Paris: Various, nd. [circa 1920-40]. First Printings (presumed). Original Wraps. Most include photographic illustrations, printed or bound in photographs. Titles include: Old Man's Darling [Paris]; Irene [Paris]; Love Lessons [top of pages read "The Bircher'; partial split at spine]; Three Bares [taped spine]; Adventures in a Car [tapped spine, Paris]; Razl.....
Price: $225.00
New York; Denver, CO: Continental Spectator; Odyssey Group;, Various [1960s-1980s]. First Printing[s]. Original Wraps. Titles include: 1: Odyssey: Jan. 1988 2: Odyssey Express: No. 38 3: Continental S;pectator: Vol. 6, No. 1 4: Looking Glass: Issue No. 33 "More than Just a Swingers' Magazine" 5: ConneXion: No. 38 6: ConneXion: No. 49 7: ConneXion: No. 50 Nice small.....
Price: $75.00
New York and London: Christie's and Sotheby's, 1985-1991. First Edition. Original Wraps. Small set of clock and watch related catalogues deaccessioning important private collections. A useful and significant reference. Catalogues include: 1: Watches, Wristwatches, and Clocks. (Sotheby's, New York. Oct. 30, 1985) 2: Important Watches, Wristwatches, and Clocks. (Sotheby's, New York. Feb.....
Price: $45.00
Nappanee, Indiana: Press of the Indiana Kid, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed orange paper boards, fold-out illustrations. 66x46mm. 26pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Limited edition of 45.
Price: $175.00
Portland, ME: 1828. First Printing. Unbound. Eight page, uncut sheet. Review copy printed for legislators. Mss reads, "Reuben Brown Baldwin / County of Cumberland". It appears he was a local postmaster. "When Maine separated from Massachusetts and became a state in 1820, a number of cities and towns sought the honor.....
Price: $250.00
Portland, ME: Maine Savings Bank, 1885. Pamphlet. Maine Savings Bank is now TDBanknorth. An interesting bit of Portland's business past. Light wear, folding creases, several small closed tears carfully repaired, else bright and clean. Large 8vo broadside. Blank ink lettering on off-white paper.
Price: $25.00
New York: Grove Press, 1968 [1901]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Orginally published in Paris by Charles Carrington in three volumes in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies [1901]. It is widely considered a classic of modern erotica. Published anonymously, it appears likely the slang lexicographer John S. Farmer.....
Price: $35.00
Beverly Hills, CA: Ultacolor Publications, 1994. First Printing. Original Wraps. "Amateur Grand Slammers: Especially for Gay Men, Lesbians, Transvestites, & Bi-sexual Contacts". Richly, graphically illustrated collection of available partners from around the country. Scarce. Minor shelf/edge wear, discrete ink date at top of page 3, else tight, bright, and unmarred.....
Price: $45.00
Budapest: Athaneum Nyomda, 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards, blue ink label, gilt lettering and decorative elements, in blind borders, red endpages. 4.5x6.5cm. 204pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 829 of an unknown number.
Price: $75.00
Kurt S Adler Inc., 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red faux leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements on front cover and spine, frontispiece, gold paper endpapers. 61x63mm. 10pp.
Price: $50.00
New York: Appleton, 1864. First American Edition. Hardcover. Wear to boards and spine, chips at the head and tail, light foxing at title page, owner signature on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Tan cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, frontispiece, tissue guard. Small 8vo. 242pp. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $25.00
np [possibly Vancouver]: nd [circa 1970]. Interesting small set of 'proto-tart cards'. Each has a different image (corset clad woman in recline in her boudoir; leggy woman swinging with a champaign glass in hand, nude woman dancing with a bear). Mss appears to be street address and phone number. Sex.....
Price: $100.00
Asheville, NC: Mission Healthcare Foundation. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Metal box containing 4 loose leaf "pages" of the "book." 55x90mm. 4pp.
Price: $10.00
Varoni Publications, nd [circa late 1930s]. First Edition. Original Wraps. 14 illustrations. A nice copy of a rather scarce work. Light shelf/edge wear, minor transfer from front wrapper to title page, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Small 8vo. 112pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $45.00
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1898 and 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. A very handsome pair of these rather scarce volumes. Minor shelf wear, prior owner in blind stamp on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Dark green cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, fold-out plate. 8vo. 236pp.....
Price: $250.00
Pasadena, CA: Dawson, Karen, 1965. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Vellum wraps, gilt lettering on spine, frontispiece. 34x26mm. 21pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $200.00
Gourmet, nd [circa 1982. First Printing. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Neither title appears in any institutional holdings, though "Hard TV IV" is listed among banned titles in an Australian governmental ruling. N.B. both titles are very graphic. Hard TV IV: Gourmet Special #43. Hung & Horny TV's: A Gourmet Special. Vol. 1.....
Price: $45.00
Germany: nd [circa 1920]. Unique. While there is no collaborating information, the images came from a German collector who stated that they images were from the Weimar era and the images are completely consistent with that as is the paper/card used. "The Weimar Era came to a near crashing halt.....
Price: $225.00
nd [circa 1930s]. Unique Edition. Hardcover. The collection consists of 764 b/w images of the 48 US state capitols and that of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Vol. 1 (364 images) starts with Washington, DC and covers Alabama through Montana. Vol. 2 (400 images) covers Nebraska through Wyoming. The.....
Price: $1,500.00
New York: Ingenue Magazine/Olympia Division, 1963. First Edition. Staplebound. A 40-page pocket guide to etiquette aimed at young women was published by Olympia Typewriters in 1963. Prepared by Ingenue magazine editors, the booklet advises that one’s popularity and success in dating hinges upon typewriting skill and etiquette. Light shelf/edge wear.....
Price: $50.00
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Today Publications, 1969. First Edition. Staplebound Wraps. The second of a series on broad Harvard/Boston matters (the first being "The University and its Resources"). A rather nice copy of this interesting period piece. Very minor shelf wear, touch of sunning at top and spine, else tight, bright.....
Price: $35.00
c. 1999-2001. Unique. Appears to be an album collection of rave 'party' fliers laid in from the late 1990s to early 2000s, for the Norfolk, VA and DC area. A common DJ name throughout is "Tasha" who resided, it seems, in both Virginia and San Diego. This is probably the.....
Price: $150.00
Paris: Privately Printed, nd [circa 1930]. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Early reprint/pirate of Flossie, A Venus Of Fifteen. Illustrated with 1920-1930's graphic photographs, including at least one including a black male. Not found in Bibliography of Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1885-1930. No records found in any holdings. Light.....
Price: $250.00
Portland, ME: C.S. Woolworth & Company, nd [circa 1900]. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Approximately 48 images of Portland and the vicinity. A reasonably scarce iteration from the "Views of Portland" family. Overall, a lovely copy. Light toning to first and last page, minor shelf/edge wear, bottom corner very gently.....
Price: $25.00
Portland, ME: Chisholm Bros. nd [circa 1885]. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 accordion style pages with near photographic illustrations including a two page "bird's eye view." Overall, a very handsome copy of this rather scarce volume. Light shelf wear and rubbing, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red faux-leather boards, gilt lettering.....
Price: $125.00