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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdelbert 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
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDodie 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
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHartley 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
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVirginia 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
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis 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
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLenny 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
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWill 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
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid 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
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. 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.
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Les Dimanches de la Comtesse de Narbonne
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaisy Fellowes; Vertes
Paris: Editions de France, 1935.Novel of Parisian high society in the early 20th century by the French socialite Daisy Fellowes, Paris editor of American Harper’s Bazaar and heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Illustrated by Marcel Vertes. Neatly rebound in half leather and wood preserving the original pink wrappers.
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Les Freres Zemganno
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Auguste Brouet
Paris: Edite par F. Gregoire, 1921.Goncourt’s Naturalist exploration of the evolution of French literature through the acrobatic artistry of two circus brothers, also echoing and exploring his own love and loss of his inseparable brother (and literary partner) who passed some years prior. Originally published in 1879, here for the first time with numerous illustrations by Auguste Brouet. The illustrations include 15 full page etchings, a half-page etching on the half-title, and a vignette on the title, all signed in the plate, together with a further 51 illustrations in the text. This copy extra illustrated with 4 original signed drawings by Brouet mounted at the beginning, and finely bound in a signed full leather binding by Ganape, RD, dated 1925, and with the bookplates of Yvan Lamberty and B. Le Dosseur.
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Equality; or A History of Lithconia
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[James Reynolds]
Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1947.A utopian fantasy novel credited with being the first American utopian novel. Unattributed but credited to Dr. James Reynolds. Originally published serially in the weekly newspaper, The Temple of Reason, in 1802 and first published in book form by The Liberal Union in 1837. This is the second book edition published in a limited edition of 500 copies by The Prime Press.
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Doctor Zhivago
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBoris Pasternak
New York: Pantheon, 1958.First printing of the first US edition with the book club edition square to lower board of this classic of Russian literature.
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False Colours
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorgette Heyer
London: The Bodley Head, 1963.Regency romance. In the Australian issue jacket.
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An Infamous Army
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorgette Heyer
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1953.Regency romance.
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The Corinthian
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorgette Heyer
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1950.Regency romance. The first Australian Edition, originally published in 1940.
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I Am Loving (Strangely)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDwayne Simpson
New York: Lancer Books, 1969.Transsexual pulp fiction.
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Stir
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Jewson
Melbourne: Unicorn Books, 1980.Novelisation of the 1980 prison film based on the 1974 prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex and the subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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Pacific Banana
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAldor Flagg
Sydney: Horwitz, 1980.Novelisation of the 1981 film starring a philandering pilot with erectile dysfunction who sneezes when aroused.
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Valley of Horror
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJim Kent
Sydney: Scripts Publications, 1973.Australia pulp war based romance erotica.