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The Narrative World of Finnish Fairy Tales
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartSatu Apo
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1995.Finnish fairy tales represent the northern branch of the Western European fairy-tale tradition. Although Finnish epic folklore and mythology have been objects of great research interest, Finnish fairy tales have been studied surprisingly little. This study answers not only methodological but also the most important empirical questions, such as: what are the themes, plots and characters which have been able to entertain both fairy-tale tellers and their listeners from one generation to the next? How can these contentual elements be understood and interpreted within the framework of traditional Finnish folk culture? /// The methodological issues dealt with here include the question of how to approach traditional folklore material recorded in the 1800s, of which there is an enormous amount but very little accompanying contextual information. In order to analyse the contents of the tales, this study suggests the use of several semantic levels of abstraction as well as the systematic analysis of variation; only then is it feasible to present macrocontextual, interpretive hypotheses in which narrative and cultural structures are examined side by side. FF Communications No. 256 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The World of the Ploughwoman: Folklore and Reality in Matriarchal Northwest Spain
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartMarisa Rey-Henningsen
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1993.This study is a contribution to the discussion of folklore as a mirror of society. Spanish Galicia offers a special opportunity for examining wellknown folktales in a different context because of the cultural and economic dominance of women and the matriarchal life style which characterized the region until recently. That matriarchy was deeprooted in Galicia and did not result from male migration in modern times, is demonstrated in the historical chapters of the book, while the anthropological chapters (on family systems, work patterns, matriarchal ideology, sexual behaviour, religion and magic) tend to show that all aspects of Galician culture have been “canonized” in folklore; folklore therefore must have gone through radical changes in order to conform with the local ideology. While the women in Galician folktales almost always appear in active and aggressive hero roles, this has nothing to do with “wishful thinking” or “poetic fiction”, for according to the matriarchal concept it is just the natural order of things. Surely the correlation demonstrated here between the social structure, gender roles, and ideology may also be observed in male-dominated societies, once we learn to disengage from the patriarchal concept of the “natural order of things”. FF Communications No. 254 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Big ‘Fraid and Little ‘Fraid: An Afro-American Folktale
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Minton
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1993.Though devoted specifically to the life history of the anecdote folklorists know as Tale Type 1676A/Motif K1682.1, Big ‘Fraid and Little ‘Fraid, this study more generally assesses the manner in which the circuitous epistemology of the tale indices compiled by, or in emulation of, Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson covertly subverted Richard Dorson’s controversial conclusions concerning the origins of Afro-American oral narratives, as well as the arguments of those who have challenged his position. FF Communications No. 253 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A List of Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartDorothy Ann Bray
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1992.An identifying, classifying and documenting list of the themes of early medieval Irish saint biographies. FF Communications No. 252 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Studies in Ingrian Laments
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAili Nenola-Kallio
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1982.Collection and analysis of Ingrian lament traditions, exploring ritual expression, grief, and regional folk poetics. FF Communications No. 234 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia: A Study of Traditional Religion, Christianity and Nativistic Movements
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJukka Siikala
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1982.Ethnographic study of religious practices and intergroup tensions in tropical Polynesia, analysing ritual, belief, and social conflict. FF Communications No. 233 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Studies in Finnic-Slavic Folklore Relations
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartFelix J. Oinas
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Comparative study of Finnic and Slavic folklore, examining shared motifs, narrative structures, and cultural exchanges. FF Communications No. 205 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Types of Indic Oral Tales: India, Pakistan, and Ceylon
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartStith Thompson; Warren E. Roberts
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Catalogue and analysis of Indic oral tales from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, organised by tale-type and thematic motifs. FF Communications No. 180 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Indian Animal Tales: A Preliminary Survey
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartLaurits Bodker
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Survey of Indian animal fables, tracing narrative structures, moral lessons, and cross-cultural folklore parallels. FF Communications No. 170 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Index of Spanish Folktales
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph S. Boggs
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1993.Classified according to Antti Aarne’s types of the folktale, translated and enlarged by Stith Thompson, in FF Communicatoins No. 74. FF Communications No. 90 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Art of Mixing Metaphors: A Folkloristic Interpretation of the Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Dundes; Claudia A. Stibbe
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981.FF Communications No. 230 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Cinderella Cycle in China and Indo-China
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartNai-Tung Ting
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1974.Comparative folklore study of Cinderella-type tales across China and Indo-China, highlighting regional variants, motifs, and diffusion of the cycle. FF Communications No. 213 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Games of the Tibetans
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartSiegbert Hummel; Paul G. Brewster
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1963.Ethnographic survey of traditional Tibetan games, combining cultural anthropology, folklore, and comparative play studies. FF Communications No. 187 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A Bibliography of Riddles
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartArcher Taylor
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1939.Comprehensive scholarly bibliography compiling global riddle literature, folklore sources, and critical studies. FF Communications No. 126 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Sammlung der neuesten Predigten gehalten in dem neuen Israelitischen Tempel zu Hamburg
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartEduard Kley; G. Salomon
Hamburg: J. Ahrons, 1826-7.Collection of the latest sermons delivered in the new Israelite temple in Hamburg by Eduard Kley and Gotthold Salomon.
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Symbolik des Mosaischen Cultus (2 Volumes)
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Christ. Wilh. Fel. Bahr
Heidelberg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1837-9.[Symbolism of the Mosaic Cult] by Karl Christian Wilhelm Felix Bahr.
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Die Religionsphilosophie Des Sohar und ihr Verhaltniss zur allgemeinen judischen Theologie.
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartD. H. Joel
Leipzig: C. L. Fritzsche, 1849.[The religious philosophy of the Zohar and its relationship to general Jewish theology: also a critical examination of Franck’s “Kabbalah”]. This copy with the bookplates of Sidney Edward Bouverie Bouverie-Pussey and Rabbi Leib A. Falk, with Falk’s call number to spine.
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Israelitisches Predigt- und Schul-Magazin (3 Volumes)
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLudwig Philippson
Magdeburg: Creutz’sche Buchhandlung, 1834-36.Complete set in three volumes of the Israelite Sermon and School Magazine. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned).
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Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn, the Jewish Philosopher; including the Celebrated Correspondence, On the Christian Religion, with J. C. Lavater, Minister of Zurich
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartM. Samuels
London: Sainsbury and Co., 1827.Memoirs of the German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. Provenance: From the Rabbi Leib A. Falk Memorial Ibrary, The Great Synagogue, Sydney with plate, and ex libris plate of The Rabbi F. L. Cohen Collection.
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The Expected Good End, in Three Parts
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartS. M. Ish Yeminy
London: L. Alexander, 1800.Rare Anglo-Sephardi Judaica theological work linking Jewish messianic exegesis with Enlightenment-era cosmopolitanism. Part 1 (and the only published) of a planned three part work by the Sephardi rabbi and Freemason Solomon Mordecai Ximenes; Containing, The Birth of Jacob, his Dream of the Ladder, his Commandments, and his several prophetic Blessings to his Posterity; and various future Events promised by the Prophets. ROTH, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica p. 332 19a. Provenance: Signature and label of the Sydney lay preacher G. P. Beyfus, label of Mr. Pulver, library call number to spine matching others from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library, The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned with no other library markings).
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Let’s Hear It for the Long-Legged Women
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul du Feu
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1974.Erotic memoir by the husband of feminist writer Germaine Greer. He later married poet Maya Angelou.
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Theorie de L’Amour et de la Jalousie
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartP. J. Stahl [Pierre-Jules Hetzel]
Bruxelles: J. B. Tarride, 1853.Moral philosophical study of love, passion, and jealousy by the Jules Verne publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel published under his P. J. Stahl pseudonym. This copy bound in a fine half leather binding signed De Watines.
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Eve Ressuscitee ou La Belle Sans Chemise
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
San Remo: J. Gay et Fils, Editeurs, 1873.[Eve Resurrected or The Beautiful One Without a Shirt]. 19th century reissue of this anonymous libertine novel with a new preface and a photographic frontispiece of one of the engravings by Bovinet. One of 200 numbered copies, this copy finely bound in half leather with the original wrappers.
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BEV. Blad van Eva: de boom der vergetelheid afgerukt
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonie Greefkens
Amsterdam: BEV, 1988-1989.A complete set of the 1980s Dutch erotic journal for heterosexual women. Edited by Leonie Greefkens with art design by Willem de Ridder, Paul Kooiker, Henk tur Kulve, and Maud Vink. Numerous contributors of erotic photography, text, and comics. This set has been collected and finely bound in vellum with the original wrappers and housed in a matching slipcase
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. One of the first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer.
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.First edition, first printing, in a full leather modern art binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire.
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La Perverse Dominatrice
AU$850 Read MoreAdd to cartGreta Knout [Pierre Goetz]
: [Pierre Delalu], No date.The Perverse Dominatrix. 1960s clandestine novel by Pierre Goetz illustrated with 30 mounted photographs depicting a lesbian threesome with light and playful BDSM. DUTEL 2171 (noting only 28 photographs). Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Lucifer
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen Skinner; Neville Drury
Sydney: The Lucifer Publishing Company, 1968.One shot Australian underground newspaper edited by Stephen Skinner with artwork by Neville Drury, Bob Smith, C. Foley, and Michele. Writings include an experiential report on the psychedelic STP (DOM), Bob Dylan’s film Don’t Look Back, Flying Saucers, Alchemy, and more.
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Sin Valley
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartGail Spencer
Los Angeles: Raven Books, 1962.Wife swapping themed pulp. Raven Book No. 706. “In Sin Valley there were no two ways about it. If you wanted to belong you swapped your woman for someone else’s. It led to some pretty embarassing situations. Johnny Marshak wanted no part of a sex carnival but what could he do when his wife stuck her chest out, accepting all dares.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Sex Imposter
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartRuss Trainer
Cleveland: Corsair Publications, 1967.Nympho freak themed pulp. Corsair Books 203. Colour cover illustration by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg depicting some of the assorted characters. “To satisfy her nymphomania, she impersonated her own sister. In this evil charade she was part of every debauched orgy… always ready for her next gratification, no matter how depraved or unnatural!” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Devil’s Chamber
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartDuncan Lamour
Buffalo: Tortura Press, 1972.Femdom BDSM pulp. TP-121. Cover illustration and 9 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg. “The revolution had come, and failed, and gone. Afterwards came the repression, exactly as it had been predicted and feared for so many years. Tens of thousands of rebels and leftists, yippies, hippies, radicals, marxists, and simple liberals were rounded up and incarcerated in camps that were nothing more or less than concentration camps.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Hell’s Dungeon
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartSteward Chalford
Buffalo: Tortura Press, 1972.Femdom BDSM pulp. TP-131. Cover illustration and 9 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg. “The boy leaned far forward, thrusting out his crimson ass awaiting the sting of the lash. The old man in the pink panties took his time, toying with his victim.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
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Oeuvres Libres
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Verlaine
Segovie: Pablo de Herlagnez, 1868 [c. 1930].Clandestine 20th century anthology of Verlaine’s Amies, Femmes, Hombres (except the last 4 quatrains of Balanide I), and Sonnet du trou du cul [Sonnet to an Asshole] by Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. With erotic chapter initials and accompanied by 6 erotic etchings by an anonymous artist. Edition of 400 copies, though often found without the suite of plates, here the plates are on thick Holland laid paper and not vellum as described in PIA 1440, DUTEL 2092.
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Cocktails: How to Mix Them
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Vermiere
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922.First printing of one of the classic 20th century cocktail books by one of London’s leading bartenders of the 1920s. Credited on the title page to Robert of The Embassy Club, Belgian Robert Vermeire (1891-1976) worked a number of London’s most prestigious establishments. Containing 16 pages of illustrated advertisements at the rear, the first of which being Vermiere offering his services to would be professional bartenders, hoteliers, and amateur mixers as a consultant by appointment at his London office at “moderate terms”, though right on the publication of this book he returned to Belgium and opened his own bar, Robert’s. The beverages in Cocktails: How to Mix Them, being not only cocktails, but also cobblers, coolers, crustas, egg nogs, fizzes, flips, frappes, highballs, juleps, pousse cafes, punches, rickeys, sangarees, slings, smashes, sours, toddies, and even a short section of useful medicinal prescriptions, have stood the test of time, with countless reprints and facsimiles. Vermeire provides nuanced insight into the ritzy drinking culture of the day, not only outlining ingredients and methods, but also touching on the origins of the drinks, stating the creator where known, and outlining what drinks were well known and well received where and by whom.
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Ist der Ofen noch so klein, muss er doch…gereinigt sein
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of three drawings in pencil, ink, and coloured crayon on a single folded sheet, depicting a woman and a chimney sweep, with manuscript text in German: [No matter how small the oven is, it still needs to be…cleaned].
