The Book Merchant Jenkins - Antiquarian Bookseller & Auctioneer

The Book Merchant Jenkins is an antiquarian bookseller and auction house buying and selling rare and interesting books in all genres with a focus on Sexuality, LGBTIQ+, Ethnopharmacology, Counterculture, and Art.

After twenty years in Brisbane, The Book Merchant Jenkins has relocated to alongside the Huon River in far south Tasmania. The new book house will open to visitors in 2027. You can find Jenkins exhibiting at the following book fairs in 2026: London (14-17 May), Melbourne (30 July-1 August), Berlin (14-20 September), Sydney (22-24 October). Books can also be ordered online at any time.

Image a of Venus woman and a hand drawn woman's face with the text Sex Slave, The Book Merchant Jenkins, Antiquarian Bookseller, 2026 Melbourne Rare Book Fair.

Drawing of people sitting in front of books with the text Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2026

The Book Merchant Jenkins returns to Wilson Hall for the 2026 Melbourne Rare Book Fair at the University of Melbourne, 30 July to 1 August bringing 91 items, ranging from a wholly engraved 17-century French devotional work in a contemporary pointille binding to a hand-painted 1980s wearable artwork, with a good deal of erotica, queer, and counterculture material in between, as you would expect. Browse the full list online now.