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The Bike From Hell
Alex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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The Mods
Sandra Lawrence; Ken Williams
New York: Lancer Books, 1967.Pulp photo novel set in the mod subculture of 1960s London. Bohemian youths and motorcycles captured by Ken Williams.
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Witch Bane
Robert Neill
London: Arrow Books, 1970.Witchcraft in Cromwell’s England
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Splendora
Edward Swift
London: Penguin, 1981.“Splendora: a steamy East Texas town where Sue Ella Lightfoot furthers her study of sexual motives with every issue of Real Crime magazine while Agnes Pullens drills young ladies in the finer arts of Dance and Expression and Zeda Earl Goodridge faces a life of ruin if her Christmas yard display doesn’t take first prize this year. Timothy John Coldrige left this town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen; now, at thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie Gatewood. Draped (an impeccable accessorized) in Victorian finery and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm.”
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Kamikaze
Ray Slattery
London, Melbourne and Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1962.Australian war pulp.
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Journey Among Women
Diana Fuller
Melbourne: Sun Books, 1977.“Savagery and passion amongst the wild women convicts of early Australia.” A novelization of the film.
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In The Long Run
Phil Jarratt
Sydney: James Fraser, 1984.“An Australian marathon runner stops at nothing in his pursuit of LA Olympic gold.”
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Not For A Day
Helga Moray
Sydney and Melbourne: Scripts, 1969.Australian pulp edition of Helga Moray’s lusting housewife themed novel.
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The Wasted Years
Jess Stearn
New York: Macadden-Bartell, 1968.“Sex, sadism, murder, brutality, perversion, prostitution, drug addiction. Trademarks of the teen-age gangs.”
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
Marquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. The first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer. This copy unopened in the original wrappers.
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Manrape
Marta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932First edition, first printing of Huxley’s dystopian classic. BROMER A29.3.1. This copy rebound in fine full blue leather.
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The Getting of Wisdom
Henry Handel Richardson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck.
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The Sugar Cube Trap
Madelaine Duke
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974.A fictional tale of children encountering the dangerous world of LSD.
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Thumb Tripping
Don Mitchell
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.Counter culture novel of hitchhiking hippies in California.
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The Man on the Bridge
Stephen Benatar
Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981.First published novel of Stephen Royce Benatar. “A coming-of-age story about a young man in 1950s London who has a tragic affair with a rich gay painter.” (Cosmo Landesman, The Sunday Times, April 11, 2010).
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The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Thomas Keneally
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. -
The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1967.Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan
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The Birds
Tarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1968.Translated from the Norwegian, Fuglane, by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes
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Aphrodite
Pierre Louys; Paul Gervais
Paris: Association et Cercle Grolier, 1932.The first edition with illustrations by Paul Gervais of Louys’ immensely successful novel of tumultuous love and desire set in Alexandria. One of 200 copies produced for the Association et Cercle Grolier, this being number 143, one of 75 copies for corresponding members.
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Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques
Pierre Louys; Edouard Chimot
Paris: Edition d’Art de L’Intermediaire du Bibliophile, 1929.The first edition with illustrations by Chimot of Louys’ immensely successful novel of tumultuous love and desire set in Alexandria. One of 154 copies of the standard edition (from the total edition of 300), this copy finely bound by Herbillon-Crombe.
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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
Adelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking.
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Dodie Smith
London: Heinemann, 1956.The first edition in book form (originally appearing as a serial, The Great Dog Robbery, in Woman’s Day) and the source for the adaptation of the films One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone.
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Collected Short Stories of Hartley R. Phillips
Hartley R. Phillips
Melbourne: RWP Press, 1989.A compilation of the children’s stories of Hartley R. Phillips compiled by his son, Robert W. Phillips, and privately printed. Published during the 1950s most of the stories appeared in various issues of The Australian BOY Fortnightly. For this compilation the published stories and the original manuscripts have been compared and material missing from the previously published versions has been amended. The original artworks from BOY have been reproduced. The stories are: The Buffalo Hunt; Frontier Justice; Warpath; Custer’s Last Stand; The White Dingo; Springfield Rifle; The Kid from Texas.
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To the Lighthouse: The Original Holograph Draft
Virginia Woolf; Susan Dick
London: The Hogarth Press, 1983.Woolf’s original draft with all of the edits and annotations transcribed and edited by Susan Dick.
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Place of the Stinging Nettles
Phyllis Shatte
Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1970.A novel of Gympie, Queensland. This copy signed by the author.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
Lenny Bruce
[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution.
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Cobalt
Will Lee
New York: Vantage Press, 1999.A gay murder mystery set in San Francisco featuring “Miss Haight-Ashbury (Private Eye), Party Girl-Showgirl-Balloon Girl-Man Stealer” and gay police officer Frank Lee.
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West of the Wind
David Marinoff
New York: Vantage Press, 1969.“This is the fantastic tal eof Raymond Richards, self-styled ex-star of a “gay” night club in San Francisco, presently in Greenwich Village, where he is in the female-impersonator racket in a clip joint. But it won’t be for long… From night-dive queen in a Village joint, Raymond zooms to heady, blatant insecurity as an arts-and-antiques “expert” in a luxury apartment, all the way talking himself in and out of deals slick and spurious…” YOUNG 2510.
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The Male Impersonator
E. F. Benson
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929.The Male Impersonator is one of two short stories and six novels published in the author’s Mapp and Lucia series, later adapted as a television serial. The series features a cast of mainly upper class English people, who could be described as genteel dilettantes, as they navigate their way through the minor outrages of polite society. In The Male Impersonator, Miss Mapp has to deal with the arrival to their small town of Lady Deal, who in a previous life, had a history of performing as a male impersonator. ‘To think that a male impersonator should to Tilling and take one of the best houses in the place! Why, it might as well have remained empty!’ Limited to 530 numbered copies, this being one of 30 copies for presentation, signed by the author.