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[How to Make a Blouse and Skirt]
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKiyo Sasahara
Tokyo: Ondorisha, 1956.Japanese 1950s fashion how-to-make book.
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Kami no Ehon / [Hair Picture Book]
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJunichi Nakahara
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 1987.A new edition of the Junichi Nakahara 1940s hair styling book.
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Child Of Her People
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnne Cameron
San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987. -
(Searching for Miss Poole) In Unlikely Places
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReBecca Beguin
Norwich: New Victoria Publishers, 1990. -
Legal Tender: A Mystery
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Foster
Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1992. -
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian Blomerth
New York: Anthology Editions, 2019.A visual history of the world’s first acid trip. With an introduction by Dennis McKenna. “Illustrator, musician and self-described “comic stripper” Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known as lysergic acid diethylamide and embarked on the world’s first acid trip. Combining an extraordinary true story told in journalistic detail with the artist’s gritty, timelessly Technicolor comix style, Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day is a testament to mind expansion and a stunningly original visual history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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We Ate The Acid
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoe Roberts
New York: Anthology Editions, 2018.“Artist Joe Roberts has spent more than a decade honing a deeply unique and unapologetically hallucinogenic style of art. Through paintings, drawings and mixed-media works, Roberts navigates a world of cosmic imagery, pop cultural detritus, and shifting geometric forms, bringing to life both the creeping unease and the uncanny humor of the psychedelic experience. Collecting over 100 new and recent works along with an introduction by Hamilton Morris (Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia), We Ate the Acid is the latest product of Roberts’ visionary journeys and a testament to his expansive, singular imagination.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Hollander
New York: Anthology Editions, 2018.“In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Though at the time, the use of such records was mostly a cost-cutting manoeuvre for productions that couldn’t afford to hire their own composer, the industry soon took on its own life: library publishers became major financial successes, and much of the work they released was truly extraordinary. In fact, many of these anonymous or pseudonymous scores-on-demand were crafted by the some of the greatest musical minds of the late 20th century-expert musicians and innovative composers who revelled in the freedoms offered, paradoxically, by this most corporate of fields.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Family Tree: Old Friends, Rich Relations
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwin Wilson
Sydney: Woodbine Press, 2020.An idiosyncratic family history of Edwin James (Peter) Wilson: poet, painter and botanist from East Wardell / Mullumbimby / Crows Nest.
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Exotic Diseases of Animals: A Field Guide for Australian Veterinarians
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. A. Geering; A. J. Forman; M. J. Nunn
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1995. -
Open Roads, Closed Borders: the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Gott; Thibaut Schilt
Bristol: Intellect, 2013. -
Fantastic Animation Collection
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSato Yukiko; Shinohara Yu
Tokyo: [Zadi Films], No date.Japanese concertina book on four surreal animations: Alice (1988), La Planete Sauvage, Gandahar, and The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb.
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Australia’s Fighting Sons of the Empire: Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Palmer & Ashworth]
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2014.“This difficult to obtain book was first published in 1922 [by Palmer & Ashworth] after a troubled gestation. Many of the original copies have disintegrated due to binding problems. It is now available again in an attractive facsimile edition. Contains over 1450 biographies and illustrations of the soldiers. This is a book that will become a family heirloom.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Pearls and Pearling Life
AU$135.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwin W. Streeter
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2006.Early Western Australian pearling. First published in 1886.
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Cologne to the Kimberley: Studies of Aboriginal Life in Northwest Australia by Five German Scholars in the First Half of the 20th Century
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret Pawsey; Kim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.18 translated papers by Jos. Bischofs, Ernest Worms, Helmut Petri, A. S. Schulz, and Gisela Odermann.
