A QUIP FOR AN UPSTART COURTIER
[Robert Greene]
London: John Wolfe, No date. Facsimile Edition. 22cm x 15cm. [i], ii, ii, 88 pages. Wrappers. or, A Quaint dispute between Velvet breeches and cloth-breeches. Wherein is planely set downe the disorders in all Estates and Trades. Reprint of a rare 1592 pamphlet, part of an ongoing 16th century literary quarrel.
Wrappers worn, chipped, and creased, with a chunk missing from the gutter of the upper panel. Toning to first and last page. Some foxing. Fair Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015128 Read More Category: Essays & Literary Criticism
PORTABLE SACRED GROUNDS: TELEPRESENCE WORLD
Yoshiharu Itoh
Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 1998. First Edition. 42cm x 30cm. 34 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers. Text is bilingual, Japanese and English.
Exhibition catalogue for a media arts and architecture exhibition exploring remote presence. An original portrait drawing is loosely taped to the inside rear cover.
Moderate wear. Some creasing to tail. Good Condition. $50 AUD. Book#0015129
Read More Categories: Art & Design, Asian Art YUKI ONODERA
Yuki Onodera; Atsuhiko Shima
Osaka: National Museum of Art, 2005. First Edition. 25cm x 18cm. 120 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers
Catalogue for a 2005 solo show at the National Museum of Art, Osaka.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. $50 AUD. Book#0015130 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Asian Art, Contemporary Art
MAXIMS OF BEHAVIOUR
Alexander Knox
Melbourne: City of Melbourne, 2009. First Edition. 20cm x 21cm. [36] pages, colour photographs, 1 DVD. Pictorial french fold wrappers.
Catalogue for a large scale public art work involving light and architecture. DVD included.
. Fine Condition. $30 AUD. Book#0015131 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art, Contemporary Art THE CONTENTS OF THESE PAINTINGS IS SECRET, KNOWN ONLY TO THE PEOPLE OF SURFERS PARADISE: SCOTT REDFORD AND THE GOLD COAST
Scott Redford
Gold Coast: Gold Coast City Art Gallery, 2005. First Edition. 27cm x 21cm. 160 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor general wear to edges. Near Fine Condition. $35 AUD. Book#0015132 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art, Contemporary Art
KOREAN 12 MUSE
Seung Hyo Jang
Seoul: Sejong Center, 2004. First Edition. 30cm x 18cm. [20] pages, colour photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
Catalogue for an exhibition of humanoid robot sculpture. Rare, not recorded in OCLC at November, 2020.
. Fine Condition. $50 AUD. Book#0015133 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Asian Art, Contemporary Art SCARLET (5 VOLUMES)
Bendis Maleev
New York: Icon / Marvel, 2010. Second Printing. 26cm x 17cm. 5 volumes, colour comic illustration. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
First five issue of Scarlet. No. 1 is a second printing, Nos. 2-5 are first printings.
Minor wear to edges. Very Good Condition. $25 AUD. Book#0015134 Read More Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
THE BOOKS OF MAGIC (8 VOLUMES)
Neil Gaiman; John Ney Rieber; Peter Gross
New York: Vertigo, 1994. First Edition. 26cm x 17cm. 8 volumes, colour comic illustration. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
First 8 issues of The Book of Magic
Minor wear to wrappers. Very Good Condition. $15 AUD. Book#0015135 Read More Category: Comics & Graphic Novels BRISBANE: OUR TOWN: A CENTURY OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Helen Dash
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1988. First Edition. 26cm x 26cm. ix, [1], 217 pages, black and white illustrations. White cloth, black lettering, pictorial jacket.
Foreword by Jim Fenwick.
Previous owner's inscription. Some foxing. Discolouration to jacket. Good Condition. $30 AUD. Book#0015136 Read More Categories: Australia, Countries, Photography, Queensland
AUSSIE ATTACK: ROAD AND TRACK CYCLE TRAINING-RACING ILLUSTRATED MANUAL
Keith L. Webb
Moorooka: Boolarong Press, 1991. Second Edition. 30cm x 21cm. x, 105 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
Road and track cycle training-racing illustrated manual.
Minor general wear. Minor dust spotting to top edge. Very Good Condition. $30 AUD. Book#0015137 Read More Categories: Cycling, Sports & Pastimes THE GOULD COLLECTION OF IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART (DEUTSCHER AND HACKETT 047, MARCH 2017)
Deutscher and Hackett
Sydney: Deutscher and Hacket, 2017. First Edition. 28cm x 24cm. 168 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Auction catalogue of Australian Art.
