Search Results: Erotica from Pazzo Books

Paris: Matreo il Maestro, 1609. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties, some discoloration to vellum, occasional creasing to a few early leaves, end papers rumpled and a little torn, the third book is lacking the final two pages of the table (ends at M), generally fine otherwise. 6 books bound in 3. [6], 283; [10], 325; [8], 362; [8], 296; [8], 338, [6]; [8], 301 leaves.One of the most singular figures in the Renaissance, Aretino was a poet, playwright, schemer, satirist, and pornographer who made a career out of infiltrating the highest levels of society and then alternately satirizing them in his writings, or blackmailing them. For a time his patron was Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, and he mocked Popes and would be popes, but in time he settled in Venice - the Anti-Rome. Ariosto called him "the scourge of Princes". He is remembered most for his satires and his letters which detail conversations with both the great names of the… Read More

Paris: Les Éditions Georges Artigues, 1948. Very Good/Good. Valentine Hugo. Original glassine worn, chipped and torn at edges, light shelfwear to book itself. 8 illustrations by Hugo. Number 275 of 1200. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrator: Valentine Hugo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 038585.

Pot-En-Cul, 1933. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Glassine wrapper browned. 4 songs with erotic woodcuts - a few full page, the rest in the text. A few spots of browning, otherwise bright. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 044370.

Gnide (Paris), 1776. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary sponged calf, corners slightly bumped, mild wear at edges and hinges, light occasional browning and foxing, front inner joint weak and reinforced - overall a sound, attractive copy. 165, (1)pp. 4 plates, head and tail pieces. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Poetry. Inventory No: 046690.

Paris: Un Groupe D'Amateurs, 1933. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Green wraps worn and split at the spine, a few finger marks but otherwise clean internally with 6 illustrations. Published one year after the first French edition - number 141 of 150 copies. Size: Quarto (4to). Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 044372.

Paris: Editions Vialetay, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Barret, Gaston. Laid into boards as issued, in a matching slipcase. Spine browned, otherwise fine. Lovely erotic illustrations by Barret. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Barret, Gaston. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 046564.

1930. Hardcover (Half Leather). Fine Condition. Undated, ca. 1930 - originally made for a work by Brantome, this is the complete suite of 24 illustrations. Signed Malassis in the plate and dated 1926. 24 color etchings with tissue guards bound up in half blue leather over marbeld boards with slight shelfwear to covers. A lovely set of illustrations. A few with a small blue stamp in the lower margin. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Art & Design. Inventory No: 048264.

Paris: Librairie Centrale (J. Lemer), 1872. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Near Fine Condition. Full stamped and gilt vellum, lightly discolored and slightly bumped at the corners. Foxing to the etchings, mostly at the edges with some offsetting to the facing pages. Otherwise clean and bright internally. One of 20 copies (from a total of 530) printed on paper in various colours, this copy printed on blue paper, with 3 copies of the etched frontispiece on chine-collé, printed in red, bistre and black. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 044418.

Hague, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Near Fine Condition. Binet. 4 volumes in later half morocco over marbled boards. First collected edition of La Paysan and La Paysane Pervertis completely reset and edited - dated 1784 but did not appear until 1787. 16 parts in 4 volumes complete with 120 plates. Quite clean internally, a few tiny tears in the outer margin. 542pp; 536pp; 552pp; 550pp with the two page stock list at the end of volume 4. "Rare and almost never found with the full suite of [120] engravings" Bibliographie et iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne, 250. Le Paysan Pervertis had been published in 1775, La Paysane in 1784 - this brings the two together for the first time. They are erotic novels with a moral compass - in contrast, at least notionally, to de Sade's Justine (which de la Bretonne opposed with his novel Anti-Justine in 1798) or Juliette. Size: Octavo (8vo). 4-volume set (complete). Illustrator: Binet. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped… Read More

Rouen: Claude le Villain, 1608. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Three rare Rouen imprints from 1608 bound as one (as printed) with separate title pages, in modern full red morocco with inner dentelles, raised bands,marbled endpapers - old bookseller or binder stamp on front endppaer. Very slight fading, otherwise a fine binding. Light browning, trimmed a little close in spots almost touching the titles and running titles, small paper repair in the margin of the final page of Paradis, otherwise clean internally. All the titles are rare - three copies of the first title (two 1616, one 1606), one of the second (Paris, 1603 but incomplete) and one of the third (Paris, 1604) in OCLC. 60 ff.; 20 ff.; [2],10 ff. Potier 1399 (the first title) A rare collection of Rouen imprints on the subject of love in its various guises, originally published in Paris in 1606 (for the second two titles) and collected here for the first time. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1.… Read More

Neufchâtel et Paris: Guillot, 1787. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Binet. 4 volumes in contemporary sponged calf, spines darkened and a bit dry, light wear at edges, scattered light foxing including to plate margins. 300pp; 388pp; 392pp; 380pp with 20 plates and the often missing final two leaves in volume four with a list of further titles available. Restif de la Bretonne takes on the subject of women here, looking at 40 women in 8 categories - he believed this to be one of his finest works, as did Palmézaux. Bibliographie et iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne 247-250. Size: Octavo (8vo). 4-volume set (complete). Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Illustrator: Binet. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Erotica. Inventory No: 046740.

London: R. Griffiths at the Dunciad in Paul's Church-Yard (Rochester series of reprints), 1751. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Half leather over paper covered boards, soiling to boards, light wear, small scratch to back cover. Dated 1751 but 1885, number 2 in the Rochester series of reprints. A lovely copy of Cleland's famous erotic novel, a sort of companion to Fanny Hill. Limtied to 100 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 047789.

Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Yan' Dargent. Original leather backed red cloth, worn at the corners, scattered light foxing internally. Vignette and full page illustration throughout. With an attractive fore-edge painting of a naked woman demurely leaving a man in bed - the image is from page 43. Size: Quarto (4to). Illustrator: Yan' Dargent. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 045981.

Lutetiae (Paris): Abelis L'Angelier, 1587. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Later but likely 17th century half vellum over paste paper boards, some soiling and wear. Slight age toning, Durant penned to the second title, otherwise clean internally. 68, (2), blank; 148, (3), blank. Register of Erotic Books (the 1878 edition and the 1722 English translation). When Bonnefons' Pancharis appeared it was hailed as the finest verse since Catullus (whose Baccia it is modeled on) - it was so popular that the imitations in French by Durant followed so quickly (and without noting the author) that it was long thought to be authored by Bonnefons as well. Very rare, just 6 copies in OCLC and 1 at auction over the last 30+ years. Both works with the privilege leaf and errata at the end. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Erotica. Inventory No: 044735.

1791. Early Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Very Good Condition. Later half cloth over marbled boards, lightly worn. Later edition of a collection first published in 1787. Some staining to title page, modest darkening to pages esp. at rear, scattered foxing, tear in upper margin to page 93/4, a few pages clumsily opened. 220pp. Register of Erotic Books 3627 (the 1787 ed.) Includes a number of his erotic pieces - likely why there was no publisher or place listed and the original editions had a false (London) imprint. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Erotica. Inventory No: 045167.

Paris: E. Monnier, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Original wraps with color cover bound in; half cloth over marbled boards. Occasional slight age toning, a few pages opened inexpertly, but otherwise fine. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 042463.

West Berlin: Taco, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Six posters in a folder - faint wear to folder, posters fine and unmarked. Uncommon. Sorayama is famous for his design work on the Sony AIBO as well as his sexy robots. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 047906.

Berlin: Beir. Lowit Verlag, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Original black cloth, very light wear - old bookplate and signature to endpapers, otherwise unmarked. In a slipcase with modest wear at the edges and corners. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Erotica. Inventory No: 046045.

Bouillon: Société Typographique, 1778. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Monnet et al. 3 volumes in old acid calf, corners worn, spine dulled, neatly rebound some time ago with the spines laid back down, some browning to leather turn ins on marbled endpapers. Apparently rebound very early on and with the original morocco spines laid back down . Small dampstain to portrait frontis in volume 1, scattered minor foxing and browning; generally bright internally and a lovely set of the first illustrated edition. WIth 58 plates including the uncovered version of the ladies being chased by monkeys in volume two which often was replaced by one with the ladies clothed. 304pp; 320pp; 236pp, 102pp. Brunet V 1363 [17235]. Cohen-de Ricci 1038-1039. A lovely edition, printed in the duchy of Bouillon to avoid French censorship. Contains Zadig, La princesse de Babylone, Micromégas, Candide, Le Huron ou l'ingénu, l'Homme aux quarante Ecu, Les Contes arabes et indiens and others.… Read More

Los Angeles: Feral House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition. First edition with publication announcement laid in. Shot by Missy Suicide "The world's greatest living pin-up photographer". Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 047920.