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17425133London: Printed for W. Webb 1742. First edition. Bound to style in 19th century sheep with morocco and gilt to spines. Measuring 168 x 96mm and with occasional mispagination but collating complete: xxiv 300; 2 336. Some offsetting to preliminary and terminal leaves and occasional light foxing and marginal chips not affecting text; discreet archival repairs to short tear on pages 115-116 and long tear to 285-286 of volume I preserving all text. Early amateur cloth tape repair to recto of front endpaper to volume II. Pinholes to lower spines of both volumes with minor associated worming to the lower front hinges. A scarce example of early erotic literature centered on London's famous courtesans ESTC lists only 6 copies with institutions. The present copy aside the last example to appear at auction was in 1882. <br /> <br /> Published two years apart the two volumes of Memoirs of the Nobility are different in their approaches to London's elite including the infamous Great Impures who hosted the wealthiest men in their parlours and their beds. Volume I launches its readers into a thinly veiled satire wherein the protagonist Aloisa visits the mythical kingdom of Thule. During her tour on arrival Aloisa discovers a city of extreme decadence whose cast of characters would be familiar to most Londoners indeed the copy housed at the British Museum has contemporary annotations from William Cole denoting some of the avatars' real-life identities. "there was scarce a Thing as a Virgin of twenty Years of Age to be found in all the Island.all was flaming Lust; and from the Court to the Cottage all had their Share in amorous Intrigues." While sexual violence is rampant in Thule Aloisa's host the Chevalier Faire-Franc informs her of numerous girls assaulted and left pregnant by the son of the new Lord Chancellor for example much of the kingdom's activities center on the sex trade. Ambition and wealth drive residents "to get Money which at Night they as lavishly spend" at various houses of pleasure. In these descriptions readers visit the brothels of such real-life bawds as Mother Elizabeth Wisebourn here called Madona who dresses as a nun to recruit girls and uses medicine and magic to "restore" their virginity and continuously demand the highest prices -- a practice she infamously used to market her girls particularly Sally Salisbury and Sally Lodge before they rose to success in their own rights. Nearby Miss Edwards of Kensington possibly Kitty Fisher or Lucy Cooper resides "in open Fornication" yet "defies all Scandal." A string of famous men -- authors dignitaries and gentry -- are also exposed for their engagement with courtesans their elopements and their affairs. <br /> <br /> By volume II these details fade and the stories shift toward a more general erotic fantasy. But both notably participate in celebrating and expressing anxiety about the growing power of London's sex trade. With estimates of London's sex workers ranging widely from 8600-80000 it was undeniable that a vast portion of the population was engaged in sex-for-money whether as a provider or consumer Rogers. The money and public influence of courtesans like Kitty Fisher Lucy Cooper Sally Salisbury Sophia Baddeley Mary Robertson and others highlighted how women who defined traditional marriage economies could carve out their own wealth independence and community. <br /> <br /> ESTC T75813. Lowndes 2681. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. Printed for W. Webb unknown
18645626London: Richard Bentley 1864. First English language edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 179 x 119mm and collating complete including photographic frontis: x 374. A square tight copy with some loss to upper spine label and gentle rubbing to boards. Amorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing largely confined to preliminary and terminal leaves; pages 161-162 partially detached but holding. A female-authored memoir that participates in both anti-Catholicism and convent-fetish eroticism it is somewhat scarce institutionally but is a rarity in trade with its most recent appearance at auction occurring a century ago. The present is the only example currently on the market. <br /> <br /> Frank in her delivery Henrietta Caracciolo recounts how her rise to young womanhood under the jealous eye of her mother -- combined with the untimely death of a sympathetic father -- led to her unwilling confinement in a Benedictine convent. Denied early opportunities for engaging in the courtship and marriage economy she longs to be a part of Henrietta Caracciolo instead is forced by her mother to repress her sexual identity and