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Escales
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAndre Lhote; Jean Cocteau
Paris: Editions de La Sirene, 1920.Homage to the brothels of Marseille’s Vieux Port district. One of 400 numbered copies on Lafuma (from a total edition of 440). PIA 417.
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Le Livre Blanc
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Cocteau
Paris: Editions du Signe, 1930.One of the foundational texts of modern gay literature. The text was first published anonymously in 1928, without illustration, in an edition of just thirty-one copies. This 1930 edition, the first illustrated and first commercially distributed edition, added eighteen drawings by Cocteau, hand-coloured by M. B. Armington, together with a facsimile of an autograph note in which Cocteau alludes to, without explicitly acknowledging, authorship. Edition limited to 450 copies. This copy on Arches paper, lacking the justification leaf.
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Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine (2 Volumes)
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJean de La Fontaine; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1937-38.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies. This copy rebound in quarter vellum with hand-painted decorations to the spines replicating the original wrappers, which are bound in.
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Insolation
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLes Freres Siamois; [Joseph Hemard]
: n.p., [c. 1935].A collection of fourteen ribald verses with like illustrations by Hemard; including 1 hand-painted plate depicting a grotesque erotic orgy. DUTEL 1756.
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La Chatte
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartColette
Paris: Artheme Fayard, 1945.The story of a love triangle involving two humans and a cat. Colour lithographs by Jean A. Mercier. One of 650 numbered copies on velin d’Arches (from a total edition 998) in a charming cat themed binding.
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Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJules Gay
Turin: J. Gay et Fils, 1869.Anthology of rare and curious French texts from earlier centuries, largely comprising satirical and facetious verse, dialogues, chansons, and other literary pieces on love, women, marriage, and sexuality. Published by Jules Gay and his son Jean at Turin in 1869 for the bibliophile market cultivated through Gay’s work as a publisher and bibliographer of erotic and prohibited literature, it remains a useful sourcebook of French literary curiosa. One of 100 numbered copies on papier verge dit Hollande (from a total edition of 175), with three plates printed on chine, being portaits of Marguerite de Navarre, Francois Villon, and Clement Marot.
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Omphale: Histoire Rococo
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1896.First published within ‘Une larme du diable’ in 1839, and here published separately for the first time with illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Drawing on the myth of Omphale, the Lydian queen to whom Hercules was sold into servitude, Gautier evokes the gender role-reversal in which the hero spins wool in women’s clothing while Omphale dons his lion skin and wields his club. One of 50 numbered copies on Japon with a second state of the illustrations with remarques (from a total edition of 300), in a fine half leather binding, signed E. Carayon, retaining the original wrappers and with the prospectus bound in.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d’Exces
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartA. D. M. [Alfred de Musset]
Paris: Pour les Amis de l’Epoque Romantique [Maurice Duflou], [1924].The first serious reprint of Gamiani, with the text revised against the original edition, and the preface, by Louis Perceau, for the first time attempting a bibliography of the much reprinted work. One of 300 numbered copies (from a total edition of 320). The 12 heliogravures after the lithographs of the 1833 Brussels edition, and the title page of that edition reproduced in facsimile. This copy with the plates expertly hand-coloured. PERCEAU 16-36, PIA 529, DUTEL 1635.
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Feliccia ou mes fredaines
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea de Nerciat; Louis Icart
Paris: Georges Guillit, 1947.A libertine novel first published in 1775, Nerciat’s Felicia ou mes fredaines was repeatedly suppressed by the authorities, with illustrated editions particularly liable to seizure and prosecution. Louis Icart (1888-1950) the French Art Deco illustrator best known for his erotic and fashionable feminine imagery, supplied twenty original colour etchings for this edition, printed by Joseph Zichieri. One of 30 numbered artist’s copies (from a total edition of 530), this copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet-Riffieux incorporating a textile onlay of a nude female figure.
