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Bared Birds: Fully Illustrated
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Productions
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.Nude portraits of women, accompanied by 2 reproductions of illustrations by Eric Stanton. Rare Australian erotica.
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Garcon: A Collection of Male Nudes for Adults Only
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartGreg Fenton; Peter Wright
Sydney: Christopher Wilde Productions, No date.Rare Australian gay erotica. A collection of male nudes: photographs by Greg Fenton, drawings by Peter Wright. Publisher’s catalogue request form laid in.
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Male Maze [No. 1] & 2
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartMankind Publications
Sydney: Mankind Publications, No date.2 issues of short-running Australian homoerotic tabloid Male Maze, a spinoff of the slightly glossier Mankind. Features W. H. Auden’s poem ‘A Day for a Lay’ [The Platonic Blow], Gay News From Afar, articles: Smile! You’re Growing Older, The First Closet Queen, Sex Change, and Three Way Heaven, alongside numerous male nudes, and mail order advertisements for books, photographs, and gay gear from Mankind.
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Bizarre Productions Catalog Supplement Number 25-A [Bizarre Productions Catalog of Hollywood Models & Feature Films by Pat Rocco]
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPat Rocco
Hollywood: Bizarre Productions, 1969.8 page supplement with the original order form and Bizarre Productions addressed envelope laid in.
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Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual
AU$900 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Berlin
[Bologna]: Damiani, 2019.One of 50 copies of the deluxe edition with a signed and numbered silver gelatin photograph by Berlin housed in the publisher’s original mailing carton. “Featuring the work of Berlin along with images by Tom of Finland, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol, Peter Berlin: Icon pays tribute to the man who in the early to mid-1970s revolutionized the landscape of gay male eroticism and became an international sensation. His self-portrait photography graced the covers of gay magazines, and defined a look that re-imagined a new masculinity among gay men and an emerging gay male culture. Peter Berlin was a self-created. Tailoring his own clothes to accentuate an already naturally defined physique, every part of his anatomy became showcased. Cruising was his career, and with a background in photography, Peter embarked on recording thousands of self-portraits. The book is edited by Michael Bullock is a writer and publisher of BUTT, Pin-Up, Fantastic Man, Gentlewoman, and Apartamento magazines.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Stripped: The Illustrated Male
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartClaus Kiessling; Joris Buiks
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2006.Anthology of contemporary homoerotic art.
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Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartA. W. Stencell
Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999. -
Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDany Jobus; Lisa Downing
London: H. Karnac, 2006. -
Illustrated Sex Quiz
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMyron D. Jacoby
New York: Herald Publishing Co., 1943.1940s American sex guide manual by the spurious Dr. Myron D. Jacoby, who had repeated run-ins with the law relating to unregulated medical practices.
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Lads
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Robertson
Sydney: Blue Books, 2004. -
Shiriaitai: Eriko Sato
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartNishida Koki
Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2016.Glamour / soft erotica photobook of Japanese actress Eriko Sato.
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Warning: Noriko Tachikawa
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartHajime Sawatari
Tokyo: Wanibukkusu, 1999.Glamour / soft erotica photobook of 1990s Japanese actress Noriko Tachikawa.