. Fine Condition. $25 AUD. Book#0015138 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art, Price Catalogues
IMPORTANT FINE ART / ABORIGINAL ART (DEUTSCHER AND HACKETT 046, NOVEMBER 2016)
Deutscher and Hackett
Sydney: Deutscher and Hacket, 2016. First Edition. 28cm x 24cm. 180 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Auction catalogue featuring Important Works from The Crebbin Collection, Australian Art from The Estate of Roger Langsworth, Selected Work by Roland Wakelin from The Estate of Judith Murray, and Selected work of Aboriginal Art from The McKay Collection, Brisbane.
Very minor crease to front cover. Near Fine Condition. $25 AUD. Book#0015139
Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art, Price Catalogues IMPORTANT FINE ART (DEUTSCHER AND HACKETT 044, SEPTEMBER 2016)
Deutscher and Hackett
Sydney: Deutscher and Hacket, 2016. First Edition. 28cm x 24cm. 160 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Auction catalogue of Australian and International Art.
. Fine Condition. $25 AUD. Book#0015140 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art, Price Catalogues
IMPORTANT ABORIGINAL WORKS OF ART (DEUTSCHER AND HACKETT 043, MAY 2016)
Deutscher and Hackett
Sydney: Deutscher and Hacket, 2016. First Edition. 28cm x 24cm. 196 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Auction catalogue of The Gene & Brian Sherman Capsule Collection II, Collection of the Late Duncan Kentish, and The McKay Collection.
. Fine Condition. $25 AUD. Book#0015141 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art, Price Catalogues IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN WORKS OF ART FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE JAMES O. FAIRFAX AC (DEUTSCHER AND HACKETT 050, AUGUST 2017)
Deutscher and Hackett
Sydney: Deutscher and Hacket, 2017. First Edition. 28cm x 24cm. 160 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Auction catalogue of Australian Art from the estate of James O. Fairfax.
Very minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Near Fine Condition. $25 AUD. Book#0015142 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art, Price Catalogues
MAGICIAN: THE LOST JOURNALS OF THE MAGUS GEOFFREY CARLYLE
Robert Holdstock; Malcolm Edwards
Limpsfield: Paper Tiger, 1982. First Edition. 29cm x 22cm. 127 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor staining to top edge of front cover. Dust spotting to top edge. Previous owner's signature and price sticker ghost to half-title. Good Condition. $15 AUD. Book#0015143 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Magic, Paranormal & Occult LADIES: RETOLD TALES OF GODDESSES AND HEROINES
Boris Vallejo; Doris Vallejo
Limpsfield: Paper Tiger, [1992]. First Edition. 30cm x 22cm. 186 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor wear and soiling. Very Good Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015144 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art
GALACTIC ALIENS
Alan Frank
Sydney: Golden Press, 1979. First Australian Edition. 31cm x 24cm. [96] pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated glossy papered boards.
A detailed encyclopaedic handbook of alien species and worlds published in conjunction with the International Agency for Scientific Intelligence.
Hinges shaken. Some bubbling to upper board. Minor dampstain to crown fore-edge of last few pages. Good Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015145 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art, Science Fiction & Fantasy TAANIKO: MAORI HAND-WEAVING
Joyce Ronald Smith
London: Octopus Books, 1975. Reprint. 29cm x 23cm. 96 pages, black and white photographs and illustrations. Black cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.
Dust spotting to top edge. Previous owner's signature, minor annotation to half-title. Very Good Condition. $50 AUD. Book#0015146 Read More Categories: Countries, Crafts & Hobbies, New Zealand, Polynesia
THE AUSTRALIAN RENOVATOR'S MANUAL
Allan Staines
Caloundra: Pinedale Press, 1989. Second Printing. 30cm x 21cm. 110 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
The easy step by step guide to home renovations.
Minor creasing to spine. Good Condition. $15 AUD. Book#0015147 Read More Category: Home Decorating & Repair THROUGH OUR EYES: THIRTY YEARS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV RESPONDING TO THE HIV AND AIDS EPIDEMICS IN AUSTRALIA
John Rule
Sydney: National Association of People with HIV Australia, 2014. First Edition. 27cm x 20cm. 194 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Minor general wear. Very minor creasing to wrappers. Very Good Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015148 Read More Category: Medicine & Health
COMMON LAW ABORIGINAL TITLE
Kent McNeil
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. First Edition. 22cm x 14cm. xlv, 357 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering.
Ex- Corrs Chambers Westgarth Library, stamps, stickers, some removed. Minor general wear. Good Condition (ex-library). $150 AUD. Book#0015149 Read More Categories: Aboriginal Australia, Law & Criminal Studies MR. PLAYBOY: HUGH HEFNER AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Steven Watts
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. First Edition. 24cm x 16cm. ix, 529 pages, black and white photographs. Black cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
. New Book. $50 AUD. Book#0015150 Read More Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sexuality in Society
FROM THE COUNTRY: AN ANTHOLOGY
T. R. Garnett; George Seddon; J. S. Turner
Melbourne: Bloomings Books, 2001. Reprint. 23cm x 15cm. xiv, 265 page,s black and white illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
. New Book. $10 AUD. Book#0015151 Read More Categories: Gardening, Natural History & Resources WALK THE WIRE
David Baldacci
London: Macmillan, 2020. First Edition. Signed by Author 24cm x 16cm. 422 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
. New Book. $40 AUD. Book#0015152 Read More Category: Crime Fiction
DRAWING THE LINE: LESBIAN SEXUAL POLITICS ON THE WALL
Susan Stewart; Persimmon Blackbridge; Lizard Jones
Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1991. First Edition. 13cm x 18cm. [86] pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor wear to edges. Very Good Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015153 Read More Category: LGBTIQ+ Lesbian Studies MEN! 31 POSTCARDS FROM THE JAMES GARDINER COLLECTION
James Gardiner Collection
London: Fourth Estate, 1990. First Edition. 10cm x 16cm. 31 postcards. Pictorial wrappers.
Foxing to edges and last few cards. Good Condition. $15 AUD. Book#0015154 Read More Category: Photography
MEN! 31 POSTCARDS FROM THE JAMES GARDINER COLLECTION
James Gardiner Collection
London: Fourth Estate, 1990. First Edition. 10cm x 16cm. 31 postcards. Pictorial wrappers.
Foxing to edges and minor to title pages. Very Good Condition. $25 AUD. Book#0015155 Read More Category: Photography GAY PORTRAITS: A BOOK OF POSTCARDS
Pomegranate Art Books
San Francisco: Pomegranate Art Books, 1990. First Edition. 12cm x 18cm. [iii] pages, [30] postcards. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015156 Read More Categories: LGBTIQ+, Photography
DOCTOR WHO POSTCARD COLLECTION
Adrian Rigelsford
London: Boxtree, 1995. First Edition. 12cm x 18cm. [iv] pages, [21] postcards. Pictorial wrappers.
Remainder mark. Minor shelf wear. Very Good Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015157 Read More Category: Film, Radio & Television DILBERT: A BOOK OF POSTCARDS
Scott Adams
Sydney: The Ink Group, No date. First Australian Edition. 11cm x 17cm. [30] postcards. Illustrated wrappers.
Moderate shelf wear to wrappers. Creasing to spine. Good Condition. $15 AUD. Book#0015158 Read More Categories: Business, Finance & Marketing, Comics & Graphic Novels, Humour
A BOOK OF 22 POSTCARDS
Margaret Preston
Sydney: Collins, 1989. First Edition. 12cm x 18cm. [iii] pages, 22 postcards. Illustrated wrappers.
Remainder mark. Minor dust spotting to top edge. Very Good Condition. $20 AUD. Book#0015159 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art CODEX SERAPHINIANUS
Luigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2020. 2013 Edition, Fifteenth Printing. 35cm x 24cm. 416 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated cloth, gilt lettering.
Includes "Decodex" story from the author.
. New Book. $200 AUD. Book#0015160 Read More Category: Art & Design
FRANKLY ACTING: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FRANK SUZUKI PERFORMANCE AESTHETICS
John Nobbs
Brisbane: Frank Theatre Press, 2006. First Edition. 21cm x 14cm. ix, 198 pages, black and white photographs. Illustrated wrappers.
