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Venus of Lesbos
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSteve Bell
[London]: Gadoline, 1975.Bedside Books BB1337, the English edition of the Newstand Library pulp. Cover illustration by Robert Bonfils. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The Westward Bound Connoisseur Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartWestward Bound
London: Westward Bound, 1992.First trade catalogue issued by the British fetishwear company Westward Bound. The business grew out of Der Putsch, the influential London fetish club founded in 1983, and the associated Westward Bound Bed, Breakfast & Dungeon in Cornwall, whose national television exposure helped establish the company’s profile. Issued as the firm expanded into mail-order retail in the early 1990s, the catalogue offers fetishwear in rubber, PVC, leather, footwear, corrective and disciplinary clothing, boned corsetry, jewellery, wigs, and related accessories. Westward Bound went on to become one of Britain’s best-known fetishwear brands and remains in business today. Sinead O’Connor wore a Westward Bound latex dress on the cover of her 2014 album, ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss’. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Archive of Homoerotic Prints with Catalogue and TLS
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRudolf von Keller
London: Rudolf von Keller, 1993.Archive of late 1980s / early 1990s homoerotic prints by Rudolf von Keller, sent to Jurgen Boedt, editor of the Belgian fetish magazine Secret, in the original postmarked envelope from London to Brussels. One of the two signed typed letters lists the contents of the packet as sent: the artist’s biography, advertising card, catalogue and price list, 8 sets of A4 posters (some in series of 3, others of 4), and 4 greeting cards. Of these, one three-poster series and one greeting card are absent from the surviving archive, while a second packet of A3 posters, also described in the letter, is no longer present. The artwork features hardcore homoerotic themes centred on leather, BDSM, and sadomasochism. Von Keller’s biographical note describes him as born in the late 1940s and educated in Germany, England and the Netherlands, before studying fine art at a college in the English Midlands. After working as a freelance designer while travelling Europe, he returned to the family jewellery business, but continued to produce fetish and BDSM drawings, watercolours, and paintings for a private circle. A series of exhibitions brought this work to a wider audience, leading to print reproduction and, in late 1990, his first ‘Artwork’ catalogue (included here), offering posters, cards, and limited edition prints. The operation was based in London, with a small studio later opened in Amsterdam for developing new work; the note describes him dividing his time between the two cities and a family home in the Rhineland.
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Biba Fashion Catalogues Archive
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Hulanicki; Stephen Fitz-Simon; John McConnell; Helmut Newton; Donald Silverstein; Hans Fuerer; Harri Peccinotti; Sarah Moon; Delisia Howard; Chris Price
London: Biba, 1968-2004.A complete set of the six Biba mail order catalogues (35.5cm x 18cm), four retaining their original Biba logo envelopes. Each catalogue was designed by John McConnell. Offered here together with: the Biba company newspaper ‘Welcome to the New Biba’ [London, 1973], produced to mark the opening of the Big Biba department store in Kensington; a Biba Food Hall paper bag; a Biba plastic carry bag; the exhibition catalogue ‘Biba: The Label, The Lifestyle, The Look’ (Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1993); and ‘In Biba: A Graphic Romance’ by Delisia Howard, illustrated by Chris Price, with foreword and additional illustrations by Barbara Hulanicki (London: Hazard Books, 2004). Biba was founded by Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon in 1964 as a mail-order fashion label, becoming one of the defining names of London’s Swinging Sixties and early 1970s style. Rejecting conventional catalogue photography, the mail-order catalogues were conceived as fashion editorials, featuring original work by Donald Silverstein, Hans Feurer, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and Harri Peccinotti. Combining innovative graphic design with editorial fashion photography, they rank among the landmarks of late-1960s British fashion publishing.
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An Herbarium for the Fair: Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty Shaw-Lawrence; Thomas Fassam
London: The Hand & Flower Press, 1949.Together with Curious Notes on their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love (such as for Taking Away Hair, Bettering the Breasts, the Ease of Sighings, Making a Person Chaste, Loth to Love, and Turning a Person’s Head). One of 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 260), signed by Fassam, each of the 20 plates signed by the artist.
