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Butch: The Male Thing! Vol. 1, Nos. 2 & 3
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartBill Munro
Sydney: Butch Enterprises, [1972].The second (of only two published) of one of Australia’s first gay porn magazines. It has been well documented that Munro’s publishing ventures were more for his own joy of sex than any great publishing profit aspirations, nonetheless, this final double-issue presents as a fine example of 1970s Australian erotica with its mix of male homoeroticism, cartoons, advertisements, and articles, as well as venue, book, and film reviews. Uncommon in the medium, Munro published his name prominently on the front cover, and the interior contains portraits of himself and staff, at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised throughout Australia. He later said he wanted Butch to have a “strong come out attitude [and show] that somebody wasn’t afraid to come out of the closet” (Munro: Let It All Hang Out, 2008). After Butch, Munro published a shortlived tabloid in 1973 titled Little Butch, before selling up to heterosexual smut publisher of Ribald, Bill Horne, who continued the publication as Gay. Printed by Sydney printers Rotaspeed Press, known for printing numerous Australian erotica works by Howard Products, Potz Press, and Lay Press, as well as student newspapers such as University of Queensland Union’s Semper Floreat.
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The Bachelor’s Bar Companion: A Guide for Unsubtle Seducers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartNigel Shaw
Sydney: Leon Publishing Company, 1972.Part of Sydney publisher Leon’s Bachelor’s series of guides for the unmarried man. Illustrated throughout with professional models, some of the photographs by Douglas Thompson. If you can look past them, the volume also contains 250 cocktail recipes and tips for winning a lady’s favours.
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The Hidden Nude
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.Limited Edition of Lewis Morley’s I To Eye with a chromogenic photographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex (40.6cm x 30.5 cm), being a portrait from Morley’s iconic 1963 series with model Christine Keeler, signed and numbered by the photographer in an edition of 150 copies. The print is housed in a custom made folder in turn housed in a custom made box with the book and a large format 8 page booklet/certificate with text by Morley.
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Pink Ink: An Anthology of Australian Lesbian and Gay Writers
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartKerry Bashford; Mikey Halliday; Chris Jones; Peter Kerans; Leonie Knight; Jan Moulstone; Wendy Moulstone
Sydney: Wicked Women Publications, 1991.Featuring Xalid Abd-ul-Wahid, Graeme Aitken, Mazz Appleton, Kerry Bashford, Catherine Bateson, Javant Biarujia, Ian C. Birks, Margaret Bradstock, Buffy Bright, Di Brown, Pamela Brown, Fiesta Carrera, Cicada, Rebecca Cox, S. Daalmeyer, Steven Dawson, Campsion Decent, Linda Dement, Gary Dunne, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Mikol Furneaux, Denis Gallagher, Carolyn Gerrish, Mikey Halliday, Susan Hampton, Jen Harrison, Tim Herbert, Lyn Hughes, Giles Hugo, Michael Hurley, Chris Jones, Karl Karlsen, Peter Kerans, Kerry Leves, Ian MacNeill, Frances Marjorie, Manfred Jurgensen, Cynthia Maxwell-Smith, Don Maynard, Dorothy Moore, Jan Moulstone, Wendy Moulstone, Rosslyn Prosser, Dorothy Porter, Gina Schien, Kurt Josef Schranzer, Robert Tompsett, Marky Try, Paul Van Reyk, Natalie Varnish, Louise Wakeling, Linda Weste, and Adrian Weston.
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Drug Scene Kings Cross
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert W. Connell
Sydney: Scripts, 1967.Psuedo-sociological inquiry into drug use in Kings Cross, Sydney. One of a number of Australian pulps playing into the public’s simultaneous fascination and fear of Sydney’s red light district. Features 4 photographs of a marijuana party and a glossary of drug terms.
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Gay Interlude
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCarol Clanton
Sydney: Scripts, 1973.“The nether world of women without men.” Australian reissue of the 1961 Midwood release. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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Emily Kngwarreye Paintings
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEmily Kngwarreye
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1998.Monograph of Anmatyerre painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1910-1996). With contributions by Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt, and Janet Holt.