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Our Girls: Aussie Pin-ups of the 40s and 50s
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMadeleine Hamilton
Melbourne: Arcade Publications, 2009.The art of the pin-up and personal stories of the ladies who graced the pages of Pix, Man, and other Australian men’s magazines of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Dreamboys 4: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2003.The fourth instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 50 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys Volume III: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2002].The third instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 46 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys Volume 2: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2001].The second instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 66 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2000.The first instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Le Panier aux Ordures suivi de Quelques Chansons, Ejusdem Farine
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cart[Armand Gouffe]
Canton [Bruxelles]: W. Field et Tching-Kong [Gay & Douce], No date.Belgian clandestine publication of the erotic poems of Armand Gouffe. The erotic title vignette depicts a young lady lifting her skirt to a priest in a kitchen. This copy from the collection of erotophile Gershon Legman, with bibliographical notes in his hand and signed by him. Legman’s note reads as follows: “[Bruxelles: Gay & Douce 1875] Enfer 29; BM. PC. 1769. 1st ed. as : Le Panier aux ordures, par Armand Gouffe et autres. [Paris – London: John Camden Hotten, for Lord Houghton, 1865.]. 36 f., lg 8vo. Hand-drawn facsimile by H.J. Bellars, erotic drawings by Ulm. No copy.* 2nd ed. (first typographical): [title as here,] [Libreville, a a la Society pour la propagation des livres de l’Enfer’ [Bruxelles: Jules Gay], 1866. vi, 154 p. smal 8vo. (106 copies.) BM.PC. 31 g. 4; Coll. G.L. 1957 G. Legman.” The asterisk from above reads, at bottom of page, “except that of Pierre Louys, coll. Bottin, Nice, in 1962].” Laid in also is a folded piece of typescript from Legman noting “SOLD to RP02/2016” (that is, Richard Press, from his widow) and then the explanation of the woodcut engraving at title page, “probably by Gilbert,” “showing a priest kneeling before a woman holding up her skirts before a kitchen fireplace to show her cunt.” 151 pp. And with occasional pencil marginalia translations into English (mostly of titles).
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Chansons Folles
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Gustave Nadaud]
Evreux: Charles Herissey, 1887.Collection of 41 erotic songs with musical score by Gustave Nadaud and published anonymously with a fine frontispiece engraving by Henry Somm. One of 75 numbered copies on Japon (of a total edition of 300). This copy with a two-page signed letter by the author in purple ink dated 29 Avril 1882, written on nice stationery that features the letterhead Rue Charles Laffitte, 63, Neuilly, (Seine); and a two-page song composed on the same stationery in the same purple ink.
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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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Human Negotiations
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartKatharina Hesse; Lara Day
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2011.Photo book of Bangkok female and transsexual sex workers. Photography by Katharina Hesse with text based on interviews by Lara Day. This copy signed by Hesse.
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Public Fitting
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Krishna: The Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Isacco
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. -
Oiran
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartTetsuji Takechi
Tokyo: Tokyo Academy of Arts, 1983.First edition photobook issued to accompany Takechi Tetsuji’s controversial late-career film Oiran, “A mixture of romance and sex combined with surrealistic horror elements.” The story is loosely based on the work of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki in which a 19th century Japanese prostitute moves to America and her dead lover manifests as a mole on her leg. Takechi was a prominent critic and kabuki director before moving into directing films in the 1960s. His 1964 feature Hakujitsumu is regarded as the first big budget pink film (Japanese movies with nudity or sexual content), and also the first Japanese production subjected to systematic fogging censorship. The following year, Black Snow (1965), led to his arrest on indecency charges, a landmark case he ultimately won, significantly reshaping Japanese film censorship and opening the way for the flourishing of the pink eiga genre through the late 1960s and 1970s. After a decade-long hiatus from cinema, Takechi returned with a more explicit remake of Hakujitsumu before directing Oiran in 1983. The film again brought him into conflict with the censors whom “edited and fogged in 98 different places, altering the film from a near-hardcore opus to a very soft costume drama.” Takechi promoted the film by proclaiming it featured “the first multicoloured penis in Japanese cinema.” The present photobook, issued uncensored, retains many of the film’s erotic stills and remains an important visual record of Takechi’s work. As usual for the period, explicit male nudity is absent. References: WEISSER: The Sex Films: Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia.
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II: Updated Second Edition
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry 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
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry 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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Intimate Portraits: Australian Nudes by the Photographers of Black+White Magazine
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2005.A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring nude portraiture of Australians with everyday careers. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events.
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Hidden Exposures
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartStefan Richter
Dordrecht: De Vaar BV, 1994.A graphic collection of full-colour photographs depicting tattoos and genital piercings, with a foreword by the photographer.
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Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBill 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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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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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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Experiments in Sex
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartGene North
North Hollywood: Dominion Publishing Company, 1969.Pseudo-sexological sexual discovery.
