A glossy card printing a sarcastic conversation between Oz advertising manager John Leaver and Felix Dennis, originally intended for publication in the Advertiser's Weekly (the card claims it refused to run it), c. April 1968. Printed in black on coated white card stock. 17.9x11.5cm. Illustrated with a small image of the Hapshash cover from Oz #4 and photobooth images of two "OZ staff deliberating whether to advertise for advertising in this journal" (a beardless Felix Dennis and John Leaver). Dennis, then still an Oz 'pusher', before he took over from John Leaver (who moved to Time Out), is cast as... More

(Dennis became the advertising manager from Oz #17). Printed in black on white paper stock, featuring the Oz logo (c. summer 1968) and an illustration of a chimp holding up a hand mirror reflecting the face of the Mona Lisa. 27.9x11.5cm. Fine. More

Printed in black in a variety of typefaces on white paper stock. 26.2x15cm. Illustrated with an image of a man with a megaphone and a speech bubble proclaiming Felix Dennis's address and phone number. Designer not known (probably Felix Dennis). Near Fine. More

10.2x15cm. One side prints advertising rates and other info, including circulation numbers; the other side prints eight quotes on Oz from various publications. Ad manager Felix Dennis's updated phone number has been inserted using a typewriter and his old number crossed through in ink. Near Fine. More

with dimension boxes outlined in blue. Printed on glossy paper stock. Verso blank. 42x30cm. Illustrated with a full-frontal b/w photograph of David Wills and Aina Vasilevska with their arms around each other, the former holding a joint, and an issue of Oz#44 obscuring their faces. The bold headline above reads: "We've got nothing to hide". Old central horizontal fold and slight creasing to centre lower edge, o/w Very Good plus. More

5.5cm. diameter. The badge was first offered for sale by Oz mail order in issue #45 (November 1972), and reprises the front cover image of Mickey Mouse in 'Fantasia' from issue #40 (February 1972). Louise Ferrier is pictured wearing one on her jacket lapel in Richard Neville's memoir, Hippie Hippie Shake. Near Fine. More

Each 5.5cm. diameter. The badges were first offered for sale in Oz #32 in January 1971 (the Granny on the front cover is wearing one), with new colours advertised in Oz #41 (April 1972). The badges reproduce Keith Morris's front cover photograph from Oz #24 of Lee Heater and his acid-tipped tongue. Heater was a grungy Texan super-freak connected to the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in California who hung out at Oz, crashed in the back room at Richard Neville's basement flat with a basket of kittens and an illuminated fish tank (spiking his tea with LSD), and... More

Original photostat. 27.7x21.6cm. Features John Fawcett's illustration of Mickey Mouse in his Wizard's hat, with a thumb print in pink (lipstick?) added. The party was held at a restaurant in West Brompton from, as a handwritten note in the top left corner advises, "9pm onwards". The bottom line prints: "Unfortunately OZpitality is limited to our nearest and dearest, so please bring this invitation with you - it will admit two only." Old, faint central vertical and horizontal fold lines and a few smudges from handling, o/w Very Good. More

A printed sheet announcing Oz's change of address to 19 Great Newport Street in early 1972. Printed in dark blue on pale blue stock. 14.9x21cm. Illustration by Rod Beddall. Fine. More

The brief letter, typed on b/w Oz letterhead paper featuring the pregnant elephant logo, answers a reader's query about the availability of back issues and lists the unavailable numbers. A few months later Murphy was photographed by David Nutter for the School kids issue as a bare breasted St. Trinian's schoolgirl brandishing a fake AK47, but the image was not used (Jim Anderson had recently met David Nutter, brother of Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter, through Gay Liberation Front). Three faint horizontal mailing folds, o/w Near Fine. More

An original hand-painted plaster model of Honeybunch Kaminski, Robert Crumb's idealised fantasy of a young woman as fetishised object, rendered here in three dimensions as a fetishistic object for Oz mail order. The sculpture was made by Phelan Black, with models cast from the original mould in plaster of Paris and hand-painted by him (this example is in black, red, yellow and white). It stands seven inches tall, including the plinth, three inches wide, and weighs almost 900g. The Honeybunch model - "What a little yummy" - was first advertised for sale exclusively via Oz mail order in... More

