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Short Stories
Original price was: AU$30.00.AU$24.00Current price is: AU$24.00. Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Hemingway
London: The Folio Society, 2010.Selected and with an introduction by David Hughes. Illustrated by Ian Beck. FORD-SMITH 565.
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Pull My Daisy
Original price was: AU$80.00.AU$60.00Current price is: AU$60.00. Read MoreAdd to cartJack Kerouac
New York: Grove Press, 1961.Text by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie.
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Inland
Original price was: AU$200.00.AU$160.00Current price is: AU$160.00. Read MoreAdd to cartGerald Murnane
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. -
Inland
Original price was: AU$300.00.AU$240.00Current price is: AU$240.00. Read MoreAdd to cartGerald Murnane
Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1988. -
Vice Versa or a Lesson to Fathers
Original price was: AU$600.00.AU$450.00Current price is: AU$450.00. Read MoreAdd to cartF. Anstey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882.First edition, first printing of the comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie set in Victorian London in which a stern father and mischevious son body-swap via a magic stone from India.
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Black or White? A Coffee Lovers’ Quest
Read MoreRobert Swales
Maleny: Dreaming Fields Publications, 1999.A short story of some larrikin travellers from colonial Sydney to the Sunshine Coast mountains in 1799.
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Kontrol
Original price was: AU$300.00.AU$240.00Current price is: AU$240.00. Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war sci-fi thriller. “..an exuberant Scientific Romance with thriller elements, in which a Mad Scientist switches genius brains into athletes’ bodies, then wipes their minds clean, in order to create a race of obedient Supermen; he is under the control of a Soviet master operator, whose network operates a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-off aerial juggernauts and a Dystopian supercity on a secret Island. All ends in flames.” (SFE)
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Mandatory Masquerade
Original price was: AU$400.00.AU$320.00Current price is: AU$320.00. Read MoreAdd to cartTrina Beaumont
Sydney [Ulladulla]: The Seahorse Club of Australia, 1981.Illustrated novella published by Seahorse, Australia’s first transgender support organisation. Authored by Trina Beaumont (formerly Trina Taylor), long-time editor of the club’s newsletter, Feminique, and a media advocate for the organisation during the 1970s. At the time, Seahorse primarily served heterosexual men who enjoyed cross-dressing, presenting members as ordinary men who occasionally adopted female attire. The novella includes illustrations by Di Ward and represents a rare example of early Australian transgender literature and community-produced publishing. A single copy recorded in OCLC, at the State Library of New South Wales.
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Numerous Treasure: A Romantic Novel
Original price was: AU$80.00.AU$40.00Current price is: AU$40.00. Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Keable
London: Constable & Co., 1925.Romance novel set in the Pacific after the author’s relocation to Tahiti. The final page provides a brief glossary of local terms, and the recipe for the absinthe based Numerous Treasure Cocktail.
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In Her Own Right
Original price was: AU$50.00.AU$25.00Current price is: AU$25.00. Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Reed Scott
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911.Romance novel with 3 colour illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.
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Sparagmos
Original price was: AU$50.00.AU$25.00Current price is: AU$25.00. Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Alexander
Adelaide: The Experimental Art Foundation, 1989.Experimental fiction by George Alexander with photography by Kurt Brereton and drawings by Piotr Olszanski. Sparagmos (from the ecstatic Greek ritual of dismemberment) brings together two texts: Ringing the Bell Backwards, an account of an artist friend’s suicide, and Roses for the Cutting, an analysis of love withdrawn – the love remembered, cauterized and remembered again.
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The Awakening
Original price was: AU$300.00.AU$200.00Current price is: AU$200.00. Read MoreAdd to cartG. D. Mitchell
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937.Novel by Australian author George Deane Mitchell describing the invasion of an unprepared Australia. This copy in the Syd Nicholls illustrated jacket.
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
Original price was: AU$400.00.AU$320.00Current price is: AU$320.00. Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. One of the first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer.
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Original price was: AU$1,000.00.AU$800.00Current price is: AU$800.00. Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.First edition, first printing, in a full leather modern art binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire.
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
Original price was: AU$150.00.AU$100.00Current price is: AU$100.00. Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Casanova; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1955.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Manrape
Original price was: AU$100.00.AU$80.00Current price is: AU$80.00. Read MoreAdd to cartMarta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Les Sept Femmes de La Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux
Original price was: AU$3,000.00.AU$2,400.00Current price is: AU$2,400.00. Read MoreAdd to cartAnatole France; G. A. Mossa
Paris: Librairie Des Amaterus, A. Ferroud. – F. Ferroud, 1921.Bluebeard’s Seven Wives and Other Wonderful Tales. France’s reinterpretation of the French folktale of Bluebeard. First published in 1909, this is the first edition with illustrations by Gustav-Adolf Mossa. One of 70 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states (from a total edition of 1,200). This copy from the collection of Australian actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate, in a fine signed binding by Flammarion bookbinder Jean Vaillant.
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La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
Original price was: AU$2,000.00.AU$1,600.00Current price is: AU$1,600.00. Read MoreAdd to cartHonore de Balzac; Almery Lobel-Riche
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Girl with the Golden Eyes. An aristocratic libertine becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and sets about seducing her. Alas, his conquest uncovers a hidden lesbian relationship and he finds himself entangled in a web of erotic obsession and fatal jealousy. First published in 1835, this is the first edition with illustrations by Almery Lobel-Riche. One of 40 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states and an original drawing by Lobel-Riche (from a total edition of 500). This copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet.
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Le Diable au Corps
Original price was: AU$2,000.00.AU$1,600.00Current price is: AU$1,600.00. Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Radiguet; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Editions Georges Gullot, 1957.The Devil in the Flesh. The story of a young married woman’s affair with a teenage boy while her husband is away fighting in WWI. First published in 1923, this is the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat, and with an introduction by Jean Cocteau. The superlative issue, one of 16 numbered copies on Japanese paper with an original signed drawing in pencil and white gouache, with the composition then hand coloured and signed by Becat, the 16 illustrations by Becat hand coloured by Jean and Paulette Monnier, followed by a suite containing the illustrations in black in two states, on Japanese paper and Rives vellum.
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Le Diable Amoureux
Original price was: AU$400.00.AU$320.00Current price is: AU$320.00. Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Cazotte; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: La Tradition, 1936.The Devil in Love. Occult romance first published in 1772. This the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. One of 450 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 500).