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Encore
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Duchamp [Sally M. Singer]
New York: Tower Publications, 1964.Original Midwood paperback. “Laura Duchamp” is attributed to Sally M. Singer, who published over 100 pulp novels under the names March Hastings and Laura Duchamp. This tale centred on a young wife drawn away from her marriage by a female lover. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The Time and Place
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartLaura Duchamp [Sally M. Singer]
New York: Tower Publications, 1965.Original Midwood paperback. “Laura Duchamp” is attributed to Sally M. Singer, who published over 100 pulp novels under the names March Hastings and Laura Duchamp. A novel of lesbian pulp fiction set in a Parisian finishing school. One of the many lesbian pulps produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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Coming Out Party
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartKimberley Kemp [Gilbert Fox]
New York: Tower Publications, 1965.Original Midwood paperback. “Kimberley Kemp” is attributed to Gilbert Fox, who used the name (along with Dallas Mayo) for his lesbian pulp fiction at Midwood, reserving Paul V. Russo for his heterosexual novels for the same house. This tale centred on a young houseguest drawn into an intimate arrangement with her hosts. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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The Last Resort
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartKimberley Kemp [Gilbert Fox]
New York: Tower Publications, 1966.Original Midwood paperback. “Kimberley Kemp” is attributed to Gilbert Fox, who used the name (along with Dallas Mayo) for his lesbian pulp fiction at Midwood, reserving Paul V. Russo for his heterosexual novels for the same house. This tale set at a weight-loss resort, where the female guests find one another as well as the diet. Cover illustration by Victor Olson. Midwood later reissued the work under the alternate title Secret Cravings. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.
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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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Women in Love with Women
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKarena Wilton
New York: The Olympia Press, 1971.The usual references to Kinsey, Caprio, PhDs, and The Second Sex dispersed with depictions of lingering touches, moans, and much more. OPS-39.
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Snatch Comics
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb; S. Clay Wilson
[San Francisco]: [Print Mint], 1968 [1975].Collection of sex themed underground comix by Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson.
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Sandraman the Enemaman
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartF. Wakeling; M. Dreer; Sandra Anne
Erin: Sandraman Enterprises, No date.Illustrated erotic contact magazine devoted to enema fetishism and related watersports interests, issued during the 1970s from the same postal address as the fetishwear mail-order business Betty’s. Produced for a highly specialised readership, the publication combined illustrated fantasy narratives, correspondence, and contact-advertisement material centred on klismaphilia, the sexualisation of enemas and related practices. Although the fetish itself long predates its formal medical description, the term “klismaphilia” was coined in 1973 by psychiatrist Dr. Joanne Denko in a published case study examining patients for whom enemas functioned as a sexual preference. Earlier evidence of the practice appears in informal and clinical literature, including data gathered by sexologist Alfred Kinsey and colleagues in their 1953 survey of female sexual behaviour, which recorded enemas among a range of masturbatory techniques and erotic interests. Like many niche fetish publications of the period, Sandraman the Enemaman appears to have been distributed privately through mail-order networks rather than conventional bookselling channels. Survival rates are consequently low, reflecting both the ephemeral nature of the publication and the discretion of its readership. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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La Femme Dominatas Issue 26
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartBenco Publications
New York: Benco Publications, 1974.Bi-monthly contact newsletter devoted to female domination and associated fetish interests. Typical of the underground personal-contact publications that flourished before the internet, it contains more than one hundred personal advertisements accompanied by suggestive line illustrations, together with advertisements for swingers’ clubs, mail-order fetishwear, specialist adult publications, humour features, and a serialised work of erotic fiction. The final page provides evidence of the publisher’s changing circumstances: the printed address at 152 West 42nd Street, Suite 536, New York, has been cancelled and overstamped with a corrected address for Benco at 130 West 42nd Street, Suite 1305, documenting at least one office relocation during the newsletter’s run. Such ephemeral publications were typically produced in small quantities for a niche readership and were rarely collected by libraries, contributing to their present scarcity. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Don’t Miss Your… Monthly (4 Issues: 34, 35, 36, 38)
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartEve Brown Fashions
New York: Eve Browne Fashions, 1973.4 issues of New York crossdressing newsletter Don’t Miss Your Monthly published by Eve Brown Fashions, New York. Each issue contains personals, reader photos, and lots of ads for trans and fetish goods and services. Issue 35 is a special Library Issue with a 14 page booklist.
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Society for The Second Self: Tau Chi Chapter
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJane Ellen Anderson; Jackie Thorne; Carol Lynn Stuettgen
Richmond, Texas: Tau Chi Chapter, Society for the Second Self, 1988.An introductory pamphlet on crossdressing published by the Houston area chapter of Tri-Ess, an international support organization for crossdressers and spouses, partners, and families.
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The Story of a Lamp
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLeslie Pinkham
Witham: W. Pinkham & Son, No date.A history of the Pinkham Glove Company of Essex, England, founded by William Pinkham in the late nineteenth century and grown into an international business exporting gloves worldwide before its closure in 1966. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the factory, machinery, and staff at work, with eight colour plates of the company’s cotton simplex and rayon gloves. A single copy recorded in OCLC, at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. This copy with a lengthy presentation inscription from Leslie Pinkham to John Bayliss, a production manager at the Australian lingerie manufacturer Berlei, recalling their meeting and a day trip to Wollongong in July 1948.
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Hid in Prison Houses. An S.O.S. from the Women and Girls of Japan
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJapan Rescue Mission
Birkenhead: Japan Rescue Mission, No date.Anti-prostitution fundraising pamphlet issued by the Japan Rescue Mission, founded in 1920 by Christine Penrod, formerly superintendent of the W.C.T.U.’s rescue home at Okubo, Tokyo. The Mission opened its own home in Tokyo the same year, supported by prayer bands in England, Australia, Africa and the United States (The Christian Movement in Japan, Korea and Formosa, 1923, p. 373). This copy carries a typescript imprint directing enquiries and donations to the Brisbane lay preacher William James Tunley, 228 Albert Street, evidence of the Mission’s fundraising network extending to Queensland. A single institutional holding recorded in OCLC, at the British Library.
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Gai Pied: La Lettre Mensuelle
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartChristophe Dernoncourt; Pascal Le Coq; Didier Lestrade; Patrick Bossatti
Paris: Editions du Triangle Rose, 1992-1994.Taking over from one of France’s most important gay magazines of the 20th century, Gai Pied hebdo, La lettre served as a gay personals subscription-only newsletter running for 21 numbers between December 1992 and October 1994. A near complete run, lacking numbers 16 and 21.
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Male Erotic Zones
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSelge Senstrom; Bob Gilmor; Shei Givler
Lemon Grove: Regency Publishing Co., No date.A Swedish sexological study of the penis with an alternative 1970s aesthetic: “A complete examination by Sweden’s famous humanist Selge Senstrom”. Illustrated with photographs by Bob Gilmore and paintings by Shei Givler. Regency Magazine #059.
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Ce Soir… Catalogue – Catalogus
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCe Soir; Alain Verdier
Brussels: Ce Soir, 1982.1980s catalogue of latex, rubber, and plastic fetishwear for men and women by Belgian label Ce Soir, photographed by Alain Verdier. Pricelist laid in.
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Chic in Schuh und Steifel
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPascal Holland
Dusseldorf: Pascho-Exclusive, 1993.1990s catalogue of heels and boots by German distributor Pascal Holland. Includes a typed letter signed by Pascal to Belgian fetishwear store Boutique Minuit and 6 leaves of pricelists and order forms.
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Massad Catalogus
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMassad
Rotterdam: Massad, 1993.1990s catalogue of fetishwear and toys from the oldest Dutch BDSM magazine still in publication today.
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Korsetts und Korsagen
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSchwarze Mode
Berlin: Schwarze Mode, No date.Catalogue of corsets and bustiers by German boutique Schwarze Mode.
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Fetissi No. 1 & 2
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartTaru Hoykinpuro
Helsinki: SMS-Invest OY, 2001-2002.First two issues of this Finnish fetish magazine. Features artwork by Roman Kasperski, Eric Kroll, DeMask, Christophe Mourthe, and others. Text is primarily Finnish, with a small amount of English. Unrecorded in OCLC, a single holding at the National Library of Finland shows possibly a third issue published in 2004.
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Bad Girls Hotel
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Coulter
Frankfurt: Goliath, 2005.Erotic photobook of women posing in New York’s Carlton Arms Hotel.
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Butt Book: The Best of the First 5 Years of Butt Magazine
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJop van Bennekom; Gert Jonkers
Koln: Taschen, 2006.Reproduction of many of the features from the early issues of the 21st century gay subculture zine.
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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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Emily Kngwarreye Paintings
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEmily Kngwarreye
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1998.Monograph of Anmatyerre painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1910-1996). With contributions by Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt, and Janet Holt.
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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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Pink Triangle Concentration Camp Prisoner-Identification Badge
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartGermany: , c. 1937-1945.
Beginning in 1937 the SS marked concentration camp prisoners with colour-coded inverted cloth triangles sewn to the uniform, denoting the official grounds for imprisonment. The pink triangle marked prisoners categorised by the SS as homosexual. Prisoners so marked were, by multiple survivor and historical accounts, subject to particularly severe treatment within the camp hierarchy. The symbol was reclaimed from the 1970s onward as a symbol of gay liberation and pride. Surviving examples of the badge are held in institutional collections including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Arolsen Archives; comparatively few are thought to survive outside institutional hands. This example has been stored for a number of decades in the warehouse of London Judaica dealer Jonathan Fishburn (Fishburn Books), and was acquired at Firsts London 2026.
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Joujou ou Les Libertinages du Travesti
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane Delorys
Paris: Aux Galants Passe-Temps [Jean Fort], 1936.Crossdressing curiosa: a collection of transvestite-themed erotic tales from Jean Fort’s Aux Galants Passe-Temps, illustrated with sixteen heliogravures by Cheri Herouard under his erotica pseudonym Herric, the same artist behind the fetish and spanking imagery he published pseudonymously in La Vie Parisienne. The standard edition was printed in 2,050 numbered copies on Hollande; this copy is a small group printed specially for Jean Fort’s own use on Lafuma.
