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A Star for Christina
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBlakely St. James
New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981. -
Deborah: A True History by Herself
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDeborah
New York: Emerald Books, 1982.20th century American pulp smut fiction.
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A Descriptive Check List, Together With Short Title Index, Describing Almost 7500 Items of Western Americana
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Decker
New York: Antiquarian Press, 1960.Comprising Books, Maps, and Pamphlets of the Important Library (In Four Parts) Formed By George W. Soliday, Seattle, Wash. Compiled with Notes by Peter Decker, 1940 – 1945. Edition Limited to 550 copies, of which this is number 161.
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Who Killed Amanda Palmer: A Collection of Photographic Evidence
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNeil Gaiman; Amanda Palmer; Kyle Cassidy; Beth Hommel
New York: Eight Foot Books, 2009.Photobook of the purported death of Amanda Palmer, lead vocalist of The Dresden Dolls. With Stories by Neil Gaiman.
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The Sexual Wilderness: The Contemporary Upheavel in Male-Female Relationships
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVance Packard
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1968.The Upheaval in Male-Female Relationships: the Breakup of Traditional Morality: New Trends in Sexual Behaviour among the Young.
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The Second Window
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobin Maugham
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.YOUNG 2575*.
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The Wrong People
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobin Maugham
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.US Edition of YOUNG 2580*.
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Light Through Darkness
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
New York: The Orion Press, 1963.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, on mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. Originally published in French in 1961, then translated into English by Haakon Chevalier and first published in America in 1963. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy in a fine signed full leather binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire based on the original jacket design.
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Codex Seraphinianus
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2013.The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60.
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A Symposium on America’s Stake in Vietnam
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmerican Friends of Vietnam
New York: American Friends of Vietnam, 1956.The edited record of the Conference on Vietnam held in Washington D.C. on 1 June 1956. Attendees included almost 250 representatives of government, the armed services, universities and national civic organisations. John F. Kennedy was amongst the speakers.
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Embassy Girl
AU$15.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmily Thorne
New York: Airmont Publishing, 1964.The Glamour and Adventure of Embassy Life in London.
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The Story of Pure Vanilla with Recipes
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVanilla Bean Association of America
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McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe McClure Company
New York: The McClure Company, 1907.Booklet advertising the first five books in the McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. There is a detailed description of each book: Pinafore Palace, The Posy Ring, Golden Numbers, Magic Casements, and The Fairy Ring.
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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Cusenier: Liqueurs de Luxe
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCusenier
New York: W. A. Taylor & Company, 1935.Promotion booklet for the House of Cusenier. Illustrated bottles of liqueurs each accompanied by a cocktail recipe opposite, together with a brief history of the firm and a list of other products.
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Why Cazapra is Better
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCazapra
New York: Julius Wile Sons & Co, No date.Promotional booklet for Cazapra, a dry vermouth made in France. Includes numerous cocktail recipes. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Technique and Collaboration in the Prints of Jasper Johns
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJasper Johns; Susan Lorence
New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1996.Published by Leo Castelli Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition, Jasper Johns Prints: 1960 to 1996, 19 October – 14 December 1996.
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The Wright Brothers: A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFred C. Kelly
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1950.The first printing of the revised edition of Kelly’s biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright. This copy inscribed to Chas. Bateman from the Hawthorn Hill Guest House, the former home of Orville Wright, which after his death was owned and used as a guest house by the NCR Corporation. A monogrammed paper napkin and postcard of Hawthorn Hill laid in.
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The Transnational Beat Generation
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNancy M. Grace; Jennie Skerl
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.