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Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartConstantinos A. Doxiadis
London: Hutchinson, 1971.The Greek architect-planner’s magnum opus on his futurist conceptual framework for the maximal development of human settlements.
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Profile (Volume 1 No 1, 2, 3, 4)
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Handen
London: European Publications, 1973.British “bizarre” periodical, edited by Carl Handen with art direction by Hans Deiter. Each cover is illustrated by the American artist Eric Stanton, whose bondage and fetish comics also run throughout all four issues; the cover of number four is billed as “More from America’s leading bizarre illustrator – Stanton. Exclusive to Profile.” The same issue announces that Profile has “obtained the exclusive rights to the creative and erotic writing of John Cleve,” the principal pseudonym of the American writer Andrew J. Offutt, extensively used for erotic fiction between 1969 and the mid 1980s; the story “The Chain,” appearing in this number. Also included is a feature on the pseudonymous French novelist Alan Mac Clyde and the illustrator Carlo, both associated with the interwar French sadomasochistic novel genre. Further contributors across the four numbers include Audrey Kendell, Iago, Maud Cameron, Bernard Valonnes, Gee Kay, Earle Dexter, Mark Ralphs, Victor Rhodes, Julie Hamilton, and Sally Fleming. Number four states that a fifth issue was planned; it is not known whether publication continued. Unrecorded in OCLC, and not mentioned in Richar Perez Seves: Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground. A complete run (Nos. 1-4) is held by the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive, London.
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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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Mountain Men: The Male Photography of Don Whitman
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Whitman
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1991.The physique photography of Don Whitman’s Western Photography Guild, operating out of Denver Colorado, capturing the perfectly sculpted men of the American West in the Rocky Mountains.
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The du Mauriers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDaphne du Maurier
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937.First edition in the original jacket.
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Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, met with in Great Britain and British India
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartFriedrich A. Fluckiger; Daniel Hanbury
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879.Includes section on cannabis. This copy with a Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia College of Pharmacy award plate dated 1898 presented to Miss J. B. Wollen in manuscript with the autograph signature of Daniel McAlpine, a clipping relating to the latter laid in.
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Experiences of Flagellation: A Series of Remarkable Instances of Whipping Inflicted on Both Sexes, with Curious Anecdotes of Ladies Fond of Administering Birch Discipline
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAn Amateur Flagellant
London: Printed for Private Circulation [E.Avery?], 1885 [c. 1890].“This semi-clandestine compilation was first published by Lazenby & Avery. Avery, in his ‘Preface’ to the Whippingham Papers, 1888, makes this remark: “Only a few years back, a remarkable and lengthened correspondence filled the columns of such domestic periodicals as The Family Herald, The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, &c., the pith of which was collected and issued in a volume entitled ‘EXPERIENCES OF FLAGELLATION’, 1885. That the topic has not lost its interest with the present generation may be estimated by the rapidity with which the first edition of this work was sold.”” (see MENDES 7-A) Thus leading to this early reprint possibly done for Avery MENDES 7-B.
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Rubber Panties / The Country Boy
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Special School / The New Governess
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections. This issue with two short stories, the second with two erotic lesbian line drawings.
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Correction Course
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Sweet Satisfaction
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Spankings. Headmaster’s Tales.
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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The Horrors of a Victorian Girl’s Engagement
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections. Cover title: Viola’s Victorian Degradation: An Account of Sexual Matters in Victorian Times.
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Soho Story
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartSheila Foster [Michael Bernet]
London: The Olympia Press, 1971.First UK edition, retitled from ‘Soho Whore: The Making of a London Prostitute’ (New York: Olympia Press, [1967]). Published under the pseudonym Sheila Foster, presented as the memoir of a London sex worker, the book was in fact written by the Israeli author Michael Bernet, one of the writers associated with Maurice Girodias’ post-Paris Olympia Press ventures. The change of title presumably reflects the requirements of UK retail distribution, “Soho Whore” being rather more blunt than British high-street booksellers of the period were accustomed to displaying. Published during the brief final phase of Girodias’ operations under the Olympia Press imprint in London.
