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Umeni Vtipu a Pohybu: Allegorie K Operam a Operetam
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSmall Pike [Jaroslav Stika]
: Soukromy Tisk, 1932.Portfolio of erotic plates with opera and theatrical themes attributed to Czech artist Jaroslav Stika, published privately under the pseudonym Small Pike. Printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Cennik
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartEmil Engelmuller
Prague: Emil Engelmuller, No date.Circa 1910 catalogue of leatherwear: gloves, underwear, coats, riding breeches, suspenders, and more, by Czech firm Emil Engelmuller.
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Lido im Maxim: La Maison du Strip-Tease
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMaxim
Vienna: Maxim, 1958.Programme for a strip/cabaret variety show at the Vienna club Maxim, located at Wien 1, Rauhensteingasse 8, on the site of the house where Mozart died. Includes many portraits of international performers. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Galante Unterhaltungen zweier Madchen des 19. Jahrhunderts am hauslichen Herd.
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Rom und Paris: Grangazzo, Vache & Cie, No date.Clandestine German erotica. [Gallant conversations of two girls of the 19th century at the domestic hearth.] PIA 83.
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Andy Warhol Attentat Sound Performance [Who Shot Andy Warhol]
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartAl Hansen; Lisa Cieslik; S. Zierold; G. Stockinger; D. Hebben; P. Keinertz
Cologne: Hundertmark Editions, 1986.Recording of a live performance by Fluxus artist Al Hansen, recreating radical feminist Valerie Solanas’ attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Hansen was a founding figure of the Happenings movement and a longstanding presence in Warhol’s circle: he was a frequent visitor to the Factory, and his daughter Bibbe Hansen was one of Warhol’s superstars, appearing in two of his 1965 films. Hansen arrived at the Factory on the day of the shooting and narrowly missed Solanas as she fled the building after shooting Warhol with a pistol. One of 80 numbered copies signed by Hansen and Cieslik with a photograph of the performance mounted to the lid and accompanied by three A3 and one A4 xeroxed sheets reproducing articles about the performance.
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The History of the Lives Of the most Noted Highway-Men, Foot-Pads, House-Breakers, Shop-Lifts, and Cheats, …
AU$28,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander Smith
London: J. Morphew and A. Dodd, 1714.The founding text of English criminal biography anthology, and the prototype for the many popular histories of court reportage that followed throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. Smith assembled accounts of various criminals of both sexes, establishing a format that would be repeatedly expanded and imitated. The present copy is the exceptionally rare first printing, in a single volume, distinguished by its title-page date in Roman numerals, MDCCXIV. A second printing of 1714 appeared with the date in Arabic numerals, while subsequent editions expanded the work into two and eventually three volumes under new titles.
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… Trotzdem ja zum Leben sagen: Drei Vortrage
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartViktor E. Frankl
Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1947.Three public lectures delivered by Frankl in March 1946, eleven months after his liberation from the concentration camps, in which he set out his ideas on meaning and resilience. First published in 1946, alongside his autobiographical and psychological work ‘Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager’, later translated as ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, the lectures present a more concise philosophical treatment of ideas developed through his camp experience. Largely forgotten for more than seventy years, the work was not translated into English until 2020, as ‘Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything’.
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Das Judentum im Kriege
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Daniek
Wien: Deutschnationale Vereinigung, 1919.Early interwar Austrian antisemitic tract. Daniek, a journalist and functionary of the Christlichsoziale Partei (CSP), wrote it as a central document of Christian Social antisemitism, and the party deployed it specifically against the Austrian Social Democrats in the February 1919 “Fluchtlings-Nationalratswahlkampf”, the first of the Republic’s so-called “refugee election campaigns”. It was used again in the May 1919 Vienna municipal election and the October 1920 National Council election. The pamphlet’s central argument was an antisemitic conspiracy theory portraying Austrian Jews who had fled Galicia and Bukovina during WWI as responsible for Austria’s wartime social and economic crisis, and it advocated a visible and aggressive attack on the Jewish population. A primary source for organised antisemitic politics in the immediate post-war Austrian Republic.
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Festival of Life Aug 25-30
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartYippies (Youth International Party)
New York: YIP, 1968.Promotional hand-out distributed ahead of the planned Festival of Life ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August of 1968. Contains 8 pages of text and illustrations on 5 coloured paper leaves comprising sexy and psychedelic illustrations, a manifesto-like text attributed to Jerry Rubin, and instructions on firebombs and DMT. This copy signed by writer and Yippie founding member Paul Krassner to the front cover.
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Rituale Romano-Pragense. Jussu & Authoritate Reverendissimi ac Celsissimi Principis, Domini, Domini Ferdonandi, e Comitibus de Khunburg
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Prague]
Vetero-Pragae [Prague]: Matthiam Hoger, 1731.The diocesan ritual of the Archdiocese of Prague, issued in the final year of the archiepiscopate of Ferdinand [Franz Ferdinand], Count von Khunburg (Archbishop of Prague, 1713-1731), and printed by Matthias Hoger in his capacity as archiepiscopal printer. Covering all of the rituals of the Catholic Church in Prague: baptism, confirmation, penance, matrimony, extreme unction, burial, exorcism, and blessings of houses, bells, and crops, together with the Prague ceremonial and processional calendar, and musical notation for the chanted rites. This copy bound without pp. 89-134 of the final parts of De Sacramento Poenitentiae, comprising the Bulla Coenae Domini and the related appendices on absolution. The absence of the Bulla is consistent across all recorded copies of the edition, however the appearance of the appendices varies, and one plate is normally found facing p. 135. The Bulla’s absence is best explained by the requirement across Catholic Europe that a papal bull needed civil sanction before it carried legal force and the Bulla Coenae Domini was among the most persistently withheld. This copy with a leather presentation plate to the front board, dated 1829, dedicating the volume “to the Reverend parish priest Carl Sternad, in remembrance, from Joseph Suchanek.”
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Psyche. Spiritistische Monatsschrift. Organ der spiritistische Loge “Psyche zur Wahrheit” zu Berlin. (1893-1898)
AU$1,600 Read MoreAdd to cartHans Spatzier; Friedrich Ernst; Carl Wald; Alfred Lindemann; Alfred Thienemann
Berlin: F. Schlosser, 1893-1898.Complete run of the first five years of Psyche, the monthly journal of a Berlin spiritist association that renamed and rebranded itself over this period as the leading German Spiritist association, closing out its run as the Loge ‘Psyche zur Wahrheit’. Numerous reports on seances and hauntings, arguments over fraudulent versus genuine mediums, spirit photography, telepathy, and more of interest to spiritists, alongside announcements for club lectures and informal gatherings. Contributions include the mesmerist and occult writer Willy Reichel, an ongoing study of the Renaissance magus Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, a rebuttal of the philosopher Georg von Gizycki’s public attack on spiritism, coverage of the Victorien Sardou play ‘Spiritisme’ on the Berlin stage, an obituary of the medium Valeska Topfer, and much more.
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Girl’s Nudist Journal
AU$165 Read MoreAdd to cartInt. Nud. Journal
Hamburg: Kiaas Ruders, No date.Collection of pinup and nudist photographs with two soft tales of seduction, one with naturist elements.
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Mary’s Disziplin und Leidenschaft: Faszination in Gummi, Lack und Plastik
AU$165 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Lenoir
Altenstadt: K. Reimers, 1990.The first of rubber and gas mask fetishist Claude Lenoir’s fetish novels, with cover illustration and 2 plates by German artist, Tom, attributed as the pseudonym of Boris Bergson (1927-1996).
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Two Ladies in Paris / Zwei Englanderinnen in Paris
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartR. C. Donaldrys
Paris and London: Privatdruck, Europa Verlag, 1950.Clandestine German erotic tale produced as a mimeographed typescript in a stated edition of 50 copies. The title page credits the work as being translated from the English by R. C. Donaldrys, though neither the translator nor English-language original has been traced. The production method is somewhat reminiscent of the Soho Typescripts, clandestinely produced pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade in the 1950s and 60s, but any direct link remains speculative. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Die Ueberweiber aller Zeiten [AND] Sie [AND] Das Marchen vom Weibe: Ein Bilderbuch fur grosse Knaben [AND] Lexikon fur Junggesellen [AND] Zur Naturgeschichte des Weibes
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartGottfried Sieben; Adolph Kohut; Hermann Eduard Jahn; Wilhelm Altmann; Art Scheiner
Budapest: Gustav Grimm, 1900-1902.Collection of five fin-de-siecle “Weiber” texts, mock-scholarly-erotic works on women by Sieben, Kohut, Jahn, and Altmann, four illustrated by Viennese artist Gottfried Sieben, the last by Art Scheiner, bound together in a half leather and brokatpapier binding. Combining pseudoscientific and folklore on women with soft erotic illustration, these five works present a broad range of the Weiber text style: historical biography, poetry, fairy tale, definition, and natural history classification.
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Ueber die Probenachte der teutschen Bauernmadchen
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartFriedr. Christ. J. Fischer
Stuttgart: Antiquariat von J. Scheible, 1853.[On the Trial Nights of German Peasant Girls], a study of the premarital courtship custom of a young man climbing through the window of a young peasant woman’s bedroom at night, by eighteenth-century German jurist and cultural historian Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer (1750-1797). First published in 1780 and here reprinted by Stuttgart curiosa and folklore bookseller/publisher J. Scheible together with 13 pages of advertisements for other titles by the firm.
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Modern Art and Nature
AU$3,500 Read MoreAdd to cartOlga Desmond; Adolf Salge; Otto Skowraneck
[Berlin]: Neue Photographische Gesellschaft, [1908].English issue of 8 plates of Olga Desmond and Adolf Salge from the 1908 series by German photographer Otto Skowraneck printed from the negatives of the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft m.b.H. (NPG). Includes Venus Anadyomene, Veil-Dance, A Question after R. Boeltzig, Prayer, Park-Nymph, Awakening, Adoration after Stephen Sinding, and Love Play. Desmond was a Berlin performer and dancer who co-founded “Evenings of Beauty”, staging nude and body-painted living statues. The performances were controversial though she always defended her performances as high art.
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Das Paar mit den Masken: Ein ganzes Leben mit und in Gummi
AU$165 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Lenoir
Germany: Edition Lenoir, 1995.Photobook documenting a man’s forty year passion for gas masks and rubber.
