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.

[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 were probably left unpublished by Carrington (who had published the same author’s Way of a Man with a Maid, and were sold with the rest of his stock at the Hotel Drouot in 1923.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.