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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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Tea with the Devil and Other Diversions
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartH. E. Boote
Sydney: The Worker Trustees, 1928.Interwar Australian labour satire from the editor of the Australian Workers’ Union paper, Henry Ernest Boote. Cover and frontispiece illustration by Will Donald.
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A History of the Northern Territory Reserves Board (2 Volumes)
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartW. T. Hare
Alice Springs: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, 1982.Unpublished report prepared for the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory.
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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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The One-World Purpose: World Peace Through World Balance
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartLao Russell; Walter Russell
Waynesboro: University of Science and Philosophy, 1960.“A plan to dissolve war by a power more mighty than war.” A metaphysical manifesto for world peace.
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The Australian Constitution: A Documentary History
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn M. Williams
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005.“This book brings together all the critical documents which formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901. Constitutions are the basic documents of a society. The drafting of the Australian constitution was the product of intense negotiation and debate. Line by line it represents the work of dozens of delegates and the considerations of millions of Australians. This authoritative and unique book brings together, for the first time, all the critical documents that formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901, tracing the Constitution from its most embryonic stages to its enactment. From the time that the colonies obtained self-government in the 1850s the issue of a large federation was being considered. In the latter part of the nineteenth century the colonies, through their delegates, came together in a series of conventions to draft a constitution that was to be put to the people. The documents included in this book tell the story of that painstaking process. This easily accessible collection of primary source material includes drafts of the Constitution, memoranda, personal letters relating to the drafting, and comments by the drafters themselves. It contains Hansard extracts, speeches, resolutions from Australasian Federal Conventions and comments on the drafts. It also reproduces newspaper cartoons reflecting popular feeling at the time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Oz Magazine (Australia) Complete Set with Newsletters
AU$15,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Neville; Richard Walsh; Martin Sharp
Sydney: Oz Publications Ink, 1963-1970.A high point of underground publishing. The foundational Australian edition of Oz, edited by Richard Neville, Richard Walsh, and Martin Sharp and published in Sydney between 1963 and 1969, with the reduced-format fortnightly newsletters continuing into 1970 under Walsh and Dean Letcher. Preceding and inspiring the better-known London Oz (1967-1973), the Australian edition tackled censorship, homosexuality, police corruption, the White Australia policy, and the Vietnam War, provoking a series of obscenity prosecutions, culminating in a 1964 conviction that was later overturned on appeal. Sharp’s covers and illustrations, ranging from early satirical cartooning to full psychedelic intensity, chart his emergence as one of Australia’s most significant pop artists. Complete in 41 issues of the magazine proper, together with a complete set of the rarely seen newsletters (Nos. 42-82) including the election special (No. 56).
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Public Address given by Neil Williams, [Randwick Boy’s High Inter-state] Students strike Wednesday Sept 20. [1972]
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartNeil Williams
Sydney: Neil Williams, 1972.Typescript address given by Neil Williams of Randwick Boys High School on 20 September 1972, the day of Australia’s first national secondary student strike, in which an estimated 80,000 students took part. Two pages with minor autograph amendments, signed by Williams at the end, together with an earlier draft leaf heavily revised in red ink, built around two passages cut from a printed strike leaflet and pasted in. From the archive of Perry Clugston, editor of the 1970 Randwick Boys High underground paper ‘The Voice of Young Australia’.
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The Voice of Young Australia Nos. 2, 4, 5
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartPerry Clugston; Jonathon Coleman [Jonathan ‘Jono’ Coleman]
Sydney: The Voice of Young Australia, 1970.Three issues of a 1970 underground paper produced by students at Randwick Boys High School in Sydney, edited by Perry Clugston with illustrations by Jonathon Coleman, later the radio and television presenter Jonathan ‘Jono’ Coleman. Anti-war and openly critical of school administration. Offered together with two loose sheets being drafts of the editorial in No. 5 regarding the unelected Junior Students’ Council at RBHS, and two pinned sheets of comments by seven teachers on the “personality and general attitudes” of Clugston. Unrecorded in Trove.
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Raging Womyn in Reply to Breaching the Peace [TOGETHER WITH] Wymn’s Land
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Freer
London: The Wymn’s Land Fund, No date.A comment on the women’s liberation movement and the Common Womyn’s Peace Camp at Greenham. Illustrations by Cathy Giles. With a handbill ‘Wymn’s Land’ laid in: “A land base for womyn? Is this what Greenham Common is becoming? Will the Americans and the MoD leave, giving us full access to the 850 acres of land, enough to create an open [women’s] community committed to womon-loving anarchy and nonviolence?”
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Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartConstantinos A. Doxiadis
London: Hutchinson, 1971.The Greek architect-planner’s magnum opus on his futurist conceptual framework for the maximal development of human settlements.
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Occupied Spaces
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Roberts; Naomi Colvin
London: Here Press, 2012.Photographic documentation of the private and communal spaces of the 2011-2012 Occupy London protest, with a short essay by Naomi Colvin. First edition, one of 250 copies (a second edition of 100 copies was printed in 2014).
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The Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartKiri Hoetzl; V. Joachim
Prague: Edition de la Societe l’Effort de la Tchecoslovaquie, 1920.First edition of the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920 with introductions by Jiri Hoetzl and V. Joachim. The 1920 constitution was the second constitution of Czechoslovakia ratified after WWI establishing it as a democratic republic, remaining in place until it was replaced in 1948 by the Ninth-of-May Constitution following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d’etat by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How It Came Into the World, and How It Shall Be Made to Go Out
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Bronterre O’Brien
London: William Reeves, 1885. -
Folklore of the Change: Folk Culture in Post-Socialist Bulgaria
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartRadost Ivanova
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1999.The book analyses the developments taking place in Bulgaria in the years following November 10, 1989. The dynamics of the political and socio-economic changes in that period are comparable only to the most extreme periods of Bulgaria’s history. This study is not a political analysis. It is an attempt to follow the changes in people’s mentality. This book documents the enthusiasm of the negation of a chimera lasting half a century and the euphoria of the search for new roads. The volume consists of eight studies, seven of which deal with the democratic processes and developments in Sofia. FF Communications No. 270 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMasatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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Philosophie Rurale, ou Economie Generale et Politique de l’Agriculture,
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Riquetti Mirabeau; Francois Quesnay
Dusseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen, 2002.The one hundredth and last edition of the facsimile edition of Classics of National Economic, produced from the first edition published in Amsterdam in 1763. Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is hors commerce.
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Chiang Kai-shek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHollington K. Tong
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1953.The revised edition of Tong’s biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek’s life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland.
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The Dimensions of Values: A Unified Theory
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRadhakamal Mukerjee
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964.Later economic sociology work of Indian social scientist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968).
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Australasian Spartacist (No. 1 – 212, 1973-2011)
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartSpartacist League of Australia and New Zealand
Sydney and Melbourne: Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand, 1973-2011.A significant unbroken run of Australasian Spartacist: Organ of Revolutionary Marxism for the Rebirth of the Fourth International, from No. 1, 1973, through to No. 212, 1986. Nos. 1 through 5 were published as mimeographed copies (and here an original mimeograph of No. 3 together with 2 additional copies in facsimile, and with Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 5 supplied as facsimiles in triplicate and also including the B versions of Nos. 2 and 5), the rest (6-212) as original tabloid newsprint (except No. 125 and 136 supplied in facsimile). Also included is an original duplicate of No 143, and the original supplements for 7 June 1975, 2 July 1975, 24 June 1977, 1 February 1980, 8 September 1989 (2 copies), 2 September 1991, 2 June 1993, December 1999, and November 2001, and A Spartacist Pamphlet: For a Workers Republic of Australia, Part of a Socialist Asia! (Sydney: Spartacist ANZ Publishing Co., 1998). In total Australasian Spartacist ran until No 240, 2020, and in 2024 has re-emerged as Red Battler: Newspaper of the Spartacist League of Australia with 1 issue published to date.
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Mustafa Kemal Araturk
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartIlhan Aksit
Istanbul: Aksit, No date.Thoroughly illustrated biography of the founding father of the Republic of Turkiye.
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Ironworkers Speak for Peace
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartNational Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia
Sydney: National Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, No date.Report of the rank and file members of the Ironworker’s Union that attended the 2nd World Peace Congress in Warsaw, Poland, November, 1950.
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On Overcoming the Personality Cult and Its Consequences: Decision of the Central Committee, C.P.S.U
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCentral Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1956.The resolution of the Central Committee published in the wake of the anti-Stalin Secret Speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 25 February, 1956.
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Listen, Little Man! A Document from the Archive of the Orgone Institute
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartWilhelm Reich; William Steig
New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1948.First edition in the English language of Reich’s antiauthoritarian classic calling for direct action by the working class. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Illustrated by William Stieg. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austro-Hungraian-American doctor and psychoanalys, and is one of psychiatry’s most radical figures. In the late 1950s many of his books were burned by order of the court in one of the largest cases of modern censorship making early editions of his work scarce.
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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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Oversea Marketing of Certain Primary Products of New South Wales
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartB. S. B. Stevens
Sydney: David Harold Paisley, Government Printer, 1937.NSW Government Report by Bertram Stevens, at the time Premier of New South Wales, Embodying his Observations and Conclusions regarding the Marketing Overseas, and particular in the United Kingdom, of Primary Products of New South Wales. That being largely dairy products, butter, eggs, citrus fruits, mutton, lamb, beef, pork, and bacon. Includes tables of port dues, storage and handling charges, and railway freights in various UK cities.
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Beyond The Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartSilvia Federici
Oakland: PM Press, 2020.“More than ever, the ‘body’ is today at the centre of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans and ecological movements all look at the body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist development has generated and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. Here, lifelong activist and bestselling author Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine. In this process she confronts some of the most important questions for radical political projects. What does ‘the body’ mean, today, as a category of social/political action? What are the processes, institutional or anti-systemic, by which it is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been “enclosed” and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them?” (publisher’s blurb)
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After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartCarolyn D’Cruz; Mark Pendleton
Perth: UWA Publishing, 2013.