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Butch: The Male Thing! Vol. 1, Nos. 2 & 3
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartBill Munro
Sydney: Butch Enterprises, [1972].The second (of only two published) of one of Australia’s first gay porn magazines. It has been well documented that Munro’s publishing ventures were more for his own joy of sex than any great publishing profit aspirations, nonetheless, this final double-issue presents as a fine example of 1970s Australian erotica with its mix of male homoeroticism, cartoons, advertisements, and articles, as well as venue, book, and film reviews. Uncommon in the medium, Munro published his name prominently on the front cover, and the interior contains portraits of himself and staff, at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised throughout Australia. He later said he wanted Butch to have a “strong come out attitude [and show] that somebody wasn’t afraid to come out of the closet” (Munro: Let It All Hang Out, 2008). After Butch, Munro published a shortlived tabloid in 1973 titled Little Butch, before selling up to heterosexual smut publisher of Ribald, Bill Horne, who continued the publication as Gay. Printed by Sydney printers Rotaspeed Press, known for printing numerous Australian erotica works by Howard Products, Potz Press, and Lay Press, as well as student newspapers such as University of Queensland Union’s Semper Floreat.
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Le Journal de Marinette
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartUne Femme Curieuse; Gerda Wegener
Paris: L’Edition, 1918.Anonymous novel of a young lady’s adventures in Paris attributed to the same pseudonymous author as ‘L’Art de Seduire les Hommes suivi de l’Amour et les Poisons’, and published by the same curiosa imprint of Robert and Georges Briffaut. Whether Une Femme Curieuse here is Maurice Magre as suggested for ‘L’Art de Seduire’ is unknown. This new edition, reset with a denser line count, bringing the work from 308 pages to 242. Cover illustration by Danish illustrator Gerda Wegener, known for her distinctive lesbian erotica works. Her husband was one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery in 1930. In the 1910s, her husband was regularly crossdressing and was Gerda’s primary model.
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Abrichtung und Bestrafung des Ehemanns / The Training and Education of a Husband (2 Volumes)
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia de Gifford
Vizovice: The Other World Kingdom, 1996.A marriage manual for dominant women, authored by the absolute monarch of The Other World Kingdom, a BDSM and femdom resort and micronation in Czechia. OWK was founded in 1996 and opened to visitors in 1997 on the grounds of a 16th-century chateau and claimed its own currency, passports, police force, courts, state flag, and state hymn, though it was not recognised by any other country. Patricia de Gifford, ruled as Queen Patricia I and citizenship for women required reaching the age of consent and ownership of at least one male slave; men who wished to become citizens were required to obey the Queen and pay taxes. The resort operated commercially as a large-scale femdom facility for a bit over a decade. Published in the year of the kingdom’s founding, this two volume devotes Volume I to the training and breaking-in of a husband, and Volume II to his punishment.
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Rhythmographik (Tanznotenschrift) als Grundlage zum Selbststudium des Tanzes
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOlga Desmond; Fritz Bohme
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1919.Desmond’s method of choreographic transcription intended as a basis for the self-study of dance, edited by Fritz Bohme. Desmond began performing as a living statue in 1906 and went on to broadly promote performing nude on stage, progressing from posed representations of classical figures to dance. Her early career attracted considerable controversy and debate, though she always defended her performances as high art. This dedication to the form remained evident throughout her later career as a dance teacher in Berlin, and the present work is an early example of her methods. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by Desmond at the end of the preface, with nude photographic portrait frontispiece, and 8 plates of dance notation in a rear pocket.
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The French Way
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartMonique Monet
North Hollywood: All Star Books, 1965.Lesbian pulp AS 54. “A lesbian nympho, she turned whore to find the man who raped her!” One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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Venus of Lesbos
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSteve Bell
[London]: Gadoline, 1975.Bedside Books BB1337, the English edition of the Newstand Library pulp. Cover illustration by Robert Bonfils. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The Gas
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Platt
New York: Ophelia Press, 1970.Erotic science fiction pulp OPH-216. “Passion and violence are terrifyingly unleashed upon the South of England when a mysterious gas leaks from a biological warfare plant. Every unthinkable desire rises to the surface, both the ecstatic and the agonizing.” (from cover blurb)
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The Boy Avengers
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Flinders
New York: The Traveller’s Companion, 1971.Gay pulp TC-516. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Les Fleurs du Mal
Read MoreTatsuhiko Yokoo
Tokyo: [Yoshihara], 1975.Ten etchings by the Japanese painter Tatsuhiko Yokoo (1928-2015), each responding to a different poem from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. One of 15 numbered copies on Fukui paper reserved for the artist and collaborators (from a total edition of 50). Each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Accompanied by a title leaf with a list of plates in French and Japanese, an artist’s preface with an excerpt from the corresponding poem for each plate on its verso, and a printed plate with a portrait and Japanese text after Baudelaire’s ‘Spleen’. A colophon leaf with the limitation statement in French and Japanese is mounted to the verso of the box lid.
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The Westward Bound Connoisseur Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartWestward Bound
London: Westward Bound, 1992.First trade catalogue issued by the British fetishwear company Westward Bound. The business grew out of Der Putsch, the influential London fetish club founded in 1983, and the associated Westward Bound Bed, Breakfast & Dungeon in Cornwall, whose national television exposure helped establish the company’s profile. Issued as the firm expanded into mail-order retail in the early 1990s, the catalogue offers fetishwear in rubber, PVC, leather, footwear, corrective and disciplinary clothing, boned corsetry, jewellery, wigs, and related accessories. Westward Bound went on to become one of Britain’s best-known fetishwear brands and remains in business today. Sinead O’Connor wore a Westward Bound latex dress on the cover of her 2014 album, ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss’. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Key (Issue One)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid
Haywards Heath: Sussex Mailbox, 1995.English fetish contact magazine, edited and published by a one-man operation “David” trading as Sussex Mailbox. Contains more than 200 detailed contact advertisements (the editor states his aim was to produce a higher-quality contact magazine than otherwise available in England at the time), interspersed with lengthy profiles of individual fetishists or their desires and minor fetish trade advertisements, a letters to the editor section, and a guide to advertising in a planned second issue. Laid in is a key to the codes used in the advertisements. The editorial reports that the publisher had been raided by police on 8 March [1995] in connection with the magazine. Several letters, dated April and May [1995], refer to the raid and offer sympathy. No second issue has been traced, and it is possible the police attention curtailed the title after a single number. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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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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Archive of Homoerotic Prints with Catalogue and TLS
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRudolf von Keller
London: Rudolf von Keller, 1993.Archive of late 1980s / early 1990s homoerotic prints by Rudolf von Keller, sent to Jurgen Boedt, editor of the Belgian fetish magazine Secret, in the original postmarked envelope from London to Brussels. One of the two signed typed letters lists the contents of the packet as sent: the artist’s biography, advertising card, catalogue and price list, 8 sets of A4 posters (some in series of 3, others of 4), and 4 greeting cards. Of these, one three-poster series and one greeting card are absent from the surviving archive, while a second packet of A3 posters, also described in the letter, is no longer present. The artwork features hardcore homoerotic themes centred on leather, BDSM, and sadomasochism. Von Keller’s biographical note describes him as born in the late 1940s and educated in Germany, England and the Netherlands, before studying fine art at a college in the English Midlands. After working as a freelance designer while travelling Europe, he returned to the family jewellery business, but continued to produce fetish and BDSM drawings, watercolours, and paintings for a private circle. A series of exhibitions brought this work to a wider audience, leading to print reproduction and, in late 1990, his first ‘Artwork’ catalogue (included here), offering posters, cards, and limited edition prints. The operation was based in London, with a small studio later opened in Amsterdam for developing new work; the note describes him dividing his time between the two cities and a family home in the Rhineland.
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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 Livre Blanc
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Cocteau
Paris: Editions du Signe, 1930.One of the foundational texts of modern gay literature. The text was first published anonymously in 1928, without illustration, in an edition of just thirty-one copies. This 1930 edition, the first illustrated and first commercially distributed edition, added eighteen drawings by Cocteau, hand-coloured by M. B. Armington, together with a facsimile of an autograph note in which Cocteau alludes to, without explicitly acknowledging, authorship. Edition limited to 450 copies. This copy on Arches paper, lacking the justification leaf.
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Insolation
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLes Freres Siamois; [Joseph Hemard]
: n.p., [c. 1935].A collection of fourteen ribald verses with like illustrations by Hemard; including 1 hand-painted plate depicting a grotesque erotic orgy. DUTEL 1756.
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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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Residu (Complete Set, 2 Volumes)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Richter
Athens, London, and Provincetown: Residu/ Richter, 1965-66.Complete set, in two issues only. Avant-garde literary journal featuring contribution by Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Philip Lamantia, William Burroughs, Gerogry Corso, Simon Vinkenoog, Jack Nuttall, Alexander Trochi, and others. Includes several pieces on LSD, hash, and other psychedelics.
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The Magazine of Further Studies (Complete Set) together with Britannia and The Western Gate
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Clarke; Albert Glover; George Butterick; Fred Wah; Daniel Zimmerman
Buffalo: Institute of Further Studies, 1965-1970.Poetry journal published at the University at Buffalo during the mid to late 1960s by a group of poets and scholars associated with Charles Olson and the literary community that developed after his arrival at SUNY Buffalo following the closure of Black Mountain College. Contributions from the editors alongside Olson, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Sanders, Duncan McNaughton, Ruth Fox, Stephen Rodefer, Harvey Brown, David Tirrell, and others. This complete set in 6 issues offered together with two further publications, Britannia and The Western Gate, both edited in Buffalo by Daniel Zimmerman in 1970, with continued output from many of the same contributors. No. 1 with a two leaf typescript, Up Rising, by Robert Duncan laid in.
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Mischmasch (Complete Set, 8 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Mandeville
Kansas City: Mischmasch Antigraphics, 1977-88.Dada art-zine, complete in 8 issues, No. VII with the supplemental booklet ‘The Pleasure Car’ laid in. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Monster
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobin Morgan
Melbourne: Melbourne Radical Feminists, No date.American radical feminist Robin Morgan’s first book of poems, originally published by Random House in 1972. The title poem, ‘Monster’, quickly became one of the best-known poems of the women’s liberation movement, with the collection selling thirty thousand copies in its first six months. Its most controversial poem, ‘Arraignment’, accused Ted Hughes of complicity in Sylvia Plath’s death through his infidelity and alleged violence. Although Morgan revised the poem before publication, Hughes threatened legal action. Without informing Morgan, Random House agreed to withdraw the book from Commonwealth markets in return for Hughes dropping the matter. Feminist presses across the Commonwealth responded with unauthorised ‘pirate’ editions, most produced with Morgan’s blessing. The first appeared in Canada and followed shortly after by editions in Australia and New Zealand. Each varied in content: some carried graphics by women artists, others photographs of Plath, others, as here, both versions of ‘Arraignment’. This Australian edition includes illustrations and a bibliographical preface by Melbourne Radical Feminists.
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The Maggie Poem
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea], No date.Poem printed in Lea’s usual 1980s photocopy Mountain View output, this piece about his relationship with the red-headed Irish prostitute Maggie, and her death by his side in a Melbourne park. Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel tells the story: “Shelton had, at various times, fallen into the arms of prostitutes. There was a history of unconditional mateship between Shelton and those girls, even from his early days in Kings Cross. They’d provided a safety net for him and he had reciprocated. Shelton believed in the notion of the good-hearted prostitute. ‘I’ve met a whole lot of them in my life and they’ve treated me kindly. They don’t treat themselves very kindly.’ Maggie was an Irish girl with mad flaming hair. She was a junkie. She was the girl Shelton had gone to after the break up with Barbara. Candle, her hoon (pimp) had her installed upstairs in a building in Fitzroy. ‘Any nap-jack could come and fuck her for ten bob, and Candle would take the money.’ She wanted to get away and Shelton had fought Candle to take her. They went to the seaside for a few days. When they came back, they took a flagon of port and went to the park, the dying ground, with the blackfellas and shared it with them. Shelton fell asleep in the sun on the grass, near the highrise flats. ‘Maggie slid around the corner for a dose of methadone. She came back and drank more port and when I woke up she was lying next to me dead.’ He wrote a poem for Maggie and said he thought it was grand and full of life. ‘That’s what it is to be a poet, to sing about life. There’s no time for bitterness, but I don’t walk through that park when I don’t think about Maggie …’ A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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The Love Poems
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea; Jenni Mitchell
Melbourne: Eaglemont Books, 1993.Collection of Lea’s love poems, published by his own Eaglemont Press in June 1993, limited to 1000 unnumbered copies, with drawings throughout by Jenni Mitchell, whose portrait of Lea from her Australian poets’ portraits series appears on the cover. Poems selected by Patrick McCauley; some had previously appeared in Overland and in Lea’s earlier collection Poems From A Peach Melba Hat. This copy signed by both Lea and Mitchell, with a flyer for Lea’s Eaglemont Books, at 81 Silverdale Road, ‘Specialising in Australian poetry. Call Shelton’, laid in.
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Spit in the Ocean (Shirley Abicair’s Set w/ ephemera)
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Kesey; Ken Babbs
Pleasant Hill: Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1976-1981.Issues 1-6 of the Merry Pranksters literary journal (a 7th and final number not included here was published in 2003) from the collection of Australian zither player Shirley Abicair (1928-2025), with guest editors inlcuding Timothy Leary, Lee Marrs and Richar and Elaine Loren. The set is offered together with seven pieces of related ephemera: promotional poster (35cm x 21.5cm) advertising the series with a coupon for either $1 for the first tissue or $5 for the first seven and on the verso a prose piece ‘Food Stamp Raga’ by Corn Twang (Babbs); Key-Z Productions (Zane and Stephanie Kesey) catalogue of books, videos, audio tapes, attire, and posters; two guest pass tickets to Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Lyceum; a guest pass to Grateful Dead at Wembley Stadium; a ticket to The Second Perennial Poetic Hoohaw May 7th 1977 Eugene Oregon; and a broadside promoting Ken Babbs speaking/performance tour for Spit In The Ocean No. 1.
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Biba Fashion Catalogues Archive
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Hulanicki; Stephen Fitz-Simon; John McConnell; Helmut Newton; Donald Silverstein; Hans Fuerer; Harri Peccinotti; Sarah Moon; Delisia Howard; Chris Price
London: Biba, 1968-2004.A complete set of the six Biba mail order catalogues (35.5cm x 18cm), four retaining their original Biba logo envelopes. Each catalogue was designed by John McConnell. Offered here together with: the Biba company newspaper ‘Welcome to the New Biba’ [London, 1973], produced to mark the opening of the Big Biba department store in Kensington; a Biba Food Hall paper bag; a Biba plastic carry bag; the exhibition catalogue ‘Biba: The Label, The Lifestyle, The Look’ (Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1993); and ‘In Biba: A Graphic Romance’ by Delisia Howard, illustrated by Chris Price, with foreword and additional illustrations by Barbara Hulanicki (London: Hazard Books, 2004). Biba was founded by Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon in 1964 as a mail-order fashion label, becoming one of the defining names of London’s Swinging Sixties and early 1970s style. Rejecting conventional catalogue photography, the mail-order catalogues were conceived as fashion editorials, featuring original work by Donald Silverstein, Hans Feurer, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and Harri Peccinotti. Combining innovative graphic design with editorial fashion photography, they rank among the landmarks of late-1960s British fashion publishing.
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Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d’Exces
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartA. D. M. [Alfred de Musset]
Paris: Pour les Amis de l’Epoque Romantique [Maurice Duflou], [1924].The first serious reprint of Gamiani, with the text revised against the original edition, and the preface, by Louis Perceau, for the first time attempting a bibliography of the much reprinted work. One of 300 numbered copies (from a total edition of 320). The 12 heliogravures after the lithographs of the 1833 Brussels edition, and the title page of that edition reproduced in facsimile. This copy with the plates expertly hand-coloured. PERCEAU 16-36, PIA 529, DUTEL 1635.
