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Histoire d’Amour de la Rose de Sable
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry de Montherlant; Edouard Chimot
Paris: Editions des Deux-Rives, 1951.French novel critical of colonisation in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa. This edition with erotic illustrations by Chimot. One of 900 numbered copies on Rives vellum.
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Ballade de la Geole de Reading / The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Burins Originaux de Tavy Notton
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde; Tavy Notton
Paris: Editions de L’Odeon, 1951.Bilingual edition in French and English of Wilde’s poem with illustrations by Tavy Notton. One of 120 copies on Rives vellum (from an edition of 201). This copy with the additional suite of 16 plates with remarques including illustrated text from De Profundis normally accompanying copies 11 to 60.
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Sex
Read MorePaul Renin
Cleveland: Kaywin Publishers, 1951.Coming-of-age erotic pulp fiction. “At sixteen she was sweet, innocent and unawakened; she had never been kissed and was puzzled by her feelings of feverish excitement whenever a man put his arm around her; she had the body of a woman, voluptuous and tempting, and was completely ignorant of the promise which it held. An Archer Book 50. Cover illustration by REginald Heade
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The Mycophagists’ Book
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Healy Evans
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951.A treatise on the cooking and eating of mushrooms. A fine American private press production limited to 175 copies. This copy inscribed by the author and the printer. VOLBRACHT 567.
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The Interpersonal Dimension of Personality
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMervin B. Freedman; Timothy F. Leary
: Journal of Personality, 1951.First separate printing, offprinted from Journal of Personality Vol. 20, No. 2, December, 1951 in a limited number of copies for the authors’ use. One of the first works co-authored by Leary. This copy signed by him on the front cover. “..first in a series of papers designed to present a comprehensive schema for the organization of personality data.” Years later when Leary was imprisoned he took personality tests he had himself helped design. HOROWITZ, WALLS & SMITH AA7, Variant A.
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Derricks
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Barr
New York: Greenburg, 1951.A collection of short stories. The second published work by of one of the first modern authors to portray homosexual characters positively. Written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr. YOUNG 185*.
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Communist Zoo
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHans Muller
New York: Swen Publications, 1951.Photographs of zoo animals with humorous anti-communist commentary: “Don’t ask me what I think, comrade! I haven’t read the Daily Worker this morning.”
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The Physician and His Workshop
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. G. McDonald
Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Co., 1951.A short essay in praise and detail of the clinical physician. Listerian oration. Reprinted from The Medical journal of Australia, June 23, 1951, p. 889. Delivered at a meeting of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association on April 27, 1950. Scarce, 4 copies recorded in OCLC at October, 2020.