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Underground Lovers: Encounters with Fungi
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAlison Pouliot
Sydney: Newsouth, 2023.“What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Underground Lovers brings us to our knees, magnifier in hand, to find out. Fungi offer a way to imagine life differently. In Underground Lovers Alison Pouliot reaches down to earth, and deeper, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Berlei Review Volume 15, 1936
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartBerlei
Sydney: Berlei Ltd., 1936.A bound set of the complete volume 15 of The Berlie Review, being the company journal for Australian lingerie company Berlie for the year 1936. Volume 15 comprises 10 parts, with January/February and October/November being double issues. Founded by Fred R. Burley and first operating in Sydney from 1910 as Unique Corsets, before Frenchifying to Berlie in 1917, with the vision “To Design and Manufacture Corsets and Brassieres of such perfect Fit, Quality, and Workmanship, as will bring pleasure and profit to all concerned, while at the same time rendering such excellent service to our Clients and Consumers as will merit their permanent patronage.” Burlei Australia is still operating today.
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All Her Labours: One, Working it Out
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartWomen And Labour Publications Collective
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1984.Feminist perspectives on women’s paid and unpaid work in Australia.
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Souvenir Programme for Setting the Foundation Stone of the Mason Centre by M. W. Bro. V. C. N. Blight, C.B.E. Grand Master
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartUnited Grand Lodge of New South Wales of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
Sydney: United Grand Lodge of New South Wales of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, 1976. -

By-Laws of the Lodge of Australia, of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 3, on the Registry of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartLodge of Australia, No. 3
Sydney: Robert Bone, 1890.Revised 1890 By-Laws for one of Australia’s oldest freemasonry lodges.
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By-Laws of the Argyle Lodge of the Most Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 693
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartArgyle Lodge, No. 693
Sydney: F. W. White, 1884.Very early by-laws booklet for the Argyle Lodge of Australian Freemasons, held at the Lodge Room, Fernmount, Bellinger River. Also includes a list of lodges in NSW.
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By-Laws of the United Service Lodge of New South Wales of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 24
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartUnited Service Lodge, No. 24
Sydney: Websdale, Shoosmith & Co., 1895.This copy with the Declaration of Allegiance in manuscript to the margin of the final page.
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Lodge Dobroyde Annual Ladies’ Night in School of Arts Haberfield on Monday, 29th August, 1921 at 8 P.M.
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartW. A. Wiggins
Sydney: R. M. Baxter, 1921.Programme for a Sydney Freemasonry lodge ladies’ night, illustrated by Tasmanian artist William Arthur Wiggins (1881-1947), with much leaning into the Freemason humour of riding the goat.
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The Lustful Turk
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJonus Gustinski
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.The story of The Lustful Turk translated by Prof. Jonus Gustinski with photo-illustrations in the harem. Rare Australian erotica.
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Poker Pleasures
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAdina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.A game of strip poker followed by some slow dancing. Rare Australian erotica.
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Black Orchids and White Roses
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Productions
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Nude erotic portraits of women. Rare Australian erotica.
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Wanton Nymphs
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartAndina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Comic captioned wife-swapping romp. Rare Australian erotica.
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Bared Birds: Fully Illustrated
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Productions
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Nude portraits of women, accompanied by 2 reproductions of illustrations by Eric Stanton. Rare Australian erotica.
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Garcon: A Collection of Male Nudes for Adults Only
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartGreg Fenton; Peter Wright
Sydney: Christopher Wilde Productions, No date.Rare Australian gay erotica. A collection of male nudes: photographs by Greg Fenton, drawings by Peter Wright. Publisher’s catalogue request form laid in.
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Male Maze [No. 1] & 2
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMankind Publications
Sydney: Mankind Publications, No date.2 issues of short running Australian homoerotic tabloid Male Maze, a spin-off of the slightly glossier Mankind. Features W. H. Auden’s poem, A Day for a Lay, Gay News From Afar, articles: Smile! You’re Growing Older, The First Closet Queen, Sex Change, and Three Way Heaven, alongside numerous male nudes, and mail order advertisements for books, photographs, and gay gear from Mankind.
