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Mushrooms, Russia and History
AU$14,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Pavolvna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.The founding work of ethnomycology. One of 512 numbered copies.
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Old Women
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrantisek Halas; Ivan Ruzicka; Robert E. Marx
New York: Vestal, 1966.Old Women by Frantisek Halas, written in Czech, was first published in 1935, and here translated into English by Ivan Rizicka with etchings by Robert Marx. One of 25 signed and numbered copies printed in colour (a further 20 numbered copies in black and white also produced).
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Art of Africa
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Kerchache; Jean-Louis Paudrat; Lucien Stephan
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993.First Edition in English, translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. With an essay, The Principal Ethnic Groups of African Art by Francoise Stoullig-Marin.
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Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock’s Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands of China
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aris
New York: China House Gallery, 1992. -
Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity
AU$10,000.00 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 Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished.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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The Illustrated Delta of Venus
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnais Nin; Bob Carlos Clarke
New York: Gallery Books, 1980.The first book of erotic photography by British-Irish photographer Robert Carlos Clarke (1950-2006) that has been called “the British Helmut Newton”.
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II: Updated Second Edition
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene.
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Chains
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1994.One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Golden Boy as Anthony Cool: A Photo Essay on Naming and Graffiti
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerbert Kohl; James Hinton
New York: The Dial Press, 1972.Important early study of urban text graffiti and tagging in New York. More than just a photobook, though Hinton’s work definitely gives it that distinction, Kohl, founder of the 1960s Open School movement, provides lengthy and invaluable insight into language and identity.
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Fille de Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVarious Authors
New York: Grove Press, 1967.An anthology of images and text.
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Toward a Recognition of Androgyny
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarolyn G. Heilbrun
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.A stimulating search into myth and literature to trace manifestations of androgyny–woman-in-man, man-in-woman–and to reveal the dangers of sexual polarization.
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Art is a Horrible Waste of the Imagination
AU$300.00 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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An Introductory Lecture to the Venereal Disease
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Hunter
New York: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1994. -
Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBill Wittliff
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000.Photo essay of the brothels along the border of Texas and Mexico collected and edited by Bill Wittliff. With essays by Keith Carter, Dave Hickey, and Cristina Pacheco.
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100 Naked Girls
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPetter Hegre
New York: Amphoto Books, 2009.Photo series by Norwegian photographer Petter Hegre continuing his exploration of the style he describes as the New Nude. Foreword by Clifford Thurlow.
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Lapdancer
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJuliana Beasley
New York: powerHouse Books, 2003.“Determined to supplement her meager income as a novice photographer, Juliana Beasley embarked on an eight-year odyssey as a professional nude dancer… From New York to Reno, Beasley worked in over two dozen strip clubs, .. experiencing the rewards and pitfalls of the profession: variable income, flexible schedules, emotional and physical exhaustion, sex industry camaraderie–and an arrest for prostitution. Though she was a professional dancer, Beasley never forgot the purpose of her studies in documentary work. Along with negligees and stilettos, she regularly brought a camera to the clubs, and began recording testimonies from the managers, dancers, and patrons. The result is Lapdancer, an inside look at the world of professional nude dancing.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Judaism at Bay: Essays Toward the Adjustment of Judaism to Modernity
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHorace Mayer Kallen
New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1932.This copy with the bookplate of Rabbi Leib A. Falk, with call number to spine.
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Gay Source: A Catalog for Men
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDennis Sanders
New York: Coward, McCann & Geohegan, 1977.The Whole Earth Catalog of gay America; from help lines to holiday destinations. Compiled, written, and edited by Dennis Sanders with the assistance of Michael Emory. Illustrations by George Stavrinos. Feature articles by Felicine Picano, Ian Young, and many others.
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Modern Psychical Phenomena: Recent Researches and Speculations
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHereward Carrington
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919.Continuing investigations by American investigator of psychic phenomena Hereward Carrington (1880-1958) including studies of psychology, ghosts, psychic photography, astral projection, Spiritualism, and more. One chapter is devoted to the question of whether gender exists after death.
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Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses
AU$1,250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Hewitt, Jr.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872.19th century history of coffee. Brief mention of Australia’s potential as a coffee growing region, as well a global listing of tariffs on coffee, including Australian colonies. This copy signed by the author, and with the world map, A Chart of the Globe Showing the Several Places Where Coffee is or May be Produced and Where it is also used together with The Telegraph Lines in operation or contemplated for completing the Circuit of the Globe, considered the first American map on coffee.