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Grunt
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGreg Irons; Tom Veitch
[San Francisco]: Grunt Records, 1972.A promotional comic for Jefferson Airplane’s vanity label Grunt Records. Written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Greg Irons, Grunt is a short and colourful underground comix tale of a love acid band turned self hate sacrifice performance cult at the hands of an evil record label overlord.
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The Psychology of Nudism
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Easton Williams
Mays Landing: Sunshine Book Co., 1941.A Study of Mental Health and the Technique of Happiness by the president of The American Sunbathing Association.
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Seeing & Being Seen
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Yang
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2021.The deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist with a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 by William Yang, printed on Hahnemuhle Smooth Cotton Rag paper. The print is signed, titled, dated and editioned by the artist in ink, and mounted inside the upper board in a mylar sleeve housing. “William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen explores photographer and performer William Yang’s five decades of prolific art practice. This is the first major survey exhibition and publication on the artist by a state gallery. Featuring reproductions of over 200 photographs, it traces Yang’s career from his heady early days as a social photographer in the 1970s documenting Sydney’s queer scene through to some of his well-known series addressing family ties, sexual and cultural identity, and the Australian landscape. Developed in collaboration with the artist, the publication also examines the artist’s deep connections to Queensland, including his mid-career explorations of growing up in the far north of the state.” (publisher’s blurb)
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L’Art de Jouir ou Traite Pratique des Caresses Voluptueuses. Recettes & Formules sur les Aphrodisiauqes et Philtres d’ Amour
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Pierrot / Doctor Brennus / Roland Brevannes?]
[Paris]: [Andre Hal], No date.The Art of Enjoyment or Practical Treatise on Voluptuous Caresses, Capable of Procuring the Most Delicious, the Most Exciting, the Most Disturbing, the Most Irresistible Sensations. Recipes & Formulas on Aphrodisiacs and Love Potions. “This little treatise is a veritable vade mecum for the apprentice in love. It indicates precisely the physical and moral means which must be implemented to conquer the woman. The second part of the work dealing with lovemaking around the world including commentary on Asian and African practices. PERCEAU 275, DUTEL 56. Dutel stating circa 1902, Perceau 1908, a small name on the half-title of this copy followed by 1905. Both Perceau and Dutel attributing authorship to Pierrot, pseudonym of Roland Brevannes, who usually signed his works on sexuality Doctor Brennus, this based on the identical type used by the publisher. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC. This copy with 70 pages, separately paginated (pp. 105-174, [1]), of a clandestine catalogue of erotica and sexuality materials bound at the rear.
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Dictionnaire Universel Francois et Latin, Vulgairement Appele Dictionnaire de Trevoux (8 Volumes)
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
Paris: Compagnie des Libraires Associes, 1771.The final and most comprehensive edition of the Dictionnaire de Trevoux, so nicknamed because of its original publication in the town of Trevoux. The original 1704 edition, assumed to be directed by the Jesuits, was largely derived from the 1701 edition of Antoine Furetiere’s 1690 Dictionnaire universel. From the much expanded second edition it became widely used and was a major inspiration for Ephraim Chamber’s 1728 Cyclopaedia and the 1751-72 Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers.
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(not only) Blue (Complete Set, 67 Volumes)
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1995-2007.A complete set of Australian gay men’s magazine, (not only) Blue, from issue 00 to 66 (67 total). Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, publishers of the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden, and countless others.
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Complete Set of David McDiarmid’s ACON AIDS Awareness Safe Sex / Injecting Posters
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid McDiarmid
: ACON (AIDS Council of New South Wales), 1992.A complete set of the original AIDS Council of New South Wales safe sex and safe injecting posters featuring artwork commissioned from David McDiarmid (1952-1995). “For people of a certain disposition and a certain age, David McDiarmid’s ACON posters were part of our exploration of sexuality and identity amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis during the 1990s. The large multicoloured muscular naked male bodies with symbols, acronyms and names scrawled across each limb: positives and negatives of grief/lust/fear/care provided a new language for a community to own its public health concerns, and a troubling and appealing depiction of much of our felt ambivalence surrounding sexuality. They, along with his massive and elaborate Mardi Gras floats, were the backdrops to the AIDS vigils of the 1990s; an intense time of shuddering grief and defiant sexual pride.” (Margaret Mayhew, Artllink Issue 34:3) Full list of posters: 1. Some of us get out of it, some of us don’t. All of us fuck with condoms – every time!; 2. HIV, discrimination and grief threaten our community, Build our strength, stay together and support each other; 3. Some of us have HIV, some of us don’t. All of us fuck with condoms – every time!; 4. Some of us inject, some of us don’t. Always use clean needles – every time!; 5. Some of us are in love, some of us are in lust. All of us fuck with condoms – every time!