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Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartA. W. Stencell
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Bodyjamming
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJenna Mead
Sydney: Vintage, 1997.Sexual harassment, feminism, and public life. Contributions by Alice Blake, Rosi Braidotti, Kaz Cooke, Ann Curthoys, Mark Davis, Judy Horacek, Foong Ling Kong, Amanda Lohrey, Jenna Mead, Jenny Morgan, Meaghan Morris, Elspeth Probyn, Matthew Ricketson, Natasha Stott Despoja, and XX (Ormond College Complainant). Edited by Jenna Mead.
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Bad
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Robertson
Sydney: Blue Books / Studio Magazines, 2004.A special issue of Blue focussing on leather and SM. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Lads
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Robertson
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Dreamboys 4: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2003.The fourth instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 50 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys Volume III: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2002].The third instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 46 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys Volume 2: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2001].The second instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 66 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2000.The first instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page.
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Line Zero: Photo-Reportage, 1958-2003
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Williams
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004.Retrospective monograph of Australian photographer John Frank Williams (1933-2016). This copy inscribed by Williams.
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Public Fitting
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Intimate Portraits: Australian Nudes by the Photographers of Black+White Magazine
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2005.A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring nude portraiture of Australians with everyday careers. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events.
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The Wrightson List: of Aboriginal Folk Figures
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Wrightson; Peter Wrightson
Sydney: Random House, 1998.Reference work on the sources of the characters and mythology Wrightson used in her children’s stories.
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Sawdust and Primitive Firing
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartSue Moore; Terry Wright; Hildegard Anstice; Beverley Dunphy
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The Mutual Help Group: A Therapeutic Program for Women Who Have Been Abused
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret Condonis; Karen Paroissien; Barbara Aldrich
Sydney: Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, 1990. -

Let’s Hear It for the Long-Legged Women
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul du Feu
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1974.Erotic memoir by the husband of feminist writer Germaine Greer. He later married poet Maya Angelou.
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Lucifer
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen Skinner; Neville Drury
Sydney: The Lucifer Publishing Company, 1968.One shot Australian underground newspaper edited by Stephen Skinner with artwork by Neville Drury, Bob Smith, C. Foley, and Michele. Writings include an experiential report on the psychedelic STP (DOM), Bob Dylan’s film Don’t Look Back, Flying Saucers, Alchemy, and more.
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A Survey of, and Report Upon, the Hotel Industry of New South Wales
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartAsher Joel Advertising
Sydney: The Langlea Printery, 1958.Submitted to the United Licensed Victuallers Association.
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The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartVivien Johnson
Sydney: Craftsman House and Gordon and Breach Arts International, 1996.The second printing, signed by Clifford Possum to the title page.
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How Australia Took German New Guinea: An Illustrated Record
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartF. S. Burnell
Sydney: W. C. Penfold & Co, No date.An Illustrated Record of The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. The first issue published in 1915 immediately after the taking of German New Guinea. Includes a two-page account, five-page list of all personnel, and 52 photographic illustrations.
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The Language of Oysters
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Adamson; Juno Gemes
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997.Photo and poetry book on the lives of the oyster farmers on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. This copy inscribed by the photographer, Juno Gemes.
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Portraits from a Land Without People
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2008.A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia, 1847-2008. This copy signed and numbered by Jimmy Little and signed by John Ogden.
