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Tavern Guild Beaux Arts Ball and Imperial Court Coronation Programmes and Handbills, 1978-2005
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTavern Guild of San Francisco; Imperial Court of San Francisco
San Francisco: Tavern Guild of San Francisco; Imperial Council of San Francisco; and others, 1978-2005.Nearly three decades of San Francisco drag royalty, from the Tavern Guild’s Halloween balls to the Imperial Court’s coronations. The programmes are filled with advertising from the city’s gay bars and businesses and from political campaigns seeking the gay vote, together with details of the events, photographs of the reigning and past emperors and empresses, and in some cases historical anecdotes. Contents: 6x Tavern Guild of San Francisco Beaux Arts Ball programmes: 1978; 1979 ‘Only in San Francisco’; 1980 ‘Baubles, Bangles and Beads’; 1981; 1982 ’20th Annual Beaux Arts Ball’; 1982 (Jack-o-lantern cover). 11x Imperial Court of San Francisco Coronation programmes: 1979 ‘The Coronation of the Emperor of San Francisco’; 1980 ‘Spices of the Elizabethan Era’ (Empress Ginger); 1987 ‘Legends, Myths and Magic’ (Emperor Matthew, Empress Sable); 1989 ‘Imperial Bell’ (designed as a Yellow Pages directory); 1992 Crystal Prism Court (Emperor Michael Bowman, Empress Caresse; congratulatory message from Mayor Frank Jordan); 1993 ‘Coronation Flight: Crash Landing’; 1998 ‘Realms of Fantasy’; 1999; 2000 ‘The Court of Graciousness and Goodwill’; 2001 ‘Integrity and Diversity’ (35th anniversary); 2005 ‘Four Decades of History and Tradition’. 2x Coronation programmes from other courts: Silver Dollar Court, Comstock Empire, Reno, 1991; Imperial Dove Court de Fresno and Madera, Coronation XX, 1993. 8x handbills: Glitter Boys Party for Bruce at Kimos; Sacramento Grand Duke and Duchess Ball 1986; Imperial Investiture 1985, San Francisco; Royal Gala Romp 1986, San Francisco; 20th anniversary of the reign of Empress XVI ‘Pushy’ Phyllis and Emperor IX Bobby Pace 2001; Tattoo Jim for Emperor; Collette Le Grande for Empress 1996; Mr, Ms and Miss Gay Garden Grove 1999.
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Joe’s Shows Invites You to A Weekend at ‘Tops
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Towle
[San Francisco]: Joe’s Shows Inc, [1982].1982 San Francisco poster for the premiere weekend of Skyline by Night, an all-night disco in the penthouse of the landmark Hamm’s brewery. A preview night on Friday for short people only (no one over five foot six and a half to be admitted) with DJ Chrysler Sheldon, and the main event on Saturday with DJ Steve Fabus and Jeanie Tracy performing. The poster features photography by Ken Towle, with a classic take on the Castro clone look playing into the short people’s party theme.
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Don’t Just Ask For It, Demand… Drummer
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartJim Wigler
[San Francisco]: Drummer, No date.Promotional poster for gay leatherman magazine Drummer, with a Raw Graphics photo by Jim Wigler. Seemingly an uncirculated centrefold, without fold lines or staple holes, so either an unbound sheet or issued separately. The verso with an erotic erection sequence by Reflex Studio.
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Looking for Mr. Drummer
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Wood
[San Francisco]: Drummer, 1982.Promotional poster for the 1982 Mr Drummer leatherman contest. Advertising Mr. So. California Drummer in Los Angeles (March 25 and 26), Mr. No. California Drummer at the Russian River (March 26, 27 and 28) and the Mr. Drummer Finals in San Francisco (April 29, 1982). Apparently printed as the centrefold of a late 1981 or early 1982 issue of Drummer, but without fold lines or staple holes, so either an unbound sheet or issued separately. The verso with three photographs of Jon King.
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[Naked Hairy Man]
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJakal
: No publisher, No date.Hairy, hypermasculine male nude, an unsigned open-edition poster by Jakal from the late 1970s.
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Drummer
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJakal
[San Francisco]: Drummer, 1977.Jakal’s hairy leather man for Drummer, the same image used to promote the Fist Fuckers of America.