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Acid Temple Ball
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Sativa
London: The Olympia Press, 1971.The first UK printing of this psychedelic erotica classic, following two printings in New York. “Mary Sativa tells the rather simple, but very beautiful story of a young art student’s life and loves in New York City and San Francisco. Her experiences are passionate, searching and tender, as she moves from east to west coat looking to learn a little more about the bemusing experience of living.” (while taking lots of drugs and having lots of sex). Cover photo by Don Snyder.
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Stripper: Photos of Australian Guys
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMike@Bodshotz
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1999.“Working as a stripper myself for several years, I quickly learnt how nudity can empower a person, and it is precisely that power that I continue to try and capture with my camera.” (artist’s statement)
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Hopousia or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. D. Unwin
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1940.Unwin’s unfinished sequel to Sex and Culture (1934), published posthumously. “..a non-narrative Utopia where Sex is described as being made available through two forms of marriage: the monogamous alpha form entitles its adherents to accept responsibility for running the world; the polygamous beta form welcomes free love. Citizens can change from one marriage formula to the other. The rulers of the world are made free by this structure to focus on the maintenance of a sustainable state, where energy flows where needed, and returns. From this balance and restraint, Unwin argues, equity will flow, but his death before the book was finished abruptly truncated any summary argument. In his long introduction, Aldous Huxley recognizes this deficit while recognizing the importance of Unwin’s “formulation of the sexual and economic conditions of social energy.”” (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) BROMER B59.1.
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The Callipyges: The Whole Philosophy and Secret Mystery of Female Flagellation now for the first time fully exposed
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartFour English Ladies
London: Privately Printed for Private Subscribers Only, 1903.With Experiments and detailed Instructions as to the Proper Conduct of this noble Pastime. Sidelights on English Society. “This book, which is perfectly new, we venture to predict, be one day recognised as, in a sense, the Bible of Flagellation.” (from Carrington’s prospectus). Printed for Charles Carrington by Veuve Guy. First appearing in 1901, though possibly only the first volume, which was then reprinted for the two volume set as here. “… a translation of the French original: ‘Les Callipyges, ou Les Delices de la Verge, Par E.D… Paris, Chez la Petite Lolotte… 1889 (Brancart, Amsterdam).” (Peter Mendes: Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930) MENDES 137-B.
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The Loan of a Lover; or, Vera’s Flirtation
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Jean Libbey
London: Milner and Company, No date.English cloth reprint (c. 1900) of a romance from Brooklyn “working-girl” novelist Laura Jean Libbey (1862-1924). Libbey was among the most widely reprinted American writers of dime novel fiction in her day, this work however scarce, with no copies of any edition currently in the trade, and only 5 holdings in OCLC.
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Another Man’s Wife
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha M. Clay
London: Robert Hayes, No date.“Fate’s cruellest irony that on the day–when to save an impoverished father–Beryl marries the elderly Lord Medford, title and riches come to the man she loves. But Fate sometimes relents.” (from jacket) Classic Victorian romance published under the prolific pseudonym of Bertha M. Clay, first used by Charlotte M. Brame (1836-1884) before being penned by a number of hands, here quite possibly the hand of John Russell Coryell, first appearing as a serial in the New York Weekly in 1887 before hitting the stands as a dime novel published by Street & Smith, to which Coryell had family connection. Here published under the Robert Hayes imprint in the early 1920s half-crown Sandringham Library series, this copy with the original illustrated jacket, signed Ryder.
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Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo S. Rappoport; J. H. Amshewitz
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1928.A collection of Jewish legend and Judaica compiled by Rappoport from biblical, Talmudic and midrashic sources, with colour plates by the painter J. H. Amshewitz.