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At Water’s Edge
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Blackmore
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“At Water’s Edge, the long-awaited publication from photographer Paul Blackmore, explores the relationship between humanity and its most vital natural resource. This extraordinary body of work – spanning 11 years and 14 countries – provides a global look at how water flows through the spiritual and physical daily lives of people around the world. The photographs poignantly illustrate the unfolding drama of the global water crisis and how it is affecting those caught up in it: a billion people without access to clean water, another four billion without an adequate supply. Against this dire backdrop, the work also celebrates the quiet, yet essential connection with nature that water offers us.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Narcolepsy
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam; Bob Charles
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“Narcolepsy radically delivers a process that shakes-up the form of the book to produce the art as book and the book as art. The book is a fully realised graphic vehicle. The ways in which the book operates as a series of closures and openings, also parallels the content of the book and amplifies it as an evocative, mysterious object. Narcolepsy is loaded with the poetics of sex and death realised through an exciting fusion of drawing, painting, text and photography. Narcolepsy is a disturbingly ambiguous novella in pictures and words by Max Pam (photographer) and Bob Charles (writer).” (publisher’s blurb)
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No Worries
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin Parr
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In 2011 Magnum photographer Martin Parr set out to photograph three Western Australian port cities, Fremantle, Port Hedland and Broome. Each town was a unique setting for a photographer famed for his images of British seaside culture in the publication Last Resort. Using his unmistakably intimate and satirical style, Parr went about photographing Australian cliches, full of saturated colours and flash photography. The resulting photographs, published here for the first time, are an invaluable collection from this world-renowned British photographer.” (publisher’s blurb)
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War: A Degree South Collection #1
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDegree South
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“The collection of images in War — A Degree South Collection #1 truly illustrates that war is the disease of humanity. There has never been a time that it didn’t exist. Once the battlefield was the place of devastation. Now it is streets, alleyways, schools and places of worship. People and places are no longer protected or sacred. During times of war it is now officially safer to be a soldier than an unarmed civilian. In WWI, five percent of casualties were civilians. WWII the figure was fifty percent. In 1990, planet earth was host to 32 conflicts or wars and ninety percent of the casualties were civilians, nearly all of them women and children. Things have not improved and at present there are 43 conflicts taking place on our planet.” (publisher’s blurb) The photographers are Tim Page, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson and Sean Flynn. Text by Shaune Lakin and Tim Page.
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War: A Degree South Collection #1
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartDegree South
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“The collection of images in War — A Degree South Collection #1 truly illustrates that war is the disease of humanity. There has never been a time that it didn’t exist. Once the battlefield was the place of devastation. Now it is streets, alleyways, schools and places of worship. People and places are no longer protected or sacred. During times of war it is now officially safer to be a soldier than an unarmed civilian. In WWI, five percent of casualties were civilians. WWII the figure was fifty percent. In 1990, planet earth was host to 32 conflicts or wars and ninety percent of the casualties were civilians, nearly all of them women and children. Things have not improved and at present there are 43 conflicts taking place on our planet.” (publisher’s blurb) The photographers are Tim Page, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson and Sean Flynn. Text by Shaune Lakin and Tim Page. This copy signed by 7 of the 8 photographers (Sean Flyyn went missing while on assignment in Cambodia).
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New Settlers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLouise Whelan
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2013].“Documents the diversity of people who immigrate to Australia, and defies the prejudice and stereotyping embedded in parts of society. It is common in media coverage to play on fear in the community and demonize boat people. Text by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG One-time Justice of the High Court of Australia and Fiona Upward.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Whelan on the title page.
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Monte Cassino (Con Amore) w/ Print
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Nestor
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2019.“Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated London News from 1944 lead Nestor on a journey to discover and record the last remaining traces of the devastation of the town and the Benedictine monastery built on the site of the original Abbey chosen and founded by St Benedict in the 6th century. Blending original material from his research archive alongside his own images, Nestor encourages the viewer to cross into an elusive but violent past. The photographic windows throughout this book look out onto a buried past that continues to inform and shape our present through the fragments that have survived destruction, the passage of time and a human quest to overcome disaster. This is a journey across unremarkable contemporary places and into their dark history: forlorn graffiti semaphores in a space once littered with casualties of battle, a collapsed street sign lies unnoticed on the edge of town and autumns mulch burns on the road that snakes its way up to the summit of worship and war.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Nestor on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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Waiting Under Southern Skies
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Abbott
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2019].“Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin Abbotts personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australian life, as it presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and places during a period of immense social change in Australia.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Abbott on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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The Windmill Collection: Photographs by Rose & Emma Windmill
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Elliston
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2008.“These rare photographs, never published before, present a charming portrait of times gone by, an Australian ambience that no longer exists. The Collection comprises vignettes of family and social life in the years between the first and second world wars in Victoria. The photographs also provide the viewer with an opportunity to see what life was like at that time, the emotional landscapes of cities and towns that are today dramatically altered by the modernisation of life.” (publisher’s blurb)
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10×100: 10 Australian Photographers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Ortega
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“Fujifilm Professional and T&G Publishing have selected 10 of Australias finest contemporary photographers for this unprecedented publication. They were invited to explore their creativity using Fujifilm’s recently developed, compact, new generation Finepix X100 digital camera, submitting 10 photographs each for publication. The photographers are Max Pam, Narelle Autio, Lee Grant, Heide Smith, Jack Picone, Louise Whelan, John Ogden, Marian Drew, Brad Rimmer and Tim Page.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cabramatta: A Moment in Time
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2016.“Cabramatta is not your typical Australian suburb. If you took a stroll through the streets of this south-western Sydney hub, you may feel like you are in Southeast Asia. However, the suburb of Cabramatta is emblematic of modern Australia — urban, busy and brimming with multicultural activity. Sydney photographer Markus Andersen has captured this melting pot of cultures in his distinctive, street photography style. His raw, sometimes playful images show the uniquely diverse and human side of Cabramatta, seizing little moments of beauty in everyday life. A year in the life of one of Australias most vivid multicultural communities, suspended in the amber of Markus Andersen’s lens.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Andersen.
