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The Gas
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Platt
New York: Ophelia Press, 1970.Erotic science fiction pulp OPH-216. “Passion and violence are terrifyingly unleashed upon the South of England when a mysterious gas leaks from a biological warfare plant. Every unthinkable desire rises to the surface, both the ecstatic and the agonizing.” (from cover blurb)
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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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Residu (Complete Set, 2 Volumes)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Richter
Athens, London, and Provincetown: Residu/ Richter, 1965-66.Complete set, in two issues only. Avant-garde literary journal featuring contribution by Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Philip Lamantia, William Burroughs, Gerogry Corso, Simon Vinkenoog, Jack Nuttall, Alexander Trochi, and others. Includes several pieces on LSD, hash, and other psychedelics.
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The Magazine of Further Studies (Complete Set) together with Britannia and The Western Gate
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Clarke; Albert Glover; George Butterick; Fred Wah; Daniel Zimmerman
Buffalo: Institute of Further Studies, 1965-1970.Poetry journal published at the University at Buffalo during the mid to late 1960s by a group of poets and scholars associated with Charles Olson and the literary community that developed after his arrival at SUNY Buffalo following the closure of Black Mountain College. Contributions from the editors alongside Olson, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Sanders, Duncan McNaughton, Ruth Fox, Stephen Rodefer, Harvey Brown, David Tirrell, and others. This complete set in 6 issues offered together with two further publications, Britannia and The Western Gate, both edited in Buffalo by Daniel Zimmerman in 1970, with continued output from many of the same contributors. No. 1 with a two leaf typescript, Up Rising, by Robert Duncan laid in.
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Spit in the Ocean (Shirley Abicair’s Set w/ ephemera)
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Kesey; Ken Babbs
Pleasant Hill: Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1976-1981.Issues 1-6 of the Merry Pranksters literary journal (a 7th and final number not included here was published in 2003) from the collection of Australian zither player Shirley Abicair (1928-2025), with guest editors inlcuding Timothy Leary, Lee Marrs and Richar and Elaine Loren. The set is offered together with seven pieces of related ephemera: promotional poster (35cm x 21.5cm) advertising the series with a coupon for either $1 for the first tissue or $5 for the first seven and on the verso a prose piece ‘Food Stamp Raga’ by Corn Twang (Babbs); Key-Z Productions (Zane and Stephanie Kesey) catalogue of books, videos, audio tapes, attire, and posters; two guest pass tickets to Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Lyceum; a guest pass to Grateful Dead at Wembley Stadium; a ticket to The Second Perennial Poetic Hoohaw May 7th 1977 Eugene Oregon; and a broadside promoting Ken Babbs speaking/performance tour for Spit In The Ocean No. 1.
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Soft Shoudlers
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul V. Russo [Gilbert Fox]
New York: Midwood Enterprises, 1967.Original Midwood paperback. “Paul V. Russo” is attributed to Gilbert Fox, who used the name for his heterosexual novels at Midwood while writing his lesbian pulp fiction under the names Dallas Mayo and Kimberly Kemp for the same house. A novel of female friendship turned gateway to glamour and men, in which the heroine is drawn into a new social world by a new best friend.
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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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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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Death of a Transvestite
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEd Wood, Jr.
[San Francisco]: Angora Press, No date.The sequel to Edward D. Wood, Jr.’s most widely reprinted novel, Killer in Drag. Glen Marker, the contract killer who worked in drag as Glenda Satin, is now on death row; he agrees to set down the full account of his life on condition that he be allowed to die in drag. Much of the story is delivered through police reports and similar documents. First published in 1967, this is the circa 1990 Angora Press edition.
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Killer in Drag
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward D. Wood, Jr.
[San Francisco]: Angora Press, No date.Early edition of one of prolific filmmaker and pulp novelist Ed Wood, Jr.’s most widely reprinted novels. More crime fiction than outright erotica, it follows Glen Marker, a New York contract killer who works in drag as his alter ego Glenda Satin. The protagonist can be read as a continuation of the figure from Wood’s 1953 directorial debut, ‘Glen or Glenda?’. First published in 1963 as Black Lace Drag and retitled Killer in Drag from 1965; this is the circa 1990 Angora Press edition.
