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A Study of the Century: Sweet Seventeen: The True Story of a Daughter’s Awful Whipping and its Delightful if Direful Consequences
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Jean de Villiot]; Martin van Maele
Paris: Issued for the Subscribers Only, 1910.English translation of Hugues Rebell’s 1905 work, ‘Dix-sept ans. Etude sociale’ authored under his Jean de Villiot pseudonym, including the copper-plate etchings by Martin van Maele. A limitation statement of 250 numbered copies, this copy out of sequence. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Les Aventures de Tintin (8 Volumes)
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerge
Paris: France Loisirs, 2008.Gift box set of The Adventures of Tintin.
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Amours d’Extreme-Orient
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartO. Diraison-Seylor
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905.A dismissed French naval officer’s study of the “exotic” women of Asia and the Pacific, illustrated with nude plates by Amedee Vignola. The work comprises extended chapters on Japan, China, and Madagascar, alongside sections devoted to Creole women and the Pacific, with shorter episodes on the women of Christchurch (New Zealand), Sydney (Australia); in which, after the visitor’s humorous impressions of the locals’ obsession with the harbour, the working women and hullabaloo of Woolloomooloo and the racetrack are described; and Tonga, Tahiti, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Wallis, and French Polynesia. Issued by Charles Carrington, the Paris publisher best known for finely produced editions of erotic and controversial literature circulating on the margins of official respectability. Unrecorded in Trove, this cataloguer locates only three physical institutional holdings worldwide: Ohio State University, the Bibliotheque nationale de France, and the Bibliotheque de Geneve.
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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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Sabine Weiss
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSabine Weiss; Jean Vautrin
Paris: Editions de La Martiniere, 2003.This copy inscribed by Weiss to the title page.
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Gisele et Pierrette ou Les Esclaves d’Island Castle
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Starbine
Paris: Libraire Artistique et Edition Parisienne Reunies, 1932.French 1930s sadomasochist novel. With illustrations by Gaston Smit, signed in the images as G. Topfer.
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Flagellees: La Flagellation des Femmes dans la Rome Antique
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean de Virgans
Paris: Librairie Franco-Anglaise, 1922.1920s French flagellation novel with illustrations by Gaston Smit signed in the image as both G. Smit and G. Topfer.
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Confidences Egarees
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane Laure [Liane de Lauris]
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, 1932.1930s French flagellation. Jean Fort publication under his sadomasochistic imprint Collection des Orties Blanches. Illustrated with 16 plates by Dagy [Daniel Girard], this copy with 5 of the plates hand-coloured.
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Les Amies de Lady Chattieley
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges de Chanrosey [Chanrosay]
Paris: Librairie des Editions Modernes, No date.1930s French flagellation and sadomasochistic novel with the title recalling D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates by W. Floger [Edouard Bernard / Edward Alexander Bernard].
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Flore Medicale, Decrite par F. O.
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. P. Chaumeton
Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1814-1820.Monumental early nineteenth-century French work on medicinal and edible plants, authored by Francois Pierre Chaumeton, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, and Jean-Baptitse-Joseph-Anne-Cesar Turbas de Chamberet. The first six volumes, beginning with Absinthe comprise 360 hand-coloured stipple engravings by Ernestine Panckoucke (the publisher’s wife) and Pierre-Jean-Francois Turpin, produced at the height of the French stipple engraving tradition pioneered by Pierre-Joseph Redoute, a fantastic example of early nineteenth-century botanical art publishing. The final two volumes complete the work with extensive text on pharmacological uses and additional plates, including two large engraved folding tables, forming a comprehensive encyclopaedia of materia medica as understood at the end of the Napoleonic era. NISSEN BBI 349. This copy with the additional corrected description of plate XXI. From the collection of English horticulturalist, Maria Theresa Earle, with her bookplate in each volume, also the plate, name and address of American Rhododendron collector Dr. Paul Jay Bowman. This edition unrecorded in Australian collections, with only one institutional holding of any edition located, the 6-volume second edition (1828-1833) at the University of Melbourne.
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La Sculpture Negre Primitive
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul-Guillaume; T. Munro
Paris: Les Editions, G. Cres & Cie, 1929.Rebound in black cloth with the original wrappers. Bookplates of Marshall Laird and Philip Goldman with pencil annotation to half-title identifying it as Collier Garland’s copy.
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Tokyomania
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNobuyoshi Araki
Paris: Edition Mennour, 2000.Catalogue for a Paris exhibition of erotic photography by the Japanese photographer.
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Les Mains Cheries
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques d’Icy; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.1930s flagellation tales authored by the renowned illustrator of spanking, Louis Malteste, under his Jacques d’Icy pseudonym.
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L’Ecrin du Rubis ou Les Delices des Dessous
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane Delorys [Liane de Lauris]; Herric [Cheri Herouard]
Paris: Au Cabinet du Livre, 1939.Rare French lesbian erotica. The second edition, illustrated by Cheri Herourard. First published in 1932 in a very limited edition illustrated by P. Silex.
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Baby Douce Fille
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSadie Blackeyes [Pierre Mac Orlan]; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.Pierre Mac Orlan under his Sadie Blackeyes pseudonym for pornographic novels of sado-masochism and flagellation. A novel followed by some letters concerning the flagellation of women and girls. The Collection des Orties Blanches illustrated wrappers edition with 10 spanking illustration plates by Louis Malteste laid in.
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Quinze Ans
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSadie Blackeyes [Pierre Mac Orlan]; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.3 works by Pierre Mac Orlan under his Sadie Blackeyes pseudonym for pornographic novels of sado-masochism and flagellation. A novel about family discipline, followed by some letters about corporal punishment in the education of young girls, and Sonia, the Beautiful Student, with 10 soft spanking illustrations by Louis Malteste.
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. One of the first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer.
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Les Confessions d’un Travesti
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Eric Losfeld]
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1956.Les Grandes Etues Francaises de Psychiatrie No. 1, an aggrandizing imprint and seemingly a once-off published by Eric Losfeld’s Le Terrain Vague imprint. Autobiographical psycho-social confessions of a 43 year old married heterosexual male cross-dresser and female underwear fetishist. Illustrated with 5 photographic plates of the author in various states of undress.
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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Casanova; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1955.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.