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La Fille Elisa
Original price was: AU$400.00.AU$320.00Current price is: AU$320.00. Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Paul-Louis Guilbert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
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Les Ames du Purgatoire
Original price was: AU$100.00.AU$80.00Current price is: AU$80.00. Read MoreAdd to cartProsper Merimee; Lucien Guezennec
Paris: Pierre Larrive, 1947.The Souls of Purgatory, short story retelling of the myth of Don Juan, the first edition with 10 engravings by Lucien Guezennec and woodcut ornaments by Dan Sigros. One of a numbered edition of 500 copies on Lafuma (of a total edition of 611).
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La Mort de Philae
Original price was: AU$400.00.AU$320.00Current price is: AU$320.00. Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Loti; Geo Colucci
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1924.The Death of Philae (English title: Egypt), a tale set around the submerging of the island of Philae with the construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the river Nile. The first edition with illustrations by Geo Colucci. One of 460 numbered copies on vellum (of a total edition of 500), in a fine half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax with the original wrappers bound in.
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Les Civilises
Original price was: AU$800.00.AU$560.00Current price is: AU$560.00. Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere; Henri Le Riche
Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, 1926.French colonizers indulge in fornication, opium, and general debauchery in late 19th century Saigon (then French Cochincina, modern day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). One of 200 numbered copies of Arches vellum (of a total edition of 300), bound with the original wrappers.
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Original price was: AU$220.00.AU$150.00Current price is: AU$150.00. Read MoreAdd to cartFergus W. Hume
London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, [1888]. -
Armed with Madness
Original price was: AU$3,250.00.AU$2,275.00Current price is: AU$2,275.00. Read MoreAdd to cartMary Butts; Jean Cocteau
London: Wishart & Company, 1928.Experimental novel based on the myth of the Holy Grail. A one time student of Aleister Crowley, Butts is credited as a co-author of the 1912 Magick (Book 4). In 1921 she spent time at Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema, not enjoying her stay, and departing with a drug habit. Armed with Madness explores the relationships (including homoeroticism and bisexuality) and ritualism among a group of young bohemians living at a country home. Considered a masterpiece of Modernist prose. One of 100 numbered copies of the Deluxe Edition on handmade paper with illustrations by Jean Cocteau.
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Savages & Sinners
Original price was: AU$150.00.AU$75.00Current price is: AU$75.00. Read MoreAdd to cartJohn 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
Original price was: AU$150.00.AU$75.00Current price is: AU$75.00. Read MoreAdd to cartTom 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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Narcolepsy
Original price was: AU$50.00.AU$25.00Current price is: AU$25.00. Read MoreAdd to cartMax 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
Original price was: AU$50.00.AU$25.00Current price is: AU$25.00. Read MoreAdd to cartAlex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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The Mods
Original price was: AU$50.00.AU$25.00Current price is: AU$25.00. Read MoreAdd to cartSandra 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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Splendora
Original price was: AU$20.00.AU$10.00Current price is: AU$10.00. Read MoreAdd to cartEdward 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
Original price was: AU$20.00.AU$10.00Current price is: AU$10.00. Read MoreAdd to cartRay Slattery
London, Melbourne and Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1962.Australian war pulp.
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In The Long Run
Original price was: AU$30.00.AU$15.00Current price is: AU$15.00. 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 Wasted Years
Original price was: AU$30.00.AU$15.00Current price is: AU$15.00. Read MoreAdd to cartJess Stearn
New York: Macadden-Bartell, 1968.“Sex, sadism, murder, brutality, perversion, prostitution, drug addiction. Trademarks of the teen-age gangs.”
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The Getting of Wisdom
Original price was: AU$500.00.AU$300.00Current price is: AU$300.00. Read MoreAdd to cartHenry 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
Original price was: AU$30.00.AU$20.00Current price is: AU$20.00. Read MoreAdd to cartMadelaine Duke
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974.A fictional tale of children encountering the dangerous world of LSD.
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Thumb Tripping
Original price was: AU$40.00.AU$30.00Current price is: AU$30.00. Read MoreAdd to cartDon Mitchell
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.Counter culture novel of hitchhiking hippies in California.
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The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Original price was: AU$50.00.AU$25.00Current price is: AU$25.00. Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Keneally
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The Ice Palace
Original price was: AU$150.00.AU$75.00Current price is: AU$75.00. Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1967.Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan