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Pioneering: The Life of the Hon. R. M. Collins
Harry C. Perry
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1923.With a poetic epigraph by Queensland poet George Essex Evans.
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Leurs Pantalons: Comment elles les portent
Jacques Mauvain
Paris: Jean Fort, 1923.A volume devoted to women’s pants and how they wear them. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and a colour cover illustration by the French illustrator of La Vie Parisienne fame Cheri Herouard, showing risqué portraits of women in varying circumstances revealing their undergarments. Though the title page states this is a new edition completely revised and augmented with many interviews, this 1923 printing is the first recorded printing we are aware of, with two reprints following in 1924 and 1927.
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Casanova Funf Episoden
Josephe 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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The Garden of Adonis
Oliver Hill
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923.The Arcadian, Uranian photography of architect Oliver Hill presented alongside quotes from the Romantic poets. The first of several lavish productions by Philip Allan of Hill’s Pictorialist images of children. This copy inscribed by Oliver Hill for Sidney Smith and dated September 1927, undoubtedly Witney blanket man Sidney Smith, Hill having designed Merryfield House for him and gifted upon the completion of construction.
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Dreams
H. Tasman Lovell
Sydney: The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, 1923.The Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy Monograph Series No. II. This copy with the ownership stamp of K. Thompson Matthews, interleaved with numerous blanks, copiously underlined and with some marginalia.
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The Story of the Development of a Youth
Ernst Haeckel
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1923.Letters to his Parents, 1852-1856. Translated by G. Barry Gifford.
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Contraception (Birth Control): Its Theory, History and Practice
Marie Carmichael Stopes
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1923.A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions. With an introduction by William Bayliss and introductory notes by James Barr, C. Rolleston, Jane Hawthorne and Obscurus. Third printing of the pioneering work on the subject by the seminal figure of the English birth control movement, Marie Stopes (1880-1958).