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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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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.
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The Americans
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Frank
New York: Aperture and Museum of Modern Art, 1968.Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Second edition of Frank’s classic photobook, being revised and enlarged from the first and produced with MOMA.
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A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976. -
Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTomoko Sato
New York: Mucha Foundation Publishing, 2025.“This volume reappraises the graphic work of Alphonse Mucha and explores its influence on graphic art since the 1960s. Published in conjunction with a touring exhibition in the US & Mexico, this volume surveys the development of Mucha’s style, synonymous with Art Nouveau. It explores how it was rediscovered by later generations of artists, becoming an artistic idiom for the Psychedelic Art of the 1960s and 1970s as well as a wide range of visual culture from the late 20th century to today. Coinciding with the opening of the new Mucha Museum in the baroque Savarin Palace in Prague, ‘Timeless Mucha’ is organised into three thematic sections: Inspirations for the Mucha Style, Le Style Mucha, and Art Nouveau and The Rebirth of the Mucha Style and Its Legacy. The first two sections focus on Mucha’s artistic development, examining the theoretical basis of Muchas style–famously known as “le style Mucha” in fin-de-siecle Paris–and its context. Tracing the artist’s footsteps from his youth in Moravia through the 1890s, when he attained fame as a poster artist, the first section highlights a selection of works of art, crafts and books from his own collection. The third section explores visual links between Mucha’s artistic idiom and the styles developed by later generations of artists. While Mucha’s style continues to influence today’s visual culture, including fashion, animation movies and computer games, this catalogue also focuses on a philosophical aspect of Mucha’s legacy: the art of message-making.”
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The Getting of Wisdom
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Handel Richardson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck.
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Starting Your Own High School: The Story of an Alternative High School
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Cleaners Street School People
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. -
Tonmeister Technology: Recording Environments, Sound Sources, Microphone Techniques
AU$100.00 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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Lay ’em Straight
AU$30.00 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.