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1992000098Massachusetts: Middlesex School 1992. 1992 yearbook for the Concord Massachusetts day and boarding high school that boasts former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Massachusetts Governor William Weld as well as actor Steve Carrell amongst its alumni. Brown hardcover with bright silver titles and logo on front cover. 209 pages profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; there are also a couple of color photograph illustrated pages. This volume has unique senior pages versus senior photos where the senior got to write sometimes in their own handwriting and select the photographs and contact for their page. We note only some light shelfwear and edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Middlesex School Hardcover
1901001265Brooklyn NY: Hebrew Publishing Company 1901. Rare 1901 Siddur Jewish Prayerbook with Celluloid Covers This is a well-loved well-used volume. Book opens right to left. 511 pages. 32mo: 4.75 by 3.5 inches in size and 1.75 inches thick. Sewn binding. Cream colored celluloid cover front back and spine with cream cloth underneath. An ornate brass medallion is centered in the middle of front cover. A plain hinged brass clasp is missing the peg to hold the volume closed. The endpapers are an ivory moire. Both pastedowns are cracked. The sewn binding has several loose sections: pages 160-192 are held in by a loose thread pages 193 to 222 are detached and laid in. The book is shaken. The page marked 322 is actually page 223. The remainder of the book appears firmly bound. The pages are bordered with bright gilt on all sides. Pages 508 to 511 are cut very tight on the top margin so that the page numbers are not visible. The blank pages after page 511 to the endpaper are chipped at the midpoint where the clasp is. We note small stains on pages 224 and 225 and fingermarks in the margin of page 121. Overall the pages are bright and clean. The celluloid cover is chipped at three out of four spine points and on corners of back cover. The front cover is cracked at both corners. The cloth underneath the celluloid is frayed in the spine area. There are some scratches and some light soil to the celluloid. As you'll note in our photographs cello tape has been used across the spine and onto the covers. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. Celluloid. Fair/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Hebrew Publishing Company Hardcover
1934List3641New York: Leo Feist Inc 1934. Folio sheet music color pictorial cover. 5 pp 9 ⅛ x 12 inches. Near Fine. Sheet music for the title song from the Fleischer Studios animated short Poor Cinderella a 1934 Paramount production starring Betty Boop. Directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer the film was issued as part of the studio’s Color Classics series and is notable as the only Betty Boop cartoon originally produced in color during the Fleischer studio’s classic run. The cover illustration shows Betty in her ragged Cinderella costume before a mirror the fairy godmother’s wand transforming her reflection into a princess an image that captures both the Depression-era fairy-tale theme and the character’s Jazz Age style.<br /> <br /> Although the cartoon itself contains no explicitly Black performers the cultural origins of Betty Boop’s voice and persona emerged from Harlem nightclub entertainment and became the subject of a widely publicized 1934 lawsuit involving singer Helen Kane and the African American child performer Esther Jones whose vocal style was introduced as evidence during the trial. Kane sued Fleischer Studios and Paramount claiming that Betty Boop’s distinctive “boop-oop-a-doop†singing style had been taken from her stage act. During the proceedings however theatrical manager Lou Bolton testified that the same vocal mannerism had been performed several years earlier by Jones in Harlem cabarets undermining Kane’s claim of originality. The court ultimately ruled against Kane.1<br /> <br /> Created in 1930 Betty Boop quickly evolved from an anthropomorphic cartoon figure into a humanized Jazz Age flapper and one of the earliest animated sex symbols. Early Fleischer cartoons frequently placed the character in adult urban settings: nightclubs stage performances and surreal jazz environments. The character’s exaggerated blend of innocence and sexuality wide-eyed baby face combined with flapper dress and nightclub mannerisms made Betty one of the most recognizable figures in early American animation. With the strict enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934 Betty Boop’s image was softened: skirts were lengthened risqué humor diminished and the once flirtatious character gradually recast into a more domesticated and wholesome figure. Issued by the prolific Tin Pan Alley publisher Leo Feist Inc. the sheet is a representative and surprisingly scarce item from this period. <br /> <br /> 1 Erin Blakemore “The People v. Betty Boop†The History Channel https://www.history.com/articles/the-people-v-betty-boop accessed March 11 2026. Leo Feist Inc unknown
