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 in West End, Brisbane, buying and selling new, secondhand, and rare books in all genres with a focus on Sexuality, LGBTIQ+, Ethnopharmacology, Dance, Performance, and Art.
Highlights
Suck Manifesto Poster + Original Typescript
$1000
Poster print manifesto by Heathcote Williams (1941-2017) for the sexpaper Suck co-founded by Heathcote Williams, William Levy, Jim Hayes, and Germaine Greer. The poster is printed in red and white with manuscript alterations, signed and dated by Williams, 1970. Together with Williams' original typescript of the manifesto, dated London 1969, with typescript and manuscript alterations. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England's anti-obscenity laws
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Annie Sprinkles ABC Study of Sexual Lust and Deviations
$300
Artist book produced by Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera. Numbered edition of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 704. An A-Z series of photographs with short text of sexual behaviour. Annie Sprinkle (1954-) is an American sex worker cum sexologist, artist, and ecosexualist. In 1996 she became the first known porn star to get a doctoral degree and has been a champion of sex education and sex-positive feminism.
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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
$5000
With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. The rare first edition written from Wallace's notes of his first fieldwork expedition to the Amazon, 1848-1852, his specimens and most of his work having been lost in a cargo fire on the return voyage.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
$2500
The first UK edition published prior to the US edition with the first issue advertisements dated October 1884. BAL 3414. The stapled sequence.
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Mushrooms, Russia and History
$14000
The pioneering work of ethnomycology by R. Gordon Wasson (1898-1986), banker turned mushroom head, and his wife, Russian-American pediatrician Valentina Pavlovna Wasson (1901-1958). Together they were largely responsible for turning on a western audience to psychedelic mushrooms following telling their story in Life and This Week magazines in the same year as publishing this work.
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Shopping Around the World:
$200
The Key to the Shops Around the World. Shopping in each place is captured by a colourful full page illustration, along with details of routes and fares for trips on the NYK liners. Illustrated by American illustrator Daniel C. Sweeney (1880-1958)
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Westminster School: Past and Present
$1200
A history of the Westminster School in London, though also a recording of its past customs and a lengthy biographical recording of headmasters and numerous distinguished students, and personal reminiscences. Frederic H. Forshall was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but left after a year, moving to Sydney. He was part of the first cohort at The University of Sydney in 1852, and while still a student was appointed the University Librarian.
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Laurence Fleming: A Diet of Crumbs
$500
The first published work of Laurence Fleming. Born in Assam in 1929 Fleming was part of the last generation of children raised in British India. Diet of Crumbs was his first published work after returning to England and study stage design. It is described as "a study of the unloved", and tells the story of a house party in the countryside hosted by one Miss Persica Sutton, the daughter of Lois Sutton, the author of a book "about an affair between a sexually irregular woman and a sexually irregular man." Jacket illustration by British cartoonist Michael ffolkes. Inscribed.
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