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[Sex Slave]
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSuzan Pitt
New York: Suzan Pitt, 1984.Beginning in 1984, Suzan Pitt (1943-2019) painted a series of one-of-a-kind wearable artworks for The A. More Store, a project of the New York artists’ collective COLAB. Later that year they were sold through Patricia Field’s East 8th Street boutique alongside works by Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse. Pitt described the coats as unique artworks that could be either worn or hung on the wall, combining imagery drawn from popular culture, her animated films, and her watercolours into layered visual narratives of free association. Pitt is thought to have produced between fifty and one hundred painted coats during the 1980s before concentrating on the production of her animated film Joy Street. She returned to the format in 2016 in collaboration with House of Byfield. Sexuality was a persistent subject in Pitt’s work well before the coats. Her early film Crocus (1971) established a recurring association in her animation between sexuality and vegetal and floral forms, carried further in Asparagus (1979), a film noted on release for its frank sexual imagery and remembered for its pairing with David Lynch’s Eraserhead on the midnight-movie circuit. The present coat, its title taken from the painted text across the upper back, extends this preoccupation into wearable form, setting sexually explicit illustrations and lettering against appropriated cartoon imagery of Mickey Mouse and Goofy. This example belongs to the original 1984 series and is signed and dated by the artist.
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Dix Sujets aimables dans le gout antique
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartChevalier Remy [Andre Lambert]
Se trouve a Cyhere: et ne se vend nulle part, 1917 [1920].A detailed collection of hand-coloured erotic plates with a pseudonymous preface by the artist under his Chevalier Remy moniker. The second edition published around 1920 by the artist with the plate L’Amour Astronome replaced by Hesitation aux Portes du Temple. One of 100 numbered copies (from a total edition of 110), the title, colophon, and illustrations each numbered and signed ‘Remigius Eques’. DUTEL 1411, PIA 349, PERCEAU 321.
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Feliccia ou mes fredaines
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea de Nerciat; Louis Icart
Paris: Georges Guillit, 1947.A libertine novel first published in 1775, Nerciat’s Felicia ou mes fredaines was repeatedly suppressed by the authorities, with illustrated editions particularly liable to seizure and prosecution. Louis Icart (1888-1950) the French Art Deco illustrator best known for his erotic and fashionable feminine imagery, supplied twenty original colour etchings for this edition, printed by Joseph Zichieri. One of 30 numbered artist’s copies (from a total edition of 530), this copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet-Riffieux incorporating a textile onlay of a nude female figure.
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An Herbarium for the Fair: Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty Shaw-Lawrence; Thomas Fassam
London: The Hand & Flower Press, 1949.Together with Curious Notes on their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love (such as for Taking Away Hair, Bettering the Breasts, the Ease of Sighings, Making a Person Chaste, Loth to Love, and Turning a Person’s Head). One of 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 260), signed by Fassam, each of the 20 plates signed by the artist.
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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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Gay Art: A Historic Collection
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartFelix Lance Falkon; Thomas Waugh
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006.New edition of one of the first anthologies of gay art, A Historic Collection of Gay Art (Greenleaf Editions, 1972). Includes Tom of Finland, Graewolf, Blade, Harry Bush, and many others. Prefaces by Don Gilmore (1972) and Felix Lance Falkon (2006); Forewords by G. G. Stoctay (1972) and Earl Kemp (2006); and Introductions by Felix Lance Falkon (1972) and Thomas Waugh (2006). Published “in the hopes that their personal lives will become more sexually enlightened, enriched and educated, A historic collection of gay art is dedicated to those adults who desire sexually explicit material for their private use in the privacy of their own homes” (from the first edition preface)
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Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing, Art and Photography
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRoslynn D. Haynes
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Cornish Beam Engines in South Australian Mines
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartG. J. Drew; J. E. Connell
Adelaide: Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, 1993.History and development of steam powered mining in South Australia. This copy signed by both authors.
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Mostly Murder
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartHugh Mac Master
Rockhampton: Hugh Mac Master, 1999.Central Queensland crime collection. 82 legal hangings in Queensland. Abolition of the death penalty.
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People Think I’m Cool: The Life and Art of Pane
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartStefano Pane Monfeli
Bologna: Damiani, 2011.Autobiographical art monograph by the Italian street artist.
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Sweat, Tears & Blood Red Opal
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartRon McKenzie
Winton: Ron McKenzie, 2000.“A true Australian Bush Story about – Station Runs – Mail Routes – Opal Mines and The Pioneering Folk around the Mining District of Opalton.” This copy signed by McKenzie and with the inkstamp of the local distributor in Winton, Searle’s.
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Unloveable
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKai Regan
New York: O. H. W. O. W., 2008.Photobook by American photographer Kai Regan of early 2000s NYC art scene.
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The Buddy System
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBarry McGee
New York: Deitch Projects, 1999.Catalogue for a gallery exhibition for street artist Barry McGee AKA Twist. Includes numerous blank pages for hand-embellishment.
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A Field Companion to Australian Fungi
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce Fuhrer
Melbourne: The Five Mile Press, 1985. -
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartBobby Fischer
Stamford: Xerox, 1966. -
Profile (Volume 1 No 1, 2, 3, 4)
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Handen
London: European Publications, 1973.British “bizarre” periodical, edited by Carl Handen with art direction by Hans Deiter. Each cover is illustrated by the American artist Eric Stanton, whose bondage and fetish comics also run throughout all four issues; the cover of number four is billed as “More from America’s leading bizarre illustrator – Stanton. Exclusive to Profile.” The same issue announces that Profile has “obtained the exclusive rights to the creative and erotic writing of John Cleve,” the principal pseudonym of the American writer Andrew J. Offutt, extensively used for erotic fiction between 1969 and the mid 1980s; the story “The Chain,” appearing in this number. Also included is a feature on the pseudonymous French novelist Alan Mac Clyde and the illustrator Carlo, both associated with the interwar French sadomasochistic novel genre. Further contributors across the four numbers include Audrey Kendell, Iago, Maud Cameron, Bernard Valonnes, Gee Kay, Earle Dexter, Mark Ralphs, Victor Rhodes, Julie Hamilton, and Sally Fleming. Number four states that a fifth issue was planned; it is not known whether publication continued. Unrecorded in OCLC, and not mentioned in Richar Perez Seves: Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground. A complete run (Nos. 1-4) is held by the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive, London.
