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RoXY Pinups
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartErwin Olaf
Amsterdam: Max Studio’s, 1994.1994 calendar for the Amsterdam club RoXY. Operating from 1987-1999, RoXY (Radical outlet for the Xenomaniac in You) was a Dutch rave club emerging at the beginnings of rave culture. Known for its theatrical and glamorous atmosphere, which is on show here with 13 elaborately staged portraits by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf.
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Escales
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAndre Lhote; Jean Cocteau
Paris: Editions de La Sirene, 1920.Homage to the brothels of Marseille’s Vieux Port district. One of 400 numbered copies on Lafuma (from a total edition of 440). PIA 417.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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The du Mauriers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDaphne du Maurier
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937.First edition in the original jacket.
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Bazaar Nr. 1 & Nr. 2
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBo Karlsson
Stockholm: Bazaar, 1967.Complete run of the short-lived Swedish counterculture magazine, inspired by Oz, The Village Voice, and similar publications. Contents include an essay on LSD in Stockholm, coverage of the Swedish contemporary art scene, an interview with Paul McCartney, free jazz, and more.
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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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Ortil’s Pan
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartHajo Ortil
Harrow: Book Horizons, 1969.Photobook of a German naturist community interspersed with text pertaining to the Greek god Pan.
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Le Marseille Curieux
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre d’Agranon
Paris: L. d’Autrec, No date.The Curious Marseilles. Guide-Souvenir des Touristes et des Etrangers dans l’ancien Quartier Noble de Marseille Devenu Le Celebre Quartier Reserve. 1922 illustrated guide for sex tourists to the brothels of Marseille in the south of France. Copious illustrated with photographs of working women, a folding map of the area, and numerous advertisements.
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The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCorin F. V. Corley
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Portrait of a Revolution
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBohdan Warchomij
: backpackbook, 2006.Photobook of the 2004 political protests in Ukraine. With an introduction by Australian photojournalist, David Dare Parker. This copy inscribed by the photographer.
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Mushrooms, Russia and History
AU$14,000 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Pavolvna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.The founding work of ethnomycology. One of 512 numbered copies. The Wassons’ central thesis divided cultures into “mycophilic” and “mycophobic” (those that embraced mushrooms and those that feared them), with Russia and the Anglo-Saxon world as the defining poles. Their investigations led to the study of psychoactive mushroom use in Mesoamerican religious ceremony, culminating in R. Gordon Wasson’s participation in a Mazatec velada with the curandera Maria Sabina in 1955. The resulting work bridges folklore, linguistics, botany, and anthropology, and laid the groundwork for the modern study of psychoactive fungi and later, entheogens. Produced at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the edition is equally significant as a feat of book production, two large quarto volumes with 82 plates including 32 in colour, printed in a limited edition at the authors’ expense.
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Scientific Expeditions in the Portuguese Overseas Territories (1783-1808)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Joel Simon
Lisboa: Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, 1983.and the Role of Lisbon in the Intellectual-Scientific Community of the late Eighteenth Century.
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Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Schuster; Edmund Carpenter; Lorraine Spiess.
New York: Rock Foundation, 1986-88.Based on the Researches & Writings of Carl Schuster. Edited & Written by Edmund Carpenter. Assisted by Lorraine Spiess. A cornerstone of comparative anthropology, mythology, and art history. This monumental work draws on the vast ethnographic record assembled by American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969). Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished. Carpenter spent nearly two decades editing Schuster’s archive into this twelve-volume synthesis. The result is an epic survey of visual and mythic patterns: from Paleolithic Europe to the tribal societies of Oceania, the Americas, and Africa. Issued privately in a very small edition distributed directly to museums and researchers Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism is likely the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of traditional symbolism ever published.
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Om Bulletin Nummer 1
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartHeilige Alarm Pers
[Amsterdam]: Heilige Alarm Pers, 1968.First issue of the Dutch anti-consumerism countercultural bulletin by the Holy Alarm Press.
