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Lonely Hearts
Bud Conway
Buffalo: After Hours Book Inc., 1966.Lesbian pulp fiction by American pulp writer Paul Little under his Bob Conway pseudonym. After Hours AH 134. Cover art by Eric Stanton with a further illustrated advertisement leaf for Adventure Serials by Stanton at rear. One in the series of colour covers by Stanton for the First Niter and then After Hours series published by Stanley Malkin in the 1960s when Malkin set Stanton up in a small apartment on the proviso of turning out four covers a month (which Stanton could do in a week). The covers often featured lesbian themes or were female-centric, reversing gender roles and casting women as the physical aggressors and men as compliant and fragile. Many of the covers are considered some of Stanton’s best colour work.
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Not So Funny
Charlene White
Buffalo: After Hours Book Inc., 1966.After Hours pulp AH 145. Cover art by Eric Stanton with a further illustrated advertisement leaf for Adventure Serials by Stanton at rear. One in the series of colour covers by Stanton for the First Niter and then After Hours series published by Stanley Malkin in the 1960s when Malkin set Stanton up in a small apartment on the proviso of turning out four covers a month (which Stanton could do in a week). The covers often featured lesbian themes or were female-centric, reversing gender roles and casting women as the physical aggressors and men as compliant and fragile. Many of the covers are considered some of Stanton’s best colour work. This cover featuring a subtle goof by Stanton on Steve Ditko’s Spiderwoman. The pseudonym of Charlene White sometimes credited to prolific low-budget filmmaker and pulp novelist Ed Wood, however this is disputed. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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L’Ecrin du Rubis ou Les Delices des Dessous
Liane de Lauris
Paris: Au Cabinet du Livre [Jean Fort], 1932.Rare French lesbian erotica. The first edition with 16 illustrations and colour illustrated wrappers by P. Silex, and with the limitation statement of 6 numbered copies, numbered by the printer, of which this copy is numbered IV.
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L’Anti-Justine ou Les Delices de l’Amour
Restif de la Bretonne
Ile Saint-Louis: Monsieur Nicolas, No date.The Anti-Justine, or the Delights of Love. New edition, entirely revised and corrected, established for the first time on the original text of 1798. Preceded by a Bibliographic Notice by Helpey, bibliophile from Poitou [Louis Perceau] The second clandestine printing by Maurice Duflou with 12 aquatints reproduced in heliogravure signed Le Loup. Numbered edition of 350 copies on Alfax, of which this is number 345. DUTEL 1024. PIA 71.
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Seduction: Jeunes Amours au Chateau, a la Pension
Pierrot
: En Vente Partout et Nulle Part, 1910.The first clandestine printing with the limitation of 300 copies on the verso of the half-title by the Briffaut brothers following the original edition circa 1908 titled Une Seduction and expanded with four additional texts of poetry and plays after the first. This copy unnumbered on Alfa as often and with the bookplate of the Membre de la Guide du Livre. DUTEL 787. PERCEAU 274-2, PIA 1366.
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Les Delices Libertines
Jacqueline de Lansay [Johannes Gros]
Moncontour: Au Bonheur des Dames, No date.French clandestine erotica printed by Maurice Duflou circa 1935 with 14 erotic plates depicting numerous lesbian and group scenes. The first issue of 400 numbered copies, of which this is number 84. DUTEL 1358, PIA 311.
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Mr. Howard Goes Yachting
Charles Sackville
London and Paris: [Charles Carrington], 1908.And subjects to his voluptuous caprices with young ladies captured and imprisoned on board. Rare clandestine Carrington erotic flagellation tale in English, limitation page stating 300 copies and no more of this work, though here unnumbered (as Mendes copy also). With six sanguine photogravures possibly by Leon Roze depicting various spanking, caning, and whipping. MENDES 183.
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Parisian Frolics
[Adolphe Belot?]