"John Nobbs' Frankly Acting is the first Australian book espousing a uniquely homegrown theatrical performance theory. As Grotowski did in Poland and Artaud in France, Nobbs has articulated an Australian performance aesthetic which revivifies in a contemporary context the theatrical traditions of its geographic region. With illuminating references to popular culture, his Suzuki- inspired method is based on rigorous theatrical discipline, but with an ever- present and distinctively Australian sense of humour. Frankly Acting grounds its theory in the artistic heritage of the Asia-Pacific, with a theatrical resonance which is universal." (Martin Buzacott)
. New Book. $25 AUD. Book#0015161 Read More Category: Theatre & Plays A DEVIL POKES THE ACTOR: FRANKLY ACTING 2
John Nobbs; Peter Berkahn
Brisbane: Frank Theatre Press, 2010. First Edition. 21cm x 14cm. [vii], 371 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
"This is the second book about actor training by John Nobbs. The first, Frankly Acting, outlined the early development of the Frank Suzuki Performance Aesthetics (FSPA), as a western variant and translation of the classic Suzuki Actor Training Method (SATM). This devil's logbook is a series of 25 provocations that poke further and deeper into the alchemical triggers and mechanisms that inform the one true actor training system originally devised by Tadashi Suzuki. Interspersed throughout the 25 provocations are revelations by some of the many actors that have used the FSPA to develop their acting spirit. Tadashi Suzuki, the inventor of the SATM, has stated that he believes that the training is not just for the actor's craft, but that it should be a creative tool for making theatre performances . The FSPA follows on the traces of that purpose, and this book outlines its importance as the creative onestop shop of Ozfrank Theatre Matrix. It includes examples, with colour photographs, that illustrate how Ozfrank director Jacqui Carroll uses the FSPA to impel her productions." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $30 AUD. Book#0015162 Read More Category: Theatre & Plays
TELA QUADRIVIUM ALCHYMIC (CONJUNCTIO, COAGULA, SOLVE AND DISTILLATIO)
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
London: Fulgur, 2008. First Edition. Signed by Author 27cm x 22cm. [80], [80], [80], [80] pages 4 volumes, colour illustrations. Cloth, gilt, silver, white, and black lettering, and decoration, illustrated jackets.
A complete set of the occult art and text series Tela Quadrivium Alchymic by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule published between 2008 and 2015. A dark and meditative series of 'graphic grimmoires' that fuses together sex and death, and where each volume reveals new aspects of the others. Black magic, destruction, decomposition, alchemy, new growth, and the womb and tomb are the author's inspirations, and the haunting illustrations live up to the source material.Conjunctio and Coagula are unnumbered artist's copies, and Conjunctio is without the jacket, Solve is numbered 573 of 800, and Distillatio 28 of 640. Each book is individually signed.
. Fine Condition. $1000 AUD. Book#0015163 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Magic, Paranormal & Occult SOLVE
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
London: Fulgur, 2012. First Edition. Signed by Author 27cm x 22cm. [80] pages, colour illustrations. Black cloth, white lettering, illustrated jacket.
'Solve' is the third volume in the Tela Quadrivium Alchymic by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. A dark and meditative series of 'graphic grimmoires' that fuses together sex and death, and where each volume reveals new aspects of the others. Black magic, destruction, decomposition, alchemy, new growth, and the womb and tomb are the author's inspirations, and the haunting illustrations live up to the source material. Numbered 732 of 800 and signed by the author.
. Fine Condition. $280 AUD. Book#0015164 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Magic, Paranormal & Occult
DISTILLATIO
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
London: Fulgur, 2015. First Edition. Signed by Author 27cm x 22cm. [80] pages, colour illustrations. White cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket.
'Distillatio' is the fourth volume in the Tela Quadrivium Alchymic by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. A dark and meditative series of 'graphic grimmoires' that fuses together sex and death, and where each volume reveals new aspects of the others. Black magic, destruction, decomposition, alchemy, new growth, and the womb and tomb are the author's inspirations, and the haunting illustrations live up to the source material. Numbered 27 of 640 and signed by the author.
. Fine Condition. $280 AUD. Book#0015165 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Magic, Paranormal & Occult COAGULA
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
London: Fulgur, 2011. First Edition. Signed by Author 27cm x 22cm. [80] pages, colour illustrations. White cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket.
'Coagula' is the second volume in the Tela Quadrivium Alchymic by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. A dark and meditative series of 'graphic grimmoires' that fuses together sex and death, and where each volume reveals new aspects of the others. Black magic, destruction, decomposition, alchemy, new growth, and the womb and tomb are the author's inspirations, and the haunting illustrations live up to the source material. Numbered 429 of 640 and signed by the author.
