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Venus of Lesbos
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSteve Bell
[London]: Gadoline, 1975.Bedside Books BB1337, the English edition of the Newstand Library pulp. Cover illustration by Robert Bonfils. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The Westward Bound Connoisseur Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartWestward Bound
London: Westward Bound, 1992.First trade catalogue issued by the British fetishwear company Westward Bound. The business grew out of Der Putsch, the influential London fetish club founded in 1983, and the associated Westward Bound Bed, Breakfast & Dungeon in Cornwall, whose national television exposure helped establish the company’s profile. Issued as the firm expanded into mail-order retail in the early 1990s, the catalogue offers fetishwear in rubber, PVC, leather, footwear, corrective and disciplinary clothing, boned corsetry, jewellery, wigs, and related accessories. Westward Bound went on to become one of Britain’s best-known fetishwear brands and remains in business today. Sinead O’Connor wore a Westward Bound latex dress on the cover of her 2014 album, ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss’. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Mistress Candida’s Journal (Complete Set, Volume 1: Number 1 & 2)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartOlympia Press International
[London]: Olympia Press International, 1993.From the publisher’s of Pleasure Bound International, a fem/dom series that went for only 2 issues (a special issue, being a reprint of issue 2 with a new cover is known to also exist). Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Archive of Homoerotic Prints with Catalogue and TLS
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRudolf von Keller
London: Rudolf von Keller, 1993.Archive of late 1980s / early 1990s homoerotic prints by Rudolf von Keller, sent to Jurgen Boedt, editor of the Belgian fetish magazine Secret, in the original postmarked envelope from London to Brussels. One of the two signed typed letters lists the contents of the packet as sent: the artist’s biography, advertising card, catalogue and price list, 8 sets of A4 posters (some in series of 3, others of 4), and 4 greeting cards. Of these, one three-poster series and one greeting card are absent from the surviving archive, while a second packet of A3 posters, also described in the letter, is no longer present. The artwork features hardcore homoerotic themes centred on leather, BDSM, and sadomasochism. Von Keller’s biographical note describes him as born in the late 1940s and educated in Germany, England and the Netherlands, before studying fine art at a college in the English Midlands. After working as a freelance designer while travelling Europe, he returned to the family jewellery business, but continued to produce fetish and BDSM drawings, watercolours, and paintings for a private circle. A series of exhibitions brought this work to a wider audience, leading to print reproduction and, in late 1990, his first ‘Artwork’ catalogue (included here), offering posters, cards, and limited edition prints. The operation was based in London, with a small studio later opened in Amsterdam for developing new work; the note describes him dividing his time between the two cities and a family home in the Rhineland.
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Biba Fashion Catalogues Archive
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Hulanicki; Stephen Fitz-Simon; John McConnell; Helmut Newton; Donald Silverstein; Hans Fuerer; Harri Peccinotti; Sarah Moon; Delisia Howard; Chris Price
London: Biba, 1968-2004.A complete set of the six Biba mail order catalogues (35.5cm x 18cm), four retaining their original Biba logo envelopes. Each catalogue was designed by John McConnell. Offered here together with: the Biba company newspaper ‘Welcome to the New Biba’ [London, 1973], produced to mark the opening of the Big Biba department store in Kensington; a Biba Food Hall paper bag; a Biba plastic carry bag; the exhibition catalogue ‘Biba: The Label, The Lifestyle, The Look’ (Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1993); and ‘In Biba: A Graphic Romance’ by Delisia Howard, illustrated by Chris Price, with foreword and additional illustrations by Barbara Hulanicki (London: Hazard Books, 2004). Biba was founded by Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon in 1964 as a mail-order fashion label, becoming one of the defining names of London’s Swinging Sixties and early 1970s style. Rejecting conventional catalogue photography, the mail-order catalogues were conceived as fashion editorials, featuring original work by Donald Silverstein, Hans Feurer, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and Harri Peccinotti. Combining innovative graphic design with editorial fashion photography, they rank among the landmarks of late-1960s British fashion publishing.
