Scarce male objectifier's glossary! Unsurprisingly, no copies located anywhere. No publication information whatsoever, as standard with racy or pornographic ephemera. N.d., circa 1940s, based on hairstyles to some degree. 10 by 8 cm. 22 pp., including wraps. Funny, some might say also offensive, labeling of different shapes and sizes of women's breasts. We have the "hot water bottles", 'ukeleles", "full moons", "cup cakes", and onward -- twenty in all. Also taking aim at various female types. Like it or abhor it, this is a genuine relic of mid-20th century... View More...
8vo. 18 by 13 cm. Unpaginated, 32 pp., with a photo of a nude, or sparingly clad, woman or girl on every page. The photos would appear to have been from the teens, when the vamp (think Theda Bara) was at its apogee in terms of erotic appeal. Many of the women are lolling as if in a harem. They are generally bedizened with jewels, but what garments they have on is of a see-through sheer fabric. Most of the women can be described as voluptuous in their carriage -- the twenties ideal of slender had not yet taken hold. And their hair-styles are generally quite thick and full, as characteri... View More...
[62] pp. With colored pictorial wrapper cover. A profusely illustrated (line drawings) catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of a local association of humorists at the Galeria Emporium. 30 pages reproduce cartoons, with other leaves mostly devoted to a list of the artists and their works, with a few short textual humor riffs. Among the subjects lampooned are the battle of the sexes, politics, and the many indignities of modern life. The text is rendered in Catalan, not standard Spanish. One need not have a command of either language, though, to understand and chuckle at the rather broad v... View More...
N.d., 19th century. Closed, 18.5 by 10.5 cm, and 5 cm thick. 18 panels (13 with the pictorial), and so when wide open, stretching to almost 190 cm, depicting lovers in pari delicti. The ladies have bound feet, and they pleasure one another in one three way scene. Adrongyny abounds, as often the case in these leporellos, and a Peeping Tom (here, a woman) and a feline onlooker add a touch of humor to the proceedings. The leporello illustration is continuous and fluid and so can be viewed as itself representing a sort of orgy. All color printed on silk fabric which is pasted onto the heavy... View More...
Humorous risque brochure from the Mad Men era of office politics and shenanigans. In its 24 pages of racy photographs and none-too-subtle innuendo, we glimpse an office where nice gams, some show of cleavage and a shapely derrier are all a young woman needs for advancement, where everything is about the perks, the outward displays of rank, and who has time for the actual grind? The brochure's tone is really a print-form version of one of those movie shorts from the forties or fifties in which a jovial, all-knowing narrator has a wisecrack or punchline for each of the succession of small mish... View More...
Shaped book program, shaped to look a bit like a three dimensional book. N.d., circa 1950s. 8vo. 23 by 17.5 at tallest and widest. Unpaginated, 32 pp. Profusely illustrated with photos of the performers and the many skits. Lots of semi-nudity by the buxom ecdysiasts -- naturiste means nudist. Quintessential bawdy Parisian cabaret of the period, with perhaps a little more flesh revealed, and probably a little more lewd-ity to go along with the nudity, than some of its rivals. One of the full page photos is in bright color. Otherwise, photos are b/w. Light card covers decorated with go... View More...
N.d., circa 1880. 11 by 7 cm. Comical leporello, with ten panels of color illustration with somewhat racy, ribald humor mostly depicting men and women taking baths. It is known that the same leporello was sold at different resorts using different names. Still, it is a scarce item, and one hardly likely to find its way into a library back when given its risque, racy content. Dating is based on fashions, including men's hairstyles and women's physiques, which are shown in the buff, as well as the Renaissance-style endpapers. Light soiling and wear. View More...
Probably 1932, based on a two page dialogue about the 1932 election, which appears to be spoken of as being in the future. 4to. 21 pp. Humorous promotion of Redbook as an advertising vehicle to businesses, with illustrations throughout, rendered in red and black. Scarce -- no copies located on OCLC First Search, or in commerce, on the date of this cataloguing. Condition: wraps soiled fairly evenly throughout. A few edge closed tears to the cover, and a chip by upper spine fold. Small corner chips and flattened dog-earing. Light smudges on title, but generally clean within. View More...
