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.
The Book Merchant Jenkins is exhibiting at Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair, 14-17 May, 2026. Online orders placed during this period will be processed and shipped from early June.
New Arrivals
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Bazaar Nr. 1 & Nr. 2
AU$500.00 -
The Electric Automobile: Its Construction, Care and Operation
AU$400.00 -
Car Lovers
AU$300.00 -
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Lesbian Letters Issue No. 1 [&] Issue No. 2
AU$400.00 -
The Gay Haunt
AU$400.00 -
The Gay Haunt
AU$200.00 -
Occupied Spaces
AU$200.00 -
Atomic Horror Comic
AU$100.00 -
Fallopian Tube Fallopianna & Madness (2 Volumes)
AU$400.00 -
R and R: A Flight Fare Story
AU$500.00
Featured
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500.00 -
Do Catalog: Source Book of the Good Life (U.S.A. ’76)
AU$150.00 -
Chiang Kai-shek
AU$800.00 -
Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800.00 -
Light Through Darkness
AU$1,000.00 -
Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
AU$4,000.00 -
The Virgin Sperm Dancer
AU$600.00 -
Dark Spirits: The Magical Art of Rosaleen Norton and Austin Osman Spare
AU$250.00 -
Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Third Series: An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands.
AU$5,500.00 -
Ecole Pratique des Accouchemens.
AU$1,000.00