19821913<p>First Edition. 72 pp. illustrated program book for an event officially known as The Scholar and the Feminist : Toward a Politics of Sexuality held on Saturday April 24 1982 at The Women's Center now the Barnard Center for Research on Women. 8vo. Very good. Illus. Glossy wrappers slightly creased. 1772</p><p><em>A landmark document of the so-called "feminist sex wars" of the 1980s most copies of this conference program were preemptively seized and destroyed by Barnard College officials under pressure from activists associated with Women Against Pornography WAP. The episode remains a hotspot of conflicting allegations and rumor. Leading up to the date of the conference Ellen V. Futter then President of Barnard College became the focal point of an anti-pornography phone call campaign by WAP members and their allies. In response to the calls College officials confiscated 1500 copies of the Diary hours before the event was scheduled to begin. The booklet which had been intended for distribution to conference attendees consists of steering committee minutes personal narratives information about conference events and sex-positive artwork by feminist illustrators including erotic images that had provoked the ire of anti-pornography crusaders. Examples rarely surface.</em></p> [Barnard College Women's Center]
197063549New York: Peter H. Wyden Inc 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; light grey cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; x1775pp. Spine ends gently nudged gentle sunning to lower board edges with a tiny nick to cloth at upper rear board edge and a faint stain to upper right corner of front cover; contents clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $5.95 showing moderate wear some tears and attendant creases and some dampstains on verso at upper flap folds; Very Good. A report based on a study of 208 middle-class adults who have used marijuana in order to enhance their sex lives. ".an informal but balanced report.It assesses marijuana not as an aphrodisiac but as a sexual stimulant and de-inhibitor for many users and as a "turn-off" for some others" from front flap. 63549. Peter H. Wyden, Inc unknown
195680726London: Torchstream Books 1956. Limited Edition. First Printing #562 of 1375 copies. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's vivid crimson cloth with white paper title label to spine. Dustjacket. 267pp. 1pp ads to rear. Clean bright and handsome with only the lightest of wear in a tough heavy paper dustjacket with paper title label to spine panel slight darkening to the spine and a little dustiness here and there. A very good copy indeed. Internally clean edges untrimmed a notably luxurious piece of book production. <br /> <br /> A scholarly insight into the long history theory and practical applications of aphrodisiac food and drink around the world citing a multitude of sources from the ancient Greeks through to 19th century Europe via Persia China and India. With an in depth bibliographical section and a number of recipes and nutritional guidelines for those wishing to make the most of an aphrodisiac diet. Torchstream Books unknown
191385169Chicago: O. M. Heath & Co 1913. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19cm. Purple ribbed cloth spine and cover titles in gilt; 3031pp; portrait frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones. A tight clean copy free of markings with just a hint of sunning to spine cloth; very Near Fine. <br /> <br /> A collection of six short tales each intended to illustrate a different aspect of "the prevalence of degeneracy in the modern era" jacket. Composts of Tradition was self-published and marketed aggressively in contemporary periodicals including The Masses and Pearson's; one such advertisement in the January 1915 issue of Pearson's outlines the book's intention: "It is not a book for prudes either male or female. It is a book for aggressive and advanced thinkers. Among other doctrines it advocates: 1 Sterilization of physical social and mental defectives; 2 Annihilation of the stigma attached to the bar-sinister; 3 Encouragement of reproduction upon the part of the fit; 4 Maintenance of all children by society; 5 Monogamy but marriage ceremonies to be optional not obligatory; 6 Divorce by collusion." At least one of the stories "Maid of the Neptunian Strand" has fantasy elements. <br /> <br /> Oscar Morrill Heath c.1872-1952 was a Chicago secondary school teacher and lecturer-for-hire on social subjects; beginning about 1905 through at least the 1920s we lose sight of him around 1930 he was the proprietor of a Chicago correspondence school for schoolteachers The Cultural Review School through whose auspices he issued a few ephemeral publications as well as a monthly magazine Teaching As A Profession. Additionally thanks to the trade card mounted in the front we know that Heath was the proprietor of at least two Chicago beauty parlors. From contemporary newspaper acccounts it appears that the current work landed Heath at least temporarily in hot water; the Chicago Tribune for November 6 1913 includes an article stating that Heath's status as an instructor at Englewood High School was "under review" pending publication of a book that was "critical of the nuptial bond" and seemed to condone childbirth out of wedlock. It is quite possible that Heath lost his position over the book as in subsequent years we find him advertising his services as a freelance instructor in a variety of topics including a review course in math for candidates to Army Officers' Candidate School during WW1. <br /> <br /> Despite its fetching title the current work is somewhat uncommon with fewer than 20 locations in OCLC most apparently in circulating collections. SMITH H-442. Not in Bleiler despite clear fantasy content. O. M. Heath & Co unknown
196262985New York: Bernard Geis Associates 1962. First Edition. First printing. Tall octavo. Cloth-backed boards hardcover; dustjacket; 382pp; illus. Light evidence of use; board corners tapped; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper price-clipped lightly rubbed at edges Very Good. <br /> <br /> Classic mid-century advice for the upwardly-mobile middle-class American male on fashion sex courtship etiquette fitness career management etc. Includes a chapter on how to join the CIA; another on how to drive a sports car. With numerous cartoons and prose extracts from the pages of the magazine by Paul Gallico Harvey Swados Jack Kerouac others. Bernard Geis Associates unknown
