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OZ #1-41 (Sydney: Oz Publications Ink Limited, April 1963-February 1969) - all published (first and last issues supplied in facsimile). Edited by Richard Neville and Richard Walsh (Walsh and Dean Letcher from #27 on), with art direction by Martin Sharp, assisted by Garry Shead, Peter Kingston, Mike Glasheen, Peter Wright, Peter Fisher and others. Magazine format, stapled, each 16pp.-22pp. (including cover). Printed letterpress (#1-11), offset from issue #12 on + OZ #1-48 (London: Oz Publications Ink Limited/H. Bunch Associates, January 1967-November 1973) - all published. Edited by Richard Neville, and (later) Felix Dennis and Jim Anderson (guest editors include John Wilcock, Germaine Greer, Paul Lawson, Andrew Fisher and Jonathon Green), with art direction by Martin Sharp, Jon Goodchild, Philippe Mora, Felix Dennis, David Wills, Richard Adams, Pearce Marchbank, Barney Bubbles and others, and photography by Bob Whitaker, Keith Morris, David Nutter, among others. Printed offset. Formats, sizes and pagination vary. A complete set of both the Sydney and London editions of Oz magazine (the first and last issues of the former supplied in facsimile). The first issue of London Oz is signed by Richard Neville and Martin Sharp on the front cover, issues #13 and #45 have been signed by artist John Hurford, and all the major inserts and almost all the numerous colour variants are present.

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OZ #1-41 (Sydney: Oz Publications Ink Limited, April 1963-February 1969) - all published (first and last issues supplied in facsimile). Edited by Richard Neville and Richard Walsh (Walsh and Dean Letcher from #27 on), with art direction by Martin Sharp, assisted by Garry Shead, Peter Kingston, Mike Glasheen, Peter Wright, Peter Fisher and others. Magazine format, stapled, each 16pp.-22pp. (including cover). Printed letterpress (#1-11), offset from issue #12 on + OZ #1-48 (London: Oz Publications Ink Limited/H. Bunch Associates, January 1967-November 1973) - all published. Edited by Richard Neville, and (later) Felix Dennis and Jim Anderson (guest editors include John Wilcock, Germaine Greer, Paul Lawson, Andrew Fisher and Jonathon Green), with art direction by Martin Sharp, Jon Goodchild, Philippe Mora, Felix Dennis, David Wills, Richard Adams, Pearce Marchbank, Barney Bubbles and others, and photography by Bob Whitaker, Keith Morris, David Nutter, among others. Printed offset. Formats, sizes and pagination vary. A complete set of both the Sydney and London editions of Oz magazine (the first and last issues of the former supplied in facsimile). The first issue of London Oz is signed by Richard Neville and Martin Sharp on the front cover, issues #13 and #45 have been signed by artist John Hurford, and all the major inserts and almost all the numerous colour variants are present.

Richard Neville founded Oz from his family home in Mosman, a suburb of Sydney, in January 1963, together with a group of friends, among them Martin Sharp, Garry Shead and Alex Popov, and university student magazine editors Richard Walsh, Peter Grose, Peter Kingston and Mike Glasheen. The name for their new magazine originated from 'The Wizard of Oz', rather than the shorthand term for their homeland, a more obvious reference that Neville claimed did not occur to them at the time as the term was not then in widespread use. Intended to satirise Australia's conservative, deeply conformist and highly censored... More

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Banned! OZ ADVERTISING.

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Banned!

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

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An Oz sheet soliciting advertising "at the extraordinarily low rate of only £150 per page…to coincide with the forthcoming publicity assured OZ in the national press following the opening of the OZ Obscenity Trial at the Old Bailey on 22nd June" (1971). OZ ADVERTISING.

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An Oz sheet soliciting advertising "at the extraordinarily low rate of only £150 per page…to coincide with the forthcoming publicity assured OZ in the national press following the opening of the OZ Obscenity Trial at the Old Bailey on 22nd June" (1971).

Printed in black on orange stock, illustrated with the pregnant elelephant Oz logo. 29.8x21cm. The blurb includes contrasting quotes on Oz from The People ("muck"), Time Out ("the truest and best underground paper in the world"), and Private Eye ("the worst magazine in the history of the world"). Near Fine. More

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A double-sided Oz advertising rates card, printed in black on deep scarlet thin card stock, c. December 1970. OZ ADVERTISING RATES CARD.

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A double-sided Oz advertising rates card, printed in black on deep scarlet thin card stock, c. December 1970.