Both models made from Das modelling clay and painted. Each figure stands approximately eleven inches tall and is mounted on a two inch plinth. The Pig Policeman adorned the front cover of Oz #35 (May 1971), in which his right trotter appears to be holding up a copy of the Oz School kids issue in anticipation of the imminent Obscenity Trial at the Old Bailey. His left trotter originally wielded a vicious spiked baton, though both the trotter and the weapon are now missing. He also appears on page seven of the magazine, appearing to hold up a.... More

Offset litho printed in blue, green and maroon on white stock. Designed by David Wills and printed by The Word for Oz Magazine (Oz carried coverage of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in issues #25 and #26). 76x50.5cm. Illustrated with a central photographic image of a naked woman astride a pig (Sally Kirkland in the 1969 film, 'Futz'), and small headshots of each of the eight conspiracy defendants arranged above. The co-organiser, Danae Brook, was a writer and model (the muse for Vidal Sassoon's geometric haircut) involved with the Living Theatre (her interview with Rufus Collins appears in Oz... More

Printed in orange and dark blue on white stock. 29.8x21cm. Designer not known (possibly Jon Goodchild). Faint foxing to upper part; faint lower left corner crease; o/w Very Good plus. More

Each 23.5x21cm. Near Fine. More

Each 21.9x19.5cm. Fine. More

Printed in orange, green and black on grey stock. 29.7x21cm. Designed by Richard Adams. Near Fine. More

Printed in red on orange stock. 26.7x21cm. Includes a form inviting feedback from the subscriber: "Your magazine is getting worse/better/more boring/less boring/to be a pain in the ass/I don't know/I'd personally like to see more cartoons/less cartoons/more sex/less sex/more news/no news/more music/no music/more madness/less sanity/more religion/no religion/you get busted by the pigs/I don't care". Fine. More

Photographer not known (probably Phil Franks). Similar shots of Anne Hopkins appear in the mail order pages of the penultimate issue of Oz, a magazine by then, following the departure of the Australians, very much made in Felix Dennis's image. Several old corner pinholes, o/w Very Good plus. More

Newspaper format. Each 24pp. Four issues of this Notting Hill-based underground paper, each one featuring news, comment and reports on the Oz trial, including three front covers, as well as a statement on the Oz Obscenity Fund by the three defendants. Also: full-page ads. for the Elastic Oz Band's single; the Angry Brigade; LSD; a 2pp. interview with Yoko Ono and John Lennon; Implosion; the killing of George Jackson; more. Very Good plus (old central horizontal fold to issue #9). More

Caroline Coon's copy, with the following inserts: i) 'Presenting the Oz Obscenity Trial'. Nine quarto sheets, printed in black on rectos only on different colour paper stock, stapled at top corner; ii) four 8x10 b/w photographs by David Nutter portraying the three editors as St. Trinian's schoolgirls in gym slips, as businessmen in bowler hats, and as bobbies in police uniforms, and the group shot of them with the school kid co-conspirators in the back garden at 38 Palace Gardens Terrace; iii) two 'Oz Obscenity Trial' stickers, Honeybunch Kaminski and pregnant elephant; iv) small poster for... More

A small poster imploring "Help Oz Win At The Old Bailey…and grow old gracefully (Put the money in the tins)". 40.5x25cm. Printed in black on white stock. The poster launched the Oz Obscenity Fund in March 1971 (it had previously appeared in a slightly different version in Oz #32). It features a futuristic cartoon from 1969 by Ron Cobb depicting three wizened old hippies sitting on a park bench, one of them holding a copy of the Los Angeles Free Press which in the poster has been altered to read: "Oz 50th Anniversary Issue, 1965-2015". Cobb's work first appeared in... More

A set of four small posters (41.5x27cm.), one of each colour variant produced (turquoise blue, buttercup yellow, salmon pink and pale lilac), all but one of them double-sided, announcing the 'Independence Day Carnival - A Celebration of People's Rights', organised by the Friends of Oz and held in Hyde Park on July 4th, 1971. Illustrated with a cartoon illustration by Alain Le Saux. The versos of the lilac, pink and yellow copies print news of the obscenity trial, arguing that it is not just Oz "on trial at the Old Bailey, it is in fact an entire community... More

Tabloid newspaper format. Each 16pp.-24pp. Ed. Andrew Fisher and Ed Victor. A run of nine issues of Ink, containing news and analysis of the Oz Trial, including three front covers, one of them featuring a Ralph Steadman cartoon of Judge Argyle. Issue #8 includes Richard Neville's recollections of the first Oz Trial in Sydney in 1964, accompanied by trial transcripts and Martin Sharp's original cartoons. Subsequent issues include a photograph of the huge Honeybunch Kaminski, constructed at the old Middle Earth club by Edwin Belchamber, Phelan Black and Dick Budden using expanded polystyrene and papier-mâché and star of..... More

B/w (20.2x25.2cm.). Printed caption label affixed to verso, with press agency stamp. Richard and Louise were busted by Detective Inspector Luff in their basement flat at 38 Palace Gardens Terrace, Notting Hill Gate, on Friday December 18th, 1970 (three months after the issue of summonses in the Oz school kids case), though the Drugs Squad found only a pile of roaches in the garbage outside. Upstairs, Jim Anderson managed to throw his stash over the back wall into the grounds of the Russian Embassy before being grabbed; Felix Dennis turned up on the street outside, but was moved... More

A poster designed by Felix Dennis announcing "Oz - A Play From The Transcripts Of The Historic Obscenity Trial", staged at the Oxford Playhouse, May 23rd-27th, 1972. Printed in purple and blue on white stock (there was also a black ink on orange paper variant). 54.6x36.9cm. Felix Dennis's design features a rearrangement of David Hockney's nude drawings of the three editors (the originals were donated by the artist to the Friends of Oz), with images of the Honeybunch Kaminski sticker strategically placed. Prints the statement that "Tickets include street carnival procession before performance and a discussion after the performance with..... More

A gilt-edged printed invitation to the preliminary hearing into the School kids Oz obscenity charge, held at Marylebone Magistrates Court on October 1st, 1970. Printed in black and grey on thin white card, decorated with a pale green border and gilt edges. 9x11.5cm. The invite to 'the first of a series of Obscene Courtroom Dramas' was mailed out to Oz subscribers and sympathisers, suggesting 'Fancy Dress optional' and R.S.V.P. Obscene Publications Office, New Scotland Yard. The three editors dressed up in schoolboy attire for the occasion, hired from a theatrical costumier's, and the public gallery was packed as..... More

An unused gummed sticker printing the slogan 'OZ NOW. YOU NEXT', illustrated with a version of Ron Cobb's cartoon of a Nazi stormtrooper robot, altered to show it burning School kids' Oz and the Little Red Schoolbook (1971). Printed in black on orange stock. 14.9x12cm. Probably intended for pasting up on the London Underground. Cobb's original cartoon, reproduced in Oz #15 and widely disseminated elsewhere, has the robot breaking flowers in its hand and crushing them underfoot. Near Fine. More

A poster designed by David Wills announcing the Oz Police Ball, a benefit concert for the Oz obscenity trial, held at 43 King St., Covent Garden (formerly the Middle Earth club), on March 6th, 1971. Printed in pink and blue on white stock. 56.2x37.6cm. Illustrated with an old engraving of a Bacchanalian procession of semi-clad men, women and children with cattle and sheep (one of the men depicted has a policeman's helmet added). The poster prints the eclectic line-up (Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Viv Stanshall's Seanhead Showband, Gene Vincent's Houseshakers, the Pink Fairies, Egg, Roy Harper, and "Holding... More

An Oz obscenity trial long-sleeved T-shirt (March 1971), designed by Richard Adams. Originally owned and worn by Caroline Coon. Pale orange cotton, featuring a screenprinted illustration of Robert Crumb's Honeybunch Kaminski on the front in pink and brown, with lettering to border. Caroline Coon, co-founder of Release, part of the 'Free The Oz Three' campaign and later a defence witness at the trial, was given the T-shirt by Richard Neville. She remembers wearing it out and about and at the Release office (just down the road from Oz), and customising the seams (a practice she later put to... More

