Aman, Reinhold, ed.

Maledicta 9: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression, 1986-1987, Volume IX, the Lillian Mermin Feinsilver Festschrift

Waukesha, Wisconsin, International Maledicta Society, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. "This journal specializes in uncensored studies and collections of 'offensive' words and expressions, in all languages". Bound handsomely in gold decorated wrappers, measuring about 5.5" x 8.5"], with [3], 4-320 pp. Notes on contributors, including Larry Feign, Venetia Newall, Sterling Eiseminger,Sue Ture, James F. Morrison, John Peter Maher, Al Islam and others, to a festschrift dedicated to Lillian Mermin Feinsilver, an independent scholar devoted to Jews, Yiddish, literature,language and folklore.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Amplecas, Germain, ed.

L'Oeuvre Libertine Des Poã¨Tes Du XIX Siã¨Cle.

Paris, France, Bibliotheque des Curieux, 1910. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An acceptable copy in First Edition state, housed in a plastic bag since becoming the property of the former owner, the noted bibliographer and bibliophile, literary sleuth and erotophile, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me from his widow, Judith Legman. Masters of erotic poetry and prose in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Contributions by and about Berenger, Roger de Beauvoir, Theodor Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Leon Gozlan, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Theophilie Gautier, Stephane Mallarme and others. Black and red printed wrappers, soiled and worn, joints exposed, a bit foxed of interior but lightly so, and still quite bright. Fine black-and-white frontispiece engravnig of Theophile Gautier. 295 pp. .Published by , Paris, 1910Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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De Berardinis, Olivia

Let Them Eat Cheesecake: The Art of Olivia

Roslyn, New York, Ozone Productions, 1993. First Edition. . Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Introduction by Hugh Hefner. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in a stiff black buckram cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Letter from Albert Vargas printed. 108 pp., with over 90 full-color plates.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Bloch, Iwan; Richard Deniston, ed.; Solomon Malkin, translator

Sex Life in England Illustrated As Revealed in Its Erotic and Obscene Literature and Art. With Nine Private Cabinets of Illustrations by the Greatest English Masters of Erotic Art

New York, Falstaff Press, 1934. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover of this first Falstaff Press edition thus, clean, if lightly toned interior, some sunning to endpaper edges, dissipating, minimal rubbing to extremities. Linen silk over boards, vellum-like spine, gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Very slight soiling to covers, front hinge cracked. From the personal library of the noted, influential erotobibliophile, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me by his widow, Judith Evans Legman. Note in pencil in brackets on early page that the translation is by Solomon Malkin. As with other Falstaff Pres-published tomes, "Subscription Rigidly Restricted to Mature Students of Jurisprudence, Medicine, Art, Literature And Their related Branches. Only Three Thousand Copies. No. 543." Limited first and only edition. A very good original illustrated binding. Big, tall, oversized Imperial octavo hardcover format, 9 3/4" x 6 1/2" x 1 1/2" in height, width, and thickness. Plentiful sepia plates. Perfect-cut top edges, rough-cut fore- and bottoms eges. A generally scarce and bawdy work by a noted bibliographer and historian of erotica by Ivan Bloch (1872-1922), the "father of sexology," was a Berlin dermatologist. Bloch is credited with having discovered de Sade's manuscript of the "120 days of Sodom" in 1904, which had been believed to be lost. This work (originally in German as Das Geschlechtsleben in England, mit besonderer Beziehung auf London), was published by the pseudonymous author's name, Eugene D'hren in 1901-1903. This study of English sexuality histories and mores is augmented with plentiful bibliographical references. The survey comprises prostitution, homosexuality, sadism, masochism, flagellation and other sexual perversions. [6], 7-434 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Briggeman, Jane

Burlesque: A Living History of

Albany, Georgia, BearManor Media, 2009. First trade paperback edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the publisher's blurb, "Captures the spirit of this unique art form through hundreds of photographs and stories from many who were a part of America's most colorful past. This book highlights the careers and contributions of selected artists, many of whom were the nuts and bolts of burlesque. It also acknowledges just some of the young performers of today who are diligently working to remember the days of old." Includes a look at Daisy and Violet Hilton, aka The Siamese Twins, The Hilton Sisters and The Brighton Twins or The Brighton Conjoined Twins." Frontis matter, 438 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Grand-Carteret, John

Le Centre de L'Amour (Polissonneries Du Bon Vieux Temps). Emblemes Vxiie Siecles--Tabatieres VXIII Siecle.

