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Ein Spaziergang
Anonymous
: 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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[Illustrated Story of a Couple Having Sex]
Anonymous
: Anonymous, No date.Circa 1930s handmade erotic booklet, being a series of 16 erotic drawings in black ink and coloured crayon on thin tracing paper depicting a heterosexual couple having sex. The final leaf with the text (signed?) Kray.
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Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine (2 Volumes)
Jean de La Fontaine; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1937-38.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
Jacques 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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Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province
Gustave Flaubert; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1953.Flaubert’s Madame Bovary with illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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L’Ingenu: Histoire Veritable Tiree des Manuscrits du Pere Quesnel 1767
Voltaire; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1953.Voltaire’s L’Ingenu with illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi, a small number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Candide ou l’Optimisme
Voltaire; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1933.Voltaire’s Candide with illustrations by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 2,500 numbered copies.
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A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, K. B. &c. &c. &c
James Moore
London: Joseph Johnson, 1809.The second edition with an engraved portrait frontispiece and a view of the British and French positions before Corunna, and two folding maps. This copy with an added plate of text, Lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore, 1809, and with the appendix text bound before the main text, except for the final leaf which is still at the end.
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Twenty-Five Years in The Rifle Brigade
William Surtees
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1833.A soldier’s account in the 95th Rifle Regiment / Rifle Brigade, including the Peninsula War. The first edition, first printing, in the original unrestored boards.
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Photographic Views of Cheltenham and Its Neighbourhood
Francis Bedford
Chester: Catherall & Prichard, No date.One of a number of view albums produced from the prolific series of stereographs of England and Wales by Francis Bedford (1815-1894). Bedford was one of England’s leading 19th century photographers, helping to found the Royal Photographic Society with numerous royal commissions. This volume unrecorded in OCLC or at auction. This copy with 5 additional Bedford albumens of the same or larger size mounted on interleaves with catalogue number and a title in manuscript. The issued photographs are: 747. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, Looking Up.; 749. Cheltenham, The Promenade Drive, The Central Avenue; 750. Cheltenham, The Promenande Drive, The Side Avenue; 751. Cheltenham, The Queen’s Hotel; 753. Cheltenham, St. Mary’s (The Parish) Church; 754. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Principal Front; 755. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Chapel; 756. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, Interior of the Chapel; 757. Cheltenham, Proprietary College, The Gymnasium; 758. Cheltenham, The High Street; 759. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa and Lake; 760. Cheltenham, Pitville Spa, The Pump Room; 761. The Devil’s Chimney, Leckhampton; 744. Tewkesbury Abbey, From the West; 746. Twekesbury Abbey, Interior of the Choir, Looking West; 743. Twekesbury, High Street and Old Houses. The five additional photographs are captioned: 757. Plough Hotel; 2350. Winter Gardens; 748. Promenade; 2378; 2346 (the final two additional photographs with only a manuscript catalogue number).
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The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them
M. S. Lovell
London: Reeve & Co., 1867.The definitive work on the subject of edible snails, shellfish, oysters, mussels, etc. This copy with the Reeve & Co. 24 page 1867 catalogue of publications in Botany, Conchology, Entomology, Chemistry, Travels Antiquities, etc. at the rear.
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The Dog in Australasia
Walter Beilby
Melbourne: George Robertson and Company, 1897.The first Australian dog breeder’s manual. FERGUSON 6885.
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Furniture by Harris, Scarfe Limited
Harris, Scarfe Limited
Adelaide: Thornquest Press, No date.1930s illustrated furniture catalogue by the Australian retailer founded in Adelaide in 1849 and still operating today.
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Manrape
Marta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Exotique Illustrated Vol. 1 No. 1
[Reuben Sturman]
[Cleveland]: WWNC, No date.1960s fetish magazine produced by Reuben Sturman’s World Wide News Corp, though the content likely largely derived from Leonard Burtman, and the influence of John Willie’s Bizarre still ever present. Bettie Page pops up, but the main content is a host of other corseted and rubberized models in short series photographed by Lou Green, Len Barton, and Paul Wagner, alongside artwork by fetish artists Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew, including an extract of Staton’s comic story, Deborah, as well as a short text on the attraction of hair by Carlson Wade.
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The Corset Fetish Vol. 1 No. 1
Candy Lane
Nottingham: Candy Lane, No date.Dedicated to Fashions, Fads, Fancies and Fetishes. Largely full page black and white photographs of women in corsets accompanied by several John Willie illustrations. Text is mostly the story, The Thrill of Corsets, by H. T. Lowe, together with a couple of short introductory remarks on corset and fetish appreciation.
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The Boy Who Became a Girl
Anoymous
New York: Lee’s Mardi Gras, No date.The story of a 14 year old boy’s boarding school student who is chosen to play the part of Gwendoline in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and finds that dressing as a woman is who he is. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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Three Roads to Femininity
Anoymous
[New York]: [Lee’s Mardi Gras], No date.The stories of three men who take different approaches to cross-dressing. Published without imprint but with the sticker and number stamp of Lee Brewster’s Lee’s Mardi Gras. Possibly Eric Stanton or Gene Bilbrew cover illustration. Single copy recorded in OCLC, at Yale.
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The Three Transvestites [Panty Raiders]
Gilbert
Westminster: Centurian Publications, 1982.Collected volume of the Panty Raiders stories by Nan Gilbert originally published in parts. Illustrated throughout.
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Transvestite Castle Vol. 1, No. 1 & Two (2 Volumes)
Centurian Publications
Westminster: Centurian Publications, 1982.Complete in two parts, Centurian Publications fetish magazine focussed on forced feminization and trans domination stories, personals, comics, and artwork, published in the wake of the 1980 film by the same name direct by Kern Vore, and No. 1 featuring the same cover art as the VHS release. Features artwork by Gene Bilbrew, Bishop, Ramm, Adams, Diego, and others. Rare, No. 1 recorded in two public collections, Yale and the Leather Archives & Museum, No. 2 is unrecorded.