London: For private circulation only, 1896.Rare clandestine erotic fiction in English published circa 1920-1924. Four stories translated from the French by the author The Way of a Man with a Maid. “The first story in this collection is an English translation of ‘La Maison a Laisirs ou La passion de Gilberte’ (1889) … The final three stories are translated from ‘Les Heures Erotiques Modernes’ c. 1894. … The stories were possibly the work of Adolphe Belot, a popular French novelist of the 1880s. I believe the MS of this translation, .. were probably left unpublished by Carrington (who had published the same author’s Way of a Man with a Maid, and were sold with the rest of his stock at the Hotel Drouot in 1923. Since most of the stock was bought by Groves and Michaux, his partners and successors, they were probably responsible for getting them printed by Duflou, though it is equally possible that Hirsch, who also bought some Carrington material in 1923, got hold of these and arranged for their printing.” MENDES 210.
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
Marquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. The first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer. This copy unopened in the original wrappers.
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Lovemaster
Lambert Macy
New York: Softcover Library, 1967.Erotic fiction of an LSD rapist.
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Leurs Pantalons: Comment elles les portent
Jacques Mauvain
Paris: Jean Fort, 1923.A volume devoted to women’s pants and how they wear them. Illustrated with ten black and white plates and a colour cover illustration by the French illustrator of La Vie Parisienne fame Cheri Herouard, showing risqué portraits of women in varying circumstances revealing their undergarments. Though the title page states this is a new edition completely revised and augmented with many interviews, this 1923 printing is the first recorded printing we are aware of, with two reprints following in 1924 and 1927.
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Trucker Comin’
Bob Hancock
Santee: Surey Books, 1976.His 69 gay pulp. HIS69184. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Body Embezzelers
Joseph Shalam
Miami: Numbers, 1978.Numbers Illustrated Library gay pulp. NL-100. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Balls of Fire
Adam Hayes
North Hollywood: Arena Publications, 1982.Driveshaft Library gay pulp. DS 110. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Lay ’em Straight
Stuart Rowen
New York: Surree, 1981.Surree Stud Series gay pulp. SSS106. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Street Gang Virgin
Anonymous
New York: Star Distributors, 1994.Gay pulp Man to Man MN-167. Cover illustration by Craig Esposito. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Rick’s Big One
Anonymous
New York: Star Distributors, 1994.Gay pulp Man to Man MN-170. Cover illustration by Craig Esposito. One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Mademoiselle Javotte, ouvrage peu moral, ecrit par elle-meme, et publie par une de ses amies
[Paul Baret]
[Paris]: A Bicetre, 1788.Mademoiselle Javotte, a work of little morality, written by herself, and published by one of her friends. An anonymous tale (often attributed to Paul Baret / Paul Barrett) in which the heroine engages in sex work to escape poverty. A racy reworking of a closely titled 1757 moral work, whereas this one has little. This copy illustrated with 2 erotic etchings.
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Nous Deux: Illustre de seize pointes-seches originales [Nelly et Jean]
[Gaston de Sainte Croix]; [Marcel Valotaire]
[Paris]: Editions du Cyclmen, 1956.The second edition of the story by Marcel Valotaire telling of the sexual awakening of a young female student, Nelly, mostly in the hands of her Latin tutor, Jean. This edition, probably published by Vialetay, with 16 drypoint etchings by Gaston de Sainte Croix printed by Georges Viglino. One of 168 numbered copies on Rives, from a total edition of 200. DUTEL 2055.
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Nelly et Jean, Nous Deux, simples papiers du tiroir secret
[Jean Dulac]; [Marcel Valotaire]
[Paris]: Grave et imprime pour les auteurs et leurs amis, [1929].First edition, first printing of one of the masterpieces of early 20th century erotica, noted as being the most expensive clandestine publication of the time with 46 finely printed and hand coloured illustrations by Jean Dulac. The story by Marcel Valotaire tells of the sexual awakening of a young female student, Nelly, mostly in the hands of her Latin tutor, Jean. One of 240 numbered copies on Arches (from a total edition of 295). The 2 volumes here bound as one in a fine three quarter leather binding retaining the two original illustrated wrapper panels. DUTEL 2054.