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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.
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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.
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Codex Seraphinianus (2 Volumes)
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981.The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017), all housed in the original shipping cartons. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page book hand-bound with treated pages from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 10, of which this is number 10.
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True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Leach
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. -
Early Sketches and Charts of Banks Peninsula, 1770-1850
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Bromley Maling
Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1981.Pre-1850, though mostly 1838-50 sketches and maps of Banks Peninsula, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, by French and British visitors to the region. Limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 388.
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Period.
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoAnn Gardner-Loulan; Bonnie Lopez; Marcia Quackenbush
San Francisco: Volcano Press, 1981.Discusses menstruation and other related mental and physical changes girls experience, gives suggestions for coping with these changes, and explains what happens during a pelvic exam.