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Le Vice Marin: Confessions d’un Matelot
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Bosc
Paris: Albin Michel, No date.A French maritime novel centred on homosexual desire aboard ship, and a notable document in the literary history of same-sex desire. The first part of the story explicitly confronts the “marine vice” of pederasty. The book attracted controversy, prompting later issues to appear under the more discreet title ‘Les Isoles, moeurs maritimes’. In a preface to the retitled edition, dated 15 March 1905, Bosc complained that Le Vice Marin had “frightened the bourgeoisie” and that newspaper editors refused even to advertise it, forcing his publisher to disguise a commercially successful book beneath a less provocative title. The episode provides a revealing glimpse of the constraints surrounding the public discussion of homosexuality in Belle Epoque France. The novel prefigures later maritime treatments of adolescent sexuality, including the controversy surrounding James Hanley’s Boy (1931). Its place in the period’s homosexual self-understanding is seen in Georges Portal’s 1936 Un Protestant, whose narrator discovers the book in a shop window and recognises in it a reflection of his own experience. After numerous printings of the first edition by Pierre Douville, this second edition issued in Albin Michel’s Le Roman-Succes series (c. 1920s/1930s) and illustrated throughout by Marcel Bloch. The restoration of the original title suggests a markedly different publishing climate from that which had prompted its disguise a generation earlier.
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Le Vice Marin: Confessions d’un Matelot
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Bosc
Paris: Pierre Douville, [1905].A French maritime novel centred on homosexual desire aboard ship, and a notable document in the literary history of same-sex desire. The first part of the story explicitly confronts the “marine vice” of pederasty. The book attracted controversy, prompting later issues to appear under the more discreet title ‘Les Isoles: Moeurs Maritimes’. In a preface to the retitled edition, dated 15 March 1905, Bosc complained that Le Vice Marin had “frightened the bourgeoisie” and that newspaper editors refused even to advertise it, forcing his publisher to disguise a commercially successful book beneath a less provocative title. The episode provides a revealing glimpse of the constraints surrounding the public discussion of homosexuality in Belle Epoque France. The novel prefigures later maritime treatments of adolescent sexuality, including the controversy surrounding James Hanley’s Boy (1931). Its place in the period’s homosexual self-understanding is seen in Georges Portal’s 1936 Un Protestant, whose narrator discovers the book in a shop window and recognises in it a reflection of his own experience. With two illustrations.
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The Loan of a Lover; or, Vera’s Flirtation
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Jean Libbey
London: Milner and Company, No date.English cloth reprint (c. 1900) of a romance from Brooklyn “working-girl” novelist Laura Jean Libbey (1862-1924). Libbey was among the most widely reprinted American writers of dime novel fiction in her day, this work however scarce, with no copies of any edition currently in the trade, and only 5 holdings in OCLC.
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Another Man’s Wife
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha M. Clay
London: Robert Hayes, No date.“Fate’s cruellest irony that on the day–when to save an impoverished father–Beryl marries the elderly Lord Medford, title and riches come to the man she loves. But Fate sometimes relents.” (from jacket) Classic Victorian romance published under the prolific pseudonym of Bertha M. Clay, first used by Charlotte M. Brame (1836-1884) before being penned by a number of hands, here quite possibly the hand of John Russell Coryell, first appearing as a serial in the New York Weekly in 1887 before hitting the stands as a dime novel published by Street & Smith, to which Coryell had family connection. Here published under the Robert Hayes imprint in the early 1920s half-crown Sandringham Library series, this copy with the original illustrated jacket, signed Ryder.
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Les Bijoux Indiscrets
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Dulac; Denis Diderot
Paris: Editions du Val de Loire, 1947.First edition with 38 erotic colour engravings by Jean Dulac. One of 198 numbered copies of the standard edition, from a total of 318 copies.
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Complete Set of the Oceanic Press Erotica from the Collection of Gershon Legman
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Pierre Delarue]
Paris: Oceanic Press, 1958-60.A complete run of Oceanic Press (twelve numbered and nine unnumbered volumes, two carrying a second work apiece for 23 in all) from the library of erotologist and folklorist Gershon Legman (1917-1999), four of the unnumbered volumes numbered to the spine in his had, and several with his brief bibliographic notes to the front flyleaf. Oceanic, produced by Pierre Delarue, was one of the Paris fly-by-night imprints thrown up in the late 1950s in the wake of Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press, with Delarue shamelessly copying the size, format and pseudonymous manner of the Traveller’s Companion books; most of hte authors remain unidentified. Legman names Jack Olley, author ‘Love Together’, as a Black writer. The prize is No. 6, ‘A Diary of the Senses’: the first edition in English of an early work of trans erotica, its narrative of surgical sex-change apparently prompted by the Christine Jorgensen case. Issued here under the name Helen Tucker, it is generally attributed to the artist Isidore Isou (1925-2007), having first appeared in French as ‘La Confidence Sensuelle’ (Eric Losfeld, c. 1955) under the pseudonym Andre Suffren.
