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Savages & Sinners
John Maitland
Sydney: The Macquarie Head Press, 1933.“This work is described by Miller as presenting ‘social and economic phases of life in mandated territories of the Northern Pacific and the sex-attitudes of whites and blacks’. The dedication and the author’s note suggest that it is a fictionalised re-telling of a diary kept by a Captain Tyarki. Whether this captain is an actual figure or a fictional persona is unclear.” (Auslit) This copy signed by the author to the title page.
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Dead Man’s Love
Tom Gallon
London, Melbourne and Toronto: Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.Romance mystery adventure of a prison escapee. The first printing with frontispiece illustration by Howard Somerville.
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The Arms of Phaedra: A Tale of Wonder and Adventure
Nigel Worth
London: Mills & Boon, 1924.Lost Race romance sci-fi set in Crete where ancient Minoans are found to have survived.
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Narcolepsy
Max 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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The Bike From Hell
Alex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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The Mods
Sandra Lawrence; Ken Williams
New York: Lancer Books, 1967.Pulp photo novel set in the mod subculture of 1960s London. Bohemian youths and motorcycles captured by Ken Williams.
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Witch Bane
Robert Neill
London: Arrow Books, 1970.Witchcraft in Cromwell’s England
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Splendora
Edward Swift
London: Penguin, 1981.“Splendora: a steamy East Texas town where Sue Ella Lightfoot furthers her study of sexual motives with every issue of Real Crime magazine while Agnes Pullens drills young ladies in the finer arts of Dance and Expression and Zeda Earl Goodridge faces a life of ruin if her Christmas yard display doesn’t take first prize this year. Timothy John Coldrige left this town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen; now, at thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie Gatewood. Draped (an impeccable accessorized) in Victorian finery and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm.”
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Kamikaze
Ray Slattery
London, Melbourne and Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1962.Australian war pulp.
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In The Long Run
Phil Jarratt
Sydney: James Fraser, 1984.“An Australian marathon runner stops at nothing in his pursuit of LA Olympic gold.”
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Not For A Day
Helga Moray
Sydney and Melbourne: Scripts, 1969.Australian pulp edition of Helga Moray’s lusting housewife themed novel.
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The Wasted Years
Jess Stearn
New York: Macadden-Bartell, 1968.“Sex, sadism, murder, brutality, perversion, prostitution, drug addiction. Trademarks of the teen-age gangs.”
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
Marquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. The first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer. This copy unopened in the original wrappers.
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Manrape
Marta 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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The Getting of Wisdom
Henry Handel Richardson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck.
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The Sugar Cube Trap
Madelaine Duke
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974.A fictional tale of children encountering the dangerous world of LSD.
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Thumb Tripping
Don Mitchell
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.Counter culture novel of hitchhiking hippies in California.
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The Man on the Bridge
Stephen Benatar
Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981.First published novel of Stephen Royce Benatar. “A coming-of-age story about a young man in 1950s London who has a tragic affair with a rich gay painter.” (Cosmo Landesman, The Sunday Times, April 11, 2010).
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The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Thomas Keneally
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. -
The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1967.Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan