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Nous Deux: Illustre de seize pointes-seches originales [Nelly et Jean]
[Gaston de Sainte Croix]; [Marcel Valotaire]
[Paris]: Editions du Cyclmen, 1956.The second edition of the story by Marcel Valotaire telling of the sexual awakening of a young female student, Nelly, mostly in the hands of her Latin tutor, Jean. This edition, probably published by Vialetay, with 16 drypoint etchings by Gaston de Sainte Croix printed by Georges Viglino. One of 168 numbered copies on Rives, from a total edition of 200. DUTEL 2055.
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Dodie 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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Les Confessions d’un Travesti
[Eric Losfeld]
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1956.Les Grandes Etues Francaises de Psychiatrie No. 1, an aggrandizing imprint and seemingly a once-off published by Eric Losfeld’s Le Terrain Vague imprint. Autobiographical psycho-social confessions of a 43 year old married heterosexual male cross-dresser and female underwear fetishist. Illustrated with 5 photographic plates of the author in various states of undress.
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Officers of Anchorage Chapter, Alaska, 1924
[FREEMASONRY]
Adelaide: Kodak Austral, 1956.Real photo post card of the officers, manuscript note on verso of the positions from left to right.
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On Overcoming the Personality Cult and Its Consequences: Decision of the Central Committee, C.P.S.U
Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1956.The resolution of the Central Committee published in the wake of the anti-Stalin Secret Speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 25 February, 1956.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 2, Summer 1956
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 1, Spring 1956
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
Henri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.
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A Symposium on America’s Stake in Vietnam
American Friends of Vietnam
New York: American Friends of Vietnam, 1956.The edited record of the Conference on Vietnam held in Washington D.C. on 1 June 1956. Attendees included almost 250 representatives of government, the armed services, universities and national civic organisations. John F. Kennedy was amongst the speakers.
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Lot of 9 Booklets of the Amateur Athletic Association
Amateur Athletic Association
London: Amateur Athletic Association, 1956.Full list of titles. 1. Instructional Booklet: The Discus Throw by H. A. L. Chapman. (Second Edition); 2. Instructional Booklet: the Javelin Throw by A. R. Malcolm. (Third Edition); 3. Instructional Booklet: Hurdling by J. L. Masurier 4. Instructional Booklet: Sprinting and Relay Racing by J. W. Alford and A. R. Malcolm; 5. Instructional Booklet: The Long Jump and the Hop, Step and Jump by Denis Watts. (Second Edition); 6. Instructional Booklet: Shot Putting by G. H. G. Dyson; 7. Instructional Booklet: Middle Distance Running and Steeplechasing by J. W. Ll. Alford; 8. High Jumping by G. H. Dyson. (Third Edition); 9. Rules for Competitions under A .A .A. Laws 1956.
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Spick Vol. 3 No. 27, February, 1956
R. T. Staples
Croydon: Town & Country Publications, 1956.Single issue of UK pinup magazine Spick with a 2 page spread on Bettie Page.
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From Here to Shimbashi
John Sack
New York: Permabooks, 1956.Illustrated by Leo Hershfield.
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[How to Make a Blouse and Skirt]
Kiyo Sasahara
Tokyo: Ondorisha, 1956.Japanese 1950s fashion how-to-make book.
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Sam Snyder’s Fabulous American Water Follies: Australian Tour 1956 Official Souvenir Program
Sam Snyder
Melbourne: Freelance Press, 1956.Programme for a 1956 Australian tour of Sam Snyder’s Water Follies, a swimming show featuring musical and theatrical performance, diving, synchronised swimming, and more. Shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth.
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The Magazine of the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Pymble (December 1956, No. XLV)
Presbyterian Ladies’ College
Sydney: Presbyterian Ladies’ College, 1956.