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Cocaine Handbook: An Essential Reference
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Lee
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1981.First printing of the revised edition of the Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook. The handbook was an essential reference with numerous printings totaling well over a hundred thousand during the 1970s. This revised edition first published in 1981 continued its aims of harm minimisation with corrected, revised, and expanded information on the chemistry, testing, purification, culture, and law of one of the 20th century’s most notorious stimulants.
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Psychedelic Chemistry
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Valentine Smith
Berkeley: Ronin, 1981.“Out-of-print for years, and impossible to find Psychedelic Chemistry includes Marijuana THC and analogs, magic Mushrooms and other indole trips, mescaline and friends, harmaline and other beta-carbolines, muscimole and other isoxazoles, LSD, Cocaine, miscellaneous psychedelics, literature and chemical information, miscellany on underground laboratories, role of the DEA labs in drug busts …and more! Psychedelic Chemistry is the biggest, best and most complete book every written on how to make psychedelic drugs. The most complete book ever written on how to manufacture psychedelic drugs. Requires thorough knowledge of lab techniques in organic chemistry.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn O’Connor; Dan Bensky
Chicago: Eastland Press, 1981.The first printing.
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The Art of Heavy Metal the Movie: Animation For The Eighties
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Macek; Christina Miner; Susan Cohn
New York: New York Zoetrope, 1981. -
Australian Graffiti Revisited
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis; Ian Turner
Melbourne: Sun Books, 1981.Australian street and toilet wall graffiti. Third printing of the expanded second edition.
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Mandatory Masquerade
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTrina Beaumont
Sydney [Ulladulla]: The Seahorse Club of Australia, 1981.Illustrated novella published by Seahorse, Australia’s first transgender support organisation. Authored by Trina Beaumont (formerly Trina Taylor), long-time editor of the club’s newsletter, Feminique, and a media advocate for the organisation during the 1970s. At the time, Seahorse primarily served heterosexual men who enjoyed cross-dressing, presenting members as ordinary men who occasionally adopted female attire. The novella includes illustrations by Di Ward and represents a rare example of early Australian transgender literature and community-produced publishing. A single copy recorded in OCLC, at the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Japanese Courtyard Garden: Landscapes for Small Spaces
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKanto Shigemori
New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill, 1981. -
Aida: Life and Ceremony of the Gogodala
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. L. Crawford
Bathurst: Robert Brown and Associates in association with The National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea, 1981. -
The Genera of Fungi: Sporulating in Pure Culture
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. A. von Arx
Vaduz: J. Cramer, 1981. -
A Monograph of Harknessia and Mastigosporella with notes on associated teleomorphs
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. R. Nag Raj; Frank DiCosmo
Vaduz: J. Cramer, 1981.Bibliotheca Mycologica Band 80.
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The Art of Mixing Metaphors: A Folkloristic Interpretation of the Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Dundes; Claudia A. Stibbe
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981.FF Communications No. 230 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Weirdo No. 1
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
Berkeley: Last Gasp, 1981.“Picking up where Zap left off, Weirdo defined a new aesthetic for the ’80s, opening the way towards a new wave of comics literacy for a generation of outcasts, oddballs and revolutionaries. Weirdo #1, helmed by Robert Crumb, features comics from Crumb, satiric ads, photo-funnies from “Stomp” Gamos and Weirdo staff, Stanislav Szukalski, Bruce Duncan, Brueghel, a Sub-Genius spread and more!” (publisher’s blurb)
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Splendora
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward 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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The Man on the Bridge
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen 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
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Thorpe
London: Macmillan, 1981. -
Lay ’em Straight
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart 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
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArild Polden
Ski: Zinkzong Musikmagasin, 1981.Single issue of Norwegian music zine Zink.
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Gateavisa Nr. 12, 1981
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGateavisa
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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The Great Kartan Mystery
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRonald 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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Studies & Sketches of a Bird Painter
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Ching
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981.Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.