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The Bachelor’s Bar Companion: A Guide for Unsubtle Seducers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartNigel Shaw
Sydney: Leon Publishing Company, 1972.Part of Sydney publisher Leon’s Bachelor’s series of guides for the unmarried man. Illustrated throughout with professional models, some of the photographs by Douglas Thompson. If you can look past them, the volume also contains 250 cocktail recipes and tips for winning a lady’s favours.
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Unleashed! (Volume 1, Number 1, 2, 3, 4)
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Garner
Leeds: Unlimited, 1994-1995.First four issues of the English BDSM magazine Unleashed!, comprising articles, SM sex guides, erotic photography and art, community news and events, letters and classifieds, with frequent reports on the launch and closure of fetish events, businesses, and other publications. Photography largely by John Garner, with contributions from David Flint among others. Issue four trails a fifth issue; whether this appeared is not known. Unrecorded in OCLC; a single issue (no. 1) is held by the Bishopsgate Institute UK Fetish Archive, London.
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Serious & Mistresses
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartDOM Promotions
Blackwood: DOM Promotions, No date.English catalogue of dominatrixes and mistresses, mostly full page adverts devoted to each. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Bewitching Bitches
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter X
London: [Swish Publications], No date.“Are you prepared for another journey into the bizarre fantasy world of the fabulous Peter X?” The second of two collections of fetish drawings by the fantasist of dominant women and lady rubberists published by the English femdom magazine Madame. Circa 1986-87. Both of Peter X’s works unrecorded in OCLC.
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The BMW 02 Series: The Cult Car (BMW Profiles 3)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter Zeichner
: BMW, 1998.The third in a series of historical profile books produced by the auto manufacture. With the 2002 Turbo quadfold brochure in rear pocket.
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Whichaway? Photographs from Kiwirrjura, 1974-1996
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartJon Rhodes
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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. -
Mountain Men: The Male Photography of Don Whitman
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Whitman
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1991.The physique photography of Don Whitman’s Western Photography Guild, operating out of Denver Colorado, capturing the perfectly sculpted men of the American West in the Rocky Mountains.
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Seraph
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartAllan Amato
Los Angeles: Baby Tattoo Books, 2017.Collection of female nude photography exploring nakedness and sexuality. Introduction by Erika Moen. Essays by Liz Lee Stoya. 3 limited edition designs and a trade edition were released. This is the limited edition design featuring Amanda Palmer by Bill Seinkiewicz on the cover, one of 200 numbered copies signed by Amato and Seinkiewicz, also with a signed hand-embellished print by Seinkiewicz laid in.
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Yip Cheong Fun’s Pictorial Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartYip Cheong Fun
[Singapore]: [Yip Cheong Fun], [1985].Late career monograph of the Singaporean photographer Yip Cheong Fun. This copy signed and dated by the photographer.
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The Hidden Nude
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.Limited Edition of Lewis Morley’s I To Eye with a chromogenic photographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex (40.6cm x 30.5 cm), being a portrait from Morley’s iconic 1963 series with model Christine Keeler, signed and numbered by the photographer in an edition of 150 copies. The print is housed in a custom made folder in turn housed in a custom made box with the book and a large format 8 page booklet/certificate with text by Morley.
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Tom of Finland Volume II: Bikers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson; Tom of Finland
Koln: Taschen, 2012.Collected volume of ToFs Bikers with the reversible panic dust jacket for safe reading on the train.
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Tom of Finland The Comics Volume I
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson; Tom of Finland
Koln: Taschen, 2011.Collected volume of ToFs comic illustration with the reversible panic dust jacket for safe reading on the train.
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Das Musikalische System der Griechen in Seiner Urgestalt.
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Fortlage
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1847.Aus den Tonleitern des Alypius zum ersten male entwickelt von Dr. C. Fortlage, Ausserordentlichem Professor der Philosophie in Jena. Mit II Tabellen. [The Musical System of the Greeks in its Original Form. Developed for the first time from the scales of Alypius]. This copy with the stamp of musician Immanuel Gotthold Reimann (1859-1932), founder of the Adelaide College of Music.
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The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartManfred M. Junius
Rochester: Healing Arts Press, 1993.An Herbalist’s Guide to Preparing Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs.
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Bel Ami: Intimate Friends
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Duroy
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 1996.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Sunshine and Rainbows: The Development of Gay and Lesbian Culture in Queensland
Read MoreClive 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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Bel Ami: New Generation
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Duroy
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2008.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Bel Ami: Intimate Friends
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Duroy
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2001.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Bel Ami: Perfect Couples
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBel Ami
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 1999.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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All Players
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartRick Day
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2012.Large-format photobook of male nudes. The third and concluding volume in Day’s Players series, focussed on the athletic male physique in sporting kit, partial undress, and full nudity, combining selected images from the two earlier volumes with new material.
