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Condoman Says: Don’t Be Shame Be Game. Use Condoms!
Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Queensland: Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia, No date.Early/mid 1990s issue of the iconic Aboriginal HIV/AIDS awareness campaign poster (the earliest issues captioned USE FRENCHIES! instead of condoms). Originally conceived in 1987 by Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood and a small team of Aboriginal health workers in Townsville, Queensland, Condoman became one of the most successful Australian sexual health campaigns.
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Ist der Ofen noch so klein, muss er doch…gereinigt sein
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of three drawings in pencil, ink, and coloured crayon on a single folded sheet, depicting a woman and a chimney sweep, with manuscript text in German: [No matter how small the oven is, it still needs to be…cleaned].
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Ein Spaziergang
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of drawings in pencil and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper mounted on sheets depicting a heterosexual couple entering a hotel for sex and being watched by a masturbating clerk through the keyhole. 14 sheets, each with mounted manuscript captions in German, and an illustrated title leaf mounted to the front pastedown.
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Photographic Views of Cheltenham and Its Neighbourhood
Francis Bedford
Chester: Catherall & Prichard, No date.Unrecorded view album produced from the prolific series of stereographs of England and Wales by one of England’s leading 19th century photographers. Bedford helped to found the Royal Photographic Society and received numerous royal commissions. This copy with 5 additional Bedford albumens of the same or larger size mounted on interleaves. The issued photographs are: 747. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, Looking Up.; 749. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, The Central Avenue; 750. Cheltenham, The Promenande Drive, The Side Avenue; 751. Cheltenham, The Queen’s Hotel; 753. Cheltenham, St. Mary’s (The Parish) Church; 754. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Principal Front; 755. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Chapel; 756. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Interior of the Chapel; 757. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Gymnasium; 758. Cheltenham, The High Street; 759. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa and Lake; 760. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa, The Pump Room; 761. The Devil’s Chimney, Leckhampton; 744. Tewkesbury Abbey, From the West; 746. Twekesbury Abbey, Interior of the Choir, Looking West; 743. Twekesbury, High Street and Old Houses. The additional photographs are captioned in manuscript: 757. Plough Hotel; 2350. Winter Gardens; 748. Promenade; 2378; 2346.
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Exotique Illustrated Vol. 1 No. 1
[Reuben Sturman]
[Cleveland]: WWNC, No date.1960s fetish magazine produced by Reuben Sturman’s World Wide News Corp, though the content likely largely derived from Leonard Burtman, and the influence of John Willie’s Bizarre still ever present. Bettie Page pops up, but the main content is a host of other corseted and rubberized models in short series photographed by Lou Green, Len Barton, and Paul Wagner, alongside artwork by fetish artists Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew, including an extract of Staton’s comic story, Deborah, as well as a short text on the attraction of hair by Carlson Wade.
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The Corset Fetish Vol. 1 No. 1
Candy Lane
Nottingham: Candy Lane, No date.Dedicated to Fashions, Fads, Fancies and Fetishes. Largely full page black and white photographs of women in corsets accompanied by several John Willie illustrations. Text is mostly the story, The Thrill of Corsets, by H. T. Lowe, together with a couple of short introductory remarks on corset and fetish appreciation.
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Three Roads to Femininity
Anoymous
[New York]: [Lee’s Mardi Gras], No date.The stories of three men who take different approaches to cross-dressing. Published without imprint but with the sticker and number stamp of Lee Brewster’s Lee’s Mardi Gras. Possibly Eric Stanton or Gene Bilbrew cover illustration. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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Tailoring. How to Make it Pay.
T. H. Holding
London: T. H. Holding, No date.Late 19th century / early 20th century guide to running a successful tailoring business by British tailor and pioneer of modern camping Thomas Hiram Holding (1844-1930).
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Australian Cycling in the Golden Days
H. (“Curly”) Grivell
Adelaide: Courier Press, No date.History of Australian cycling from the 19th century to the 1950s.
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The Voyages to Queensland of the Glamorganshire
Pennie Manderson; Maryborough Family Heritage Institute Volunteers
Maryborough: Maryborough Family Heritage Institute, No date.A look at life on board an immigrant ship. Includes passenger lists for numerous voyages.
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How Australia Took German New Guinea: An Illustrated Record
F. S. Burnell
Sydney: W. C. Penfold & Co, No date.An Illustrated Record of The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. The first issue published in 1915 immediately after the taking of German New Guinea. Includes a two-page account, five-page list of all personnel, and 52 photographic illustrations.
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The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,
J. Dawson
Norwich: J. Dawson, No date.Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
John Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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All-in-Vue 84 Drink Recipes
Matthew J. Feeney
New York: Matthew J. Feeney, No date.Cocktail and bar guide mainly compiled from The Professional Bartenders guide and distributed in various wrappers as promotional material for bars and booze businesses. Here with the wrappers for Brooklyn wine importer Matthew J. Feeney. Includes quick sight tabs for cocktails, fizzes, rickeys, highballs, punches, and more. Also facts about wine, canapes, garnishes, etc.
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Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
A. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics.
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A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls;
David Jeffries
London: E. Lumley, No date.In which their importance is considered; and plain rules are exhibited for ascertaining the value of both; also the true method of manufacturing diamonds. First published in 1750, being “the first book in English to describe how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the basis of the factors of size (or weight) and style of cut”. This edition, while stated as the Fourth Edition, is produced by the London bookseller Edward Lumley sometime in the 19th century, and differs from the fourth edition of 1871 “While resembling the 4th edition, it has been prepared by a different publisher and the contents are drastically re-arranged. The explanation of technical terms omitted in the previous edition (despite its claim to completeness!) is here restored.” SINKANKAS 3203. Though given the career of Lumley it is likely this edition was published prior to the 1871 fourth edition.
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Raw Meat Cannibals!
Sharon Cruise (Maboota)
: Sharon Cruise (Maboota), No date.Duplicated typescript for an unpublished erotic-horror short story based in the Amazon. A man alone in the jungle comes across a tribe of black muscular nude women that torture him and force him to perform sexual acts on them before eating him.
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The Kalkadoons: A Study of an Aboriginal Tribe on the Queensland Frontier
Robert E. M. Armstrong
Brisbane: William Brooks, No date.A resource book for teachers, students and readers of Australian history. “The Kalkadoon (Kalkatungu) are descendants of an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland. Their forefather tribe has been called the Elite of the Aboriginal warriors of Queensland. In 1884 they were massacred at Battle Mountain by settlers and police.” (from Kalkadoon PBC website) This book shows that the Kalkadoon did not submissively accept the takeover of their land.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
Lenny Bruce
[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution.
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Das Jahr der Seele
Stefan George; Ernest Briggs
Brisbane: Ernest Briggs, No date.Autograph transcription of German symbolist poet Stefan George’s 1897 work Das Jahr der Seele [The Year of the Soul] by Australian poet, broadcaster, and critic Ernest Briggs (1905-1967). The complete work has been copied in the original German, though the poem starting ‘Keins wie dein feines ohr’ has only been titled with a blank space left for the poem, and the final 9 poems from ‘Ob schwerer nebel in den waldern hangt’ to end have not been included, presumably only because Briggs ran out of room in the book. Penned during Briggs time at 4BK Brisbane sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s.