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Feminique
AU$750 Read MoreAdd to cartTrina Beaumont; Caroline Joyce
Sydney and Ulladulla: The Seahorse Club of Australia, 1976-1984.Collection of newsletter magazines issued by the Australian crossdressing organisation The Seahorse Society in its founding form as The Seahorse Club of Australia. 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. The collection comprises: Feminique Numbers 11 (1976), 16 (1977), 22 (1980), and 25 (1984). The first three issues edited by Trina Beaumont (formerly Trina Taylor), the last by Caroline Joyce taking the reins.
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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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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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The Story of a Lamp
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLeslie Pinkham
Witham: W. Pinkham & Son, No date.A history of the Pinkham Glove Company of Essex, England, founded by William Pinkham in the late nineteenth century and grown into an international business exporting gloves worldwide before its closure in 1966. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the factory, machinery, and staff at work, with eight colour plates of the company’s cotton simplex and rayon gloves. A single copy recorded in OCLC, at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. This copy with a lengthy presentation inscription from Leslie Pinkham to John Bayliss, a production manager at the Australian lingerie manufacturer Berlei, recalling their meeting and a day trip to Wollongong in July 1948.
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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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The Varieties of Ecstasy Experience: An Exploration of Person, Mind and Body in Sydney’s Club Culture
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartSean Leneghan
Saarbrucken: LAPLambert Academic Publishing, 2010.Ethnographic study of ecstasy users in the raving and club scenes of Sydney, Australia.
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Souvenir Programme for Setting the Foundation Stone of the Mason Centre by M. W. Bro. V. C. N. Blight, C.B.E. Grand Master
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartUnited Grand Lodge of New South Wales of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
Sydney: United Grand Lodge of New South Wales of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, 1976. -
By-Laws of the Lodge of Australia, of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 3, on the Registry of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartLodge of Australia, No. 3
Sydney: Robert Bone, 1890.Revised 1890 By-Laws for one of Australia’s oldest freemasonry lodges.
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By-Laws of the Argyle Lodge of the Most Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 693
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartArgyle Lodge, No. 693
Sydney: F. W. White, 1884.Very early by-laws booklet for the Argyle Lodge of Australian Freemasons, held at the Lodge Room, Fernmount, Bellinger River. Also includes a list of lodges in NSW.
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By-Laws of the United Service Lodge of New South Wales of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 24
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartUnited Service Lodge, No. 24
Sydney: Websdale, Shoosmith & Co., 1895.This copy with the Declaration of Allegiance in manuscript to the margin of the final page.
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Lodge Dobroyde Annual Ladies’ Night in School of Arts Haberfield on Monday, 29th August, 1921 at 8 P.M.
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartW. A. Wiggins
Sydney: R. M. Baxter, 1921.Programme for a Sydney Freemasonry lodge ladies’ night, illustrated by Tasmanian artist William Arthur Wiggins (1881-1947), with much leaning into the Freemason humour of riding the goat.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page.
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Public Fitting
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Seven Walks: Cape Leeuwin to Bundeena
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartTom Carment; Michael Wee
Casino: Roc-Hin, 2014.Documents seven long distance walks in Australia: The Overland Track (Cradle Mountain, Tasmania). The Blue Gum Forest (New South Wales), Otford to Bundeena (New South Wales), Cape Leeuwin to Cape Naturaliste (Western Australia), The Heysen Trail (South Australia), The Snowy Mountains (New South Wales, and Wilsons Promontory (Victoria).
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A Survey of, and Report Upon, the Hotel Industry of New South Wales
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartAsher Joel Advertising
Sydney: The Langlea Printery, 1958.Submitted to the United Licensed Victuallers Association.
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The Language of Oysters
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Adamson; Juno Gemes
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997.Photo and poetry book on the lives of the oyster farmers on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. This copy inscribed by the photographer, Juno Gemes.
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Waiting Under Southern Skies
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Abbott
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2019].“Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin Abbotts personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australian life, as it presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and places during a period of immense social change in Australia.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Abbott on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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Cabramatta: A Moment in Time
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2016.“Cabramatta is not your typical Australian suburb. If you took a stroll through the streets of this south-western Sydney hub, you may feel like you are in Southeast Asia. However, the suburb of Cabramatta is emblematic of modern Australia — urban, busy and brimming with multicultural activity. Sydney photographer Markus Andersen has captured this melting pot of cultures in his distinctive, street photography style. His raw, sometimes playful images show the uniquely diverse and human side of Cabramatta, seizing little moments of beauty in everyday life. A year in the life of one of Australias most vivid multicultural communities, suspended in the amber of Markus Andersen’s lens.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Andersen.