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Narcolepsy
AU$50.00 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
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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The Mods
AU$50.00 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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In The Long Run
AU$30.00 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
AU$30.00 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
AU$500.00 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 Ice Palace
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1967.Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan
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The Birds
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1968.Translated from the Norwegian, Fuglane, by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes
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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking.
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Place of the Stinging Nettles
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis Shatte
Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1970.A novel of Gympie, Queensland. This copy signed by the author.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.
The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution.
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Stir
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Jewson
Melbourne: Unicorn Books, 1980.Novelisation of the 1980 prison film based on the 1974 prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex and the subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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Biff
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles S. Gould
Sydney: Jons Productions, [1945].Australian juvenile fiction. Adventure story about a boy from the Queensland bush. MUIR 2904.
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A Horse Of Air
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDal Stivens
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970.Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for best Australian novel in 1970. “the story of Harry Craddock — millionaire, ornithologist, idealist and buffoon — written mostly by himself in a mental hospital after a wild expedition to central Australia in search of the rare night parrot. His self-portrait is filled out and balanced with extracts from his wife’s diary and comments by the psychiatrist who treated him. The result is a many-layered narrative whose ultimate meaning, or meanings, each reader must decide for themselves. One thing is beyond doubt: it is a strange and compelling story. The character and life of Harry Craddock include many contrasting elements, but they all converge in his quest for the night parrot.” (from jacket blurb)
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Never Love a Stranger
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHarold Robbins
London: Robert Hale, 1958.The second UK printing, in the dustwrapper, of Harold Robbins first novel, a tale of crime and gangsters in New York. Published the same year as the film release starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray.
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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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The Inseparables
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Braddon
London: Michael Joseph, 1968.A German medical student’s Christmas day pilgrimage to Dachau on LSD.
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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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Pietro
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha Lincoln Heustis
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1915.The story of a young Italian man who travels to New York to find a better life. This copy signed by Heustis to the wrappers.
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Pocketman
AU$110.00 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.