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The Sydney Star Vol. 2, No 23
Mary Morgan
Sydney: The Sydney Star, 1981.Single issue of the fortnightly Australian gay newspaper, The Sydney Star.
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The Sydney Star Vol. 2, No 22
Mary Morgan
Sydney: The Sydney Star, 1981.Single issue of the fortnightly Australian gay newspaper, The Sydney Star.
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Stranger in Paradise: The Photocopy
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1981.An Expatriate’s Diary. Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work was his first in his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books, being a collection of articles recording his observations of life, culture, and architecture in his new home as he attends innumerable religious ceremonies. A detailed record from an expatriate perspective of culture and religion in Bali in the late 1970s. This copy with 3 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). Originally published in an edition of only 4 copies, this is the second edition with additional content published in an edition of 100 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the contents page. A trade edition was published in 1995.
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Splendora
Edward Swift
London: Penguin, 1981.“Splendora: a steamy East Texas town where Sue Ella Lightfoot furthers her study of sexual motives with every issue of Real Crime magazine while Agnes Pullens drills young ladies in the finer arts of Dance and Expression and Zeda Earl Goodridge faces a life of ruin if her Christmas yard display doesn’t take first prize this year. Timothy John Coldrige left this town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen; now, at thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie Gatewood. Draped (an impeccable accessorized) in Victorian finery and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm.”
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Black Rebel
Leo Callan
London: New English Library, 1981.Blaxploitation pulp. “The whip sang through the air, and Sapphire screamed… She was black, ripely beautiful, and a slave on the run.”
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Weekend Cruising
Warren Stevens
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1981.Adonis Classic AC259. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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The Man on the Bridge
Stephen Benatar
Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981.First published novel of Stephen Royce Benatar. “A coming-of-age story about a young man in 1950s London who has a tragic affair with a rich gay painter.” (Cosmo Landesman, The Sunday Times, April 11, 2010).
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Rude Health
David Thorpe
London: Macmillan, 1981. -
Ian Fairweather
Murray Bail
Sydney: Bay Books, 1981. -
Lay ’em Straight
Stuart Rowen
New York: Surree, 1981.Surree Stud Series gay pulp. SSS106. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Zinkzong Musikmagasin Nr. 4
Arild Polden
Ski: Zinkzong Musikmagasin, 1981.Single issue of Norwegian music zine Zink.
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Gateavisa Nr. 12, 1981
Gateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1981.Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This, the Psycho Special Issue with a feature story on Timothy Leary.
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Gateavisa Nr. 9, 1981
Gateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1981.Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This issue with feature stories on sado-masochism and lesbian SM.
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[Photo] Girl 81
Yoji Tsubuku; KPC Photography Club
Tokyo: [Japan Art Publishing], 1981.Early Japanese KPC Photography Club collection of professional and amateur photographers capturing the nude female figure. Includes work by Araki Nobuyoshi, Masuo Ikeda, Imao Isao, Eikoh Hosoe, Yokoo Tadanori, Andre de Dienes, David Hamilton, Irina Ionesco, and many others.
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The Great Kartan Mystery
Ronald Lampert
Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1981.This copy with Records of the Australian Museum Volume 37 No. 1 signed by Lampert, with a paper by Nicholas Peterson and Ronald Lampert ‘A Central Australian Ochre Mine’ laid in.
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Jennifer: Woman By Choice
Jennifer Fontaine
Chatsworth: World-Wide Publishing Company, 1981.Trans pulp produced by Hustler. Includes 6 sets of before and after photos.
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Studies & Sketches of a Bird Painter
Raymond Ching
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981.Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.
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A Citizen’s Guide to Marihuana in Australia
Frank Crowley; Lorna Cartwright
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981.A balanced look at marijuana in midst of the prohibition years in Australia. Also discusses broader drug use in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Bitches, Witches, & Dykes (Volume 1, Number 3)
Feminist Publications Collective
Auckland: Feminist Publications Collective, 1981.A Women’s Liberation Newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand.
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The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) & Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho
Kanamoto Nobuhisa; Kenneth A. Grossberg
Tokyo: Monument Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981.On the history of constitutional law in Japan, specifically the Muromachi period, once described by historian Sir George Sansom as being an age of “much law and little justice”.