196078814Brooklyn New York: La Plume 1960. Eight issues: Nos. 4-10 and 14.<br /> <br /> Long before the internet Grindr and other dating apps like-minded people with shared intimacy interests relied on personal ads printed in alternative newspapers and magazines. In the 1960s one could also subscribe to this small brochure mailed direct to your post office box offering connections to men and women all over the world looking for a connection. As they note in their marketing “La Plume has been specifically created and designed to cater to the whims of those with a keen interest in the exotic the unusual and the modern way of life.â€<br /> <br /> The booklets contain brief personal advertisements photographs and a special code assigned to each person. Find someone of interest write a letter and send it to La Plume which then forwards it to the potential connection for a $2 fee. Issue 4 contains small pencil checks mainly next to “broad-minded†couples looking for the same. The publication caters to a wide-ranging audience with several personals concerning “transvestite†individuals and men and women seeking same-sex connections.<br /> <br /> The booklet was referenced as evidence in a 1965 hardcore pornography case against an East Rutherford New Jersey police lieutenant who placed an advertisement under a pseudonym in the publication.<br /> <br /> Published five to six times per year LA Plume also carried advertising that would appeal to its readers such as Strip Checkers a health supplement called Love Potion No. 9 and sterile lubricant with hormones.<br /> <br /> Stapled booklet 3 ½“ x 8 ½†printed on newsprint with a spot color. Occasional checkmarks one page partially clipped in Issue 4; otherwise very good overall. Scarce no listings in OCLC or commerce. La Plume unknown
194863271Cleveland OH: The Ralston Society 1948. 8vo. 444 pp. Decorative initials. Textured green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. minor shelfwear slight scuffing couple very small closed tears still a NF/VG copy. Third edition of volume 3 in the Magnetism Books Series Group A issued to Ralstonism adherents Home Training Course touting the possible results from embracing all human powers. Webster Edgerly 1852-1926 writing as Edmund Shaftesbury and Everett Ralston formulated an entire health and social movement with Degree levels clearly adapted from Freemasonry and other fraternal organizations coupled with a mix of eugenics pop psychology and land promotion urging the development of a home similar to those in Edgerly’s dream of a Utopian Ralston community in Hopwell NJ. Edgerly urged his followers to follow the path of Regime Activity Light Strength Temperation Oxygen and Nature to develop a new race free from racial impurities and Magnetism could change and improve your life. Very scarce in original dustjacket. See: Matthew Kassel A Self-Help Guru Named Webster Edgerly Came to Central New Jersey in 1896 with Dreams of Establishing a Utopian Society Sept. 6 2015. The Ralston Society, hardcover
193554115New York: Falstaff Press Inc. Privately Issued for Cultured Adults 1935. 8vo. 16 pp unpaginated. printed on sepia-tinted paper with numerous text illustrations printed in brown ink. Self-printed softcovers uncut very slight dustsoiling NF copy. First edition of this very rare pamphlet on birth control issued by the notorious mail-order erotica publisher Falstaff Press which specialized in republishing many of the Panurge anthropological titles including titles on sexuality sexual disorders birth control eugenics phallic worship scientific sexualia and flagellation. Most of these titles were written by some of the most significant anthropologists and sociologists working in the new and growing field of sexual sciences in the 1930s including Hirschfeld Reclus Niemoeller and Rohleder. Solomon Malkin was a young New York University scholar who had studied under Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin and oversaw the choosing of illustrations and text for the birth control pamphlets. This work details the very unreliable “Rhythm Method†of contraception depending on the charting of menstrual cycles however notes that this is has only 50% effectiveness and should be combined with artificial birth control methods. Worldcat locates 6 copies UC Davis Emory NLM Case Western Cleveland Melbourne; See: Jay Gertzman Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica 1920-1940 pp. 192-195; 353-354. Falstaff Press, Inc., Privately Issued for Cultured Adults, paperback
195585437Frederick Publications 1955. First Thus. Octavo. 17cm. Publisher's dark blue pebblegrain cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 325pp. 54 unnumbered bibliography and index to rear. Light scuffing and rubbing to extremities and corners some dulling of the cheap gilt; internally clean with some staining to the front pastedown; in a lightly toned and soiled example of the dustjacket with some shallow chipping to spine ends and wear to the flap folds and edges. A very good copy in a jacket with some cosmetic wear.<br /> <br /> A popular reprint of Rosenbaum's 1901 work on sexuality lust and deviant debauchery in the annals of Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Frederick Publications unknown
