The Book Merchant Jenkins
Member of ANZAAB - Australia
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Art
Sexuality
Counter Culture
LGBTIQ+
The Book Merchant Jenkins is a general antiquarian bookstore and auction house, buying and selling rare and interesting books in all genres with a focus on Sexuality, LGBTIQ+, Ethnopharmacology, Counterculture, and Art.
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Highlights
L’Effort
$5000
A high point of Art Nouveau illustrated books featuring four symbolist tales each illustrated by a different artist in a different technique.
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Hortus Cliffortianus
$15000
One of the foundational texts of modern systematic botany and the most lavish of Linnaeus' works.
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A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side
$2500
Lithographed studies of Sydney street life in the 1880s focusing on the working and marginal figures of the city, including sex workers, the drunk, the infirm, street performers, a Chinese vegetable seller, and others.
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Oz Magazine (Australia) Complete Set with Newsletters
$15000
A high point of Australian underground publishing. Complete in 41 issues of the magazine proper, together with a complete set of the rarely seen newsletters.
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Garden of Eden: The Shamanic Use of Psychoactive Flora and Fauna, and the Study of Consciousness
$4500
Encyclopedia of psychoactive plants, animals and other organisms, and their uses in shamanism, spiritual exploration and healing.
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Living in the Other World Kingdom: Real State of Dominant Women
$2500
The founding charter of The Other World Kingdom (OWK), a BDSM and femdom resort and micronation in Czechia.
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Manchuria: Fortnightly Publication of The Manchuria Daily News [Vol. 1, No. 1] (July 1, 1936)
$400
First issue of the fortnightly magazine of The Manchuria Daily News, the English-language newspaper published at Dairen from 1908 to 1940 under the South Manchuria Railway Company to present Japan’s case in Manchuria to foreign readers.
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Complete DeMask Catalogue Collection
$1000
Complete set of the four printed catalogues of Dutch latex and leather store DeMask. Throughout the 1990s DeMask helped shape the international fetish scene hosting events (Europerve, Rubber Ball, et al.) in collaboration with Skin Two magazine.
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Themidore ou Mon Histoire et Celle de ma Maitresse
$2000
Extra-illustrated and finely bound copy of Godard d’Aucourt’s libertine novel, with original drawings and the plates in multiple states.
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Lew Hoad Tennis Player No 1. in Prague, 1956
$2000
Original portrait of Lew Hoad by Czech artist Marcel Niederle (1898-1990), drawn in Prague two days after Hoad’s victory at the French Championships, and signed by Hoad the following day. Hoad appeared in Prague for two days at the invitation of the Czechoslovak tennis authorities, before going onto win Wimbledon a little over a month later.
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