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Probe Lubricant
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBuzZa [attributed to Lloyd Buchanan]
[Berkeley]: [Davryan Laboratories], No date.Homoerotic poster art by BuzZa for Probe, an early lubricant marketed for sexual pleasure. BuzZa is likely the pseudonym of Lloyd Buchanan, a pointillist active in the San Francisco leather scene in the 1970s and 1980s. His early portraits and his 1970s exhibition poster for the Ambush leather bar, titled ‘Buz Za Pointalisms’, are signed with his own name, and we have located one other homoerotic work from the early 1980s signed BuzZa, as on this poster.
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Indulge With The Sisters T-Shirt Order Form
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; Greg Day
San Francisco: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, No date.Early 1980s drag nun merchandise ephemera, an order form for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence t-shirt illustrated with a photograph by Greg Day. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a protest order of drag nuns founded in San Francisco in 1979.
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Don’t abstain… Vote for Nun of the Above! BOOM BOOM for SUPERVISOR
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSister Boom Boom; Nina Glaser
San Francisco: Boom Boom for Supe, 1982.Campaign brochure for drag nun Sister Boom Boom’s 1982 run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Running as Nun of the Above, Boom Boom campaigned on police accountability, housing, and reclaiming the Moral Majority from Jerry Falwell, proposing to homestead vacant properties and turn the Presidio into farms, parks, and housing. The campaign drew more than 23,000 votes but ultimately placed eighth in the race for five positions. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a protest order of drag nuns founded in San Francisco in 1979. Photography by Nina Glaser, design by Cass.
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Sister Boom Boom for Supervisor: San Francisco Nov. 2 1982
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartSister Boom Boom; Nina Glaser
San Francisco: [Boom Boom for Supe], 1982.Campaign poster for drag nun Sister Boom Boom’s 1982 run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Running as Nun of the Above, Boom Boom campaigned on police accountability, housing, and reclaiming the Moral Majority from Jerry Falwell, proposing to homestead vacant properties and turn the Presidio into farms, parks, and housing. The campaign drew more than 23,000 votes but ultimately placed eighth in the race for five positions. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a protest order of drag nuns founded in San Francisco in 1979. Photography by Nina Glaser, design by Emfinger Moske Associates.
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Papal Bond: Official 1987 San Francisco Papal Welcoming Committee
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartSister Chanel 2001 [Gilbert Baker]; Sister Sadie, the Rabbi Lady
San Francisco: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, 1987.Rainbow flag designer Gilbert Baker’s mock papal bond, issued to fund queer protest against the 1987 papal visit to San Francisco. Baker was a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the order of drag nuns founded in San Francisco in 1979, who greeted Pope John Paul II in September 1987 with a public exorcism in Union Square. This bond is dated 28 June 1987, the day of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Parade, presumably where it was issued to raise funds for the protest.
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Mourn Divine Correctly: March 9 1988
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartDivine
San Francisco: Kennel Club, 1988.Punk wake for Divine, drag performer and longtime John Waters star, held two days after his death. Featuring a nude revue, Bambi Lake, John Waters films, and Drunk Injuns at the Kennel Club, 628 Divisadero.
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Divine in The Neon Woman
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDivine; Klaus Lucka
New York: Zarett Graphics, 1978.Promotional postcard for the 1978 New York run of Tom Eyen’s murder mystery comedy set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house, starring Divine, the drag performer and longtime John Waters star. With a handwritten message to verso, posted from Seattle to California.
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Bernard Jay Presents Divine in The Neon Woman by Tom Eyen
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartDivine; Tom Eyen
San Francisco: Alcazar Theatre, [1979].Programme for the 1979 San Francisco run of Tom Eyen’s murder mystery comedy set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house, starring Divine, the drag performer and longtime John Waters star. Outlines the cast and staff with short biographies of the stars.
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Bernard Jay Presents Divine, The Neon Woman: An Outrageous Comedy
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartDivine; Tom Eyen
San Francisco: Alcazar Theatre, [1979].Poster for the 1979 San Francisco run of Tom Eyen’s murder mystery comedy set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house, starring Divine, the drag performer and longtime John Waters star.
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Emergence
AU$450 Read MoreAdd to cartCynthia MacAdams
New York: Chelsea House, 1977.Photo book of black and white portraits of women by Cynthia MacAdams. Emergence was MacAdams’ first published photo book and became an icon of 1970s feminist photography. Subjects include Patti Smith, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Laurie Anderson, Rita Mae Brown, Michelle Phillips, Judy Chicago, and many others. Introduction by Kate Millett and introductory poem by Diane di Prima, both of which are also subjects.
