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Car Lovers
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Publications, 1972.The high point of Howard Publications 1970s Australian erotica output, a fully illustrated exploration of the car’s influence on man’s sexual behaviour. Lengthy text by Adina Yurana accompanies five photographic series of couples making love in and on their cars in Australia’s great outdoors. Featuring a Mercedes-Benz 280C (The Limousine Lover), a Ford Falcon 500 (The Countryman), a Nissan Patrol (The Great White Hunter), and a Meyers Manx dune buggy (Beachbuggy).
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Fallopian Tube Fallopianna & Madness (2 Volumes)
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGaby [Gabrielle Antolovich]
Sydney: Fallopian Tube Press, 1974.The first two (and likely only) publications of the Sydney lesbian feminist press Fallopian Tube, featuring feminist and lesbian poetry and texts. Gabrielle Antolovich was a prominent figure in Sydney’s gay liberation and feminist movements, an early member of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) who, with her then-partner Sue Wills, appeared on the ABC’s landmark Chequerboard documentary in 1972 as one of the first openly lesbian couples on Australian television. Antolovich resigned from CAMP’s executive in 1974, citing sexism within the organisation, the same year these publications appeared, amid a broader shift among lesbian activists toward autonomous feminist publishing. Fallopianna is one of 100 numbered first printing copies produced in April 1974. Madness is one of 200 numbered first printing copies produced in December of the same year. Contains an erotic text by pioneering Australian feminist artist Vivienne Binns, noted as ‘the piece that no other publication would print’, along with contributions by Kerryn Higgs, Kate Jennings, and others.
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Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClinton Walker
Sydney: NewSouth, 2018.Illustrated survey of Black women in Australian music, the first such book of its kind, containing micro-biographies of over 100 artists each accompanied by an original artwork produced by Walker in a style reminiscent of R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country. Withdrawn shortly after publication following backlash from several of the women featured over biographical errors. Most copies were pulped, with only a small number sold before withdrawal. One of the most recent cases of Australian literature suppression. CAINS 171.
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The Illegal Relatives
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Moorhouse
[Sydney]: [Tomato Press for The Author], No date.Circa 1973. Pirated edition of illustrated erotic stories planned as an illegal publication in protest of censorship of the printed word, stemming from a case brought against underground newspaper Thor. The Whitlam government passed legislation that brought an end to the censorship yet the printer of this booklet went ahead with privately selling the publication against Moorehouse’s wishes, though also purported that it was delayed because Moorhouse wanted to edit the stories. A competing story has it that Moorhouse commissioned the printing but could not pay for it, so Tomato Press sold the entire inventory to a Sydney secondhand bookdealer to recoup the loss, but this all be hearsay. Illustrated throughout, some Robert Crumb pirates, but largely original unattributed erotic illustrations by Jenny Coopes and others. CAINS 118.
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Oz Magazine (Australia) Complete Set w/ Newsletter
AU$15,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Neville; Richard Walsh; Martin Sharp
Sydney: Oz Publications Ink, 1963-1970.The foundational Australian edition of Oz, edited by Richard Neville, Richard Walsh, and Martin Sharp and published in Sydney between 1963 and 1969, with the reduced-format fortnightly newsletters continuing into 1970 under Walsh and Dean Letcher. Preceding and inspiring the the better-known London Oz (1967-1973), the Australian edition tackled censorship, homosexuality, police corruption, the White Australia policy, and the Vietnam War, provoking a series of obscenity prosecutions, culminating in a 1964 conviction that was later overturned on appeal. Sharp’s covers and illustrations, ranging from early satirical cartooning to full psychedelic intensity, chart his emergence as one of Australia’s most significant pop artists. Complete in 41 issues of the magazine proper, together with a complete set of the rarely seen newsletters (Nos. 42-82) including the election special (No. 56). A high point of Australian underground publishing.
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Underground Lovers: Encounters with Fungi
AU$30.00 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$400.00 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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The Boys Own Book of Debauchery
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Grosz; James Cockington
Sydney: Hutchinson, 1988.Captioned cartoons, text by Australian author James Cockington, illustrations by New Zealand cartoonist Chris Grosz.
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All Her Labours: One, Working it Out
AU$40.00 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$60.00 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$100.00 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$200.00 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$200.00 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$500.00 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$40.00 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$40.00 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$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Productions
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Nude erotic portraits of women. Rare Australian erotica.
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Wanton Nymphs
AU$60.00 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$60.00 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$200.00 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.