Arnold, John / [Jack Lindsay / P. R. Stephensen / John Kirtley].

The Franfrolico Press. Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books.

Ravelston, Private Libraries Association, 2009. 4° (18.5 cm x 28 cm). 328 pages. With 96 illustrations, including images of title-pages of all of the 46 books published by the Fanfrolico Press. Hardcover. / Original blue cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Ars Erotica.

Die erotische Buchillustration im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts. [Translates: The erotic bookillustrations in the 18th century]

Trilingual edition (German / French / English). Köln. Parkland Verlag, 1999. 21,5 x 30,5 cm. 574 Seiten mit zahlreichen Illustrationen / 574 pages with several illustrations (also in colour). Hardcover with dustjacket / Gebundene Ausgabe im originalen Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

Bergson, Boris [Hrsg.].

Privatpornographie in Deutschland. Verfemte erotische Trivialliteratur des bürgerlichen Zeitalters. Ausgewählt unter dem Aspekt ihrer Aussage zu den sozialen und moralischen Normen ihrer Zeit.

Zwei Bände (vollständig). Darmstadt, Buchdienst, 1975. 8°. 196, 179 Seiten. Hardcover / Originale, plüschbezogene Einbände. Nur ein Band mit einigen Gebrauchsspuren am Einband. Innen tadellos.

[Bonnard, Pierre] Anet, Claude.

Notes Sur L’Amour. Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard and engraved by Yvonne Mailliez.

Exemplaire non numéroté sur Alfa bouffant. Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1922. 26cm x 21.3cm. 74 pages. With beautiful, intimate illustrations. Hardcover / Modern half cloth with marbled-paper-covered-boards in slipcase. Bound with the original wrappers Excellent condition.

[Brassai] (that was Gyula Halász).

The Secret Paris of the 30’s. Translated from the French by Richard Miller.

First American Edition. New York, Pantheon Books, 1976. Quarto. 200 unnumbered pages with 150 black-and-white-photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Blindstamp of preowner on endpaper and titlepage. Signed and inscribed by Brassai on the titepage in New York on the 29th of May, 1977.

Clark, Timothy / C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano.

Shunga – Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art. Timothy Clark, C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano.

London, British Museum Press, 2013. 30 cm. 536 pages with many color illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition iwth only very minor signs of wear.

Clergue, Lucien.

Footprints of the Gods. With a Foreword by Lucien Clergue: “Twelve Years at Point Lobos” / With an Essay by Jim Hughes titled: “Sign of Life and Death”.

First US Edition. Boca Raton [Florida], Iris Publications, 1989. Small Folio (23 cm x 30.5 cm). 96 pages with spectacular photographs on 55 color plates throughout. Original softcover. This colour-photographic treatise is devoted entirely to the topography of Point Lobos, California, the beach made famous by Edward Weston, decades earlier. With an introduction by Jim Hughes. A very good copy in publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Spine slightly starting. Inscribed and signed by Lucien Clergue to the great American gallerist, Leo Castelli: “Pour Leo Castelli, son admirateur arlesien, avec l’hommage de Lucien Clergue – Arles, I/VII/89”. A wonderful association, additionally enriched by an artist-postcard of Lucien Clergue’s “Point Lobos” – Photograph, with a personal message to Leo Castelli by someone called “Ames” (?).

Gerhardie, William Alexander / Kingsmill, Hugh / Youngman Carter, Philip.

The Casanova Fable. A Satirical Revaluation. Illustrated by Philip Youngman Carter.

Rare, limited and signed first edition (No.20 of only 150 copies). London, Jarrolds, 1934. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 223 pages. With seven full-page illustrations in colour. Hardcover / Original, spectacular quarter vellum binding. Signed by William Gerhardie and Hugh Kingsmill. Bookplate / Exlibris of Liverpool book-collector, John Raymond Danson, to pastedown. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Gordon, George N.

Erotic Communications: Studies in Sex, Sin and Censorship. Humanistic Studies in The Communication Arts.

New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1980. 16 cm x 24 cm. XI, 338 pages. 12 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Author photograph by Tom Gutekunst. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Greer, Germaine.

De Jongen. [The Rare Dutch Edition of “The Beautiful Boy” by Germaine Greer].

Dutch Edition. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 2003. 28,5 cm x 22,5 cm. 256 pagina’s / pages. Originele Hardcover met stofomslag. Met een mylar beschermlaag / Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. In zeer goede staat met slechts weinig sporen van slijtage / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.