. Fine Condition. $300 AUD. Book#0015166 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Magic, Paranormal & Occult
THE BOOK OF GOING BACK BY NIGHT
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Gippsland: Twilight Productions, 2013. First Trade Edition. Signed by Author 28cm x 21cm. [110] pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
"The text of this book is a transmission from the double-lion/ess Hrumachis Aker, through the masks and forms of Sekhmet, of the Egyptian and Grecian SphinXes, and (in the Third Chapter) of Babalon and the Beast." Signed and numbered by the author, Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate- Bascule.
. New Book. $60 AUD. Book#0015167 Read More Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult THE BOOK OF KAOS TAROT DECK
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
[Gippsland]: Inspiral Ink Multimedia Press, 2020. New Edition. 11cm x 7.5cm. 80 cards, [40] page booklet.
A new smaller format edition of The Book of Kaos Tarot Deck by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule.
. New Book. $55 AUD. Book#0015168 Read More Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult
MINDFUCKERS
David Felton; Robin Green; David Dalton
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. First Edition. 21cm x 14cm. 328 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America. Including material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco and their followers.
Moderate shelf wear with minor creasing to wrappers. Discolouration to spine. Some foxing to edges, minor to half-title. Good Condition. $220 AUD. Book#0015169 Read More Categories: Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia, LSD, Magic, Paranormal & Occult THE TREE SHOW
Mark Ryden
Denver: Porterhouse Fine Art Editions, 2009. Second Printing. 31cm x 23cm. 128 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated cloth.
. New Book. $75 AUD. Book#0015170 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Contemporary Surreal & Imaginative Figurative Art
ATLAS OF BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE
Virginia McLeod; Emma Barton
London: Phaidon, 2020. New Edition. 30cm x 21cm. 568 pages, black and white photographs. Illustrated papered boards.
"The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's most powerful movements, more than 850 Brutalist buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organized geographically into nine continental regions. Much-loved masterpieces in the UK and USA sit alongside lesser-known examples in Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond - 102 countries in all, proving that Brutalism was, and continues to be, a truly international architectural phenomenon." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $100 AUD. Book#0015171 Read More Category: Architecture SOVIET SPACE GRAPHICS: COSMIC VISIONS FROM THE USSR
Alexandra Sankova; The Moscow Design Museum
London: Phaidon, 2020. First Edition. 28cm x 21cm. 240 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated matte papered boards.
"This otherworldly collection of Soviet space-race graphics takes readers on a cosmic adventure through Cold War-era Russia. Created against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, the extraordinary images featured, taken from the period's hugely successful popular-science magazines, were a vital tool for the promotion of state ideology. Presenting more than 250 illustrations - depicting daring discoveries, scientific innovations, futuristic visions, and extraterrestrial encounters - SOVIET SPACE GRAPHICS unlocks the door to the creative inner workings of the USSR." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $50 AUD. Book#0015172 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Asia, Countries, Russia, Space & Astronomy
ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS
Ansel Adams; Andrea G. Stillman
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. Fifteenth Printing. 21cm x 26cm. 440 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial matte papered boards, pictorial jacket.
"An unprecedented collection of the four hundred key photographs taken by Ansel Adams, America's best-known and best-loved photographer." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $70 AUD. Book#0015173 Read More Category: Photography THE ART OF THE EROTIC
Diane Fortenberry; Kim Scott
London: Phaidon, 2017. First Edition. 29cm x 25cm. 272 pages, colour illustrations and photographs. Lettered wrappers mounted in a cloth folder, blind and gilt lettering.
"Artists have created erotic imagery from ancient times to the present. This carefully curated and beautifully packaged book spotlights nearly 200 works from the world's most important artists, including Titian, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Cecily Brown, Anselm Kiefer, George Condo, and Anish Kapoor. With its chronological organization, THE ART OF THE EROTIC provides insights into human sexuality throughout the ages." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $100 AUD. Book#0015174 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Sexuality - Art & Erotica
ART AS THERAPY
Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
London: Phaidon, 2020. Reprint. 20cm x 13cm. 240 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
"This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions of modern life. Chapters on love, nature, money, and politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from forging good relationships to coming to terms with mortality." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $25 AUD. Book#0015175 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Psychology & Psychiatry SEX AND THE FLOATING WORLD: EROTIC IMAGES IN JAPAN, 1700-1820
Timon Screech
London: Reaktion Books, 2009. Second Edition. 23cm x 16cm. 374 pages, illustrations, many in colour. Illustrated wrappers.