disappear into a life of solitude and chastity. What she finds there instead is a space of sexual abuse unexplained deaths illicit affairs physical abuse and theft. "My sole aim in writing these Memoirs has been to confirm" she writes in the preface "as far as lay in my power with the arguement drawn from fact the opportune and just decree of the Italian government in the suppression of Convents and to disabuse the minds of those if haply any such remain who deem these places the repositories of religious virtues." Timely social commentary in her native Italy her memoirs hit a different note in Protestant England where Catholic convents and monasteries had long been closed; indeed it participated in the anti-Catholic fetish fantasy of convents and monasteries as bastions of deviant and violent sexuality. She herself by the memoir's end emerges to a new and more promising life -- one which participates in popular Victorian cult of domesticity and motherhood which she positions as far more godly and fulfilling. Yet it also leaves open the door of female desire and sexual fulfilment. "By the side of a husband who adores me and to whom I respond with equal love I am where the Almighty placed woman at the close of Creation's first week."<br /> <br /> <br /> Register of Erotic Books 2950. Richard Bentley unknown
17165634London: R. Burleigh false imprint for E. Curll 1716. First edition. Bound to style in quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. All edges marbled. Measuring 185 x 112mm and collating complete including half title: 4 iii 1 blank 39 1 blank. With catchword 'behold' on page 27 and floral ornament above 'Finis' on page 39 as called for. A Fine example unmarked and fresh. A scarce piece of erotic satire ESTC records copies at 11 U.S. institutions. It last sold at auction in 1929 and the present is the only first edition on the market.<br /> <br /> "Begin my Muse and sing in Epick train The Petticoat; Nor shall thou sing in vain The Petticoat will sure reward thy pain!" So opens a satire composed under the pseudonym Mr. Gay used by several of those hacks in Edmund Curll's employ which traces how the amorous adventures of Thyrsis and Chloe were made possible by the latter's fashionable hooped skirt. Finding both humor and seriousness in women's fashion The Petticoat points out how some of the clothing designed to hinder women's movement could actually be adapted to their advantage -- in this case the pursuit and fulfillment of illicit sexual affairs. For just as Thyrsis is able to hide beneath his lover's skirt to conceal himself while pleasing her Chloe is able to share this information with her female coterie including the work's readers. Thus women desirous of hiding lovers of any gender might deploy this ingenious method allowing them to engage in affairs without traveling far from home. An acknowledgement of women's own sexual desire and agency.<br /> <br /> ESTC T43929. Unspeakable Curll 241-242. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. R. Burleigh [false imprint for E. Curll] unknown
17175378London: Printed for E. Curll in Fleet Street 1717. First thus. Contemporary full calf with gilt label to spine. All edges speckled red. Measuring 155 x 90mm and collating complete including frontis and terminal advertisement: 4 394 2. Shelfwear to extremities and slight bowing to boards. Contemporary annotations to front pastedown and front and rear endpapers with portions of rear endpapers excised; rear pastedown neatly removed. Internally a clean copy with a long closed tear to pages 213-214 professionally repaired with no loss to text and brief examples of pencil marginalia to pages 237-38. A pleasing copy of a scarce erotic book which last appeared at auction over three decades ago and which ESTC lists at only 12 U.S. libraries. <br /> <br /> Drawn from a 17th century Spanish picaresque novel following the intrigues of the female rake Rufina Alonso de Castillo's La Garduna de Sevilla 1642 first appeared in English in 1665 as a romantic adventure translated by John Davies as La Picara or The Triumphs of Female Subtilty. By the time of this translation however Rufina's persona took a more overtly libertine turn as she was declared a "whore" even within the title i.e. "pole-cat". Published by unscrupulous bookseller and printer Edmund Curll the text has clear erotic rather than romantic implications. "A notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century for his boldness lack of scruple publication of work without authors' consent and taste for erotic and scandalous publications" Curll did not involve himself in the release of texts that aimed to educate men and women into socially dictated marital roles Baines