An original Oz obscenity trial short-sleeved T-shirt (March 1971). Canary yellow cotton, with Oz elephant logo screenprinted on the back and a large colour image of Jiminy Cricket to the front. Trial version, not produced for sale. Neckline and seams frayed and worn, with holes and wear to lower front section. Provenance: Richard Adams. More

A group of eight original b/w press photographs, including two showing the Oz defendants, taken immediately after they had been granted bail by a High Court Judge and released from jail, and five showing the demonstrations held outside the Old Bailey in protest at Judge Argyle's earlier sentencing of the three editors to imprisonment. Dimensions vary: most measure approx. 19x25cm. (largest 25x20.5cm.; smallest 15.2x25.7cm.). Caption labels to verso of each, most of them printed in aniline purple, with photo agency stamps to all but one of the prints. The two photographs of Richard Neville, Felix Dennis and Jim..... More

Quarto card sheet reproducing the front cover of the Oz School kids issue and printing several advertisements for local businesses. Folded once, as issued, with stapled flap to lower half containing various printed inserts, including a small photographic image of the three defendants, the Rupert Bear cartoon, and two drawings reproduced from pages 10 and 11 of School kids Oz. The dramatisation was directed by Andrew Hochhauser, who provides a one-page explanatory text on the legal aspects of the trial. Other inserted sheets include a cast list and several contemporary press quotes on the trial. An early version of the... More

Ed. Tony Elliott. Quarto magazine format. 66pp. Oz Obscenity Trial front cover featuring Robert Crumb's Honeybunch Kaminski. The abbreviated news item on page 5 announces the opening of the trial on June 22nd at the Old Bailey, prints the charge, and names the three defendants, before stating: "This issue of Time Out was to have contained a two page feature on the forthcoming trial. Our printers informed us that, on legal advice, they would be unwilling to print the material as it was Contempt of Court …Faced with this decision at such short notice we have been forced to withdraw... More

London: Mathews Miller Dunbar, 1972. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated glossy laminated boards. SIGNED and inscribed by Martin Sharp to Felix Dennis on the half-title page: "Dear Felix the first publisher of page 2! Love Martin. Have a happy….". A wonderful association copy of this miniature book, which reproduces 38 of Sharp's collaged images of well-known paintings cut from art books, including the overlay of Van Gogh on Van Gogh referred to in his inscription, first published by Felix Dennis in Oz #43 (July 1972). Laminated boards slightly rubbed and lightly soiled, o/w Very Good, with Felix Dennis's bookplate... More

London: Big O Posters Ltd. (Big OP1), 1967. Poster printed offset litho in red and black on gold metallic foil paper. 74.7x49.6cm. Sharp's classic psychedelic rendition of Bob Dylan (later adapted by him for the cover of Oz #7). This copy has been SIGNED and dated ('11.12.2003') by Martin Sharp in black ink (front centre lower edge), and, due to its near indecipherability on the dark background, again on the back, with, in addition, his name written out. Sharp created the poster as a tribute to Dylan at Joubert Studios in Chelsea, a bijou space he shared with... More

London: Big O Posters Ltd. (Big O1), 1967. Offset litho in black and red on gold metallic foil paper. 76x50.8cm. The poster that launched Peter Ledeboer's Big O poster company and helped establish Martin Sharp's reputation in London. A detail from it, the dancing Patagonians in the upper centre section, subsequently adorned the front cover of Oz #6 (August 1967), and the pot rally it announced was the occasion of Jim Anderson's first meeting with Richard Neville (apart from Anderson's research for 'Play Power', however, which began in November 1968, they didn't work together on Oz until February... More

Sydney: Reid Books, nd. (April 1971). 4to., magazine format. Unpaginated (36pp., including cover). Printed in black on white paper stock. A spectacular continuous collage of cartoon psychedelia, acid imagery, clippings and cut-up texts, compiled by Sharp in Sydney following his return from London in late 1970. Described by Joyce Morgan in her biography of Sharp as "part manifesto, part scrapbook, part autobiography", it was intended to accompany his upcoming exhibition (The Incredible Shrinking Exhibition) at what would become The Yellow House at 59 Macleay Street (named after Van Gogh's Maison Jaune). Van Gogh features prominently, including a line... More