Paris, Albin Michel, 1905. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Protected in a stiff Mylar coat. 199 pp., and with 98 black-and-white illustrations. Poetry and prose, mostly erotic, all texts in French, and with plentiful artistic inspiration.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Cornog, Martha

The Big Book of Masturbation: From Angst to Zeal

San Francisco, California, Down There Press, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Augmented with many score illustrations, and with notes and bibliographical references galore. From the publisher's blurb, "Discusses various perspectives on masturbation, including its changing role throughout history, how it has impacted cultures, and answers numerous questions." Sterling condition softcover copy in overlarge trade paperback format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the shiny pictorial card stock wraps. Laid in is a one-page type-script note of thanks from the author to Judith Legman, widow of Gershon Legman, noted erotophile and bibliographer, many of whose works of which Ms Cornog made great use. 335 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . As New

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Duehren, Eugene [Iwan Bloch]

Le Marquis de Sade Et Son Temps, Etudes Relatives a L'Histoire de la Civilisation Et Des Moeurs Du Xviiie Siecle

Paris / Berlin, A. Michelon / Barsdorf, 1901. First French Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of Gershon Legman through his widow Judith Evans Legman, he being a noted, influential bibliophile and folklorist, a literary sleuth of the first order. A piercing, learned disquisition on the life and practices of the Marquis de Sade by Eugene Duehren, the pseudonym of Iwan Bloch. Six chapters plus bibliography and index. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover of the First Edition, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, with moderate foxing to final endpapers, light rubbing to gilt on spine, light dust-soiling along top edge. Decorated endpapers front and rear. Bound in red cloth, light foxing to a few leaves at rear especially. Gilt lettering and device to front cover and spine, quite fine, blind-stamped illustration to rear panel. Preface d’Octave Uzanne. Published near simultaneously in Berlin and Paris in 1901. No dust jacket. Original edition. in-8 Br. (15 x 21.5), XXXIII-501p., 1st French edition, translated from German by Dr. A. Weber-Riga, spine with paper gaps at the top and bottom, binding nevertheless solid for this very clean copy inside, under protective plastic cover, fairly good condition. Work published for the first time in 1900, the year prior, under the title: "Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit." A publisher's blurb has it that "Doctor Eugene Duehren [the pen name of Iwan Bloch] wanted to know in all its extent and depth the ground on which germinated and grew, monstrous, this flower of the evil which was named the Marquis de Sade. Nothing of what surrounded its habitat, of what feeds it with its poisonous juice has escaped this wise historian." Fine and detailed index and bibliography. Iwan Bloch (8 April 1872 – 21 November 1922), also known as Ivan Bloch, practiced dermatology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Germany and is sometimes dubbed "the first sexologist," perhaps alongside Magnus Hirschfield and Albert Eulenburg and together they proposed Sexualwissenschaft, the new concept of a science of sexuality. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom and published it under the pseudonym Eugene Duehren in 1904, too. xxvii1-501 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Duehren, Eugene [Iwan Bloch]

Le Marquis de Sade Et Son Temps, Etudes Relatives a L'Histoire de la Civilisation Et Des Moeurs Du Xviiie Siecle

Paris / Berlin, A. Michelon / Barsdorf, 1901. First French Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of the erotophile and folklorist/bibliographer Gershon Legman as conveyed to me through his fabulous widow, Judith Evans Legman. A piercing, learned disquisition on the life and practices of the Marquis de Sade by Eugene Duehren, the pseudonym of Iwan Bloch, the German historian of magisterial studies of social issues. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound softcover copy, with clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, a rose floral-pattern wrap, quite unusual, over the original tan paper wrappers as issued. Preface d’Octave Uzanne. Published near simultaneously in Berlin and Paris in 1901. First French Edition, translated from the original German by Dr. A. Weber-Riga. Work published for the first time in 1900, the year prior, under the title: "Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit." A publisher's blurb has it that "Doctor Eugene Duehren [the pen name of Iwan Bloch] wanted to know in all its extent and depth the ground on which germinated and grew, monstrous, this flower of the evil which was named the Marquis de Sade. Nothing of what surrounded its habitat, of what feeds it with its poisonous juice has escaped this wise historian." Fine and detailed index and bibliography. Alphabetical listing of works. Iwan Bloch (8 April 1872 – 21 November 1922), also known as Ivan Bloch, practiced dermatology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Germany and is sometimes dubbed "the first sexologist," perhaps alongside Magnus Hirschfield and Albert Eulenburg and together proposed Sexualwissenschaft, the new concept of a science of sexualit. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom and published it under the pseudonym Eugene Duehren in 1904, too. xxxiii-501 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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France, Anatole [Jacques Anatole Thibault]

