Sexuality - Erotic Poetry
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Seduction: Jeunes Amours au Chateau, a la Pension
Pierrot
: En Vente Partout et Nulle Part, 1910.
The first clandestine printing with the limitation of 300 copies on the verso of the half-title by the Briffaut brothers following the original edition circa 1908 titled Une Seduction and expanded with four additional texts of poetry and plays after the first. This copy unnumbered on Alfa as often and with the bookplate of the Membre de la Guide du Livre. DUTEL 787. PERCEAU 274-2, PIA 1366. -
Petites Miettes Amoureuses
Pierre Louys
Rheims: Presses de L’Imprimerie Particuliere du Palais du Tau, 1976.
Previously unpublished erotic French poetry by Pierre Louys from the collection of M. Gerard Nordmann with a quality reproduction of an erotic photograph by Louys as a frontispiece to the first volume, Poems Libres. The second volume, Deux Contes, all manuscript facsimile. Limited to 175 numbered copies, this copy without the accompanying box of postcards. -
White Stains
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Reprint.
23cm x 15.5cm. 111 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
The Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop: A Neuropath of the Second Empire. Reprint of the erotic poetry collection by occultist Aleister Crowley first published in 1898 under the pseudonym George Archibald Bishop.
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The Merry Muses and Other Burnsian Frolics
Robert Burns
London: Luxor Press, 1966.
An entirely new compendium of Scottish Songs and Fragments from the Secret Collections of Robert Burns. Edited, witha foreword and explanatory notes by Eric Lemuel Randall. -
Priaap Ontknoopt: een tuiltje Nederlandse priapeeen
J. Seurel
Oosterbeek: Bosbespers, 1984.
Collection of priapic poetry gathered by J. Seurel. -
Merry Muses
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First Edition.
25.5cm x 20cm. [108] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Nude portraits of women with erotic poetry. Rare Australian erotica.
Minor shelf wear and foxing. Near Fine Condition. -
Le testament dvng amovrevx qvi movrvt par amovr, compose novvellement; c’est le De profundis des
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16cm x 11.5cm. [8] pages. Plain saddle-stitched wrappers. Text is in French.
Erotic poetry originally printed in Gothic characters in the early years of the 16th century, without date or publisher. Here edited by Charles Claude Francois Herisson and produced in an edition of only 50 copies.
Minor tanning and marks. Near Fine Condition. -
The Tide of Love
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First Edition.
20.5cm x 14cm. 141 pages, black and white illustrations. Black cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.
Scarce collection of eros themed poems by Ecuadorian American Leticia Feldman Gossdenovich with illustrations by Surine Fontcuberto. 1 copy in OCLC, at UCLA
Single Library of Congress stamp to the half title, marked duplicate. Very Good Condition. -
Le Joujou des Demoiselles
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Early Edition.
22cm x 14cm. Quarto. 61, [3] pages. Marbled wrappers. Text is in French.
A collection of anonymous verse in French on women and young ladies attributed to the Abbe Jouffreau de Lazerie. This copy is from the personal library of Gershon Legman and bears his notation in ink to the wrappers.
Moderate wear to wrappers and edges with some loss to the margin at the tail of page 4/5. Good Condition. -
The Badboy Book of Erotic Poetry
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First Edition.
17.5cm x 10.5cm. 399 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Spine creased. Top edge foxed. Moderate tanning. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
More Snatches & Lays
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Revised Edition.
23.5cm x 18cm. [viii], 104 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
The revised edition of the 1973 Snatches & Lays. A collection of songs presented as shared vocal entertainment by men of the Australian services, students, smoke-room and sporting club gatherers etc., circa 1940 to 1960.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Poesie Erotiche
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First Edition.
19cm x 12.5cm. 64 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Text is in Italian.
Minor insect damage to wrappers. Foxing to top edgew. Good Condition. -
Priapaeen
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First Edition.
21cm x 13cm. [22] pages, frontispiece. Saddle-stitched wrappers, jacket.
Dutch erotic poetry. Edition of 100 copies, of which this is number 66.
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Snatches & Lays: Songs Miss Lilly White Should Never Have Taught Us
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First Edition.
24cm x 18cm. 110 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Tanning. Good Condition. -
The Art of Love
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Fifth Folio Printing.
28cm x 18cm. 96 pages, 8 colour plates. Cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated onlay, slipcase.
Illustrations by Grahame Baker.
Book is in Fine Condition. Very minor shelf wear to slipcase. Near Fine Condition. -
Innviertler Erotikon
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First Edition. Signed by Author
9cm x 11.5cm. [24] pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated side-stitched papers.
Innviertler Erotikon oder Liebe & Triebe Danzal gessammelt und herausgegeben von Antonie Prankl. Short poems in German with woodcuts by Christian Thanhauser. Published in a signed and numbered edition of 99 of which this is number 62. 1 copy in OCLC at Harvard.
Minor soiling and wear to rear cover. Very Good Condition. -
Erotic Escapades: A Chapbook
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. [20] pages. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
15 poems by Jack Shadoian. Cover illustration by Chris Shadoian.
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Women & Men Erotica
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First Edition.
21cm x 13cm. 154 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
<1cm closed tear at wrappers front panel crown spine edge. Foxing to edges. Previous owner's signature. Fair Condition. -
1929
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First Thus.
22.5cm x 17.5cm. 54 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated french fold wrappers.
Surrealist smut originally published in French as a limited edition to raise funds for their artistic magazine. Within lays blessed absurd sex lines with granular pornographic insertion close-ups. Here translated into English for the first time by Zoltan Lizot-Picon.
Very minor foxing to top edge, first/last page, and wrappers verso. Very Good Condition. -
The Best Bawdry
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First Edition.22cm x 15cm. [x], 310 pages. Lettered boards, no jacket.
Minor foxing. Very Good Condition.
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Femmes Hombres / Women Men
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First Edition.22cm x 14cm. 151 pages. Purple cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.
Bilingual presentation of Verlaine’s poems celebrating the pleasures of sex, in the original French facing English translations by Alistair Elliot together with an introduction by Elliot. From the collection of Dr. Gary Simes, signature to front pastedown.
Minor wear and soiling to jacket. Foxing to top edge. Very Good Condition.