Rare Books

  • Physique pictorial. 16 issues featuring covers by Tom of Finland

    # 43009

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); TOM OF FINLAND

    Physique pictorial. 16 issues featuring covers by Tom of Finland

    Los Angeles : AMG, 1961 – 1976. 16 issues of Physique Pictorial all featuring covers designed by legendary gay artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (known by the pseudonym ‘Tom of Finland’, each issue octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white photographs of male nudes. The breakthrough publication which saw Touko Laaksonen’s ‘dirty little …

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  • [GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982

    # 42514

    San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.

    [GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982

    San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …

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  • If you could see us now ... the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club celebrates Harvey's 50th birthday.

    # 42513

    [MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)

    If you could see us now … the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club celebrates Harvey’s 50th birthday.

    [San Francisco] : [Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club], [1980]. Newspaper, 380 x 290 mm, pp. [20], central crease, illustrated in black and white. Includes a contribution from Jane Fonda. Celebration souvenir newspaper of the life of gay politician Harvey Milk who was assassinated eighteen months prior, with articles about gay political activism in San Francisco, …

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  • Telegrams from Central Control : a pseudo-anthology of solidified chickenfat Thorazine bustickets mantric high freak pulverized papyrus puke prayers cement boilers vector analysis pastel animals RA smiles

    # 43004

    WAGNER, D. R.

    Telegrams from Central Control : a pseudo-anthology of solidified chickenfat Thorazine bustickets mantric high freak pulverized papyrus puke prayers cement boilers vector analysis pastel animals RA smiles

    Prepared by D.r. Wagner as a service for those who are about to die and to be used as an anti-coagulant for those caught in the machines of the final morning. Niagara Falls: Press : Today : Niagara, 1966. Lettered wrappers (a little foxed), pp. [24], printed roneo. Concrete poetry, printed in an edition of …

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  • Leather

    # 43040

    WILLARD, Avery

    Leather

    Compiled under the direction of Avery Willard. Washington : Guild Press Ltd., 1965. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly creased), pp. [72], central pages neatly detached, a couple of pages marked, illustrated with full page black and white photographs of fantasy scenes of men in various dress and undress of leather. Does not include full frontal nudity. …

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  • Tom of Finland Album 2

    # 43036

    LAAKSONEN, Touko Valio (1920 - 1991), a.k.a. TOM OF FINLAND

    Tom of Finland Album 2

    [New York?] : NPC, circa 1970. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated in black and white with Tom of Finland’s homoerotic imagery. Includes the introductory essay Physique art expounds upon the inevitable b M. Erick Evans, and an order form for male nude magazines from Media Arts in New York. Probably a pirated publication of Tom …

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  • Yalangbara : art of the Djang'kawu

    # 43090

    WEST, Margie (editor)

    Yalangbara : art of the Djang’kawu

    Produced in partnership with Banduk Marika and other members of the Rirratjingu clan, north-east Arnhem Land ; edited by Margie West. Darwin, N.T. : Charles Darwin University Press, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 208, illustrated. “Yalangbara is the first indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf …

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  • A set of books from the library of Admiral Isaac Manley, the last surviving crew member on Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage

    # 15728

    MANLEY, Admiral Isaac (1755 - 1837)

    A set of books from the library of Admiral Isaac Manley, the last surviving crew member on Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage

    Paris and the Parisians, in 1835. London : Richard Bentley, 1836. Two volumes, octavo, publisher’s cloth (spines defective), pp. xv; 418; vii; 412; Manley’s armorial bookplate to front pastedown of volume 1 (bearing the family motto Manus hæc inimica tyrannis – This hand is hostile to tyrants), each volume signed on the title page ‘Admiral Manley’. Born in London …

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  • Studio portrait of poet Henry Kendall. Sydney, circa 1880.

    # 42852

    NEWMAN, J. (John) Hubert (1830-1916)

    Studio portrait of poet Henry Kendall. Sydney, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; the print has some light rubbing and a few tiny ink spots, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. …

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  • The Leatherman's Handbook

    # 42855

    TOWNSEND, Larry (1930 - 2008, pseudonym of Bud Bernhardt)

    The Leatherman’s Handbook

    New York : Olympia Press, 1972. Octavo, paperback, original wrappers, light rubbing to corners, crease to spine with crack in text block, pp. [viii]; 319; [7 – advertisements], internally clean, a very good to fine copy. ‘The only definitive exploration of the gay S & M leather scene over written by a qualified writer who …

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  • When Russia invades Palestine

    # 42553

    FERRIS, A. J.

    When Russia invades Palestine

    Or “Zechariah’s End-of-the-age Message to the Anglo-Saxon-Israel Peoples as in Zech. 12 to 14”. London : the author, 1939. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by J. J. Hall, previous owner’s name in ink on upper wrapper and title page, pp. 100, illustrated with maps and photographs, small edge tears to pp. 91 – 94, a …

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  • Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales

    # 42697

    KELL, Julius

    Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales

    [=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain …

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  • Artist and computer

    # 42887

    LEAVITT, Ruth (editor)

    Artist and computer

    Morristown, New Jersey : Creative Computing Press, 1976. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (crease to upper wrapper, wear and tear to spine), pp. 121, illustrated throughout in black and white with four colour plates. One of the earliest books on computer generated art, with thirty-five chapters on different international artists creating graphic art with the …

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  • [OPERA] Photographic portraits of Henry Squires and Lucy Escott, Sydney, early 1860s

    # 16383

    DALTON, Edward

    [OPERA] Photographic portraits of Henry Squires and Lucy Escott, Sydney, early 1860s

    Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mounts), 90 x 57 mm (images), versos with imprint of Dalton’s Royal Photographic Gallery, Sydney; the albumen prints with some tiny ink spots, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. The American opera singers Henry Squires (1825-1907) and Lucy Escott (1827-1895) arrived …

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  • Pen and ink : an anthology of prose and verse written by various members of the Frensham Pen and Ink Club. (With an original signed photograph by Harold Cazneaux)

    # 42867

    [DOBSON, Rosemary, KEESING, Nancy, et al.]

    Pen and ink : an anthology of prose and verse written by various members of the Frensham Pen and Ink Club. (With an original signed photograph by Harold Cazneaux)

    / chosen by E.L.T., R.D., J.P. ; the lino-cuts and the cover are designed by members of the Art Club. [Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1940. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), original mauve card covers with French flaps and linocut design to front (sunned at edges and along spine), inside front cover with limitation statement …

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  • Stereoscopic view of Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, circa 1862.

    # 41965

    JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)

    Stereoscopic view of Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, circa 1862.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Jones’s Photographs of Australian Sceneries’, and with contemporary manuscript caption in ink to bottom margin: ‘Castlemaine’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in good condition; …

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