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A Popular Guide to the Higher Fungi (Mushrooms) of New York State
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartLouis C. C. Krieger
Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1935. -

Australian Submarines: A History
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael W. D. White
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992. -

Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures & Hard Yakka: A Historical Overview, 1788-1967
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Pearson; Jane Lennon
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Truffeln: Mythos und Wirklichkeit
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartChristian Volbracht
Wiesbaden: Tre Torri Verlag, 2012.Truffles: Myth and Reality. The deluxe edition of 100 signed and numbered copies bound in papered boards with a truffle design of inlayed leather each with a sheet of handmade paper made from mushrooms with truffle slices.
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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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The du Mauriers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDaphne du Maurier
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937.First edition in the original jacket.
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![Sibylla TrygAndriana seu de Virginitate, Virginum statu & iure Tractatus Nouus & iucundus [WITH] Linea Amoris, sive Commentarius...](https://www.thebookmerchantjenkins.com/wp-content/uploads/0037404-300x300.jpg)
Sibylla TrygAndriana seu de Virginitate, Virginum statu & iure Tractatus Nouus & iucundus [WITH] Linea Amoris, sive Commentarius…
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartHeinrich Kornmann
Frankfurt: M. Becker for J. Fischer, 1610.First edition of two related works often bound together by the German jurist Heinrich Kornmann examining sexuality, chastity, and the regulation of relations between the sexes in early modern Europe. Sibylla TrygAndriana is a learned treatise on virginity, female chastity, and the legal status of unmarried women, enriched with discussions of astrology, superstition, folklore, and other strands of early modern learning, while Linea Amoris considers love, courtship, and adultery through the lens of civil and canon law, classical literature, and biblical authority.
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Pretextes
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Margerit; Almery Lobel-Riche
: Aux depens d’un Groupe d’Amateurs, 1951.A posthumous tribute, organised by friends of the artist and published at their expense, with text by Robert Margerit and an avant-propos by Andre Billy and Pierre Mac Orlan. Copy A of 5 lettered copies on Japon Imperial reserved for friends of the artist, signed by Margerit and enriched with 5 original drawings by Lobel-Riche including a study for the first plate, a second suite of the plates in two states, with an additional plate also in two states, with remarques, as well as two of the original plates used to illustrate the work (the second and tenth plates).
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Nymphes Dansant avec Des Satyres
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartRene Boylesve
Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, Dorbon-Aine, 1913.With illustrated ornaments by Pierre Hepp. One of 25 numbered copies on Japon, this copy with wide margins, enriched with the suite of 9 engraved colour plates by Sergei Solomko intended for the 1920 Calmann-Levy edition.
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Lesbos
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartFranyo Zoltan
[Vienna]: Hellas-Verlag, 1922.Anthology of lesbian erotic poems translated into Hungarian by Franyo Zoltan. Includes works by Sappho, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Werfel, and an excerpt from Diderot’s La Religieuse. Illustrated with 3 plates reproduced from other sources, one by Rudolf Keller. One of 325 numbered copies.
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Un Mois chez… les Vierges ou le Renard dans la Voliere
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartP.-A. de Cassagnac
Paris: Librairie Generale, 1930.Light French erotica, a homage to Maryse Choisy’s bestselling reportage on Parisian prostitution Un Mois chez les Filles. Illustrations by Ely Costes, one depicting a public caning. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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L’Art de Seduire les Hommes suivi de l’Amour et les Poisons
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartUne Femme Curieuse [Maurice Magre]
Paris: L’Edition, Bibliotheque des Curieux, No date.French guide to the seduction of men with supplementary essays on love and poisons (including opium) published under the pseudonym of a curious woman, likely the work of the poet Maurice Magre, who published L’Art de seduire les Femmes and the essays also fitting his style, though this remains unsubstantiated. First published in 1910 with illustrations by Fabien Fabiano, here reissued under the curiosa imprint of the brothers Robert and Georges Briffaut with a cover illustration by noted illustrator of shipping line posters Sandy-Hook [Georges Taboureau], and with illustrated headpieces by another hand throughout. There are at least two issues by the brothers, the first likely issued circa 1915-16 with the cover printed by the Paris printer Kapp, with plates again by Fabiano, and running to 283 numbered pages; for this issue circa 1920-21 the cover is printed by De Matteis, and runs to 269 numbered pages, the lower count reflecting the absence of Fabiano’s plates, which in the first issue had been included within the pagination.
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Considerations
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMirka Lugosi
Paris: A.P.A.A.R., 1987.The first publication of France-based Romanian-born artist Mirka Lugosi (1958-), a collection of sexuality themed black and white drawings from the 1980s issued in an edition of 250 copies.
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Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, met with in Great Britain and British India
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartFriedrich A. Fluckiger; Daniel Hanbury
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879.Includes section on cannabis. This copy with a Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia College of Pharmacy award plate dated 1898 presented to Miss J. B. Wollen in manuscript with the autograph signature of Daniel McAlpine, a clipping relating to the latter laid in.
