Counterculture

# 49788

PARKER SISTERS; TOM OF FINLAND

Gay Monopoly : a celebration of gay life!

West Hollywood, CA : The Parker Sisters, Division of Fire Island Games, Inc., [1983]. Board game in the original box, 26 x 51 x 4 cm, as new in shrink-wrap, complete as issued; the contents (of which our images show components from an already opened example of the game) include the illustrated game board, card …

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# 49795

SMITH, Patti (1946 - )

Just kids. (Signed deluxe edition)

New York : Ecco (Harper Collins), 2010. Octavo, silver lettered. blue cloth, ribbon marker, decorated endpapers, pp. xii; 280; (12), photographically illustrated, housed in a silver lettered blue cloth folding clamshell box, with an additional broadside Reflecting Robert loosely enclosed. The deluxe edition, limited to 1000 hand numbered copies signed in pen by Patti Smith. …

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# 49792

FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (deluxe edition with original signed photograph)

Los Angeles : Cherry and Martin, 2015. Quarto, lettered boards in matching slipcase (slight crease along upper panel), pp. 56, illustrated. A fine copy. Second edition, the first edition published by NFS Press in San Francisco in 1977. The deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies bound in hardcover with slipcase (this is copy number 54), …

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# 49782

HAYES, Denis, FALK, Jim and BARRETT, Neil.

Red light for yellow-cake : the case against uranium mining.

Melbourne : Friends of the Earth Australia, 1977. Octavo, stapled yellow wrappers printed in red; pp. 96; map; foreword by Manning Clark; a very good copy.

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# 49941

FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (first edition)

San Francisco : NFS Press, 1977. First edition. Quarto, lettered wrappers (edges very slightly rubbed, erasure of bookseller’s pencilled price on preliminary blank), pp. 56, illustrated. A fine copy. The rare first edition. In 2015 a facsimile was printed (which sold out), this summary is taken from the publisher’s description: ‘Hal Fischer’s Gay Semiotics: A …

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# 49813

BRAMLY, Sophie et al.

Yo! The early days of Hip Hop 1982 – 84

London : Soul Jazz Records, 2022. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. Over 250 rarely seen stunning images documenting the rise of hip-hop in the early 1980s. Photographs by Sophie Bramly, Introduction by Bill Adler, Text by Fab Five Freddy, Grand Mixer D.ST, Rahiem (The Furious Five), Arthur Baker, Zephyr Muhamad (The …

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# 49508

BRASH, Nicholas and WELDON, Leonie

The Aussie biker culture

Exclusives with The Hell’s Angels, The Rebels, The Bandidos and others. Sydney : Kevin Weldon & Associates, 1984. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling creases, edges rubbed, pp. 96, staple bound, with central leaf neatly detached (as usual), a good copy, extensively illustrated. Very scarce, especially in this condition. A very scarce publication which provides an …

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# 49335

HARING, Keith (1958-1990)

Keith Haring

New York : Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1982. Second edition, 1983. Printed in an edition of 5000 copies (the first edition of 1982 was printed in an edition of 2000 copies). Quarto, spiral-bound illustrated card wrappers (rubbed and scuffed), pp. [144], small stain to margins of preliminary and terminal leaves, extensively illustrated in colour and black …

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# 49385

NORTH, Gerry, et al.

The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (limited edition)

Sydney : Rural and City Media Services, 1992. Quarto, full leather with pictorial inlay, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. Limited to 4000 numbered copies. The deluxe leather bound edition; a paperback edition was also released.

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# 49336

YANG, William (1943 - )

Friends of Dorothy (signed presentation copy)

Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 168, illustrated. With a signed presentation inscription from William Yang on the title page, as well as a gift inscription. For over fifty years William Yang has photographed gay and lesbian life in Australia, documenting culture and subculture through the lens of …

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# 48896

[MELBOURNE] Jazz : Red Light, 329 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne … Friday, 5th July 1963.

Concert ticket, 46 x 88 mm, with admission price ‘6/-‘ in manuscript, verso with ticket number ’11’ in manuscript; light marks. Admission ticket for an obscure underground Melbourne nightclub hosting a jazz music event in October 1963. In Melbourne in the early 1960s – before the Sharpie phenomenon exploded – the city’s two main youth …

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# 49077

COOK, Peter (editor)

ARCHIGRAM : THE MAGAZINE

Edited with text by Peter Cook. Text by Archigram et al. Reader’s guide edited by Thomas Evans, Steve Kroeter. Text by Peter Cook, David Grahame Shane, Reyner Banham, Shirley Surya, Helen Castle. Contributions by Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Aric Chen, Beatriz Colomina, Mike Davies, Odile Decq, Neil Denari, Norman Foster, Kenneth Frampton, Nicholas Grimshaw, Ivan …

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# 47157

ADSHEAD, Soosie

[FEMINISM; MELBOURNE] “They said it couldn’t happen”

Large screen print poster designed by Soosie Adshead (signed in the image lower right), 600 x 430 mm; unmounted, original vertical and horizontal folds, in fine original condition (even though stored for over 40 years!). This striking poster was produced in conjunction with a landmark concert of women’s music – a joint production of LaTrobe …

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# 48114

TAYLOR, Joseph

Apparitions; or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, developed.

Being a collection of entertaining stories, founded on fact, and selected for the purpose of eradicating those fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious are but too apt to encourage, for want of properly examining into the causes of such absurd impositions. London : printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1815. The second …

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# 49145

ANDREW, Brook (curator)

Taboo (with signed letter)

Curated by Brook Andrew. Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2013. Octavo, cards in plastic dustjacket, pp. 175, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 750 copies. Scarce. This copy with loan agreement for the exhibition signed by the artist Brook Andrew and bookseller Douglas Stewart, dated 2012. ‘Published on the occasion of the exhibition …

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# 48143

FISCHER, Hal

18th Near Castro St. x 24

San Francisco : NFS Press, 1978. Oblong octavo, lettered wrappers (edges a little rubbed), pp. [56], photographically illustrated. The rare original printing of Hal Fischer’s seminal photobook documenting 24 hours at a bus stop in the Castro from 9 am Saturday morning to 9 am Sunday morning. The 24 photographs, taken every hour, show the …

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