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Ein Spaziergang
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of drawings in pencil and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper mounted on sheets depicting a heterosexual couple entering a hotel for sex and being watched by a masturbating clerk through the keyhole. 14 sheets, each with mounted manuscript captions in German, and an illustrated title leaf mounted to the front pastedown.
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Casanova; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1955.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Photographic Views of Cheltenham and Its Neighbourhood
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis Bedford
Chester: Catherall & Prichard, No date.Unrecorded view album produced from the prolific series of stereographs of England and Wales by one of England’s leading 19th century photographers. Bedford helped to found the Royal Photographic Society and received numerous royal commissions. This copy with 5 additional Bedford albumens of the same or larger size mounted on interleaves. The issued photographs are: 747. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, Looking Up.; 749. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, The Central Avenue; 750. Cheltenham, The Promenande Drive, The Side Avenue; 751. Cheltenham, The Queen’s Hotel; 753. Cheltenham, St. Mary’s (The Parish) Church; 754. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Principal Front; 755. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Chapel; 756. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Interior of the Chapel; 757. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Gymnasium; 758. Cheltenham, The High Street; 759. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa and Lake; 760. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa, The Pump Room; 761. The Devil’s Chimney, Leckhampton; 744. Tewkesbury Abbey, From the West; 746. Twekesbury Abbey, Interior of the Choir, Looking West; 743. Twekesbury, High Street and Old Houses. The additional photographs are captioned in manuscript: 757. Plough Hotel; 2350. Winter Gardens; 748. Promenade; 2378; 2346.
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The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartM. S. Lovell
London: Reeve & Co., 1867.The definitive work on the subject of edible snails, shellfish, oysters, mussels, etc. This copy with the Reeve & Co. 24 page 1867 catalogue of publications in Botany, Conchology, Entomology, Chemistry, Travels Antiquities, etc. at the rear.
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The Dog in Australasia
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter Beilby
Melbourne: George Robertson and Company, 1897.The first Australian dog breeder’s manual. FERGUSON 6885.
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Gay Source: A Catalog for Men
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartDennis Sanders
New York: Coward, McCann & Geohegan, 1977.The Whole Earth Catalog of gay America; from help lines to holiday destinations. Compiled, written, and edited by Dennis Sanders with the assistance of Michael Emory. Illustrations by George Stavrinos. Feature articles by Felicine Picano, Ian Young, and many others.
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Ars Amandi. L’Art D’Aimer
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOvide; Pierre Lievre; Andre Lambert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Art of Love by Ovid, a new translation into French by Pierre Lievre and with illustrations by Andre Lambert. One of 404 numbered copies on Arches vellum (from a total edition of 500), this copy for Maurice de Smet de Naeyer, bound in half leather signed Weckesser.
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La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHonore de Balzac; Almery Lobel-Riche
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Girl with the Golden Eyes. An aristocratic libertine becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and sets about seducing her. Alas, his conquest uncovers a hidden lesbian relationship and he finds himself entangled in a web of erotic obsession and fatal jealousy. First published in 1835, this is the first edition with illustrations by Almery Lobel-Riche. One of 40 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states and an original drawing by Lobel-Riche (from a total edition of 500). This copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet.
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Le Diable au Corps
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Radiguet; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Editions Georges Gullot, 1957.The Devil in the Flesh. The story of a young married woman’s affair with a teenage boy while her husband is away fighting in WWI. First published in 1923, this is the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat, and with an introduction by Jean Cocteau. The superlative issue, one of 16 numbered copies on Japanese paper with an original signed drawing in pencil and white gouache, with the composition then hand coloured and signed by Becat, the 16 illustrations by Becat hand coloured by Jean and Paulette Monnier, followed by a suite containing the illustrations in black in two states, on Japanese paper and Rives vellum.
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Le Diable Amoureux
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Cazotte; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: La Tradition, 1936.The Devil in Love. Occult romance first published in 1772. This the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. One of 450 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 500).
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La Fille Elisa
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Paul-Louis Guilbert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
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La Mort de Philae
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Loti; Geo Colucci
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1924.The Death of Philae (English title: Egypt), a tale set around the submerging of the island of Philae with the construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the river Nile. The first edition with illustrations by Geo Colucci. One of 460 numbered copies on vellum (of a total edition of 500), in a fine half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax with the original wrappers bound in.