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Bob Mizer. AMG: 1000 Model Directory
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson; Bob Mizer
Koln: Taschen, 2016.“From a quarter million male nudes, editor Dian Hanson selects the best physique photography from Bob Mizer, founder of Physique Pictorial, AmericaÂ’s first indisputably gay magazine. Printed from the original 4 x 5 negatives for utmost clarity, this two-volume, seriously strapping lineup includes movie and TV stars Nick Adams, Glenn Corbett, and Ed Fury. An hour-long DVD is also included, containing 18 films made by Bob Mizer between 1954 and 1968, in black and white and color, all edited specifically for this book. They range from simple posing routines by bodybuilding stars Keith Stephan and AMG favorites Forrester Millard, John Davidson, and Steve Buono, to sword and sandal star Ed FuryÂ’s first physique film, to gladiator extravaganzas, wrestling adventures, crime dramas, and—a Bob specialty—humorous morality tales, starring Jim Paris, John Tristram, Monte Hanson, and other models featured in the book. MizerÂ’s take on Dr. FrankensteinÂ’s monster, in posing straps, is a standout.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cannabinoids as Therapeutic Agents
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaphael Mechoulam
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1986.A summary of past and present therapeutic uses and research of cannabis sativa. Contributors include Paul Consroe, Stuart R. Snider, Martin W. Adler, Ellen B. Geller, Martin Levitt, Robert A. Archer, Paul Stark, Louis Lemberger, Mark Segal, M. Ross Johnson, Lawrence S. Melvin, and James D. P. Graham. Edited by Raphael Mechoulam (1930-), an Israeli chemist known for the first isolation and synthesis of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive in marijuana.
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San Francisco Express Times (Complete Run, 61 Issues 1968-1969 w/ the First 7 Issues of Good Time)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarvin Garson; Robert Novick
San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968-1969.Complete run of the weekly underground newspaper San Francisco Express Times from Vol. 1 No. 1 January 26, 1968 – Vol. 2 No. 12, March 25, 1969, being all 61 issues before it was renamed Good Times being , here offered with those first seven issues, being Vol. 2 No. 13, [April 1969] – No. 19 May 14, 1969. Good Times continued (on a less regular publishing schedule) until August 2, 1972. Founded by Marvin Garson and Bob Novick the Express Times was a counterculture tabloid covering and promoting radical politics, music, arts, and progressive culture in the Bay Area. It featured extensive coverage of student riots including the prolonged strike at San Francisco State University, and a serialized novel of guerrilla warfare in the United States, Berkeley Guns by Lenny Heller, as well as a weekly cooking column by Alice Waters, illustrated by David Lance Goines. Regular contributors included Todd Gitlin, Greil Marcus, Paul Williams, Sandy Darlington, and Marjorie Heins, alongside staff photographers Jeffrey Blankfort, Nacio Jan Brown, and Robert Altman, and cartoons by Jaxon, Ron Cobb, and Sharon Rudahl. Also featured are writings by or about Richard Brautigan (Note: The final issue credits themselves for publishing 62 issues in total, however this is believed incorrect, there being 61 issues published weekly with a week taken off at the New Year. Comparable holdings found also note the total as 61. Also note Vol. 1 No. 13 misnamed No. 14, April 18, 1967 [1968], sequential numbering then corrected with No. 14 designated as No. 14.5)
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Sundry notes & papers: being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition, collected and collated under the title BUMBOOZIANA.
