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Bush Tucker: Australia’s Wild Food Harvest
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Low
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1992. -
Woodcut Book-Plates
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Neville Barnett
Sydney: Privately Printed [at The Becon Press], 1934.A comprehensive history of the woodcut ex libris with over 100 tipped in examples and more reproduced. The frontispiece being the tipped in plate of Edward, Prince of Wales signed by the artist, Adrian Feint. The other signed plates are by G. D. Perrottet, W. F. Hopson, Bruno da Osimo (x3), V. Vavra (x2), Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (x3), L. Roy Davies, George Collingridge, and another by Feint. Foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Limited to 210 signed and numbered copies of the standard edition. A deluxe edition of 65 copies was also produced.
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Futur*Fall: Excursions into Post-Modernity
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. A. Grosz; Terry Threadgold; David Kelly; Alan Cholodenko; Edward Colless
Sydney: Power Institute of Fine Arts, 1986.A selection of papers presented to the Futur*Fall: Excursions into Postmodernity Conference, 26-29 July 1984, University of Sydney.
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The Timeless Land
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEleanor Dark
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1980.A specially bound limited edition signed and dated on a mounted plate by Eleanor Dark.
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A Horse Of Air
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDal Stivens
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970.Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for best Australian novel in 1970. “the story of Harry Craddock — millionaire, ornithologist, idealist and buffoon — written mostly by himself in a mental hospital after a wild expedition to central Australia in search of the rare night parrot. His self-portrait is filled out and balanced with extracts from his wife’s diary and comments by the psychiatrist who treated him. The result is a many-layered narrative whose ultimate meaning, or meanings, each reader must decide for themselves. One thing is beyond doubt: it is a strange and compelling story. The character and life of Harry Craddock include many contrasting elements, but they all converge in his quest for the night parrot.” (from jacket blurb)
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The Grevillea Book Volume One
AU$145.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Olde; Neil Marriott
Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1994. -
Woolloomooloo: Save The Loo Now
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrenda Humble
Sydney: Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development, 1976.A record of the fight of residents and unions to preserve the working class residences of the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo that came under threat by developers in the 1970s. Includes a photographic record of many buildings, as well as resident reflections, protest chants, organising posters, and newsclippings from the time.
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School Photography
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Dunn
Sydney: Piper Press, 1988.1980s Australian secondary school text on photography with a foreword by Max Dupain and 190 photographs by Australian secondary students.
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A Citizen’s Guide to Marihuana in Australia
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Crowley; Lorna Cartwright
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981.A balanced look at marijuana in midst of the prohibition years in Australia. Also discusses broader drug use in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Direct Action (Nos. 1 – 103, September 1970 – December 1975)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSocialist Youth Alliance
Sydney: Socialist Youth Alliance, 1970-1975.An unbroken run of the first 103 issues bound in two volumes of the Australian socialist newspaper, Direct Action, which became the Green Left Weekly in 1991. The SYA was a Trotskyist youth organisation of eco-socialist and anti-capitalist politics which emerged out of the Sydney University Socialist Club and the Vietnam Action Campaign, and later merged into the Socialist Alliance. Direct Action was a large format newspaper, brightly illustrated throughout, running stories on local and international politics, with calls to action.
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Landscape Out of Nature
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLou Klepac; James Gleeson
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1987.One of the collector’s deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 55, specially bound in leather and containing an umber lithograph, Comet II, limited to 50 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 5. With an introduction by Lou Klepac. Inscribed by Gleeson on the half-title page to Geoffrey Walker.
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Reminiscences from Early Life and Including Cycling & Touring Experiences
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Pearson
Sydney: Vale & Pearson, 1933.Biography of Joseph Pearson (1849-1939), draper, one of Australia’s early cyclists, and map publisher. First published in 1925, Pearson published this revised edition in 1933. “When Pearson toured Britain and the Continent in 1893, he rode some 3500 miles (5633 km). He bought road maps and, inspired by them, vowed to persuade his fellow cyclists ‘to take an occasional tour in the country … to get into our wide spaces’. In 1896 he published the Cyclists’ Touring Guide of New South Wales, which contained many practical hints. He agitated for the erection of road signs and that year helped to found the New South Wales Cyclists’ Touring Union, serving on the executive board. His early road and touring material provided the basis for the union’s two-volume Handbook, and Guide to the Roads of New South Wales (Sydney, 1898), the most detailed guide ever published in Australia.” (ADB) This copy signed on the wrappers upper panel, as usual.
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D*A*A*S BOOK
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Doug Anthony Allstars
Sydney: Susan Haynes, Allen & Unwin, 1989.This copy inscribed with an original sketch by Tim Ferguson.
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Swing in Time with Sue Becker
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSue Becker
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1968.Yoga with a margharita. This copy inscribed by Becker, To Rhonda.
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Mirror of the Australian Navigation
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacob Le Maire
Sydney: Hordern House, 1999.Australian Maritime Series No. 5. A facsimile of the ‘Spieghed der Austalische Navigatie…’ being an account of the voyage of Jacob Le Maire and William Schouten, 1615 – 1616, published in Amsterdam in 1622. With an introductory essay by Edward Duyker, New South Wales History Fellow, and English text by Alexander Dalrymple.
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The Parsons Collection: Rare Pacific Voyage Books from the Collection of David Parsons (Part II: La Perouse to Wilkes)
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHordern House
Sydney: Hordern House, 2006.Sealed in the original shrinkwrap
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Captain James Cook: The Great Discoverer (The Robert and Mary Anne Parks Collection)
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHordern House
Sydney: Hordern House, 2008.This copy in the original shrinkwrap.
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Potpourri of Sex
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Fully illustrated throughout with black and white pinup and softcore photographs with comical captions opposite. Rare Australian erotica.
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Escape to Elysium
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. J. J. Nye
Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1972.Australian utopian literature by Queensland doctor Leslie John Jarvis Nye (1896-1976). This copy inscribed by Nye.
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Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCraig Seligman
Sydney: Hachette, 2023.“An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish. In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that welcomes and even celebrates queer people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’s short but overstuffed life as a way to provide some answers. There were effectively three Dorises – the quiet visual artist, the glorious drag queen, and the hunky male prostitute who supported the other two. He started performing in Sydney in 1972 as a member of Sylvia and the Synthetics, a psycho troupe that represented the first anarchic flowering of queer creative energy in the post-Stonewall era. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-70s, he became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash – which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire’s deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it. Seligman recounts this dynamic period in queer history – from Stonewall to AIDS – giving insight into how our ideas about gender have broadened to make drag the phenomenon we know it as today. In a book filled with interviews and letters about a life that ricocheted between hilarity and tragedy, he revisits the places and people Doris knew in order to shed light on the multi-hued era that his remarkable life encapsulated.” (publisher’s blurb)