Counterculture

  • Sex Press : the Sexual Revolution in the Underground Press, 1963-1979

    # 35529

    BERNIERE, Vincent and PRIMOIS, Mariel

    Sex Press : the Sexual Revolution in the Underground Press, 1963-1979

    New York : Abrams, 2012. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 240, illustrated. New copy. From 1965 to 1975, an array of journals, magazines, fanzines, and underground presses were the voice of a dramatic sexual revolution. In Europe and the United States, this “sex press” consisted of publications such as Other Scenes, Yellow Dog, Actuel, Suck, The …

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  • Altered States : the Library of Julio Santo Domingo

    # 35528

    Altered States : the Library of Julio Santo Domingo

    New York : Anthology Editions, 2017. Quarto, boards in slipcase, pp. 480, illustrated. New copy, still sealed. Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of more …

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  • Conform

    # 34974

    FOLK, Saskia

    Conform

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [144], illustrated. New copy. Photobook of street art in Australia, including works by Banksy, Anthony Lister, and others. City walls and public places provide ready-made surfaces for works by today’s migratory population of graffiti and stencil artists. This social commentary is an innovative art form. Saskia Folk …

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  • Physique pictorial. Vol. XVI, No. 1

    # 35019

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)

    Physique pictorial. Vol. XVI, No. 1

    Los Angeles : AMG, 66. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (a few pen marks and light stain), pp. 32, black and white photographs. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and all-nude magazine in the United States. It is an example of a ‘beefcake’ magazine which published images of athletic …

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  • Physique pictorial. Vol. 12, No. 1 (featuring Tom of Finland)

    # 34782

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)

    Physique pictorial. Vol. 12, No. 1 (featuring Tom of Finland)

    Los Angeles : AMG, July 1962. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 32, black and white photographs. Includes a double page spread illustrated by Tom of Finland, a double page spread illustrated by Spartacus, and the back cover illustrated by Harry Granite. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and …

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  • Young Adonis. No. 1, Feb 1963 : America's newest and greatest physique magazine

    # 34775

    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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  • [CINEMA] Violent Leisure. Vol. no. 4, February 1989.

    # 31873

    TIMPSON, Ant (publisher / editor)

    [CINEMA] Violent Leisure. Vol. no. 4, February 1989.

    Auckland, N.Z. : Ant Timpson, 1989. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), photocopied fanzine, [16] pp including wrappers; very good condition. An obscure New Zealand zine devoted primarily to reviews of classic and current movies in the horror / slasher / giallo / splatter, sci-fi, and sleaze / sexploitation genres. It also contains book and record …

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  • East : elegy for the East End and its energetic waste

    # 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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  • Fashions in leather vinyl-patent & latex

    # 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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  • Leigh Bowery

    # 27892

    [BOWERY, Leigh]. VIOLETTE, Robert

    Leigh Bowery

    London : Violette Editions, 1998. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 240, extensively illustrated. Photography by Nick Knight and Annie Leibovitz. Introduction by Hilton Als. Afterword by Boy George. A very good copy of the first monograph on Melbourne-born conceptual performance artist Leigh Bowery. Very scarce. ‘Any appraisal of Leigh as a performer tends to involve words …

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  • [PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY] Mirror Sydney

    # 28217

    BERRY, Vanessa

    [PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY] Mirror Sydney

    Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo, 2017. Large octavo (245 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, 304 pp, line illustrations; an as new copy. The fascinating essays in this collection are meditations on many of Sydney’s lost or disappearing buildings and sites. ‘In her delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn maps, Vanessa Berry describes her …

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  • Data-boy. Issue No. 62. March 14, 1973

    # 17977

    Data-boy. Issue No. 62. March 14, 1973

    Los Angeles : Data-boy. 1973. Newspaper, pp. 40, reviews and advertisements for the Los Angeles gay social scene.

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  • BAR. Bay Area Reporter. The catalyst for all factions of the gay community. Vol. 3, No. 11, May 31, 1973.

    # 17978

    BAR. Bay Area Reporter. The catalyst for all factions of the gay community. Vol. 3, No. 11, May 31, 1973.

    San Francisco : Bay Area Reporter, 1973. Newspaper, pp. [32], gay social newspaper with many advertisements, reviews and articles.

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  • Unfair arguments with existence. (Signed by Ferlinghetti)

    # 17921

    FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence (b. 1919)

    Unfair arguments with existence. (Signed by Ferlinghetti)

    New York : New Directions, 1963. Sixth printing. Trade paperback, octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, inscribed on the half-title in pen ‘For [Toronto book collector] Arthur Winter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’; 85 pp; with an illustrated double title page, and 1 photographic illustration; a fine inscribed copy. Born March 24 1919, Ferlinghetti was one of the most significant …

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  • [SWEDISH UNDERGOUND] Huvudbladet

    # 16715

    [SWEDISH UNDERGOUND] Huvudbladet

    Stockholm : Huvudbladet, 1971-1972. Issues 1 – 4 (all published). Folio newspaper, photo montage and comic strip illustrations (some colour), the first issue with large format (390 x 550 mm) insert photographic poster by Hans Esselius of Jimi Hendrix with printed lyrics of Pass it on (Straight Ahead); all issues in fine condition. Rare complete …

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  • Nekropolis : Carsten Regild / Moderna Museet

    # 16710

    REGILD, Carsten (1941-1992)

    Nekropolis : Carsten Regild / Moderna Museet

    Stockholm : Moderna Museet, 1972. Catalog of an exhibition held May 6-June 11, 1972 at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Oblong quarto, original pictorial wraps, rivet bound, 18 leaves, with a series of tipped-in colour and monochrome illustrations on the left hand pages and roneo printed facing pages; housed in original envelope with artist’s skull-and-cross-bone design stamped …

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