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A Dissertation on Milk
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Ferris
London: John Abraham, [1785].In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases: Likewise to point out the varieties in the food of the animal, from which it is taken; and the circumstances in the mode of life and conduct of those women, who afford it, which more especially tend to change its appearance, and to impair its salutary qualities: and particularly to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race. One of the more substantial English-language eighteenth-century monographs devoted wholly to milk, combining experimental chemistry with medical, moral, and social thought on infant feeding, motherhood, female bodies, and the transmission of health and character. Ferris undertakes comparative chemical experiments on six milks (ass, human, mare, cow, goat, and ewe) and uses the results to advance a sustained argument for maternal breastfeeding against both wet-nursing and the nursery customs of the day. He maintains that a mother’s own milk is the best possible nutriment and casts a woman’s refusal to nurse her child as ‘one of the worst species of inhumanity’. He approvingly cites the late Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), who believed cancers of the breast occurred disproportionately among women who declined to breastfeed, and condemns the common practice of withholding the breast during the first days after birth. Where maternal nursing proves impossible, Ferris subjects the wet nurse to detailed scrutiny. Her diet, habits, mode of life, and even emotional state are made objects of prescription, the infant being thought to absorb the consequences of her conduct through her milk. The nursing body is thus framed throughout as an object of medical and social management, ordered in the interests of the ‘infant race’. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ferris to The Revd. Mr Tonyn, likely the Revd Charles William Tonyn (1732-1805), Rector of Radnage, Buckinghamshire, a parish situated near Great Missenden, where Ferris settled in 1785.
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Occupied Spaces
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Roberts; Naomi Colvin
London: Here Press, 2012.Photographic documentation of the private and communal spaces of the 2011-2012 Occupy London protest, with a short essay by Naomi Colvin. First edition, one of 250 copies (a second edition of 100 copies was printed in 2014).
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The Doors Of Perception
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartAldous Huxley
London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.First Edition of Huxley’s classic psychedelic essay, The Doors of Perception, wherein he recalls his first experience on mescaline. The first English Edition with the jacket designed by John Woodcock. BROMER A68.2.
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A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, and the United States
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartG. M. Mowbray
London: J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1847.Formulas and preparations interleaved with manuscript notes and formulas of EJ Merrifield, with his signature dated 1850.
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Cox’s Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest, and Compendium of Domestic Medicine;
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cart[Edward Cox]; R. Davis
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1866.Particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists. With plain rules for taking the medicines, to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of Asiatic or spasmodic cholera. Pocket guide for the medical practitioner at sea. Includes a summary of drugs for the doctors medicine chest, with corresponding labels at the rear to be cut out and applied to bottles, here still intact.
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Inland
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartGerald Murnane
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. -
Montaigne’s Essays in Three Books
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartMichel de Montaigne; Charles Cotton
London: B. and B. Barker, et al., 1743.With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of The Author’s Life. With a short Character of the Author and Translator by the late Marquiss of Hallifax. Translated by Charles Cotton. The Sixth Edition Corrected and Amended.
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The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How It Came Into the World, and How It Shall Be Made to Go Out
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Bronterre O’Brien
London: William Reeves, 1885. -
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. -
Vice Versa or a Lesson to Fathers
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartF. Anstey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882.First edition, first printing of the comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie set in Victorian London in which a stern father and mischevious son body-swap via a magic stone from India.
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Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPaulina Palmer
London: Cassell, 1999.Traces the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction since the advent of the Women’s Movement and Gay Liberation in the 1970s.
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Kontrol
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war science fiction thriller. “..an exuberant Scientific Romance with thriller elements, in which a Mad Scientist switches genius brains into athletes’ bodies, then wipes their minds clean, in order to create a race of obedient Supermen; he is under the control of a Soviet master operator, whose network operates a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-off aerial juggernauts and a Dystopian supercity on a secret Island. All ends in flames.” (SFE)
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Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDany Jobus; Lisa Downing
London: H. Karnac, 2006. -
The True Grimoire
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartJake Stratton-Kent
[London]: Scarlet Imprint, 2009.The Encyclopaedia Goetica Volume One. One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy with a signed Weiser Books plate and an occult themed bookplate, and butterfly talisman laid in.