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BelAmi: Oversized
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartStephan Niederwieser
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2011.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Bel Ami: The Blush of Youth
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Roffman
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2010.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Paradise Found
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Roffman
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2011.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Rhythm
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartAnthony J. Sansone
New York: Anthony J. Sansone, 1935.Forty-three nude physique plates of bodybuilder, model, and dancer Tony Sansone, photographed by Edwin F. Townsend and Peter A. Juley. Introduction by the sculptor Arthur Lee, whose bronze studies of Sansone are reproduced in two of the plates. This copy inscribed by Sansone.
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DoodleBug
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartRoyston Robertson; Colin Robinson; Criss; Siggy
North Yorkshire: DoodleBug, 1987-88.The first five issues (of eight) of a self-published comic created in North Yorkshire by cartoonist Royston Robertson (b. 1968) with a group of sixth-form friends, in imitation of the recently-successful Viz. Each issue was printed in a run of 1,000 copies and distributed by the group themselves to local shops and pubs. The comic was reviewed in Record Mirror and championed on BBC Radio One by John Peel. Ending after eight issues when Roberston went onto university; he later worked as a journalist and sub-editor at The Times, before becoming a full-time cartoonist in 2004 contributing to Private Eye, The Spectator, and other periodicals. “Hundreds of zany japes about things such as Australians, baseball, beards, bears, beasties, birds, boredom, cartoonists, cliches, cockneys, doors, drugs, eggs, fish, game-shows, Geordies, graffiti, hangovers, Hitler, hooliganism, ignorance, Max Headroom, money, mops, murder, necks, nonsense, noses, nuclear waste, pearls, Picasso, prisons, punctuality, quadrangles, sado-masochism, sex, sex, spiders, spontaneous combustion, suicide, toe nails, tortoises, the obvious, werewolves and yuppies!” (from the cover of No. 1) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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L. A. Digger News; DNA: Digger News Association; Extra Digger News
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartLos Angeles Diggers
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Diggers, 1967.Complete run of the three issues published by the Los Angeles Diggers, also known as the Digger Creative Society, an underground counterculture group active in Los Angeles during the summer of 1967. The paper changed its title with each issue. Inspired by the San Francisco Diggers but apparently not organisationally linked to them, the Los Angeles group ran a free store, distributed free food, and arranged emergency housing and free medical care in anticipation of a mass influx of hippies to the city over the summer. The papers were distributed free through local head shops with an optional donation, and reported on these activities alongside coverage of love-ins and related events.
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People’s Gay Sunshine: A Newspaper of Gay Males
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPeople’s Gay Sunshine
Berkeley: People’s Gay Sunshine, No date.One-shot California gay newspaper. Cover story on James Baldwin and featuring Allen Ginsberg, Edward Carpenter, an open letter to Tennessee Williams, and more.
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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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Mistresses of Desire
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[Leonard Burtman]
New York: Selbee Associates, 1964.Fetish photobook of dominating pinup looks in leather, lingerie, and other exotic attire, also featuring Bettie Page, produced by Leonard Burtman’s Selbee Connoisseur, C-24.
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Pansy Beat
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Economy
[New York]: KrimsKrams Island, 2017.“Pansy Beat was a short-lived fanzine published by Michael Economy in New York from 1989 to 1990, totalling five quarterly issues. Each issue’s 50-some black-and-white pages documented the exuberant downtown gay and drag club scene of that era and included one free condom. The zine offered a glimpse into an exhilarating alternative universe during the darkest years of the AIDS crisis. Interviews profiled downtown personalities on the verge of global stardom, many still working to this day. Artists such as Lady Bunny, Billy Erb, Connie Fleming, Kenny Kenny, Lady Miss Kier and Larry Tee first shared their memorable selves in print on the pages of Pansy Beat. The zine also featured interviews with Edwige Belmore, Leigh Bowery and Quentin Crisp. This book celebrates Pansy Beat’s brief but influential life, including a reprinting of all five issues in their original format, previously unseen photographs by staff photographer Michael Fazakerley, new full-color artwork by some of the original contributors, plus new essays and interviews.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy inscribed by Michael.
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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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Their Bizarre Education
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartClayton Rich
Wilmington: Eros Publishing, 1974.Femdom BDSM pulp. Bizarre Book BB-24. Cover illustration and 12 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Bill Ward.
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Funk City
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartKaty Karlyle
New York: The Olympia Press, 1970.The Traveller’s Companion TC-489. A young artists moves to New York to paint, but also discovers the joys of the flesh, both men and women.
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Gay Interlude
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCarol Clanton
Sydney: Scripts, 1973.“The nether world of women without men.” Australian reissue of the 1961 Midwood release. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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Man Hater
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartR. C. Gold
Hollywood: International Publications Inc., 1963.“She hated men and turned to a lesbian for comfort.” France’ Book 1067. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The Velvet Trap
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartKirk Westley [Manning Lee Stokes]
New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1971.“She spent one night with another woman–and never wanted a man again.” Cover illustration by Daryl Greene. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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Duet
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Duchamp [Sally M. Singer]
New York: Tower Publications, 1964.Original Midwood paperback. “Laura Duchamp” is attributed to Sally M. Singer, who published over 100 pulp novels under the names March Hastings and Laura Duchamp. This tale centred on a woman dissatisfied with men turning to a woman for true sensuality. Cover illustration by Irv Docktor. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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Model Mistress
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Duchamp [Sally M. Singer]
New York: Tower Publications, 1965.Original Midwood paperback. “Laura Duchamp” is attributed to Sally M. Singer, who published over 100 pulp novels under the names March Hastings and Laura Duchamp. This tale centred on a model that will pay any price for success. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.