EROTICA, ANONABAA
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rif. 771516 double-page & four single-page color-printed woodcuts. 13; 11; 9 folding leaves. Three vols. Small 8vo orig. speckled semi-stiff boards boards rubbed orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Japan probably Edo: manuscript inscription dated "1832" at end of each volume. First edition and very rare; we do not find this book listed in WorldCat or in the Union Catalogue of Japanese Books. The Preface is signed by Akikei or Akikage Higashikuni. This work is an erotic version of Shiki no en an 18th-century group of songs on the four seasons of love from the Yamada ryu school of the Japanese harp koto. The poems of Haku Rakuten or Bai Letian 772-846 the Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty are sources for the songs along with Japanese waka poems. Haku Rakuten "became the favorite poet of Heian times.He was the Chinese poet to whom allusions and from whom recollections were most frequent in Heian Japan. His verses were often used for kudai waka and he epitomized Chinese poetry."-Earl Miner et al. The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature p. 160. The first color-printed woodcut depicts a woman preparing to play the koto. There follows a series of erotic double-page woodcuts: kabuki actors young samurai Chinese characters and women of various social classes are shown engaged in sex through the changing seasons. It is fascinating to see the various rooms and their furnishings the participants' costumes and the landscapes in the background. The fine woodcuts were clearly created by a member of the Utagawa school however we are unable to establish their artistic authorship. Very good set but with some thumbing. The second and third volumes have some worming touching several of the woodcuts. unknown books
1993rif. 166866Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha 1993. Softcover. First Japanese Edition. Text in Japanese. Very Good plus in a very Good plus dust jacket. Text block beginning to detach from the spine. Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha unknown books
rif. 89219N.p. s.i.; Privately Published ca. 1930s. No. 141 of the numbered limited edition of 500 copies 300 for America 200 for England & the Continent. Undated facsimile reprint of the second Carrington edition 1898. Two octavo volumes; quarter-cloth of blue paper-covered boards; xl1-343; xxiv1-502pp. Boards slightly soiled with a rather conspicuous ring-stain to front cover of v.II; else just lightly worn and internally fine. For "anthropology" read "prurient literature." For "untrodden" read "suspect." For "esoteric" read "naughty." For "customs" read "sex acts." For "French Army-Surgeon" read "Probably Charles Carrington." A classic Victorian erotic text masquerading in the form of a French anthropological treatise first brought out by Carrington in 1897 and here reprinted clandestinely lacking any genuine imprint so as to foil the censors. Lacking an imprint but almost certainly a production of one of the notorious New York bookleggers of the Thirties the most likely suspects being Esar Levine's Panurge Press or the closely associated Falstaff Press operated by Ben Rebhuhn. This was one of several Depression-era reprints. unknown books
1954rif. 85563Sceaux: Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1954. Octavo. 18.5cm. Publisher's yellow paper wraps titled in black to spine and front cover. 243pp. Clean and bright with a dent to the head of the spine and a little soiling to the rear panel; internally clean with tape residue on flyleaves from a glassine jacket which is present but torn at the head of the rear panel edges untrimmed. A very good pleasing copy. This copy being #506 of a limitation of 1000 copies on Vergé paper in French printed between April and June of 1954. Desclos's incandescent erotic milestone essentially an extended letter of lust to Jean Paulhan who contributed the preface. Desclos's identity was secret until the 1990's when she eventually revealed herself. Paulhan was a devotee of the works of De Sade and allegedly teased Desclos with the statement that no woman could write like De Sade. Desclos accepted the challenge and "Histoire D'O" manages to meet all the expectations of someone seeking a more modern incarnation of Sadeian fiction whilst still containing many elements that have become genre tropes; secret societies arcane rituals deserted manor houses and a number of other qualities that suggest that this kind of lush heady erotic fiction is essentially gothic romance with the gloves off and the gratuitously tightened corsetry on. The location of the remote manor house of iniquity and depravity or freedom if you prefer is given as Samois sur Seine and the name "Samois" was adopted by the first American lesbian BDSM collective in the late 1970's. Laid into this copy is a newspaper photograph of Paulhan resplendent in his uniform as a Sergeant in the Zouaves. The first English language edition was published by Olympia in 1965 and any early printing in either language can be considered collectable. Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert unknown books
