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Light Through Darkness
AU$1,100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Michaux
New York: The Orion Press, 1963.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, on mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. Originally published in French in 1961, then translated into English by Haakon Chevalier and first published in America in 1963. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy in a fine signed full leather binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire based on the original jacket design.
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Codex Seraphinianus
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2013.The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60.
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A Symposium on America’s Stake in Vietnam
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmerican Friends of Vietnam
New York: American Friends of Vietnam, 1956.The edited record of the Conference on Vietnam held in Washington D.C. on 1 June 1956. Attendees included almost 250 representatives of government, the armed services, universities and national civic organisations. John F. Kennedy was amongst the speakers.
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Embassy Girl
AU$15.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmily Thorne
New York: Airmont Publishing, 1964.The Glamour and Adventure of Embassy Life in London.
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The Story of Pure Vanilla with Recipes
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVanilla Bean Association of America
New York: Vanilla Bean Association of America, 1955. -
McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe McClure Company
New York: The McClure Company, 1907.Booklet advertising the first five books in the McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. There is a detailed description of each book: Pinafore Palace, The Posy Ring, Golden Numbers, Magic Casements, and The Fairy Ring.
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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Experiments with Light: Practical Problems for Students in Science
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIlluminating Engineering Society
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Cusenier: Liqueurs de Luxe
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCusenier
New York: W. A. Taylor & Company, 1935.Promotion booklet for the House of Cusenier. Illustrated bottles of liqueurs each accompanied by a cocktail recipe opposite, together with a brief history of the firm and a list of other products.
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Why Cazapra is Better
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCazapra
New York: Julius Wile Sons & Co, No date.Promotional booklet for Cazapra, a dry vermouth made in France. Includes numerous cocktail recipes. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Technique and Collaboration in the Prints of Jasper Johns
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJasper Johns; Susan Lorence
New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1996.Published by Leo Castelli Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition, Jasper Johns Prints: 1960 to 1996, 19 October – 14 December 1996.
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Strange but True Hockey Stories
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStan Fischler
New York: Tempo Books, 1970.Weird, improbable, and hilarious accounts of a rough-and-tumble sport and the men who play it.
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Sex Education for the Health Professional: A Curriculum Guide
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNorman Rosenzweig; F. Paul Pearsall
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1978.Series: Seminars in Psychiatry
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The Wright Brothers: A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFred C. Kelly
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1950.The first printing of the revised edition of Kelly’s biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright. This copy inscribed to Chas. Bateman from the Hawthorn Hill Guest House, the former home of Orville Wright, which after his death was owned and used as a guest house by the NCR Corporation. A monogrammed paper napkin and postcard of Hawthorn Hill laid in.
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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSophie Crumb; R. Crumb; A. Crumb
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.“A groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a young artist’s life through her own drawings-from toddlerhood to motherhood. Sophie Crumb’s startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter’s remarkable sketchbooks, our generation’s most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie’s earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York’s “seventh circle of hell.” The drawings from her early twenties — of tattoo artists, dangerous men—reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Transnational Beat Generation
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNancy M. Grace; Jennie Skerl
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. -
Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert A. Schanke
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. -
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Dillon; Lobzang Jivaka
New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.“Now available for the first time–more than 50 years after it was written–is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka’s extraordinary life story told in his own words. Out of the Ordinary captures Dillon/Jivaka’s various journeys–to Oxford, into medicine, across the world by ship–within the major narratives of his gender and religious journeys. Moving chronologically, Dillon/Jivaka begins with his childhood in Folkestone, England, where he was raised by his spinster aunts, and tells of his days at Oxford immersed in theology, classics, and rowing. He recounts his hormonal transition while working as an auto mechanic and fire watcher during World War II and his surgical transition under Sir Harold Gillies while Dillon himself attended medical school. He details his worldwide travel as a ship’s surgeon in the British Merchant Navy with extensive commentary on his interactions with colonial and postcolonial subjects, followed by his “outing” by the British press while he was serving aboard The City of Bath. Out of the Ordinary is not only a salient record of an early sex transition but also a unique account of religious conversion in the mid-twentieth century. Dillon/Jivaka chronicles his gradual shift from Anglican Christianity to the esoteric spiritual systems of George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky to Theravada and finally Mahayana Buddhism. He concludes his memoir with the contested circumstances of his Buddhist monastic ordination in India and Tibet. Ultimately, while Dillon/Jivaka died before becoming a monk, his novice ordination was significant: It made him the first white European man to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Out of the Ordinary is a landmark publication that sets free a distinct voice from the history of the transgender movement.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sugar & Spice (6 Volumes)
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJanet Quin-Harkin
New York: Bantam Books, 1988.The first 6 novels in the young adult romance series Sugar & Spice