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Mind Field
Gregory Corso
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1989.Hanuman Books 27, first edition of beat poet Gregory Corso. Cover photo by Allen Ginsberg. This copy signed by Corso on the front flyleaf.
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Quatrefoil
James Barr
London: Vision Press, 1953.First UK edition of one of the first modern books to portray homosexual characters positively written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr.
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Roberta Cowell’s Story by Herself
Roberta Cowell
London: William Heinemann, 1954.Scarce autobiography of British race car driver, WWII fighter pilot, and first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1948 after Michael Dillon (British physician and the first trans man to undergo FtM surgery) performed an inguinal orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) on Cowell.
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The Narrow Road To The Deep North
Richard Flanagan
Sydney: Knopf, 2013.The first printing of the Australian–being the true–first edition of Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize winning novel. This being the variant without the printed signature on the half-title (the variant with often found erroneously described as signed). This copy signed by Flanagan in purple marker on the title page and with a signed by author sticker on the jacket upper panel.
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(not only) Black+White (Complete Set, 89 Volumes)
Marcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1992-2007.A complete set of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White, from issue 00 to 88 (89 total). Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. The premiere issue featured articles on Agenda: Gender, Marcus Graham, Dykes on Bikes, and Teen Satanists, and featured photography by or of Simon Denny, Helmut Newton, Kym Wilson, Angie Bowie, and others. Over its 15 year history (not only) Black+White featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Toni Collette, Alan Moore, Bettina Rheims, Alain de Botton, Keira Knightley, Billie Piper, Tara Moss, Kylie Minogue, Nobuyoshi Araki, Natalie Portman, Patti Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Olaf Martens, Scarlett Johansson, Peaches, Anton Corbijn, Ellen von Unwerth, Gottfried Helnwein, Dolly Parton, Bruce Weber, Kate Moss, Bob Carlos Clarke, Mario Testino, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Lindbergh, Radiohead, Serge Gainsbourg, Harrsion Ford, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, David Cronenberg, Bill Henson, PJ Harvey, John Waters, Irvine Welsh, Chloe Sevigny, Johnny Depp, David Bowie, Arthur C. Clarke, William Klein, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Nick Cave, Spike Lee, Jan Saudek, Dennis Hopper, Devo, Madonna, Woody Harrelson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Naomi Watts, Albert Watson, David Hamilton, Pierre et Gilles, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, and countless others. International buyers please contact for shipping quote.
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Derricks
James Barr
New York: Greenburg, 1951.A collection of short stories. The second published work by of one of the first modern authors to portray homosexual characters positively. Written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr. YOUNG 185*.
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Synthesis
Kohei Nawa
Tokyo: AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2011.The extensive catalogue accompanying the 2011 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the first to present a comprehensive view of all of Nawa’s work to date. Includes an original work by Kohei Nawa mounted in an enclosure on the lower board.
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La Passion du Christ
Georges Rouault; D’Andre Suares
Tokyo: Editions Iwanami Shoten, 1975.The Japanese production of Rouault’s The Passion of Christ with 54 colour plates tipped on large sheets of handmade paper housed in a custom cloth folder with Andre Suares poems in the original French and 151 page book in Japanese with the Rouault’s wood engravings in the text. Limited to 900 numbered copies, of which this is 354.
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D*A*A*S BOOK
The Doug Anthony Allstars
Sydney: Susan Haynes, Allen & Unwin, 1989.This copy inscribed with an original sketch by Tim Ferguson.
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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
Eikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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Dobangaka kiyohara keiko sakuhinshu
Keiko Kiyohara
Tokyo: Abe Shuppan, 2017.Monograph of Japanese printmaker Keiko Kiyohara (1955-1987). This copy with the catalogue, The Etcher, Kiyohara Keiko Retrospective, from the Hachioji Yumi Art Museum (2017) laid in.
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
Edward L. Youmans
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856.Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest Views of the Subjects Illustrated. Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887) was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer, and founder of Popular Science magazine. Youmans’ Chemical Atlas is one of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization, with striking colour plates both conveying information and capturing the imagination, and was featured in the William Reese exhibition Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: “This chemistry textbook was a pioneering publication in the use of color to convey quantitative information”. There are recorded printings each year between 1854 and 1857. This 1856 edition being the third year of printing and from the collection of the renowned neurologist, author, and educator Dr. Oliver Sacks, with his bookplate laid in.
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Bush Medicine: A Practical Handbook for Managing Serious Illnesses and Accidents in the Outback
Victor H. Webster
Tennant Creek: Jackhammer Press, No date.Victor H. Webster (1905-1980) was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council for Tennant Creek from 1947 to 1950. During this time he published Bush Medicine, an early Northern Territory medical handbook for surviving medical emergencies in the remote outback. Includes a chapter ‘Some Remarks on Sickness in Natives’.
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Autoerotic Phenomena in Adolescence: An Analytical Study of Psychology and Psychopathology of Onanism
K. Menzies
London: H. K. Lewis, 1919.Early 20th century psychoanalytical study of masturbation written for a lay audience. With a foreword by Dr. Ernest Jones. An important text in helping to normalise healthy self-pleasure and provide a balanced approach to unhealthy behaviours in the early 20th century.
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E’tude Medico-Legale et Clinique sur L’Empoisonnement
Ambroise Tardieu; Z. Roussin
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1875.Medico-Legal and Clinical Study on Poisoning.
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Groom’s Darling Downs Book Almanac and Local Business Directory for 1907
W. H. Groom & Sons
Toowoomba: W. H. Groom & Sons, 1907.Rare Queensland almanac and directory produced annually between 1877 and 1910 covering the Darling Downs region of southern Queensland including Toowoomba, Pittsworth, Allora, Warwick, Millmerran, Leyburn, Stanthorpe, Oakey, Jondaryan, Dalby, Roma, Clifton, Crow’s Nest, Meringandan, Goombungee, Goondiwindi, Turallin, and Drayton.
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Crash Injuries: The Integrated Medical Aspects of Automobile Injuries and Death
Jacob Kulowski
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1960.The leading 20th century monograph on human injury as a result motor vehicle accidents written by an orthopaedic surgeon for a medical audience. Crash Injuries was a source of inspiration for J. G. Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash.
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The Epicurean, A Tale
Thomas Moore
Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1827.The Paris Edition published the same year as the UK first. This copy in the armorial binding of Lord Henry Seymour (1805-1859) signed Rel. Hering.
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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
J. Prip-Moller
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967.A labour of love originally published in 1937 by Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller (1889-1943). Thoroughly researched and illustrated throughout with photographs, floor plans, and architectural illustrations, this tome is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and provides invaluable insight into Chinese Buddhist monastic life.
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Fables by the Late Mr. Gay. In Two Volumes
John Gay
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, [et al.], 1757.Two volumes in one (as usual). Frontispiece and title page engraved by G. Scotin after Hubert Gravelot, and 66 half-page engravings by Van der Gucht after William Kent, John Wootten, and Gravelot, as well as numerous woodcut tailpieces.