Sexuality

  • Not Only Sport - A complete set of all issues

    # 34305

    STUDIO MAGAZINES; GRAND, Marcello (editor)

    Not Only Sport – A complete set of all issues

    Sydney : Studio Magazines, 1997 – 2000. Six issues (complete), quarto, illustrated wrappers, each issue approximately 128 pages, extensively illustrated with high quality photography, occasional light handling marks a very good set. A complete set of all six issues of the high-end photography sports magazine, each issue essentially a photobook of the highest quality, with …

  • (not only) Blue - Premiere issue

    # 34475

    STUDIO MAGAZINES; GRAND, Marcello (editor)

    (not only) Blue – Premiere issue

    Sydney : Studio Magazines, February 1995. Issue 00. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 154 pages, extensively illustrated with high quality photography, occasional light handling marks a very good copy. The Premiere issue of the groundbreaking magazine aimed at a gay male audience, each magazine essentially a photobook of the highest quality, with articles, interviews and editorial on …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • (not only) Black + White - A complete set of all issues

    # 34304

    STUDIO MAGAZINES; GRAND, Marcello (editor)

    (not only) Black + White – A complete set of all issues

    Sydney : Studio Magazines, 1992 – 2007. Eighty-nine issues (complete), quarto, illustrated wrappers, each issue approximately 128 pages, extensively illustrated with high quality photography, occasional light handling marks a very good set. A complete set of all issues of the high-end photography magazine which explored the relationship between art, celebrity, glamour and fashion. Each magazine is …

  • Andy Warhol : Drag & Draw.  The Unknown Fifties

    # 33950

    SCHLEIF, Nina

    Andy Warhol : Drag & Draw. The Unknown Fifties

    Munich : Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2017. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 144, illustrated. New copy. 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 career, before he became the …

  • Still life Stuart Black

    # 34113

    JUDD, Craig

    Still life Stuart Black

    Melbourne] : Trustees of the Estate of Stuart Alan Black, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 84, illustrated. Scarce monograph on the painter Stuart Black (1937 – 2007), prominent member of the gay community and pioneer of Melbourne’s leather scene.

  • William Yang. Diaries : a retrospective exhibition. 25 years of social, personal and landscape photography (signed copy)

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    YANG, William (1943 - )

    William Yang. Diaries : a retrospective exhibition. 25 years of social, personal and landscape photography (signed copy)

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 1998. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, inscribed on upper panel ‘Best wishes, William Yang, Sydney 1998’, pp. [16], illustrated. A fine copy, scarce.

  • 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 …

  • E. J. Bellocq : Storyville portraits. Photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912.

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    BELLOCQ, E. J.; FRIEDLANDER, Lee; SZARKOWSKI, John

    E. J. Bellocq : Storyville portraits. Photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912.

    Reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander, preface by Lee Friedlander, edited by John Szarkowski. London : Scolar Press, [1978?]. First UK edition. Quarto (280 x 240 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers, pp [88], including 34 full-page monochrome plates; a very good copy. Now famous – but still startling – collection of photographs of prostitutes in …

  • 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: …

  • [PHILIPPINES] Miss Rizal (Remedios Santos), 1926 Manila Carnival.

    # 32782

    SOL STUDIO (MANILA)

    [PHILIPPINES] Miss Rizal (Remedios Santos), 1926 Manila Carnival.

    Silver gelatin print photograph, 136 x 84 mm, with manuscript caption and studio imprint in the neagtive; printed on postcard stock, with AZO stamp box verso; not mailed, and in excellent condition (some mild corner wear). From Alex Castro’s Manila Carnivals 1908-1939: ‘The first Miss Rizal, Remedios Santos, went to the Manila Carnival to compete for the first ever Miss Philippines crown. …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

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    NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Beside a babbling brook

    # 32936

    NORMAN, Karyl [performer]; DONALDSON, Walter [music]; KAHN, Gus (lyrics)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Beside a babbling brook

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1923. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast of the United …

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

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    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.