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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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Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMargo Neale; Emily Kngwarreye
Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. -
Greats of Australian Surf
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham Cassidy; Peter Crawford
Sydney: Lester-Townsend, 1983. -
A Cybernetic Romance
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLaurence M. Gartel
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1989.Monograph of digital artist Laurence Gartel (1956-) with works from 1979-89. Introduction by South Korean artist and founder of video art Nam June Paik.
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Export Catalogue of Surgical Instruments
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. F. Elahi & Co.
Dacca, East Pakistan: M. F. Elahi & Co., No date.Circa 1968 illustrated trade catalogue of Elahico surgical instruments by the Pakistan firm M. F. Elahi & Co. Founded in 1908 and exporting to Australia since 1937. From stethoscopes and blood letters to bone saws and nail cutters, over 1,000 instruments are illustrated with titles and order numbers. Includes index, biographies of company directors and a few photographs showing manufacturing. The firm entirely unrecorded in OCLC. This copy with local distributor stamp of Cardial Surgical Scientific Supplies, Canberra.
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Early Japanese Sword Guards: Sukashi Tsuba
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasayuki Sasano
Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, 1972. -
Farallones Scrapbook
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFarallones
Point Reyes Station: Farallones Designs, 1971.A momento & manual of our apprenticeship in making places and changing spaces in schools, at home, and within ourselves. Original self published scrapbook of alternative education, architecture, and self-development in California. Reprinted shortly after publication by Random House.
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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[The Kelmscott Chaucer] The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Chaucer
London: The Folio Society, 2002.The first Folio Society Facsimile Edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer, bound in full Nigerian goatskin leather in an edition of 1,010 copies, of which this is number 731. With an accompanying essay booklet ‘The Kelmscott Chaucer’ by William S. Peterson. “One of the most splendid books issued by Folio. Not surprisingly, the edition went out of print as soon as it was published.” FORD-SMITH 1117.
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On Demonology and Witchcraft in Ceylon
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDandris De Silva Gooneratne
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1998.First published in 1865 this is the first facsimile edition of Gooneratne’s study of demon worship in what is now Sri Lanka.
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Francoise ou Les Plaisirs du Mariage
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWanda De S….
[Dijon]: Aux Allees Des Roses [Darantiere], [1937].Clandestine 1930s French pornographic novel with 10 well executed colour illustrations depicting lesbian, hetero, and group sex scenes, one with spanking. Limited to 600 numbered copies printed by Maurice Darantiere. DUTEL 1605, notes the original illustrations in his collection titled Veronique and intended to illustrate this text, perhaps it was a model provided to the publisher. The anonymous artist attributed by some to Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan], by others to Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre, others yet to T. Mertens, though none of these quite add up, and to date this one remains a much admired mystery. This copy with the bookplate of erotica collector Alain Metivier.
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMaya Deren
New York: Documentext Mcpherson & Company, 2004.Study of voodoo and the folk beliefs of Haiti. Foreword by Joseph Campbell.
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Teddy Candoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art
AU$115.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Ondine Chavoya; David Evans Frantz
Los Angeles, New York, Monterey Park & Williamstown: Inventory Press, Independent Curators International, Vincent Price Art Museum & Williams College Museum of Art, 2024.“Accompanying the artistÂ’s first retrospective, this title examines the work of artist Teddy Sandoval. A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, for 25 years Sandoval produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediums that explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Smut Magic
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
San Francisco: Busby-Corin, Inc., 1978.Manual to a range of crude stage magic tricks.
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Made in U.S.A. Catalog, 1975 and Made in U.S.A.-2 Scrapbook of America, 1976 (2 Volumes)
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYoshihisa Kinameri; Jiro Ishikawa
Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1975.Two catalogues of American fashion, culture, tools, and lifestyle products, an earlier project from the founders of Popeye magazine, who travelled the United States to put together these volumes which became a massive driver of American lifestyle and fashion influence in Japanese culture. Today, they remain a detailed catalogue of 1970s American culture. Both volumes include detailed shopping guides to numerous American cities. Unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii,
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The Lee-Enfield Rifle
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. G. B. Reynolds
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962. -
The British Falling Block Breechloading Rifle From 1865
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJonathan G. Kirton
Livonia: R&R Books, 1997. -
John Shirlow: Ten Etchings
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Shirlow
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 2005.Portfolio of ten etchings printed directly form Shirlow’s plates accompanied by an essay in letterpress by the publisher, Robert C. Littlewood, and a photographic frontispiece. The portfolio created by master Brisbane binder Fred Pohlmann in the style of Shirlow’s 1904 folio Five Etchings. Each etching titled in pencil and stamped with a facsimile signature. The etchings are of eight views of Melbourne, one of Sydney Harbour, and one of Hobart. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the publisher. This copy with the letterpress prospectus.
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Casanova Funf Episoden
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJosephe Verheyen
Wien: Eros-Presse, 1923.Extracts of Casanova from the German translation of Heinrich Conrad with 10 large erotic duotone lithograpahs by Josephe Verheyen. Edition of 1,000 copies of which this is out of sequence.
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Les Amies. Sonnets
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Verlaine; Jean-Gabriel Daragnes
Bayonne: aux depens d’un groupe d’amateurs a l’enseigne de la Guirlande, 1919.Verlaine’s lesbian themed sonnets accompanied by 6 full page illustrations and tail pieces by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes. Produced in an edition of 280 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 standard with the plates in colour on arches vellum paper.