taylor, Kerry Tomlinson, Dug Eyesaka, Shelly Vogel, and Seyburn Zorthian.
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Weirdo No. 1
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
Berkeley: Last Gasp, 1981.“Picking up where Zap left off, Weirdo defined a new aesthetic for the ’80s, opening the way towards a new wave of comics literacy for a generation of outcasts, oddballs and revolutionaries. Weirdo #1, helmed by Robert Crumb, features comics from Crumb, satiric ads, photo-funnies from “Stomp” Gamos and Weirdo staff, Stanislav Szukalski, Bruce Duncan, Brueghel, a Sub-Genius spread and more!” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Pioneers of the North-West of South Australia, 1856 to 1914
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartNorman A. Richardson
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1980. -
Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMade Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1988.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographers were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. The New Compiled Edition, combining volumes 1 and 2. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page, and with numerous manuscript corrections as well as additional information tabs further describing many of the illustrations.
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Splendora
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Swift
London: Penguin, 1981.“Splendora: a steamy East Texas town where Sue Ella Lightfoot furthers her study of sexual motives with every issue of Real Crime magazine while Agnes Pullens drills young ladies in the finer arts of Dance and Expression and Zeda Earl Goodridge faces a life of ruin if her Christmas yard display doesn’t take first prize this year. Timothy John Coldrige left this town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen; now, at thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie Gatewood. Draped (an impeccable accessorized) in Victorian finery and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm.”
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In The Long Run
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Jarratt
Sydney: James Fraser, 1984.“An Australian marathon runner stops at nothing in his pursuit of LA Olympic gold.”
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A History of Shell Collecting
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Peter Dance
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986.Revised edition of Shell Collecting: An Illustrated History (Faber, 1966).
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Tonmeister Technology: Recording Environments, Sound Sources, Microphone Techniques
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Dickreiter
New York: Temmer Enterprises, 1989.With 157 tables and illustrations. Translated from the German by Stephen F. Temmer.
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Gay Heart Throbs (3 Issues, Complete)
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Fuller; Mike Kuchar
San Francisco: Fulhorne Productions, Larry Fuller Presents, and Inkwell, Inc., 1976-1981.A complete run of the intermittent and short-lived underground gay erotic comix anthology, the three issues published in 1976, 1979, and 1981. The title is thought to be a reference to the romance comic Heart Throbs. The stories are campy and pornographic. Featuring the work of Larry Fuller, Ray Horne, Mike Kuchar, and many others.
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Lay ’em Straight
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Rowen
New York: Surree, 1981.Surree Stud Series gay pulp. SSS106. 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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Trautes Heim: Fotos aus dem Wirklichen Leben
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAnna Blume; Bernhard Blume
Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1987.Exhibition catalogue.
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Zinkzong Musikmagasin Nr. 4
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartArild Polden
Ski: Zinkzong Musikmagasin, 1981.Single issue of Norwegian music zine Zink.
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Kishin’s Photo Workshop: Take it Snappy!
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKishin Shinoyama
Tokyo: Gakken, 1987.Shinoyama photo school. This copy inscribed by Kishin.
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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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B Company 1st Regiment of Queensland Infantry (Moreton Regiment)
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter D. Anderson
Brisbane: Peter D. Anderson, 1986.Cover title: Moreton Regiment, 1886, Infantry, First Regiment of Queensland. A brief history to the Defence of Queensland from 1859, leading up to the formation of the First Regiment of Queensland Infantry sometimes called the Moretons, 1885.
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Stir
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Jewson
Melbourne: Unicorn Books, 1980.Novelisation of the 1980 prison film based on the 1974 prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex and the subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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The Alligator Rivers: Prehistory and Ecology in Western Arnhem Land
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartCarmel Schrire
Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1982. -
The Parian Phenomenon: A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary & Busts
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Atterbury
Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis, 1989. -
The Growth and Functioning of Leaves
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. E. Dale; F. L. Milthorpe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.Proceedings of a Symposium held prior to the Thirteenth International Botanical Congress at the University of Sydney 18-20 August 1981.
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Boy George Fashion & Make-up Book
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Winder; Gerardine Winder; Christina Saunders
London: Hamlyn, 1984.Everything you need to know to achieve that early 1980s Boy George look you always wanted.
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An Introduction to Western Australian Colonial Furniture
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartLeslie Lauder; Mark Howard
East Fremantle: Lauder & Howard, 1988.Numbered edition of 2,500 copies, of which this copy is numbered and signed by both authors.
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One Day Geological Excursions of the Adelaide Region
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. Parker
Adelaide: Geological Society of Australia Incorporated, South Australia Division, 1986. -
School Photography
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Dunn
Sydney: Piper Press, 1988.1980s Australian secondary school text on photography with a foreword by Max Dupain and 190 photographs by Australian secondary students.
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City Indians: Photographs of Western Tribal Fashion
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Wroblewski; Nelly Gomez-Vaez
Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 1983.Photographic study of youth subculture in the United Kingdom and Europe in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Divided into sections: Mohicans, Piercing, Skinheads, Rock and Roll, Sons of Hell, Leather, Sic Boys, Dress, Tattoo, Hare Krishna, and Rasta. This copy inscribed by Wroblewski on the title page and with an inscribed laid in postcard of his photograph of one of the tattooed subjects featured in the book.
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Starting Again: A Time in the Life of William Yang
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Yang
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1989. -
Bible of Filth
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Crumb
Paris: Futuropolis, 1986.Collection of some of Robert Crumb’s filthiest comix and illustrations from the pages of Snatch, Zap, Weirdo, Snoid, Jiz, and others. Printed on thin “bible” paper. One of 1,000 numbered copies.
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Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartLucy R. Lippard
London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1980.Catalogue for an influential feminist art exhibition, including the works of Jenny Holzer, Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz, Nicole Croiset, Nil Yalter, Sue Richardson, Monica Ross, Kate Walker, Margaret Harrison, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alexis Hunter, Maria Karras, Mary Kelly, Margia Kramer, Loraine Leeson, Beverly Naidus, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Miriam Sharon, Bonnie Sherk (the Farm), Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Marie Yates.
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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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1987 Field Conference: Gympie District
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartC. G. Murray; J. B. Waterhouse
Brisbane: Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, 1987. -
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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Mind Field
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Corso
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1989.Hanuman Books 27, first edition of beat poet Gregory Corso. Cover photo by Allen Ginsberg. This copy signed by Corso on the front flyleaf.
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Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartBurton Watson
New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.Translations from the Oriental Classics series.
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Ninja: Men of Iga
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartKano Shinichi
Thousand Oaks: Dragon Books, 1989. -
The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) & Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKanamoto Nobuhisa; Kenneth A. Grossberg
Tokyo: Monument Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981.On the history of constitutional law in Japan, specifically the Muromachi period, once described by historian Sir George Sansom as being an age of “much law and little justice”.
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TV Tricks and other poems
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartIan MacNeill
Sydney: BlackWattle Press, 1989. -
Working Men and Ganja: Marihuana Use in Rural Jamaica
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMelanie Creagan Dreher
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982.A study on the commerce and use of ganja (marijuana) in three rural labour farmer villages in Jamaica. The study highlights a debate on ganja between socioeconomic divisions; the upper and middle class condemn it, while the labouring class claim it is beneficial for well being and even enhancing productivity.
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A Star for Christina
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartBlakely St. James
New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981. -
Deborah: A True History by Herself
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartDeborah
New York: Emerald Books, 1982.20th century American pulp smut fiction.