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The Littlewood Press
AU$10,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKatherine N. Simitian
Stoke-on-Trent: The Lytlewode Press, 2007.Being a monograph dealing with the development of an Australian private press featuring eighty-nine etchings printed in the atelier of The Press. A short history of the Littlewood Press from 1996 to 2007 featuring original etchings printed at the Press editioned from its published works and commissioned artists including Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Derham Groves, Allan Jordan, Trish Hart, Tony Irving, Pro Hart, Andrew Sibley, Caitlin Littlewood, Robbie Harmsworth, Peter Jones, Marc Severin, and Leslie Tarrant. Bound in stingray, likely the first Australian publication using this skin, the natural white star of the skin forming a decorative emblem to the spine. The idea for this book originated in 1996 when the publisher undertook to print ten additional copies of every etching printed at the press with the intention of creating a history volume at a later date. A number of the etchings are ex libris bookplates. One of the finest Australian art publications, limited to just 10 copies, signed and numbered by the author and the publisher, 5 of which are housed in Australian institutions. This copy is number 10 and includes the original prospectus, The History of The Littlewood Press, featuring an additional Trish Hart etching and signed by the publisher, Robert Littlewood. Issued with 81 of the 89 listed etchings, and with 4 of the Pro Hart etchings supplied twice, making for a total of 85 etchings and photographic portrait of the publisher. The plates not included as per the checklist are: 10. Trish Hart: Nesting Gull; 34. Tony Irving: The Old Kiosk [Black]; 37. Tony Irving: Home Alone [Black]; 39. Tony Irving: Ramsen Place; 40. Tony Irving: Drewery Lane; 42. Tony Irving: Hosier Lane; 43. Tony Irving: Waratah Place; 44. Tony Irving: China Town. The four Pro Hart plates that are included in duplicate are: 45. Singers at the Southern Cross Hotel; 46. Miner’s Kids; 47. Yabbie Picnic; 48. Gethsemane. The plates not included do not appear to have been removed, but as in true Private Press fashion, the difference in actual issue to the stated intention differing as per the whim, requirement, or temperament of the publisher.
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Le Condamne a Mort
AU$11,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Genet
Fresnes: , 1942.First edition, first printing, of Genet’s first publication. Written while in prison for book theft and privately printed in 1942, Le Condamne a Mort [The Man Sentenced to Death], is a hallucinatory homoerotic homage to another prisoner, Maurice Pilorge, a beautiful young man guillotined for murder in 1939. Appearing in white and pink wrapper variants without priority, this copy in white, and containing numerous manuscript corrections by the author.
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Pierre Molinier: Die Fetische der Travestie: Fotografische Arbeiten, 1965-1975
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Molinier; Gerhard Fischer; Peter Gorsen
Wien: Daedalus, 1989.Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Faber, Vienna, with 33 plates, essays by Pierre Molinier, Gerhard Fischer, and Peter Gorsen, and additional illustrations by Molinier. This copy with 4 additional Molinier items laid in: 1. An original silver gelatin photograph 10.2cm x 12.9cm, plate 49 of The Shaman, 1964, from a photograph by Theo Lesoual’ch of Emmanuelle Arsan retouched in ink by Molinier and rephotographed, captioned on the verso in pencil; 2. A black stocking with Molinier’s signature printed in gold from the 1996 Ubu Gallery, New York exhibition; 3. Invitation card for the Ubu Gallery exhibition; 4. Typescript letter with manuscript signature of Roger Borderie of C.L.S. Edition-Diffusion and publisher of the 1979 collection of Molinier’s Cent photographies erotiques, to Nicolas Hugent of Editions Filipacchi, dated 1986, regarding publication of a new Molinier work based on an interview with his daughter.
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Les Champignons Comestibles et les especes veneneuses avec lesquelles ils pourraient etre confundus
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis Favre-Guillarmod
Paris: Librairie Agricole, [1869].Edible and poisonous mushrooms in the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. The first complete edition with the 2 parts in 1 volume. The first part being a reprint of the 1861 edition, Les champignons comestibles du canton de Neuchatel, the second with a new introduction and further invaluable information on the edibility of mushrooms VOLBRACHT 586. This copy with the mycological bookplate of Jacques and Helene Bon.