"A wiggle here, A riggle there, A little bump -- Or two. With every move, From head to toe, She's making eyes -- At you." You pull the tab above and the comely topless woman shimmies as a sailor's and officer's eyes roll. A fun metamorphic from back when, probably hawked on the Boardwalk. 14 by 9 cm. View More...
Small folio, measuring 14 by 10.75 inches, 38 by 27 cm. Louche women, in states of semi-undress (usually revealing their breasts partially), and attitudes befitting the boudoir, the bedchamber, the bath. With light-hearted captions, this is fetching fin-de-siecle softcore erotica. Unpaginated, with 26 tinted full-page plates. Original wraps bound in half green morocco over marbled boards. Some rubbing of leather, with surface loss areas near spine. Clean inside. View More...
No. 83 of total 301 copies. 4to. 135 pp. Plus 17 color plates with gauzy sensuality to explicit depiction of coitus positions. Very much in the glossy arty vein meant to render a bit of class and piquancy to porn, as was in fashion during the twenties and thirties and especially prevalent in French literature. The aesthetic drew inspiration from powder and crinoline nostalgia for the pre-Revolutionary eighteenth century French court in which flirtation, debauchery and sexual intrigue spiced up the stupefying ritual and monotony of court life, and the illustrations, and not a little the tex... View More...
One of 500 copies with a second suite of the color plates separate from the book itself. This copy carries No. 884 out of a total of 3,000. 8vo. 138 pp. Original wrap covers bound in. Corners with cloth worn through. A few other spots of rubbing and wear on cloth boards. Clean within, and extra suite of plates is pristine.] View More...
94 pp. Supposedly 1,200 copies printed on Linweave Text "of which this is the last". With red cellophane which is used as overlay to several images to reveal something entirely different underneath from what one sees without the cellophane. Full of risque vignettes and verses, some by well-known writers and humorists such as Ogden Nash, and with plenty of nudity, both photographic and drawn, to tweak the prurient interests of men and perhaps some women. A worthy precursor to Playboy Magazine, and one which really conjures up the urbane sophistication of Art Deco thirties habitats ... View More...
No. 351 of 600, with total issuance in various forms of 3,416 copies. This set was issued with papier pur fil Lafuma. With 24 color plates and 40 black and white illustrated plates in the two volumes. Bound attractively with decorated morocco, with various curly-cue gilt ornamentation. The set epitomizes the inter-war French vogue for soft core erotica, here with literary pretensions or pedigree from the eighteenth century, that hotbed of erotic gamboling before squelched by the Revolution. Some spotting on the fore-edges. Rubbing on the spine extremities and the edges. Overall a handsome... View More...
No. 3871 of 4569. 4to. 255 pp. Anthology of late Medieval and Renaissance to Enlightenment French poetry that is sensual, lewd, erotic or plain naughy. The range is from the sublime to naughty, with the Dubout illustrations decidedly of the latter camp, and thus the soft porn campiness of the whole production. Being French, the anthology exudes style and class, even when it most boisterously violates all standards of decorum. Represented here are the greats Ronsard, du Bellay, Voltaire, Diderot and many others, less well-known, from the 15th through the 18th century, all underscoring the ... View More...
12mo. 361 pp. One of a 300 limitation, this copy unnumbered. Rubbing along the joints and corners. Small remnant of mounted paper on FEP. A brown marginal stain on the first and third pages of content. A few leaves were roughly cut. Otherwise, age toning but clean. View More...
On Japon Imperial. Limited edition, of which this copies was inadvertently unnumbered but which was probably part of the first or second most limited tranch of the first 65 or 130 copies, based on this copy being accompanied by a suite of plates in one or two states, the larger illustrations being in two states, and thus probably fitting into the most exclusive tranch. 4to. 281 pp. 43 color illustrations contained within the work proper. Wraps bound in. Some minor wear to the leather spine and the marbled paper on the edges of the slipcase. View More...
4to. 31 by 23.5 cm. Unpaginated, 28 pp., plus wraps. 14 mounted racy color plates, showing comely women in various stages of dishabille, as befitting a promotion produced by a lingerie company. OCLC First Search indicates just two institutional holdings of this -- the Met Museum and in Berlin. Condition: light soiling and wear on cover. One minor edge closed tear and a few light crease marks on front cover. One of the plates now loose -- an easy fix. View More...
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