Boston: Key Publishing Co., [1931]. A 10 ½” x 14” promotional poster for the 1931 edition of a 200-page illustrated book presumably titled, "Sex and Love Relations for the Young Adult." But we could find no book published by that name. The poster begs the questions: "Is spooning dangerous?" "Does... More
![The Life Sexual: A Study of the Philosophy, Physiology, Science, Art, and Hygiene of Love [INSCRIBED]. Edgar C. BEALL.](/pictures/thumb/05210.jpg?v=1524614329)
New York: Vim Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. 12mo; red cloth lettered in black, vi, [11], 2-215 pp, [5] pp. (adverts). INSCRIBED by the author to “Dr.” Charles Pichel, an eccentric conman, traditionalist Catholic and obsessive anti-Communist who headed the spurious Shickshinny Knights of Malta. Tipped in to the rear... More
El Cajon, California: Publisher's Export Inc., Co., 1969. First edition. Sole edition. 17.5 cm; 192 pp. Perfect-bound paperback with green pictorial wrappers. Some light wear to edges; black stamp to front panel edge; evidence of faint dampstaining to bottom edge and the margins of some later pages. Pornographic novel by... More
Boston: O. S. Fowler, 1869. First edition. Large octavo (24 cm); vi, 236, [12] pp (bound in); illus. Brown pebbled cloth, blind-ruling to both boards, title gilt-stamped to front board. Very light wear to boards; spine a little sunned; owner's name to front endpaper. Fowler was a famous phrenologist and... More
New York: Book House, 1970. First edition. Mass market, 144 pp, [16] pp, pornographic adverts in rear. Ben Ward graciously offers to chaperone his lover's daughter's sweet sixteen party in which the predictable occurs. A thief breaks in, rapes him, which he enjoys, and then sodomizes and kills the thief... More
Paris: Isidore Liseux, Éditeur, 1883. Second edition. 12mo; vellum boards overlayed with marbled paper, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g., deckle fore-edge, marbled endpapers, black & red printed title page, vi, 104 pp. Limited edition of 150 copies, this no. 70. Original wrappers bound in. First published in Latin by Liseux in 1879... More
New York: CAD Publishing Corp. 1969. First edition. Mass market paperback; 180 pp., [10] pp., adverts. Interracial, lesbian and heterosexual sex aboard the S. S. Pipe Cleaner. Scarce. No other copies in the trade (August, 2016) and not found in OCLC. Some dampstaining evident to the first couple of pages;... More
N. P., Inc., 1970. First edition. Mass market paperback, 159 pp. Two pornographic stories with many softcore photographs portraying lesbian and straight sex. The first story features the titular, Aunt Elsie, who invites her 18-year-old niece to stay with her for the weekend. They engage in all kinds of sex... More
Tampa, Florida: ARI Publications, [1970s]. First edition. Quarto (27.5 cm). Saddle-stapled, photoillustrated wrappers; 72 pp.; black & white photographs throughout. A single issue of this swinger magazine, which includes practical information about where to swing, how to answer ads, short essays on swinging culture, poetry, and of course many ads... More
New York: Authentic Publications, Inc., 1956. First edition. Stapled wrappers (4¼” x 5½”), unpaginated. A publication featuring 42 well known (and lesser known) Hollywood starlets, including Anita Ekberg, Carol Ohmart, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jayne Mansfield, Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Nichols, Janet Leigh, Margaret O’Brien, and others. Sophia Loren gets a seven page... More