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 Woolloongabba, Brisbane, buying and selling rare and interesting books in all genres; specialising in niche non-fiction with a focus on Sexuality, LGBTIQ+, Ethnopharmacology, Dance, Performance, and Art.
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Highlights
Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language
$18000
First edition of one of the landmark works of the English language.
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Otoko: Photo-Studies of the Young Japanese Male
$1000
“..the best Japanese male nude photography book of that time”, which remains one of the high points of homoerotic photography books to this day. Dedicated to Yukio Mishima, the models could easily be characters from his novels, and Mishima himself posing as a Samurai.
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Suck: First European Sexpaper
$2000
A complete set of Suck, touted as the first European sex newspaper tasked with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”.
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Les Odes d’Anacreon, Teien
$2500
Extra-illustrated with 8 original signed drawings (4 full page and 4 vignettes) in pencil, pen, ink, and pastel by Georges Villa in a fine binding signed Yseux SR de Thierry-Simier.
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
$8000
One of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization.
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Les Champignons: Histoire – Description – Culture – Usages
$1200
Mushrooms: History, description, culture, uses of edible, poisonous, suspicious species used in the arts, industry, home economics, medicine.
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Nelson Mandela: The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom
$4500
Signed and numbered illustrated edition, specially produced by Chinthurst Fine books to celebrate the 85th birthday of Nelson Mandela on the 18th of July, 2003. Bound in full brown morocco by monastically trained bookbinders at Abbey Bookbindery in Surrey, England, with a matching clamshell presentation case containing a drawer of 4 signed lithographed photographic prints on art paper by South African photographer Grant Warren.
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Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia
$12000
A complete set of the foundational fetish magazine of the 20th century that has its artistic roots in Australia.
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