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Le Diable au Corps
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Radiguet; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Editions Georges Gullot, 1957.The Devil in the Flesh. The story of a young married woman’s affair with a teenage boy while her husband is away fighting in WWI. First published in 1923, this is the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat, and with an introduction by Jean Cocteau. The superlative issue, one of 16 numbered copies on Japanese paper with an original signed drawing in pencil and white gouache, with the composition then hand coloured and signed by Becat, the 16 illustrations by Becat hand coloured by Jean and Paulette Monnier, followed by a suite containing the illustrations in black in two states, on Japanese paper and Rives vellum.
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Fallopian Tube Fallopianna & Madness (2 Volumes)
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGaby [Gabrielle Antolovich]
Sydney: Fallopian Tube Press, 1974.The first two (and likely only) publications of the Sydney lesbian feminist press Fallopian Tube, featuring feminist and lesbian poetry and texts. Gabrielle Antolovich was a prominent figure in Sydney’s gay liberation and feminist movements, an early member of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) who, with her then-partner Sue Wills, appeared on the ABC’s landmark Chequerboard documentary in 1972 as one of the first openly lesbian couples on Australian television. Antolovich resigned from CAMP’s executive in 1974, citing sexism within the organisation, the same year these publications appeared, amid a broader shift among lesbian activists toward autonomous feminist publishing. Fallopianna is one of 100 numbered first printing copies produced in April 1974. Madness is one of 200 numbered first printing copies produced in December of the same year. Contains an erotic text by pioneering Australian feminist artist Vivienne Binns, noted as ‘the piece that no other publication would print’, along with contributions by Kerryn Higgs, Kate Jennings, and others.
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R and R: A Flight Fare Story
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Babbs
: Ken Babbs, 1984.Self-published short story by Merry Prankster and psychedelic icon Ken Babbs, featuring Marine helicopter pilots Huckelbee and Cochran on R&R at a Japanese brothel, the Five Hundred Club. An early version of what would become, in heavily edited form, chapter 7 of Babbs’ 2011 Vietnam novel, Who Shot the Water Buffalo?. The novel originated from a manuscript Babbs began during his service as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam (1962-63) and took nearly fifty years to reach publication. The present pamphlet is the only known separate printing of any portion of that manuscript, preserving a pre-publication text substantially different from the finished novel. Inscribed by Babbs to counterculture collector and historian Rick Synchef. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Robert Payne Presents The Levis Crowd
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[John Embry]
: N.p., No date.A selection from the gay physique photographic archive of Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG), compiled by Drummer magazine co-founder John Embry under his Robert Payne pseudonym in the years leading up the magazine’s beginnings. The publication brings together masculine imagery of the American outdoorsman in Levi’s, with a centre spread featuring prominent American porn actor and director Fred Halsted.
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Ars Amandi. L’Art D’Aimer
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOvide; Pierre Lievre; Andre Lambert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Art of Love by Ovid, a new translation into French by Pierre Lievre and with illustrations by Andre Lambert. One of 404 numbered copies on Arches vellum (from a total edition of 500), this copy for Maurice de Smet de Naeyer, bound in half leather signed Weckesser.
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Bootlove’s Premier Issue
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. Jackson
Palm Springs: Bootlove’s, 1979.One-shot American magazine devoted to interviews with professional dominatrixes about their footwear. The first in a series of titles by David Jackson’s Strictly Speaking Publishing Company, which went on to become an established force in fem-dom publishing through its long-running Domination Directory International (DDI) and Fantasy Fashion Digest. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Sweet Gwendoline & Sir Dystic d’Arcy No. 1: The Race for the Gold Cup
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Willie [John Alexander Scott Coutts]
Los Angeles: J. A. S. Coutts, 1958.The complete cartoon serial of Sweet Gwendoline, reworked, finished, and published by the artist. The character first appeared in Coutts iconic fetish magazine Bizarre, which ran for 26 issues between 1946 and 1959 and remains the most influential fetish periodical of its era. Publishing under the pseudonym John Willie, Coutts work profoundly shaped later artists including Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, and erotica publisher Leonard Burtman. Born in Singapore to British parents, Coutts lived in Brisbane and Sydney from 1926 to 1945, where he developed his signature aesthetic centred on high heels, corsetry, and bondage. During this period he produced photographs and drawings, often featuring his wife and model Holly Anna Faram, much of which informed the imagery of Bizarre’s early issues. After a short stint in the Australian Military Forces, Coutts emigrated to North America in 1945, publishing Bizarre soon after. This standalone title was published after Coutts had sold the magazine and relocated from New York to Los Angeles. The final 55-page narrative that Coutts published in magazine form in November 1958 was a significant reworking of the original Sir d’Arcy d’Arcy comic–almost a complete reimagining. The journey to this completed work had been long and winding, beginning in Bizarre, passing through Wink magazine, and briefly distributed by Irving Klaw as 10×8″ photographic sheets. The bound edition Coutts eventually published remains the only complete version.” (Richard Perez Seves, John Willie: The Story of John Alexander Scott Coutts). A single copy recorded in public institutions, at Yale University.
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Domineta
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGene Bilbrew; A. De Granamour; Ralph Gayl; Gene Paul
New York: Art Publications, 1965.3 femdom short stories with illustrations by Gene Bilbrew, noted African American fetish artist of the 1950s and 60s, under his Eneg moniker. Billed as a new Connoisseur publication (whether it was produced by Leonard Burtman, or riding off the back of the collapse of Selbee, is unknown) and as a Collector’s First Edition, together with a call for correspondence to be sent in from readers, however no further issues appear to have been produced. The first author, A. DeGranamour, whose contribution occupies more than half the volume, went on to pen numerous works of erotica published in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Tyson-Rose Rubber Garments Catalog (2 Volumes)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyson-Rose Co.
