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L’Ecrin du Rubis ou Les Delices des Dessous
AU$500 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 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 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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Cydalise ou Le Peche Dans le Miroir
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Johannes Gros]; T. Mertens
[Dijon]: [Darantiere], No date.Cydalise, or Sin in the Mirror. With 8 etchings by T. Mertens, several depicting lesbianism, group sex, and one of spanking, all well executed. A high point of early 1930s French erotica. One of 600 numbered standard copies of the total edition of 700. The 100 deluxe copies with the etchings coloured. DUTEL 1331.
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Theorie de L’Amour et de la Jalousie
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartP. J. Stahl [Pierre-Jules Hetzel]
Bruxelles: J. B. Tarride, 1853.Moral philosophical study of love, passion, and jealousy by the Jules Verne publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel published under his P. J. Stahl pseudonym. This copy bound in a fine half leather binding signed De Watines.
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Eve Ressuscitee ou La Belle Sans Chemise
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
San Remo: J. Gay et Fils, Editeurs, 1873.[Eve Resurrected or The Beautiful One Without a Shirt]. 19th century reissue of this anonymous libertine novel with a new preface and a photographic frontispiece of one of the engravings by Bovinet. One of 200 numbered copies, this copy finely bound in half leather with the original wrappers.
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
AU$400 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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La Perverse Dominatrice
AU$850 Read MoreAdd to cartGreta Knout [Pierre Goetz]
: [Pierre Delalu], No date.The Perverse Dominatrix. 1960s clandestine novel by Pierre Goetz illustrated with 30 mounted photographs depicting a lesbian threesome with light and playful BDSM. DUTEL 2171 (noting only 28 photographs). Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
AU$150 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.
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Ars Amandi. L’Art D’Aimer
AU$1,000 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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La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHonore de Balzac; Almery Lobel-Riche
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Girl with the Golden Eyes. An aristocratic libertine becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and sets about seducing her. Alas, his conquest uncovers a hidden lesbian relationship and he finds himself entangled in a web of erotic obsession and fatal jealousy. First published in 1835, this is the first edition with illustrations by Almery Lobel-Riche. One of 40 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states and an original drawing by Lobel-Riche (from a total edition of 500). This copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet.
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Le Diable au Corps
AU$2,000 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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Le Diable Amoureux
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Cazotte; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: La Tradition, 1936.The Devil in Love. Occult romance first published in 1772. This the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. One of 450 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 500).
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La Fille Elisa
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Paul-Louis Guilbert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
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La Mort de Philae
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Loti; Geo Colucci
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1924.The Death of Philae (English title: Egypt), a tale set around the submerging of the island of Philae with the construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the river Nile. The first edition with illustrations by Geo Colucci. One of 460 numbered copies on vellum (of a total edition of 500), in a fine half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax with the original wrappers bound in.
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Les Civilises
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere; Henri Le Riche
Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, 1926.French colonizers indulge in fornication, opium, and general debauchery in late 19th century Saigon (then French Cochincina, modern day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). One of 200 numbered copies of Arches vellum (of a total edition of 300), bound with the original wrappers.
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Fumee D’Opium
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere
Paris: Libraire Olendorff, 1921.The first deluxe edition of Farrere’s Black Opium, semi-autobiographical tales of the history and use of opium. Preface by Pierre Louys. With 6 plates and numerous wood engravings by Georges Jauneau, engraved by G. Lemoine. One of 250 numbered copies on Arches Vellum (of a total edition of 322).
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Salome. Drame en un acte.
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde
Paris and Londres: Librairie de L’Art Independant and Elkin Mathew et John Lane, 1893.First edition, one of 600 copies, the title page device by Felicien Rops. MASON 348. This copy rebound in a fine signed art nouveau binding by Hatchards, Piccadilly, without the wrappers, with a plentiful quantity of blank leaves at the rear to allow for the binding design.
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.
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Le Spleen de Paris
AU$1,400 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire; L. Lafnet
: Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1940 [1941].One of 106 numbered copies reserved for members of the final illustrated book by Luc Lafnet, with 90 etchings each with tissue guard.