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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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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.