Search Results: Erotica & Sexuality from Diversity Books, IOBA

London: Guild Publishing, 1989. 143pp., b/white photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain blue boards very good. Leaves clean. lllustrated dustjacket softly edge-creased, plus a small, oblique, in-production crease to front panel. " . . . written by an expert on sexual and marital relationships, designed to help both those who are not in a permanent or totally 'known' relationship but want to feel sexually 'safe', and those couples who have been together in a stable relationship for some time but who wish further to enrich their sensual and erotic life together . . . " Includes Index. Book weight approx. 620g.. Reprint. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1994. 243pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain blue boards negligibly edge-rubbed. Leaves clean, faint tanning to edges. Art-illustrated ('Dreaming', detail on the front, by Paul Francois Quinsac) dustjacket has a corner crease to front flap. From the jacket flap: " . . . a unique collection of explicit sexual writings from many centuries and cultures . . . Also included are extracts from several modern erotic classics such as John Updikes's hilarious celebration of sex in 'Rabbit is Rich' and Alina Reyes' 'The Butcher', a compelling tale of raw sensuality. A feast of uninhibited writing about sexual encounters . . . " Book weight approx. 495g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good.

Great Britain: Abacus, 1997. xiii, + 336pp., small, b/white line drawn illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, two small surface cracks and reading crease to spine. With more than 750 entries and 150 original illustrations, the Encylopedia of Unusual Sex Practices "presents a unique guide to human sexual expression, ranging from the mildly kinky to the truly bizarre." Book weight approx. 720g.. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1993. 248pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain red boards nominally bumped. Leaves clean, slight tanning to edges. Art-illustrated ('Portrait of a Young Beauty' - detail - Guillaume Seignac, c. 1900) dustjacket negligibly edgeworn only. " . . . gathers together passionate and explicit writing about sex by writers of the first rank . . . " One of the earliest tales is from the notorious 'Les Liasons Dangereuses' written in 1782 by Chodelos de Laclos, to modern masters such as Philip Roth, and Mary McCarthy, who satirize American society and its sexual obsessions . . . Authors include: Daniel Defoe, John Cleland, Henry Fielding, Marquis de Sade, Emile Zola, Sir Richard Burton, Andrea Newman, Henry Miller, Erica Jong, D.H.Lawrence, and more. Book weight approx. 565g. . First Thus.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Amherst, New York, U.S.A.: Prometheus Books, 1998. 246pp. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean and white, soft corner crease to several pages at rear. Illustrated card wrapper has corner crease to front and rear panels, mild reading crease to same. Originally published under the title 'Victorian Erotic Tales', London, M. O'Mara Books, 1995. " . . . brings together the most notorious Victorian erotica by famous authors as well as by those who used pseudonyms or circulated their works unsigned . . . gives the reader a fascinating insight into the teeming underbelly of Victorian society, while serving up a cornucopia of passions that will intrigue and delight . . . " Book weight approx. 360g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . Second Impression.. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Faber & Faber, 2001. xv, + 285pp., plus 2 x 8 page, b/white illustrated sections. Book clean. Spine firm. B/white gloss-illustrated boards undamaged. Leaves clean, albeit very slightly tanned. Illustrated dustjacket is in excellent condition. "Acclaimed biographer Ian Gibson has created an engrossing portrait of Ashbee, a man who happily supported his unsuspecting wife and four children, but spent his spare time methodically cataloguing such risque titles as 'The Story of the Dildoe' and 'The Marchioness's Amorous Pastimes' . . . a fascinating portrait of a Victorian who seems to typify his age in all its curiosity, repression and subverted desire." Contents include: List of Illustrations, Introduction, 5 chapters over two 'parts', Appendix, References, Bibliography, Acks., Index. Book weight approx. 412g.. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +.

U.S.A: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999. 332pp., plus Afterword: Sacred Sexual Positions, an 18 page, unpaginated, b/white art-illustrated section at rear. B/white art illustrations throughout, by Kyle Spenser and Richard Stodart. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) card wrapper mildly edgeworn only. Bringing together the three books of Kenneth Ray Stubbs' 'Secret Garden' trilogy (Tantric Massage, Sensual Ceremony and Sacred Orgasms) into one volume " . . . with more than 200 vivid illustrations; a step-by-step guide to making love according to the principles of ancient Tantric sexuality . . . " Book weight approx. 1.05 KG. * Buyers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote.. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Routledge, 1997. xv, + 185pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. "Richard Ekins vividly details the innermost desires and the varied practices of males who wear the clothes of women for the pleasure it gives them (cross-dressers), or who wish to change sex and are actively going about it (sex-changers). This unique and fascinating book transforms an area of study previously dominated by clinical models to look instead at cross-dressing and sex-changing as a highly variable social process . . . " Contents include: List of Figures, Foreword, Prologue, 10 chapters over three 'parts', Notes, Bibliography, Index. Book weight approx. 410g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First U.K. Edition.. Softcover. Near Fine.

London: Venus Publications, 1972. 21, + (approx. 138pp.). Book clean and square, Spine firm. Photographic, colour-illustrated stiff card wrapper mildly creased and edgeworn. A small speck on half-title page, else leaves unmarked. Twenty-one pages of storyline text, plus an unpaginated section of posed, photographic b/white halftone plates (almost 140 images). Extremely rare, adult subject matter within. Book weight approx. 185g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 308pp. Book clean, square. Red spine firm, black title there-on. Plain boards lightly bumped at foot. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket mildly sunned on spine, tiny nick to lower rear flap fold. From the jacket flap: " . . . provides a profoundly original challenge to the cherished truisms of human sexuality. Abramson and Pinkerton proclaim the paramount importance of pleasure, while at the same time overthrowing traditional ideas about gender, pornography, contraception, homosexuality, abortion, and much more . . . " Includes Notes, References and Index. Book weight approx. 700g. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Impression. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.