Thais

London, Charles Carrington, 1901. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Thais, a social historical, then considered erotic novel, revolving around events in the life of Saint Thais of Egypt, an early convert to Christianity. Plentiful plates, each protected by captioned tissue guards, printed in red. First published in 1890, it inspired an 1894 opera of the same name by Jules Massenet, a silent film of the same name in 1917, and a Polish language adaptation of same in 1984. Illustrated beautifully by Martin van Maeele, 21 fine etchings, remarkably busy and involved. Illustrations are odd in that many are black-and-white but then bordered in duotone. First Limited Edition Thus, tall octavo format, measuring 9" x 6 1/3" tall and wide, respectively. Grey silk linen over boards, ruled panels front and rear, title on spine. Burgundy endpapers front and rear. Etched plates protected with bound-in tissue guards. Some uncut, untrimmed pages fore-edge and bottom edge. Top edge gilt. Uncommon in the trade, being one of 500 printed on handmade Van Gelder paper. Some light, uniform toning to pages and to some of the engraved plates, light dust-soiling to fore- and bottom edges. Rubbing to cloth extremities, and with some dampstaining and resulting tide-lining. Still quite attractive, still quite important. Anatole France (born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a classic French Man of Letters, celebrated justly for his poetry, journalism, novels and literary criticism. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was also "the son of a bookseller" and was "around books" his entire life. The subject of this racy hagiography is St. Thais, who reportedly lived during the fourth century in Roman Egypt, with hagiographies devoted to her that were penned in Greek during the fifth century and in Latin during the sixth or seventh century and in medieval Latin in the 12th century. She also features in Greek and Latin martyrologies. Around St. Thais revolves considerable controversy and discussion as to the facticity of her life and acts. Had she traveled to Persia with the campaign of Alexander? Does she belong on the Calendar of the Catholic Church? in 1901 the Egyptologist Albert Gayet (1856–1916) announced the discovery near Antinoe in Egypt "of the mummified remains of St. Thais and of Bishop Sérapion," which were exhibited at the Musee Guimet in Paris, and then questions began to be asked as to authenticity (Wikipedia). Anatole France renders her as having been wealthy and beautiful, "a courtesan living in the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria," though she was sinfully erotic to the public, and accounts of her conversion to Christianity are fraught with controversy and unclarity. Frontis matter, frontispiece, title, [1], vi-x, [5], 4-304 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Ginzburg, Ralph

Castrated: My Eight Months in Prison

New York, Avant Garde Books, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Engrossing memoir by the editor of Avant-Garde, "a quarterly for people ahead of their time," and of Fact, a journal wiped out by legal court cases and obscenity concerns. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, machine- but not price-clipped. [9], 10-35 pp., readable in an afternoon. Bracing black-and-white photographs of the author/editor. The memoir captures the climax of a ten-year literary cause celebre stemming from the United States Supreme Court's suppression of Ginzburg's quarterly, Eros, that the Court had found obscene.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Girodias, Maurice, ed.

The Olympia Reader: Selections from the Traveller's Companion Series

New York, The Grove Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First printing of this important reader in erotica and social history, important because having offered a broad selection of erotica from the famed Olympia Press, excerpts from Reage's "Story of O," Cleland's "Fanny Hill," Burroughs' "Naked Lunch," Himes' "Pinktoes," and others, including authors as widely disparate as Miller, de Sade, Beckett, Durrell, "Anonymous," Sherwood, Harris and others. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond a a bit of discoloration to spine head and foot, slight smudging to bottom edge tips; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing less than moderate wear, protected by a plastic coat that is itself a bit soiled on rear panel, but complete, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Stories by John Cleland, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Samuel Beckett, and others, including the editor himself, The Story of O, and others. [10], 11-725 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Hagstrum, Jean H.

