Paris: Société des Éditions Planète; Société Générale de Publications Périodiques, 1966-1970. First printing. Softcover. Octavo (8 x 7"). Original illustrated covers. Complete collection of "Plexus," a renown French magazine devoted to humor and eroticism published in Paris from 1966 to 1970. The magazine was first published bimonthly (issues 1-12), then..... More
[Paris]: Aux Dépens Des Deux Cent Cinquante Disciples Hippocrate, ND (ca 1942). Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/25. Quarto. 70, [8] loose pages, as issued. Uncut and unopened copy. Original glassine over printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Portfolio housed in its original blue cardboard slipcase. Title page in red and black..... More
NP: Au Mont de Vénus, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Limited Edition 276/500. 13 loosely folded signatures with 8 pages each in maroon pebbled cloth portfolio housed in matching slipcase. Illustrated title pages. 22 of 24 extraordinary b/w heliogravures with text in illustrated border printed on uncut BFK Rives paper. It's..... More
ca. 1900's. Fascinating set of 12 color lithographic French erotic postcards from the early years of the 20th century. Ten postcards portray couples engaged in sexual intercourse (6 in outdoor settings and 4 indoors). One represents a woman pleasuring herself, another shows a woman engaged in a sexual intercourse with....... More
Sadopolis: Justin Valcourt, 1866. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/150 copies. 12mo. 69pp. 3/4 maroon leather over marbled boards with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Raised bands. Marbled end papers. Illustrated title page. Ornamental printers' devices as head- and tailpieces. The headpieces seem to be based on the Marquis' own sketches..... More
NP: NP, No date. Loose-leaf. Sextodecimo. 10 plates 5 3/4 x 3 3/4." Original erotic lithographs on heavy white card stock; protected in modern mylar. Amorous satire about an overweight wife and her husband's marital difficulties and the unorthodox cure in drawings and text in rhymes, reminiscent of Wilhelm Busch..... More
Caen: Leroy, 1782. First edition. Hardcover. Duedecimo. A-D6 E4 (= 28 leaves; blank E4). 53, [3, blank]pp. Half-title only, as in all known copies. Nineteenth century half morocco over marbled boards (lightly rubbed at extremities), gilt-tooled spine in compartments; marbled endleaves; silk ribbon marker. Bookplate. Text lightly toned. A nearly..... More
Paris; Leipzig: F. Krüger; A. Schumann, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 159, [1]pp. Original red cloth spine over red leatherette with gilt lettering and gold embossed illustration on front cover. Decorative endpapers. Photo-illustrated title-page. Exquisite work intended to be the most comprehensive collection of erotic images of pin-up style Parisian..... More
Paris: A l'Enseigne du Panier Fleuri, 1943. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/475. Octavo. 77, [3]pp. 3/4 blue morocco over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d'Excès (Gamiani, or Two Nights of..... More
Wien / Leipzig: Verlag für Kulturforschung, ca. 1927. Hardcover. Octavo. 32, 32pp., 16 plates, 6pp. Modern black cloth. Dummy copy of a sales representative with original illustrated yellow cloth cover and six original yellow spines of other titles in the series "Sittengeschichte der Kulturwelt und ihrer Entwicklung" with gilt stamped..... More
Wien und Berlin: R. Lowit, 1918. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/300. Octavo. 70 (1) pp. Original black cloth covered boards with illustrated cover and gilt lettering on spine in slipcase. Humorous erotic and rustic sayings in Yiddisch with partial German translations. One of 300 copies, of which this is No. 22..... More
NP: NP, 1944. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/275. Folio. Unpaginated. Unopened copy. Original wrappers with title label laid on front wrap. Captivating erotic poetry work by one of the most renown Dutch poets of the 20th century, exquisitely illustrated with numerous double-page and full-page b/w illustrations by Bantzinger. Book printed..... More
Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1971. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 x 10"). [3] leaves (Half-title, Title, Preface), [71] leaves (Plates), [1] leaf (Colophon) (Trade edition); [3] leaves (Half-title, Title, Preface), [71] leaves (Plates), [1] leaf (Title), [39] leaves (Additional Plates), [1] leaf (Colophon) (Limited Edition). Original illustrated dust-jacket over brown cloth..... More
Den Haag: Uitgeverij, 1978. Second printing. Softcover. Folio. Original illustrated wraps. "An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum." Photographed by Ginger Gordon, written by William Levy, designed by Anthon Beeke. Important publication by the 'counterculture'..... More
Leipzig: Leipziger Magazin-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Eight issues of the German "Schönheits-Magazin" bound in modern half cloth over paper-covered boards. Minor age wear and staining on binding. Each volume with 32 pages in original pictorial decorated color wrappers with many articles on beauty, art, ideals..... More
St. Fons (Rhone), Lyon: Les Editions Germinal, (1934). Softcover. Sm. 4to. 125pp. Original pictorial wraps. Minor age wear and creasing on wraps. Small closed tear on bottom edge of front-, and slight staining on back wrapper. Head of spine bumped, affecting last few pages slightly. Illustrated with 6 full-page reproductions..... More
Dresden und Zürich: Paul Aretz Verlag, 1925–1928. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 318 (2), 265 (2), vii (i), 278 (2)pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt-stamped ruling and illustration on cover, gilt-stamped ruling and lettering on spine. Three full page frontispiece engravings on heavy paper stock. Three volume set of..... More
San Francisco: Rock Out Books, 2007. First printing. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated paper covered boards. Decorative endpapers. Free front endpaper signed by both Michael Grecco and model Sunny Lane. Naked Ambition goes backstage at the Adult Video News Awards where celebrity photographer Michael Grecco shows us everything: the convention..... More
Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 158pp. White gilt decorated cloth in original dj. Slipcase. Some creasing to dj. Spine of dj sunned and slightly stained. One small tear to bottom edge of dj. Discoloration to slipcase. Small tear to bottom part of slipcase. Frontispiece tissue-guarded. "This is..... More
Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. folio. 132pp. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine in original dj. Slipcase. Minor creasing and one small tear to dj. Spine of dj sunned and slightly stained. Some discoloration to slipcase. Frontispiece. Illustrated with full-page tipped-in color plates , some..... More
Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 168pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dj. Slipcase. Spine of dj sunned and slightly stained. Head of spine of dj chipped. Small tear to bottom edge of dj. Some discoloration to slipcase. Frontispiece. "Erotic decorations and..... More
Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1969. Emmanuelle Arsan. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. 1/5000. Red cloth binding with dj. With illustrations by Emmanuelle Arsan (some color). Previous owner's stamp on title page. With very light fading to edges of dj. Else, in near fine condition. More
Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 45pp. of text followed by 58pp. of plates. Gilt decorated gray cloth in original dj. Slipcase. Minor scuffing to dj. Two tiny tears to upper edge of dj. Some discoloration to slipcase. A look at "Erotic Indian Art" concentrating on sculpture. Illustrated..... More
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1991. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 152pp. Foreword by Catherine Deneuve. Illustrated wrappers. Minor discoloration to wrappers. Beautifully illustrated with full-page color and b/w plates by this talented French photographer. In very good condition. More