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The Riot Grrrl Collection
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLisa Darms; Johanna Fateman
New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013.1990s riot grrrl zines collected in book form for the first time, drawn from the movement’s institutional archive.
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The Male Figure (Complete Set, 36 Volumes)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1956-1966.Complete run of the physique photography digest of Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), one of the prominent beefcake magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Like other physique publications of the period, such as Bob Mizer’s ‘Physique Pictorial’, ‘The Male Figure’ presented its studies under the cover of bodybuilding and physical culture, the thin posing strap under which most gay erotic photography and publishing circulated in America before the relaxation of obscenity law in the late 1960s.
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Blueboy: The National Magazine About Men (December 1979) with Australian Supplement
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald N. Embinder; R. Crich
Miami: Blueboy, 1979.Single issue of American gay magazine Blueboy: this issue contains the first Australian Editorial supplement edited by R. Crich bound at the centre. Also laid in is a TLS from Tony Davidson of Platterpuss pitching the issue to a Hobart newsagency, pinned to this is a carbon copy of the autograph reply from the newsagency proprietor on classification and the Australian sex publication trade.
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Nudism in Modern Life: The New Gymnosophy
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Parmelee
Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1931.An early English-language case for German-style social nudism, with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Reissue of Knopf’s Revised New Edition, with 29 illustrations on 11 plates.
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Nudism in Modern Life: The New Gymnosophy
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Parmelee
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1942.An early English-language case for German-style social nudism, with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Third printing of the English Bodley Head edition, with 23 illustrations on 12 plates. This copy with the bookplate of British artist Norman H. Partridge (1921-2003).
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Pedro Friedeberg
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartIda Rodriguez Prampolini
[Mexico City]: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1973.Monograph of Mexican surrealist Pedro Friedeberg (1936-2026).
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Field Guide to the Psilocybin Mushroom
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartF. C. Ghouled; Richard Meredith; P. Holt; Jose
: No publisher, No date.American field guide. Early 1970s printing without imprint, varying from the more commonly found 1972 Guidance Publications print without the subtitle “species common to North America”, and the rear cover gaining a recipe for a mushroom smoothie.
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Brooklyn Kings: New York City’s Black Bikers
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin Dixon
New York: powerHouse Books, 2000.“As an avid biker for over nine years, photographer Martin Dixon gained unprecedented access to the predominantly African-American motorcycle clubs in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan. Comprising a huge subculture of urban road warriors totally unknown to most New Yorkers and bike club enthusiasts, these black “biker gangs” — with names like the Jaguars, the Black Falcons, the Pythons, the Transit Wheelers, the Imperials, the Corpians, the Harlem Riders, the United Roadrunners, and the Uptown Riders — are really high-octane social clubs, whose members ride flashy ninja sport bikes. Through Dixon’s spectacular insider perspective, we enter a world straddling the customs and trappings of traditional biker culture (the heavily embroidered leather jackets, the thick male camaraderie, the bike as manifestation of the ego), and the rituals and pastimes of the urban biker (the springtime bike blessings, the trophy parties, and the clubhouse socials). More importantly, thanks to Dixon, we witness, even participate in, a set of rituals the likes of which no outsider has ever documented: the block parades (complete with monster trucks!), the barbeque parties (replete with a southern club specialty, the “Mississippi Mud Slide”), the bikini bike wash, the Myrtle and Virginia Beach bike runs, the drag races, the raunchy fundraising parties, and, of course, the “biker chicks”, urban flavor.” (publisher’s blurb) With an essay by Greg Tate.
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United Air Lines: A Gay Geography of the Main Line Airway
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartUnited Air Lines; Ruth Taylor
[United States]: United Air Lines, No date.1930s illustrated booklet with colourful and descriptive maps of the routes of United Air Lines drawn by Ruth Taylor.
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The Olympian Vol. II, No. 9 (July, 1934)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartVincent Burke
West Haverstraw: The Olympian League, 1934.Single issue of the newsletter of early American nudist organisation the Olympian League, issued shortly after a raid on one of the group’s events at a Manhattan gymnasium led to charges against the editor. Although those involved were ultimately acquitted, the backlash against the ruling helped bring about the 1935 New York state anti-nudism ban. This issue discusses the organising of a national nudist body in light of the case, part of a feature on Tony Sansone, and more. No holdings of The Olympian recorded in OCLC.