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Atlas Monographs
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer, a writer and an artist. Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Atlas Monographs
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer, a writer and an artist. Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Pam.
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I to Eye
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Lewis Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960s London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine Keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable, and most copied, of any photographs of any time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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I to Eye
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Lewis Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960s London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine Keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable, and most copied, of any photographs of any time.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Morley to the title page.
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Ducati: A Photographic Tribute (Limited Edition)
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Aynsley
Sydney: ANP Press / GTI Media, 2009.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 100 copies with 3 silver gelatin photographs signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and signed and numbered copy of the book which is also signed by 3 time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss, housed together in a custom box. A pictorial tribute to the Ducati motorcycle by Australian photographer Phil Aynsley.
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No Worries (Limited Edition 2)
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin Parr
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 50 copies with 1 pigment print signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and copy of the book, housed together in a custom papered box. The first major project of the British Magnum photographer in Australia, documenting three Western Australian port cities.
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Silence: The Western Australian Wheatbelt (Limited Edition)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Rimmer
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2010.Limited Edition box set, being 1 of 50 copies with 2 chromogenic photographic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex, signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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Atlas Monographs (Limited Edition 2)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.Edition 2 of the limited edition, being 1 of 50 copies with 4 chromogenic photographic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex, signed and numbered by the photographer together with a signed and numbered certificate print housed in a custom folder, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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Atlas Monographs (Limited Edition 1)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.Edition 1 of the limited edition, being one of 150 copies with a signed and numbered silver gelatin photograph together with a signed and numbered certificate print housed in a custom folder, and a signed and numbered copy of the book, housed together in a custom pictorial box.
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The Girls, the Massage, and Everything
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartBernhardt J. Hurwood
Sydney: Eclipse Paperbacks, 1973.The naked truth about massage parlors.
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In The Long Run
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Jarratt
Sydney: James Fraser, 1984.“An Australian marathon runner stops at nothing in his pursuit of LA Olympic gold.”
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Deep Blue
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Johnston
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2004.A special issue of Not Only Blue celebrating masculine sexuality featuring photography too explicit for the magazine. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Blue Muse: Blue Magazine Photographers Reveal Their Favourite Models
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2006.(not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others. This special issue features short descriptions of some of Blue photographers favourite models, of course accompanied by numerous images.
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Through the World’s Eye
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Kirby
Sydney: The Federation Press, 2000.Collection of speeches from then Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby on human rights, the law, and its institutions.
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The Complete History of Surfing from Water to Snow
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartNat Young
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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John Rigby: Art and Life
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Millington; Mark Rigby
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Dreams
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartH. Tasman Lovell
Sydney: The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, 1923.The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy Monograph Series No. II. This copy with the ownership stamp of K. Thompson Matthews, interleaved with numerous blanks, copiously underlined and with some marginalia.
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(not only) Blue (Complete Set, 67 Volumes)
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1995-2007.A complete set of Australian gay men’s magazine, (not only) Blue, from issue 00 to 66 (67 total). Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, publishers of the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden, and countless others.
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A Digest of All Cases Determined in the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales and of Appeals Therefrom to the Supreme Court from 1895 to 1900
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartG. Herbert Pike
Sydney: C. F. Maxwell (Hayes Bros.), 1901.Inclusive, and Reported in Land Court Cases, Vols. V. to X. and also Notation of Cases with Regard to the Sections of the Acts.
