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Donald Friend (1914-1989), Bumbooziana: 'Sundry Notes & Papers,…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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Donald Friend (1914-1989), Bumbooziana: 'Sundry Notes & Papers, being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition. collected and collated under the title Bumbooziana wherein is set down the illfated Expedition's numerous adventures and the results of their investigations into the private habits of elephants, camels, zebras, leopards, etc. and the equally strange customs of men, accurately and profusely illustrated, described and anatomised by an Artist of world Renown.' (Adelaide, Griffin Press, 1979). No.4 of 10, being a special issue bound by Zaehnsdorf in full purple morocco, the front board with a pictorial leather onlay, silk lined endpapers, spine with raised bands, leather hinges, edges gilt in a mauve slipcase as issued, 'bound by Zaehnsdorf for the artist and publisher and is out of series' fully signed 'Donald Friend' and initialled 'Rg' (Richard Griffin), the creator of this masterpiece of erotica. Includes over 100 plates in full colour, many elaborately decorated in gold. The text is written in Donald Friend's hand, around the illustrations of a fantastic, exotic and erotic journey through foreign lands, involving all manner of wild and outrageous acts of wanton sexual abandonment. The edition was heavily over-subscribed prior to publication, and is consequently extremely rare.
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Printed & Written Material: Books