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The Complete Reprint of Physique Pictorial, 1951-1990 (3 Volumes)
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne E. Stanley
Koln: Taschen, 1997.Taschen edition featuring the original series of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG with an essay by Wayne E. Stanley. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Gai Pied: La Lettre Mensuelle
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartChristophe Dernoncourt; Pascal Le Coq; Didier Lestrade; Patrick Bossatti
Paris: Editions du Triangle Rose, 1992-1994.Taking over from one of France’s most important gay magazines of the 20th century, Gai Pied hebdo, La lettre served as a gay personals subscription-only newsletter running for 21 numbers between December 1992 and October 1994. A near complete run, lacking numbers 16 and 21.
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Ce Soir… Catalogue – Catalogus
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCe Soir; Alain Verdier
Brussels: Ce Soir, 1982.1980s catalogue of latex, rubber, and plastic fetishwear for men and women by Belgian label Ce Soir, photographed by Alain Verdier. Pricelist laid in.
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Histoire du Portefaix avec Les Jeunes Filles: Conte Des Mille et Une Nuits
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartDr J. -C. Mardrus
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1920.Illustrated by Joe Hamman. One of 500 numbered copies on velin de cuve (of a total edition of 550), this copy bound in Kieffer’s stunning relief design of female nudes and monkeys with his ticket to the verso of the front free endpaper
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Historiettes, Contes & Fabliaux du Marquis de Sade, Publies Pour la Premiere Fois Par Maurice Heine
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade; Maurice Heine
Paris: Societe du Roman Philosophique, 1926.Stories, Tales, and Fables by the Marquis de Sade written while imprisoned in the Bastille, widely considered his most accessible and least offensive work. The first limited edition with a frontispiece by Henry Chapront. One of 233 numbered copies, signed by Heine and the Treasurer of the Societe. This copy with the 8 pages prospectus laid in.
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Joujou ou Les Libertinages du Travesti
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane Delorys
Paris: Aux Galants Passe-Temps [Jean Fort], 1936.Crossdressing curiosa: a collection of transvestite-themed erotic tales from Jean Fort’s Aux Galants Passe-Temps, illustrated with sixteen heliogravures by Cheri Herouard under his erotica pseudonym Herric, the same artist behind the fetish and spanking imagery he published pseudonymously in La Vie Parisienne. The standard edition was printed in 2,050 numbered copies on Hollande; this copy is a small group printed specially for Jean Fort’s own use on Lafuma.
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La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAnatole France; Guy de Montabel
Paris: Simon Kra, 1925.One of 153 numbered copies on velin de Hollande with an additional suite on the same paper, from a total edition of 1064 numbered copies. This copy in a fine binding, signed E. Berthat, with painted illustrations to the boards and spine.
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Bonjour Tristesse
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancois Sagan; Grau Sala
Paris: Marcel Lubineau, Editeur, 1954.First illustrated edition of this French classic, published the same year as the first edition, with 20 drypoints by Emilio Grau Sala. Sagan wrote the novel at eighteen and became an immediate sensation on its publication. One of 500 numbered standard copies from a total edition of 575. This copy is bound in a decorative fine binding signed Armand,
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Pretextes
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Margerit; Almery Lobel-Riche
: Aux depens d’un Groupe d’Amateurs, 1951.A posthumous tribute, organised by friends of the artist and published at their expense, with text by Robert Margerit and an avant-propos by Andre Billy and Pierre Mac Orlan. Copy A of 5 lettered copies on Japon Imperial reserved for friends of the artist, signed by Margerit and enriched with 5 original drawings by Lobel-Riche including a study for the first plate, a second suite of the plates in two states, with an additional plate also in two states, with remarques, as well as two of the original plates used to illustrate the work (the second and tenth plates).
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Nymphes Dansant avec Des Satyres
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartRene Boylesve
Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, Dorbon-Aine, 1913.With illustrated ornaments by Pierre Hepp. One of 25 numbered copies on Japon, this copy with wide margins, enriched with the suite of 9 engraved colour plates by Sergei Solomko intended for the 1920 Calmann-Levy edition.