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Le Roman de la Momie
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier; Alex. Lunois
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1901.The principal deluxe illustrated edition of Gautier’s 1858 Egyptological romance, centred on the discovery of the mummy of Tahoser and the narrative of her love for a young Hebrew. Illustrated by Alexandre Lunois (1863-1916), who travelled extensively in Egypt and based his compositions on direct observation of ancient architecture, ornament, and costume. One of 50 copies on Japon, issued with a supplementary suite of the illustrations, bound with the original wrappers and prospectus, in a signed, richly tooled Egyptian style binding by Chambolle-Duru.
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Les 120 Journees de Sodome, ou l’Ecole du Libertinage, par le Marquis de Sade
AU$3,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade; Maurice Heine; Andre Collot
Paris: S. & C., aux Depens des Bibliophiles Souscripteurs, 1931-36.The first critical edition of the text, and the first established directly from the autograph manuscript written by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade in the Bastille in 1785. The manuscript, composed in minute script on a continuous paper roll, was long presumed lost following the storming of the Bastille, before resurfacing in the late nineteenth century and coming into the hands of the Berlin physician and pioneering sexologist Iwan Bloch, whose foundational but flawed 1904 edition first brought the text into print. Following Bloch’s death, the manuscript entered French ownership (often associated with the patronage circle of Charles de Noailles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, a descendant of Sade), enabling the Sade specialist Maurice Heine to prepare the present edition under their support. Working directly from the autograph roll, Heine produced a transcription of far greater fidelity than Bloch’s, accompanied by a substantial critical apparatus keyed to the original manuscript and including a photographic facsimile as frontispiece. Heine’s engagement with Sade was both scholarly and personal: he first encountered the work through Bloch’s edition in 1912, later recalling (most notably in the 1933 ‘Minotaure enquete’ organised by Andre Breton and Paul Eluard) that discovery as decisive. Pascal Pia would subsequently credit Heine with establishing the modern text of Sade. Issued in a limited edition of 396 numbered copies, this example is one of 300 on velin de Rives. It is here bound with the complete suite of sixteen lithographs by Andre Collot, separately issued in a limited edition (c. 1936) and intended for addition to subscribers’ sets and unsold copies.
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Les 120 Journees de Sodome ou l’Ecole du Libertinage par le Marquis de Sade
AU$6,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade; Eugene Duhren [Iwan Bloch]
Paris: Club des Bibliophiles, 1904.The first printed edition and editio princeps of the text, based on the notorious manuscript written by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade in the Bastille in 1785. The manuscript, composed in minute script on a continuous paper roll, was long presumed lost following the storming of the Bastille, before resurfacing in the late nineteenth century and coming into the hands of the Berlin physician and pioneering sexologist Iwan Bloch. Bloch prepared the first edition, editing and annotating the text under the pseudonym Eugene Duhren, and issued it via the Berlin bookseller Max Harrwitz, using a fictive Paris imprint to mitigate censorship concerns. In his introduction, Bloch framed the work as a document of scientific and anthropological interest, intended for specialists in sexual pathology, jurisprudence, and cultural history. The text, as here presented, is incomplete and editorially imperfect, deficiencies later addressed in Maurice Heine’s critical edition of 1931-35, prepared from direct examination of the autograph manuscript, yet this remains the foundational printed appearance. One of 200 numbered copies, this being one of 160 printed on laid paper. Together with the rare original subscription prospectus by Max Harrwitz, three leaves (29cm x 11.cm), folded vertically and complete with original cord.
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R and R: A Flight Fare Story
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Babbs
: Ken Babbs, 1984.Self-published short story by Merry Prankster and psychedelic icon Ken Babbs, featuring Marine helicopter pilots Huckelbee and Cochran on R&R at a Japanese brothel, the Five Hundred Club. An early version of what would become, in heavily edited form, chapter 7 of Babbs’ 2011 Vietnam novel, Who Shot the Water Buffalo?. The novel originated from a manuscript Babbs began during his service as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam (1962-63) and took nearly fifty years to reach publication. The present pamphlet is the only known separate printing of any portion of that manuscript, preserving a pre-publication text substantially different from the finished novel. Inscribed by Babbs to counterculture collector and historian Rick Synchef. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Wolfe
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.Wolfe’s debut novel, a landmark autobiographical coming-of-age narrative in American literature. First edition, second state dust jacket. JOHNSTON A2.1.a.
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The Emperor Jones; Diff’rent; The Straw
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene G. O’Neill
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921.First edition, first state binding, in the original pictorial jacket. The Emperor Jones was a watershed in American theatre, one of the first major Broadway productions to feature a Black actor in a leading dramatic role of such prominence, originally performed by Charles S. Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson in a role that helped establish his international stage reputation. A bold expressionist exploration of fear, power, and racial consciousness, the play remains a landmark text in both African-American theatrical history and the development of modern American drama. ATKINSON A 15-I-i.a. Also includes Diff’rent, a two-act study of sexual repression in a New England fishing village, and The Straw, a naturalistic drama drawn from O’Neill’s own experience in a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Inland
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartGerald Murnane
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Douze Douzains de Dialogues ou Petites Scenes Amoureuses
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Pierre Louys]; [Andre Collot]
: No publisher, No date.Facsimile edition (c. 1935) of an erotic manuscript illustrated with 12 coloured plates attributed to Andre Collot. One of 100 numbered copies. DUTEL 1428.
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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 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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Vice Versa or a Lesson to Fathers
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartF. Anstey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882.First edition, first printing of the comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie set in Victorian London in which a stern father and mischevious son body-swap via a magic stone from India.
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Kontrol
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war sci-fi thriller. “..an exuberant Scientific Romance with thriller elements, in which a Mad Scientist switches genius brains into athletes’ bodies, then wipes their minds clean, in order to create a race of obedient Supermen; he is under the control of a Soviet master operator, whose network operates a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-off aerial juggernauts and a Dystopian supercity on a secret Island. All ends in flames.” (SFE)
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Gisele et Pierrette ou Les Esclaves d’Island Castle
AU$800 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 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 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 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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Numerous Treasure: A Romantic Novel
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Keable
London: Constable & Co., 1925.Romance novel set in the Pacific after the author’s relocation to Tahiti. The final page provides a brief glossary of local terms, and the recipe for the absinthe based Numerous Treasure Cocktail.
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In Her Own Right
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Reed Scott
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911.Romance novel with 3 colour illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood.
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Les Mains Cheries
AU$200 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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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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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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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman
London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.First edition, first printing, in a full leather modern art binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire.
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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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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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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.
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Dead Man’s Love
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTom Gallon
London, Melbourne and Toronto: Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.Romance mystery adventure of a prison escapee. The first printing with frontispiece illustration by Howard Somerville.
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Narcolepsy
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam; Bob Charles
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“Narcolepsy radically delivers a process that shakes-up the form of the book to produce the art as book and the book as art. The book is a fully realised graphic vehicle. The ways in which the book operates as a series of closures and openings, also parallels the content of the book and amplifies it as an evocative, mysterious object. Narcolepsy is loaded with the poetics of sex and death realised through an exciting fusion of drawing, painting, text and photography. Narcolepsy is a disturbingly ambiguous novella in pictures and words by Max Pam (photographer) and Bob Charles (writer).” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Bike From Hell
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex R. Stuart
London: New English Library, 1973.Pulp biker novel.
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Splendora
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Swift
London: Penguin, 1981.“Splendora: a steamy East Texas town where Sue Ella Lightfoot furthers her study of sexual motives with every issue of Real Crime magazine while Agnes Pullens drills young ladies in the finer arts of Dance and Expression and Zeda Earl Goodridge faces a life of ruin if her Christmas yard display doesn’t take first prize this year. Timothy John Coldrige left this town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen; now, at thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie Gatewood. Draped (an impeccable accessorized) in Victorian finery and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm.”
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Morocco
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnabelle Barker
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In The Long Run
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Jarratt
Sydney: James Fraser, 1984.“An Australian marathon runner stops at nothing in his pursuit of LA Olympic gold.”