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Friend
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1979.An extravagantly illustrated reproduction of Donald Friend’s most famous and important illustrated manuscript. Bumbooziana is a fantastic, exotic, and erotic journey through foreign lands, illustrated by all manner of wild and outrageous acts of wanton sexual abandonment. Limited to 150 signed and numbered copies, this one of the few additional hors commerce copies, signed by Friend and also inscribed by the publisher, Richard Griffin, To Jim, likely Jim Walker of the Croft Press, and specially bound in a striking three-quarter morocco housed in a custom felt lined clamshell.
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Gandalf (Complete Run Nos. 1-58)
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGuus Dijkhuizen; et al.
Amsterdam: Gandalf, 1964-1971.A complete run of Dutch counterculture magazine, Gandalf, founded and edited by Guus Dijkhuizen (1937-2013). Associated with the Dutch Provo and hippie movements, Gandalf generally ran with a mix of art, literature, humour, satire, and nudity. Literary contributors included Gerard Reve, Simon Carmiggelt, Jan Wolkers, Simon Vinkenoog, Remco Campert, and Peter Andriesse. Though cartoon nudity appeared from No. 2, and No. 6 contained a centrefold “Playmate of the Rear”, photographic nudes did not appear until No. 8 and it was not until No. 21 before bare breasts were featured on the front cover, as the editors stepped up their campaign against the Holland status quo. Early circulation of Gandalf was around a few hundred copies, making the smaller format early issues rare, but within a couple of years had amassed a large audience with circulation around twenty thousand. Complete from Nos. 1 to 58, in 57 volumes, with No. 9/10 being a double issue.
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The First 1978 Tom of Finland Calendar
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTom of Finland
Los Angeles: Eons Gallery, 1977.Eons, A Gallery to View and be Viewed Presents The First 1978 Tom of Finland Calendar.
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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity (30 Volumes)
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Viner
London and Dublin: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Payment, E. and R. Brooke, T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and L. White, 1791-1806.Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; With Notes and References to the Whole. The Second Edition in 24 volumes with a considerably enlarged index, and with the 6 volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity .. By Several Gentlemen in the respective branches of the law (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted most of his life to the compilation of this work, being an extensive compendium of legal lore descended from Rolle’s Abridgment. “[T]he most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law. Whatever is to be found in the old Abridgments, or in all printed and several MS. Reports anterior to Geo. III., Mr. Viner has translated, abridged, remodelled, and introduced or referred to in his work.” (J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography, or a thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch law books: together with some continental treatises)
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Wine and Wine Countries; A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Tovey
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1862.On wine and related beverages around the world, including a section on the burgeoning Australian winemaking trade. This copy with the bookplate of Australian winemaker Max Lake.
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT] From the Bhagavdgita, Fechner, etc.
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Yarrow Jones
[England]: Ernest Yarrow Jones, No date.12 pages of 20th century illuminated manuscript bound in hand painted wrappers by the English artist Ernest Yarrow Jones (1872-1951), as identified by a laid in note recording the booklet as a gift from the artist to Jessie [Gilbert]. The text comprises short extracts from the Bhagavdgita and Gustav Fechner’s On Life After Death illustrated with numerous detailed initials and miniature paintings.
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The World of Homosexuals
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShakuntala Devi
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977.Considered the first published academic study of homosexuality in India, though in the introduction Devi states it is “the work of a lay person for lay people”. The World of Homosexuals begins with a lengthy interview with a closeted homosexual and ends with a strong call for decriminalisation of homosexuality, “nothing less than full and complete acceptance will serve–not tolerance and not sympathy. By our attitudes and our actions we must make it possible for homosexuals to come out of hiding, to live their lives secure in their right to be themselves.” Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013) was an Indian mental calculator and writer, popularly known as the ‘Human Computer’ for her Guinness World Record holding speed arithmetic skills. In a documentary Devi claimed that she wrote the book as a result of her marriage to a gay man, though this claim was later refuted by her daughter and son in law, stating that Devi likely just said it as a good selling point, and perhaps also as a petty swipe at her ex-husband. Regardless of intention or spin, the book is an important and scarce source of latter 20th century Indian LGBTQ+ perspectives and history.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.