and Rogers. Instead his version of the Rufina story revels in its heroine's sexual appetite and capitalizes on the popularity of the English demi-monde -- courtesans such as Kitty Fisher Lucy Cooper and Charlotte Hayes -- by making her a more exoticized iteration of the fantasy they presented to men and women alike. <br /> <br /> Positioned as it is outside the British Empire Rufina's narrative invites readers to engage at a slight distance with questions not only about her sexual agency or even the agency of courtesans but instead about the agency of women more broadly. As Kathleen Lubey has pointed out erotic works from this period positioned "decadent sexual description" within a much larger prose structure that "posed questions about social justice and elaborated on gender inequity"; indeed "pornographic prose fiction" such as The Spanish Pole-Cat "rethinks which people count as persons to what degree they can claim property in their own bodies and the correspondence of those bodies to social identity" What Pornography Knows. Capable of stimulating the senses of all readers physically and intellectually Rufina the female libertinism and the sex trade she invokes encourage excitement over what can happen when limitations are stripped away from certain portions of the population that don't in reality have the ability to move with such freedom.<br /> <br /> ESTC T89213. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. Printed for E. Curll in Fleet Street unknown
17803796London: Printed for S. Bladon 1780. First edition. Contemporary full calf covers decoratively bordered in blind spines with four wide raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt and blind in compartments two green morocco labels lettered in gilt blind-stamped board edges and turn-ins all edges gilt. Some minor wear to a few corners otherwise a near fine set. Volumes 1-6 only of 7. Six octavo volumes 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm. Collating 392; 392; 404 384; 426 of 428; 406. Twenty-one of twenty-four fine engraved plates. Volume I lacking two of the engraved plates Daly facing page 39 and Draper facing page 20 and clean inner marginal tear on Q4 pages 5/6; Volume II with light marginal stain on 3A4 pages 59/50; Volume IV Z3 pages 87/88 trimmed at fore-margin; Volume V Z3 pages 55/56 trimmed at fore-margin and lacking last leaf 3H4 pages. 305/306 Address to the Public verso blank; Volume VI lacking one engraved plate Grosvenor facing pages 114. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down of each volume and early ink signature of Thos. Grant at top of title-pages.<br /> <br /> Trials for Adultery was published over a period of two years and was completed in seven volumes with thirty engraved plates. Because of their 'pornographic' nature some or all of the plates are often not found. In our set three of the plates have been excised by a previous owner. "The genre of pornographic trial reports was fully developed in the late 1770s a fact which is borne out by the publication in seven volumes of a special collection of interesting cases Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces. The editor remarks to the reader that 'conjugal infidelity is become so general that it is hardly considered as criminal; especially in the fashionable world'. In view of the many erotic and obscene prints contained in the seven volumes the moral justifications offered in defence of the publication of the trial reports appear quite ridiculous if not hypocritical. Mostly erotic but occasionally also obscene such pictorial material now became a standard feature of trial reports for the rest of the century" Boucé. Printed for S. Bladon unknown
197564151New York: Grove Press 1975. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; unpaginated 16pp; 104 leaves of plates. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper unclipped very lightly rubbed at extremities Near Fine. Explicitly erotic imagery with some surrealist elements. Grove Press unknown
189867939Paris: Société du Mercure de France 1898. Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 336pp. Octavo 23 cm Rebound in 3/4 red leather with marbled paper over boards with a decorative gilt stamped spine and a gilt stamped green leather spine label. Top edge gilt. New endpapers and flyleaves supplied at the time of binding. Frontispiece portrait of Bilitis by P. Albert Laurens after a bust in the Musée du Louvre. Subtle fading to the spine. Light rubbing to the extremities. Subtle sunning to the spine. Discreet binder's mark on the verso of the front free endpaper. Pages lightly foxed. A handful of the pages trimmed short along the fore-edge. Text in French. A collection of erotic poems by Pierre Louys. Louys fraudulently claimed that the poems had been translated from Greek. Bilitis refers to a female character who was romantically involved with Sappho the female Greek lyric poet.<br /> <br /> Number 497 in an edition of 550 originally bound in vellum this copy has been rebound and numbered 60 to 609. Société du Mercure de France unknown
