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Inge
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAttie Marie Van Calcar
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979.Australian houeswife sleaze published under Angus & Robertson’s Akron imprint.
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The Strawberry-Blonde Jungle
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarter Brown
Hong Kong and Sydney: Horwitz, 1979.Australian crime fiction. Part of the Danny Boyd series, a private eye in New York.
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Ah Men Sale Poster, 1979
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, 1979.1970s fold out sale brochure for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States.
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Gateavisa Nr. 11, 1979
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1979.Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This issue with a feature story on Sten Larris’ Forbyde Hallucinogener [Forbidden Hallucinogens].
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135 Female Friends
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKishin Shinoyama
Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1979.135 female models captured by Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama (1940-2024). This copy inscribed by Kishin.
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Sundry notes & papers: being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition, collected and collated under the title BUMBOOZIANA.
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Friend
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1979.An extravagantly illustrated reproduction of Donald Friend’s most famous and important illustrated manuscript. Bumbooziana is a fantastic, exotic, and erotic journey through foreign lands, illustrated by all manner of wild and outrageous acts of wanton sexual abandonment. Limited to 150 signed and numbered copies, this one of the few additional hors commerce copies, signed by Friend and also inscribed by the publisher, Richard Griffin, To Jim, likely Jim Walker of the Croft Press, and specially bound in a striking three-quarter morocco housed in a custom felt lined clamshell.
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The Mammals of Australia
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGerard Krefft
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1979.Illustrated by Miss Harriet Scott, and Mrs. Helena Forde, for the Council of Education; with A Short Account of all the Species hitherto described.  Originally published in 1871, this facsimile edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Basil J. Marlow, Curator of Mammals at the Australian Museum
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Die Buecher Der Namenlosen Liebe (2 Volumes)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Henry Mackay [Sagitta]
Berlin: Verlag Rosa Winkel, 1979.The Books of Nameless Love. Seven volumes were originally published between 1906-1926 under the pseudonym Sagitta. Writer, anarchist, and advocate Mackay traces early developments of the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany.
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Which Way Out of the Men’s Room? Options for the Male Homosexual
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGordon Johnston
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1979. -
Ay-O’s Rainbow Prints: Catalogue Raisonne, 1954-1979
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAy-O
Tokyo: Sohbun-Sha, 1979.Ay-O’s signature rainbow prints, made famous at the 1966 Venice Biennale, are showcased in this catalogue along with some of his other significant works. During the 1960s and 1970s Ay-O (1931-) was at the forefront of the Fluxus movement, an international community of artists, including Yoko Ono, who emphasized the importance of art making over the finished product. Numbered first edition of 200 copies, of which this is number 47.
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Ice Skating for Pleasure
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Bass
Oxford: Oxford Illustrated Press, 1979. -
Hypnosis 1979
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham D. Burrows; David R. Collison; Lorraine Dennerstein
Amsterdam: Elsevier / North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1979.Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, 1979.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 32, May 1979
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1979.Single 1970s 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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Pocketman
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Bell
Toronto: Dorset Publishing, 1979.A book of comedy loosely based on the life of Canadian street poet, Roy McDonald, and his time in Montreal. This copy with a lengthy inscription by Roy McDonald, aka Pocketman, naming various characters in the book.
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An Old Dog for a Hard Road…
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBill Tuckey; Thomas B. Floyd
Sydney: Lone Tree Hill Press, 1979.The inside story of the 1979 Repco Round Australia Reliability Trial.
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The General Theory and After. A Supplement (The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes Volume XXIX)
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Maynard Keynes
London: Macmillan, 1979. -
British Salmonidae
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Jardine
London: Decimus, 1979.First published privately in Edinburgh between 1839 and 1841, this facsimile is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 327. Paintings by Jardine, engraved by William Lazars, who engraved the early sets of Audubon’s Birds. Four page essay ‘Sir William Jardine and the British Salmonidae’ by Alwyne Wheeler, Curator of European fishes at the British Museum (Natural History), laid in.
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The Rock Photography
AU$165.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRex R. Kubota; Erica Nakada
Tokyo: Sunday-sha, 1979.Photography of 1970s Japanese rock bands on and off stage. Photographs by Masakazu Sakomizu, George Ide, Takumi Uchida, Kenji Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Sakagami. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at January 2022.
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Nomen / Noh Masks
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYasuo Nakamura; Naomi Maki
Kyoto: Shinshindo, 1979.A beautifully presented collection of masks used in the classical Japanese dance-drama Noh. Each plate, photographed by Naomi Maki, is mounted in an individual folder with tissue guard, housed in a portfolio case, and includes an index sheet. An accompanying explanatory volume written by Yasuo Nakamura goes into detail on the subject, as well as containing black and white photographs of the reverse sides of the masks. The portfolio and accompanying volume are housed inside of another cloth clamshell with two bone clasps, which in turn is housed in another box. Yasuo Nakamura (1919-1996) was a Japanese high school teacher, junior college professor, and Noh scholar, producing numerous works on the subject from the 1960s until his death. His scholarship on this collection of masks earned him the Geijutsu Sensho Prize from The Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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Creative Camera, June 1979, Number 180
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Osman
London: Coo Press, 1979.In this issue: Eugene Atget, Bernard Descamps, Stephen Livick, and Ron McCormick.