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Devergondages
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSpaddy [Johannes Gros]; [Feodor Rojankovsky]
Brussels [Nice]: Aux depens d’un amateur, 1948.Edition of 250 numbered copies, of which this is one of 234 on Velin de Rives with a suite of 16 colour lithographs after watercolours by Feodor Rojankovsky AKA Rojan. DUTEL 1389.
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Exhibition of Female Flagellants Parts I and II; Lady Bumtickler’s Revels
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
London [Tours]: G. Peacock [Imp. E. Arrault et Cie], 1777, 1785, and n.d. [1907].The first three of the seven parts of The Library Illustrative of Social Progress, here reset as a single composite volume. The series was issued clandestinely by John Camden Hotten around 1872, each part under its own false London imprint (1777, 1785, and undated respectively), and a fabricated editorial pedigree: Hotten claimed the texts came “from the original editions collected by” the historian Henry Thomas Buckle. Ashbee in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum disputes this asserting that the volumes had in fact been reprinted, without permission, from a private collection, likely his. This is not Hotten’s printing but a later resetting of these three parts, without plates, continuously paginated where Hotten’s originals are separate. The text carries a false Paris bookselling address on the wrappers but a genuine printer’s mark at the tail of the final page (Imp. E. Arrault et Cie, of Tours, dated 4 March 1907) placing actual production in provincial France some thirty-five years after Hotten’s original printing, behind both an invented London title-page imprint and an invented Paris point of sale. Not in Mendes. Ashbee discusses the constituent texts at length in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, vol. I.
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Experiences of Flagellation: A Series of Remarkable Instances of Whipping Inflicted on Both Sexes, with Curious Anecdotes of Ladies Fond of Administering Birch Discipline
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAn Amateur Flagellant
London: Printed for Private Circulation [E.Avery?], 1885 [c. 1890].“This semi-clandestine compilation was first published by Lazenby & Avery. Avery, in his ‘Preface’ to the Whippingham Papers, 1888, makes this remark: “Only a few years back, a remarkable and lengthened correspondence filled the columns of such domestic periodicals as The Family Herald, The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, &c., the pith of which was collected and issued in a volume entitled ‘EXPERIENCES OF FLAGELLATION’, 1885. That the topic has not lost its interest with the present generation may be estimated by the rapidity with which the first edition of this work was sold.”” (see MENDES 7-A) Thus leading to this early reprint possibly done for Avery MENDES 7-B.
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Rubber Panties / The Country Boy
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Special School / The New Governess
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections. This issue with two short stories, the second with two erotic lesbian line drawings.
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Correction Course
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Sweet Satisfaction
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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Spankings. Headmaster’s Tales.
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections.
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The Horrors of a Victorian Girl’s Engagement
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cart[SOHO TYPESCRIPT]
[London]: n. p., No date.Soho typescripts were clandestinely produced works of pornographic fiction associated with London’s Soho book trade during the 1950s and 1960s. Typically typewritten, duplicated by mimeograph, and printed on one side of the paper only, they were usually issued in simple stapled wrappers without publication details. Sold under the counter, they formed part of Britain’s illicit post-war pornography trade, with retailers categorizing stock by theme using a shorthand folk-sexological vocabulary such as ‘fladge’ (flagellation), ‘straight’, ‘B/W’ (interracial), ‘les’ (lesbian), and ‘Fem Dom’ (female domination). Produced as ephemeral publications and often read to destruction, surviving examples are scarce and remain under-represented in institutional collections. Cover title: Viola’s Victorian Degradation: An Account of Sexual Matters in Victorian Times.
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Soho Story
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartSheila Foster [Michael Bernet]
London: The Olympia Press, 1971.First UK edition, retitled from ‘Soho Whore: The Making of a London Prostitute’ (New York: Olympia Press, [1967]). Published under the pseudonym Sheila Foster, presented as the memoir of a London sex worker, the book was in fact written by the Israeli author Michael Bernet, one of the writers associated with Maurice Girodias’ post-Paris Olympia Press ventures. The change of title presumably reflects the requirements of UK retail distribution, “Soho Whore” being rather more blunt than British high-street booksellers of the period were accustomed to displaying. Published during the brief final phase of Girodias’ operations under the Olympia Press imprint in London.
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Acid Temple Ball
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Sativa
London: The Olympia Press, 1971.The first UK printing of this psychedelic erotica classic, following two printings in New York. “Mary Sativa tells the rather simple, but very beautiful story of a young art student’s life and loves in New York City and San Francisco. Her experiences are passionate, searching and tender, as she moves from east to west coat looking to learn a little more about the bemusing experience of living.” (while taking lots of drugs and having lots of sex). Cover photo by Don Snyder.
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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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One Way Trip
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartNina Sands
Buffalo: Wee Hours Books Inc., 1967.Lesbian biker pulp fiction. Wee Hours 547. Cover art by Bill Alexander. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Bottoms Up
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartNed Winslow
: Unique Books, 1966.A gay bar in gay San Francisco. Cover illustration by Gene Bilbrew and 6 interior black and white illustrations by various artists. 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 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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Marietta. Studien einer charmanten Dame.
