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Land, Labour, and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria: with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Alfred] William Howitt
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.The sought after first edition in original cloth of one of the classic Australian gold digger narratives. FERGUSON 10618, WANTRUP (2023) 415 with the Westley’s binder’s ticket, and the advertisments as identified in (a). Minor splitting to joints, a small chip to the backstrip of of Vol.1. Upper hinge of volume 1 cracked. Bookseller’s stamp of R. Burge, Manchester. Minor tanning and wear to interior.
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A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChas. H. Allen
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.A memoir of the Queensland goldfields by English painter and traveller Charles H. Allen (1824-1904) during his time in in Queensland in 1868. This copy inscribed by the author to his son, Charles Mansfield Allen, additionally autographed with his name and address to the front endpaper.
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Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class, For Artists and Students including Anthropometry and Anatomy (2 Volumes)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington
London: John S. Barrington, 1970.John S. Barrington (1920-1991) was a prolific 20th century British physique photographer. Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century. Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class is one of his scarcest works, unrecorded in public collections, and with a stated limited edition of 100 copies (though this could be Barrington’s marketing at work). It combines his photography and visual art with detailed instruction in the art of the measurements and proportions of the male body, and features numerous photographs and drawings of many of his favourite models, who were also his lovers or unrequited lusts. A prospectus at the end of volume two alludes to a third and fourth volume to be published and available only to subscribers of the first two volumes, though no record can be found of them ever having been published. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2023.
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Never Love a Stranger
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHarold Robbins
London: Robert Hale, 1958.The second UK printing, in the dustwrapper, of Harold Robbins first novel, a tale of crime and gangsters in New York. Published the same year as the film release starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray.
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Journey To An Antique Land
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Miller
London: Village Press, 1973.A travel sketch of St. Remy, in the south of France, by Henry Miller and his impressions of the ruins of the Greco-Roman settlement, Glanum.
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The Mistress and the Slave: A Masochist Realistic Love Story
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDelectus Books
London: Delectus Books, 1995.Facsimile of edition originally published Erotika Biblion Society, Athens, 1905. Translated from French.
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Modern Slaves: A Profound Study of the Forces of Destiny
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaire Willows
London: Delectus Books, 1995. -
The Inseparables
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Braddon
London: Michael Joseph, 1968.A German medical student’s Christmas day pilgrimage to Dachau on LSD.
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Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Essays
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Lilly
London: Macmillan, 1990. -
Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChloe Griffin
London: b_books, 2022.“Cookie Mueller was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. This volume by Berlin-based actress and writer Chloé Griffin tells the story of Cookie’s life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with the people who knew her. Along with the text, it includes artwork, unpublished photographs and archival material and photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others.A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as an actress in the films of John Waters, and then as an art critic and columnist, a writer of hilarious stories and a maven of New York’s downtown art world. The contributors take us from the late-1960s artist communes of Baltimore to 1970s Provincetown and New York, through 1980s Berlin and Positano.” (publisher’s blurb)
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In Search of Smiles: LSD, Operation Julie and Beyond
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndy Roberts
London: Psychedelic Press, 2023.“The life of Alston Hughes, aka Smiles, is an extraordinary journey through Britain’s counterculture and illicit drug networks in the late twentieth century. A key figure in the Microdot Gang conspiracy, Smiles shifted millions of doses of LSD before being arrested in 1977 by Operation Julie — the police investigation which unearthed what was then the largest LSD manufacturing and distribution operation of its kind. Based on a series of interviews, Andy Roberts’ In Search of Smiles is an enthralling folkloric biography of a life lived to the full, and a culture pushed to the edge. From a tough upbringing in postwar Manchester, to free festivals, hashish smuggling, and travels to South Asia, Smiles’ cat and mouse adventure with the authorities weaves through an intimate portrayal of his life, relationships, and community in the village of Llanddewi Brefi and beyond.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Roberta Cowell’s Story by Herself
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberta 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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London and Its Sights: Being a Comprehensive Guide to All That is Worth Seeing in the Great Metropolis
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNo author
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1858.Rare 19th century travel guide to the city with 12 colour plates depicting views of London from Blackfriars Bridge, Houses of Parliament, Treasury Buildings, Westminster Abbey, Duke of York’s Column-Carlton Place, The Tower, Trafalgar Square, Royal Exchange, The Serpentine, Hyde Park Corner, Buckingham Palace, and Saint Paul’s Cathedral. The vignettes in the text show London Bridge, Thames Tunnel, The Monument, East India House, Guildhall, Mansion House, The Post-Office, Temple Bar, Somerset House, The Admiralty, The Horse Guards, Custom-House Quay, and the British Museum.
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Oh! Sex Education
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Breasted
London: Pall Mall Press, 1970. -
Quatrefoil
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames 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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The Anwar-i-Suhaili or Lights of Canopus Commonly Known As Kalilah and Damnah
AU$1,800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArthur N. Wollaston
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1877.Being an adaptation by Mulla Husain Bin Ali Al Wai’z-Al-Kashifi of The Fables of Bidpai. Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston. The 1877 English translation by Arthur Naylor Wollaston (1842-1922) of the Persian version of the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of animal fables. Wollaston began work as a civil servant in the India Office at age 16 going onto become registrar. He was also an ardent Persian scholar, translating this work, as well as compiling an English-Persian Dictionary in 1882.
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The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Darwin
London: John Murray, 1890.Darwin’s first published work after the Origin of Species, providing evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection. Darwin believed this volume tackled the question of design in nature. He maintained that the complex internal arrangements and ornate ridges of orchids were not created for the sake of beauty, but for the functional purpose of facilitating reproduction. This copy with the advertisements dated June, 1897, and from the collection of the former Premier of Queensland, Sir Thomas McIlwraith, with his embossed stamp.
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Where the Master Touched
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCongo Missionaries of the Unevangelized Fields Mission
London: Unevangelized Fields Mission, 1950.Stories and documentation of the Unevangelized Fields Mission work in Congo in the between 1931 and 1949. At the time UMF had offices in London, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Melbourne. In 2004 UMF changed its name to Crossworld and continues its missionary work around the world. Scarce, 4 copies recorded in OCLC.
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The Temple of Dawn: A Novel
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYukio Mishima
London: Secker & Warburg, 1974.Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders and Cecilia Segawa Seigle. This copy stamped “File Copy. Property of Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. 54 Poland Street London W1V 3DF”.
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Exploitation Poster Art
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTony Nourmand; Graham Marsh
London: Aurum Press, 2005.“Sex, drugs, delinquency, Black power, alternative culture and, of course, rock and roll: these are just some of the themes which have attracted the attention of cinema’s bottom-feeders over the past eighty years.” (from blurb)