rif. 84195N.p.n.d. ca 1940s. Tijuana Bible" ca. 3" x 4" stapled illustrated card wrappers; 8pp. Near Fine. Pornographic miniature comic book parodying long-time Communist Party leader Earl Browder who served as General Secretary of the CPUSA from 1930-1945. Undated but this has the look of a ca. 1950's reissue. Still one of very few opportunities we get to combine the subject headings "CPUSA" and "EROTICA" and one of the less often encountered Eight Pagers featuring historical figures. unknown books
1975rif. 64151New York: Grove Press 1975. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; unpaginated 16pp; 104 leaves of plates. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper unclipped very lightly rubbed at extremities Near Fine. Explicitly erotic imagery with some surrealist elements. Grove Press unknown books
1953rif. 80716New York: Mental Health Press 1953. Tenth Printing. Octavo. 20.5cm. Publisher's grey-blue card wraps. 79pp. Clean and bright slight discoloration and sunning to the rear panel and a short closed tear to the tail of the spine. A very good copy of a somewhat ephemeral item. Internally clean. A later printing of the 1949 edition which was clearly an object of some popularity. Dealing primarily with the causes psychology and techniques of masturbation amongs a number of subject fields with particular attention paid to the "reasons" for masturbation among such groups as "Unsatisified Women" "Wives who Masturbate" and "Auto Erotism in Widows." Most of the psychological examnation probably appears pretty self evident to us today but the number of professional people seriously examining sexuality in the 1950's was comparatively low. Mental Health Press unknown books
1968rif. 41564np: European Classics 1968. First Edition. Good. Smut. Sleze. A piracy of the original Greenleaf Press edition. With a preface touting the book's supression in Europe. Introductions to smut works of the era often warned readers against purchasing piracies like this one. Surviving examples scarce. 190pp. Wraps. 16mo. Printed gray wraps. Moderate handling wear creasing. Small section of loss from rear cover. Overall sound good only . European Classics unknown books
1830rif. 373442Enfield Mass: Solomon or John Howe 1830. Small broadside song sheet text in two columns divided by a typographic border. Small broadside song sheet text in two columns divided by a typographic border. A bawdy song about a lonely woman sleeping with a miller a sawyer a cobbler a tailor and a teamster filled with puns and sexual inuendo. The six 8-line stanzas begin "One evening as I walk'd alone / I hear'd a fair maid make her moan ." Not in American Imprints [Solomon or John Howe] unknown books
1911rif. 345491Heilbronn; Paris: Henninger; H. Welter 1911. First edition each volume one of 135 or 175 numbered copies on Hollande vol. I 210 copies. 12 vols. 12mo. Original red cloth. Some toning. Very good plus. First edition each volume one of 135 or 175 numbered copies on Hollande vol. I 210 copies. 12 vols. 12mo. A set of the pioneering compendium of erotic folklore and language published over several decades and encompassing Russian French German English Welsh Breton Italian Scandinavian and other sources. Volume IX for example reprints Marcel Schwob's Parnasse Satyrique du quinzième siècle with a French printer's imprint and Rochester's Sodom. The volumes were chiefly printed in Germany the first four bearing a Heilbronn imprint and the remaining volumes with the imprint of H. Welter in Paris Welter was a German national whose business was seized during the first world war. Kryptadia has been reprinted on several occasions but the original edition is uncommon in the market. This set with outstanding provenance from the library of Louis Perceau who with poet Guillaume Apollinaire compiled the first catalogue of the books of the Enfer or restricted category of erotic books in the Bibliothèque Nationale beginning in 1913. His library was dispersed in 2007. Pia Les Livres de l'Enfer 699-704. Provenance: Louis Perceau sale Drouot 26 June 2007 Henninger; H. Welter unknown books
