Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

232 c DONALD FRIEND (1914-1989) Onward to Victory, Gay Militants . Pen and ink on creamwove paper, with a pencil sketch of a church, verso. 6 3 / 4 x9 1 / 2 inches, 17.5x24.5 cm. Signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed “Sydney” in ink, lower right recto. 1982. [600/800] Friend was an Australian artist known in particular for his skill as a draughtsman. 233 c DONALD FRIEND (1914-1989) Hymn of the Gay Militants. Watercolor and brush and ink on paper. 14 5 / 8 x19 3 / 4 inches, 37x50 cm. Signed and titled in ink, upper left. Circa 1982. [2,000/3,000] 234 234 c DONALD FRIEND (1914-1989) and RICHARD GRIFFIN Bumbooziana. Facsimile manuscript profusely illustrated in colors and metallic inks, plus a loose print of page 36 initialed and numbered 17/50 by Friend laid in. Elephant folio, quarter gilt-stamped dark green crushed morocco over orange boards; matching slipcase with morrocco spine label. Prospectus laid in. Victoria, Australia: Gryphon Books, 1979. [1,000/1,500] number 119 of 150 copies with an additional print . This copy with a rough publisher’s advance proof of the text. A limited edition of Friend’s erotic and fantastical manuscript described as the “Sundry Notes & Papers; being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition.”

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