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An Agricultural Testament
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Howard
London: Oxford University Press, 1956. -
The First Hundred Years of the South Australian Museum, 1856-1956
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerbert M. Hale
Adelaide: Museum Board, 1956. -
Les Confessions d’un Travesti
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Eric Losfeld]
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1956.Les Grandes Etues Francaises de Psychiatrie No. 1, an aggrandizing imprint and seemingly a once-off published by Eric Losfeld’s Le Terrain Vague imprint. Autobiographical psycho-social confessions of a 43 year old married heterosexual male cross-dresser and female underwear fetishist. Illustrated with 5 photographic plates of the author in various states of undress.
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Officers of Anchorage Chapter, Alaska, 1924
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[FREEMASONRY]
Adelaide: Kodak Austral, 1956.Real photo post card of the officers, manuscript note on verso of the positions from left to right.
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On Overcoming the Personality Cult and Its Consequences: Decision of the Central Committee, C.P.S.U
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCentral Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1956.The resolution of the Central Committee published in the wake of the anti-Stalin Secret Speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 25 February, 1956.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 2, Summer 1956
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 1, Spring 1956
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.
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A Symposium on America’s Stake in Vietnam
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmerican Friends of Vietnam
New York: American Friends of Vietnam, 1956.The edited record of the Conference on Vietnam held in Washington D.C. on 1 June 1956. Attendees included almost 250 representatives of government, the armed services, universities and national civic organisations. John F. Kennedy was amongst the speakers.
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Lot of 9 Booklets of the Amateur Athletic Association
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmateur Athletic Association
London: Amateur Athletic Association, 1956.Full list of titles. 1. Instructional Booklet: The Discus Throw by H. A. L. Chapman. (Second Edition); 2. Instructional Booklet: the Javelin Throw by A. R. Malcolm. (Third Edition); 3. Instructional Booklet: Hurdling by J. L. Masurier 4. Instructional Booklet: Sprinting and Relay Racing by J. W. Alford and A. R. Malcolm; 5. Instructional Booklet: The Long Jump and the Hop, Step and Jump by Denis Watts. (Second Edition); 6. Instructional Booklet: Shot Putting by G. H. G. Dyson; 7. Instructional Booklet: Middle Distance Running and Steeplechasing by J. W. Ll. Alford; 8. High Jumping by G. H. Dyson. (Third Edition); 9. Rules for Competitions under A .A .A. Laws 1956.
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Spick Vol. 3 No. 27, February, 1956
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. T. Staples
Croydon: Town & Country Publications, 1956.Single issue of UK pinup magazine Spick with a 2 page spread on Bettie Page.
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From Here to Shimbashi
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Sack
New York: Permabooks, 1956.Illustrated by Leo Hershfield.
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[How to Make a Blouse and Skirt]
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKiyo Sasahara
Tokyo: Ondorisha, 1956.Japanese 1950s fashion how-to-make book.