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Les Civilises
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere; Henri Le Riche
Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, 1926.French colonizers indulge in fornication, opium, and general debauchery in late 19th century Saigon (then French Cochincina, modern day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). One of 200 numbered copies of Arches vellum (of a total edition of 300), bound with the original wrappers.
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Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Gulick
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905.Human evolutionary theory by Hawaiian naturalist, missionary, and snail collector John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923). The three colour plates showing numerous shells.
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Maynard Keynes
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919.First edition, first printing of the highly influential economics work published in the wake of WWI, establishing Keynes’ as one of the world’s leading economists.
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The Olive and Its Products
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis A. Bernays
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1872.A Treatise on the Habits, Cultivation, and Propagation of the Tree; and upon the Manufacture of Oil and Other Products Therefrom. Early publication on developing an olive industry in Queensland. Lewis Adolphus Bernays (1831-1908) was the first Clerk of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and as a foundation member of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society devoted to introducing exotic species for commercial purposes wrote a number of papers on economic botany. FERGUSON 6952.
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A Manual of Homoeopathic Cookery, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Such Persons as Are under Homoeopathic Treatment.
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Wife of a Homoeopathic Physician
London: G. Borwon, 1846.A cookbook for the burgeoning devotees of homeopathy.
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Anima Mundi
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Ryden
San Francisco: Porterhouse Fine Art Editions and Last Gasp, 2001.Monograph from the early-mid career of the highly influential lowbrow pop surrealist American painter Mary Ryden (1963-). This copy signed by Ryden to the title page.
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Eye 5 Eroticisma
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Seamster
Santa Barbara: Eye Magazine, 1983.Artists book/magazine published in a numbered edition of 152 copies. This issue devoted to eroticism, and containing numerous signed original artworks, photographs, and collage. The artists are: Jas R Babbe, Chris Bastian, David Bottoms, Tom Clark, Flora Durham, Doug Edges, Sam Erenberg, Pat Fish, Tim Goetz, Marsea Goldberg, Jeff Greenwald, Jenny Hankwitz, Ken Hendrickson, David Holland, Michael Irwin, Starke Jett, Susan Jorgensen, Barbara Kapusnak, Steve Knauff, Penny Mast, Paul McCarthy, Michael Napper, Dwayne Newton, David Ossman, Somers Randolph, Jim Risser, Richard Ross, Mary Seamster, Elena Siff, James Taylor, Kerry Tomlinson, Dug Eyesaka, Shelly Vogel, and Seyburn Zorthian.
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CONTACT 1, 2, 3 (3 Volumes)
AU$350 Read MoreAdd to cartJeff Goldberg
Philadelphia: Red Room Books, 1972.First three issues of the literary journal CONTACT edited by Jeff Goldberg, all published in the space of 5 days in December 1972. These initial issues containing Goldberg’s A Week in Philadelphia, and other writings by Goldberg, Victor Bockris, Andrew Wylie, Marty Watt, and Ken Bluford. CONTACT ran for only 7 issues, however after issue 3 there was a change in editorial direction with the remaining issues largely focusing on an individual writer and running with contributions from a wider pool rather than the focused combined output of these Philadelphians, from their young and heady days trying to make their lives as poets.
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R. Crumb Draws the Blues
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
London: Knockabout Comics, 1992.Collection of music comics by underground comix legend Robert Crumb from Zap, Weirdo, et al. One of the limited hardcover edition of 200 signed and numbered copies.
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Weirdo No. 1
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
Berkeley: Last Gasp, 1981.“Picking up where Zap left off, Weirdo defined a new aesthetic for the ’80s, opening the way towards a new wave of comics literacy for a generation of outcasts, oddballs and revolutionaries. Weirdo #1, helmed by Robert Crumb, features comics from Crumb, satiric ads, photo-funnies from “Stomp” Gamos and Weirdo staff, Stanislav Szukalski, Bruce Duncan, Brueghel, a Sub-Genius spread and more!” (publisher’s blurb)
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High Priest
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartTimothy Leary
Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, 1995.The signed and numbered issue of 500 copies of the Second Edition of Leary’s psychedelic cult persona forming record of 16 trips during his Harvard study days led by guides Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, R. Gordon Wasson, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Ralph Metzner, Huston Smith, William S. Burroughs, Michael Hollingshead, and others. Containing the original art from the first edition by Allen Atwell and Michael Green, and with new art for this edition by Howard Hallis.
