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Physique Pictorial Volume 8 Number 4, Winter 1958
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1959.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic. The Winter 1958 issue was released in March 1959.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 8 Number 3, Fall 1958
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1958.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 8 Number 2, Summer 1958
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1958.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 8 Number 1, Spring 1958
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1958.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 7 Number 4, Winter 1957
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 7 Number 3, Fall 1957
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 7 Number 2, Summer 1957
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 2, Summer 1956
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 1, Spring 1956
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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The Male Figure Volume Thirty-Five [35]
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1966.The penultimate issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. The final two issues in a slightly larger format. In this issue: John Bennett, Billy Parks, Ralph Kleiner, Frank Nisi, Big John Clark, Tom Vanselow, Jerry Rogers by Mel Roberts, Chuck Baker by Milo, Dale Hepburn, John Quincy Adams by Milo, Bill Melby, Bob Jackson, Dean Densman, Dennis Densman, LeRoy Williams & Elmer Matt.
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The Male Figure Volume VIII, Spring, 1958
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1958.Single issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. In this issue: Meet Jerry Roquemore, Mr. Apollo contest, Edgar Hayes, Harry Miller, Cowboys of the West, and Steven Wengryn.
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Dawson’s Book Shop: Publisher of Western Americana and Patron of the Book Arts
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Arthur Roberts
Los Angeles: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1964.Reprint from the California Librarian, April 1964.
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Letters from Orange and Lemon Growers in the Tulare County Citrus Belt
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCalifornia Grove Planting Company
Los Angeles: California Grove Planting Company, 1914.Eight letters from citrus growers in the Tulare County area that verify the output and recommend the purchase of citrus orchards in the district. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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A Summer at the Top o’ the World
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Walter Shaw
Los Angeles: Sixth Avenue Publishing Company, 1927.Chronicling the impressions received by the author during a summer’s vacation spent among the National Parks of the United States and Canada. Locations visited included the Carquinez Strait, the Redwood Highway, Portland, Columbia River Highway, Yellowstone National Park and its geysers, Jackson Hole country including a rodeo there, Buffalo Bill Country, Glacier National Park, Turtle Mountain, the Banff-Windermere Highway and the Okanagan Valley.
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Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVarnum Door Engine Company
Los Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
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The Gay Cookbook
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLou Rand Hogan; David Costain
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.First edition, first printing, of “the complete compendium of campy cuisine and menus for men…or what have you” by Chef Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. The first cookbook marketed to the gay man. Hogan, after a failed attempt at a career in show business, learned the art of cooking fine cuisine working luxury cruises where he was part of a deliciously camp work culture, the humour of which is evident in his writing style. A good copy of this early example of positive gay culture in 20th century print media.
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Aaron’s Portfolio One to Eleven
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAaron Enterprises
Los Angeles: Aaron Enterprises, No date.Catalogue of mail order erotic gay male photos and films. Each portfolio is a double-sided leaf except portfolio ten which is 4 pages, containing nude black and white stills and ordering details. Aaron Enterprises was an American studio producing erotic gay films from the 1970s through to the early 1990s.
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Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnebella Pollen
Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2021.“Annebella Pollen’s richly illustrated study examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism, or naturism, in 20th-century Britain, a place known for its lack of sunshine and conservative attitudes to sex. By bringing naturists’ own words and images to light, Nudism in a Cold Climate tells this little-known but fascinating history for the first time. From the 1930s, thousands of people appeared nude in books and magazines associated with the nudist movement, drawing attention to the cause, attracting public curiosity and inciting moral panics. Naturist nude photography offers a fascinating lens on moral, legal and aesthetic shifts over a century of dramatic social change, including national beliefs about sex and gender, ethnicity and class, pleasure and power. Nudism in a Cold Climate offers readers a fascinating glimpse behind British veils of propriety and a unique view inside an enduring experimental culture that sought to radically challenge, liberate and ultimately transform conventional attitudes to bodies and their representations.” (publisher’s blurb)
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John Cage: A Mycological Foray: Variations on Mushrooms
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Cage; Lois Long; Alexander H. Smith
Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2020.“Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage’s mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by Cage are interwoven throughout the first volume within a central essay examining Cage’s enduring relationship with mycology. Also included is a transcript of Cage’s 1983 performance, MUSHROOMS et Variationes. The second volume is the inaugural reproduction of Cage’s 1972 portfolio, Mushroom Book, authored in collaboration with illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith. Readers are thus drawn through the landscape of Cage’s mycologically centred oeuvre and interests, discovering assorted works, images, compositions, philosophies and ephemera, as one might encounter assorted fungi and flora while foraging.” (publisher’s blurb)
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AMG Gallery & News: Premiere Issue! Summer 1986
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn-Paul Kennington; Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1986.Catalogue of models from the later blatantly homoerotic years of Bob Mizer’s AMG, the physique photography powerhouse behind the most popular of beefcake magazines. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.