Edited and published by Graham Keen. Tabloid newspaper format, folded. The first issue of the first major British underground comic, including a full-page contribution from Martin Sharp. Also contains the first appearance of "The Unspeakable Mr. Hart Pts. 1-4", a collaboration between William Burroughs and illustrator Malcolm McNeill, plus work by Mal Dean, Ed Barker, Vaughn Bodé, and Raymond Lowry, as well as a full-page Ed Barker-designed ad. for Phun City, with mention of Burroughs. Newsprint paper slightly darkened along edges, o/w Very Good plus, with pre-publication flyer loosely inserted. More

Newspaper format 24pp. Centrespread art by Martin Sharp (reprinted from Oz #12). Also: front cover art by William Stok; magic mushrooms; the Mangrove 9; more. Edges slightly browned, o/w Very Good plus. More

Offset litho poster in black and red on white paper, printed later (1990s). SIGNED by Martin Sharp in black ink, dated by him ('11.12.2003'), and with his name written out by him alongside his signature. 75.8x49.7cm. (the original edition of the poster is slightly larger). Sharp's delicate, filigree arabesque design, with its characteristic central image of a red-lipped, gap-toothed grin, was created to inaugurate the first issue of London Oz, published on January 24th, 1967. Minor handling creases, o/w Near Fine. More

Private view invite card and various ephemera printed for the retrospective exhibition of Martin Sharp's work held at the Museum of Sydney between October 31st, 2009 - March 14th, 2010. Five items, including two postcards (10.5x19.5cm.), each one reproducing a painting by Sharp, who designed the exhibition. Sizes vary: largest 21x15cm. (folded); smallest 10x10cm. (pvi, folded). More

Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2017. First edition. Glossy illustrated wrps. (no h/c issued), 338pp. + two 16pp. photo-inserts (colour and b/w). Front cover photograph by Robert Whitaker. Comprehensive, thoroughly researched biography by a former arts editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. As new. More

An original poster promoting the publication of Oz #4. London: June 1967. Variant issue, silkscreened in gold and blue on thin white paper. 75.4x50.2cm. (approx.) A rare colour variant, with the central image of the engraving reversed, ie. negative. Left edge unevenly trimmed; old corner pinholes and small blu tack remnants to corners of verso; a few faint handling creases, o/w Very Good plus. More

Magazine format, unpaginated (48pp., including cover). Printed in colour and b/w. The first purely visual issue of Oz, created by Martin Sharp at the Pheasantry with Philippe Mora, and conceived by him as an endless circle: "It's a circular magazine. The back goes into the front and keeps going around" (quoted by Joyce Morgan, p.136). Sharp's reworking of Van Gogh's self-portrait, which appears on page 42 in the magazine, is accompanied by a brief quote from the artist: "Life is probably round". In Hippie Hippie Shake (p.126), Richard Neville describes this issue as "a forty-eight page rush-hour of... More

Poster printed offset litho in yellow, red and orange inks on thin white stock. 75x50.5cm. The acid-drenched blacklight poster was printed by The Word for Oz magazine to promote the Legalise Pot Rally held in Hyde Park on July 7th, 1968, a follow-up to the previous year's event. It features a drawing of a long-haired, bearded mystic by John Hurford (only really visible under ultraviolet light), overlaid with an ink drawing by Martin Sharp of a stoned hippie smoking a joint, wild flowers sprouting everywhere from his head. The image was used in a slightly modified form on... More

TDK CD-R, in plastic cases, each one with inlay cards hand-titled in black pen by Sharp, printed track listings added, and one of them embellished with multi-coloured glitter strips. The recordings are 'Tiny Tim's Pop Album', 'Tiny Tim's Christmas Album', 'Chameleon' (all possibly differing from the official releases), and 'Tiny Tim Live at the Royal Albert Hall' (1968), this latter concert being the moment of Sharp's hash-induced epiphany (or acid, accounts vary) and the beginning of his lifelong obsession with the singer. Immediately after this revelatory discovery of his soulmate, whose work he would tirelessly champion, Sharp immersed... More