18005629London: S. W. Fores 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the marital sexuality of such brides. Unrecorded in ESTC and OCLC we have located two examples of the present work at the British Museum and Yale. <br /> <br /> The present broadside draws together a wide matrix of debates and social anxieties surrounding the economic and sexual status of widows and the financial motivations for marriage among second sons and men of the middle class. Though women were more frequently forced into experiencing marriage as a form of 'honorable prostitution' in which their physical desirability served as their key for accessing wealth and stability under coverture it was increasingly acknowledged that large swaths of young men also suffered under this system. And while widows could escape the system -- shifting from the disempowered femme covert to the more legally independent femme sole on their husbands' deaths -- there was both a social fantasy of reinserting them into the marriage market as a means for regaining control over their money and bodies as well as a social anxiety about their ability to corrupt through the range of knowledge and authority they gained through previous marital experience. Here a young man walks his aging crone down the aisle. Ornately clad and expressing her anticipation for "the comforts of matrimony" she is ridiculed by the ministers at the pulpit who posit that if "matrimony was first ordained.for a remedy against fornication" then "the remedy will be worse than the disease" in this instance. Untroubled the young groom focuses on the land deeds bank notes and jewelry accounts which stuff his pockets -- assets which will legally become his after the ceremony and which serve as his marital comforts. Meanwhile two young women observe from the sidelines one of them planning her future with the groom after his aging bride's eventual demise. "Those jewels will look better on me than on the last owner" she notes as her companion whispers hopefully "you'll let me take a morning ride with you sometimes."<br /> <br /> A visual commentary on the financial and social issues surrounding marriage under coverture which Daniel Defoe would deride as "matrimonial whoredom."<br /> <br /> <br /> British Museum 1935.0522.8.109. Yale Center for British Art B1974.12.328. S. W. Fores unknown
19311238081931. Luxembourg: Privately Printed n.d. but Paris: Guibal c.1931. <br /> <br /> 4to 214 pp. With 53 color pochoir illustrations. Original printed wrappers binding cracked and shaken but just holding wrappers unevenly sunned internally fine.<br /> <br /> § Privately published in an unknown edition. Worldcat lists copies only at Yale and the Bibliothèque nationale de France although it is not rare in commerce. This copy from the library of Gershon Legman. A collection of fifty bawdy ballads beginning with the venerable and obscene "Les Trois Orfevres a la Saint Eloi." In the forward the compiler under the pseudonym "Vidame de Bozegie" explains the book was demanded by subscribers to his previous work 3 Orfèvres à la Saint-Èloi privately printed in Paris in 1930 who welcomed it as a monument de la chanson étudiant but lamented the lack of printed music. <br /> <br /> In this volume he presents fifty of "the best songs" in "a luxury edition on beautiful paper illustrated with color drawings worthy of a bibliophile." The music for each song is illustrated by pochoir. <br /> The author goes on to state: "I have avoided giving the illustrations an erotic character. They are obviously saucy but do not shock too-puritan eyes. I believe them to be worthy of the text." Puritan eyes would probably disagree in the strongest possible terms but it is true that alongside the lyrics the illustrations are comparatively restrained. <br /> <br /> Gershon Legman the great bibliographer of erotica erotic folklore and origami attributed the work to Edmond Bernard who was responsible for other significant collections of erotic folksongs. See Legman G. "Erotic Folksongs and Ballads: An International Bibliography." The Journal of American Folklore vol. 103 no. 410 1990: 417-501 referencing his own presumably this copy: "Copy: G. Legman. Edited by Edmond Dardenne Bernard as a supplement to his Anthologie Hospitaliere et Latinesque 1911-13 and its partial reprinting in 1930 as Trois <br /> Orfevres a la Saint-Eloi. Gives the musical notation apparently for the first time for these "Chansons de Salles de Garde" all later printed music for these except that of STAUB q.v. being largely derived from this edition and not collected in the field. unknown
