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Of Those Alone
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Hutton
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1958.The pseudonymous autobiography of Horace Charles Forbes Cheston, published under the name Robert Hutton shortly after the release of the Wolfenden Report. Written at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised and taboo, Of Those Alone offers an unusually candid account of Cheston’s sexual and emotional life. Moving between Paris, California, New York, and the South of France before returning to England, he recounts his affairs, his ill-fated marriage to an American woman, and his descent into alcoholism, concluding with redemption through Alcoholics Anonymous, an organisation he later helped to establish in Britain. One of the earliest openly homosexual autobiographies of the postwar period, it precedes the more widely known works of the 1960s gay liberation era and is quite likely the first memoir of a gay alcoholic writer.
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Zen in the Art of Flower Arrangement
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGustie L. Herrigel
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958.First printing in English translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull, with a foreword by D. T. Suzuki.
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A Survey of, and Report Upon, the Hotel Industry of New South Wales
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAsher Joel Advertising
Sydney: The Langlea Printery, 1958.Submitted to the United Licensed Victuallers Association.
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Doctor Zhivago
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBoris Pasternak
New York: Pantheon, 1958.First printing of the first US edition with the book club edition square to lower board of this classic of Russian literature.
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The Honey Flora of South-Eastern Queensland
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. T. Blake; C. Roff
Brisbane: Department of Agriculture and Stock, Queensland, 1958. -
Never Love a Stranger
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHarold Robbins
London: Robert Hale, 1958.The second UK printing, in the dustwrapper, of Harold Robbins first novel, a tale of crime and gangsters in New York. Published the same year as the film release starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 8 Number 2, Summer 1958
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1958.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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The Male Figure Volume VIII, Spring, 1958
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1958.Single issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. In this issue: Meet Jerry Roquemore, Mr. Apollo contest, Edgar Hayes, Harry Miller, Cowboys of the West, and Steven Wengryn.
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Don’t Type In Bed: Life with a Roving Journalist
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeggy Warner
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1958.Biography of the wife of Australian foreign correspondent Denis Warner. Portrait photograph of Peggy by Athol Smith.