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Serpent Songs
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartNicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
[London]: Scarlet Imprint, 2013.An Anthology of Traditional Craft Curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold. One of 750 numbered copies of the Sylvan Edition.
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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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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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Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRonald M. Berndt
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. -
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. -
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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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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The Customized Body
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartHousk Randall; Ted Polhemus
London: Serpent’s Tail, 2000. -
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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Numerous Treasure: A Romantic Novel
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Keable
London: Constable & Co., 1925.Romance novel set in the Pacific after the author’s relocation to Tahiti. The final page provides a brief glossary of local terms, and the recipe for the absinthe based Numerous Treasure Cocktail.
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Kagawa San: The Christian Prophet of Japan
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Whitlow
London: The Religious Tract Society, No date.Short biography on the Japanese Evangelical and labour activist, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Part of the The Little Library of Biography, c. 1930s.
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The Gardeners of Eden
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartA. D. Graham
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973. -
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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Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn, the Jewish Philosopher; including the Celebrated Correspondence, On the Christian Religion, with J. C. Lavater, Minister of Zurich
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartM. Samuels
London: Sainsbury and Co., 1827.Memoirs of the German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. Provenance: From the Rabbi Leib A. Falk Memorial Ibrary, The Great Synagogue, Sydney with plate, and ex libris plate of The Rabbi F. L. Cohen Collection.
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The Expected Good End, in Three Parts
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartS. M. Ish Yeminy
London: L. Alexander, 1800.Rare Anglo-Sephardi Judaica theological work linking Jewish messianic exegesis with Enlightenment-era cosmopolitanism. Part 1 (and the only published) of a planned three part work by the Sephardi rabbi and Freemason Solomon Mordecai Ximenes; Containing, The Birth of Jacob, his Dream of the Ladder, his Commandments, and his several prophetic Blessings to his Posterity; and various future Events promised by the Prophets. ROTH, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica p. 332 19a. Provenance: Signature and label of the Sydney lay preacher G. P. Beyfus, label of Mr. Pulver, library call number to spine matching others from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library, The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned with no other library markings).
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.First edition, first printing, in a full leather modern art binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire.
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Cocktails: How to Mix Them
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Vermiere
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922.First printing of one of the classic 20th century cocktail books by one of London’s leading bartenders of the 1920s. Credited on the title page to Robert of The Embassy Club, Belgian Robert Vermeire (1891-1976) worked a number of London’s most prestigious establishments. Containing 16 pages of illustrated advertisements at the rear, the first of which being Vermiere offering his services to would be professional bartenders, hoteliers, and amateur mixers as a consultant by appointment at his London office at “moderate terms”, though right on the publication of this book he returned to Belgium and opened his own bar, Robert’s. The beverages in Cocktails: How to Mix Them, being not only cocktails, but also cobblers, coolers, crustas, egg nogs, fizzes, flips, frappes, highballs, juleps, pousse cafes, punches, rickeys, sangarees, slings, smashes, sours, toddies, and even a short section of useful medicinal prescriptions, have stood the test of time, with countless reprints and facsimiles. Vermeire provides nuanced insight into the ritzy drinking culture of the day, not only outlining ingredients and methods, but also touching on the origins of the drinks, stating the creator where known, and outlining what drinks were well known and well received where and by whom.
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The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartM. S. Lovell
London: Reeve & Co., 1867.The definitive work on the subject of edible snails, shellfish, oysters, mussels, etc. This copy with the Reeve & Co. 24 page 1867 catalogue of publications in Botany, Conchology, Entomology, Chemistry, Travels Antiquities, etc. at the rear.