1830215738Japan. 1830 -1860. Folded black and white kawaraban woodblock with map showing Tokyo's red light districts. 30.3 x 39.4cm. Light rubbing in one place upper margin a little worming and small closed tear in lower margin. Sheet has been backed with washi. Good copy. This late Edo period kawaraban print provides a wealth of information on the diverse aspects of sexual behaviour and attraction between men and women during this era. Following the traditional kawaraban style the print offers a detailed and varied glimpse into the lives of the time. A fascinating map of Edo's red-light districts playfully drawn with phallus-shaped lines occupies the lower centre. Eight different types of sexual toys are displayed on the left while service fees for brothels are listed above the map. The print even delves into compatibility between the sexes based on zodiac signs along with methods for predicting a baby's sex before birth. During the Edo period eroticism was viewed as another form of popular entertainment particularly for men and was widely accepted as a pastime for adults. . unknown
1815G4JCUY01U79OFrance 1815. 20th-century red goatskin morocco sewn on 5 cords with the title "Gouaches érotiques" in gold in the 2nd of 6 spine compartments double-combed marbled endpapers pasted over the original marbled pastdown; spot pattern curled. 4to 26 x 21.5 cm. A matching set of 12 erotic drawings image area about 20 x 16 cm in coloured gouaches each showing a man and woman engaged in manual vaginal or oral sex in a richly furnished interior with furniture lamps clocks vases drapery mirrors books clothing architectural ornamentation etc. Each is drawn on thick paperboard and mounted on the album leaves. A matching set of 12 skilfully executed erotic gouache drawings in numerous colours each showing a naked or more often partly undressed young man and woman engaged in manual vaginal or oral sex. Each is set in an interior in at least most cases domestic most of them richly furnished. Though the drawings depict several different men and women some of them seem to appear in more than one drawing. One drawing appears to show a home library another includes a case full of books and two others have an open book lying on the floor. Another has the woman sitting on the man's lap before a writing desk with a quill pen in her hand. These may be intended to suggest that the man is the young lady's tutor and they got distracted from their lessons. The clothing suggests couples from fairly high social standing. The clothing architectural decoration furniture clocks lamps vases etc. much of it in Empire Style suggest a date around 1815 perhaps in France.The drawings are in good condition and the binding fine. unknown
192555079Wilmington DE: Art Studies Magazine King Publishing January ca. 1925. 4to. 48 pp unpaginated. printed throughout in blue & sepia-tinted colours numerous plates photographic plates & illustrations throughout. Self-printed sepia-tinted photographic softcovers slight creasing at corner very slight nick on back cover still VG copy. First edition of this scarce “Art†pulp filled with nude art studies with photos of Ziegfeld girls such as Margit de Fest Margaret Dybfest Rita Royce in revealing cropped shorts overalls and straw hat by Ira D. Schwarz a favorite Ziegfeld photographer and many from the famed White Studios of New York and Henningsen. King Publishing was also well known for their decidedly prurient pulps such as Real Story and Frolics which often featured nearly nude pulp cover art and even pin-ups and nude photo studies within. Art Studies Magazine, King Publishing], paperback
193562490Havana Cuba; Humpville IL; Hartsville France; & Paris France: Hotnuts Publishing Co.; Hotballs Publishing Co.; Camel Publishing Co.; Hearton Publishing Co.; M. Seufferin & Co. ca. 1935-1945. Sixteen vols. 16mo. 4.25 x 5.5 in. 512 pp all 15 separately paginated. All w/ 3 photo plates. Assorted colour printed softcovers printed borders on each minor edgewear scuffing some dustsoiling occasional wear & creasing to corners still a VG- set. First editions of these pseudonymous erotic fiction “reader†pamphlets published regularly from the 1930’s into the 1940’s and none with verifiable publication information. Produced anonymously by the same publisher’s of girlie pin-up photos at the time they featured erotic amateur photography and fairly explicit storytelling often with elements of BDSM multiple partners extramarital affairs incest and assorted other taboo breaking elements -- all of which were severely restricted by obscenity laws into the Mid-20th-Century. They were not inexpensive at the time and typically priced at $ 5.00 although presumably underground booksellers and distributors would offer volume discounts. Over half of these do not appear in Yale’s collection of erotic readers at the Beinecke including “Love life of Christine†“Dreams of a virgin†“Sex and Sadness†“Honeymooner’s Delight†“Wet Dreams†“It’s Delightful†“Sexology†and “Amorous Secretary.