Counterculture

  • # 45585

    MILNE, Peter

    Juvenilia

    Curated by Helen Frajman and Linsey Gosper. Fitzroy, Vic. : Strange Neighbour, [2015]. Square quarto, pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp. 23, [1]; b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an excellent copy; loosely enclosed is the gallery’s printed list of 113 works with prices for limited edition prints. Extremely hard-to-find catalogue for this fabulous exhibition of Peter Milne’s …

  • # 44831

    International Marxist Group

    The Red Mole (complete run)

    London : The Old Mole, 1970 – 1973. Newspaper. Eighty-two issues… 66 regular issues including one unnumbered issue (1st Sept. 1971) that falls between Vol. 1, No. 14, Aug 1971… the actual 27th issue release, and the issue numbered 27. In addition to the regular issues, the run includes 16 broadsheets. Various paginations, 12×18 inches …

  • # 44879

    LENNON, John (1940 - 1980)

    A Spaniard in the works

    London : Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards,  light handling marks, pp. 94, illustrations by the author, a very good copy. Surrealist stories and illustrations by the Beatle. The author’s second book.

  • # 44892

    AUDEN, W. H. (1907 - 1973)

    The platonic blow

    New York : the Fuck You Press, 1965. First separate edition. Quarto, printed wrappers, pp. 12. Limited to 300 copies, 10 additional deluxe editons in three variations also printed. The platonic blow, sometimes known as The gobble poem, is an gay erotic poem which graphically describes an act of oral sex between two young men. Originally composed in 1948, …

  • # 44830

    GATEWOOD, Charles and William S. Burroughs

    Sidetripping (signed by Charles Gatewood)

    New York : Strawberry Hill Publishing Co., 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks,, pp. [80], photographically illustrated, text excerpted from various works by Burroughs, signed on the title page by Charles Gatewood. Scarce photobook of American subculture, including queer groups, religious groups, fetishists and exhibitionists.

  • # 44307

    FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

    Hal Fischer : The Gay Seventies

    San Francisco : Gallery 16, 2019. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 110, illustrated. New copy. Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies is the first monograph to feature the complete set of photo-text works that Hal Fischer produced between 1977 and 1979 in San Francisco’s Haight and Castro neighborhoods. In addition to Gay Semiotics, Fischer’s best-known work (its …

  • # 43677

    PALMER, Tony

    The trials of Oz. (Felix Dennis’ copy)

    Manchester : Blond & Briggs, 1971. First edition. Octavo trade paperback, 274, [1] pp, with illustrations by Felix Topolski; wrappers lightly rubbed, internally very clean and sound; a significant association copy, with the ex libris of Felix Dennis (1947 -2014), editor of London Oz, publisher and later media tycoon, to the inside of the front wrapper. …

  • # 43830

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)

    Physique pictorial. Volume 15, number 3, June 1966

    Los Angeles : AMG, 1966. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 32, black and white photographs, with cover art by TOM OF FINLAND. The breakthrough publication which saw Touko Laaksonen’s ‘dirty little pictures’ exposed to a broader gay readership. Laaksonen submitted his drawings to publisher Bob Mizer simply signed as ‘Tom’. Mizer saw the envelopes had arrived …

  • # 42516

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)

    Physique pictorial. A very substantial run of 77 issues 1951 – 1991

    Los Angeles : AMG, 1955 – 1991. 67 issues of Physique Pictorial (a very substantial run, the first seven issues from 1951 – 1953 being photocopies reprinted in 1997, the original vintage printings beginning with vol. 5, no. 2, 1955, through to vol. 41, 1990), octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white …

  • # 17332

    VAN AMBURGH & CO.

    [BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children

    are Evidently of a Cannibal Race! / Judging From Their Natural Proclivities, Their Long Sharp Teeth, etc. / Perhaps the Only Specimen From That Country Now Living … These Wonders of All Wonders were captured about 7 years ago by a party of gold hunters in the mountainous regions of Australia … Can Be Seen In a …

  • # 43143

    AH MEN

    Ah Men Mexican Cruise

    West Hollywood : Ah Men, 1978. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 32, mailing label, order form intact, illustrated, a fine copy. Don Cook founded Ah Men, Shop for Men on Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood in about 1960 (some sources say 1958, the others 1961), the shop successfully trading until the mid 1980s. Located close to the …

  • # 43054

    Robert & Thomas DUNKER

    Horseshit : the offensive review. Number two.

    Hermosa Beach, CA : Scum Publishing Company, 1967. “Fourth printing” (inner lower wrapper). Quarto (280 x 215 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 48, extensively illustrated, and with additional text and illustration on the inner wrappers; a very good copy. Horseshit was a counterculture magazine produced by brothers Robert and Thomas Dunker. Robert was responsible …

  • # 43053

    Robert & Thomas DUNKER

    Horseshit : the offensive review. Number one.

    Hermosa Beach, CA : Gauntlet Press/Scum Publishing Company, 1965. “Fifth printing” (inner lower wrapper). Quarto (280 x 215 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 44., extensively illustrated, and with additional text and illustration on the inner wrappers; a very good copy. Horseshit was a counterculture magazine produced by brothers Robert and Thomas Dunker. Robert was …

  • # 41529

    HILLERSBERG, Lars; SVEDBERG, Lena; DE GEER, Carl Johan, et al.

    Puss. (Complete set, plus prospectus)

    Stockholm : Puss, 1968-1973. A complete set of twenty-five issues; number 1 (January 1968) – number 24, (1973), plus the unnumbered issue and the rare prospectus which advertises the Puss preview presented at the Konsthall, 2-14 December 1967. Quarto (nos. 1-21 and the unnumbered issue, as well as the 4-page prospectus) and folio (nos 22-24); …

  • # 42998

    [LEBER, Sylvie]

    Public petition for Melbourne community radio station 3RRR to reinstate the women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause”, 1981.

    [Melbourne : s.n., 1981]. Foolscap folio sheet, Xerox-printed recto only; old horizontal fold; fine condition. The 3RRR women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause” ran from 1979-1981. It was founded and hosted by Sylvie Leber, a Melbourne women’s rights activist who, among many other activities, was involved in the creation of Victoria’s first rape crisis centre and the …

  • # 42991

    WOODS, Tony; PATERSON, Rod; RYAN, Ben, et al. (eds.)

    Super Eight : newsletter of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Inc. (Twenty-four individual issues, 1997-2001)

    Fitzroy, Vic. : Melbourne Super 8 Film Group, September 1997 – March 2001. Twenty-four issues (itemised below); uniform format of foolscap folio, self-wrappers, [8] pp., illustrated; all issues in very good condition; from the estate of Virginia Fraser, artist, writer, editor and curator. The Melbourne Super 8 Film Group was an independent co-operative formed in …