Germain Greer (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1991. 1st US Ed. VF/VF. As New. Signed, date by author on title page by noted feminist. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Well-illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 250 x 175 mm approx. [vi] + 374 pp 32 colour plates and 161 b/w illustrations (per flap fold). First Edition 1st Imp. 1979. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Near Fine (Book - negligible shelf wear, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - small laminate scuff to rear panel at spine fold, no notable rubbing, non price clipped £12.50 with promotional price to 31st March 1980 of £9.95 intact. No other defects to book or jacket, the latter supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). NB The book block comprises heavy quality paper which makes for a heavy tome and regrettable additional postage will need be sought for overseas shipping.

Magazine. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first two issues of this short-lived and highly controversial underground pornographic magazine, 'Suck'. The first two issues of Suck, the "first European sexpaper", an Amsterdam-based underground sex-positive magazine founded in London by Bell Levy, Jim Haynes, the playwright Heathcote Williams and radical feminist writer Germaine Greer. Heavily influenced by the emerging counter culture (especially that of Amsterdam) the contents unabashedly celebrate free love and queer sexuality. The United Kingdom banned the publication prior to its first issue and the magazine moved its production to Amsterdam to circumvent English censorship.Content of note includes an erotic poem by W. H. Auden ('The Gobble Poem'), a male sensuality test, a radical article on self-love by Germain Greer and a promotional page for 'Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical'.In the original pictorial wraps. No. 2 is complete. but lacking 16 pages to Issue No. 1.Most issues were art directed by Willem de Ridder in Amsterdam. With numerous photographic (and highly pornographic) illustrations and cartoon strips throughout the text. In the publisher's pictorial wraps. Externally, with wear and creasing to the edges and splits to the main folds, affecting a few of the leaves. No. 1 is more notably worn, with covers at risk of separating with further handling. Internally, unbound as issued, with 16 of the 32 pages to No. 1. Pages are generally bright and clean, with really only mild toning to no. 1 contents. Good. book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Celebrated publisher Carmen Callil's personal copy of her schoolmate Germain Greer's seminal feminist work, with annotations from Callil. An association copy of the tenth UK printing of Greer's important feminist text, in which she presents the thesis that the suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, rendering them eunuchs.From the library of Carmen Callil, an Australian publisher who founded Virago Press in 1973, to"publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population". Virago publish works by new and neglected female authors, publishing the works by authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctivegreen spine synonymous with Virago.Callil and Greer - both Australian - attended the Star of the Sea College convent school in Melbourne at the same. Callil had two half Siamese kittens, named John and William, that were given to her by Greer and named after two 'lovely men' Callil worked early in her career.With Callil's bookplate to the front pastedown, and her inscription to the front free endpaper.With frequent annotations from Callil to the start of the work through to page 19. She underlines in pencil such passages as 'if women liberate themselves, they will perforce liberate their oppressors' and 'the revolutionary woman must know her enemies, the doctors, psychiatrists, health visitors, priests, marriage counsellors'. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Back strip and rear wrap lightly age toned, with rubbing to front wrap perimeters. Bookplate to front pastedown, pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pencil annotations to first nineteen pages of text. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Very Good. book.