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Michelangelo
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Hibbard
London: The Folio Society, 2007.Introduced by Michael Levy. FORD-SMITH 1388.
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Walden; or, Life in the Woods
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry D. Thoreau
London: The Folio Society, 2009.Walden, or life in the woods, by Henry David Thoreau, introduced by John Updike, with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. FORD-SMITH 1556.
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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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Terra Australis: An English Teenage Migrant’s Experiences in Australia, 1926-1929
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Prideaux
Mackay: Nindaroo Publishing Australia, 2022.A snapshot of daily life on outback properties in New South Wales and Queensland, 1925-29 told through a young man’s letters to his mother.
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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)
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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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Sandra Bullock
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKazuo Kajiwara
Tokyo: Haga Shoten, 1997.Japanese photobook chronicling Bullock’s career in the late 80s through the 90s with extensive photographs.
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A Blighted Fame: George S. Evans, 1802-1868: A Life
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHelen Riddiford
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2014. -
Allen Curnow Simply by Sailing in a New Direction: A Biography; Allen Curnow: Collected Poems (2 Volumes)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Sturm; Linda Cassells; Elizabeth Caffin
Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2017. -
A White Genocidal Assimilationist Bitch Speaks
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKathleen Mary Fallon
[Sydney]: Polar Bear Press, 2023.“This second publication in the Queensland School Reader series continues Fallon’s reconciliation dialogues telling intimate stories of her forty years as the lesbian foster mother of a Torres Strait Islander with disabilities. This was during the lesophobic decades when the boy would have been immediately removed from her care if the Authorities had discovered her lesbianism. Her stories are angry, tragic, darkly humorous, sometimes just plain snarky and gossipy. Ranging geographically from Brisbane to Sydney to London and ranging temporally over those forty year they are personally, politically, socially and culturally informative and candid snap shots of those times. There is an urgency about these stories and they need to be told.” (author’s blurb)
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Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with a Memoir
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Engelmann; L. Furtmuller; Ludwig Wittgenstein
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967. -
A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends
AU$6.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Kirby
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2011.Autobiography of openly gay former Justice of the High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby (1939-).
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The Ninth Satire: Poetry, Fiction & Biography
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen J. Williams
Melbourne: Pariah Press, 1993.Cover illustration by Charles Blackman.
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Women of Parramatta
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJulia McConnochie
Sydney: Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Parramatta Trust, 1977.This copy includes seventeen signatures of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Parramatta Trust.
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I’ll Go No More A-roving
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Ladds
Brisbane: The Bunyip Press, 1945.Charles Ladds (1903-1971) was an Australian writer who ran away to sea at the age of fourteen, and at the ripe old age of twenty-two wrote this story of his adventures, fist published in 1934. It earned praise from the critics, including G. K. Chesterton. He later lived at Burleigh Heads.
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Up There With The Best: The Story of Morris Curotta, Dual Olympia, 1948-1952
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIvan Curotta
Sydney: Fast Books, 1996.This copy inscribed by Ivan Curotta and signed by Morris Curotta.
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Red Azalea: Life and Love in China
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnchee Min
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. -
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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Garrets and Pretenders: Bohemian Life in America from Poe to Kerouac
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Parry
Mineola: Dover, 2012.