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The Illustrated Delta of Venus
Anais Nin; Bob Carlos Clarke
New York: Gallery Books, 1980.The first book of erotic photography by British-Irish photographer Robert Carlos Clarke (1950-2006) that has been called “the British Helmut Newton”.
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Good Faeries / / Bad Faeries
Brian Froud; Terri Windling
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II: Updated Second Edition
Larry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene.
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Chains
Larry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1994.One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Golden Boy as Anthony Cool: A Photo Essay on Naming and Graffiti
Herbert Kohl; James Hinton
New York: The Dial Press, 1972.Important early study of urban text graffiti and tagging in New York. More than just a photobook, though Hinton’s work definitely gives it that distinction, Kohl, founder of the 1960s Open School movement, provides lengthy and invaluable insight into language and identity.
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Fille de Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites
Various Authors
New York: Grove Press, 1967.An anthology of images and text.
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Toward a Recognition of Androgyny
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.A stimulating search into myth and literature to trace manifestations of androgyny–woman-in-man, man-in-woman–and to reveal the dangers of sexual polarization.
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Art is a Horrible Waste of the Imagination
Ron English
New York: English & Eichman, 1988.First published book by the American contemporary artist Ron English (1959-), being a collection of line drawings. The cover photograph by Charles D. Herold shows English painting a street mural. Introduction by Mark Kostabi. Only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at New York University.
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An Introductory Lecture to the Venereal Disease
John Hunter
New York: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1994. -
Topology of a Phantom City
Alain Robbe-Grillet
New York: Grove Press, 1977.Translated from the French by J. A. Underwood
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Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia
Bill Wittliff
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000.Photo essay of the brothels along the border of Texas and Mexico collected and edited by Bill Wittliff. With essays by Keith Carter, Dave Hickey, and Cristina Pacheco.
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The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color
Johannes Itten
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.Translated by Ernst van Haagen.
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100 Naked Girls
Petter Hegre
New York: Amphoto Books, 2009.Photo series by Norwegian photographer Petter Hegre continuing his exploration of the style he describes as the New Nude. Foreword by Clifford Thurlow.
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Lapdancer
Juliana Beasley
New York: powerHouse Books, 2003.“Determined to supplement her meager income as a novice photographer, Juliana Beasley embarked on an eight-year odyssey as a professional nude dancer… From New York to Reno, Beasley worked in over two dozen strip clubs, .. experiencing the rewards and pitfalls of the profession: variable income, flexible schedules, emotional and physical exhaustion, sex industry camaraderie–and an arrest for prostitution. Though she was a professional dancer, Beasley never forgot the purpose of her studies in documentary work. Along with negligees and stilettos, she regularly brought a camera to the clubs, and began recording testimonies from the managers, dancers, and patrons. The result is Lapdancer, an inside look at the world of professional nude dancing.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Judaism at Bay: Essays Toward the Adjustment of Judaism to Modernity
Horace Mayer Kallen
New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1932.This copy with the bookplate of Rabbi Leib A. Falk, with call number to spine.
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Three Roads to Femininity
Anoymous
[New York]: [Lee’s Mardi Gras], No date.The stories of three men who take different approaches to cross-dressing. Published without imprint but with the sticker and number stamp of Lee Brewster’s Lee’s Mardi Gras. Possibly Eric Stanton or Gene Bilbrew cover illustration. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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Gay Source: A Catalog for Men
Dennis Sanders
New York: Coward, McCann & Geohegan, 1977.The Whole Earth Catalog of gay America; from help lines to holiday destinations. Compiled, written, and edited by Dennis Sanders with the assistance of Michael Emory. Illustrations by George Stavrinos. Feature articles by Felicine Picano, Ian Young, and many others.
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Modern Psychical Phenomena: Recent Researches and Speculations
Hereward Carrington
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919.Continuing investigations by American investigator of psychic phenomena Hereward Carrington (1880-1958) including studies of psychology, ghosts, psychic photography, astral projection, Spiritualism, and more. One chapter is devoted to the question of whether gender exists after death.
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Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses
Robert Hewitt, Jr.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872.19th century history of coffee. Brief mention of Australia’s potential as a coffee growing region, as well a global listing of tariffs on coffee, including Australian colonies. This copy signed by the author, and with the world map, A Chart of the Globe Showing the Several Places Where Coffee is or May be Produced and Where it is also used together with The Telegraph Lines in operation or contemplated for completing the Circuit of the Globe, considered the first American map on coffee.
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Art & Beauty Magazine: Numbers 1, 2 & 3: Drawings by R. Crumb
Robert Crumb
New York: David Zwirner Books, 2016.Erotic drawings by Robert Crumb. #1 was first published in 1996 by Kitchen Sink Press, with a second volume in 2003 by Fantagraphic. This volume reprinting the first two numbers and publishing for the first time number 3 together in a limited edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered on a bookplate by Crumb, and comes in the original publisher’s shipping box. “Drawings of women in positions ranging from lascivious to modest or mid-sport are accompanied by quotations, many of which are from artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Harvey Kurtzman. Mining his own obsessions and fantasies, Crumb reimagines the history of art, challenging notions of beauty, along with society’s mores and expectations of propriety around the female form.” (publisher’s blurb)