1957rif. 366077N.p. Toulouse: Francis Flores 1957. First edition. With 14 color plates. 167; 17 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Loose gatherings as issued in wrapper printed in blue and paper covered slipcase. Docketed at inside back wrapper in the hand of Gershon Legman Toulouse 1957 with collation. Some light foxing to fore edge. Near Fine. First edition. With 14 color plates. 167; 17 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Erotic novel ostensibly the diary of Comte Fabien Lucé de Chavignac heir to the château de Roche Caillé and proprietor of lands in Fort-Lamy in French Equatorial Africa. The action spans all the possibilities suggested by the geography. Part two bears a sectional title La galante marquise and is separately paginated. Another issue is reported with stated limitation of 500 copies. RARE. Dutel Bibliographie des ouvrages érotiques publés clandestinement entre 1920 et 1970 2129. Not in OCLC Francis Flores unknown books
1800rif. 3174241800. 38 mounted lithographs including 2 duplicate plates 1 with handcoloring. Oblong 4to. Early 19th century French purple morocco stamped to neo-Gothic panel design in blind and gilt initials "C D" on upper cover a.e.g. Skillfully rebacked preserving original spine. 38 mounted lithographs including 2 duplicate plates 1 with handcoloring. Oblong 4to. A collection of French erotic lithographs in an ornate romantic binding. Includes a series of 17 lithographs "Le départ de la garnison" "L'Antichambre en goguette" "Ah! Le bon bouillon que j'aurai" etc. Provenance: bookplate of Gérard Nordmann lhis sale Christe's Paris 27 April 2006 lot 218 unknown books
1950rif. 246105N.p.: Publisher unknown 1950. Edition of 300 unnumbered copy. "Cette édition de luxe sur vélin offset de 140 gr. limitée à 300 exemplaires numérotés pour un groupe de Bibliophiles est strictement réservée aux souscripteurs. With suite of 12 illustrated plates on vellum. Unpaginated. 200 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in later black cloth title portion of card wrapper mounted on upper board. Unopened. About fine in publisher's chemise and slipcase repaired at top panel. Edition of 300 unnumbered copy. "Cette édition de luxe sur vélin offset de 140 gr. limitée à 300 exemplaires numérotés pour un groupe de Bibliophiles est strictement réservée aux souscripteurs.". With suite of 12 illustrated plates on vellum. Unpaginated. 200 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. French libertine novel of erotic encounters at the seaside with suite of 12 plates. Two other works by this pseudonymous Frenc hauthor are recorded in the Bibliothèque nationale: Débauche au pensionnat and La Luxurieuse notairesse 1957. The present work is unrecorded. Not in BnF not in OCLC Publisher unknown unknown books
1870rif. 88011870. 1 vols. In circular shape 4" diameter. Fne. 1 vols. In circular shape 4" diameter. Showing in relief a slender faun nude except for an animal skin around his shoulders his brow crowned with vine leaves holding in his right hand a kylix the whole of the composition modeled to fit the circular space; probably French latter half of the 19th Century. In fine condition mounted in a circular gilt plaster frame. unknown books
1924rif. 23409Vienna: Verlag Heinrich Saar 1924. Unnumbered copy in an edition of 300. 12 color lithographs by Pôtsch. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8-1/4 x 11 inches. Yellow cloth. Cloth soiled a little shaken plates quite clean. Pötsch Ugo. Unnumbered copy in an edition of 300. 12 color lithographs by Pôtsch. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8-1/4 x 11 inches. Verlag Heinrich Saar unknown books
1931rif. 37799Wien Vienna: Verlag für Kulturforschung 1931. First edition. Illustrated with reproductions of erotic drawings engravings photographs in half-tone and gravure after works by Perckhammer von Bayros Willinger-Lechner Manasse Schein and others. With eight color plates. 192 pp. With 6 mounted photographic prints. 1 vols. 4to. Original gilt-decorated green cloth slightly shaken with faint wear at foot of spine. First edition. Illustrated with reproductions of erotic drawings engravings photographs in half-tone and gravure after works by Perckhammer von Bayros Willinger-Lechner Manasse Schein and others. With eight color plates. 192 pp. With 6 mounted photographic prints. 1 vols. 4to. Compendium of historical cultural social and medical commentary on virginity and defloration with chapters on anatomy demi-vierges infibulation defloration technqiues. This volume in the "Legitimate Erotica" series includes a Facsimile Photo Album "from the Estate of a Defloration Fetishist Who Committed Suicide" with six mounted plates of suggestively posed nudes. Verlag für Kulturforschung unknown books