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The Bells and other Poems
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdgar Allan Poe; Edmund Dulac
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.The deluxe edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe featuring The Bells, The Raven, and others. Illustrated with 28 tipped in colour plates and additional vignettes by Edmund Dulac and published in a numbered edition of 750 copies signed by Dulac.
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Les Freres Zemganno
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Auguste Brouet
Paris: Edite par F. Gregoire, 1921.Goncourt’s Naturalist exploration of the evolution of French literature through the acrobatic artistry of two circus brothers, also echoing and exploring his own love and loss of his inseparable brother (and literary partner) who passed some years prior. Originally published in 1879, here for the first time with numerous illustrations by Auguste Brouet. The illustrations include 15 full page etchings, a half-page etching on the half-title, and a vignette on the title, all signed in the plate, together with a further 51 illustrations in the text. This copy extra illustrated with 4 original signed drawings by Brouet mounted at the beginning, and finely bound in a signed full leather binding by Ganape, RD, dated 1925, and with the bookplates of Yvan Lamberty and B. Le Dosseur.
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Whippersnapper
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBud Conway [Paul Hugo Little]
[Buffalo]: Unique Books, 1968.Lesbian pulp fiction by American pulp writer Paul Little under his Bob Conway pseudonym. UB 156. Lesbians and sadists at a Satanic Hollywood costume party. Colour cover illustration combo by Eric Stanton and Steve Ditko (co-creator of Spider-Man), who a couple of years earlier had developed an artistic partnership following Ditko’s split from Marvel. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLenny 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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Suck: First European Sexpaper
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy; Heathcote Williams; Germaine Greer; Susan Jansen; Lynne Tillman; Jim Haynes; Willem de Ridder
London and Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1969-74.A complete set of Suck, touted as the first European sex newspaper tasked with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”. Launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws. Heathcote Williams in his Suck manifesto declares “SUCK is Group Sex, Police Sex, Animal Sex, Teeny Sex, One Armed Bandit Sex, Geriatric Sex and Cosmic Sex”, highlighting the nothing is off-limits approach of the editorial board. Though Suck was no mere porno rag, as Australian feminist writer and Suck co-founder Germaine Greer told the academic journal Women’s Studies International Forum, Suck was “a new kind of erotic art, away from the tits ‘n’ ass and the peep-show syndrome.” Greer’s involvement helped push a wave of radical feminist pornography, though she fell out with her co-editors and resigned after they published a photograph of her naked with her legs over her head, not because of the nudity, but the context of its publishing, which is outlined in Greer’s resignation letter printed in the final issue. Greer’s involvement was not the only tip to a radical cause with noted contributors including William S. Burroughs, Valerie Solanas, Michael McClure, W. H. Auden, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Girodias, and many others. Primary editors were William Levy, Heatcote Williams, Germaine Greer, Susan Jansen, Lynne Tillman, and Jim Haynes, with art direction by Willem de Ridder.
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Die Nutzlichen und Schadlichen Schwamme, nebst einem Anhange uber die islandische Flechte
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHarald Othmar Lenz
Gotha: Beckersche Buchhandlung, 1840.The useful and harmful sponges, with an appendix on the Icelandic lichen. The second edition enlarged with descriptions of German sponges. The elegantly coloured plates showing a total of 46 illustrations drawn by J. C. Ausfeld. VOLBRACHT 1165.2.
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Australia’s Greatest Rock Art
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGrahame L. Walsh
Bathurst: E. J. Brill / Robert Brown and Associates, 1988.Published in association with Queensland Parks and Wildlife this book is the most comprehensive documentation of Australian rock art. The deluxe issue of 100 signed and numbered copies in leather with slipcase, this copy further inscribed by Walsh and with the prospectus laid in.