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An Herbarium for the Fair: Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty Shaw-Lawrence; Thomas Fassam
London: The Hand & Flower Press, 1949.Together with Curious Notes on their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love (such as for Taking Away Hair, Bettering the Breasts, the Ease of Sighings, Making a Person Chaste, Loth to Love, and Turning a Person’s Head). One of 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 260), signed by Fassam, each of the 20 plates signed by the artist.
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Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartConstantinos A. Doxiadis
London: Hutchinson, 1971.The Greek architect-planner’s magnum opus on his futurist conceptual framework for the maximal development of human settlements.
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Profile (Volume 1 No 1, 2, 3, 4)
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Handen
London: European Publications, 1973.British “bizarre” periodical, edited by Carl Handen with art direction by Hans Deiter. Each cover is illustrated by the American artist Eric Stanton, whose bondage and fetish comics also run throughout all four issues; the cover of number four is billed as “More from America’s leading bizarre illustrator – Stanton. Exclusive to Profile.” The same issue announces that Profile has “obtained the exclusive rights to the creative and erotic writing of John Cleve,” the principal pseudonym of the American writer Andrew J. Offutt, extensively used for erotic fiction between 1969 and the mid 1980s; the story “The Chain,” appearing in this number. Also included is a feature on the pseudonymous French novelist Alan Mac Clyde and the illustrator Carlo, both associated with the interwar French sadomasochistic novel genre. Further contributors across the four numbers include Audrey Kendell, Iago, Maud Cameron, Bernard Valonnes, Gee Kay, Earle Dexter, Mark Ralphs, Victor Rhodes, Julie Hamilton, and Sally Fleming. Number four states that a fifth issue was planned; it is not known whether publication continued. Unrecorded in OCLC, and not mentioned in Richar Perez Seves: Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground. A complete run (Nos. 1-4) is held by the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive, London.
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A New Role For David
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
London: Swish Publications, No date.The tale of a new crossdresser published by the English femdom magazine Madame. Circa 1986-87. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Bewitching Bitches
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter X
London: [Swish Publications], No date.“Are you prepared for another journey into the bizarre fantasy world of the fabulous Peter X?” The second of two collections of fetish drawings by the fantasist of dominant women and lady rubberists published by the English femdom magazine Madame. Circa 1986-87. Both of Peter X’s works unrecorded in OCLC.
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Mountain Men: The Male Photography of Don Whitman
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Whitman
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1991.The physique photography of Don Whitman’s Western Photography Guild, operating out of Denver Colorado, capturing the perfectly sculpted men of the American West in the Rocky Mountains.
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The du Mauriers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDaphne du Maurier
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937.First edition in the original jacket.
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Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, met with in Great Britain and British India
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartFriedrich A. Fluckiger; Daniel Hanbury
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879.Includes section on cannabis. This copy with a Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia College of Pharmacy award plate dated 1898 presented to Miss J. B. Wollen in manuscript with the autograph signature of Daniel McAlpine, a clipping relating to the latter laid in.
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Experiences of Flagellation: A Series of Remarkable Instances of Whipping Inflicted on Both Sexes, with Curious Anecdotes of Ladies Fond of Administering Birch Discipline
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAn Amateur Flagellant
London: Printed for Private Circulation [E.Avery?], 1885 [c. 1890].“This semi-clandestine compilation was first published by Lazenby & Avery. Avery, in his ‘Preface’ to the Whippingham Papers, 1888, makes this remark: “Only a few years back, a remarkable and lengthened correspondence filled the columns of such domestic periodicals as The Family Herald, The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, &c., the pith of which was collected and issued in a volume entitled ‘EXPERIENCES OF FLAGELLATION’, 1885. That the topic has not lost its interest with the present generation may be estimated by the rapidity with which the first edition of this work was sold.”” (see MENDES 7-A) Thus leading to this early reprint possibly done for Avery MENDES 7-B.
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Rubber Panties / The Country Boy
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[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Special School / The New Governess
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[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections. This issue with two short stories, the second with two erotic lesbian line drawings.
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Correction Course
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[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Sweet Satisfaction
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Spankings. Headmaster’s Tales.
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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The Horrors of a Victorian Girl’s Engagement
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections. Cover title: Viola’s Victorian Degradation: An Account of Sexual Matters in Victorian Times.