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Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMargo Neale; Emily Kngwarreye
Tokyo: The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2008.The bilingual Japanese edition published to accompany the retrospective exhibition shown in Osaka and Tokyo.
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Making It Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartSamantha Littley; Kenneth Macqueen
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2007. -
An Australian Identity: Houses for Sydney, 1953-63
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJennifer Taylor
Sydney: University of Sydney, 1984.Jennifer Taylor (1935-2015) was Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney at the time of publishing. Through this account of postwar architecture, she contends that the houses featured are culturally distinctive, and that they could play a crucial role in addressing Sydney’s housing needs. Includes “The Sydney School”, Neo-Brutalism, Organic Architecture, and “The Natural House”.
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Sunshine and Rainbows: The Development of Gay and Lesbian Culture in Queensland
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartClive Moore
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2001.“a history of the development of homosexuality as an Australian subculture. Proceeding chronologically from the 1820s through to the vibrant alternative culture that exists in 2000, Sunshine and Rainbows argues that the manner in which gay and lesbian identity has been constructed in Queensland is typical of Australia generally. Beginning with isolated acts suppressed by criminal law and medical opnion, a homosexual identity developed, which by the mid-nineteenth century was based on male appropriation of public space. A clandestine social subculture was in place during the first half of the twentieth century. Despite continued religious, social, legal and medical repression, it became an obvious part of Australian sexuality, expressed through Beats and early gathering places such as coffee shops, hotels and theatres. Well developed in urban areas by the 1930s and 1940s, the subculture strengthened in the 1970s and 1980s, when clubs, gay commercial venues and political organisations emerged. The fight for gay law reform, recognition of the rights of same-sex partners, and of individuals affected by HIV/AIDS continues today. Sunshine and Rainbows discusses the different roles of gay men and lesbians in the subculture, arguing that by the end of the twentieth century a transition had occurred to a full-development alternative culture.” (from rear cover)
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Pink Ink: An Anthology of Australian Lesbian and Gay Writers
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartKerry Bashford; Mikey Halliday; Chris Jones; Peter Kerans; Leonie Knight; Jan Moulstone; Wendy Moulstone
Sydney: Wicked Women Publications, 1991.Featuring Xalid Abd-ul-Wahid, Graeme Aitken, Mazz Appleton, Kerry Bashford, Catherine Bateson, Javant Biarujia, Ian C. Birks, Margaret Bradstock, Buffy Bright, Di Brown, Pamela Brown, Fiesta Carrera, Cicada, Rebecca Cox, S. Daalmeyer, Steven Dawson, Campsion Decent, Linda Dement, Gary Dunne, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Mikol Furneaux, Denis Gallagher, Carolyn Gerrish, Mikey Halliday, Susan Hampton, Jen Harrison, Tim Herbert, Lyn Hughes, Giles Hugo, Michael Hurley, Chris Jones, Karl Karlsen, Peter Kerans, Kerry Leves, Ian MacNeill, Frances Marjorie, Manfred Jurgensen, Cynthia Maxwell-Smith, Don Maynard, Dorothy Moore, Jan Moulstone, Wendy Moulstone, Rosslyn Prosser, Dorothy Porter, Gina Schien, Kurt Josef Schranzer, Robert Tompsett, Marky Try, Paul Van Reyk, Natalie Varnish, Louise Wakeling, Linda Weste, and Adrian Weston.
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Kings Cross Crims
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Hunter
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1968.Australian pulp fiction, one of a number of playing into the public’s simultaneous fascination and fear of Sydney’s red light district. “An incredible collection of crook characters build a country club beneath El Alamein Fountain.”
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The Kings Cross Racket
Read MoreLen Riley
Sydney: Scripts, 1967.Australian pulp fiction, one of a number of playing into the public’s simultaneous fascination and fear of Sydney’s red light district. “The Unholy Cross. A vicious attack on a young surfie by a gang of hoodlums leads to an appalling sequence of events which are all probable in Kings Cross today. A vice king and his dolls, prostitutes and drug pedlars ensnare Billy Grant and drive him towards a terrible ending.”
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Drug Scene Kings Cross
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert W. Connell
Sydney: Scripts, 1967.Psuedo-sociological inquiry into drug use in Kings Cross, Sydney. One of a number of Australian pulps playing into the public’s simultaneous fascination and fear of Sydney’s red light district. Features 4 photographs of a marijuana party and a glossary of drug terms.
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Seahorse Times, October 1994
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Seahorse Society of New South Wales
Melbourne: Seahorse Club of Victoria, 1994.Single issue of the newsletter of the Victoria branch of the Australian crossdressing organisation The Seahorse Society. Founded in 1971, “the club identified as being for heterosexual transvestites, intentionally distinguishing themselves from homosexuals, fetishists and transsexuals. This was part of an effort to portray transvestism as ‘normal’ and club membership as respectable.” (Noah Riseman: Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910) From the late 1990s, Seahorse began evolving to adopt broader transgender language and advocacy, and is now regarded as Australia’s earliest known trans organisation.
