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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Cloches de Noel et de Paques
$60000
Copy No. 1 of 10 on Japon containing an original Mucha drawing. One of the great illustrated books of the Art Nouveau period.
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R and R: A Flight Fare Story
$500
Self-published short story by Merry Prankster and psychedelic icon Ken Babbs, featuring Marine helicopter pilots Huckelbee and Cochran on R&R at a Japanese brothel, the Five Hundred Club. An early version of what would become, in heavily edited form, chapter 7 of Babbs’ 2011 Vietnam novel, Who Shot the Water Buffalo?
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Thais
$2000
Unique painted binding for Anatole France's story of the Alexandrian courtesan illustrated by Raphael Freida.
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Nu-Scene International
$500
Newsletter of the Elaine Barrie Project, a Melbourne crossdressing and transgender support and social group formed in 1979 as a breakaway from Seahorse Victoria.
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Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d’Exces
$1500
The first serious reprint of Gamiani, with the text revised against the original edition, and the preface, by Louis Perceau, for the first time attempting a bibliography of the much reprinted work. One of 300 copies, this one with the plates hand-coloured.
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Biba Fashion Catalogues Archive
$4000
A complete set of the Biba mail order catalogues with a small archive of extra materials.
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Caloundra Capers: Drawings & Sea Songs
$800
Collection of drawings by Christine Webb with accompanying poems by Shelton Lea and Don Maynard, recording a trip together with Barrett Reid for some lollygagging in the Queensland sun at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente
$4500
First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work in a contemporary French pointille binding.
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Un Coeur Simple
$2000
Unique French binding with repousse silver plates to the inner boards.
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