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British Artisan Expedition to America: Equipped and Sent Out by and at the Expense of the Proprietors of the Dundee Courier and Dundee Weekly News Newspapers
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartDundee Courier
Dundee: W. & D. C. Thomson, Dundee Courier Office, 1893.Scottish artisan’s first-hand reports from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and a tour across the United States and Canada to report on the wages, homes, and working lives of American and Canadian labour in the late 19th century. This copy inscribed to James Mann by the Proprietors of the Dundee Courier 1896.
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Presenting: Robin Roberts. America’s Most Beautiful Boy
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartEdgar Byrnes
New York: Marquis Publishers, [c. 1960].Digest photobook of Florida drag performer Robin Roberts, “The Miami Peach”, with two photo-sequences tracing a performative transition from boy to queen. Little is known of Roberts beyond these shoots, but the photographs were reprinted numerous times in the drag magazine ‘Female Mimics’, on one occasion under the name Windy Starr. Bob Davis, founder and director of the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive, notes that Lee Brewster (owner of Lee’s Mardi Gras Boutique in New York) described the Marquis digest as one of his best all-time sellers, and that “except for these photos, which appear to have all been shot in one session, virtually nothing is known about Robin Roberts” (‘Female Mimics Part 3: Pudgy’s Challenge’, TGForum). A single copy of this edition recorded in OCLC at Yale, with two further copies traced of the 34 page edition, which was published without an imprint and contains only the first sequence.
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Street Strollers of New York
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCatherine Bell
Melbourne: Monash Gallery of Art, 2014.“Street strollers of New York is a sequence of photographs that document African-American nannies shuttling white children through the affluent mid-town streets of Manhattan. Catherine Bell’s interest in this subject grew out of her own experience working as a nanny in London; she embarked on this project with the notion to pay tribute to an under-acknowledged workforce. While there is a significant tradition in documentary photography of images of heroic workers, Bell’s images of African-American nannies belong to another tradition altogether – that of the clandestine street photograph. In these pictures, taken with a hidden camera and for the most part without the subject’s knowledge, Bell has cast each nanny in the role of a fugitive.” (exhibition statement, Sutton Gallery)
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Festival of Life Aug 25-30
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartYippies (Youth International Party)
New York: YIP, 1968.Promotional hand-out distributed ahead of the planned Festival of Life, an event planned leading into the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August of 1968. Contains 8 pages of text and illustrations on 5 coloured paper leaves comprising sexy and psychedelic illustrations, a manifesto-like text attributed to Jerry Rubin, and instructions on firebombs and DMT. This copy signed by writer and Yippie founding member Paul Krassner to the front cover.
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Unloveable
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKai Regan
New York: O. H. W. O. W., 2008.Photobook by American photographer Kai Regan of early 2000s NYC art scene.
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Mountain Men: The Male Photography of Don Whitman
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Whitman
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1991.The physique photography of Don Whitman’s Western Photography Guild, operating out of Denver Colorado, capturing the perfectly sculpted men of the American West in the Rocky Mountains.
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L. A. Digger News; DNA: Digger News Association; Extra Digger News
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartLos Angeles Diggers
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Diggers, 1967.Complete run of the three issues published by the Los Angeles Diggers, also known as the Digger Creative Society, an underground counterculture group active in Los Angeles during the summer of 1967. The paper changed its title with each issue. Inspired by the San Francisco Diggers but apparently not organisationally linked to them, the Los Angeles group ran a free store, distributed free food, and arranged emergency housing and free medical care in anticipation of a mass influx of hippies to the city over the summer. The papers were distributed free through local head shops with an optional donation, and reported on these activities alongside coverage of love-ins and related events.