Eros and Vision: The Restoration to Romanticism

Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1989. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear but for slight blowing to front board, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Jean H. Hagstrum's formidable analytical training is put to treating the period of English literature and culture from the Restoration to Romanticism, roughly from mid-late 17th-century to William Blake's death in 1827. Presumed First Edition, but not so stated. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xx [1], 290 pp. 26 illustrations in black-and-white, mostly by William Blake.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Hahn, Emily

Seductio Ad Absurdum; the Principles & Practices of Seduction--a Beginner's Handbook

New York, Brewer and Warren Payson & Clark, 1930. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A notable book and with both sound provenance and extreme added association value. Very Good condition copy sans dust jacket of the very first book published by Emily Hahn (1905-1997), Seductio ad Absurdum: the principles & practices of seduction--a beginner's handbook, the second printing in 1930 of a book published that year and that same month (March) jointly by Brewer and Warren and Payson & Clark, both of New York. Her biography and resume are extraordinary. She matriculated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in General Arts and then tried to become a Chemistry major, but men and tradition prevented her from doing so. She changed to Mining Engineering instead, which had never had a woman enrollee. In her memoir, No Hurry to Get Home, she recounts a Professor telling her that "The female mind is incapable of grasping mechanics or higher mathematics or any of the fundamentals of mining taught."In 1926 she received BECAUSE SHE HAD EARNED a degree in Mining Engineering; her lab classmate, she recounts, begrudgingly informed her that "You ain't so dumb!"This copy is sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in peach cloth, clean interior with scattered, minor foxing thereto, minimal rubbing to extremities, bumping to spine head and tail, still sharp blue lettering to spine. Inscribed and dated (1938) by Gershon Legman, the influential, prolific erotobibliophile and bibliographer, folklorist and literary sleuth, from his own personal library as conveyed to me by his widow, the fabulous Judith Evans Legman. She has recently completed the final of his multiple-volume memoirs and is a powerhouse in her own right. In 1938 Gershon Legman was only 21 years old, yet to embark on his career as a Book Scout, folklorist, and bibliographer. He wrote nearly countless Introductions to and/or edited plentiful texts, including Mark Twain's The Mammoth Cod and of course My Secret Life, by Anonymous. Although his inscription here was written in a different pen, I can spot his signature from 20 paces if I squint. I cannot help but think that this book was instrumental to his becoming an erotophile. This is the first of the author's many, many books, a semi-serious exploration of gender relations, a topic she returned to again and again in her prolific writings including contributions she made to the New Yorker magazine. She also traveled to China during the Warlord years and hiked and trekked across the breadth of the continent of Africa.Emily Hahn's mother was a Suffragette, and her careers shows. This book, written with tongue incomplete in cheek, is comprised of various "synthesized" forms of men's seduction of women, 19 different scenarios, and each resulting in her giving in to him, neither seeming to be fully conscious of built-in prejudices or anything systemic about sexual relations, to wit: "Just Another Little One," "Feel My Muscle," "An Ugly Old Thing Like Me," "What Do You Think Your Husband's Doing?" "Promise Me You Won't," "A Man My Age," "Gonna Be Nice?" "Life is Short" and so on.xxv, 1 [1]3-198 pp. including a two-page bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Kearney, Patrick J.

A History of Erotic Literature

London, Macmillan, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities, though with moderate foxing at endpapers, dissipating in both directions. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but spine sunned to gray, and rear panel joint and top edge sunned, too. Half-title lithograph from the first edition of The Pearl. Written and pictorial erotica from the sixteenth to the twentieth century is explored. Includes references to Oscar Wilde, Alexander Pope, Guy de Maupassant, Marquis de Sade, as well as many others. Chapter notes, bibliography, illustration sources and index. Plentiful black-and-white and duotone illustrations hors-text and with full-color plates printed on glossy paper, many being full-page. 192 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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