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Lapdancer
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJuliana 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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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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BEV. Blad van Eva: de boom der vergetelheid afgerukt
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonie Greefkens
Amsterdam: BEV, 1988-1989.A complete set of the 1980s Dutch erotic journal for heterosexual women. Edited by Leonie Greefkens with art design by Willem de Ridder, Paul Kooiker, Henk tur Kulve, and Maud Vink. Numerous contributors of erotic photography, text, and comics. This set has been collected and finely bound in vellum with the original wrappers and housed in a matching slipcase
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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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Sin Valley
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartGail Spencer
Los Angeles: Raven Books, 1962.Wife swapping themed pulp. Raven Book No. 706. “In Sin Valley there were no two ways about it. If you wanted to belong you swapped your woman for someone else’s. It led to some pretty embarassing situations. Johnny Marshak wanted no part of a sex carnival but what could he do when his wife stuck her chest out, accepting all dares.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Sex Imposter
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartRuss Trainer
Cleveland: Corsair Publications, 1967.Nympho freak themed pulp. Corsair Books 203. Colour cover illustration by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg depicting some of the assorted characters. “To satisfy her nymphomania, she impersonated her own sister. In this evil charade she was part of every debauched orgy… always ready for her next gratification, no matter how depraved or unnatural!” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Devil’s Chamber
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartDuncan Lamour
Buffalo: Tortura Press, 1972.Femdom BDSM pulp. TP-121. Cover illustration and 9 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg. “The revolution had come, and failed, and gone. Afterwards came the repression, exactly as it had been predicted and feared for so many years. Tens of thousands of rebels and leftists, yippies, hippies, radicals, marxists, and simple liberals were rounded up and incarcerated in camps that were nothing more or less than concentration camps.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Hell’s Dungeon
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartSteward Chalford
Buffalo: Tortura Press, 1972.Femdom BDSM pulp. TP-131. Cover illustration and 9 full page black and with illustrations in the text by Gene Bilbrew AKA Eneg. “The boy leaned far forward, thrusting out his crimson ass awaiting the sting of the lash. The old man in the pink panties took his time, toying with his victim.” Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
AU$300 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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Oeuvres Libres
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Verlaine
Segovie: Pablo de Herlagnez, 1868 [c. 1930].Clandestine 20th century anthology of Verlaine’s Amies, Femmes, Hombres (except the last 4 quatrains of Balanide I), and Sonnet du trou du cul [Sonnet to an Asshole] by Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. With erotic chapter initials and accompanied by 6 erotic etchings by an anonymous artist. Edition of 400 copies, though often found without the suite of plates, here the plates are on thick Holland laid paper and not vellum as described in PIA 1440, DUTEL 2092.
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Ist der Ofen noch so klein, muss er doch…gereinigt sein
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of three drawings in pencil, ink, and coloured crayon on a single folded sheet, depicting a woman and a chimney sweep, with manuscript text in German: [No matter how small the oven is, it still needs to be…cleaned].
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Ein Spaziergang
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of drawings in pencil and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper mounted on sheets depicting a heterosexual couple entering a hotel for sex and being watched by a masturbating clerk through the keyhole. 14 sheets, each with mounted manuscript captions in German, and an illustrated title leaf mounted to the front pastedown.
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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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Eye 5 Eroticisma
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Seamster
Santa Barbara: Eye Magazine, 1983.Artists book/magazine published in a numbered edition of 152 copies. This issue devoted to eroticism, and containing numerous signed original artworks, photographs, and collage. The artists are: Jas R Babbe, Chris Bastian, David Bottoms, Tom Clark, Flora Durham, Doug Edges, Sam Erenberg, Pat Fish, Tim Goetz, Marsea Goldberg, Jeff Greenwald, Jenny Hankwitz, Ken Hendrickson, David Holland, Michael Irwin, Starke Jett, Susan Jorgensen, Barbara Kapusnak, Steve Knauff, Penny Mast, Paul McCarthy, Michael Napper, Dwayne Newton, David Ossman, Somers Randolph, Jim Risser, Richard Ross, Mary Seamster, Elena Siff, James Taylor, Kerry Tomlinson, Dug Eyesaka, Shelly Vogel, and Seyburn Zorthian.