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Fumee D’Opium
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere
Paris: Libraire Olendorff, 1921.The first deluxe edition of Farrere’s Black Opium, semi-autobiographical tales of the history and use of opium. Preface by Pierre Louys. With 6 plates and numerous wood engravings by Georges Jauneau, engraved by G. Lemoine. One of 250 numbered copies on Arches Vellum (of a total edition of 322).
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Landmark work in chemistry and anaesthesia. Published when Davy was only 21, outlining his experiments with nitrous, popularising the term laughing gas, and suggesting its anaesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper.
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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious and Beautiful Animals, Elegantly Coloured.
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Frederic Martyn
London: Harrison and Co., 1785.Popular 18th century reference work by William Fordyce Mavor under his Martyn pseudonym, with 100 hand-coloured plates each depicting 4 to 9 animals, insects, or shells.
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Salome. Drame en un acte.
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde
Paris et Londres: Librairie de L’Art Independant and Elkin Mathews et John Lane, 1893.First edition, one of 600 copies, the title page device by Felicien Rops. MASON 348. This copy rebound in a fine signed art nouveau binding by Hatchards, Piccadilly, without the wrappers, with a plentiful quantity of blank leaves at the rear to allow for the binding design.
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.
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Le Spleen de Paris
AU$1,400 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire; L. Lafnet
: Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1940 [1941].One of 106 numbered copies reserved for members of the final illustrated book by Luc Lafnet, with 90 etchings each with tissue guard.
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Painting the Worlds of Studio Ghibli
AU$215 Read MoreAdd to cartStudio Ghibli; Yoji Takeshige
Tokyo: Pie International, 2025.“Featuring more than 800 pieces of background art, this beautiful hardcover is a complete and enduring publication allowing readers to thoroughly enjoy backgrounds from each and every scene of the Ghibli masterpieces. Including art from each of Studio Ghibli’s twenty-seven films, these pages offer a glimpse into techniques that bring depth and life to these cherished cinematic worlds, revealing a mastery of brushwork, colour and perspective. Editorial supervision by Yoji Takeshige. This is a must-have book for fans of Ghibli films and creators involved in the animation industry. Editorial Supervisor: Yoji Takeshige, background artist and art director for many Ghibli films.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJanet Gyatso
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.A Translation and Study of Jigme Lingpa’s Dancing Moon in the Water and Dakki’s Grand Secret-Talk.
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The Money Tree: Coffee in Papua New Guinea
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Sinclair
Bathurst: Crawford House Publishing, 1995.The deluxe edition, limited to 100 signed and numbered copies.
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Dead Man’s Love
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTom Gallon
London, Melbourne and Toronto: Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.Romance mystery adventure of a prison escapee. The first printing with frontispiece illustration by Howard Somerville.
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Text Book of Window Dressing and Display
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Foley; W. J. Hewett
Sydney and Melbourne: Alfred Lawrence & Co., 1922.Australian manual for the arrangement of shop windows including show card writing. Contains advertisements for Australian businesses supplying relevant materials and services.
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Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMorris Llewellyn Cooke
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.On city management based on the author’s time as Director of Public Works for the City of Philadelphia.
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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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Making the Grade: A History of WACA Club Cricket
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartWP (Bill) Reynolds
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Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Kron
New York: Karl Kron, 1887.“A book of American roads, for men who travel on bicycle. Its ideal is that of a gazetteer, dictionary, cyclopaedia, statistical guide, thesaurus of facts.” (from preface). A thorough history of 19th century cycling by one of its early adopters. Having never seen a cyclist riding a bicycle Kron ordered and received his first bicycle in 1879. Over the next 3 years he rode over 10,000 miles and contributed regularly to the cycling periodicals of the day. He then set about describing in great detail his touring experiences as well as all sorts of cycling minutiae, including reports from Australasian subscribers. Unable to find a publisher Kron pitched his book to his article readers and received over 3,500 $1 subscriptions. This not one of the subscriber’s issue.
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Australian Cycling in the Golden Days
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartH. (“Curly”) Grivell
Adelaide: Courier Press, No date.History of Australian cycling from the 19th century to the 1950s.