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The Wasted Years
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJess Stearn
New York: Macadden-Bartell, 1968.“Sex, sadism, murder, brutality, perversion, prostitution, drug addiction. Trademarks of the teen-age gangs.”
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The Getting of Wisdom
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Handel Richardson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck.
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The Ice Palace
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1967.Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan.
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The Birds
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1968.Translated from the Norwegian, Fuglane, by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes.
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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartAdelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking.
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Place of the Stinging Nettles
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis Shatte
Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1970.A novel of Gympie, Queensland. This copy signed by the author.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartLenny Bruce
[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution.
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Stir
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Jewson
Melbourne: Unicorn Books, 1980.Novelisation of the 1980 prison film based on the 1974 prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex and the subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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The Darker Passions: Frankenstein
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAmarantha Knight
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.Erotic horror fiction.
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The Darker Passions: Carmilla
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAmarantha Knight
New York: Masquerade Books, 1997.Erotic horror fiction.
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Biff
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles S. Gould
Sydney: Jons Productions, [1945].Australian juvenile fiction. Adventure story about a boy from the Queensland bush. MUIR 2904.
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Deadly Diamond
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJoan Storm
London: Hammond, Hammond & Company, 1953.A Cloak and Dagger Mystery. A continental honeymoon is interrupted by a murder when the husband, a member of British Intelligence, assists the local police with the investigation. Crime fiction.
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Never Love a Stranger
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartHarold Robbins
London: Robert Hale, 1958.The second UK printing, in the dustwrapper, of Harold Robbins first novel, a tale of crime and gangsters in New York. Published the same year as the film release starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray.
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Escape to Elysium
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartL. J. J. Nye
Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1972.Australian utopian literature by Queensland doctor Leslie John Jarvis Nye (1896-1976). This copy inscribed by Nye.
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The Inseparables
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Braddon
London: Michael Joseph, 1968.A German medical student’s Christmas day pilgrimage to Dachau on LSD.
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Derricks
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Barr
New York: Greenburg, 1951.A collection of short stories. The second published work by of one of the first modern authors to portray homosexual characters positively. Written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr. YOUNG 185*.
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The Narrow Road To The Deep North
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Flanagan
Sydney: Knopf, 2013.The first printing of the Australian–being the true–first edition of Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize winning novel. This being the variant without the printed signature on the half-title (the variant with often found erroneously described as signed). This copy signed by Flanagan in purple marker on the title page and with a signed by author sticker on the jacket upper panel.
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Quatrefoil
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Barr
London: Vision Press, 1953.First UK edition of one of the first modern books to portray homosexual characters positively written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr.
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Bad Habits
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartLindsay Welsh
New York: Rosebud, 1998. -
Odd Women
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartRachel Perez
New York: Rosebud, 1997. -
Dark Room: An Online Adventure
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAlison Tyler
New York: Rosebud, 1996. -
Body and Soul: Mistress with a Maid, Volume 3
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Cilescu
New York: Rosebud, 1993. -
Leda and the House of Spirits
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAarona Griffin
New York: Rosebud, 1997. -
Miles Diamond and the Demon of Death (The Adventures of Miles Diamond II)
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartDerek Adams
New York: Badboy, 1995. -
2nd Time Around
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Earl Hardy
Los Angeles: Alyson, 1996.First printing of the second book in the B-Boy Blues series.
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Pietro
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha Lincoln Heustis
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1915.The story of a young Italian man who travels to New York to find a better life. This copy signed by Heustis to the wrappers.
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Pocketman
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Bell
Toronto: Dorset Publishing, 1979.A book of comedy loosely based on the life of Canadian street poet, Roy McDonald, and his time in Montreal. This copy with a lengthy inscription by Roy McDonald, aka Pocketman, naming various characters in the book.
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The Great Cham: A Fiction
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Baldwin
London: Secker & Warburg, 1967. -
Le Cycle Patibulaire (Premiere + Deuxieme, 2 Volumes)
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Eekhoud
Bruxelles: La Renaissance du Livre, 1927.First 2 volume edition.
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Cuentos Malevolos
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartClemente Palma; Santiago Caruso
Buenos Aires: Aguijon de la Noche, 2021.Short fiction by Peruvian writer Clemente Palma (1872-1946), illustrated by Argentine symbolist and surreal artist Santiago Caruso (1982-).