Guttenberg: Tyson-Rose Company, No date.Two catalogues for New Jersey mail order rubberwear business Tyson-Rose Co.
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Betty’s Latex Fashions Catalog (2 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty’s Latex Fashions
Erin: Betty’s Services, No date.The first two catalogues for Canadian mail order rubberwear business Betty’s Latex Fashions.
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The Making of Mary
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichelle Kristy
King of Prussia: Creative Design Services, 1991.“Follow the transformation of Mark to Mary…” An erotic transitional story with illustrations by the author. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Opiologia ad mentem Acadamiae Naturae Curiosorum
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorg Wolfgang Wedel
Jenae: Johannis Fritschii, 1674.First edition of this rare and early treatise on the pharmacological and therapeutic aspects of opium. The large title vignette one of the earliest illustrations of scoring and bleeding the poppy. Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645-1721) was a German professor of surgery, botany, theoretical and practical medicine, and chemistry.
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L’Enfer de Joseph Prudhomme savoir Deux Gougnottes et La Grisette et L’Etudiant
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Henry Monnier]; [Jean Dulac]
Paris: Sans la Permission Roy Louis Philippe, No date.Clandestine edition, circa 1929, illustrating Henry Monnier’s Prudhomme. One of 20 deluxe copies on Imperial Japan paper (from a total edition of 320), with the erotic plates in a second state in black and white with remarques, and an additional rejected plate not included with the standard issue. This is the first edition illustrated by Jean Dulac; a later edition with an entirely new suite of illustrations by Dulac was issued a few years afterward. DUTEL 1481. Finely bound by Henri Alix, with the original wrappers bound in.
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Fantastic Worlds: North Africa’s Magazine of Cinema Fantasy and the Unknown
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Soren
Cambridge, Mass.: Fantastic Worlds Magazine, [1972].Issue one of the horror and Hammer Films fanzine published by American archaeologist David Soren (1946-). “So one day we went to Hammer – we just walked right in a announced that we were publishers of a fanzine (fan magazine) about horror films in the U.S. and we asked for the addresses and phones numbers of David’s favorite Hammer stars so we could interview them – and we got them!! So for the next couple of years, whenever we were in London, we sought out and interviewed stars… To keep us honest, David had to actually produce the fanzine where these interviews were published, and so he wrote and distributed Fantastic Worlds Magazine, Issues 1 and 2, a real collector’s item today!” (Noelle Soren) Indeed rare, with only 1 holding recorded in OCLC, at the University of Georgia.
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Black & Gay: The Survey of Interracial Homosexual Practices
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Dodson
North Hollywood: Barclay House, 1969.Non-fiction sexological pulp being a survey of interracial homosexual practices by partner team Victor J. Banis and Sam Dodson. Banis was a highly influential gay fiction author and has been called “the godfather of modern popular gay fiction”. This copy signed by Banis to the title page.
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The Dog in Australasia
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter Beilby
Melbourne: George Robertson and Company, 1897.The first Australian dog breeder’s manual. FERGUSON 6885.
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The Crisis by Eugene Field
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene Field; [Colin B. Berckelman]
Athens [ie. Sydney]: The Vaginal Press, 1938.The vulgarity of the sexual slang in this scurrilous, pseudonymously published piece of verse would have been regarded in 1938 Australia as being at the very extremes of obscenity. Written and “hand-printed for subscribers only” by bibliophile Colin Berckelman in an (unsurprisingly) small edition of 25 copies, the publication can now be considered a genuine rarity: 11 of the 25 copies have found their way into public collections. Berckelman’s use of the non-de-plume Eugene Field is almost certainly an allusion to the late nineteenth century American writer of the same name who, aside from producing poetry for young readers, wrote The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896). Berckelman, for reasons that were either genuine or perverse, evidently felt some affinity with Field. “On top, the pumping method; or lying on the side, Or spread upon her billowing bum, a-la the blushing bride, Or stand up, or sitting down, or resting on all four, Whereby the visitor could take his choice of either door, Or dressed, or naked,… every way her genius could invent To catch the silvery substance that tickleth as ’tis spent.”
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Le Marseille Curieux
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre d’Agranon
Paris: L. d’Autrec, No date.The Curious Marseilles. Guide-Souvenir des Touristes et des Etrangers dans l’ancien Quartier Noble de Marseille Devenu Le Celebre Quartier Reserve. 1922 illustrated guide for sex tourists to the brothels of Marseille in the south of France. Copious illustrated with photographs of working women, a folding map of the area, and numerous advertisements.
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Mushrooms, Russia and History
AU$14,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Pavolvna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.The founding work of ethnomycology. One of 512 numbered copies. The Wassons’ central thesis divided cultures into “mycophilic” and “mycophobic” (those that embraced mushrooms and those that feared them), with Russia and the Anglo-Saxon world as the defining poles. Their investigations led to the study of psychoactive mushroom use in Mesoamerican religious ceremony, culminating in R. Gordon Wasson’s participation in a Mazatec velada with the curandera Maria Sabina in 1955. The resulting work bridges folklore, linguistics, botany, and anthropology, and laid the groundwork for the modern study of psychoactive fungi and later, entheogens. Produced at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the edition is equally significant as a feat of book production, two large quarto volumes with 82 plates including 32 in colour, printed in a limited edition at the authors’ expense.
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Public Fitting
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.