Politics & Government
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Australian Politics (77)
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International Relations (15)
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U. S. Politics (9)
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Republics versus Woman: Contrasting the treatment according to women in Aristocracies with that meted out to her in Democracies
$250.00 Add to cartMrs. Woolsey
New York: The Grafton Press, 1903.
Theory of American suffragist Kate Trimble Woolsey (1858-1936) that women fare better under the monarchies and aristocracies of Europe than republics such as the United States. Woolsey regularly traveled between Europe and the US on behalf of women’s rights. This copy inscribed by Woolsey to the front free endpaper in ink, some pencil text in the margin below the inscription now illegible. -
Bjelke Blues: Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland, 1968-1987
$40.00 Add to cartEdwina Shaw
[Brisbane]: AndAlso Books, 2019. -
The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788-1860
$80.00 Add to cartDavid Kemp
Carlton: The Miegunyah Press, 2018.
“The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788-1860 tells the story of how Australians gained the liberties they desired to take control of their lives, the right to govern themselves and the capacity to address their own political problems through democratic institutions. As the first book in a landmark five-volume Australian Liberalism series, The Land of Dreams describes how Australians laid the foundations for one of the world’s most successful countries, with unprecedented levels of personal liberty and social equality.” (from publisher’s blurb) -
The Governors of Modern Queensland
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 16cm. xi, 209 pages, colour illustrations. Cloth, pictorial jacket.
Very minor bump to crown fore-edge corner. Near Fine Condition. -
Chiang Kai-shek
$800.00 Add to cartHollington K. Tong
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1953.
The revised edition of Tong’s biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek’s life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland. -
Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History
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First Edition.
25cm x 19cm. 329, [7] pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Minor insect damage and soiling to edges. Very Good Condition. -
Bakunin i Marks: Razgovor
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First Edition.
21cm x 13.5cm. 36 pages. Perfect bound sheets without wrappers (as issued). Text is in Russian.
Bakunin and Marx: An Imaginary Dialogue.
Very minor tanning. Publishing annotations in pencil to front cover. Near Fine Condition. -
Gateavisa Nr. 7, 1983
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First Edition.
29.5cm x 21cm. 48 pages. Saddle-stapled newsprint self-wrappers. Text is in Norwegian.
Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This issue with a feature story on William S. Burroughs.
Uncirculated, minor tanning and shelf wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Gateavisa Nr. 12, 1981
$60.00 Add to cartGateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1981.
Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This, the Psycho Special Issue with a feature story on Timothy Leary. -
Gateavisa Nr. 9, 1981
$50.00 Add to cartGateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1981.
Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This issue with feature stories on sado-masochism and lesbian SM. -
Gateavisa Nr. 11, 1979
$50.00 Add to cartGateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1979.
Single issue of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This issue with a feature story on Sten Larris’ Forbyde Hallucinogener [Forbidden Hallucinogens]. -
Gateavisa (69 Issues, 1976-1992)
$1,500.00 Add to cartGateavisa
Oslo: Futrum Forlag, 1976-1992.
Broken run of 69 issues of Norwegian anarchist and counterculture newspaper Gateavisa. First published in 1970 and through various forms and publishing schedules still being produced today. With an anti-authoritarian focus Gateavisa covered a wide range of topics, from occultism and mysticism to politics and philosophy, and of course underground comics. Gateavisa often featured stories on sex and drugs, and was an early supporter in an otherwise conservative Norway of LGBTQ rights and the legalisation of cannabis. Other regular columns ran on squatting, police violence, prisons, organic farming, pirate radios, punk, and more. This run (from March 1976 to March 1992) largely comes from its heyday when it was produced monthly in the late 1970s and early 1980s, though it also shows the editorial changes the magazine went through in the late 1980s and early 1990s. -
A Plea for Justice to China: An Explanation of the Chinese Puzzle and Criticism of Our Diplomacy
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First Edition.
18.5cm x 14cm. 32 paegs, [8] advertisements. Lettered saddle-stapled wrappers.
An Open Letter to the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, penned during the Boxer Rebellion, questioning the reports of massacres and calling for a civil diplomatic response by Charles M. Higgins. With advertisements for Higgins inks and other related supplies at rear.
