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Tristan and Isolt: A Study of the Sources of the Romance (2 Volumes)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGertrude Schoepperle Loomis
New York: Burt Franklin, 1963. -
The Darker Passions: Frankenstein
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmarantha Knight
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.Erotic horror fiction.
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The Darker Passions: Carmilla
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmarantha Knight
New York: Masquerade Books, 1997.Erotic horror fiction.
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Animal Handlers
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Shaffer
New York: Badboy, 1994.Gay pulp short story collection.
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The Slave Prince
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVince Gilman
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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Scrapbook
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSean Martin
New York: Badboy, 1994.Gay pulp short story collection.
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Hustling: A Gentleman’s Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Preston
New York: Badboy, 1997.“The very first guide to the gay world’s most infamous profession.” (from rear cover).
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Service, Stud
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClay Caldwell
New York: Badboy, 1995.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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Queers Like Us
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClay Caldwell
New York: Badboy, 1995.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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Run No More
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1993.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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Mind Master
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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Listen, Little Man! A Document from the Archive of the Orgone Institute
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilhelm Reich; William Steig
New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1948.First edition in the English language of Reich’s antiauthoritarian classic calling for direct action by the working class. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Illustrated by William Stieg. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austro-Hungraian-American doctor and psychoanalys, and is one of psychiatry’s most radical figures. In the late 1950s many of his books were burned by order of the court in one of the largest cases of modern censorship making early editions of his work scarce.
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Italian Pleasure Gardens
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRose Standish Nichols
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.First printing of the third and final in American landscape architect Rose Standish Nichols’ (1872-1960) studies on the gardens of Europe, preceded by English Pleasure Gardens (1902) and Spanish and Portuguese Gardens (1924). Italian Pleasure Gardens was the first to be illustrated with photographs taken by Nichols on her travels, there being near 200 illustrations throughout.
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Dark Shadows in the Afternoon
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKathleen Resch; Marcy Robin
New York: Image Publishing, 1991.A look at the American daytime TV horror soap opera, Dark Shadows. The original series ran for 1,225 episodes between 1966 and 1977.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
AU$8,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward L. Youmans
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856.Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest Views of the Subjects Illustrated. Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887) was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer, and founder of Popular Science magazine. Youmans’ Chemical Atlas is one of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization, with striking colour plates both conveying information and capturing the imagination, and was featured in the William Reese exhibition Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: “This chemistry textbook was a pioneering publication in the use of color to convey quantitative information”. There are recorded printings each year between 1854 and 1857. This 1856 edition being the third year of printing and from the collection of the renowned neurologist, author, and educator Dr. Oliver Sacks, with his bookplate laid in.
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Mastering Mary Sue
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Love
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.A tale of a wealthy nymphomaniac with a husband attempting to declare her mentally incompetent and steal her fortune.
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Trinkets
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLizbeth Dusseau
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.Erotic story of domination.
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Architectural Details
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAntonin Raymond; Noemi P. Raymond
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1947.The Second Edition of this classic of 20th century architecture by Czech-American architecture Antonin Raymond. Raymond commenced his career working with Frank Lloyd Wright and Cass Gilbert. In 19Wright sent him to work in Japan and there he went on to do his own work. This book presents architecture elements developed in Japan during the interwar years. This copy with the original comb binding covers slipped into a custom cloth binding for Michael Hugo-Brunt (1924-1988, an architecture professor at Cornell before moving to the School of Architecture of the University of Western Australia.
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Dragons and Dragon Lore
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Ingersoll
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.With an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn.