Counterculture

  • Play power

    # 51202

    NEVILLE, Richard (1941-2016)

    Play power

    London : Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition, second printing. Octavo, publisher’s yellow boards with black lettering and publisher’s crest on spine, top edge tinted blue, dust jacket designed by Martin Sharp, 361 pp, with the Headopoly game (so often lacking) contained in rear pocket, in perfect condition; mild spotting to edges, else a fine copy …

  • Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 - no. 41, February 1969

    # 50746

    [NEVILLE, Richard; WALSH, Richard; SHARP, Martin et al.]

    Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969

    Sydney : Oz Publications Ink Limited, 1963-1969. Forty-one issues, quarto, original stapled wrappers, various paginations between 16 and 20 pages, all illustrated; an expected amount of toning and occasional mild foxing; small tear to lower edge of upper wrapper of first issue, else overall in very good condition throughout; a rare complete set of the …

  • Skins 'n' Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.

    # 51050

    BIONDO, Sam and PUGH, Rohan

    Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.

    Melbourne : Skins ‘n’ Sharps, 2006. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 14 pp (including wrappers), b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue produced to accompany a low-key Melbourne exhibition staged in 2006, Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The catalogue contains many original photographs, previously unpublished, documenting the unique …

  • Gay Monopoly : a celebration of gay life!

    # 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 …

  • Just kids. (Signed deluxe edition)

    # 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. …

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

    # 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), …

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

    # 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.

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

    # 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 …

  • Yo! The early days of Hip Hop 1982 - 84

    # 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 …

  • The Aussie biker culture

    # 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 …

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

    # 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.

  • Friends of Dorothy (signed presentation copy)

    # 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 …

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

    # 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 …

  • ARCHIGRAM : THE MAGAZINE

    # 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 …

  • [FEMINISM; MELBOURNE] "They said it couldn't happen"

    # 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 …

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

    # 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 …