Centre sheet loose from staples. Minor bump to spine tail. Minor creasing to wrappers. Fair Condition. -
Australasian Spartacist (No. 1 – 212, 1973-2011)
$1,500.00 Add to cartSpartacist League of Australia and New Zealand
Sydney and Melbourne: Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand, 1973-2011.
A significant unbroken run of Australasian Spartacist: Organ of Revolutionary Marxism for the Rebirth of the Fourth International, from No. 1, 1973, through to No. 212, 1986. Nos. 1 through 5 were published as mimeographed copies (and here an original mimeograph of No. 3 together with 2 additional copies in facsimile, and with Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 5 supplied as facsimiles in triplicate and also including the B versions of Nos. 2 and 5), the rest (6-212) as original tabloid newsprint (except No. 125 and 136 supplied in facsimile). Also included is an original duplicate of No 143, and the original supplements for 7 June 1975, 2 July 1975, 24 June 1977, 1 February 1980, 8 September 1989 (2 copies), 2 September 1991, 2 June 1993, December 1999, and November 2001, and A Spartacist Pamphlet: For a Workers Republic of Australia, Part of a Socialist Asia! (Sydney: Spartacist ANZ Publishing Co., 1998). In total Australasian Spartacist ran until No 240, 2020, and in 2024 has re-emerged as Red Battler: Newspaper of the Spartacist League of Australia with 1 issue published to date. -
San Francisco Express Times (Complete Run, 61 Issues 1968-1969 w/ the First 7 Issues of Good Time)
$2,500.00 Add to cartMarvin Garson; Robert Novick
San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968-1969.
Complete run of the weekly underground newspaper San Francisco Express Times from Vol. 1 No. 1 January 26, 1968 – Vol. 2 No. 12, March 25, 1969, being all 61 issues before it was renamed Good Times being , here offered with those first seven issues, being Vol. 2 No. 13, [April 1969] – No. 19 May 14, 1969. Good Times continued (on a less regular publishing schedule) until August 2, 1972. Founded by Marvin Garson and Bob Novick the Express Times was a counterculture tabloid covering and promoting radical politics, music, arts, and progressive culture in the Bay Area. It featured extensive coverage of student riots including the prolonged strike at San Francisco State University, and a serialized novel of guerrilla warfare in the United States, Berkeley Guns by Lenny Heller, as well as a weekly cooking column by Alice Waters, illustrated by David Lance Goines. Regular contributors included Todd Gitlin, Greil Marcus, Paul Williams, Sandy Darlington, and Marjorie Heins, alongside staff photographers Jeffrey Blankfort, Nacio Jan Brown, and Robert Altman, and cartoons by Jaxon, Ron Cobb, and Sharon Rudahl. Also featured are writings by or about Richard Brautigan (Note: The final issue credits themselves for publishing 62 issues in total, however this is believed incorrect, there being 61 issues published weekly with a week taken off at the New Year. Comparable holdings found also note the total as 61. Also note Vol. 1 No. 13 misnamed No. 14, April 18, 1967 [1968], sequential numbering then corrected with No. 14 designated as No. 14.5) -
Allies, Enemies and Trading Partners: Records on Australia and the Japanese
$60.00 Add to cartPam Oliver
Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2006. -
Will Roosevelt Succeed?: A Study of Fascist Tendencies in America
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First Edition.
19cm x 12cm. vii, 248 pages. Cloth, with The People’s Lending Library paper wrapper.
In the early 1930s, A. Fenner Brockway boarded a trans-Atlantic ship to the United States, determined to make sense of Roosevelt’s rejection of rugged individualism in the policies of the New Deal. Nationalism, dictatorship, and economic control were melding into a rigid fascism across Europe and Asia, and Brockway wanted to understand America’s new alternative to competitive capitalism. In this readable, insightful work, written in a time of global turmoil and heightening tensions, Brockway paints a portrait of an unprecedented national struggle for freedom and fairness, and lays foundations for understanding fascism then and now.
Worn. The People’s Lending Library, Brisbane, paper protective jacket with title plates glued to cover/endpapers, stamps. Soiling to top edge. Free endpapers adhered to boards. Good Condition (ex-library). -
Mustafa Kemal Araturk
$100.00 Add to cartIlhan Aksit
Istanbul: Aksit, No date.
