Fiction
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
$550.00 Add to cartMarquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.
First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. The first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer. This copy unopened in the original wrappers. -
Manrape
$80.00 Add to cartMarta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.
Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap) -
Brave New World
$1,200.00 Add to cartAldous Huxley
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
First edition, first printing of Huxley’s dystopian classic. BROMER A29.3.1. This copy rebound in fine full blue leather. -
The Getting of Wisdom
$500.00 Add to cartHenry Handel Richardson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.
First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck. -
The Sugar Cube Trap
$30.00 Add to cartMadelaine Duke
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974.
A fictional tale of children encountering the dangerous world of LSD. -
Thumb Tripping
$40.00 Add to cartDon Mitchell
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Counter culture novel of hitchhiking hippies in California. -
Amorphik: An Erotic Constellation
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First Edition. Inscribed by Editor
21cm x 14.5cm. xviii, 129 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Edited by Simon Sellars with contributions by Sarah Endacott, Kieran Dell, hilaire, Matthew Firth, Tony Reck, Sarala, Garth Madsen, Dee Teflon, Nathsha Cho, Ben Paradox, Kim Hunt, Samantha Bews, Andres Vaccari, Nick Umney, Sasha Cunningham, Dana Shavit, Tana McCarthy, Bronwyn Scanlon, Scott Flaherty, Erika Niesner, Micahel Howard, Symon Brando, Rob Cover, Der Teufel, and Kristoph Eggleston. Illustrations by Tim Umney, Peter Christmas Savieri, Vasilios Billy Mavreas, Diana Harris, and Dee Rimbaud. This copy inscribed by the editor.
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The Man on the Bridge
$100.00 Add to cartStephen Benatar
Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981.
First published novel of Stephen Royce Benatar. “A coming-of-age story about a young man in 1950s London who has a tragic affair with a rich gay painter.” (Cosmo Landesman, The Sunday Times, April 11, 2010). -
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
$50.00 Add to cartThomas Keneally
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. -
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm [Grimm’s Fairy Tales]
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Sixth Folio Printing.
25cm x 18.5cm. xvi, 325 pages, 40 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, slipcase.
Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.
Slight discolouration to spine. Minor shelf wear to slipcase. Very Good Condition. -
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales: With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson
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Fourth Folio Printing.
25cm x 19cm. xi, 289 pages, illustrations, some colour. Red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, top edge red, slipcase.
FORD-SMITH 836.
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The Ice Palace
$150.00 Add to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1967.
Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan -
The Birds
$150.00 Add to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1968.
Translated from the Norwegian, Fuglane, by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes -
Aphrodite
$400.00 Add to cartPierre Louys; Paul Gervais
Paris: Association et Cercle Grolier, 1932.
The first edition with illustrations by Paul Gervais of Louys’ immensely successful novel of tumultuous love and desire set in Alexandria. One of 200 copies produced for the Association et Cercle Grolier, this being number 143, one of 75 copies for corresponding members. -
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques
$1,500.00 Add to cartPierre Louys; Edouard Chimot
Paris: Edition d’Art de L’Intermediaire du Bibliophile, 1929.
The first edition with illustrations by Chimot of Louys’ immensely successful novel of tumultuous love and desire set in Alexandria. One of 154 copies of the standard edition (from the total edition of 300), this copy finely bound by Herbillon-Crombe. -
L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
$1,200.00 Add to cartAdelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.
French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking. -
The Sisters of Nansfield. A Tale for Young Women. (2 Volumes)
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 11.5cm. 4, 12 advertisements, viii, 254; viii, 248 pages. Contemporary papered boards, paper labels.
Early 19th century female-emancipatory fiction by radical aristocrat Margaret King (1773-1835). A favoured pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) who in turn became a mentor to Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) and her circle.
Unrestored contemporary papered boards with 2 lots of publisher’s advertisements bound at the beginning of volume 1, the second of which dated October 1832. Some loss to spine of volume 1, minor wear to board corners, very minor foxing and soiling. Chipping to spine crown of volume 2. Very Good Condition. -
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
$400.00 Add to cartDodie Smith
London: Heinemann, 1956.
The first edition in book form (originally appearing as a serial, The Great Dog Robbery, in Woman’s Day) and the source for the adaptation of the films One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. -
Collected Short Stories of Hartley R. Phillips
$100.00 Add to cartHartley R. Phillips
Melbourne: RWP Press, 1989.
A compilation of the children’s stories of Hartley R. Phillips compiled by his son, Robert W. Phillips, and privately printed. Published during the 1950s most of the stories appeared in various issues of The Australian BOY Fortnightly. For this compilation the published stories and the original manuscripts have been compared and material missing from the previously published versions has been amended. The original artworks from BOY have been reproduced. The stories are: The Buffalo Hunt; Frontier Justice; Warpath; Custer’s Last Stand; The White Dingo; Springfield Rifle; The Kid from Texas. -
The Pool of Wisdom
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First Edition.
19cm x 12.5cm. 173 pages, [2] advertisements. Pink cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket.
New Zealand romance novel with Maori themes.
Very minor foxing and soiling. Jacket top edge with a few small chips and tears. Near Fine Condition. -
Murder in Melbourne
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First Edition.
19cm x 12cm. 192 pages. Red cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket.
A Museum Street Thriller. “Richard Quayle, an Australian air-line pilot, arrives in Melbourne to ask his girl friend, Anna Matheson, to marry him. He finds her dead…”
Minor blemish to upper board cloth. Minor foxing to edges. Minor shelf wear and <0.5cm closed tear to jacket. Very Good Condition. -
To the Lighthouse: The Original Holograph Draft
$500.00 Add to cartVirginia Woolf; Susan Dick
London: The Hogarth Press, 1983.
