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Physique Pictorial Volume 35, August 1981
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1981.Single 1980s 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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Codex Seraphinianus (2 Volumes)
Luigi Serafini
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981.The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017), all housed in the original shipping cartons. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page book hand-bound with treated pages from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 10, of which this is number 10.
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Cricket Action: An Approach to Teaching and Coaching the Game of Cricket
P. R. Spence
Sydney: NSW Cricket Association, 1981. -
True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society
William Leach
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. -
Early Sketches and Charts of Banks Peninsula, 1770-1850
Peter Bromley Maling
Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1981.Pre-1850, though mostly 1838-50 sketches and maps of Banks Peninsula, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, by French and British visitors to the region. Limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 388.
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Period.
JoAnn Gardner-Loulan; Bonnie Lopez; Marcia Quackenbush
San Francisco: Volcano Press, 1981.Discusses menstruation and other related mental and physical changes girls experience, gives suggestions for coping with these changes, and explains what happens during a pelvic exam.
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Human Warmth & Other Stories
Daniel Curzon
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1981.YOUNG 884*.
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The Dermatology and Syphilology of the Nineteenth Century
John Thorne Crissey; Lawrence Charles Parish
New York: Praeger, 1981.An accessible history of dermatology.