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The Pioneers of the North-West of South Australia, 1856 to 1914
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartNorman A. Richardson
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The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartVivien Johnson
Sydney: Craftsman House and Gordon and Breach Arts International, 1996.The second printing, signed by Clifford Possum to the title page.
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How Australia Took German New Guinea: An Illustrated Record
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartF. S. Burnell
Sydney: W. C. Penfold & Co, No date.An Illustrated Record of The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. The first issue published in 1915 immediately after the taking of German New Guinea. Includes a two-page account, five-page list of all personnel, and 52 photographic illustrations.
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Bacchus Wonder-wercken
AU$1,400 Read MoreAdd to cartD. P. Pers
T’Amstelredam: Dirck Pietersz, 1628.Waer in Het Recht Gebruyck en Misbruyck des Wijns, door verscheyden vermaeckelijcke eerlijcke en leerlijcke historien wort afgebeeld, ende lasteringe der Dronckenschap met levende verwen afgemaelt. Hier is by-gevoeght De Suyp-stad, of Dronckerts Leven: waer in alle hare gebouwen, manieren, aert, wetten &c. en alles wat by den Dronckaerts gebeurt, boertlijcker wyse word af-geschildert… /[Bacchus Wonder-works: Which in The Lawful Use and Misuse of Wine, by various entertaining honest and instructive history is depicted, and the blasphemies of Drunkenness are painted with living pains. Here is by-joined The Suyp-town, or Dronckert’s Life: where in all her buildings, manners, aert, laws &c. and everything that happens by the Dronckaerts is painted off …] Dutch work on wine by the bookseller Dirch Pieters Wittepers, illustrated with title vignette and 4 engravings by Gillis van Scheyndel in the text. Another work on The Hague, ‘s Graven-Hage, by Jacob vander Does (1668) without the title page or engravings bound before it.
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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Hartwich
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1911.[Human Stimulants: Their Origin, Distribution, History, Use, Components and Effects.] Monumental encyclopedia of ethnopharmacology by German pharmacist Carl Hartwich (1851-1917) based on anthropological and ethnological studies from remote sources.
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On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism
AU$350 Read MoreAdd to cartA. Brierre de Boismont; Robert T. Hulme
London: Henry Renshaw, 1859.The first psychiatric survey of hallucinations by the French physician and psychiatrist Alexandre Jacques Francois Briere de Boismont (1797-1881), first published in English in 1853, on offer here is the first UK edition, translated from the French by Robert T. Hulme. Boismont considered hallucinations to be one of the most important aspects of man’s psychological history.
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The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Dawson
Norwich: J. Dawson, No date.Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMade Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1988.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographers were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. The New Compiled Edition, combining volumes 1 and 2. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page, and with numerous manuscript corrections as well as additional information tabs further describing many of the illustrations.
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Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartB. N. Goswamy
Ahmedabad: Sarabhai Foundation, 2010.Catalogue of paintings in the collection, each with an extended text description.
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Open Shutters Iraq
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEugenie Dolberg
London: Trolley, 2010.“This book is a collection of individual photographs and photographic essays made by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul in 2006/7. These women were not photographers or writers, but were brought together by their need to tell their stories.” (from preface)
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Sarah Lucas: 4.2 – 31.3.1996
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartSarah Lucas
Rotterdam: Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 1996.Catalogue for an exhibition by English contemporary artist Sarah Lucas. This copy from the collection of photographer Lewis Morley, with the Lewis and Patricia Morley Library exlibris plate.
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Landscape, 2007 – 2014
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartPiyatat Hemmatat
[Chicago]: Serindia Contemporary, 2015.“LANDSCAPE 2007-2014 by Piyatat Hemmatat is a limited edition (of 500) artist’s book of his Landscape series in which for the last seven years he explored ‘his alternate reality’, the landscape. His exploration of nature has informed many of his published projects and has enabled him to get back in touch with his instincts and derive creative strength from them. LANDSCAPE is a collection of his most illuminating encounters that translated into a stunning selection of thirty landscape photographs in this beautifully-produced artist’s edition volume.” (publisher’s blurb)
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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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Leros
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Majoli
London: Trolley, 2002.Debut photo book by Magnum photographer Alex Majoli documenting the psychiatric hospital on the Greek island of Leros.
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Portraits from a Land Without People
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2008.A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia, 1847-2008. This copy signed and numbered by Jimmy Little and signed by John Ogden.