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La Femme Dominatas Issue 26
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartBenco Publications
New York: Benco Publications, 1974.Bi-monthly contact newsletter devoted to female domination and associated fetish interests. Typical of the underground personal-contact publications that flourished before the internet, it contains more than one hundred personal advertisements accompanied by suggestive line illustrations, together with advertisements for swingers’ clubs, mail-order fetishwear, specialist adult publications, humour features, and a serialised work of erotic fiction. The final page provides evidence of the publisher’s changing circumstances: the printed address at 152 West 42nd Street, Suite 536, New York, has been cancelled and overstamped with a corrected address for Benco at 130 West 42nd Street, Suite 1305, documenting at least one office relocation during the newsletter’s run. Such ephemeral publications were typically produced in small quantities for a niche readership and were rarely collected by libraries, contributing to their present scarcity. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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A Popular Guide to the Higher Fungi (Mushrooms) of New York State
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis C. C. Krieger
Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1935. -
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Wolfe
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.Wolfe’s debut novel, a landmark autobiographical coming-of-age narrative in American literature. First edition, second state dust jacket. JOHNSTON A2.1.a.
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The Emperor Jones; Diff’rent; The Straw
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene G. O’Neill
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921.First edition, first state binding, in the original pictorial jacket. The Emperor Jones was a watershed in American theatre, one of the first major Broadway productions to feature a Black actor in a leading dramatic role of such prominence, originally performed by Charles S. Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson in a role that helped establish his international stage reputation. A bold expressionist exploration of fear, power, and racial consciousness, the play remains a landmark text in both African-American theatrical history and the development of modern American drama. ATKINSON A 15-I-i.a. Also includes Diff’rent, a two-act study of sexual repression in a New England fishing village, and The Straw, a naturalistic drama drawn from O’Neill’s own experience in a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Smoking Technology of the Aborigines of the Iroquois Area of New York State
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward S. Rutsch
Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. -
The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Stoddard
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.Cambridge Elements: New Religious Movements. “The rise of entheogenic religion – that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs – has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more broadly. This Element breaks with these approaches as it offers a historical and critical analysis of entheogenic communities. It examines the production of entheogenic groups in the United States and considers the historical factors that have contributed to the rise in psychedelics more broadly. It also explores legal considerations and the impact of the law as a curator of entheogenic communities. This Element recognizes that these communities – like all imagined communities – are culturally conditioned, socially constructed, and historically contingent. By exploring these contingencies, we learn more about the broader sociocultural, historical, and economic frameworks that underlie the burgeoning association of psychoactive substances and religion.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Buzzing at the Sill
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter van Agtmael
Heidelberg and Berlin: Kehrer, 2016.Photobook by Magnum Photos photographer Peter van Agtmael on returning to America after years abroad covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Lago
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartRon Jude
[London]: MACK, 2015.Photo book of the California desert.
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Hijacked Volume One: Australia and America
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMark McPherson; Max Pam
Perth: Big City Press, 2008.Anthology of young Australian and American photographers edited by Mark McPherson and Max Pam. This copy inscribed by Max Pam to the publisher of his later books, Atlas Monographs and Narcolepsy, Gianni Frinzi.
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Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBill Wittliff
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000.Photo essay of the brothels along the border of Texas and Mexico collected and edited by Bill Wittliff. With essays by Keith Carter, Dave Hickey, and Cristina Pacheco.
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History of the National Archery Association of the United States of America, 1879-1978 (2 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert J. Rhode
Grayling: Robert J. Rhode, 1978.Each volume one of 1,000 signed and numbered copies.
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The Coon in the Box: A Global Folktale in African-American Tradition
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Minton; David Evans
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001.Among the most popular of all African-American folktales is the story folklorists know as The Coon in the Box, itself a derivative of the extremely old and widespread narrative usually identified, after Brothers Grimm, as Doctor Know-All (Doktor Allwissend) (AaTh 1641). Not coincidentally, this item has served as a centerpiece in the debate over the sources of New World black folktales. A detailed analysis of The Coon in the Box, its life history and cultural context thus reveals a great deal not only of the nature of African-American oral narratives in and of themselves, but also of the challenges confronting scholars in investigating the origins, diffusion, and development of these traditions. FF Communications No. 277 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A Motif-Index of Luis Rosado Vega’s Mayan Legends
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJim C. Tatum
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000.The Mayan Culture, long recognised as among the most advanced indigenous groups of Latin America, possesses a rich heritage of mythology and traditions still very apparent in the Yacatan Peninsula at the closing of the twentieth century. Although Mayan legends have been studied and published as early as 1844, there exists no extensive motif-index dealing with the topic. This work attempts to help fill that need by indexing the works of Yacatecan writer Luis Rosaldo Vega. FF Communications No. 271 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Big ‘Fraid and Little ‘Fraid: An Afro-American Folktale
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Minton
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1993.Though devoted specifically to the life history of the anecdote folklorists know as Tale Type 1676A/Motif K1682.1, Big ‘Fraid and Little ‘Fraid, this study more generally assesses the manner in which the circuitous epistemology of the tale indices compiled by, or in emulation of, Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson covertly subverted Richard Dorson’s controversial conclusions concerning the origins of Afro-American oral narratives, as well as the arguments of those who have challenged his position. FF Communications No. 253 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Why We March
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartSoul Brother #44 (Ernest White)
New York: Paperback Library, 1969.“An angry protest from Black America.”
