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The Incest Theme in Folksong
Paul G. Brewster
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1972.Folkloristic analysis of incest motifs in international folksong tradition, tracing narrative patterns, symbolism, and cultural taboos. FF Communications No. 212 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Devil’s Chamber
Duncan Lamour
Buffalo: Tortura Press, 1972.Femdom BDSM pulp. TP-121. Cover illustration and 9 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg. “The revolution had come, and failed, and gone. Afterwards came the repression, exactly as it had been predicted and feared for so many years. Tens of thousands of rebels and leftists, yippies, hippies, radicals, marxists, and simple liberals were rounded up and incarcerated in camps that were nothing more or less than concentration camps.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Hell’s Dungeon
Steward Chalford
Buffalo: Tortura Press, 1972.Femdom BDSM pulp. TP-131. Cover illustration and 9 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg. “The boy leaned far forward, thrusting out his crimson ass awaiting the sting of the lash. The old man in the pink panties took his time, toying with his victim.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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CONTACT 1, 2, 3 (3 Volumes)
Jeff Goldberg
Philadelphia: Red Room Books, 1972.First three issues of the literary journal CONTACT edited by Jeff Goldberg, all published in the space of 5 days in December 1972. These initial issues containing Goldberg’s A Week in Philadelphia, and other writings by Goldberg, Victor Bockris, Andrew Wylie, Marty Watt, and Ken Bluford. CONTACT ran for only 7 issues, however after issue 3 there was a change in editorial direction with the remaining issues largely focusing on an individual writer and running with contributions from a wider pool rather than the focused combined output of these Philadelphians, from their young and heady days trying to make their lives as poets.
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Fanny Hill
[John Cleland]
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Short extracts from the Luxor Press edition with erotic photo-illustations. Rare Australian erotica.
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Starting Your Own High School: The Story of an Alternative High School
Elizabeth Cleaners Street School People
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. -
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Thomas Keneally
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. -
Early Japanese Sword Guards: Sukashi Tsuba
Masayuki Sasano
Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, 1972. -
Grunt #2
Greg Irons; Tom Veitch
[San Francisco]: Grunt Records, 1972.A promotional comic for Jefferson Airplane’s vanity label Grunt Records. Written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Greg Irons.
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Grunt
Greg Irons; Tom Veitch
[San Francisco]: Grunt Records, 1972.A promotional comic for Jefferson Airplane’s vanity label Grunt Records. Written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Greg Irons, Grunt is a short and colourful underground comix tale of a love acid band turned self hate sacrifice performance cult at the hands of an evil record label overlord.
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Sado-Masochism
Jonush Gustinski
[Sydney]: Potz Press, 1972.Short non-fiction introduction to sado-masochism followed by a fictional script of a sadomasochistic encounter, then a long erotic photo series of staged sexual murder. Rare Australian erotica.
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Hard in the Lace Game
Adina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.An erotic encounter of a door to door lingerie salesman. Rare Australian erotica.
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Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
R. Gordon Wasson
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson’s Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson’s hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria.
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The Honey Flora of Queensland
S. T. Blake; C. Roff
Brisbane: Department of Primary Industries, Queensland Government, 1972. -
Gleanings from Greeneland
J. S. Ryan
Armidale: University of New England, 1972.Collection of papers on Graham Greene.
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Escape to Elysium
L. J. J. Nye
Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1972.Australian utopian literature by Queensland doctor Leslie John Jarvis Nye (1896-1976). This copy inscribed by Nye.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 21, July 1972
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1972.Single 1970s 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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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu 28 [Primary Colours of Japanese Art 28: Modern Architecture, Sculpture, Crafts]
Terukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1972. -
1970s Nichigeki Music Hall Program: [Your Skin is Mont Blanc Snow]
Nichigeki Music Hall
Tokyo: Nichigeki Music Hall, 1972.Program for a 1970s topless revue at the Nichigeki Music Hall, also known as the Nihon-Gekijo, an iconic Tokyo theatre from the 1930s up until 1981 when it was demolished for redevelopment. Post-war the theatre hosted burlesque shows and motion picture features for American servicemen and tourists.
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Reckless Living
Richard E. Geis
London: Softcover Library, 1972.Smut fiction. “Women on the prowl, men on the loose…” Originally published in the US as The Saturday Night Party.