Counterculture

  • Conform

    # 34599

    FOLK, Saskia

    Conform

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [144], illustrated. 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 has photographed …

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  • [WARHOL] Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1, No. 3, ‘The Pop Art Issue’.

    # 34389

    WARHOL, Andy; DALTON, David; JOHNSON, Phyllis (editor)

    [WARHOL] Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1, No. 3, ‘The Pop Art Issue’.

    Cover title: Now Aspen in an all new fab issue. Vol. 1 no. 3. New York : Roaring Fork Press, December 1966. Box with colour graphic based on Fab laundry detergent, 310 x 230 x 20 mm (edge wear and splits at corners), containing a flip-book of Warhol’s film Kiss and Jack Smith’s film Buzzards …

    $1,650.00 AUD Read more
  • Pan's daughter : the strange world of Rosaleen Norton

    # 34489

    DRURY, Nevill

    Pan’s daughter : the strange world of Rosaleen Norton

    Sydney : Collins, 1988. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (lightly scuffed), pp. xiii, 154, illustrated.

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  • The Lip anthology : an Australian feminist arts journal 1976 - 1984

    # 34446

    ZIHERI, Vivian

    The Lip anthology : an Australian feminist arts journal 1976 – 1984

    Edited by Vivian Ziherl. Amsterdam : Kunstverein Publishing and Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, in association with Grazer Kunstverein (Austria), 2013. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy. Lip Magazine was self-published by women in Melbourne from 1976 to 1984 and stood as a lightning rod for Australian feminist artistic practice throughout the Women’s Liberation …

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  • Decadent 1980 - 2000

    # 34444

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Decadent 1980 – 2000

    Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2014. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 251, illustrated. Mint copy, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. Decadent: 1980-2000 is a photography book showcasing Rennie Ellis’ contribution to photography and social history. With an introduction by photographer and Rennie contemporary William Yang and an essay by photographer and …

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  • Sunbury : Australia's Greatest Rock Festival

    # 29395

    EVANS, Peter

    Sunbury : Australia’s Greatest Rock Festival

    Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 240, extensively illustrated with rare photographs from the festival. New copy. “After 45 years, here is the first book on the SUNBURY rock festival, the festival that is often referred to as ‘Australia’s Woodstock’ that heralded a revolution in Australian music and culture. This book explores the …

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

    # 34307

    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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  • Tarot and Divination Cards : a visual archive

    # 33963

    BARBIER, Laetitia

    Tarot and Divination Cards : a visual archive

    New York : Abrams, 2021. Small quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 400, extensively illustrated. New copy. Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today’s mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry-a perfect …

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  • Cocaine consumer's handbook

    # 32127

    LEE, David

    Cocaine consumer’s handbook

    Photos by Linda Kesner. Berkeley : And/Or Press, 1976. Sixth printing (20,000 copies). Octavo, illustrated wrappers (crease to lower wrapper, handling marks),  pp. 54, illustrated. A very good to fine copy. ‘Know what you’re putting in your nose! Here at last is a book on cocaine that gives useful information for the consumer’ – back …

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  • The virgin sperm dancer (signed presentation copy)

    # 33240

    LEVY, William (1939 - )

    The virgin sperm dancer (signed presentation copy)

    An ecstatic journey, of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, of her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. Written by William Levy; designed by Anthon Beeke; photographed by Ginger Gordon. The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1972 (second printing 1978 in Bavaria, Germany). Folio, illustrated wrappers (edges rubbed, repair to head of …

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  • Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men

    # 32627

    FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

    Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men

    San Francisco : NFS Press, 1977. First edition. Quarto, lettered wrappers (edges rubbed, a couple of small creases and handling wear, small bookseller’s label inside lower wrapper), pp. 56, illustrated. A very good copy. The rare first edition. In 2015 a facsimile was printed (which sold out), this summary is taken from the publisher’s description: …

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  • The all new Australian graffiti

    # 33135

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    The all new Australian graffiti

    Melbourne : Sun Books, 1985. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers, [144] pp, all illustrated, light handling wear. Scarce. The third volume in Ellis’ series on Australian graffiti with hundreds of examples of street graffiti in the 1980s.

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  • The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

    # 33110

    NORTH, Gerry, et al.

    The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

    Sydney : Rural and City Media Services, 1992. Quarto, pictorial gatefold wrappers (lower wrapper scratched), pp. 176, extensively illustrated. Photobook on the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a deluxe hardcover edition also published.

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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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  • Art in transit : subway drawings by Keith Haring

    # 32075

    HARING, Keith (1958 - 1990)

    Art in transit : subway drawings by Keith Haring

    Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler. Design by Dan Friedman. New York : Harmony Books, 1984. First edition. Printed in Japan. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, photobook filled with images of Haring’s iconic underground subway chalk drawings.

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  • Friends of Dorothy

    # 31870

    YANG, William (1943 - )

    Friends of Dorothy

    Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few small marks and light silverfishing inside the wrappers with no loss), pp. 168, illustrated. For over fifty years William Yang has photographed gay and lesbian life in Australia, documenting culture and subculture through the lens of his own Chinese-Australian heritage. This book is filled …

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