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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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The Sixties
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Altman
Santa Monica: Santa Monica Press, 2007. -
Telegraph 3 A.M.: The Street People of Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Misrach
Berkeley: Cornucopia Press, 1974.First photobook of American photographer Richard Misrach (1949-), being street photography of the homeless residents of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.
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A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartThe New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976. -
Rues et Visages de New-York
AU$2,200 Read MoreAdd to cartChas Laborde; Paul Morand
Paris: Lacouriere, 1950.Streets and Faces of New York. The final, and posthumous, of Charles Laborde’s series of works on famous world cities, having previously produced similar volumes on Paris (1926), London (1928), Berlin (1930), and Moscow (1935). The New York volume produced from sketchbooks he made on his trip in 1932, containing 15 accompanied by text by Paul Morand. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 230.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,000 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartMariano Valadez; Susana Valadez
Oakland: Amber Lotus, 1992.Monograph of the peyote inspired paintings of the Huichol Indians. “The sacred ways of the Huichol Indians are vividly communicated in traditional art works called “yarn paintings”. Their symbols represent natural forces that are normally invisible, as well as shamanic ceremonies performed by the Huichol to contact, learn from, and work with these energies.” (from jacket blurb)
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The Golden Age of Hispanic Silver, 1400-1665
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Oman
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1968.In original Victoria and Albert Museum carton.
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Officers of Anchorage Chapter, Alaska, 1924
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cart[FREEMASONRY]
Adelaide: Kodak Austral, 1956.Real photo post card of the officers, manuscript note on verso of the positions from left to right.
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Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLeah Gordon
London: Soul Jazz Publishing, 2010.Photography and oral histories by Leah Gordon. Words by Madison Smartt Bell, Don Cosentino, Richard Fleming, Kathy Smith and Myron Beasley.
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Dark Shadows in the Afternoon
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartKathleen Resch; Marcy Robin
New York: Image Publishing, 1991.A look at the American daytime TV horror soap opera, Dark Shadows. The original series ran for 1,225 episodes between 1966 and 1977.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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Fish Oregon Waters, Drive Oregon Highways
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartTravel and Information Department of the Oregon State Highway Commission
Salem: Travel and Information Department of the Oregon State Highway Commission, No date.1930s fishing travel guide to Oregon.
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Minnesota’s Vacation Land Supreme
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartSt. Louis County Club
Gilbert: St. Louis County Club, No date.Circa 1940 brochure advertising activities, sights, and accommodation in St. Louis County. Colour map centrefold by Frank Antoncich in the cartoon map style of Ruth Taylor, St. Louis County, Minnesota.
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Do Catalog: Source Book of the Good Life (U.S.A. ’76)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMitsuo Kamiya
[Tokyo]: Sankei Shimbun Publishing Bureau, 1975.Japanese American lifestyle fetish catalogue copiously illustrated throughout with interior design, self sustainable living, crafts, and more. An addition to the library of Japanese American lifestyle fetish catalogs, a contribution to the mid 20th century development of the Japanese fascination with the American way of fashion, design, culture, and capitalism.
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Gonzo Republic: Hunter S. Thompson’s America
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Stephenson
London and New York: Continuum, 2012. -
Working Men and Ganja: Marihuana Use in Rural Jamaica
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMelanie Creagan Dreher
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982.A study on the commerce and use of ganja (marijuana) in three rural labour farmer villages in Jamaica. The study highlights a debate on ganja between socioeconomic divisions; the upper and middle class condemn it, while the labouring class claim it is beneficial for well being and even enhancing productivity.
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A Preliminary Bibliography on the American Fur Trade
AU$140 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Cuthbertson; John C. Ewers
Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2002.Originally published 1939.
