Sexuality

# 42821

Various.

[FEMINISM] Lip. Issue 7. 1982/3. A feminist arts journal.

Melbourne : Women in the Visual Arts Collective, [1982]. Quarto, original wrappers (light handling marks), pp 89, b/w illustrations, a very good copy. ‘Lip is a collective of feminists who represent a wide range of political, social and cultural stances’ (p. 1) Lip was published in 8 issues from 1976 to 1984. This issue includes …

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# 42519

"BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES" [BELLAS, Bruce] (1909 - 1974)

The male figure

Volume thirty-six. Los Angeles : Bruce of Los Angeles, 1966. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp 54, with photographic illustrations. Fine, uncirculated copy. The thirty-sixth volume of a beefcake magazine first published in 1956, dedicated to the male figure by renowned photographer Bruce Bellas, who published under the name Bruce of Los Angeles. Bruce’s distinctive skill in …

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# 42497

McDIARMID, David

Gifts from David McDiarmid

Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, 2014. Quarto, lettered boards, pp. 88, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 700 copies. David McDiarmid (1952–1995) was an artist, designer, DJ and activist who made an indelible impact on the intersecting histories of art, craft, fashion, graphic design, gay liberation and AIDS awareness in Australia and New York. …

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# 42287

YANG, William

Sydney Diary 1974 – 1984

Sydney : James Fraser, 1984. Folio, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), 143 pp., previous owner’s name neatly written on endpaper, small spot of foxing to title page, illustrated throughout. William Yang’s honest and unabashed portraits of Sydney in the 1970s and 80s record a time of cultural renewal and new identity. Yang’s photographs record the …

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# 41709

HOWARD, Paul; BARWICK, Rusty; BAKER, Bryan; RAWLINS, Adrian; RUSSELL-CLARKE, Peter; TANDBERG, RON

[MELBOURNE; SATIRE; RACISM] Tom Thumb. Number 13. October 1966.

Glen Iris, Vic. : Baker Publishing Co., October 1966. Quarto newspaper (270 x 215 mm), pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, staple bound, 24 pp (including wrappers), photographic illustrations, cartoons; a very good copy. A sleazier and intellectually less ambitious counterpart to Oz magazine, Tom Thumb did however provide some biting and witty social …

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# 40941

FIFE, Kirsty

Move under yr own power. Interviews with women and queers making DIY music

[Leeds] : Kirsty Fife, 2016. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. ‘Move Under Yr Own Power, a zine about women and queers making DIY music in the UK. The zine is 72pp, black and white riso printed, A5 with a rad centrefold illustration. It’s mainly interviews and an introduction. The zine comes with a link …

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# 41294

SCHLEIF, Nina

Andy Warhol : Drag & Draw. The Unknown Fifties (new copy)

Munich : Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2017. Quarto, illustrated boards (lightly marked), pp. 144, illustrated. New copy, sealed in shrink-wrap. This book highlights two series of little known drawings from the 1950’s, drawings where Andy Warhol first explored the controversial and for him deeply personal subject of drag. His oeuvre during the first decade of his …

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# 39254

BIANCHI, Tom

Bianchi : Outpost

New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Duodecimo, boards with cloth spine in illustrated dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 64, photographically illustrated with male nude photography set at the outdoor pool.

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# 39515

MIRACCO, Renato

Oscar Wilde’s Italian dream

Bologna : Damiani Editore, 2020. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, photographic illustrations. New copy. In Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875-1900, leading Wilde author Renato Miracco has combined written research with visual iconographic material – from Wilde’s earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to his final days in France and Italy in …

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# 35784

JUDIN, Juerg and KARSTENS, Pay Matthis

Tom of Finland : Made in Germany

Milan : Skira Editore, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 176, illustrated. New copy of a sold out book. A spectacular book showing life and work of the Finnish icon from an unknown perspective with around 150 illustrations and well researched texts. Tom of Finland has became the most famous and influential Finnish artist of the …

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# 37734

YANG, William et al.

William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen

Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to …

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# 37503

THOMPSON, Douglas (1932-2021)

Photographs by Douglas Thompson as exhibited at Thorburn Galleries Sydney, June 4th-23rd 1974. (Signed by the photographer and publisher)

Cammeray, N.S.W. : House of Darrington, 1974. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), publisher’s stiff pictorial wrappers, signed on the title page by both the photographer and the publisher, 101 pp, all b/w photographs of female nudes; a very good copy. Institutional holdings: AGNSW; NLA; SLNSW; SLSA

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# 26289

FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

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

San Francisco : NFS Press, 1977. First edition. Quarto, lettered wrappers (very slightly rubbed), pp. 56, illustrated. Signed by the artist on the title page and dated 1978. A fine copy, housed in a custom clamshell box, lettered on the spine. The rare first edition. In 2015 a facsimile was printed (which sold out), and …

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# 32778

TOM OF FINLAND

Tom of Finland XXL

London : Taschen, 2016. Folio, 342 x 245 mm, hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated slipcase, pp. 666, extensively illustrated. New copy, sealed in shrinkwrap. Discover the full range of Tom’s talent, from sensitive portraits and frank sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love and haunting tributes and young men struck down by AIDS. Essays on Tom’s …

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# 35708

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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# 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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