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMaximilian Trube
Leipzig: Max Breslauer, No date.Portfolio of six lightly erotic colour plates depicting Marietta in various poses around the house clad in stockings and accompanied by either a monkey, dog, or cat, circa 1925. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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De Meisjes van Het Station
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDick Matena
: Arboris, 1990.Erotic art portfolio by Dutch comic artist Dick Matena. 8 colour plates, each signed and numbered, and with an accompanying text leaf and monochrome plate of the original sketch. One of 400 signed and numbered copies.
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Drawings and Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore: Centenary 1861-1961
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRabindranath Tagore
New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1961.20 plates of paintings by the Bengali poet, with an introduction by Prithwish Neogy.
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Brazil Incarnate
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartChristopher Pillitz
Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 2000.Photo book from the streets, beaches, and parties of Brazil. A five years study on Brazilian sexuality and body culture. Text by Paul Theroux and a preface by Caetano Veloso.
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Naked
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDylan Rosser
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2011.Male nude photography. Rosser’s final book of new studio nudes before relocating to Ibiza and turning to outdoor shoots.
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Stripper: Photos of Australian Guys
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMike@Bodshotz
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1999.“Working as a stripper myself for several years, I quickly learnt how nudity can empower a person, and it is precisely that power that I continue to try and capture with my camera.” (artist’s statement)
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSwami Vivekananda
Calcutta: Avaita Ashrama, 1972-9.The collected works of the great Indian monk and thinker. This edition complete in 8 volumes.
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Hopousia or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. D. Unwin
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1940.Unwin’s unfinished sequel to Sex and Culture (1934), published posthumously. “..a non-narrative Utopia where Sex is described as being made available through two forms of marriage: the monogamous alpha form entitles its adherents to accept responsibility for running the world; the polygamous beta form welcomes free love. Citizens can change from one marriage formula to the other. The rulers of the world are made free by this structure to focus on the maintenance of a sustainable state, where energy flows where needed, and returns. From this balance and restraint, Unwin argues, equity will flow, but his death before the book was finished abruptly truncated any summary argument. In his long introduction, Aldous Huxley recognizes this deficit while recognizing the importance of Unwin’s “formulation of the sexual and economic conditions of social energy.”” (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) BROMER B59.1.
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Comme avec une Femme
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdouard Boubat
Paris: Hors Collection, 1994.71 photogravures by the French photographer of women and their lives. An association copy, inscribed to Boubat’s longtime friend and colleague Peter Turnley.
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The Callipyges: The Whole Philosophy and Secret Mystery of Female Flagellation now for the first time fully exposed
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartFour English Ladies
London: Privately Printed for Private Subscribers Only, 1903.With Experiments and detailed Instructions as to the Proper Conduct of this noble Pastime. Sidelights on English Society. “This book, which is perfectly new, we venture to predict, be one day recognised as, in a sense, the Bible of Flagellation.” (from Carrington’s prospectus). Printed for Charles Carrington by Veuve Guy. First appearing in 1901, though possibly only the first volume, which was then reprinted for the two volume set as here. “… a translation of the French original: ‘Les Callipyges, ou Les Delices de la Verge, Par E.D… Paris, Chez la Petite Lolotte… 1889 (Brancart, Amsterdam).” (Peter Mendes: Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930) MENDES 137-B.
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Beef Cattle Australia
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRussell Reed
Brisbane: Acacia Press, 2009.An industry account of Australian cattle farming.
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Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn White
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2002.One of 150 numbered copies of the standard edition (from a total edition of 212). A new edition of the first significant natural history book on Australia published after the First Fleet, with the text reset in Garamond, attractively printed in black, red, and green, and the plates enlarged by 50%. The 65 plates, by Sarah Stone, F. P. Nodder, and others, comprise 29 of birds (including splendid parrots), 10 of reptiles and amphibians, 7 mammals (marsupials and the Dingo), 6 of fishes, 9 of plants (including magnificent Banksias), 2 of invertebrates, and 2 of Aboriginal weapons and artefacts. In the original, the cancelled leaf Hh4 carries variant text for the Wattled Bee-Eater (the female in the cancelled state, the male in the uncancelled), both reproduced here, with bibliographical and publishing notes appended.
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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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Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo S. Rappoport; J. H. Amshewitz
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1928.A collection of Jewish legend and Judaica compiled by Rappoport from biblical, Talmudic and midrashic sources, with colour plates by the painter J. H. Amshewitz.
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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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Lessen in liefde
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartDr. E. M. Spencer
Rotterdam: De Boekenmolen, 1960.Complete set of this Dutch sex education and marriage manual series, Lessons in Love. Each volume covers a different topic, the pictorial jackets signed Wisa, illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings. Full list of titles: 1. Samenspel in het liefdeleven [Interplay in the love-life]; 2. Huwelijksnacht en wittebroodsweken [Wedding night and honeymoon]; 3. Erotiek en geslachtsleven [Eroticism and sexual life]; 4. De macht van het sex-appeal [The power of sex appeal]; 5. Bevruchting en zwangerschap [Conception and pregnancy]; 6. De kunst der liefde [The art of love]; 7. De volheid van het geslachtsleven [The fullness of sexual life]; 8. Sexuele koelheid en onmacht [Sexual frigidity and impotence]; 9. Hartstocht en wellust [Passion and lust]; 10. Sexuele afwijkingen [Sexual deviations]; 11. Geslachtsleven vroeger en nu [Sexual life past and present]; 12. Prostitutie [Prostitution]; 13. Ontluikend verlangen [Awakening desire]; 14. Jeugd en erotiek [Youth and eroticism]; 15. De tweede jeugd der liefde [The second youth of love].
