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96 Years of Progress: The History of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales, 1860 to 1956
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Howard Cromack
Sydney: Utility Press, 1956.This copy includes the illustrations booklet.
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Lew Hoad Australia Player No 1. in Prague, 1956
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcel Niederle
Prague: Marcel Niederle, 1956.Original portrait of Lew Hoad by the Czech artist and caricaturist Marcel Niederle (1898-1990), drawn in Prague two days after Hoad’s victory at the French Championships, and signed by Hoad the following day. Hoad appeared on the Prague courts on 28 and 29 May at the invitation of the Czechoslovak tennis authorities, then flew to Barcelona for the Trofeo Conde de Godo, and went on to win Wimbledon, the third of his three major singles titles that year. Signed by Niederle and captioned “Lew Hoad. Australia Player No 1. Sketched in Praha 28 V 1956”, and inscribed by Hoad “Very Best Wishes Lewis Hoad Praha 29/5/56”. Prepared for a cover of the Czech sports magazine ‘Stadion’ that was never published, and mounted on a large sheet of paper with the magazine’s worksheet tipped to the mount, clear of the drawing. Niederle specialised in sporting subjects, particularly tennis and ice hockey. After working in New York as an illustrator for Sports Illustrated he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he drew the leading tennis players of the 1950s to the 1970s, a period dominated by Australian champions. No holdings of Niederle’s work can be traced in any Australian public collection.
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Officers of Anchorage Chapter, Alaska, 1924
AU$40 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 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 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 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 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.