London; New York: Erotica Biblion Society, 1932. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 134 pages. The Erotica Biblion Society were published in Victorian London by Leonard Smithers and Henry Sidney Nichols in small printings or limited editions to allow the seller to know they would shortly be moderately scarce. This book begins with..... More
1939. The Photograph is from her famous "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition. The Photograph has her and several of her girls which was housed inside the Fair Grounds at a spot called The Music Box. She supposedly would perform in the buff but when..... More
Np: Np. Approx. 3" x 4 1/4" Each printed on both sides, single staple in center. One Dixie Dugan Fuller Brush Man and six other Fuller Brush Men. Two which have plain paper wrappers with titles. The Fuller Brush Man in a Tempting Torso and the other titled The Adventures..... More
Np: Np. Approx 3" x 4 1/4" 13 items each printed on both sides with a single staple. Typical of their genre, the tijuana Bibles (called in the Midwest 8 page literature) There were typically grapphic, crude drawings of sex (usually taking place by page two or three). Besides those..... More
[London]: The Casanova Society, 1925. Limited Edition. Quarto. . Limited to 1000 copies. The present copy is #262. 311 pages translated by Francis Macnamara. Originally published in 1829 when he was 30 years old preceding his 96 novels. This was a satire on marital infidelity as was common in his..... More
New York; (1933): Henry M. Snyder. Small Octavo. 47 unnumbered pages of the woman who vowed to remain a virgin until a woman friend placed a book in her hand called 'Vermillion Sin' (a bibliographic ghost, by the way). The book aroused what had been dormant and she at age..... More
N.l. Self-Published By Lawrence Block, 1995. Perfect Bound. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. NO. 60 of 100, fronispience color photograph hand mounted of Lawrence Block. Signed by Block. Erotic tales of seducing a virgin and her delight as she calls on all the saints during the experience (though..... More
(Frankfurt, 1989): Zweitausendeins. First German Edition. Small Octavo. First German translation. 340(1)pp. Translated and edited in German by Varl Weissner. Bound in red paper covered baords resembling snakeskin, black leather spine label lettered in white, a near fine copy in near fine publisher's slipcase. More
Paris [1936]: Np. First Edition. Octavo. 178p. six very graphic sexual scenes by the erotic artist, Jack Craig. Most copies that have survived have only four of the six images. This work purports to be published in Paris but it is likely that it was printed underground in New York..... More
Octavo. The 1935 volume issued by the "dirty old men" of the club whose book not only was replete with nudes but did not hesitate to include pubic hair. P. 44 and four others can be viewed through the original cellophane For this reason, the copies could not be sent..... More
Paternoster House, Nd(33rd thousand): Selwyn & Blount, Ltd. 12mo. Later printing. 256pp., From front flap blurb. "A dramatic story of a family before the war, during the war, and after the war, which in addition, forms a poignant and rather cynical commentary on the times in which we live. The..... More
University of Chicago Press, 1985. Cloth. Octavo. 223pp., index. Near Fine. More
New York; (1966): Grove Press, Inc. First Thus. Small Folio. With the exception of the introduction by Henry Miller, this would truly be a facsimile edition of the first 1923 German edition published for the first time in America. no pagination, illustrated in color and in black & white, bound..... More
np/nd (ca.1930): Privately Printed. Octavo. 91 pages. One of the scarcest of the underground erotic authors. Yale University has the only recorded copy of the author's "Memories of an Hotel Man". The title page mentions he also wrote: "Love in a Taxi" (no recorded copy). This copy is unrecorded in..... More
Privately Printed, 1930. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 2500 copies. The present copy is number 797. 153pp., illustrated by William Segel. The classic story of romance and the chase of a married woman that keeps leading André along with promise of a rendezvous. Bound in black paper covered boards lettered..... More
New York: Popular Publications, Inc., 1956. Chiriacka. First Edition. Quarto. 96pp, This issue has the first appearance of "Jail Bait," John D. MacDonald's steamy story. Includes "Tom Runyon: The Way Back" by Erle Stanley Gardner, a true account of Sailors Union of Pacific and the American Justice system. --this with..... More
Paris; (1929): Marti-Dupuis. Limited Edition. Folio. 228p. 78 porchoirs by Edith Follet of which forty are full page with tissue guards. Limited to 895 copies, this is copy 579. She was the second wife (from 1918 to 1926 ) of the writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine. The pochoir stenciling process, characterized by..... More
Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 127 pp. First half "Transvestites & Drag Queens," second half "Transsexuals." Warning: this book is very explicit and kept in our back room for mail order..... More
Paris: for the Author and His Friends, 1902. Limitd Edition. Octavo. Limited to 375 copies. The present copy is unnumbered. 227 pages. The hunger for erotica was strong while the forces in power in late 19th century England and America attempted to prevent the sale of literature that dealt openly..... More
1939. Photograph of Sally Rand's famous "Nude ranch" [boldly signed by her in facsimile] was housed inside the fair grounds at the Golden Gate International Exhibition at a club called The Music Box. she supposedly would perform in the buff but when she was challenged in court cases, she claimed..... More
Paris; [1924): L'Editions D'Art. Limited Edition. 12mo. A limited edition of 1600 sets of the text. (100 copies on Japon) The present set is # 912 on pure white and Kleber wire rod. A unique set of this work in three volumes, 281, 205, and 264pp. with a preface by..... More
(London, 1987): Macdonald, 1984. First British Edition. Octavo. 233p. Anne Rice's earlier erotic writing left very little to the imagination. Second in her series continues with a vengence. Clearly, Sleeping Beauty is very much the nymphomaniac rather than the passive victim of male lust.Bound in black cloth, spne lettering gilt..... More
Paris; nd: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. #35 of 300 copies (total 320 copies) on hand made Montval paper, text in English, nicely illustrated with mildly erotic engravings by Jean Dulac, 239(1)pp. handsomely bound in dark brown morocco and marbled paper with decorative gilt inlays to..... More
(Treilleres, 1981): Pierre Guathier. Limited Edition. Folio. Signed by artist and limited to 1000 copies. French text. Unnumbered pages (100), with 23 full page color images. Each of the model's images are accompanied with a poem from classic French literature. Most of the images have full frontal nudity of the..... More
Quarto. 5 pages, typed original.Unlike the Tiajuana Bibles (also called 8 page literatures), this very graphic description of a man and woman in the throngs of passion is suprisingly literate though not with the excellence of a Robert Frost in poetry though indicating a good knowledge of vocabulary; nevertheless, it..... More