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Maynard Keynes
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919.First edition, first printing of the highly influential economics work published in the wake of WWI, establishing Keynes’ as one of the world’s leading economists.
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A Manual of Homoeopathic Cookery, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Such Persons as Are under Homoeopathic Treatment.
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Wife of a Homoeopathic Physician
London: G. Borwon, 1846.A cookbook for the burgeoning devotees of homeopathy.
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R. Crumb Draws the Blues
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
London: Knockabout Comics, 1992.Collection of music comics by underground comix legend Robert Crumb from Zap, Weirdo, et al. One of the limited hardcover edition of 200 signed and numbered copies.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. Published when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. A landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper.
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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious and Beautiful Animals, Elegantly Coloured.
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Frederic Martyn
London: Harrison and Co., 1785.Popular 18th century reference work by William Fordyce Mavor under his Martyn pseudonym, with 100 hand-coloured plates each depicting 4 to 9 animals, insects, or shells.
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On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism
AU$350 Read MoreAdd to cartA. Brierre de Boismont; Robert T. Hulme
London: Henry Renshaw, 1859.The first psychiatric survey of hallucinations by the French physician and psychiatrist Alexandre Jacques Francois Briere de Boismont (1797-1881), first published in English in 1853, on offer here is the first UK edition, translated from the French by Robert T. Hulme. Boismont considered hallucinations to be one of the most important aspects of man’s psychological history.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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Open Shutters Iraq
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEugenie Dolberg
London: Trolley, 2010.“This book is a collection of individual photographs and photographic essays made by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul in 2006/7. These women were not photographers or writers, but were brought together by their need to tell their stories.” (from preface)
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Leros
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Majoli
London: Trolley, 2002.Debut photo book by Magnum photographer Alex Majoli documenting the psychiatric hospital on the Greek island of Leros.
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The Bike From Hell
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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The Truth About Incest
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Hawkes
London: Luxor Press, 1971.Sexploitation pulp sensational sexological study of incestuous relationships.
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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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Atlas of Fungi
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Kavina
London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947. -
A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1847.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls;
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Jeffries
London: E. Lumley, No date.In which their importance is considered; and plain rules are exhibited for ascertaining the value of both; also the true method of manufacturing diamonds. First published in 1750, being “the first book in English to describe how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the basis of the factors of size (or weight) and style of cut”. This edition, while stated as the Fourth Edition, is produced by the London bookseller Edward Lumley sometime in the 19th century, and differs from the fourth edition of 1871 “While resembling the 4th edition, it has been prepared by a different publisher and the contents are drastically re-arranged. The explanation of technical terms omitted in the previous edition (despite its claim to completeness!) is here restored.” SINKANKAS 3203. Though given the career of Lumley it is likely this edition was published prior to the 1871 fourth edition.
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Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.
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An Essay on Average; and on Other Subjects Connected with the Contract of Marine Insurance
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Stevens, of Lloyd’s
London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1822.Together with an Essay on Arbitration. Dedicated to the Committee for Manage the Affairs of Lloyd’s
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The Message of the Buddha
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartK. N. Jayatilleke
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975.A posthumous work edited by Ninian Smart.
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After Sex
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartEdna Bonhomme; Alice Spawls
London: Silver Press, 2023.“The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. This title provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women. Contributors include Nell Dunn, Anne Enright, bell hooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde and Sally Rooney. These essays, short stories and poems trace past understandings of reproductive freedom and consider what it might look like in future, making urgent connections between womenÂ’s equality and access to contraception, healthcare and childcare. The writers pay special attention to people — both fictional and real — who have sought control over their sexual lives, and the joy, comedy, difficulties and disappointments that entails. But above all, After Sex testifies to the power of great writing to show us why that freedom is worth pursuing — without shame and without apology.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dimensions of Values: A Unified Theory
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRadhakamal Mukerjee
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964.Later economic sociology work of Indian social scientist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968).