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Hard in the Lace Game
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAdina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.An erotic encounter of a door to door lingerie salesman. Rare Australian erotica.
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Ironworkers Speak for Peace
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartNational Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia
Sydney: National Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, No date.Report of the rank and file members of the Ironworker’s Union that attended the 2nd World Peace Congress in Warsaw, Poland, November, 1950.
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Biff
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles S. Gould
Sydney: Jons Productions, [1945].Australian juvenile fiction. Adventure story about a boy from the Queensland bush. MUIR 2904.
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School Photography
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Dunn
Sydney: Piper Press, 1988.1980s Australian secondary school text on photography with a foreword by Max Dupain and 190 photographs by Australian secondary students.
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Direct Action (Nos. 1 – 103, September 1970 – December 1975)
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartSocialist Youth Alliance
Sydney: Socialist Youth Alliance, 1970-1975.An unbroken run of the first 103 issues bound in two volumes of the Australian socialist newspaper, Direct Action, which became the Green Left Weekly in 1991. The SYA was a Trotskyist youth organisation of eco-socialist and anti-capitalist politics which emerged out of the Sydney University Socialist Club and the Vietnam Action Campaign, and later merged into the Socialist Alliance. Direct Action was a large format newspaper, brightly illustrated throughout, running stories on local and international politics, with calls to action.
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Reminiscences from Early Life and Including Cycling & Touring Experiences
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Pearson
Sydney: Vale & Pearson, 1933.Biography of Joseph Pearson (1849-1939), draper, one of Australia’s early cyclists, and map publisher. First published in 1925, Pearson published this revised edition in 1933. “When Pearson toured Britain and the Continent in 1893, he rode some 3500 miles (5633 km). He bought road maps and, inspired by them, vowed to persuade his fellow cyclists ‘to take an occasional tour in the country … to get into our wide spaces’. In 1896 he published the Cyclists’ Touring Guide of New South Wales, which contained many practical hints. He agitated for the erection of road signs and that year helped to found the New South Wales Cyclists’ Touring Union, serving on the executive board. His early road and touring material provided the basis for the union’s two-volume Handbook, and Guide to the Roads of New South Wales (Sydney, 1898), the most detailed guide ever published in Australia.” (ADB) This copy signed on the wrappers upper panel, as usual.
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Escape to Elysium
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartL. J. J. Nye
Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1972.Australian utopian literature by Queensland doctor Leslie John Jarvis Nye (1896-1976). This copy inscribed by Nye.
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Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartCraig Seligman
Sydney: Hachette, 2023.“An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish. In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that welcomes and even celebrates queer people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’s short but overstuffed life as a way to provide some answers. There were effectively three Dorises – the quiet visual artist, the glorious drag queen, and the hunky male prostitute who supported the other two. He started performing in Sydney in 1972 as a member of Sylvia and the Synthetics, a psycho troupe that represented the first anarchic flowering of queer creative energy in the post-Stonewall era. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-70s, he became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash – which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire’s deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it. Seligman recounts this dynamic period in queer history – from Stonewall to AIDS – giving insight into how our ideas about gender have broadened to make drag the phenomenon we know it as today. In a book filled with interviews and letters about a life that ricocheted between hilarity and tragedy, he revisits the places and people Doris knew in order to shed light on the multi-hued era that his remarkable life encapsulated.” (publisher’s blurb)
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(not only) Black+White (Complete Set, 89 Volumes)
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1992-2007.A complete set of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White, from issue 00 to 88 (89 total). Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. The premiere issue featured articles on Agenda: Gender, Marcus Graham, Dykes on Bikes, and Teen Satanists, and featured photography by or of Simon Denny, Helmut Newton, Kym Wilson, Angie Bowie, and others. Over its 15 year history (not only) Black+White featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Toni Collette, Alan Moore, Bettina Rheims, Alain de Botton, Keira Knightley, Billie Piper, Tara Moss, Kylie Minogue, Nobuyoshi Araki, Natalie Portman, Patti Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Olaf Martens, Scarlett Johansson, Peaches, Anton Corbijn, Ellen von Unwerth, Gottfried Helnwein, Dolly Parton, Bruce Weber, Kate Moss, Bob Carlos Clarke, Mario Testino, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Lindbergh, Radiohead, Serge Gainsbourg, Harrsion Ford, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, David Cronenberg, Bill Henson, PJ Harvey, John Waters, Irvine Welsh, Chloe Sevigny, Johnny Depp, David Bowie, Arthur C. Clarke, William Klein, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Nick Cave, Spike Lee, Jan Saudek, Dennis Hopper, Devo, Madonna, Woody Harrelson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Naomi Watts, Albert Watson, David Hamilton, Pierre et Gilles, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, and countless others. International buyers please contact for shipping quote.
