New Desire Book Cover Posters!

For all of you have waited so patiently for us to make good on our Great Poster Promise, THEY'RE READY. We have an amazing range of 20 different A3+ posters; photos we've taken of gorgeous, iconic and/or just plain strange books that have crossed our path. We've got some in store, and we're taking Christmas orders. Get your order in by Dec 18th at the latest... Don't delay, these are the Christmas presents you won't find anywhere else!

 $45 unframed, $100 framed. 

Image size is 31cm x 46.5cm, and will fit in both A3 and 12"x16" framing mats.

Order via email, phone or come by the store between 10am and 5pm (address and number on right top of page)

Here's the first bunch, but we'll be adding many more to the catalogue over time.

(Desire Books watermarks have been added on the reproductions below; actual prints don't have a watermark.)

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 We Are Not the First, by Andrew Tomas

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Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut

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 Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Daniken

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Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice, by Garry Hogg

#CHGH001

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The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac

 #DBJK001

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Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin

#DVAN001

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The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand

#FHAR001

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 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos

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 A Ghost at Noon, by Alberto Moravia

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 #GNAM001

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A Ghost at Noon, by Alberto Moravia

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Guerrilla Warfare, by Che Guevara

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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, by Tom Wolfe

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The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann

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The Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs

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On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

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Post Office, by Charles Bukowski

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 The Girl Nadja, by anonymous

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Ulysses, by James Joyce

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Ulysses, by James Joyce

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Bonfire at Desire, Episode 6

Each Bonfire at Desire comes with a new flavour of magic that nobody can predict. Pack your poems, stories, songs, films, friends and wine and head down to this lovely little bookshop and we'll all have a taste of what the sixth monthly installment brings us.

Tuesday the 29th of November at 7pm at ye olde bookshoppe, Desire Books 3/3 Whistler St, Manly.

New badge packs!

Over the next couple o' months we'll be releasing a bunch of nifty badge packs! (How much is "a bunch"? Our friends at the Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements in Belgium define a bunch as "a smidge more than some".)

The first two:

Great Literary Moustaches


And, Desirable Vintage Portable Typewriters


Available in store now!