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Officers of Anchorage Chapter, Alaska, 1924
[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
Central 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
Bob 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
Bob 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)
Henri 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
American 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
Amateur 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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From Here to Shimbashi
John Sack
New York: Permabooks, 1956.Illustrated by Leo Hershfield.
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