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The Truth About Incest
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Hawkes
London: Luxor Press, 1971.Sexploitation pulp sensational sexological study of incestuous relationships.
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Male for Sale
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Millerson
United States: Saturn, 1967.20th century American pulp smut fiction. SN 1159.
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The Girls, the Massage, and Everything
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartBernhardt J. Hurwood
Sydney: Eclipse Paperbacks, 1973.The naked truth about massage parlors.
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Run, Little Leather Boy
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: The Olympia Press, 1971.SM leather gay pulp. The Other Traveller, the gay imprint of Olympia’s The Traveller’s Companion. TC-505.
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Deep Blue
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Johnston
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2004.A special issue of Not Only Blue celebrating masculine sexuality featuring photography too explicit for the magazine. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Blue Muse: Blue Magazine Photographers Reveal Their Favourite Models
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2006.(not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others. This special issue features short descriptions of some of Blue photographers favourite models, of course accompanied by numerous images.
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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian McNair
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. -
Gay Heart Throbs (3 Issues, Complete)
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Fuller; Mike Kuchar
San Francisco: Fulhorne Productions, Larry Fuller Presents, and Inkwell, Inc., 1976-1981.A complete run of the intermittent and short-lived underground gay erotic comix anthology, the three issues published in 1976, 1979, and 1981. The title is thought to be a reference to the romance comic Heart Throbs. The stories are campy and pornographic. Featuring the work of Larry Fuller, Ray Horne, Mike Kuchar, and many others.
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Lay ’em Straight
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Rowen
New York: Surree, 1981.Surree Stud Series gay pulp. SSS106. 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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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16.
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Raw Meat Cannibals!
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartSharon Cruise (Maboota)
: Sharon Cruise (Maboota), No date.Duplicated typescript for an unpublished erotic-horror short story based in the Amazon. A man alone in the jungle comes across a tribe of black muscular nude women that torture him and force him to perform sexual acts on them before eating him.
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A Treatise on Gonorrhea Virulenta, and Lues Venerea
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartBenjamin Bell
Edinburgh: G. Mudie and Son, 1797.Primarily regarded as surgeon, Bell is considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His scientific approach is especially evident in this treatise in which he convincingly argues, against the prevailing medical opinion of the time, that gonorrhea and syphilis are separate diseases. Bell’s work is foundational to the modern understanding of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The rare Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
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Pengar eller Livet
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Johan De Geer; Jan Hannertz
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1970.[Money or Life]. Photobook novella with captions in Swedish of De Geer and friends of the Swedish underground on an artistic and erotic romp about town
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Harlot’s Spree
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartTad Benton
: Banner Volumes, 1964.From hell itself sprang the studs who went on a Harlot’s Spree. 20th century American pulp smut fiction. BV 103.
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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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Animal Handlers
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Shaffer
New York: Badboy, 1994.Gay pulp short story collection.
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The Slave Prince
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartVince Gilman
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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Scrapbook
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartSean Martin
New York: Badboy, 1994.Gay pulp short story collection.
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Service, Stud
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartClay Caldwell
New York: Badboy, 1995.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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Queers Like Us
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartClay Caldwell
New York: Badboy, 1995.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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Run No More
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1993.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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Mind Master
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry 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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Hard in the Lace Game
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAdina Yurana
Sydney: Howard Productions, 1972.An erotic encounter of a door to door lingerie salesman. Rare Australian erotica.
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Queen of the Square Dance
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
: No publisher, No date.Reprint of an anonymous femdom forced feminisation crossdressing fiction. “If you are wet and dirty and Hitch-Hiking on a lonely road who is going to stop and pickup you up? Terry found out; and it was a one way trip to FEMININITY!” Cover illustration by Erica, dated 1977.
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Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartClifford Bishop; Xenia Othelder
Cologne: Konemann, 2001.A multidisciplinary look at sexuality and erotica with coffee-table appeal.
