Sexuality in Literature
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Semiologie de la Sexualite: Essai de glosso-analyse
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First Edition.
23cm x 14cm. 247 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Text is in French.
Minor creasing and wear to wrappers. Moderate tanning to page extremities. Good Condition. -
Memory and Desire: Representations of Passion in the Novella
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. 200 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Foxing to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
Monsieur Nicolas or The Human Heart Laid Bare
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Second Printing.
22cm x 15.5cm. [8], 458 pages, black and white illustrations. Blue cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket.
Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Robert Baldick.
Foxing and soiling to edges and jacket. Previous owners’ name and embossed stamp. Chips and tears to jacket. Good Condition. -
Erotic Literature of Ancient India: Kama Sutra, Koka Shastra, Gita Govindam, Ananga Ranga
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29cm x 24cm. 192 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial boards, pictorial jacket.
Lavishly illustrated text on the Kama Sutra, Koka Shastra, Gita Govindam, and Ananga Ranga.
Very slightly cocked. Minor wear to board and jacket edges. Near Fine Condition. -
Les Cahier Obliques No. 1
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First Edition.
27cm x 21cm. 36 pages, illustrations, some colour. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers. Text is in French.
Inaugural issue of a Parisian art and literature journal. Illustrated throughout with text by and about Baudelaire, Sade, Hans Bellmer, Wagner, and others.
Very minor wear to edges. Near Fine Condition. -
Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica & Curiosa (9 Volumes)
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List of the entire German erotic literature / Verzeichnis der gesamten deutschen erotischen Literatur mit Einslchlub der Ubersetzungen nebts Beifugung der originale. Zugleich dritte, ungemein vermehrte Auflage on Hugo Hayns Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica.
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Sex Lexikon: Handbuch des Sexualwissens
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First Edition.
23cm x 16cm. 268 pages, black and white illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering.
Sex Lexicon: Handbook of Sexual Knowledge.
Minor bumping to corners. Tanning to endpapers. Bookplate of Dr. Gary Simes. Good Condition. -
Geschichte Der Erotischen Literatur
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23cm x 14cm. xxii, 695 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Text is in German.
Creasing to spine. Good Condition. -
Lexikon der Sexualitat
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Later Edition.
21cm x 14cm. 627 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Creasing to spine. Minor wear to wrappers. Minor soiling to edges. Good Condition. -
Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties (Expanded Edition)
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Revised Edition.
25cm x 17cm. 327 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
“Sin-A-Rama celebrates the near-forgotten world of erotic paperbacks from the 1960s when sex acts were described with code words, writers used pseudonyms, and publishers hid behind mail drop addresses.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sex im Volksmund: Der obszone Wortschatz der Duetschen: 1 Worterbuch von A-Z
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Reprint.
19cm x 13cm. Unpaginated. Pictorial wrappers.
Popular sex: The obscene vocabulary of the Germans.
Minor tanning to pages. Previous owner’s signature. Very Good Condition. -
The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature
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First Edition.
22cm x 15cm. 227 pages. Quarter purple cloth, black papered boards, silver lettering, lettered jacket.
Minor foxing to edges. Tanning to endpapers. Minor wear and soiling to jacket. Minor foxing to jacket verso. Very Good Condition. -
Erotic Literature of Ancient India: Kama Sutra, Koka Shastra, Gita Govindam, Ananga Ranga
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29cm x 24cm. 192 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial boards, pictorial jacket.
Lavishly illustrated text on the Kama Sutra, Koka Shastra, Gita Govindam, and Ananga Ranga.
Minor foxing to top edge. Bookplate of Dr. Gary Simes, date written on rear pastedown in ink. Very minor wear to jacket with very minor foxing to verso. Very Good Condition. -
Theory of Profane Love Among the Arabs: The Development of the Genre
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First Edition.24cm x 16cm. 167 pages. White cloth, black and gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Bookplate of Dr. Gary Simes.
Soil to top fore-edge corner, minor to rest of cloth. Minor soiling to jacket with very minor chips and tears to edges. Very Good Condition.
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Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern
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First Edition.24cm x 16cm. [4], 338 pages, black and white illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Very minor foxing to top edge. Bookplate of Dr. Gary Simes. Very minor wear to jacket. Near Fine Condition.
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The Slanguage of Sex: A Dictionary of Modern Sexual Terms
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First Edition.22cm x 14cm. 208 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, in lettered dust jacket.
Minor wear to jacket. Foxing to top edge. Near Fine Condition.
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Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
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First Edition.24cm x 16cm. 418 pages. Black cloth, white lettering, in illustrated jacket.
A history of the printed pornographic word in America, its publishers, and those who tried to control it. From the collection of Dr. Gary Simes, book-plate pasted down.
Minor damp stain to rear paste-down and jacket edge. Minor insect damage to gutter of page 21/22. Minor foxing.. Good Condition.
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Petit Glossaire Raisonne de l’Erotisme Saphique, 1880-1930
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First Edition.30cm x 22cm. 123 pages, black and white illustrations, some photographs. Illustrated wrappers. Text is in French.
A small glossary of Sapphic Erotism, 1880-1930. From the collection of Dr. Gary Simes, bookplate pasted down, stamp of Skoob, London.
Moderate wear to edges of wrapper. Large light stain to the tail of the wrapper.. Very Good Condition.