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The Narrow Road To The Deep North
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Flanagan
Sydney: Knopf, 2013.The first printing of the Australian–being the true–first edition of Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize winning novel. This being the variant without the printed signature on the half-title (the variant with often found erroneously described as signed). This copy signed by Flanagan in purple marker on the title page and with a signed by author sticker on the jacket upper panel.
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Cosmic Love Wonder Lust: The Imperial Slacks Project
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartNicholas Tsoutas
Sydney: Campbelltown Arts, 2018.Accompanying book to exhibition by artist run collective Imperial Slacks held across the Campbelltown Arts Centre and Sydney College of the Arts Galleries in 2015. Imperial Slacks challenged the traditional model of artist run spaces, using their collective to test alternative attitudes towards curating.
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A Visitor’s Travel Index to Sydney and New South Wales
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartBank of New South Wales
Sydney: Travel Department, Bank of New South Wales, 1938.1930s travel guide to New South Wales with the folding colour map tipped in front.
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TV Tricks and other poems
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartIan MacNeill
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Women of Parramatta
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartJulia McConnochie
Sydney: Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Parramatta Trust, 1977.This copy includes seventeen signatures of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Parramatta Trust.
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New South Wales Forestry Handbook Part I: Forest Principles and Practice
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Dalrymple Hay
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Jenolan Caves (N.S.W.) Nature’s Masterpiece
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartN.S.W. Government Tourist Bureau
Sydney: The Gregory Publishing Co., No date.A Complete Description of the Geology, Discovery, Development, and Features of the Jenolan Limestone System. 1940s tourist booklet.
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Veterinary Research Report Number 1-7
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartH. R. Seddon; Wm. L. Hindmarsh
Sydney: Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, 1925-1938.The first 7 numbers of the Department of Agriculture, New South Wales, Veterinary Research Reports. Covers research into the management of sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, horses and poultry, including the treatment of diseases and the effects of poisonous plants. Also includes research into pests like rabbits and grasshoppers, and the Annual Reports of the Director of Veterinary Research.
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Souvenir Programme: Crowning Ceremony: Miss Sydney Competition, Anzac House Appeal
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartReturned Sailors, Soldiers & Airmens Imperial Australia League
Sydney: The Market Print, 1944.Programme for a beauty pageant at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Saturday, 9th September, 1944, organised by the RSL to raise funds for development of Anzac House, Sydney. Contains a brief pitch for the development, programme of events, and portraits of the competitors, most representing different government departments and ministries.
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A Census of New South Wales Plants
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden; Ernst Betche
Sydney: W. A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1916.A talented and enthusiastic botanist Joseph Henry Maiden established the colonys first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. Among his many studies and achievements he was also responsible for the construction of Sydneys first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians.
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Extracts from Report of Director of the Botanic Gardens, Government Domains, Garden Palace Grounds, Centennial Park, and Cambelltown State Nursery for 1920
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden
Sydney: Donald Campbell, Government Printer, 1922.NSW Government Report by Joseph Henry Maiden. Appointed Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens in 1896 and from that date produced voluminous reports most years throughout his tenure. A talented and enthusiastic botanist Maiden immediately set to work establishing the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. He was also responsible for the construction of Sydney’s first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians. His reports provide detailed insight into such endeavours, as well as the year on year goings on of the gardens in the late 19th and early 20th century, with its developments and challenges, from the growth and maintenance of the grounds, to projects, staff, botanical samples and seed exchanges, botanical and library acquisitions, and more. This extract provides a glimpse into the gardens in 1920 and includes 8 large photographs of trees.
