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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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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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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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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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Morocco
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnabelle Barker
New York: Rosebud, 1997. -
Defiance: A Radical Review (3 Volumes)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDotson Rader
New York: Paperback Library, 1970-71.A complete set of the radical politics pulp anthology. Contributions by Sol Yurick, William Burrouhgs, Abbie Hoffman, and many others.
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The Wasted Years
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJess Stearn
New York: Macadden-Bartell, 1968.“Sex, sadism, murder, brutality, perversion, prostitution, drug addiction. Trademarks of the teen-age gangs.”
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The Wild Child
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancois Truffaut; Jean Gruault
New York: Washington Square Press / Pocket Books, 1973.Photo-illustrated screenplay in English of the 1970 French film L’Enfant Sauvage, released in English as The Wild Boy. Translated from the French by Linda Lewin and Christine Lemery. Featuring over 80 photos from the film.
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Run, Little Leather Boy
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: The Olympia Press, 1971.SM leather gay pulp. The Other Traveller, the gay imprint of Olympia’s The Traveller’s Companion. TC-505.
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All-in-Vue 84 Drink Recipes
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMatthew J. Feeney
New York: Matthew J. Feeney, No date.Cocktail and bar guide mainly compiled from The Professional Bartenders guide and distributed in various wrappers as promotional material for bars and booze businesses. Here with the wrappers for Brooklyn wine importer Matthew J. Feeney. Includes quick sight tabs for cocktails, fizzes, rickeys, highballs, punches, and more. Also facts about wine, canapes, garnishes, etc.
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California Trip
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDennis Stock
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970.Photobook of Magnum photographer Dennis Stock’s 1968 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. This is the larger format first printing hardcover.