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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
190902861London England: The Vir Publishing Company 1909. Hard Cover. Very Good . Very Good. No Jacket A wonderful book to show young boys about sex and morality. Great turn of the century writing. Book is clean and tight. <br/><br/> The Vir Publishing Company hardcover
016222Paris France: De-Orsay Press. Softcover. Good. Wraps; 32pp; Covers age-toned with minor chipping at corners tear at staple on front cover text unmarked binding is tight Good condition. Vintage hard core pornography illustrated with four explicit photos. Part Three of a series. Published circa 1930s. Adults only. De-Orsay Press paperback
2007055144Santa Barbara: Pinecone Educational 2007. 218pp num bw ills. Pictorial white boards in jacket. As new. An anti-circumcision document liberally illustrated with a 'pretentious photo-essay depicting the human male foreskin with an overly zealous intensity'. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pinecone Educational Hardcover
188748946Paris Gauthier-Villars 1887. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 105 No 7. Pp. 325-- 563. Entire issue offered. Maupas' paper: pp. 356-359. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this classic paper in whic Maupas determined that fertilization in protozoa is essential to the indefinite continuation of a cell strain. His discovery proved an importent stimulus to subsequent investigation not only upon protozoa but also in the area of parthenogenesis."He found in Paramecium that after generations of division the stock becomes infeebled. Ultimately the individuals die unless they meet partners for conjugation. When two such enfeebled individuals meet their bodies are approximated and they interchange nuclear elements. Next division takes place. The stock has regained its vigour. No differentiation of sexes is evident in the conjugatory process though such differentiation can be traced in other prorozoa."Singer "The Story of Living Tings" p. 531 ff.Thomas Hall "A Source Book in Animal Biology" pp. 458-60. </em> 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
1989250909-RD27Re/Search Publications 1989. Very good paperback. Illustrated with black and white photogrpahs by Bobby Neel Adams. Paperback. Very Good. Re/Search Publications Paperback
2001051657Newark NJ: University of Delaware 2001. 433pp index bibliography notes. Black boards in jacket. As new. Representations of sexuality in French literature over the period 1740-1900 undergo a process of narrativization with a new thematic dispensation seeking to replce dalliance and divertissemant with the compelling linearity of climactic satisfaction. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. University of Delaware Hardcover
9-2H9780525482307<p>BRAND NEW. Never read or opened. No remainder mark. 9-2H9780525482307</p> Plume
016227Havana Cuba: Tobasco Publishing Co. Softcover. Very Good. Wraps; 32pp; Gray/green card covers with red titling to front covers slightly age-toned slightly handling wear to pages text unmarked binding is sound VG condition. Scarce vintage hard core pornography illustrated with four explicit photos. Published circa 1930s. Adults only. Tobasco Publishing Co. paperback
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
1995250909-RD28Amerotica 1995. Very good paperback. Paperback. Very Good. Amerotica Paperback
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
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
1966001218New York: Viking 1966. 111pp technical notes num bw & col photographs. Or red cloth with white spine. Spine slightly cocked and some page corners turned jacket creased on front flap with slight toning edge wear and a 1" tear on reear panel. A collection of photographs mostly nudes by noted photographer John Rawlings. Technical note for each of the pictures are at the end of the book. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Viking 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
1975019249<p>New York: Pinnacle Books 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 170pp; Covers clean & bright with slight edgewear in a few spots pages slightly age-toned text unmarked binding is tight VG condition. Scarce vintage guide to swinging and group sex. Complete and unexpurgated.</p> Pinnacle Books paperback
1972035368London: Andre Deutsch 1972. 2 volumes. Each 256pp bw ills. One volume cloth backed marbled boards the other a duplication in soft cover. An edition limited to 2000 copies this one unnumbered. The soft cover is intended as a reading copy. Both volumes presented in a slipcase. A little rubbin gto the covers of the soft cover a couple of small scuff marks to slipcase. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. 4to. Andre Deutsch Hardcover
1937231013-MB20Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1937. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket slight chipping on DJ edges previous owner's inscription. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Brazelton Julian. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. Hardcover
1937001500New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1937. The Hill was first published in 1905. One of more than 50 novels written by its author it depicts the friendship between two boys who attend Harrow. Harrow School founded in 1572 is a highly prestigious boys boarding school in London still going strong today. 8vo size green cloth cover with navy blue titles on spine and navy blue titles and decorations on front cover. The cover appears to be an incomplete printing of the design that appeared on other books: Darker colored cloth books of the earlier 1900s dark blue or black had a illustration on the front cover of a hilly skyline with a tall building spire - which depicts the campus of Harrow School. This silhouette is made from the color of the clothbound book. The illustration on top of that is completed by two different colors on ink in green and white. In this book a later edition the cloth binding appears to be a shade of green represented by the color of the ink in the earlier version. You can see the very light embossing of the hillside and spire and you can see the void as the spire rises between the bands of navy blue ink that make up the design on front cover. These navy blue design elements are part of the sky background. Earlier editions would have used white ink to fill the voids between the navy blue ink and the embossed design of the hillside. It appears that there is a significant publishing error the the front cover design where an layer of white ink is missing. If one didn't know the design of earlier editions you might just take the cover for an abstract design. There is an embossed illustration on the spine of books on a shelf which also would have been filled in with green ink on the earlier edition and which is devoid of ink in this copy. The printing error has produced a unique cover. The book has 325 deckle edged pages with a unique toning or foxing that resembles a wood grain pattern please see our photos. This pattern appears throughout the book with varying degrees of darkness. Horace Vachell 1861 - 1955 was a prolific English author publishing novels 22 plays short stories essays and autobiographical works. Much of his writing features an idealized prosperous English way of life. Please see our photograph of the notation from a previous reader of this book - it is her recommendation. The book has a bumped and worn head and heel of spine sunned spine penciled name on fep which is creased at bottom corner note on half title page and some small white spots on front cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dodd Mead & Company Hardcover
1848120209-J273Philadelphia: Crigg Elliot and Co. 1848. Hardcover 1848 very good condition. Minor chipping on covers and spine. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Crigg, Elliot and Co. Hardcover
1961000162New York: Hawthorne Books 1961. Stated First Edition. Two volumes. Volume One 574 pages together 1059 pages including index. In very good condition with slightly bumped corners and minimal shelf wear. Gilt tiles on spine are not very bright. Gilt titles on cover. Volume Two has a small spot on cover. Includes articles by researchers Masters and Johnson. Numerous contributors to this volume including Albert Arbarbanel Ewald Bohm Clifford Allen Jessie Bernard William H. Masters Masters and Johnson Virginia E. Johnson. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hawthorne Books Hardcover
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
1900130917-D01Pennsylvania: George Barrie 1900. Very good two volume set printed on Japanese Vellum limited edition 41/ 1000 printed for the Subscribers of the Bibliophilist's Library translated by John Payne with etchings by Leopold Flemeng . Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Flemeng Leopold . Two Book Set. George Barrie hardcover
1992213643New Jersey: Barricade Books 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Near Fine in wraps. Barricade Books unknown