rif. 36477probably England 20th century. An 18th century scene showing a man and woman in elaborate dress surprised in a boudoir by another woman entering the room. 4 inches in diameter. Glazed and framed in black wood and gilt metal frame of earlier date. An 18th century scene showing a man and woman in elaborate dress surprised in a boudoir by another woman entering the room. 4 inches in diameter. An amusing jeu d'esprit very possibly done by the artist to oblige the owner of a old and previously empty frame. The elegant scene is not very lacivious--everybody is fully dressed although the surprised lady who turns away from the evidently unwelcome visitor shows a fair amount of leg and the gentleman is holding his tricorn hat in what might be regarded as a somewhat compromising position. The artist an Englishman born at the end of the 19th century studied with the eminent Walter Sickert and went on to exhibit landscapes and portraits at various prestigious venues in England and France. unknown books
1920rif. 8800N.p. 1920. 1 vols. 2-1/4 inches diameter. Fine condition mounted in a double glazed circular gilt plaster and red plush frame. 1 vols. 2-1/4 inches diameter. Goetz was the most celebrated propaganda medallist of early 20th century Germany. The obverse shows a nude female captive her arms tied behind her to a giant phallus surmounted by a French soldier's helmet under the words "Die Schwarze Schande" a broken harp beside her and an all-seeing eye looking down. The reverse displays a grotesque caricature of a negroid French soldier in helmet next to the words "Liberté egalité fraternité" and the date 1920; above are the words "Die Wacht Am Rhein!!" possibly a scurrilous reference to French colonial troops serving in World War I. unknown books
1926rif. 31018London: The Casanova Society 1926. First Edition one of 1380 copies. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Boards and cloth spine. Fine in almost fine dust jacket. First Edition one of 1380 copies. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. The Casanova Society unknown books
1881rif. 38115Munich: Hof-Buch & Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackermann 1881. With 12 wonderfully erotic plates on classical themes. 1 vols. 4to. Origingal green cloth portfolio with pictorial paper medallion in a field of gold rays on upper board. Two text leaves foxed plates fine some edge wear to portfolio. With 12 wonderfully erotic plates on classical themes. 1 vols. 4to. Hof-Buch & Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackermann unknown books
1920rif. 24417China Late 19th or early 20th century. 1 vols. 2 inches in diameter. 1 vols. 2 inches in diameter. An amusing medallion in the shape of a Chinese "cash" around the square center of which four amorous couples are disporting themselves. In a glazed rectangular gilt wood and red plush frame. unknown books
1930rif. 218101N.p. 1930. With 5 explicit plates with celluloid overlays. 23 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue wrappers somewhat chipped at margins. With 5 explicit plates with celluloid overlays. 23 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With pencil erotic drawing laid in at the back. Not in Kearney unknown books
1716rif. 5634London: R. Burleigh false imprint for E. Curll 1716. First edition. Bound to style in quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. All edges marbled. Measuring 185 x 112mm and collating complete including half title: 4 iii 1 blank 39 1 blank. With catchword 'behold' on page 27 and floral ornament above 'Finis' on page 39 as called for. A Fine example unmarked and fresh. A scarce piece of erotic satire ESTC records copies at 11 U.S. institutions. It last sold at auction in 1929 and the present is the only first edition on the market. "Begin my Muse and sing in Epick train The Petticoat; Nor shall thou sing in vain The Petticoat will sure reward thy pain!" So opens a satire composed under the pseudonym Mr. Gay used by several of those hacks in Edmund Curll's employ which traces how the amorous adventures of Thyrsis and Chloe were made possible by the latter's fashionable hooped skirt. Finding both humor and seriousness in women's fashion The Petticoat points out how some of the clothing designed to hinder women's movement could actually be adapted to their advantage -- in this case the pursuit and fulfillment of illicit sexual affairs. For just as Thyrsis is able to hide beneath his lover's skirt to conceal himself while pleasing her Chloe is able to share this information with her female coterie including the work's readers. Thus women desirous of hiding lovers of any gender might deploy this ingenious method allowing them to engage in affairs without traveling far from home. An acknowledgement of women's own sexual desire and agency. ESTC T43929. Unspeakable Curll 241-242. Not in the Register of Erotic Books. R. Burleigh [false imprint for E. Curll] unknown books