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Songs of the Pintupi: Musical Life in a Central Australian Society
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard M. Moyle
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979.Musical score throughout.
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Killalpaninna Mission & Habitat: A Photographic Record of Bethesda Aboriginal Mission Station on Cooper Creek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2022.“In the summer of 1866-67 the Hermannsburg Mission Society in Germany, in conjunction with the synods of the South Australian Lutheran Church, attempted to establish a mission for the Aborigines on Cooper Creek in return for their kindness to John King, a survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition. During the same period, the German Moravian Brethren Mission Society in Victoria also undertook to begin mission work in the district. Both orders were pursuing a policy of segregating newly-contacted groups of Aborigines on church-run missions where their conversion to Christianity could be achieved away from the influence of ‘bush blacks’ and white settlers. However, through ignorance, drought and religious dissent, the missions failed to flourish and were abandoned. The Moravian Brethren departed for good, but the Lutherans regrouped and returned to the district to continue their struggle. This book contains a unique collection of dry-plate glass negative images, taken by August Hermann Vogelsang while employed as the school teacher at Bethesda Lutheran mission on Cooper Creek between the years 1907 and 1917. The images have been carefully researched and described by the author with the advice and guidance of former mission residents. This is a record of the last years of Bethesda mission station at Lake Killalpaninna in the far-north salt lake country of South Australia.” (from jacket blurb) Privately published in a very limited number by the author based on his 1980 report submitted to the South Australian Aboriginal and Historic Relics Unit. Unrecorded in Trove and OCLC.
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An Individual View
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Thake
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1982.Photobook of the Australian artist. Thake had carried a camera alongside his sketchbook from the 1950s, and the book records the photographic side of an artist otherwise known almost wholly for his printmaking, here presenting 28 plates. Produced in the year of Thake’s death in an edition of 250 numbered copies, this an out of sequence proof copy. Text by Elizabeth Summons, preface by Patrick McCaughey.
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Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartGrahame L. Walsh
Brisbane: Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications, 2000.The magnum opus of Australian rock art researcher, Grahame L. Walsh (1944-2007), being his detailed study of the rock paintings of the Kimberley region of North-Western Australia.
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The Photograph as Symbol
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartWynn Bullock
Mountain View: Artichoke Press, 1976.One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the printer Jonathan Clark and with Wynn Bullock’s autographed initials mounted on the limitation page. Bullock’s final work: six short prose passages on the symbol in photography, each paired with a plate, the text settled by June 1975 and issued, at his wish, as a limited edition shortly after his death.
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A Dissertation on Milk
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Ferris
London: John Abraham, [1785].In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases: Likewise to point out the varieties in the food of the animal, from which it is taken; and the circumstances in the mode of life and conduct of those women, who afford it, which more especially tend to change its appearance, and to impair its salutary qualities: and particularly to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race. One of the more substantial English-language eighteenth-century monographs devoted wholly to milk, combining experimental chemistry with medical, moral, and social thought on infant feeding, motherhood, female bodies, and the transmission of health and character. Ferris undertakes comparative chemical experiments on six milks (ass, human, mare, cow, goat, and ewe) and uses the results to advance a sustained argument for maternal breastfeeding against both wet-nursing and the nursery customs of the day. He maintains that a mother’s own milk is the best possible nutriment and casts a woman’s refusal to nurse her child as ‘one of the worst species of inhumanity’. He approvingly cites the late Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), who believed cancers of the breast occurred disproportionately among women who declined to breastfeed, and condemns the common practice of withholding the breast during the first days after birth. Where maternal nursing proves impossible, Ferris subjects the wet nurse to detailed scrutiny. Her diet, habits, mode of life, and even emotional state are made objects of prescription, the infant being thought to absorb the consequences of her conduct through her milk. The nursing body is thus framed throughout as an object of medical and social management, ordered in the interests of the ‘infant race’. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ferris to The Revd. Mr Tonyn, likely the Revd Charles William Tonyn (1732-1805), Rector of Radnage, Buckinghamshire, a parish situated near Great Missenden, where Ferris settled in 1785.
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Alphabet
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartAnthon Beeke
Hilversum: steendrukkerij de Jong & Co., 1970.A set of 30 cards, each depicting a letter of the alphabet or punctuation mark formed by nude women posed on the floor. A major work of prominent Dutch designer Anthon Beeke, originally titled Naked Ladies Alphabet and later renamed Body Type, of which Beeke said: “This alphabet was a reaction to the computer alphabet made by Wim Crouwel. I admit: it’s absolutely unreadable and hence unusable. But if you’re going to make something unusable, you can at least make something people are able to enjoy.” Photography by Geert Kooiman. Produced by Anna Beeke. Story by Ed van der Elsken. Jenkins’ readers most likely know Beeke from his design work for the Suck special issue, The Virgin Sperm Dancer.