Thoroughly illustrated biography of the founding father of the Republic of Turkiye. -
Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest
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28cm x 21.5cm. x, 98 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
New edition edited and with footnotes and introduction by Darrell W. Conder. “surely one of the most incendiary works ever to be published anywhere” (James J. Martin). A major work of Social Darwinism published in the late 19th century advocating amorality, consequentialism, egoism, and psychological hedonism. Sometimes attributed to New Zealand and later Australian labour movement figure Arthur Desmond, though this is disputed in Conder’s introduction to this edition.
Very minor handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Programme of the Communist Party of Australia
$50.00 Add to cartCommunist Party of Australia
Sydney: Authorised by Adam Ogston, No date.
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Ironworkers Speak for Peace
$40.00 Add to cartNational Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia
Sydney: National Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, No date.
Report of the rank and file members of the Ironworker’s Union that attended the 2nd World Peace Congress in Warsaw, Poland, November, 1950. -
On Overcoming the Personality Cult and Its Consequences: Decision of the Central Committee, C.P.S.U
$200.00 Add to cartCentral Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1956.
The resolution of the Central Committee published in the wake of the anti-Stalin Secret Speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 25 February, 1956. -
Listen, Little Man! A Document from the Archive of the Orgone Institute
$400.00 Add to cartWilhelm Reich; William Steig
New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1948.
First edition in the English language of Reich’s antiauthoritarian classic calling for direct action by the working class. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Illustrated by William Stieg. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austro-Hungraian-American doctor and psychoanalys, and is one of psychiatry’s most radical figures. In the late 1950s many of his books were burned by order of the court in one of the largest cases of modern censorship making early editions of his work scarce. -
Direct Action (Nos. 1 – 103, September 1970 – December 1975)
$650.00 Add to cartSocialist Youth Alliance
Sydney: Socialist Youth Alliance, 1970-1975.
An unbroken run of the first 103 issues bound in two volumes of the Australian socialist newspaper, Direct Action, which became the Green Left Weekly in 1991. The SYA was a Trotskyist youth organisation of eco-socialist and anti-capitalist politics which emerged out of the Sydney University Socialist Club and the Vietnam Action Campaign, and later merged into the Socialist Alliance. Direct Action was a large format newspaper, brightly illustrated throughout, running stories on local and international politics, with calls to action. -
The Australian Constitution: A Documentary History
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First Edition.
31cm x 23cm. xv, 1288 pages. Full leather, slipcase.
“This book brings together all the critical documents which formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901. Constitutions are the basic documents of a society. The drafting of the Australian constitution was the product of intense negotiation and debate. Line by line it represents the work of dozens of delegates and the considerations of millions of Australians. This authoritative and unique book brings together, for the first time, all the critical documents that formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901, tracing the Constitution from its most embryonic stages to its enactment. From the time that the colonies obtained self-government in the 1850s the issue of a large federation was being considered. In the latter part of the nineteenth century the colonies, through their delegates, came together in a series of conventions to draft a constitution that was to be put to the people. The documents included in this book tell the story of that painstaking process. This easily accessible collection of primary source material includes drafts of the Constitution, memoranda, personal letters relating to the drafting, and comments by the drafters themselves. It contains Hansard extracts, speeches, resolutions from Australasian Federal Conventions and comments on the drafts. It also reproduces newspaper cartoons reflecting popular feeling at the time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Constitution of the Communist Party of China
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First Edition.
10.5cm x 7.5cm. [ii], 39, [3] pages. Red vinyl wrappers, gilt lettering.
Adopted by the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on April 14, 1969.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Playing the State: Australian Feminist Interventions
$10.00 Add to cartSophie Watson
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990. -
Orwell’s Politics
$60.00 Add to cartJohn Newsinger
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999.
A study of George Orwell’s political beliefs from his time as a police officer through to the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four. -
Communist Zoo
$50.00 Add to cartHans Muller
New York: Swen Publications, 1951.
Photographs of zoo animals with humorous anti-communist commentary: “Don’t ask me what I think, comrade! I haven’t read the Daily Worker this morning.” -
Mr Nixon Pushes Abortion on Demand
$10.00 Add to cartPaul Scott
Belmont: The Review of the News, 1970.
Reprint of a pro-life article from The Review of the News, 16 September, 1970.