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Dawson’s Book Shop: Publisher of Western Americana and Patron of the Book Arts
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Arthur Roberts
Los Angeles: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1964.Reprint from the California Librarian, April 1964.
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Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Crane Hewett
Mansfield: Maurizio Martino Publishers, No date.Originally published 1918- 1920. Limited edition of 150 copies.
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The Spanish Southwest, 1542 – 1794: An Annotated Bibliography
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry R. Wagner
Staten Island: Maurizio Martino, No date.Edition limited to 150 copies.
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Prime Sources of California and Nevada Local History: 151 Rare and Important City, County and State Directories, 1850 – 1906
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Quebedeaux
Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1992. -
Pocketman
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Bell
Toronto: Dorset Publishing, 1979.A book of comedy loosely based on the life of Canadian street poet, Roy McDonald, and his time in Montreal. This copy with a lengthy inscription by Roy McDonald, aka Pocketman, naming various characters in the book.
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Mr Nixon Pushes Abortion on Demand
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Scott
Belmont: The Review of the News, 1970.Reprint of a pro-life article from The Review of the News, 16 September, 1970.
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Sarasota, Florida: Art and Recreation Center
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartSarasota County Chamber of Commerce
Sarasota: Sarasota County Chamber of Commerce, No date. -
Glimpses Along the Way: New York – Chicago
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBaltimore & Ohio Railroad
: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1937.A Thousand Miles on the Picturesque Baltimore & Ohio; New York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Akron, Chicago. 1930s promotional booklet for the United States oldest railway.
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The Gulf Coast: The American Riviera
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartLouisville & Nashville Railroad
Louisville: Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1935. -
Rainier National Park (6 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cart[Rainier National Park Company]
[Tacoma]: [Rainier National Park Company], 1933-1939.6 brochures for Rainier National Park from 1933-1939. 4 variants of Rainier National Park: In the Heart of the Great Northwest for the years 1933, 1935, 1938, and 1939; The Rainier National Park Company 1937 brochure; and Rainier National Park: On the Route of the Air-Conditioned North Coast Limited by the Northern Pacific Railway, Yellowstone Park Line.
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Map of Glendale and Vicinity
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartGlendale Chamber of Commerce and the Glendale News Press
Glendale: Glendale Chamber of Commerce and the Glendale News Press, No date.Circa 1954. Includes a brief history of Glendale.
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A Map of the Marked Historical Sites of California
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Townsend Hanna; William Webb, Lowell Butler
California: Westways with The Automobile Club of Southern California, 1952.Compiled from the Official Registrations of the California State Department of Natural Resources. With notes on each site. A coloured map of the whole state with smaller maps of sites in San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, Monterey, Los Angeles and Vicinity, San Diego, and Mother Lode. Westways Vol. 44, No. 12.
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Enjoy Life in Berkeley, California: City of Homes, Culture, Industry, Education
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBerkeley Chamber of Commerce
Berkeley: Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, No date. -
Map of Berkeley
AU$85 Read MoreAdd to cartCity of Berkeley
Berkeley: City of Berkeley, No date.Map of Berkeley, Albany, and Vicinity. Includes photographs of notable locations.
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Sunshine and Health in Albuquerque
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbuquerque Civic Council
Albuquerque: Albuquerque Civic Council, 1939.Concentrates on the healthy climate and medical facilities of Albuquerque.
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The Matthews-Northrup Up-to-date Map of Washington D. C.
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Matthews-Northrup Co.
Buffalo and New York: The Matthews-Northrup Co., 1895.Index printed on verso.
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Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin: At the Foot of Lake Winnebago Extends a Hearty Welcome
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartFond Du Lac Association of Commerce
Fond Du Lac: Fond Du Lac Association of Commerce, No date.Gateway of the Famous Fox River Valley. Contents: Scenes in Fond du Lac Show the Progress of a Live City. A City of Extensive Educational and Recreational Facilities. Places of Interest Offer Delightful Memories to the Visiting Public. Fond Du Lac Offers Industry Excellent Opportunities and Co-operation. An Ideal Farming Community Surrounds the City of Fond du Lac. Churches of Every Denomination are Found in the City of Fond du Lac. Fond du Lac City Offers Ideal Convention Facilities to All. Points of Historic Interest About Fond du Lac.