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Rituals of Love: Sexual Experiments, Erotic Possibilities
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartTed Polhemus; Housk Randall
London: Picador, 1994. -
Wet Dreams: Films & Adventures
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy; Willem de Ridder
Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1973.The book of the Wet Dream Film Festivals presented by Suck, that European Sexpaper. Suck tasked themselves with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”. Heathcote Williams in his Suck manifesto declares “SUCK is Group Sex, Police Sex, Animal Sex, Teeny Sex, One Armed Bandit Sex, Geriatric Sex and Cosmic Sex”. Wet Dreams the book documents the film festivals organised by Suck and held in Amsterdam in 1970 and 1971 showing films for the sexual avant-garde exploring the boundaries between art and pornography. The book, illustrated throughout in the Suck style and with articles by Brion Gysin, Al Goldstein, Betty Dodson, Jim Haynes, Germaine Greer, Heathcote Williams, and many others, together with details of the films shown and the festival judges deliberations.
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Havelock Ellis in Appreciation
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph Ishill
Berkeley Heights: The Oriole Press, 1929.Havelock Ellis in Appreciation by Elie Faure, Bertrand Russell, H. L. Mencken, Henry W. Nevinson, Henri Barbusse, Clarence Darrow, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, John A. Hobson, Marguerite Tracy, Eleen Key, Dr. B. Malinowski and thirty-four other important contributors. With an unpublished letter by Thomas Hardy to Havelock Ellis, and a foreword by Isaac Goldberg & embellishments by Louis Moreau. Compiled, edited, and printed by Joseph Ishill. Limited to 450 numbered copies. This copy inscribed by Ishill to William Duff.
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Autoerotic Phenomena in Adolescence: An Analytical Study of Psychology and Psychopathology of Onanism
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Menzies
London: H. K. Lewis, 1919.Early 20th century psychoanalytical study of masturbation written for a lay audience. With a foreword by Dr. Ernest Jones. An important text in helping to normalise healthy self-pleasure and provide a balanced approach to unhealthy behaviours in the early 20th century.
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Mastering Mary Sue
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Love
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.A tale of a wealthy nymphomaniac with a husband attempting to declare her mentally incompetent and steal her fortune.
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Trinkets
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartLizbeth Dusseau
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.Erotic story of domination.
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Bible of Filth
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Crumb
Paris: Futuropolis, 1986.Collection of some of Robert Crumb’s filthiest comix and illustrations from the pages of Snatch, Zap, Weirdo, Snoid, Jiz, and others. Printed on thin “bible” paper. One of 1,000 numbered copies.
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The Virgin Sperm Dancer
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy; Ginger Gordon
The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978.An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. A classic publication from the age of sexual liberation, The virgin sperm dancer is an early photobook which illustrates the story of Joop, a young Dutch man who experiences a day transformed as Joopie, a sexually awakened woman. Published as a Suck Special Issue of the Amsterdam-based pornography magazine Suck, The virgin sperm dancer clearly aims to titillate with its uncensored graphic photographs of the escapades in this fantasy. However through the lengthy narrative and exploration of the versatility of sexual experience, Sperm Dancer finds itself as a prototype for later works that explore sexual freedom and concepts of gender. Through depictions of free love in Amsterdam in the 70s with a focus on transsexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality, Sperm dancer avoids gender paradigms of masculinity and power, and includes women’s sexual empowerment and orgasm as a focus of the work. Unusually for a sex magazine, this standalone publication does not appear to pitch its eroticism to a particular sexuality but rather embraces the versatility of sexual experience as being its greatest appeal. The virgin sperm dancer was immediately influential and homaged on the cover of the September 1972 issue of London Oz. A second edition was published in 1978. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws. Written by William Levy. Photographs by Ginger Gordon. This second printing copy signed by William Levy on the title page and inscribed by him to the wrappers verso, For Marta Norman – I became you – Bill 25 IX 78, and with the promotional flyer reproducing the title page laid in.