†See: Tina Evans Guide to the Collection of Erotic Fiction Reader Pamphlets YCAL MSS 1621 2024. Hotnuts Publishing Co.; Hotballs Publishing Co.; Camel Publishing Co.; Hearton Publishing Co.; M. Seufferin & Co., paperback
1990128705Knight Publishing 1990s. Very Good Plus. First Edition/printing perfect-bound and stapled softcover 4to ~100pp ea photo wraps. Vintage adult magazines featuring photography of male pinup models. V1N8 12/1999 Dirk Yates interview and photographic filmography. V2N1 12/2001 stapled Gino Colbert interview and photographic filmography of his top 40; brief rc wear.V2N4 12/2002 stapled Jerry Gouglas interview and photographic filmography. Unless noted Very Good Plus overall light foxing rubbing toning. For mature audiences. Knight Publishing paperback
1970128182Various Publishers 1970s. Good. First Editions printing perfect-bound softcover 4to color wrappers. Vintage adult magazines featuring pinup solo seminude and explicit photography throughout. Two are "nonfiction" studies and one is an annual a thick anthology of previously published material. A broad scope of the explicit adult scene of the era. Good overall rubbing toning foxing creases stains tears loose pages but all appear complete.Snatch Annual No. 2 1979 Delta Parliament News b/w/c throughout lots of Serena.World of Good Safe & Unusual Sex! 1986 Merchandise for Mailers Dr. Pauline Messemer Dr. Johann Hauser b/w/c throughout encyclopedic. The Photographic Marriage Manual 1971 Zolton Dist. b/w throughout actually a large trade paperback no loose pages. For mature consenting audiences. Various Publishers paperback
1950128397N.p. 1950s. Very Good. Original negative and corresponding positive transparencies 2 circa 1948-55 featuring women performing sex acts with people in military clothing with a crowd of military-clad onlookers in awe. Presumably this troop met some ladies and had a rendezvous in the woods. Large format 5x7 one side glossy. Very Good overall with a few surface blemishes. For mature consenting audiences. N.p. hardcover
1969127507Camerarts 1969. Very Good. First Editions softcover 4tos B/W/Color throughout ~62p distributed by Allied. Vintage adult magazines featuring fiction nude model photography layouts genre fiction Hollywood vice cops.Vol. 1 No. 4 June 1962 66pp b/w a few pp color. Vintage pinup magazine devoted to Hollywood B-movie actresses topless models w/ articles humor adult film early issues like this feature cartoons & fiction. Sandra 3pp boxing fic Barbara Baxter & plane 2pp jokes lady sawed in two Ward 3pp Jocelyn Hobbs 4pp Bonfils 2pp vice cops Shirley Ann Goode 4pp.Vol. 8 No. 1 issue 43 February 1969 62pp b/w a few pp color. Vintage pinup magazines devoted to Hollywood B-movie actresses topless models w/ articles humor adult film. Candace Thayer front/cf/8pp Grace Polit rear/8pp New Hollywood Michelle Rondeau 8pp film codes buxom Pamela Mayfield 8pp Sonja Fabara 8pp.Vol. 9 No. 4 January 1971 nature nymph naughty Nicola Dorian Gray La Romana Sophia & Marcello Robert Redford Lisa Gastoni silent film stars color cf loose but present. Good to Very Good w/ foxing rubbing slight roll & spine stress a few small creases/tears one 1971 w/ 1pp cut. For mature audiences. Camerarts paperback
1960126106N.p. 1960s. Vintage adult digest magazine featuring nude buxom women posing in heels hose garters notably Laine Carlin on the front Sunni Roberts on the rear brief layouts of Ann Austin Toni Stevens Millie Morgan. Short editorial on the "international" scene each layout w/ corresponding copy writing. Many of these models often employed by British glamour photographer Harrison Marks. Though not credited to this title much of the photography resembles Marks' work. Hundreds of similar digest magazines were produced by fly-by-night operations mainly around New York notably Burmel Publishing Lenny Burtman's enterprise. Many were published as photography and/or art "studies" booklets w/ technical camera data exposure chart & the standard emphasis on sexual liberation; early issues featured several models per issue & many maintain airbrushing techniques rolled over from nudist magazines much of the posing naturally obscures otherwise censored areas. Still scarce institutionally. 64pp 6 x 9 inches color wrapper B/W throughout saddle-stapled. Very Good Plus overall light foxing rubbing toning price notation to front. For mature audiences. N.p. unknown