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Canadian Pacific All Services Map
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCanadian Pacific
Toronto: Rolph Clark Stone, 1957.Large folding colour map showing the steamship, rail, and air services of Canadian Pacific. The large map shows North America, with insets showing Trans-Atlantic Steamship routes, and International Airline routes to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland, Mexico City, Lima, and Buenos Aires.The verso promotes the amenities of their services.
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Christmas Carols
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartChaplain H. L. Winter
Oahu: Schofield Barracks, 1917.Christmas Carols arranged by Chaplain H. L. Winter, 1st Infantry: Christmas 1917, Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Hints on Service in France: Containing Lists of What to Take and How to Take it with Other Valuable Information for Officers and Men
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Davis
Kansas City: Union Bank Note Co., 1918.Tips for an officer. Label on the wrappers: With the compliments of Brooks Brothers; with a 14 page fold out catalogue for Brooks Brothers Clothing pasted in the back. ” This list includes a representative selection of merchandise in our stock for the outfitting of Officers in the various branches of the Army and Navy” (from page 1 of the catalogue.)
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The Rock of the Marne: A Chronological Story of the 38th Regiment, U. S. Infantry
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. W. Wooldridge
Columbia: The University Press, 1920. -
Letters from Orange and Lemon Growers in the Tulare County Citrus Belt
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartCalifornia Grove Planting Company
Los Angeles: California Grove Planting Company, 1914.Eight letters from citrus growers in the Tulare County area that verify the output and recommend the purchase of citrus orchards in the district. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Enjoy the 1960 Winter Olympic Games from Nearby Nevada & Skiing (3 Volumes)
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartState Printing Office, Carson City, Nevada
Carson City: State Printing Office, 1960.Accompanied by 2 similar brochures titled Nevada: Gateway to the 1960 Winter Olympics: Skiing. The Skiing brochures each have the same text, but some of the illustrations differ.
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A Summer at the Top o’ the World
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Walter Shaw
Los Angeles: Sixth Avenue Publishing Company, 1927.Chronicling the impressions received by the author during a summer’s vacation spent among the National Parks of the United States and Canada. Locations visited included the Carquinez Strait, the Redwood Highway, Portland, Columbia River Highway, Yellowstone National Park and its geysers, Jackson Hole country including a rodeo there, Buffalo Bill Country, Glacier National Park, Turtle Mountain, the Banff-Windermere Highway and the Okanagan Valley.
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Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartVarnum Door Engine Company
Los Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
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Frigidaire
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartFrigidaire
Dayton: Delco-Light Company, No date.Describes the benefits of the oak or white enamel Frigidaire, including the ice cube drawers in which may be made 72 ‘crystal-pure cubes of ice for table use.’ Also includes recipes for Frozen Dainties made with the Frigidaire. This copy with The Frigidaire Corporation printed through on the colophon and printed No Made and Guaranteed by Delco-Light Company, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation.
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Frigidaire
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartFrigidaire
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
AU$110 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$60 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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Some Telephone Suggestions
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartSouthern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date.1930s instruction booklet for conducting polite business communication on the telephone. “To have persons habitually look forward to a pleasant experience when they deal with your business is one of the greatest assets your firm can have. There are ways by which your staff’s use of the telephone can have a big effect in creating such an attitude. ” (from wrapper) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Wines of America
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartFruit Industries Ltd
[United States]: Fruit Industries Ltd, 1934.A listing of the wines available in America – what they are, what to serve them with, and how to serve them.
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Classic Cat Vol. 1 No. 1
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cart[The Classic Cat]
North Hollywood: Seven Seventy Publishers, 1969.Promotional magazine for the largest and most luxurious topless club of 1960s LA, The Classic Cat. Owned by Allan Wells, The Classic Cat on the Sunset Strip was an icon of Los Angeles’ strip club scene operating from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s at 8844 Sunset Boulevard. A new restaurant by the same name opened in the building next door in the 2000s and still operates today. The magazine features many of the club’s “kittens” on and off stage, as well as celebrity patrons of the club. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC.
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My Dear, Sweet Self: A Hot Peach Life
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJimmy Camicia
Silverton: Fast Books, 2013.Biography of Jimmy Camicia, founder of New York drag performance group, Hot Peaches.
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Practical Information on the Use and Care of Wire Rope
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartA. Leschen and Sons Rope Co.
St. Louis: A. Leschen and Sons Rope Co., 1927.Detailed guide to the correct usage of wire rope by American ropery A. Leschen and Sons Rope Co.