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Direct Action (Nos. 1 – 103, September 1970 – December 1975)
AU$650.00 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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Landscape Out of Nature
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLou Klepac; James Gleeson
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1987.One of the collector’s deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 55, specially bound in leather and containing an umber lithograph, Comet II, limited to 50 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 5. With an introduction by Lou Klepac. Inscribed by Gleeson on the half-title page to Geoffrey Walker.
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Reminiscences from Early Life and Including Cycling & Touring Experiences
AU$400.00 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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D*A*A*S BOOK
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Doug Anthony Allstars
Sydney: Susan Haynes, Allen & Unwin, 1989.This copy inscribed with an original sketch by Tim Ferguson.
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Swing in Time with Sue Becker
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSue Becker
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1968.Yoga with a margharita. This copy inscribed by Becker, To Rhonda.
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Mirror of the Australian Navigation
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacob Le Maire
Sydney: Hordern House, 1999.Australian Maritime Series No. 5. A facsimile of the ‘Spieghed der Austalische Navigatie…’ being an account of the voyage of Jacob Le Maire and William Schouten, 1615 – 1616, published in Amsterdam in 1622. With an introductory essay by Edward Duyker, New South Wales History Fellow, and English text by Alexander Dalrymple.
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The Parsons Collection: Rare Pacific Voyage Books from the Collection of David Parsons (Part II: La Perouse to Wilkes)
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHordern House
Sydney: Hordern House, 2006.Sealed in the original shrinkwrap
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Captain James Cook: The Great Discoverer (The Robert and Mary Anne Parks Collection)
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHordern House
Sydney: Hordern House, 2008.This copy in the original shrinkwrap.
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Potpourri of Sex
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Fully illustrated throughout with black and white pinup and softcore photographs with comical captions opposite. Rare Australian erotica.
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Escape to Elysium
AU$65.00 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$35.00 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$1,200.00 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$800.00 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$110.00 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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Yorkshire Imperial (February, 1978)
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYorkshire Imperial Australia
Sydney: Yorkshire Imperial Australia, 1978.Catalogue of capillary fittings by Yorkshire Imperial.
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Getting Ready: A Guide for International NGO, Permaculture and Community Development Workers
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPermaculture and Development Project
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The Thunder of the Guns
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLes Bishop
Sydney: 2/3 Australian Field Regiment Association, 1998.This copy inscribed by Bishop, To Stan.
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Playing the State: Australian Feminist Interventions
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSophie Watson
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990. -
The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Cholodenko
Sydney: Power Institute of Fine Arts, 2007. -
A White Genocidal Assimilationist Bitch Speaks
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKathleen Mary Fallon
[Sydney]: Polar Bear Press, 2023.“This second publication in the Queensland School Reader series continues Fallon’s reconciliation dialogues telling intimate stories of her forty years as the lesbian foster mother of a Torres Strait Islander with disabilities. This was during the lesophobic decades when the boy would have been immediately removed from her care if the Authorities had discovered her lesbianism. Her stories are angry, tragic, darkly humorous, sometimes just plain snarky and gossipy. Ranging geographically from Brisbane to Sydney to London and ranging temporally over those forty year they are personally, politically, socially and culturally informative and candid snap shots of those times. There is an urgency about these stories and they need to be told.” (author’s blurb)