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Rituals of Love: Sexual Experiments, Erotic Possibilities
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTed Polhemus; Housk Randall
London: Picador, 1994. -
LSD, Man & Society
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf
London: Faber and Faber, 1969.Papers from a 1967 symposium at Wesleyan. Edited by Richard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf.
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Dark Shadows in the Afternoon
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKathleen Resch; Marcy Robin
New York: Image Publishing, 1991.A look at the American daytime TV horror soap opera, Dark Shadows. The original series ran for 1,225 episodes between 1966 and 1977.
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The Wakulla Springs Project
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam C. Stone
Derwood: United States Deep Diving Team, 1989.Detailed report of the 1987 expedition mapping the underwater cave at Wakulla Springs, Florida. A cave diving classic which some mark as the beginning of technical underwater diving.
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Macumba: White and Black Magic in Brazil
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. Langguth
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. -
Lives of Girls & Women
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlice Munro
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971.Female coming of age story by the Nobel Prize winning author based in Munro’s native Ontario. The Canadian First, inscribed by Munro, For Bill.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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Servian Popular Poetry
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Bowring
London: Thomas Davison for the Author, 1827.Serbian poetry translated by John Borwing.
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Direct Action (Nos. 1 – 103, September 1970 – December 1975)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSocialist Youth Alliance
Sydney: Socialist Youth Alliance, 1970-1975.An unbroken run of the first 103 issues bound in two volumes of the Australian socialist newspaper, Direct Action, which became the Green Left Weekly in 1991. The SYA was a Trotskyist youth organisation of eco-socialist and anti-capitalist politics which emerged out of the Sydney University Socialist Club and the Vietnam Action Campaign, and later merged into the Socialist Alliance. Direct Action was a large format newspaper, brightly illustrated throughout, running stories on local and international politics, with calls to action.
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Lovers
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNapoleon L. Rambouillet
Brisbane: Napoleon L. Rambouillet, 1994.Original pencil drawing of 2 naked men embracing on a piece of reclaimed marble, captioned Lovers and signed L. R. ’94. A long pencil inscription on the verso signed Napoleon L. Rambouillet with an address in New Farm. A skillful piece of gay erotica by a forgotten 90s Brisbane artist.
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The Art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKen McGregor; Ralph Hobbs
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2014.The deluxe edition with a signed portrait photograph of the artist and original signed etching. Limited to 20 copies, of which this is number 16.
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Landscape Out of Nature
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLou Klepac; James Gleeson
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1987.One of the collector’s deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 55, specially bound in leather and containing an umber lithograph, Comet II, limited to 50 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 5. With an introduction by Lou Klepac. Inscribed by Gleeson on the half-title page to Geoffrey Walker.
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Reminiscences from Early Life and Including Cycling & Touring Experiences
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Pearson
Sydney: Vale & Pearson, 1933.Biography of Joseph Pearson (1849-1939), draper, one of Australia’s early cyclists, and map publisher. First published in 1925, Pearson published this revised edition in 1933. “When Pearson toured Britain and the Continent in 1893, he rode some 3500 miles (5633 km). He bought road maps and, inspired by them, vowed to persuade his fellow cyclists ‘to take an occasional tour in the country … to get into our wide spaces’. In 1896 he published the Cyclists’ Touring Guide of New South Wales, which contained many practical hints. He agitated for the erection of road signs and that year helped to found the New South Wales Cyclists’ Touring Union, serving on the executive board. His early road and touring material provided the basis for the union’s two-volume Handbook, and Guide to the Roads of New South Wales (Sydney, 1898), the most detailed guide ever published in Australia.” (ADB) This copy signed on the wrappers upper panel, as usual.
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Wet Dreams: Films & Adventures
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy; Willem de Ridder
Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1973.The book of the Wet Dream Film Festivals presented by Suck, that European Sexpaper. Suck tasked themselves with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”. Heathcote Williams in his Suck manifesto declares “SUCK is Group Sex, Police Sex, Animal Sex, Teeny Sex, One Armed Bandit Sex, Geriatric Sex and Cosmic Sex”. Wet Dreams the book documents the film festivals organised by Suck and held in Amsterdam in 1970 and 1971 showing films for the sexual avant-garde exploring the boundaries between art and pornography. The book, illustrated throughout in the Suck style and with articles by Brion Gysin, Al Goldstein, Betty Dodson, Jim Haynes, Germaine Greer, Heathcote Williams, and many others, together with details of the films shown and the festival judges deliberations.
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Freakshow
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacquin Sanders
London: Peter Davies, 1955.The first UK edition of an American sideshow noir featuring strongman Bat Fidler as he falls for beautiful but deformed Fish Girl. An underground classic reprinted as a 1950s pulp, Strip the Heart, and by Loompanics under its original title in 1995.
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Deadly Diamond
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoan Storm
London: Hammond, Hammond & Company, 1953.A Cloak and Dagger Mystery. A continental honeymoon is interrupted by a murder when the husband, a member of British Intelligence, assists the local police with the investigation.
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Die Wirkstoffe der dritten aztekischen Zauberdroge oder Die Losung des Ololiuqui-Ratsels
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann; A. Cerletti
Stuttgart: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1961.Reissue from Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Nr. 18, pp. 885-888. Paper by the Swiss chemist and psychedelic icon who first synthesised and ingested LSD and his colleague at Sandoz Aurelio Cerletti on the “third aztec magical drug”, Ololiuqui (Ipomoea corymbosa), a species of morning glory.
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The Mycophagists’ Book
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Healy Evans
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951.A treatise on the cooking and eating of mushrooms. A fine American private press production limited to 175 copies. This copy inscribed by the author and the printer. VOLBRACHT 567.
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The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People (2 Volumes)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBaldwin Spencer; F. J. Gillen
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927.Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout.
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Savage Life in Central Australia
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. Horne; G. Aiston
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924.Study of the Wangkangurru (Wonkonguru) and Dieri people. Photographic illustrations throughout.