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Paris Nights: Sydney, Oxford St, Mid 80’s Sex, Drugs & Clubbing
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartD. M. Crawford
Sydney: D M Crawford, 2020.A semi-biographical story of sex, drugs, and clubbing in Sydney, Oxford Street, mid-80’s. “Mark was a closeted suburban boy from Wollongong, hiding his sexuality within his surroundings. The enticing allure of Oxford Street nightlife beckoned and in particular a legendary nightclub called Patchs. A semi-biographical account of a young man’s journey and self-discovery which leads to a chance encounter as he hooks up with an older guy called Matt Paris, who’s been around the traps and harboured a secret past. They form a complicated friendship and bond as they embark on a shared weekend life together. Both men were from vastly different backgrounds, experiencing the highs and lows of gay life on Oxford Street in the mid to late ’80s of sex, drugs and clubbing. Oxford Street was called Sydney’s ‘Gay Golden Mile’. A beehive of social activities gathered on this strip that glittered with life and a party atmosphere catering for everyone’s tastes and fantasies. The DJ’s in these establishments were the Gods of the dance floor, playing an accompanying soundtrack to your life. This was Mark’s story and experience!” (publisher’s blurb)
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El Monje: Y La Hija Del Verduo
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartAmbrose Bierce; Santiago Caruso
Barcelona: Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2011.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American short story writer, critic, and poet who disappeared shortly after travelling to Mexico to aid rebels in the Mexican Revolution. Here translated into Spanish and accompanied by Santiago Caruso’s haunting illustrations, ‘The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter’ tells the folk-like story of two people forbidden to know one another yet bound together. For fans of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. Inscribed ‘Ex Libris Alejandro Sotelo’ with an original drawing by Santiago Caruso on the title page.
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Bittersweet
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartColleen McCullough
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2013.A scarce signed copy of Colleen McCullough’s last book published two years before her death. McCullough was mostly blind due to illness and did not travel from her home, Norfolk Island, making signed copies of this work hard to come by. Provenance: Private collector that operated tours to Norfolk Island.
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Wild, Fearless Chests
AU$29 Read MoreAdd to cartMandy Beaumont
Sydney: Hachette, 2020.“She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the skin. She is the near miss. She is the woman you once were, the woman you could be, the woman you are. She is a triumph of our shared history, is every one of you, is your wild and screaming voice on street corners, is the madwoman you fear you may become. She loves you. As women’s voices begin to rise together, Mandy Beaumont’s brutal and uncompromising stories are a compelling reminder of the ways in which women have fallen, been dismissed, hurt, hated and loved from afar. These are the stories we have always known, have always heard about and are perhaps just short moments away from. They are yours, ours, mine. They are booming anger. They are wild love. They are the distorted and the decided, the imagined and the wanted. They are the shaking ground beneath our feet. A powerful call to arms. They compel us to stand tall. To break free. To defy the gaze. To claim our space. Wild, Fearless Chests is the sound of a certain revolution.” (publisher’s blurb) “Drowning in Thick Air” is shocking… It is not like anything I have read in recent years and takes me to a place I have never been in my life or imagination or in fiction.’ (Frank Moorhouse)
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Airport Encounter
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Badger
: Privately Printed, 2012.Erotic coming of age fiction with some homosexual themes set in Brisbane, Armidale, and Toulouse. Limited private printing of 100 copies. “Nigel Wellesley is an Australian choirboy and this book follows him and his talented group of friends from their first sexual experiences into being teenagers. The action switches between Brisbane, Armidale and Toulouse as Nigel has to cope with his girlfriend Jane Barton being in a different city, and then in a different country, but he has plenty of sex-play with his fellow boys while they are separated. Music naturally plays a major part in the story. Mark Ambon is a talented composer and his very shy girlfriend Rose Trescowick is a poet, while Andy Riemer (son of a jazz musician) juggles being a child prodigy pianist with surfing. All of these have major parts in the plot, as do a dirt-poor Moroccan immigrant family in Armidale who Nigel and Jane befriend. A heart-warming, and quite sexually explicit, story.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Bronski
New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002.“An anthology of early gay erotic writings ranges from the post-World War II era to the birth of the modern gay rights movement in the late 1960s.” (publisher’s blurb)