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Among Wild Animals and People in Australia
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2012.Originally published in Swedish in 1915 as ‘Bland vilda djur och folk i Australien’. Here translated into English for the first time by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman. “From October 1910 to August 1911 biologist Erik Mjoberg and his seven man Swedish team travelled by bullock wagon through the West Kimberley collecting invertebrates, birds, mammals, and ethnographic research material. Their ten month journey took them from Derby, along the Fitzroy River upstream to Mount Anderson Station. Some members then went on to Noonkanbah, the St George Ranges and Fitzroy Crossing, while others went south to Mowla Bluff. After the return to Derby two members went to Sunday Island and then followed the stock route across the Leopold Ranges to Mount Barnett. Extensive collections were also made around Derby and Meda Station. Finally the expedition re-convened in Broome where side trips included a coastal trip by pearling lugger collecting marine specimens and another trip to Beagle Bay, collecting birds. Eric MjöbergÂ’s idiosyncratic text remained in the Swedish language until this long-awaited English translation. Now, for the first time, this unique perspective on biota and people is brought to a new generation of readers with an interest in Kimberley history and geography.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Ethnological Notes and Phallic Rites of the Aboriginal Tribes of Western and South Australia
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. H. Matthews
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020. -
Paris Nights: Sydney, Oxford St, Mid 80’s Sex, Drugs & Clubbing
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. M. Crawford
Sydney: D M Crawford, 2020.A semi-biographical story of sex, drugs, and clubbing in Sydney, Oxford Street, mid-80’s. “Mark was a closeted suburban boy from Wollongong, hiding his sexuality within his surroundings. The enticing allure of Oxford Street nightlife beckoned and in particular a legendary nightclub called Patchs. A semi-biographical account of a young man’s journey and self-discovery which leads to a chance encounter as he hooks up with an older guy called Matt Paris, who’s been around the traps and harboured a secret past. They form a complicated friendship and bond as they embark on a shared weekend life together. Both men were from vastly different backgrounds, experiencing the highs and lows of gay life on Oxford Street in the mid to late ’80s of sex, drugs and clubbing. Oxford Street was called Sydney’s ‘Gay Golden Mile’. A beehive of social activities gathered on this strip that glittered with life and a party atmosphere catering for everyone’s tastes and fantasies. The DJ’s in these establishments were the Gods of the dance floor, playing an accompanying soundtrack to your life. This was Mark’s story and experience!” (publisher’s blurb)
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Jane Dickson in Times Square
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJane Dickson
New York: Anthology Editions, 2018.“Artist Jane Dickson is a deep-rooted and central voice in New York City’s complex creative history. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, she was part of the movement joining the legacies of downtown art, punk rock, and hip hop through her involvement with the Colab art collective, the Fashion Moda gallery, and legendary exhibitions including the Real Estate Show and Times Square Show. In the midst of this groundbreaking work, Dickson lived, worked and raised two children in an apartment on 43rd Street and 8th Avenue at a time when the neighborhood was at its most infamous, crime-ridden, and spectacularly seedy. Through it all, Jane photographed, drew and painted extraordinary scenes of life in Times Square. These works, many of which are reproduced here for the first time, include candid documentary snapshots, roughly vibrant charcoal sketches, and paintings created on surfaces ranging from sandpaper to Brillo pads. Featuring a foreword by Chris Kraus and afterword by Fab Five Freddy, Jane Dickson in Times Square is a time machine back to a New York City that was truly wild: lawless, manic, sometimes squalid, sometimes magnificent.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Marvel
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarvel Harris
[London]: MACK, 2021.“At first the focus of my project was my gender transition, but along the way I found out that itÂ’s about an ongoing search for myself: being a human with feelings, who is continuously developing.” (Marvel Harris) “MARVEL describes the journey of Marvel HarrisÂ’ personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the course of five years. These photographs present a new-found visual language; a tool with which Marvel was able to express those emotions that, on account of his autism, he previously struggled to make sense of. The process of making these portraits allowed him to connect to the world around him at the time he needed it most. Winner of the MACK First Book Award 2021, MARVEL is an important new voice which contributes to an increased awareness of the issues surrounding gender identity and mental health. In doing so, this deeply personal book demands a more tolerant attitude from society towards transgender people and those who donÂ’t identify as entirely male or female.” (publisher’s blurb)