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The Mistress and the Slave: A Masochist Realistic Love Story
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartDelectus Books
London: Delectus Books, 1995.Facsimile of edition originally published Erotika Biblion Society, Athens, 1905. Translated from French.
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Modern Slaves: A Profound Study of the Forces of Destiny
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartClaire Willows
London: Delectus Books, 1995. -
(not only) Black+White (Complete Set, 89 Volumes)
AU$2,200 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1992-2007.A complete set of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White, from issue 00 to 88 (89 total). Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. The premiere issue featured articles on Agenda: Gender, Marcus Graham, Dykes on Bikes, and Teen Satanists, and featured photography by or of Simon Denny, Helmut Newton, Kym Wilson, Angie Bowie, and others. Over its 15 year history (not only) Black+White featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Toni Collette, Alan Moore, Bettina Rheims, Alain de Botton, Keira Knightley, Billie Piper, Tara Moss, Kylie Minogue, Nobuyoshi Araki, Natalie Portman, Patti Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Olaf Martens, Scarlett Johansson, Peaches, Anton Corbijn, Ellen von Unwerth, Gottfried Helnwein, Dolly Parton, Bruce Weber, Kate Moss, Bob Carlos Clarke, Mario Testino, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Lindbergh, Radiohead, Serge Gainsbourg, Harrsion Ford, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, David Cronenberg, Bill Henson, PJ Harvey, John Waters, Irvine Welsh, Chloe Sevigny, Johnny Depp, David Bowie, Arthur C. Clarke, William Klein, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Nick Cave, Spike Lee, Jan Saudek, Dennis Hopper, Devo, Madonna, Woody Harrelson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Naomi Watts, Albert Watson, David Hamilton, Pierre et Gilles, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, and countless others. International buyers please contact for shipping quote.
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Claude Alexandre
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Alexandre
Tokyo: Treville, 1992.Black and white S&M photography.
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 5): 1970s at the Newsstand
AU$125 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“1967 was the year men’s magazines became pornography. Prior, there were pinup magazines and adventure magazines, art-photo magazines, nudist magazines, girlie titles and risque titles, over-the-counter and under-the-counter, top shelf and bottom shelf, spicy, saucy, sparkling and seedy titles. But the day Berth Milton Sr. walked into a session of Swedish Parliament with photos of actual sexual intercourse and announced he was going to publish them in his magazine Private, pornography was born.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 4): 1960s Under the Counter
AU$125 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“The new publishing companies started in Hollywood then expanded into the San Fernando Valley, the first settlers in what would become the world capitol of porn production. American Art Agency, commonly called Parliament, was the leader, but Art Enterprises, Comet, Dominion, Marquis, Marst, Orbit, Pendulum, Press Arts, Rilgac, Sari, Spice, Tri-S, Tower, Utopia and many others contributed memorable magazines. The East Coast got into the game late with Sampson and Delilah Publishing, Health Knowledge, and Lenny Burtman’s Selbee Associates out of New York, and the distinctive Tudor House/Central Sales from Baltimore, but overall, California ruled.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 3): 1960s at the Newsstand
AU$125 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“Around 1960 Hugh Hefner began exporting Playboy. It was an immediate success overseas and by mid-decade most of Europe had adopted the Playboy blueprint for its own men’s magazines. From France came Lui, from Italy Playmen. England made King, Germany Eden. The only serious challenge to Playboy’s dominance came when Penthouse from newly hip London in 1965, taking the grittier stance of the Rolling Stones to Playboy’s Beatles. From 1966 on Penthouse was copied regularly as Playboy, resulting in English Mayfair and Men Only and Italian Excelsior, Men, 10 and numerous others. Italy was especially taken with the Penthouse model, since publisher Bob Guccione was a paisano himself, but even Germany’s most venerable men’s magazine, Er, eventually restyled in Penthouse hipster mode. Soon these “lifestyle” men’s magazines, those that covered fashion, food, travel and entertainment as well as sex, were the only titles available on European newsstands. Playboy’s overseas influence was a stunning victory for Hefner, but it came at the expense of the more culturally distinctive magazines made in France, Germany and England prior to 1960.” (from introduction)