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Finding Heritage Through Fiction in Dracula Tourism
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartToumas Hovi
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2016.Heritage and tourism have become inextricably linked. Depending on the view point, the effect of this link can be seen either negative or positive. Does tourism produce inauthentic and falsified tradition, threatening cultural heritage? Or does it, in fact, help to preserve heritage, culture and folklore in a changing and globalizing world? Tuomas Hovi investigates heritage in the context of Dracula tourism in Romania: tourists visiting places connected with either the fictional vampire Dracula or the historical Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, a 15th century Romanian ruler. How is Romanian heritage and culture presented and promoted through a seemingly superficial Dracula tourism based on Western popular fiction in Dracula tourism? Finding Heritage Through Fiction in Dracula Tourism offers new perspectives on the research literate concerning tourism and heritage, and a folkloristic view of tourism research. FF Communications No. 311 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Structural-Semantic Types of Lithuanian Folk Tales (2 Volumes)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartBronislava Kerbelyte
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2015.I: Genres and Tale Types. II: The Classification and Index of Elementary Plots and Their Types. The classification system of the types of folk tales published by Antti Aarne in 1910 was a much needed and courageous project. Bronislava Kerbelyte has classified more than 40,000 variants of Lithuanian folk tales according to the international catalogue by Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson (AT). She has concluded that it is necessary to improve the classification system. Kerbelyte has determined elementary plots (EP) as structural elements for narratives and created the structural-semantic method for analysis and description of texts on several levels. The classification of elementary plots and their types contains much information about folk tales and about people. FF Communications No. 308 & 309 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Catalogue of Greek Magic Folktales
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartG. A. Megas; Anna Angelopoulos; Aigli Brouskou; Marianthi Kaplanoglou; Emmanouela Katrinaki
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2012.The collected texts cover a period of more than a century of recordings (from the second half of the nineteenth century up to the mid-1970s) and geographically cover not only the entire Greek territory and Cyprus but also other areas where Greek populations live(d) and Greek cultures thrive(d) (Asia Minor, Pontus, Cappadocia, Southern Italy). Georgios A. Megas drafted the first catalogue, gathering and indexing all published and unpublished Greek folktale versions, so that the number of texts finally exceeded 23 000. A group of specialists continued for nearly 30 years carrying this project, consulting, classifying, and commenting G. Megas’ handwritten card indexes, and finally editing this rich material, scattered in public and private archives. FF Communications No. 303 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Thou Fearful Guest: Addressing the Past in Four Tales in Flateyjarbok
AU$70 Read MoreAdd to cartMerrill Kaplan
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2011.A stranger appears at the court of a Norwegian king known best for bringing Christianity to the North. Variations of this scene appear four times in the fourteenth-century manuscript Flateyjarbok. Thou Fearful Guest analyzes how these episodes create meaning by their connections to custom, law, myth, discourses of historical and spiritual truth, typological understandings of time, and the historical context of the manuscript in which they appear. Thou Fearful Guest explores how and to what end medieval Icelanders thought about tales of heathen gods and heroes. FF Communications No. 301 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Carl Wilhelm von Sydow: A Swedish Pioneer in Folklore
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartNils-Arvid Bringeus
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2009.Nils-Arvid Bringeus provides a detailed analysis of the founder of folklore research in Sweden, Professor Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (1878-1952). We are introduced to a fascinating personality and able to follow his persevering struggle to gain acceptance for a new academic discipline. Von Sydow took a highly active interest in international cooperation, not least within the field of folktale research. He taught at both Lund and Uppsala universities, establishing a taxonomy within the study of folklore that has been of great importance. FF Communications No. 298 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Index of Catalan Folktales
AU$70 Read MoreAdd to cartCarme Oriol; Josep M. Pujol
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2008.The Catalan language is spoken over a large area divided among four states (Andorra, Spain, France and Italy), with a total population of 13.5 million inhabitants. Catalan culture has a large body of literature as well as a rich and extensive tradition of folklore studies. Catalan folktales were ignored by the Types of the Folktale until the second edition (1961), which included only references to the collection published by Joan Amades (1950). The present Index of Catalan Folktales brings together the work of some seventy collectors working along 150 years and for the first time gives a faithful and complete image of the Catalan contribution to the world´s folklore heritage. FF Communications No. 294 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.