1800rif. 5629London: S. W. Fores 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the marital sexuality of such brides. Unrecorded in ESTC and OCLC we have located two examples of the present work at the British Museum and Yale. The present broadside draws together a wide matrix of debates and social anxieties surrounding the economic and sexual status of widows and the financial motivations for marriage among second sons and men of the middle class. Though women were more frequently forced into experiencing marriage as a form of 'honorable prostitution' in which their physical desirability served as their key for accessing wealth and stability under coverture it was increasingly acknowledged that large swaths of young men also suffered under this system. And while widows could escape the system -- shifting from the disempowered femme covert to the more legally independent femme sole on their husbands' deaths -- there was both a social fantasy of reinserting them into the marriage market as a means for regaining control over their money and bodies as well as a social anxiety about their ability to corrupt through the range of knowledge and authority they gained through previous marital experience. Here a young man walks his aging crone down the aisle. Ornately clad and expressing her anticipation for "the comforts of matrimony" she is ridiculed by the ministers at the pulpit who posit that if "matrimony was first ordained.for a remedy against fornication" then "the remedy will be worse than the disease" in this instance. Untroubled the young groom focuses on the land deeds bank notes and jewelry accounts which stuff his pockets -- assets which will legally become his after the ceremony and which serve as his marital comforts. Meanwhile two young women observe from the sidelines one of them planning her future with the groom after his aging bride's eventual demise. "Those jewels will look better on me than on the last owner" she notes as her companion whispers hopefully "you'll let me take a morning ride with you sometimes." A visual commentary on the financial and social issues surrounding marriage under coverture which Daniel Defoe would deride as "matrimonial whoredom." British Museum 1935.0522.8.109. Yale Center for British Art B1974.12.328. S. W. Fores unknown books
1864rif. 5626London: Richard Bentley 1864. First English language edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 179 x 119mm and collating complete including photographic frontis: x 374. A square tight copy with some loss to upper spine label and gentle rubbing to boards. Amorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing largely confined to preliminary and terminal leaves; pages 161-162 partially detached but holding. A female-authored memoir that participates in both anti-Catholicism and convent-fetish eroticism it is somewhat scarce institutionally but is a rarity in trade with its most recent appearance at auction occurring a century ago. The present is the only example currently on the market. Frank in her delivery Henrietta Caracciolo recounts how her rise to young womanhood under the jealous eye of her mother -- combined with the untimely death of a sympathetic father -- led to her unwilling confinement in a Benedictine convent. Denied early opportunities for engaging in the courtship and marriage economy she longs to be a part of Henrietta Caracciolo instead is forced by her mother to repress her sexual identity and disappear into a life of solitude and chastity. What she finds there instead is a space of sexual abuse unexplained deaths illicit affairs physical abuse and theft. "My sole aim in writing these Memoirs has been to confirm" she writes in the preface "as far as lay in my power with the arguement drawn from fact the opportune and just decree of the Italian government in the suppression of Convents and to disabuse the minds of those if haply any such remain who deem these places the repositories of religious virtues." Timely social commentary in her native Italy her memoirs hit a different note in Protestant England where Catholic convents and monasteries had long been closed; indeed it participated in the anti-Catholic fetish fantasy of convents and monasteries as bastions of deviant and violent sexuality. She herself by the memoir's end emerges to a new and more promising life -- one which participates in popular Victorian cult of domesticity and motherhood which she positions as far more godly and fulfilling. Yet it also leaves open the door of female desire and sexual fulfilment. "By the side of a husband who adores me and to whom I respond with equal love I am where the Almighty placed woman at the close of Creation's first week." Register of Erotic Books 2950. Richard Bentley unknown books