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The Birds
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1968.Translated from the Norwegian, Fuglane, by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1863.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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Pagan Innocence
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartK. F. Wong
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.Photobook of Sarawak’s indigenous peoples, the Dayak, taken in the late 1950s and published in London in 1960. 30 pages of text with an introduction by Malcolm MacDonald.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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The Golden Age of Hispanic Silver, 1400-1665
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Oman
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1968.In original Victoria and Albert Museum carton.
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation [AND] Explanations: A Sequel to (2 Volumes)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cart[Robert Chambers]
London: John Churchill, 1846-1860.Vestiges, published anonymously, had an enormous influence on Charles Darwin, first published in 1844 and here greatly enlarged. This edition (the second to be illustrated) was published just following the publication of Darwin’s Origin and is Chambers; final revision of the text. A twelfth edition, published in 1884 following Chambers’ death, reprints this text and acknowledges his authorship. // Chambers had planned to respond to criticisms of his work by publishing a series of letters to the ‘Times’ followed by a pamphlet of a hundred or so pages, however Churchill convinced the anonymous author (through his friend Alexander Ireland) that it should be issued in book form, printed and bound similarly to the original. Explanations was duly issued in 1845, and was followed by this slightly altered version in 1846. By then the fifth edition of ‘Vestiges’ was ready and the two works were often reviewed together, the publisher going so far as to suggest a combined volume, however his anonymous author pointed out that the arguments were already incorporated in the new edition.
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Questions About the Breeding of Animals
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Darwin
London: Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1968. -
Darwinism and the Problems of Life
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartConrad Guenther
London: A. Owen & Co., 1906.The First Edition in English translated from the Third Edition by Joseph McCabe.
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The Factory and Shop Acts of the British Dominions. A Handbook
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartViolet R. Markham; H. J. Tennant
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1908].Compiled by Miss Violet R. Markham. Together with a General View of the English Law; and a Preface by Mrs. H. J. Tennant. Issued by the Industrial Sub-Committee of the Victoria League. Covers Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Cape of Good Hope.
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Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph A. Lambeth
London: Virtue and Company, 1937. -
The Riddle of the Sphinx, or Human Origins
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartGeza Roheim
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1934.Psychoanalytic anthropology by Hungarian Geza Roheim (1891-1953). Roheim and his wife lived on and around the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in central Australia for nine months in 1929. The 9 pages of illustrations in this work being photographs from this time showing Aboriginal ceremony.
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A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartArchibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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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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Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLeah Gordon
London: Soul Jazz Publishing, 2010.Photography and oral histories by Leah Gordon. Words by Madison Smartt Bell, Don Cosentino, Richard Fleming, Kathy Smith and Myron Beasley.
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Cycle of Violence
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartGrayson Perry
London: Atlas Press, 2002.“When I was 12 or 13 I drew a series of short comic strip adventures featuring an idealised male hero. When puberty hit me these boy’s own tales became increasingly kinky, involving much cross-dressing and bondage. Sadly these reports from my young subconscious were lost in the upheavals of adolescence. Twenty years later I drew Cycle of Violence while facing up to becoming a father myself, and once again my imagination became an open wound.” (artist’s statement). Limited to 1,200 numbered copies.
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Rituals of Love: Sexual Experiments, Erotic Possibilities
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartTed Polhemus; Housk Randall
London: Picador, 1994. -
LSD, Man & Society
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf
London: Faber and Faber, 1969.Papers from a 1967 symposium at Wesleyan. Edited by Richard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf.
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Deadly Diamond
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJoan Storm
London: Hammond, Hammond & Company, 1953.A Cloak and Dagger Mystery. A continental honeymoon is interrupted by a murder when the husband, a member of British Intelligence, assists the local police with the investigation. Crime fiction.
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The Ethics of Service
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Sewall
London: James Speirs, 1888.An essay on ethics read before the Ruskin Society of the Rose in Glasgow, January 1888, by the Swedenborgian clergyman Frank Sewall (1837-1915). Scarce, 3 copies recorded in OCLC.