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The Boy Who Became a Girl
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnoymous
New York: Lee’s Mardi Gras, No date.The story of a 14 year old boy’s boarding school student who is chosen to play the part of Gwendoline in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and finds that dressing as a woman is who he is. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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Three Roads to Femininity
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnoymous
[New York]: [Lee’s Mardi Gras], No date.The stories of three men who take different approaches to cross-dressing. Published without imprint but with the sticker and number stamp of Lee Brewster’s Lee’s Mardi Gras. Possibly Eric Stanton or Gene Bilbrew cover illustration. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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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.
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Art & Beauty Magazine: Numbers 1, 2 & 3: Drawings by R. Crumb
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
New York: David Zwirner Books, 2016.Erotic drawings by Robert Crumb. #1 was first published in 1996 by Kitchen Sink Press, with a second volume in 2003 by Fantagraphic. This volume reprinting the first two numbers and publishing for the first time number 3 together in a limited edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered on a bookplate by Crumb, and comes in the original publisher’s shipping box. “Drawings of women in positions ranging from lascivious to modest or mid-sport are accompanied by quotations, many of which are from artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Harvey Kurtzman. Mining his own obsessions and fantasies, Crumb reimagines the history of art, challenging notions of beauty, along with society’s mores and expectations of propriety around the female form.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Idol: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Their Kingdoms
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDr. Cantala
New York: Botwen Printing Co., 1924.Considered one of the scarcest books in all of psychoactive drug literature and one of the most important on opiate addiction, predicting the development of synthetic opioids by some 35 years. “Devoted to the medical and social uses of opiates, including sections on opium dens, needlemania, the psychology of the addict, the nature of opiate intoxication, love among addicts, etc. There are chapters on cocaine and hashish, and another on Dr. Cantala’s method of cure.” (William Dailey via Gertz: Dope Menace pp. 30). One of a small number bound in cloth with the original wrapper illustration mounted. 4 copies recorded in OCLC, all in the United States.
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Open Love: A Romance of Greenwich Village
Read MoreGustav Bowhan
New York: Mecca Publishing Co., 1920.A play of life and free love amongst a club of bohemian artists in New York. Recorded as performed on Broadway in 1932.
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Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Kron
New York: Karl Kron, 1887.“A book of American roads, for men who travel on bicycle. Its ideal is that of a gazetteer, dictionary, cyclopaedia, statistical guide, thesaurus of facts.” (from preface). A thorough history of 19th century cycling by one of its early adopters. Having never seen a cyclist riding a bicycle Kron ordered and received his first bicycle in 1879. Over the next 3 years he rode over 10,000 miles and contributed regularly to the cycling periodicals of the day. He then set about describing in great detail his touring experiences as well as all sorts of cycling minutiae, including reports from Australasian subscribers. Unable to find a publisher Kron pitched his book to his article readers and received over 3,500 $1 subscriptions. This not one of the subscriber’s issue.
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Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Painting
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartZheng Xinmiao
New York: Abbeville Press, 2011.Chronological survey of Chinese master paintings.
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Tobacco and Alcohol
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Fiske
New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1869.I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine. A defense of drinking and smoking. The first book of American philosophy and historian John Fiske (1842-1901). This copy with the bookplate of Daniel Edwards Kennedy.
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An Essay on Hasheesh
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Robinson
New York: Dingwall-Rock, 1930.“A minor classic, combining experimental reports with sophisticated wit: totally unlike every other book on the subject.” (Phantastica 244). Victor Robinson (1886-1947) was a Ukranian-American physician and medical historian. Stated Second Edition though technically the third after first appearing privately in 1912 and then in a trade edition in 1925.
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The Mods
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSandra Lawrence; Ken Williams
New York: Lancer Books, 1967.Pulp photo novel set in the mod subculture of 1960s London. Bohemian youths and motorcycles captured by Ken Williams.
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The Father Affair
Read MoreJim West
New York: Star Distributors, 1973.Incest gay pulp. Spade Classics SPADE 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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Why We March
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSoul Brother #44 (Ernest White)
New York: Paperback Library, 1969.“An angry protest from Black America.”
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II
Read MoreLarry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene. The updated second edition.
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Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArnie Kantrowitz
New York: Pocket Books, 1978.American LGBT activist speak openly about his homosexuality. One of the first autobiographies by a gay rights activist.
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The Courtesans: The Forbidden Diary of Lucrezia Borgia
Read MoreHillary Aueteur
New York: Pinnacle Books, 1984.An erotic novel set in the Italian Renaissance.
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Domme
Read MoreBrazen Adele
New York: Star Distributors, 1996.SM erotic pulp fiction.
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Mistress
Read MoreRoxanne Rules
New York: Star Distributors, 1996.SM erotic pulp fiction.