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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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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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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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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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Robert Payne Presents The Levis Crowd
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cart[John Embry]
: N.p., No date.A selection from the gay physique photographic archive of Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG), compiled by Drummer magazine co-founder John Embry under his Robert Payne pseudonym in the years leading up the magazine’s beginnings. The publication brings together masculine imagery of the American outdoorsman in Levi’s, with a centre spread featuring prominent American porn actor and director Fred Halsted.
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L’Enfer de Joseph Prudhomme savoir Deux Gougnottes et La Grisette et L’Etudiant
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Henry Monnier]; [Jean Dulac]
Paris: Sans la Permission Roy Louis Philippe, No date.Clandestine edition, circa 1929, illustrating Henry Monnier’s Prudhomme. One of 20 deluxe copies on Imperial Japan paper (from a total edition of 320), with the erotic plates in a second state in black and white with remarques, and an additional rejected plate not included with the standard issue. This is the first edition illustrated by Jean Dulac; a later edition with an entirely new suite of illustrations by Dulac was issued a few years afterward. DUTEL 1481. Finely bound by Henri Alix, with the original wrappers bound in.
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Douze Douzains de Dialogues ou Petites Scenes Amoureuses
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Pierre Louys]; [Andre Collot]
: No publisher, No date.Facsimile edition (c. 1935) of an erotic manuscript illustrated with 12 coloured plates attributed to Andre Collot. One of 100 numbered copies. DUTEL 1428.
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Le Marseille Curieux
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre d’Agranon
Paris: L. d’Autrec, No date.The Curious Marseilles. Guide-Souvenir des Touristes et des Etrangers dans l’ancien Quartier Noble de Marseille Devenu Le Celebre Quartier Reserve. 1922 illustrated guide for sex tourists to the brothels of Marseille in the south of France. Copious illustrated with photographs of working women, a folding map of the area, and numerous advertisements.
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Garcon: A Collection of Male Nudes for Adults Only
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartGreg Fenton; Peter Wright
Sydney: Christopher Wilde Productions, No date.Rare Australian gay erotica. A collection of male nudes: photographs by Greg Fenton, drawings by Peter Wright. Publisher’s catalogue request form laid in.
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Male Maze [No. 1] & 2
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMankind Publications
Sydney: Mankind Publications, No date.2 issues of short running Australian homoerotic tabloid Male Maze, a spin-off of the slightly glossier Mankind. Features W. H. Auden’s poem, A Day for a Lay, Gay News From Afar, articles: Smile! You’re Growing Older, The First Closet Queen, Sex Change, and Three Way Heaven, alongside numerous male nudes, and mail order advertisements for books, photographs, and gay gear from Mankind.
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Le Panier aux Ordures suivi de Quelques Chansons, Ejusdem Farine
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cart[Armand Gouffe]
Canton [Bruxelles]: W. Field et Tching-Kong [Gay & Douce], No date.Belgian clandestine publication of the erotic poems of Armand Gouffe. The erotic title vignette depicts a young lady lifting her skirt to a priest in a kitchen. This copy from the collection of erotophile Gershon Legman, with bibliographical notes in his hand and signed by him. Legman’s note reads as follows: “[Bruxelles: Gay & Douce 1875] Enfer 29; BM. PC. 1769. 1st ed. as : Le Panier aux ordures, par Armand Gouffe et autres. [Paris – London: John Camden Hotten, for Lord Houghton, 1865.]. 36 f., lg 8vo. Hand-drawn facsimile by H.J. Bellars, erotic drawings by Ulm. No copy.* 2nd ed. (first typographical): [title as here,] [Libreville, a a la Society pour la propagation des livres de l’Enfer’ [Bruxelles: Jules Gay], 1866. vi, 154 p. smal 8vo. (106 copies.) BM.PC. 31 g. 4; Coll. G.L. 1957 G. Legman.” The asterisk from above reads, at bottom of page, “except that of Pierre Louys, coll. Bottin, Nice, in 1962].” Laid in also is a folded piece of typescript from Legman noting “SOLD to RP02/2016” (that is, Richard Press, from his widow) and then the explanation of the woodcut engraving at title page, “probably by Gilbert,” “showing a priest kneeling before a woman holding up her skirts before a kitchen fireplace to show her cunt.” 151 pp. And with occasional pencil marginalia translations into English (mostly of titles).
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Les Amies de Lady Chattieley
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges de Chanrosey [Chanrosay]
Paris: Librairie des Editions Modernes, No date.1930s French flagellation and sadomasochistic novel with the title recalling D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates by W. Floger [Edouard Bernard / Edward Alexander Bernard].
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L’Art a Hue Nouvelle Edition
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartl’Association des Amis du Vieux Hue
Hanoi: Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient, No date.A separately issued volume associated with the Bulletin des Amis du Vieux Hue and a classic of Vietnamese motifs, art, and architecture. The Association des Amis du Vieux Hue was a French colonial-era scholarly society based in Hue, the Bulletin was issued 1914-1944, this special issue circa 1925.
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Further Links of Loving Kindness; or, Story of Our Home
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartC. S. Bagster
Leamington Spa: W. H. Smith, No date.A Record of Twenty-Five Years of Happy Service in Connection with Y.W.C.A. Home, Leamington Spa. Early history (late 19th century) of the Young Women’s Christian Association House in the English town of Royal Leamington Spa.
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Kagawa San: The Christian Prophet of Japan
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Whitlow
London: The Religious Tract Society, No date.Short biography on the Japanese Evangelical and labour activist, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Part of the The Little Library of Biography, c. 1930s.
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Les Mains Cheries
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques d’Icy; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.1930s flagellation tales authored by the renowned illustrator of spanking, Louis Malteste, under his Jacques d’Icy pseudonym.
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Baby Douce Fille
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartSadie Blackeyes [Pierre Mac Orlan]; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.Pierre Mac Orlan under his Sadie Blackeyes pseudonym for pornographic novels of sado-masochism and flagellation. A novel followed by some letters concerning the flagellation of women and girls. The Collection des Orties Blanches illustrated wrappers edition with 10 spanking illustration plates by Louis Malteste laid in.
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Quinze Ans
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartSadie Blackeyes [Pierre Mac Orlan]; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.3 works by Pierre Mac Orlan under his Sadie Blackeyes pseudonym for pornographic novels of sado-masochism and flagellation. A novel about family discipline, followed by some letters about corporal punishment in the education of young girls, and Sonia, the Beautiful Student, with 10 soft spanking illustrations by Louis Malteste.