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A Treatise on Gonorrhea Virulenta, and Lues Venerea
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBenjamin Bell
Edinburgh: G. Mudie and Son, 1797.Primarily regarded as surgeon, Bell is considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His scientific approach is especially evident in this treatise in which he convincingly argues, against the prevailing medical opinion of the time, that gonorrhea and syphilis are separate diseases. Bell’s work is foundational to the modern understanding of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The rare Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
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Alle de Copyen van Indagingen, als mede alle de Gedichten Op de Tegenwoordige Tyd toepasselyk
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[UTRECHT SODOMY TRIALS]
No place: No publisher, [1730].A relic of the Utrecht sodomy trials, the large scale persecution of homosexual men in the Netherlands starting in 1730. Without author or publisher, literally the title translated to [All the copies of summonses, as well as all the poems applicable to the present time], listing of men accused of sodomy, with charges and sentences, many of death, accompanied by long moralistic poems on the depravity of the crime. 2 parts in one, the second part, Vervolg op alle de Copyen, being a continuation. This copy with the second part ending at page 94 with the final charge in October of 1730 and ending with the poem by P. Schim. Copies of various sizes are noted of part 2, perhaps indicating different issues, from page 94 to 151 the list continues to 1731, perhaps being issued later.
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Dresseuse et… Dressee
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndre Vergereau; [Umberto Brunelleschi]
Paris: Aux Editions Prima, 1939.French flagellation novel with 12 plates by d’Ernest Mosse, a pseudonym for Italian illustrator Umberto Brunelleschi who had been residing in Paris since 1900 and among his works designed numerous costumes for Josephine Baker.
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Made in U.S.A. Catalog, 1975 and Made in U.S.A.-2 Scrapbook of America, 1976 (2 Volumes)
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYoshihisa Kinameri; Jiro Ishikawa
Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1975.Two catalogues of American fashion, culture, tools, and lifestyle products, an earlier project from the founders of Popeye magazine, who travelled the United States to put together these volumes which became a massive driver of American lifestyle and fashion influence in Japanese culture. Today, they remain a detailed catalogue of 1970s American culture. Both volumes include detailed shopping guides to numerous American cities. Unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii,
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Francoise ou Les Plaisirs du Mariage
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWanda De S….
[Dijon]: Aux Allees Des Roses [Darantiere], [1937].Clandestine 1930s French pornographic novel with 10 well executed colour illustrations depicting lesbian, hetero, and group sex scenes, one with spanking. Limited to 600 numbered copies printed by Maurice Darantiere. DUTEL 1605, notes the original illustrations in his collection titled Veronique and intended to illustrate this text, perhaps it was a model provided to the publisher. The anonymous artist attributed by some to Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan], by others to Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre, others yet to T. Mertens, though none of these quite add up, and to date this one remains a much admired mystery. This copy with the bookplate of erotica collector Alain Metivier.
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[The Kelmscott Chaucer] The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Chaucer
London: The Folio Society, 2002.The first Folio Society Facsimile Edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer, bound in full Nigerian goatskin leather in an edition of 1,010 copies, of which this is number 731. With an accompanying essay booklet ‘The Kelmscott Chaucer’ by William S. Peterson. “One of the most splendid books issued by Folio. Not surprisingly, the edition went out of print as soon as it was published.” FORD-SMITH 1117.
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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Expedition Antarctique Belge. Au Pays des Manchots: Recit du Voyage de la Belgica
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Lecointe
Bruxelles: Societe Belge de Libraire, 1904.Account of the captain of the RV Belgica, the second in command of the first Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899. Considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, it was the first expedition to spend the entire winter in the region. Trapped in the ice for a year, they were ill prepared, the polar night driving a number of the crew mad and with scurvy setting in they were forced to subsist on penguin (largely considered inedible). Despite the challenges much scientific data was gathered including around 700 rock samples, for the first time meteorological observations were recorded for a full Antarctic year, and 188 new animal species were discovered. This superlative copy bound in full vellum with leather labels and decorative endpapers, and with a bound in manuscript letter dated 26 July 1904 from Lecointe to Madame Van Halteren requesting her to give the book to her daughter, Miss Van Halteren, signed by Lecointe, also with his monogram stamp and the stamp of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
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Ecole Pratique des Accouchemens.
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. B. Jacobs
A Gand: Chez J. F. Vander Scheuren, 1785.First French translation of the important Dutch obstetrics manual by Jan Bernard Jacobs (1734-1790). At the time of its appearance, it was one of the most complete treatises on the art of childbirth and remained a standard work into the middle of the nineteenth century being described as a pearl of scientific production from the last years before the French Revolution.