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The Sydney Star Vol. 2, No 23
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary 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
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Morgan
Sydney: The Sydney Star, 1981.Single issue of the fortnightly Australian gay newspaper, The Sydney Star.
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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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Black Rebel
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeo 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
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWarren 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
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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Gateavisa Nr. 9, 1981
AU$50.00 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 issue with feature stories on sado-masochism and lesbian SM.
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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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Jennifer: Woman By Choice
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJennifer 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
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Ching
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981.Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.
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A Citizen’s Guide to Marihuana in Australia
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank 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)
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFeminist 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
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKanamoto 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”.
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Why is My Child Different?
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRuth E. Millar
Melbourne: Spectrum Publications, 1981.An Australian family story of child learning disability.
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A Star for Christina
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBlakely St. James
New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981. -
Physique Pictorial Volume 35, August 1981
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1981.Single 1980s 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.