"This revised and expanded second edition of Timon Screech's definitive Sex and the Floating World offers a new assessment of the genre of erotic Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled such images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. Shunga prints are not like any other form of picture for the simple fact that they are overtly about sex." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $50 AUD. Book#0015176 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Asia, Asian Art, Countries, Japan, Sexuality - Art & Erotica, Sexuality in Asia
VAGINA: A NEW BIOGRAPHY
Naomi Wolf
London: Virago, 2013. Revised Edition. Reprint. 20cm x 13cm. xii, 500 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
"An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth. VAGINA: A NEW BIOGRAPHY combines cutting-edge science with cultural history to explore the role of female desire and how it affects female identity, creativity and confidence. Provocative and engaging, positive and inspiring, this book brings to light female impulses, history and dreams - and, in exploring what women really need - it goes to the very core of what it means to be female. For any woman who wants to understand her body and her mind and the culture that defines her - VAGINA is essential reading." (publisher's blurb)
. New. $22 AUD. Book#0015177 Read More Category: Sexuality in Society ART & QUEER CULTURE
Catherine Lord; Richard Meyer
London: Phaidon, 2020. Revised Edition. Reprint. 23cm x 17cm. 304 pages, colour photographs and illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
"Updated and revised, ART & QUEER CULTURE is a comprehensive and definitive survey of artworks that have constructed, contested, or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexuality. Rather than focusing exclusively on artists who self-identify as gay or lesbian, ART & QUEER CULTURE instead traces the shifting possibilities and constraints of sexual identity that have provided visual artists with a rich creative resource over the last 130 years - and it does so in an accessible, authoritative voice, and with a wealth of rarely- seen imagery." (publisher's blurb)
. New Book. $60 AUD. Book#0015178 Read More Categories: Art & Design, LGBTIQ+ Gay Art, LGBTIQ+ Lesbian Art, Sexuality - Art & Erotica
ALL THE YOUNG MEN: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, AIDS, AND CHOSEN FAMILY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Ruth Coker Burks; Kevin Carr O'Leary
London: Trapeze, 2021. First UK Edition. 23cm x 15cm. [vii], 355 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
" Ruth Coker Burks was a young single mum in Hot Springs, Arkansas who cared for people with AIDS when no one else would in the 1980s and 1990s. With no medical background, Ruth single-handedly created a network of care, and saw to the final resting places of roughly a thousand men abandoned by families and neglected by medical professionals. For 30 years, Ruth has been an advocate for the LGBTQ community. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas." (publisher's biographical note)
. New Book. $33 AUD. Book#0015179 Read More Categories: Biography & Autobiography, LGBTIQ+ Gay Studies, Medicine & Health SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS FROM 1960 TO 1980
Miroslav Tichy
Budapest: Innen, 2011. Second Edition. 19cm x 13cm. [32] pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial saddle- stapled self-wrappers.
Photozine of selected works by Miroslav Tichy (1926-2011), the infamous and eccentric Czech peeping tom photographer who captured glimpses of thousands of unbeknownst Kyjov women through home-made cameras of cardboard and tin.
. Fine Condition. $90 AUD. Book#0015180 Read More Categories: Photography, Sexuality - Art & Erotica
SIKES' TABLES OF THE CONCENTRATED STRENGTH OF SPIRITS, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF HIS HYDROMETER
[Bartholomew Sikes]
: No publisher, No date. Revised Edition. 22cm x 14cm. viii, 110 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering, blind rule and decoration.
Established throughout the United Kingdom for estimating the duties on spirituous liquors. By Act of Parliament, 58 Geo. III., cap. 28. To which is added Tables of Specific Gravity adapted to the use of the Hydrometer. Reference book of tables for use with the Sikes Hydrometer, a measuring device used to determine the strength of alcoholic spirits. The device was the legal standard for calculating tax and customs on spirits from 1816 to 1907. This is a an undated mid 19th century book of tables.
A working copy, soiled and foxed throughout. Spineback splitting. Cloth mottled and stained. Rear hinge cracking. Fair Condition. $40 AUD. Book#0015181 Read More Categories: Alcohol, Engineering, Industrial, Trade, Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia GROSSER HERDER ATLAS
Carl Troll
Freiburg: Herder, 1958. First Edition. 26cm x 19cm. xiv, 792 pages, colour maps, black and white photographs. Green cloth.
