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Volume 1
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Bob Delmonteque]
[Los Angeles]: [Bob Delmonteque], [1957].Bob Delmonteque (1921-2011), a Detroit-born bodybuilder first gained fame as a physique model for Douglas of Detroit in the late 1940s before establishing his own Los Angeles based photography and mail-order business. This volume reproduces 25 original catalogue sheets at an enlarged scale, supplemented by a series of full-page plates. Models include Glenn Bishop, Richard Alan, and Norman Tousley, though Delmonteque himself appears frequently, both as photographer and subject.
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Candomble
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJose Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes o Cruzeiro, 1957.Photobook on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble, providing an intimate visual record of ritual and ceremony.
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Mushrooms, Russia and History
AU$14,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Pavolvna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.The founding work of ethnomycology. One of 512 numbered copies. The Wassons’ central thesis divided cultures into “mycophilic” and “mycophobic” (those that embraced mushrooms and those that feared them), with Russia and the Anglo-Saxon world as the defining poles. Their investigations led to the study of psychoactive mushroom use in Mesoamerican religious ceremony, culminating in R. Gordon Wasson’s participation in a Mazatec velada with the curandera Maria Sabina in 1955. The resulting work bridges folklore, linguistics, botany, and anthropology, and laid the groundwork for the modern study of psychoactive fungi and later, entheogens. Produced at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the edition is equally significant as a feat of book production, two large quarto volumes with 82 plates including 32 in colour, printed in a limited edition at the authors’ expense.
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Le Diable au Corps
AU$2,000.00 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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Physique Pictorial Volume 7 Number 3, Fall 1957
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.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 7 Number 2, Summer 1957
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.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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Canadian Pacific All Services Map
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCanadian Pacific
Toronto: Rolph Clark Stone, 1957.Large folding colour map showing the steamship, rail, and air services of Canadian Pacific. The large map shows North America, with insets showing Trans-Atlantic Steamship routes, and International Airline routes to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland, Mexico City, Lima, and Buenos Aires.The verso promotes the amenities of their services.