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The Legman Book of Sex
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Rhoads
: George Rhoads, 1954.A unique artist’s book by the American painter and sculptor George Rhoads (1926-2021) as a gift for his friend, the erotologist and folklorist Gershon Legman (1917-1999). The two met in Paris shortly after Rhoads’ arrival there in 1952, bonding over origami. The discipline of mechanical precision inherent in origami arguably foreshadows his later complex audiokinetic ball machine sculptures. Rhoads is known to have sent Legman letters embellished with foldings and comic drawings throughout the 1950s and 1960s (a small number of models survive in the Legman archive at the Origami Art Museum, Colonia del Sacramento), but the present volume is a substantially more ambitious and apparently earlier production, made in the opening years of their friendship, and directed squarely toward Legman’s lifelong scholarly fascination with erotic folklore and bawdy humour. The 58 leaves are each illustrated on the recto with original cartoon drawings. The first sixteen leaves carry two short erotic tales: one of ten leaves concerns the tale of a sex maniac; the second, of six leaves, recounts the adventures of “five little Fuckers and how they blew”; the remaining forty-two leaves illustrated with standalone erotic cartoons. The front cover with a colour illustrated title, the inside lower board signed by Rhoads with a decorative border, the date supplied in Legman’s hand. Of considerable research interest as a primary-source artefact of the Rhoads-Legman friendship, complementing the surviving body of gifted material preserved in the Legman archive at the Origami Art Museum. The erotic content places it at the intersection of Rhoads’ early Paris work and Legman’s lifelong scholarship on erotic folklore and bawdy humour, later culminating in his major study ‘Rationale of the Dirty Joke’ (First Series 1968; Second Series 1975). Provenance: ex the estate of Gershon Legman by descent via Neil Pearson.
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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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Archive of 31 Kinbaku Photographs and 2 Typed Letters Signed, Supplied to Jurgen Boedt for Secret Magazine, Fetish Photo Anthology, and Extreme
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartMaster K
Los Angeles: Master K, 1999-2002.Archive of kinbaku photographs supplied by Master K to Jurgen Boedt, editor and publisher of the Belgian fetish magazine Secret, accompanied by two signed letters detailing their intended editorial use. The first letter accompanied twelve black-and-white photographs (“Each is an illustration of classical shibari”) and a printed copy of his article ‘A Brief History of Shibari,’ subsequently published in Secret #20. It includes an authorial biography and acknowledges collaborators by name: “Although he usually only works with shibari enthusiasts, for this series of stills he collaborated with some of America’s best known fetish models. For helping in the mutual search for the artistic in the erotic he would like to thank: Devon, subgirl, Julie Simone and Michelle.” The second letter, warmly signed, accompanied further photographic contributions intended for two Boedt-edited hardcovers: the fourth volume of ‘Fetish Photo Anthology’ and ‘Extreme’, with Master K explaining: “I tried to combine the best of traditional kinbaku art with interesting photography in order to show the excitement, drama and passion felt by the truly engaged submissive. All the emotions shown here are real. There was no posing and everyone involved had a great time.” The material predates Master K’s book publications and documents an early phase of his public output and self-positioning within Western fetish publishing. He would later publish ‘Shibari, the Art of Japanese Bondage’ (2004) and ‘The Beauty of Kinbaku’ (2008; revised edition 2015), the latter translated into Japanese as ‘A Cultural History of Kinbaku’ (Suriensha, 2013). Beyond print, he served as rigger for the 2016 film ‘The Neon Demon’, starring Keanu Reeves and Elle Fanning, and was co-founder of the Los Angeles study groups Spring Tiger Ryu and LA Rope.
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Volume 1
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cart[Bob Delmonteque]
[Los Angeles]: [Bob Delmonteque], [1957].Bob Delmonteque (1921-2011), a Detroit-born bodybuilder first gained fame as a physique model for Douglas of Detroit in the late 1940s before establishing his own Los Angeles based photography and mail-order business. This volume reproduces 25 original catalogue sheets at an enlarged scale, supplemented by a series of full-page plates, Models include Glenn Bishop, Richard Alan, and Norman Tousley, though Delmonteque himself appears frequently, both as photographer and subject.
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Bazaar Nr. 1 & Nr. 2
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBo Karlsson
Stockholm: Bazaar, 1967.Complete run of the short-lived Swedish counterculture magazine, inspired by Oz, The Village Voice, and similar publications. Contents include an essay on LSD in Stockholm, coverage of the Swedish contemporary art scene, an interview with Paul McCartney, free jazz, and more.
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Occupied Spaces
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Roberts; Naomi Colvin
London: Here Press, 2012.Photographic documentation of the private and communal spaces of the 2011-2012 Occupy London protest, with a short essay by Naomi Colvin. First edition, one of 250 copies (a second edition of 100 copies was printed in 2014).
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The Gay Haunt
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Jay
New York: The Other Traveller, 1972.Gay pulp fiction by Victor J. Banis under his Victor Jay pseudonym, one of several he employed for his prolific output of gay paperback fiction in the 1960s and 70s. Banis was a pioneering figure in gay genre fiction, among the first American writers to place openly gay protagonists at the centre of mass-market paperbacks, not as villains, victims, or cautionary figures, but as sympathetic leads in adventure, mystery, and comedy. This copy signed by Banis to the title page.
