Rare Books

# 43284

TAYLOR, J. L. ("Jim")

Exploration of Unknown New Guinea.

Published in four issues of Pacific Islands Monthly (Sydney, NSW), Vol. X, Nos. 8-11, March-June 1940. No. 8, Section I: pp. 37-42 with 1 map and 3 b/w photos; No. 9, Section II: pp. 37-41 with 1 map; No. 10, Section III: pp. 32-37 with 1 map; No. 11, Section IV: pp. 50-54; the four …

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# 43139

CAREY, Peter

True history of the Kelly Gang

Brisbane : University of Queensland Press, 2000. First edition. Octavo, quarter leather over papered boards (edges lightly rubbed), pp. [xii]; 401, a very good copy. Booker Prize winner.

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# 43140

CAREY, Peter

True history of the Kelly Gang (advanced proof copy)

Brisbane : University of Queensland Press, 2000. Advanced proof of the first edition. Octavo, wrappers (lightly rubbed with small creases and marks), pp. [x]; 387, a very good copy. Booker Prize winner. ‘Advanced reading copy prepared for the Penguin Sales Force, July 2000. (Final editorial corrections not incorporated)’ – the front cover.

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# 34748

[COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CONVICTS]

[TASMANIA] Convict record of John Jones, sentenced at the Lancaster Quarter Session in July 1837 to transportation for life to Van Diemen’s Land; arrived on the Neptune, January 1838; remained in penal servitude until April 1844.

Single parchment sheet, 330 x 200 mm; manuscript in ink, densely written on 1 page, the entries covering the period January 1838 to April 1844, written in several different hands and in different locations in Van Diemen’s Land; the prisoner’s physical description and background are entered in the upper margin recto; light staining and rubbing …

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# 34725

CLARK, John; [FRIEND, Charles] [McGINNIS, James] [BICKERDIKE, Ruth] [FRANKS, William]

[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Record of summons for James McGinnes for a charge brought by the Chief District Constable, for allowing a transported female convict to unlawfully remain on his premises. Launceston, June 1836.

[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1836. Foolscap folio, 335 x 210 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper watermarked ‘Harris & Tremlett 1834’; headed ‘Information. Van Diemen’s Land (To wit.)’ and dated 25 June 1836, the manuscript entries record that on 22 June, at Launceston, Charles Friend, the Chief District Constable, informed John Clark Esq., …

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# 43043

CALIFORNIA MOTOR CLUB

California Motor Club. Wallaby Run 1972

Pin back badge, 4 cms in diameter, with a map of California and an image of a palm tree and a wallaby. Early badge for the gay motorcycle club, the Wallaby Run referring (much like the ‘kangaroo route’), to bounding up and down the state making various stops.

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# 43137

DUNLAP, Steven, et al.

[LGBT BANKING]. Welcome to www.glbank.com

Pensacola, Florida : G & L Internet Bank, 2000. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Rare promotional booklet for the short-lived G & L Internet Bank (1999 – 2002), established to service and invest in the gay and lesbian community in the United States. ‘We are not just gay friendly … we’re gay’.

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# 43133

SMITH, David Emerson

I promise you this. A collection of poems for Harvey Milk (signed presentation copy)

San Francisco : David Emerson Smith for the Poets and Artists, February 1979. Octavo, colour printed wrappers (light edge wear and toning), pp. [iii]; 29, stringbound, black and white illustrations. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed inside the upper wrapper ‘To David, in homo-erotic boy love David Emerson Smith’ and also inscribed ‘Love & Eros, the …

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# 43145

H.I.M.

H.I.M. The Look. The Lifestyle. The Catalog. The catalog for the gay man.

Roanoke, VA : H.I.M., circa 1992. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated in colour, mail order form. Formal wear, leisure wear, underwear and fantasy fashion targeting the body conscious gay man of the early 1990s.

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# 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 …

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# 43181

WOMEN'S NATIONAL ABORTION ACTION COALITION (USA)

[POSTER] The time has come for abortion law repeal … and we shall be victorious / March on Washington DC and SF, November 20, for the repeal of all abortion laws,

against forced sterilisation and restrictive contraceptive laws. New York : Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition, [1971]. Poster, 430 x 280 mm, offset-printed; very good condition.

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# 43144

'BULLWORKER"

Muscles make a man

Middlesex, NJ : Margrave Corporation, circa 1970. Mail order catalogue, quarto, pp. [12] with order card, illustrated in colour. Illustrated catalogued for the ‘Bullworker’ isometric exercise device. ‘Burst out of your shell and be a REAL man’. ‘5 minutes a day must get you in MANSHAPE’. ‘Bullworker is a product and fitness company that specializes …

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# 43134

LADY BUNNY

Wigstock West. San Francisco 1996

San Francisco : Wigstock West, 1996. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated in black and white. Souvenir program for the west coast edition of the famous drag queen Wigstock Festival. ‘Wigstock was an annual outdoor drag festival that began in 1984 in Manhattan’s East Village that took place on Labor Day. Continuing, with a few …

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# 43176

BROPHY, Chris (compiler); BLONSKI, Annette (editor)

Australian women’s film & video : a catalogue of films and videos produced or directed by Australian women

/ compiled and researched by Chris Brophy ; edited by Annette Blonski. Melbourne : AFI Distribution Ltd., 1988.Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated; includes indexes, bibliography; a very good copy.

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# 43209

LOCKE, William J. (1863-1930)

The Town of Tombarel

London : John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. First edition. Octavo (190 mm), publishers’ red cloth decorated and lettered in cream (superb), in the original pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and head of spine); top edge stained red; pp. 311, plus publisher’s ads. at rear; edges with very light spotting, some off-setting to …

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# 43429

KINGSFORD-SMITH, C.E. (Charles Edward); ULM, C.T.P. (Charles Thomas Philippe)

Story of “Southern Cross” Trans-Pacific Flight 1928.

Sydney : Penlington & Somerville, 1928. First edition. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), publisher’s pictorial blue cloth over boards with design and lettering in silver (edges and corners rubbed, lower joint split, a few marks, softened at head and foot of spine), illustrated endpapers, pp 227, with 68 b/w photographic plates; owner’s stamp to endpaper …

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