1990128720Various Publishers 1990s. Very Good Plus. First printings stapled 8vos b/w and full-color throughout about 30pp ea unless noted color wraps. Vintage adult mail-order catalogues featuring advertisements for clothing lingerie smoking accessories novelties calendars VHS Beta books magazines erotic and adult films and order forms present. "Mellow Mail" series began sometime late 1970s ceased 1980s-90s. They were all about lingerie toys and sex ed. Unless noted Very Good Plus overall with light foxing rubbing toning a few stray creases a few with label wear. For mature audiences. Big Bust Video H & S Sales two issues 1989 1992 $5.00 cover price 1 loaded with b/w images. Leisure Time Products DM46 1990s 48pp $9 cover price; VG overall. Mellow Mail 10th anniversary issue 64pp two issues 1987 with ads for 1988 calendars $1.00 cover price; light moisture wrinkles to rear. Various Publishers paperback
1960128448Parliament News 1960s. Very Good. Vintage proof photograph of a brunette model laying on shag carpet with scenery and composition suggesting the work of a Parliament News regular like Ron Vogel or Keith Bernard. "Candid" was the magazine unseen of publication. Title and cropping notations in red pencil on the front. 1 photo 8 x 10 inches black and white single-weight silver gelatin borderless; brief ink and pencil notations on the verso. Often the model name will be mimeo printed on the verso yet this photograph is without. Very Good overall a few faint creases light toning and edge wear. For mature consenting audiences. [Parliament News] unknown
1980128650Nuance 1980s. Very Good Plus. Original black-and-white photographs featuring pinup and music legend Candy Kaneseen in layouts from Nuance magazines not seen. 8 x 10 inches b/w single-weight silver gelatin small white borders. Candye was a popular model starred in pornographic films would go on to success as blues singer and even political activism. Cropping notations on rectos Nuance stamps and pencil notations on versos as issued. Very Good Plus overall light handling a few faint creases and indentations one with masking tape on the verso. For mature audiences. Nuance unknown
1970128797Various Publishers 1970s. Very Good. Vintage adult paperbacks featuring art the setting of carnival circus or state fair in title. Volumes skimmed for content. Sex Circus Fetish Dreams FT-125 1992 Star Distributors Craig Esposito cover; fc ink remainder clip spine crease.Slit Circus Matthew Wenell Aquarius 7 Publications AP-132 1972 Nu-Triumph photo cover; faint spine creases.Circus of Love Greta Shafter Tudor Books TB-101 1969 Central Sales Baltimore printed cover set in Florida; light stain mostly to rc/spine. For mature audiences. See other theme listings! Various Publishers paperback
1958128930Studio Publications 1958. Very Good. V1N3 1958 first printing stapled softcover 4to 62pp b/w throughout color wraps and cf. Vintage adult magazine devoted to pinup and glamour photography not explicit with cartoons fiction and more. Not distributed by the infamous Parliament News company but their style abounds. Sheila Graham covers Frank Harmon ed Len Bishop phot. ed Michael Richards art ed cocktail recipes throughout Femlin-style illustrations. Very Good overall light foxing rubbing a few scuffs and faint creases toning. For mature audiences. Studio Publications paperback
1998128690Ediciones La Cupula S.L. 1998-99. Very Good Plus. First printings Spanish language stapled softcover 4to b/w and a few color pp throughout. Vintage adult magazines erotic comic strips mostly European contributors. No. 86 1998 Bettie Page cover. No. 98 snake cover. Dave Stevens also did a Bettie Page cover but the topless issue is less common. Very Good Plus overall light foxing rubbing toning spine stress. For mature audiences. Ediciones La Cupula S.L. paperback
1950128566N.p. 1950s. Series No. 909 vintage playing cards in original illustrated paper box featuring solo models nude and in everyday settings some studio images with many notable faces including June Palmer Mickey Jines Virginia Rogers Bettie Page 1 card and a few others. This set resembles countless others produced at the time however decks featuring the "Queen of Pinups" lend to scarcity. Cards slightly under 2.5 x 3.5 inches full color photographic cards b/w illus. versos Hong Kong stated on box. Two jokers 54 cards total complete. Cards with light foxing else Near Fine box slightly lesser. For mature audiences a rare deck. N.p. unknown