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Oversea Marketing of Certain Primary Products of New South Wales
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartB. S. B. Stevens
Sydney: David Harold Paisley, Government Printer, 1937.NSW Government Report by Bertram Stevens, at the time Premier of New South Wales, Embodying his Observations and Conclusions regarding the Marketing Overseas, and particular in the United Kingdom, of Primary Products of New South Wales. That being largely dairy products, butter, eggs, citrus fruits, mutton, lamb, beef, pork, and bacon. Includes tables of port dues, storage and handling charges, and railway freights in various UK cities.
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A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus (75 Parts in 8 Volumes)
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Maiden; Margaret Flockton
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, John Spence, and Adam James Kent, Government Printers, 1903-1931.A complete set, being 75 parts in 8 volumes, containing over 3000 pages and 304 plates, 12 of which are in colour, and 4 of which are maps, of Joseph Henry Maidens masterpiece in the field of botanical research, and his major taxonomical work alongside his Forest Flora of New South Wales. The set is illustrated chiefly with lithographs by Margaret Flockton, together with several by Matilda Smith, a facsimile of L’Heritier, and 4 maps, as well as a photographic illustration by L. C. Webster, and a photographic portrait of Maiden in one of the posthumous volumes therein also published an obituary by Richard Hind Cambage. The project, which took 28 years to be published, the final parts prepared by Maiden before his death in 1925 and published posthumously edited by Cambage and William Blakely, was an extension of the work started by Ferdinand von Mueller and George Bentham in Flora Australiensis and continued by Mueller in his Eucalyptographia, devising classifications based on the characteristics of the stamens, and remained an important reference for many years. Maidens study of eucalyptus was completed alongside his duties as Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, which he commenced in 1896. A talented and enthusiastic botanist Maiden established the colony’s first herbarium, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, together with a museum and library. Among his many studies and achievements he was also responsible for the construction of Sydneys first playground and worked tirelessly to develop the educational value of the Botanical Gardens for all Australians.
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Caught in the Act: A Memoir
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartShane Jenek AKA Courtney Act
Sydney: Pantera Press, 2021.“Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek: Raised in the Brisbane suburbs by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he’s not like all the other boys. He finds his tribe at a performing arts agency, where he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance. Shane makes a promise to himself- to find a bigger stage. Meet Courtney Act: Born in Sydney around the turn of the millennium, Courtney makes her name in the gay bars of Oxford Street and then on Australian Idol. Over ten years later, she makes star turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Celebrity Big Brother UK, bringing her unique take on drag and gender to the world. Behind this rise to national and global fame is a story of searching for and finding oneself. Told with Courtney’s trademark candour and wit, Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. It’s an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon. Most of all, it’s a bloody good time. (publisher’s blurb)
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Paris Nights: Sydney, Oxford St, Mid 80’s Sex, Drugs & Clubbing
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartD. M. Crawford
Sydney: D M Crawford, 2020.A semi-biographical story of sex, drugs, and clubbing in Sydney, Oxford Street, mid-80’s. “Mark was a closeted suburban boy from Wollongong, hiding his sexuality within his surroundings. The enticing allure of Oxford Street nightlife beckoned and in particular a legendary nightclub called Patchs. A semi-biographical account of a young man’s journey and self-discovery which leads to a chance encounter as he hooks up with an older guy called Matt Paris, who’s been around the traps and harboured a secret past. They form a complicated friendship and bond as they embark on a shared weekend life together. Both men were from vastly different backgrounds, experiencing the highs and lows of gay life on Oxford Street in the mid to late ’80s of sex, drugs and clubbing. Oxford Street was called Sydney’s ‘Gay Golden Mile’. A beehive of social activities gathered on this strip that glittered with life and a party atmosphere catering for everyone’s tastes and fantasies. The DJ’s in these establishments were the Gods of the dance floor, playing an accompanying soundtrack to your life. This was Mark’s story and experience!” (publisher’s blurb)
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Picturing a Nation: The Art & Life of A. H. Fullwood
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Werskey; A. H. Fullwood
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021.“The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian artist of the Heidelberg era. Fullwood’s illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler-colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today? In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.” (publisher’s blurb)