Woolf’s original draft with all of the edits and annotations transcribed and edited by Susan Dick. -
Place of the Stinging Nettles
$150.00 Add to cartPhyllis Shatte
Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1970.
A novel of Gympie, Queensland. This copy signed by the author. -
Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
$550.00 Add to cartLenny Bruce
[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.
The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution. -
Cobalt
$150.00 Add to cartWill Lee
New York: Vantage Press, 1999.
A gay murder mystery set in San Francisco featuring “Miss Haight-Ashbury (Private Eye), Party Girl-Showgirl-Balloon Girl-Man Stealer” and gay police officer Frank Lee. -
West of the Wind
$300.00 Add to cartDavid Marinoff
New York: Vantage Press, 1969.
“This is the fantastic tal eof Raymond Richards, self-styled ex-star of a “gay” night club in San Francisco, presently in Greenwich Village, where he is in the female-impersonator racket in a clip joint. But it won’t be for long… From night-dive queen in a Village joint, Raymond zooms to heady, blatant insecurity as an arts-and-antiques “expert” in a luxury apartment, all the way talking himself in and out of deals slick and spurious…” YOUNG 2510. -
The Male Impersonator
$150.00 Add to cartE. F. Benson
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929.
The Male Impersonator is one of two short stories and six novels published in the author’s Mapp and Lucia series, later adapted as a television serial. The series features a cast of mainly upper class English people, who could be described as genteel dilettantes, as they navigate their way through the minor outrages of polite society. In The Male Impersonator, Miss Mapp has to deal with the arrival to their small town of Lady Deal, who in a previous life, had a history of performing as a male impersonator. ‘To think that a male impersonator should to Tilling and take one of the best houses in the place! Why, it might as well have remained empty!’ Limited to 530 numbered copies, this being one of 30 copies for presentation, signed by the author. -
Les Dimanches de la Comtesse de Narbonne
$200.00 Add to cartDaisy Fellowes; Vertes
Paris: Editions de France, 1935.
Novel of Parisian high society in the early 20th century by the French socialite Daisy Fellowes, Paris editor of American Harper’s Bazaar and heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Illustrated by Marcel Vertes. Neatly rebound in half leather and wood preserving the original pink wrappers. -
Les Freres Zemganno
$3,000.00 Add to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Auguste Brouet
Paris: Edite par F. Gregoire, 1921.
Goncourt’s Naturalist exploration of the evolution of French literature through the acrobatic artistry of two circus brothers, also echoing and exploring his own love and loss of his inseparable brother (and literary partner) who passed some years prior. Originally published in 1879, here for the first time with numerous illustrations by Auguste Brouet. The illustrations include 15 full page etchings, a half-page etching on the half-title, and a vignette on the title, all signed in the plate, together with a further 51 illustrations in the text. This copy extra illustrated with 4 original signed drawings by Brouet mounted at the beginning, and finely bound in a signed full leather binding by Ganape, RD, dated 1925, and with the bookplates of Yvan Lamberty and B. Le Dosseur. -
Neurotica (Complete Set, 9 Volumes)
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23.5cm x 15cm. 9 volumes. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
A complete set of the proto-beat literary journal dedicated to expressions and explorations of art, sex, and neuroticism. The first 8 issues edited by Jay Irving Landesman, the final 9th “castration” issue by Gershon Legman. Featuring contributions by Kenneth Patchen, David Cornel De Jong, Rudolph Friedmann, Henri Michaux, Richard Rubenstein, Douglas P. Rodewald, Nathaniel Thornton, Marc Brandel, Ellis Foote, Justine Krug, Leonard Bernstein, William Krasnet, Gerald W. Lawlor, Harry Karetsky, John Clellon Holmes, Hubert Crehan, Carol Hall, William Stern, Lila Rosenblum, Alistair Kahn, J. B. Smith, John Goldston, Judith Malina, Lawrence Durrell, Winston Weathers, Joanne de Longchamps, Themistocles G. Hoetis, Herbert Benjamin, Norman Maclaine, Osmond Beckwith, Ralph Gilmer, Mortimer Slaiman, Louis Triefenbach, Joseph Kyeff, Sidney E. Porcelain, Ray H. Zorn, Marshall Mcluhan, Charles L. Newman, Jean B. Welch, H. Phelps Putnam, Allen Walker Read, Theodor Reik, Thelma J. Levy, John Del Torto, Alfred Towne, Anatole Broyard, Peter Viereck, Chandler Brossard, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Towne, Wallace Markfield, Carl Gentile (Goy), William Barrett, Anatole Broyard, Lawrence Rivers, Hy Sobiloff, William Steig, John Del Torto, Victor Tausk, Christopher Maclaine, Jacques Schnier, Maurice M. Shudofsky, Herbert Wolf, Ella Freeman Sharpe, Rudolph Friedmann, Otto Fenichel, James Clark Moloney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, and Mason Jordan Mason. Cover illustrations by Alvin Lustig. All first printings, except for No 1, which is the second printing.
Some issues with minor tanning or discolouration, and minor wear to edges. Nos. 1 and 3 with crease to wrappers lower panel. No 8. with a small indent line to upper panel. No. 4 with a very small chip to spine at upper staple. No. 1 with a very small chip to crown fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel, the same panel with a couple of light soil marks. Very Good Condition.