Discolouration to spine. Some foxing and soiling. Previous owner's signature. Good Condition. $30 AUD. Book#0015182 Read More Categories: Foreign Language, Geography & Maps, German
KIDS OF SYDNEY (3 VOLUMES)
Starlight Children's Foundation
Brisbane: Spitting Dummy Publishing, 2005-7. First Edition. 33cm x 29cm. 227, 281, 258 pages, 3 volumes, black and white photographs. Pictorial matte papered boards.
Soiling to upper board of volume 2. Some foxing.. Very Good Condition. $80 AUD. Book#0015183 Read More Categories: Australia, Countries, New South Wales, Photography TWELVE DEGREES OF LATITUDE: REGIONAL GALLERY AND UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTIONS IN QUEENSLAND
Bettina MacAulay; Brett Adlington
Brisbane: Museum and Gallery Services Queensland, 2009. . 30cm x 23cm. x, 102 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
An exhibition for the sesquicentenary of Queensland.
Minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. $30 AUD. Book#0015184 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australia, Australian Art, Countries, Queensland
DUNTROON TO DILI: MAYHEM AND MIRACLES, TRAUMATIC STRESS AND TRUST IN GOD
Gary Stone; Bob Breen
West Geelong: Echo Books, 2014. First Edition. 22cm x 15cm. xvi, 348 pages, black and white photographs, map. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
The story of an Australian infantry officer turned Catholic deacon who served as a Chaplain with the Australian Army and Federal Police.
Fine in Near Fine Jacket. Minor soiling to jacket. Fine Condition. $40 AUD. Book#0015185 Read More Categories: Military & Warfare, Religion & Theology RIGHTEOUS PERSECUTION: INQUISITION, DOMINICANS, AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Christine Caldwell Ames
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. First Edition. 24cm x 16cm. viii, 312 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering,illustrated jacket.
Very minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Very minor soiling to edges. Very minor wear to jacket edges. Near Fine Condition. $45 AUD. Book#0015186 Read More Categories: History, Religion & Theology
THE CITY AS THE ART FORM OF THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
Shusaku Arakawa; Madeline Gins
Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 1998. First Edition. 34cm x 26cm. 48 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Text is bilingual Japanese and English.
Exhibition catalogue of experimental architecture exploring city planning through a large-scale urban design project, Reversible Destiny City, as well as other designs, and two films.
. Near Fine Condition. $50 AUD. Book#0015187 Read More Category: Architecture ORDINANCES AGAINST A SET OF CRACK- BRAINED FELLOWS, COMMONLY CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE NAME OF POETS
Thomas Gray
: The Murder Club, 1986. First Thus. 18cm x 12cm. [4] pages. Saddle-stitched wrappers, lettered label.
A short poetic diatribe against poets here printed in a limited form by in the style of a private press poetry book. An excerpt from The Newgate Calendar, attributed to Thomas Gray, criminal nephew of the Exeter Hangman.
. Fine Condition. $30 AUD. Book#0015188 Read More Category: Essays & Literary Criticism
NEW YORK PHILIP MORRIS ART AWARD: 24 WINNERS FROM 1996 TO 2000
Takayo Iida
Tokyo: Philip Morris, K.K., 2001. First Edition. 30cm x 23cm. 96 pages, colour illustrations. Lettered french fold wrappers.
Minor general wear to wrappers. Very Good Condition. $40 AUD. Book#0015189 Read More Category: Art & Design CRESSIDA CAMPBELL, 1ST NOVEMBER - 26TH NOVEMBER, 2005
Cressida Campbell
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries, 2005. First Edition. 29cm x 19cm. 20 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Exhibition catalogue. Price list laid in.
Minor toning to extremities. Very Good Condition. $30 AUD. Book#0015190 Read More Categories: Art & Design, Australian Art
HOMAGE FELICIEN ROPS PORUOKRATES
Pavel Hlavaty
Czech Republic: Pavel Hlavaty, 2015. . 21cm x 15cm. Unframed Etching. Numbered edition, 48/68.
A graphic scene depicting an altar to Eros. Naked and blindfolded women ride atop a reined island of pigs, another naked women bound to a cross with skeleton cupid flying above and thin dogs surrounding them. Titled as a homage to Belgian artist Felicien Rops.
. Fine Condition. $60 AUD. Book#0015191 Read More Categories: Artwork, Etchings