197363239New York: Trident Press 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 251pp. Tight fine copy. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $6.95 on front flap gently rubbed at head and heel but still crisp clean and free of toning or notable wear; very Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Vassi's fifth book preceded by four works of Olympia Press erotica. A memoir of Vassi's sexual and psychedelic experiments of the Sixties. Vassi who has been called the finest erotic writer of his generation would go on to a long career as a literary spokesman for sexual and psychological liberation; he was a daring early writer on non-normative definitions of gender and redefinition of sex roles. Vassi died of complications from AIDS in 1989; this was his only volume of memoir. Trident Press unknown
197080984New York: Weybright and Talley 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's original black cloth titled in red gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 271pp. Slight bumping to the spine ends no appreciable wear in a clean bright priceclipped dustjacket with some minor discoloration in parts a very good copy indeed. Internally clean. A rather cynical and US-centric attempt to describe the cultural and social diffferences in attitudes towards sex and sexuality in Scandinavia versus what is acceptable in US. There's an element of rabble rousing and scandal mongering regarding the potential for a wave of shameless Scandinavian pornography and less puritanical social attitudes sweeping across the ocean and poisoning American youth; there are also some interesting early points made about the economic and social benefits and detriments of sex work the sex industry as a whole and the far reaching effects that sexuality has upon social stability and function. Weybright and Talley unknown
1913240712-MB03E. W. Allen & Co. 1913. Very Good original hardcover 1913 numerous old photographs and drawings . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. E. W. Allen & Co. Hardcover
19802211New York: Free Press 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Signed and inscribed by the revered couples' therapist on the front free-endpaper "For Susan Enjoy! Lonnie Barbach." Susan's bookplate is neatly on the front pastedown opposite the inscription. Blue hardcover with gilt spine titles in dustjacket 1st edition. The book is very good with minor shelf-wear to the board edges and some bending at the head of the spine. Interior is clean and unmarked other than the author's inscription. Age toning to the front textblock edge. The jacket is only fair - included ofr completeness rather than quality - scuffing pen marks and a large stain to the front panel and chipping at the panel edges. 237 pp. indexed one of Barbach's earliest ground-breaking books. Scarce when signed. <br/><br/> Free Press hardcover
1978140731-M222New York: Urizen Books 1978. Very Good hardcover with dustjacket 1978 first US edition . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Urizen Books Hardcover
1922DEMO013468IMilan: Studio Editoriale Corbaccio 1922. Limited edition. Octavo. fair. 8vo 129 pages untrimmed leaves chipped wrappers Bi-lingual: In Italian and Latin. <br/><br/>Copy no. 80 of 1000 copies. This work issued as Vol.7 in Series 2 of Classici Dell'Amore series. "Beccadelli is most famous for his bawdy masterpiece HERMAPHRODITUS 1425 a collection of eighty-one Latin epigrams which evoke the unfettered eroticism of the works of Catullus and Martial as well as of the PRIAPEA. This work was greeted with acclaim by scholars. but subsequently condemned and censured as obscene by Christian apologists. . Guarino da Verona . called Beccadelli a poetic scion of the Sicilian writer of antiquity Theocritus - Wikipedia." Both works by these 15th century authors are Introduced by Angelo Ottolini. Studio Editoriale Corbaccio unknown
1996240611-D08Thunder's Mouth Press 1996. Very good softcover. Softcover. Very Good. Thunder's Mouth Press Paperback
1903210810-MB53London: A. H. Bullen 1903. Very Good condition two volume set plus supplement Two volumes illustrated with engravings by Louis Chalon Limited edition The supplement consists of scarce additional plates erotic/ censored in loose quarterfold. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Illus. by Chalon Louis. A. H. Bullen hardcover
2000022180Brussels: Secret 2000. 187pp num bw photographs. Or pictorial laminated boards. As new. Limited edition of 1000 copies of which this #607. A collection of fetish photography by some of the masters of the genre mainly depicting bondage. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to. Secret Hardcover
1990240721-RD03The University of Chicago Press 1990. Very good paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The University of Chicago Press Paperback
1970250417-MB36Dove Press 1970. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket Limited edition errata slip . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dove Press Hardcover
1911095197New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1911 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. Rare copy of Dock's most scarce work. She was one of the true pioneers of American nursing but also a women's and social activist. She states in her Preface that "the plan of this manual has grown from the scope of a paper presented by the author to the International Congress of Nurses in London in July 1909 in which the chief purpose aimed at was the same as has been here followed namely to reiterate the social significance of the venereal diseases and the crusade upon which women should enter in regard to them." The book is divided into 3 main parts; The Venereal Diseases Prostitution and Prevention. Inner hinges are cracked; cover is quite impacted by moisture on the back; else the cover has minor wear and fading. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1994240809-MB21Clear Light Publishers 1994. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket illustrated SIGNED by R.C. Gorman slight foxing on front endpapers. Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clear Light Publishers Hardcover
