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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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The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Mitchell
New York: Calamus Books, 1977.First edition, first printing. 1970s queer communal living fantasy classic. “The queens luxuriate in variety. They often make fun of the men’s fashions. The queens display infinite weirdnesses to the world. For them, style is the path into the unique self and so to transcendence. They long for everyone to reveal themselves wherever they are.” (page 63). Illustrations by Ned Asta. YOUNG 2736*.
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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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Audubon’s Aviary: The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberta J. M. Olson
New York: Skira Rizzoli / New-York Historical Society, 2012.With an essay by Marjorie Shelley and Contibutions by Alexandra Mazzitelli. With a facsimile colour print in an envelope mounted to the front free endpaper.
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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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Neito’s Jewish Almanac for One Hundred Years
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAbraham H. Neito
New York: Burr Printing House for the Author, 1902.From New Year 5663/1902 to 5763/2002. Showing the New Moons, Festivals and Fasts, with the sections of th elaw as read in the synagogues every Sabbath in the year. Also the first and last days of the solar month, with their corresponding Hebrew dates and pages for family registers. With 3 leaves at rear for Births, Deaths, and Marriages, unmarked. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned), and with the armorial bookplate of David James Benjamin, and inscribed by members of the Sydney Jewish community, Louis Phillips to Moritz Gotthelf.
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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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Macumba: White and Black Magic in Brazil
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. Langguth
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. -
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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Ha! Ha! Houdini!
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatti Smith
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977.Smith’s poetic tribute to illusionist Harry Houdini, dedicated to Jacques Stern. An unsigned, unnumbered copy of the first edition.
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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.
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Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric C. Dahlberg
New York: Springer, 1995. -
Beware The God Who Smiles
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1995.Gay pulp time-travel.
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Derricks
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Barr
New York: Greenburg, 1951.A collection of short stories. The second published work by of one of the first modern authors to portray homosexual characters positively. Written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr. YOUNG 185*.
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One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGrolier Club
New York: The Grolier Club, 1947.Catalogue and Addresses: Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April Eighteenth – June Sixteenth, MCMXLVI.
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From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan J. Napier
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.