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The Gay Haunt
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Jay
New York: The Olympia Press, 1970.Gay pulp fiction by Victor J. Banis under his Victor Jay pseudonym, one of several he employed for his prolific output of gay paperback fiction in the 1960s and 70s. Banis was a pioneering figure in gay genre fiction, among the first American writers to place openly gay protagonists at the centre of mass-market paperbacks, not as villains, victims, or cautionary figures, but as sympathetic leads in adventure, mystery, and comedy. Part of Maurice Girodias’ The Olympia Press Traveller’s Companion Series, TC-484. “Can a handsome young gay stud go straight and marry the boss’s daughter? Sure, if the amorous ghost of his late boyfriend doesn’t materialize naked in his car, at his parties, and in his bed.” This copy signed by Banis to the title page.
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The Electric Automobile: Its Construction, Care and Operation
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartC. E. Woods
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1900.One of the earliest monographs devoted to electric vehicles, covering their construction, maintenance, and practical operation at a time when electrics were serious competitors to petrol-powered cars. Clinton Edgar Woods (1863-1927), an electrical and mechanical engineer, founded the Woods Motor Vehicle Company in Chicago in 1896 and was a committed advocate of electric propulsion, anticipating that both electric and gasoline vehicles would displace horse-drawn transport. Writing at a moment when the relative futures of electric and gasoline power remained uncertain (though the limitations of battery range were already apparent) Woods expresses a cautious scepticism that would, for much of the following century, be borne out by the dominance of the internal combustion engine. “Will not a battery some time be made to run a vehicle 100 or more miles on one charge? While this may be possible, the writer hardly thinks it probable.”
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The Making of Mary
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMichelle Kristy
King of Prussia: Creative Design Services, 1991.“Follow the transformation of Mark to Mary…” An erotic transitional story with illustrations by the author. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Betty’s Latex Fashions Catalog (2 Volumes)
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBetty’s Latex Fashions
Erin: Betty’s Services, No date.The first two catalogues for Canadian mail order rubberwear business Betty’s Latex Fashions.
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Tyson-Rose Rubber Garments Catalog (2 Volumes)
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartTyson-Rose Co.
Guttenberg: Tyson-Rose Company, No date.Two catalogues for New Jersey mail order rubberwear business Tyson-Rose Co.
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Domineta
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartGene Bilbrew; A. De Granamour; Ralph Gayl; Gene Paul
New York: Art Publications, 1965.3 femdom short stories with illustrations by Gene Bilbrew, noted African American fetish artist of the 1950s and 60s, under his Eneg moniker. Billed as a new Connoisseur publication (whether it was produced by Leonard Burtman, or riding off the back of the collapse of Selbee, is unknown) and as a Collector’s First Edition, together with a call for correspondence to be sent in from readers, however no further issues appear to have been produced. The first author, A. DeGranamour, whose contribution occupies more than half the volume, went on to pen numerous works of erotica published in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Sweet Gwendoline & Sir Dystic d’Arcy No. 1: The Race for the Gold Cup
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Willie [John Alexander Scott Coutts]
Los Angeles: J. A. S. Coutts, 1958.The complete cartoon serial of Sweet Gwendoline, reworked, finished, and published by the artist. The character first appeared in Coutts iconic fetish magazine Bizarre, which ran for 26 issues between 1946 and 1959 and remains the most influential fetish periodical of its era. Publishing under the pseudonym John Willie, Coutts work profoundly shaped later artists including Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, and erotica publisher Leonard Burtman. Born in Singapore to British parents, Coutts lived in Brisbane and Sydney from 1926 to 1945, where he developed his signature aesthetic centred on high heels, corsetry, and bondage. During this period he produced photographs and drawings, often featuring his wife and model Holly Anna Faram, much of which informed the imagery of Bizarre’s early issues. After a short stint in the Australian Military Forces, Coutts emigrated to North America in 1945, publishing Bizarre soon after. This standalone title was published after Coutts had sold the magazine and relocated from New York to Los Angeles. The final 55-page narrative that Coutts published in magazine form in November 1958 was a significant reworking of the original Sir d’Arcy d’Arcy comic–almost a complete reimagining. The journey to this completed work had been long and winding, beginning in Bizarre, passing through Wink magazine, and briefly distributed by Irving Klaw as 10×8″ photographic sheets. The bound edition Coutts eventually published remains the only complete version.” (Richard Perez Seves, John Willie: The Story of John Alexander Scott Coutts). Two institutional holdings, at Yale University and the Kinsey Institute.
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Bootlove’s Premier Issue
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartD. Jackson
Palm Springs: Bootlove’s, 1979.One-shot American magazine devoted to interviews with professional dominatrixes about their footwear. The first in a series of titles by David Jackson’s Strictly Speaking Publishing Company, which went on to become an established force in fem-dom publishing through its long-running Domination Directory International (DDI) and Fantasy Fashion Digest. Unrecorded in OCLC.