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The Federal Liquor Service
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTullie Wollaston
Melbourne: Thomas C. Lothian, 1910.Adelaide opal merchant Tullie Wollaston here turns to social reform amid the intense Federation-era debate over alcohol regulation, as the temperance movement pressed for change, proposing a Commonwealth monopoly over the liquor trade. He opens with a tale of a berry on a Pacific island, drawing the conclusion that Australians were “worse lunatics over the sale of ALCOHOL than the islanders over their berry.” Wollaston reviews and rejects the principal liquor-control systems then under discussion internationally, including prohibition, government monopoly schemes, the Public House Trust movement, and the Gothenburg system. Finding each inadequate (though sympathetic to prohibition, he acknowledges that its adoption in Australia would be “insuperably difficult at this late stage”), he advances his own solution: a “Federal Liquor Service” that would replace private licence holders with a centrally administered national authority. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the Reverend A. E. Gifford, dated 31/3/10.
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Emily Kngwarreye Paintings
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEmily Kngwarreye
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1998.Monograph of Anmatyerre painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1910-1996). With contributions by Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt, and Janet Holt.
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Molly Lennon’s Story: That’s How It Was
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRuth McKenzie; Jen Gibson
Adelaide: Aboriginal Heritage Branch, South Australian Department of Environment and Planning, 1989. -
Australian Submarines: A History
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael W. D. White
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992. -
Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures & Hard Yakka: A Historical Overview, 1788-1967
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Pearson; Jane Lennon
Canberra: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. -
Beef Cattle Australia
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Reed
Brisbane: Acacia Press, 2009.An industry account of Australian cattle farming.
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Homestead & Habitat: Central and Northern Australia
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2016.A privately published survey of the historic heritage of central and northern Australia, structured by the river systems and landforms of the regions in which Howard Pearce worked for over forty years as a heritage adviser to federal, state and Territory governments. The work combines photography, architectural drawing, historical archaeology and regional history. Volume I covers Lake Eyre, the Centre and the Top End; Volume II the Channel Country, Carpentaria and Cape York. The publication states that over 600 places are described across thirty chapters, with some 2000 colour photographs, site histories, archaeological notes and architectural descriptions, most based on primary research. Historical photographs from the author’s own collection are included, together with his measured drawings of significant places. Pearce published a third supplementary volume of measured architectural drawings in 2020. Physical copies unrecorded in Trove and OCLC; the University of Queensland holds a digital copy in its eSpace repository.
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Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn White
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2002.One of 150 numbered copies of the standard edition (from a total edition of 212). A new edition of the first significant natural history book on Australia published after the First Fleet, with the text reset in Garamond, attractively printed in black, red, and green, and the plates enlarged by 50%. The 65 plates, by Sarah Stone, F. P. Nodder, and others, comprise 29 of birds (including splendid parrots), 10 of reptiles and amphibians, 7 mammals (marsupials and the Dingo), 6 of fishes, 9 of plants (including magnificent Banksias), 2 of invertebrates, and 2 of Aboriginal weapons and artefacts. In the original, the cancelled leaf Hh4 carries variant text for the Wattled Bee-Eater (the female in the cancelled state, the male in the uncancelled), both reproduced here, with bibliographical and publishing notes appended.
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Songs of the Pintupi: Musical Life in a Central Australian Society
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard M. Moyle
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979.Musical score throughout.
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Killalpaninna Mission & Habitat: A Photographic Record of Bethesda Aboriginal Mission Station on Cooper Creek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2022.“In the summer of 1866-67 the Hermannsburg Mission Society in Germany, in conjunction with the synods of the South Australian Lutheran Church, attempted to establish a mission for the Aborigines on Cooper Creek in return for their kindness to John King, a survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition. During the same period, the German Moravian Brethren Mission Society in Victoria also undertook to begin mission work in the district. Both orders were pursuing a policy of segregating newly-contacted groups of Aborigines on church-run missions where their conversion to Christianity could be achieved away from the influence of ‘bush blacks’ and white settlers. However, through ignorance, drought and religious dissent, the missions failed to flourish and were abandoned. The Moravian Brethren departed for good, but the Lutherans regrouped and returned to the district to continue their struggle. This book contains a unique collection of dry-plate glass negative images, taken by August Hermann Vogelsang while employed as the school teacher at Bethesda Lutheran mission on Cooper Creek between the years 1907 and 1917. The images have been carefully researched and described by the author with the advice and guidance of former mission residents. This is a record of the last years of Bethesda mission station at Lake Killalpaninna in the far-north salt lake country of South Australia.” (from jacket blurb) Privately published in a very limited number by the author based on his 1980 report submitted to the South Australian Aboriginal and Historic Relics Unit. Unrecorded in Trove and OCLC.
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An Individual View
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Thake
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1982.Photobook of the Australian artist. Thake had carried a camera alongside his sketchbook from the 1950s, and the book records the photographic side of an artist otherwise known almost wholly for his printmaking, here presenting 28 plates. Produced in the year of Thake’s death in an edition of 250 numbered copies, this an out of sequence proof copy. Text by Elizabeth Summons, preface by Patrick McCaughey.