Counterculture
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# 30589
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Decadent 1980 – 2000
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2014. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 251, illustrated. Mint copy, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. Decadent: 1980-2000 is a photography book showcasing Rennie Ellis’ contribution to photography and social history. With an introduction by photographer and Rennie contemporary William Yang and an essay by photographer and …
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# 30588
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Decadent 1980 – 2000 (Copy signed by Manuela Furci)
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2014. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 251, illustrated. Decadent: 1980-2000 is a photography book showcasing Rennie Ellis’ contribution to photography and social history. With an introduction by photographer and Rennie contemporary William Yang and an essay by photographer and art critic Robert McFarlane, Decadent highlights …
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# 30318
DE GEER, Carl Johan and Jan HANNERTZ, Jan
[SWEDISH UNDERGROUND; DON CHERRY] Pengar eller livet
[=Money or Life]. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers förlag, 1970. First edition. Large octavo (235 x 160 mm), original pictorial stiff wrappers, pp [62], all-illustrated photobook novella, which includes a full-page portrait of American expat free jazz musician Don Cherry (father of Neneh); text in Swedish; a fine copy. From Boo-Hooray: ‘Carl Johan De Geer, born …
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# 30213
FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )
Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men
Los Angeles : Cherry and Martin, 2015. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. Second edition, the first edition published by NFS Press in San Francisco in 1977. As new copy, sealed in publisher’s shrinkwrap. ‘Hal Fischer’s Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of Visual Coding Among Homosexual Men (1977) is one of the most important publications associated …
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# 30243
UNGER, Art
The cool book
Illustrated by Christiane Cassan. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, 1961. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket (edges worn and frayed), pp. xiv; 146, illustrated. ‘A book that swings for real! Tells all! Discover “in” ways to … survive and thrive in a square society break off with your steady arrive alive at a party dig culture …
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# 29586
FLOUNDERS, Jill
Your daughter’s at the door!
[Melbourne : printed by Panic Press, circa 1975]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 44, illustrations. As noted on Trove, quoting bookseller Nicholas Pounder : “A lesbian anthology. Poetry and photography by Jill Flounders and drawings by Heather Adams. the editorial address is 50 Little La Trobe Street (shared with Vashti’s Voice) and the address for Panic …
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# 29409
AH MEN
Ah Men goes Arty
West Hollywood : Ah Men, circa 1965. Oblong quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [12], 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 …
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# 29803
NEVILLE, Richard (1941-2016)
Play power
London : Granada Publishing Limited (Paladin), 1971. Trade papeback, octavo (195 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, 300 pp; a very good copy. An exploration of the “international underground” – the nexus of the youth movement and hippies, beats, etc., by the founder of Oz magazine, Australian writer and commentator Richard Neville.
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# 29348
BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - )
East : elegy for the East End and its energetic waste
[Adelaide : s.n., 1978]. Octavo (260 mm), illustrated wrappers, staple bound, [46] pp; printed on cheap newsprint paper; light foxing at edges, but a very good copy. Rare theatre programme for the 1978 Australian tour of Steven Berkoff’s controversial play set in London’s East End, containing the complete playscript as well as an interview with …
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# 29530
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Decadent 1980 – 2000
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2014. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 251, illustrated. Mint copy, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. Decadent: 1980-2000 is a photography book showcasing Rennie Ellis’ contribution to photography and social history. With an introduction by photographer and Rennie contemporary William Yang and an essay by photographer and …
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# 29407
[BOWERY, Leigh]
Take a Bowery : The art (and larger than) life of Leigh Bowery
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 184, illustrated throughout, a fine copy in mint condition. Scarce. ‘Take a Bowery: The Art and (larger than) Life of Leigh Bowery examined the extraordinary contribution to performance, fashion design and visual culture of the late Australian-born, London-based performance artist, Leigh Bowery. Incorporating …
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# 29395
EVANS, Peter
Sunbury : Australia’s Greatest Rock Festival
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 240, extensively illustrated with rare photographs from the festival. New copy. “After 45 years, here is the first book on the SUNBURY rock festival, the festival that is often referred to as ‘Australia’s Woodstock’ that heralded a revolution in Australian music and culture. This book explores the …
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# 29275
Various.
[FEMINISM] Lip 1980. A feminist journal of women in the visual and performing arts.
Carlton, Vic. : Women in the Visual Arts Collective, 1980. (Fifth issue of this periodical). Quarto, original stiff wrappers (front cover designed by Erica McGilchrist, back cover by Mirka Mora); pp. 141, b/w illustrations, lacking the insert by Elizabeth Gower. ‘Lip is a collective of feminists who represent a wide range of political, social and …
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# 28207
Anon.
Fashions in leather vinyl-patent & latex
[Chicago? : s.n., circa 1965]. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 14, illustrated in black and white, light central crease. A rare early American vinyl and latex catalogue with a variety of products designed for fetishist sexplay. Includes latex bikinis, bloomers, custom made ladies dress suits, exercise suits, panties, gloves, aprons, raincapes, slacks, bras, boots, and other latexwear. …
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# 28903
MIZER, Bob
Young Adonis. No. 1, Feb 1963 : America’s newest and greatest physique magazine
[Los Angeles : Athletic Model Guild], 1963. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 66, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with photographs of near fully nude young men in various poses to display their youthful physique. The first issue of one of Bob Mizer’s ‘beefcake’ magazines, which published images of athletic and attractive young men …
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# 27443
SCHLESINGER, Kyle and Hannah King (eds); RAWORTH, Tom; DWORKIN, Craig; BERKSON, Bill; LASKY, Dorothea, et al (poets)
Bumpers
New York : Cuneiform Press, 2009. Laminated card box (360 x 120 x 20 mm) with black lettered title to top of lid and printed title “sticker” onlaid to side, containing 12 loose sheets in the form of poet-designed and signed bumperstickers (355 x 114 mm format) by different poets, plus a title sheet with …