Counterculture

# 47212

JARRATT, Suzy

Permissive Australia

Photographs by Paul Muller. Sydney : Jack de Lissa (Aust.), [1970]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 192, photographically illustrated; a fine copy. The author’s forthright opinions on civil freedoms in Australia, with nine chapters on Hippies, Religion, Sex, The Arts, Sports, Fashion, Drugs, Advertising, & Politics. ‘Australia is a man’s world? Not when it comes to sex, …

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# 46392

WARHOL, Andy (1928 - 1987)

The philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and back again). (Signed copy with drawing of a Campbell’s Soup can)

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition. Octavo, boards in dust jacket, pp 241; a fine copy; the half-title is signed and inscribed by Warhol, accompanied by an original pen drawing by the artist of a Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, his most iconic image. Andy Warhol’s seminal self-analysing memoir, filled with his reflections of …

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# 47093

[Photographer unidentified]

[ROLLING STONES CONTACT SHEET] Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor interviewed by Felix Dennis for London Oz magazine, 1971.

Gelatin silver print, 250 x 200 mm (sheet); inscribed on the verso in blue ballpoint by Oz magazine editor Felix Dennis: ‘F.D. interviews Charlie Watts & Mick Taylor, other members of Rolling Stones, for Oz. 1971?‘; in very good condition. The interview at which these photographs were taken (presumably by an Oz staff photographer – …

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# 47092

ROBERTSON, Geoffrey (1946- )

The justice game. (Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Robertson for Felix Dennis, editor of Oz magazine)

London : Chatto & Windus, 1998. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black cloth with silver-lettered spine in pictorial dust jacket; front pastedown with ex libris of Felix Dennis (1947-2014), editor of London Oz, publisher and later media tycoon; a presentation copy with a highly significant association, inscribed on the title page by Geoffrey Robertson for Dennis: ‘To …

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# 46926

JACUNSKI, Jaclyn

You are a warrior

[Chicago? : the artist, 2017]. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated. Artist’s book / zine on the subject of civil disobedience and the protest movement. ‘Jaclyn’s work is driven by political controversies that surround land, communities, and acts of resistance. By framing evidence of those acts, her work recontextualizes how they manifest in public spaces …

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# 46648

ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, Major-General (1840-1930)

Moko; or Maori tattooing

London : Chapman & Hall, 1896. Quarto, gilt-lettered brown cloth with moko decoration, (a couple of light stains, minor rubbing at edges, corners a little bumped, small impaction dent to spine), bookplate to front pastedown, photographic frontispiece, 180 illustrations and photographs; a good copy of this scarce publication. Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) was a soldier, …

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# 46556

VWLN (Melbourne)

[MELBOURNE; FEMINISM] Victorian Women’s Liberation Newsletter. A new collective.

Melbourne : Women’s Liberation Newsletter, [1989]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; original folds and light corner creasing, otherwise good condition. The MWLN (aka VWLN) ran its first edition in February 1972, and was published monthly. This flyer appeals for subscriptions for 1990, which saw a new incarnation of the newsletter: ‘Womens liberation newsletter is a …

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# 46551

LESBIAN FESTIVAL '92

[MELBOURNE] Lesbian Festival ’92 Melbourne October 8 – November 3.

Carlton North, Vic. : Lesbian Festival ’92, 1992. Octavo (210 x 145 mm), pictorial self-wrappers, [4] pp. illustrated; original fold, annotated in pencil by Virginia Fraser, otherwise very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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# 46555

3CR

[MELBOURNE] International Women’s Day. 8 March [1990]. 3CR 855 kHz.

[Melbourne] : 3CR Community Radio, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; 24-hour programme schedule for IWD; light corner creasing, otherwise good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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# 46557

LESBIANS UNLIMITED (Melbourne)

[MELBOURNE] Lesbians Unlimited Fun Group Xmas calendar.

Fitzroy, Vic. : Lesbians Unlimited Publicity Group, [1990?]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; toning and light creasing, otherwise good condition. ‘Lesbians Unlimited was established at the end of 1989 to provide a legally constituted and incorporated body for the organisation of the Melbourne Lesbian Festival in 1990. It continued meeting after the Festival to …

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# 46306

[MOUSOULIS, Bill]

[SEXUALITY] Desire : a film directed by Bill Mousoulis.

[Melbourne] : Innersense Productions, 1999. Foolscap folio flyer, printed recto only, illustrated; faint original folds, very good; [TOGETHER WITH] Invitation to a sneak preview of Desire, for ‘cast, crew and invited guests’; identical format to the flyer, original folds. Desire (1999) is a 16mm film by legendary Melbourne filmmaker Bill Mousoulis, starring Juliet Hone and Belinda …

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# 46410

FORTUNE, Dion (pseud. of Violet Mary FIRTH)

[OCCULT] Applied magic

London : The Aquarian Press ; New York : Wehman Bros., 1962. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s cream cloth with gold lettering to spine (gleaming and unmarked), in the yellow dust jacket printed in red (price-clipped, but superb); pp. viii, 110; contents immaculate, a very fine copy. A posthumous collection of …

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# 46490

GATEWOOD, Charles and William S. Burroughs

Sidetripping

New York : Strawberry Hill Publishing Co., 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, small crease to edge of wrappers, pp. [80], photographically illustrated, text excerpted from various works by Burroughs. Scarce photobook of American subculture, including queer groups, religious groups, fetishists and exhibitionists.

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# 46315

[Anon.]

[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.

[Carlton, Vic.] : The Forum, 1981. Handbill, 205 x 295 mm, printed in b/w recto only; corner creasing and a few marks; unmounted. The Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum was held 17-20 April 1981 at Princes Hill High School in Carlton, Melbourne. This is a rare handbill for a benefit dance associated with the forum, …

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# 46307

REEL WOMEN (Melbourne)

[FEMINISM] Reel Women

[Carlton, Vic. : Reel Women, 1980]. Broadsheet, 205 x 410 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm, [8] pp., illustrated; catalogue of 20 independent women’s films, all by Melbourne and Sydney filmmakers including Sue Ford, Kerry Dwyer, Jacqui Fine, Carla Pontiac, Monique Schwarz, Carole Sklan, Natalie Green, Maureen McCarthy and Claire Jager; very good condition. …

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# 46308

REEL WOMEN (Melbourne)

[FEMINISM] Reel Women

[Carlton, Vic. : Reel Women, 1979?]. Broadsheet, 205 x 410 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm, [8] pp., illustrated; catalogue of 17 independent women’s films, all by Melbourne and Sydney filmmakers including Sue Ford, Carla Pontiac, Monique Schwarz, Carole Sklan, Madelon Wilkens, Natalie Green, Maureen McCarthy and Claire Jager; Virginia Fraser’s copy, with a …

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