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Monster
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobin Morgan
Melbourne: Melbourne Radical Feminists, No date.American radical feminist Robin Morgan’s first book of poems, originally published by Random House in 1972. The title poem, ‘Monster’, quickly became one of the best-known poems of the women’s liberation movement, with the collection selling thirty thousand copies in its first six months. Its most controversial poem, ‘Arraignment’, accused Ted Hughes of complicity in Sylvia Plath’s death through his infidelity and alleged violence. Although Morgan revised the poem before publication, Hughes threatened legal action. Without informing Morgan, Random House agreed to withdraw the book from Commonwealth markets in return for Hughes dropping the matter. Feminist presses across the Commonwealth responded with unauthorised ‘pirate’ editions, most produced with Morgan’s blessing. The first appeared in Canada and followed shortly after by editions in Australia and New Zealand. Each varied in content: some carried graphics by women artists, others photographs of Plath, others, as here, both versions of ‘Arraignment’. This Australian edition includes illustrations and a bibliographical preface by Melbourne Radical Feminists.
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The Maggie Poem
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartShelton Lea
[Mountain View]: [Shelton Lea], No date.Poem printed in Lea’s usual 1980s photocopy Mountain View output, this piece about his relationship with the red-headed Irish prostitute Maggie, and her death by his side in a Melbourne park. Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel tells the story: “Shelton had, at various times, fallen into the arms of prostitutes. There was a history of unconditional mateship between Shelton and those girls, even from his early days in Kings Cross. They’d provided a safety net for him and he had reciprocated. Shelton believed in the notion of the good-hearted prostitute. ‘I’ve met a whole lot of them in my life and they’ve treated me kindly. They don’t treat themselves very kindly.’ Maggie was an Irish girl with mad flaming hair. She was a junkie. She was the girl Shelton had gone to after the break up with Barbara. Candle, her hoon (pimp) had her installed upstairs in a building in Fitzroy. ‘Any nap-jack could come and fuck her for ten bob, and Candle would take the money.’ She wanted to get away and Shelton had fought Candle to take her. They went to the seaside for a few days. When they came back, they took a flagon of port and went to the park, the dying ground, with the blackfellas and shared it with them. Shelton fell asleep in the sun on the grass, near the highrise flats. ‘Maggie slid around the corner for a dose of methadone. She came back and drank more port and when I woke up she was lying next to me dead.’ He wrote a poem for Maggie and said he thought it was grand and full of life. ‘That’s what it is to be a poet, to sing about life. There’s no time for bitterness, but I don’t walk through that park when I don’t think about Maggie …’ A single copy recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria, a further copy also located in the Papers of Shelton Lea at UNSW.
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The Outrageous Adventures of Tulips in Whatta Piss-off!! or Arfa Masbah cops a bewdy
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartHypoteneuse [Christine Webb]
[Mountain View]: [Christine Webb], No date.Cartoon strip narrative by Christine Webb, writing as Hypoteneuse, following the misadventures of Johnny Tulips in Melbourne. Shelton Lea makes a brief appearance. Circa 1985-6. Two copies recorded in Trove, at the State Library of Victoria and Monash.
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Serious & Mistresses
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartDOM Promotions
Blackwood: DOM Promotions, No date.English catalogue of dominatrixes and mistresses, mostly full page adverts devoted to each. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Bewitching Bitches
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter X
London: [Swish Publications], No date.“Are you prepared for another journey into the bizarre fantasy world of the fabulous Peter X?” The second of two collections of fetish drawings by the fantasist of dominant women and lady rubberists published by the English femdom magazine Madame. Circa 1986-87. Both of Peter X’s works unrecorded in OCLC.
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People’s Gay Sunshine: A Newspaper of Gay Males
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPeople’s Gay Sunshine
Berkeley: People’s Gay Sunshine, No date.One-shot California gay newspaper. Cover story on James Baldwin and featuring Allen Ginsberg, Edward Carpenter, an open letter to Tennessee Williams, and more.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.