22.4x29.2cm. Designed by Richard Adams. One side features the advertising contact phone number, below the Oz pregnant elephant logo, followed by a list of quotes from the media, alongside a high contrast image of David Nutter's photograph of gun-toting hipster rebels (Aussie biker Pete Steedman and black model Mynah Byrd) with small child. The other side prints details of the rates and other information, and a line reproduction of Roy Lichtenstein's painting 'Whaam!' with the giant letters OZ replacing the exploding enemy aircraft, an image presumably intended to convey the potential impact of advertising in the magazine. Fine. More

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A double-sided Oz advertising rates card, c. September 1972. OZ ADVERTISING RATES CARD.

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A double-sided Oz advertising rates card, c. September 1972.

Printed in black on white card stock, with two horizontal machine folds. 29.8x21cm. Illustrated on one side with a full-frontal b/w photograph of a naked man and woman (David Wills and Aina Vasilevska) with their arms around each other, the former holding a joint, and a copy of Oz #44 obscuring their faces. The bold headline above reads: "We've got nothing to hide." The verso prints full details of the advertising rates, printing information and circulation numbers, along with another, smaller full-frontal photograph showing the same pair, unmasked and unabashed (David Wills moved to San Francisco in 1973... More

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A small poster printing Oz magazine's advertising rates, c. September 1972, OZ ADVERTISING RATES POSTER.

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A small poster printing Oz magazine's advertising rates, c. September 1972,

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

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Johnny: The Work of Psychedelic Artist John Hurford. John OZ ARTIST. HURFORD.

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Johnny: The Work of Psychedelic Artist John Hurford.

Exeter: Sunrise Press, 2006. First edition. 4to. Illustrated laminated boards. 166pp. + 25pp. introduction. Compiled and edited by Jonathan Hill. Profusely illustrated throughout with more than 550 full colour and b/w plates + photographs. A complete catalogue of the artist's work from 1964 on, including his early psychedelic contributions to Oz, as well as It and Gandalf's Garden, through to his more recent paintings, drawings and book illustrations. One of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist, with a fragment of an original artwork affixed to the title page, this copy additionally signed by by the book's publisher and editor... More

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A group of Oz 'Beautiful Freak!' badges in four different colourways: blue and red; red and green; green and red (negative photo images); and orange and red (positive photo image). OZ BADGES.

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A group of Oz 'Beautiful Freak!' badges in four different colourways: blue and red; red and green; green and red (negative photo images); and orange and red (positive photo image).

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

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Single sheet announcing "We're DOING THE OZ on Friday 18th of February (1972)…to celebrate our 5th anniversary - those five glorious years of struggle against bourgeois, capitalist decadence. Five years of OZ compressed into a few hours of peace, love, food, cocktails, candles, moonlight, roses and vintage rock & roll." OZ 5th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION INVITE.

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Single sheet announcing "We're DOING THE OZ on Friday 18th of February (1972)…to celebrate our 5th anniversary - those five glorious years of struggle against bourgeois, capitalist decadence. Five years of OZ compressed into a few hours of peace, love, food, cocktails, candles, moonlight, roses and vintage rock & roll."

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

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OZ 5th ANNIVERSARY POSTER.

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OZ 5th ANNIVERSARY POSTER.

A poster triumphantly announcing Oz magazine's fifth anniversary issue, February 1972 (Oz #40) - "On sale now 25p". Printed in red and purple on white stock. 54.9x37cm. Designed by John Fawcett, and illustrated with a full-length photograph of Sarah Bernhardt alongside a large image of Mickey Mouse in his Wizard's hat from the 1940 Disney movie, 'Fantasia'. The fifth anniversary of Oz was celebrated as a defiant landmark following the obscenity trial and the myriad attempts to close down the underground press. Fine. Provenance: The Felix Dennis Estate. More

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OZ HAVE MOVED.

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OZ HAVE MOVED.

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

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OZ INTERNATIONAL.

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OZ INTERNATIONAL.

A double-sided advertising rates card designed by Richard Adams for the projected Oz International (Quarterly), c. early 1974. Printed in black on white card stock, with two machine folds. 29.8x21cm. One side prints a series of 36 clip art images, including cartoons by Bill Griffiths and Basil Wolverton, the Oz pregnant elephant, and a silhouette map of Australia. The other side prints full details of the advertising rates and other information, including a list of locations "for limited distribution": Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong. Following Oz magazine's demise, the intention... More

A Typed Letter Signed by Oz Secretary, Bridget Murphy, dated February 10th, 1970. OZ LETTER.

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A Typed Letter Signed by Oz Secretary, Bridget Murphy, dated February 10th, 1970.

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

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OZ MAIL ORDER HONEYBUNCH KAMINSKI.

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OZ MAIL ORDER HONEYBUNCH KAMINSKI.

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

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Pig Policeman and Adolf Hitler. Two models created by the sculptor, Edwin Belchamber, as featured in Oz magazine, May and July 1971. OZ MODELS.

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Pig Policeman and Adolf Hitler. Two models created by the sculptor, Edwin Belchamber, as featured in Oz magazine, May and July 1971.

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

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