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At Water’s Edge
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Blackmore
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“At Water’s Edge, the long-awaited publication from photographer Paul Blackmore, explores the relationship between humanity and its most vital natural resource. This extraordinary body of work – spanning 11 years and 14 countries – provides a global look at how water flows through the spiritual and physical daily lives of people around the world. The photographs poignantly illustrate the unfolding drama of the global water crisis and how it is affecting those caught up in it: a billion people without access to clean water, another four billion without an adequate supply. Against this dire backdrop, the work also celebrates the quiet, yet essential connection with nature that water offers us.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Narcolepsy
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam; Bob Charles
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“Narcolepsy radically delivers a process that shakes-up the form of the book to produce the art as book and the book as art. The book is a fully realised graphic vehicle. The ways in which the book operates as a series of closures and openings, also parallels the content of the book and amplifies it as an evocative, mysterious object. Narcolepsy is loaded with the poetics of sex and death realised through an exciting fusion of drawing, painting, text and photography. Narcolepsy is a disturbingly ambiguous novella in pictures and words by Max Pam (photographer) and Bob Charles (writer).” (publisher’s blurb)
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No Worries
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin Parr
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.“In 2011 Magnum photographer Martin Parr set out to photograph three Western Australian port cities, Fremantle, Port Hedland and Broome. Each town was a unique setting for a photographer famed for his images of British seaside culture in the publication Last Resort. Using his unmistakably intimate and satirical style, Parr went about photographing Australian cliches, full of saturated colours and flash photography. The resulting photographs, published here for the first time, are an invaluable collection from this world-renowned British photographer.” (publisher’s blurb)
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War: A Degree South Collection #1
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDegree South
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“The collection of images in War — A Degree South Collection #1 truly illustrates that war is the disease of humanity. There has never been a time that it didn’t exist. Once the battlefield was the place of devastation. Now it is streets, alleyways, schools and places of worship. People and places are no longer protected or sacred. During times of war it is now officially safer to be a soldier than an unarmed civilian. In WWI, five percent of casualties were civilians. WWII the figure was fifty percent. In 1990, planet earth was host to 32 conflicts or wars and ninety percent of the casualties were civilians, nearly all of them women and children. Things have not improved and at present there are 43 conflicts taking place on our planet.” (publisher’s blurb) The photographers are Tim Page, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson and Sean Flynn. Text by Shaune Lakin and Tim Page.
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War: A Degree South Collection #1
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartDegree South
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009.“The collection of images in War — A Degree South Collection #1 truly illustrates that war is the disease of humanity. There has never been a time that it didn’t exist. Once the battlefield was the place of devastation. Now it is streets, alleyways, schools and places of worship. People and places are no longer protected or sacred. During times of war it is now officially safer to be a soldier than an unarmed civilian. In WWI, five percent of casualties were civilians. WWII the figure was fifty percent. In 1990, planet earth was host to 32 conflicts or wars and ninety percent of the casualties were civilians, nearly all of them women and children. Things have not improved and at present there are 43 conflicts taking place on our planet.” (publisher’s blurb) The photographers are Tim Page, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson and Sean Flynn. Text by Shaune Lakin and Tim Page. This copy signed by 7 of the 8 photographers (Sean Flyyn went missing while on assignment in Cambodia).
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New Settlers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLouise Whelan
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2013].“Documents the diversity of people who immigrate to Australia, and defies the prejudice and stereotyping embedded in parts of society. It is common in media coverage to play on fear in the community and demonize boat people. Text by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG One-time Justice of the High Court of Australia and Fiona Upward.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Whelan on the title page.
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Monte Cassino (Con Amore) w/ Print
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Nestor
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2019.“Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated London News from 1944 lead Nestor on a journey to discover and record the last remaining traces of the devastation of the town and the Benedictine monastery built on the site of the original Abbey chosen and founded by St Benedict in the 6th century. Blending original material from his research archive alongside his own images, Nestor encourages the viewer to cross into an elusive but violent past. The photographic windows throughout this book look out onto a buried past that continues to inform and shape our present through the fragments that have survived destruction, the passage of time and a human quest to overcome disaster. This is a journey across unremarkable contemporary places and into their dark history: forlorn graffiti semaphores in a space once littered with casualties of battle, a collapsed street sign lies unnoticed on the edge of town and autumns mulch burns on the road that snakes its way up to the summit of worship and war.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Nestor on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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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.