Search Results: Erotica from Singularity Rare & Fine

Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1989. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1989. No ISBN shown. Octavo, illustrated wraps, 450 pp. Near Fine, with a few small spots externally. See scan. L-30n

Gillette, WY: Erik Drudwyn, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Fine; New and Pristine. See scans and description. Gillette, WY: Erik Drudwyn, 2014. Signed, Limited Edition color print, #17 of 75, "Burnin' For You", Giclée. With COA signed, numbered and dated by Drudwyn. The print itself is also signed and numbered by Drudwyn, in white. See scans. 12" x 18" on 13" x 19", UltraChrome K3tm Archival Giclée on 250 gsm Crane's® Museo MaxT 100% Cotton Fine Art Paper; from an original done in Pastel on Sennelier La Carte. Not framed, not matted. Provenance: purchased here directly from Erik Drudwyn in 2014. An eminently flawless and collectible Drudwyn A/P, with COA. See scans. Quite perfect. See scans. L309

Blois [France]: Imprimerie de Felix Jauyer, 1835. First Edition . Wraps. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Frontispiece Engraving. l'Academie de Blois (de Petigny), Blois, 1835 and Imprimerie de Felix Jauyer. Wrappers. 12mo., 72 pp. Collation complete. Spine gone; otherwise generally quite a nice copy of a hard to find piece of sexual etymological scholarship. See Graesse, Vol. II, p. 410, col 1. Rose 1404, "suppressed and very rare". In French [one page in Latin]. A strange and oddly precious paperback production from 1835, written anonymously by a member of l'Academie de Blois, on the origins of the word "cuckold". Avec des Notes et Pieces Justificatives Par un Membre de L'Academie de de Blois [De Petigny] Augmente de Origine du Cocuange. Collation: half-title, v.'Blois, Imprimerie de Felix Jauyer,' blank, v. woodcut of "Cocu' pointing to his horns, title-page, v.blank, dedication in Latin, v. blank, text with… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First American Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition with all first state points, those being - on Jacket: James Jones blurb instead of Nelson Algren's at bottom of back panel; $ 5.00 price; code 0464, bottom of front flap. Book: purple cloth, black paper boards; no statement of printing (later editions do state printing); 5.75" x 8.25", 224 pp.; red endpapers and topstain as per first issue. Near fine in near fine jacket; very close to fine, which is scarce for this title in the first state. One of the better copies you're likely to see of this inexpensively produced title. Jacket is first state and not clipped, still bearing the $ 5.00 price. First edition of the somewhat tardy American re-do of Southern's original (under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton)through the Olympia Press in Paris in 1958 -which was itself chased and marked for destruction by French authorities.… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First American Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition with all first state points, those being - on Jacket: James Jones blurb instead of Nelson Algren's at bottom of back panel; $ 5.00 price; code 0464, bottom of front flap. Book: purple cloth, black paper boards; no statement of printing (later editions do state printing); 5.75" x 8.25", 224 pp.; red endpapers and topstain as per first issue. Near fine in near fine jacket; very close to fine, which is scarce for this title in the first state. One of the better copies you're likely to see of this inexpensively produced title. Jacket is first state and not clipped, still bearing the $ 5.00 price. Book shows unobtrusive spotting at top (dyed) page edges, faint fade toward very top of boards. Jacket shows very small scale touch edgewear at places. First edition of the somewhat tardy American re-do of Southern's original (under… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First American Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. Octavo. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Signed by Terry Southern on the title page, without inscription. First Edition with all first state points, those being - on Jacket: James Jones blurb instead of Nelson Algren's at bottom of back panel; $ 5.00 price; code 0464, bottom of front flap. Book: purple cloth, black paper boards; no statement of printing (later editions do state printing); 5.75" x 8.25", 224 pp.; red endpapers and topstain. A Very Good book in a Near Fine jacket. Book shows some discoloration to top page edges, and a 5% lean (see scan); also very faint touch of fade at top edges of the boards. Jacket is first state and not clipped, still bearing the $ 5.00 price, and really shows no damage to call out, a solid Near Fine example of a jacket which has often suffered grade-loss easily. A nice "flat" signed (no inscription), First Edition, First State example of… Read More

Paris: Olympia Press 1958, 1958. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paris: Olympia Press, 1958. First edition. 12mo, green perfect-bound wrappers, 189 pp. Near Fine; touch peripheral wear. Please see scans. Bearing the later price overstamp. Scarce first edition - if you're here, you know the story of the bannings, burnings, and later pirate and non-pirate editions. The story of a naive and gorgeous young blonde girl - who quickly finds out in exactly what way we men are all, instantly and always, the same - borrows its plot structure from Voltaire's Candide and uses that strangely juxtaposed vehicle to shine a light on all the vagaries of modern western life which beg to be lampooned. Considered by many, then and now, to be a classic of "black (dark) humor". In 2006, Playboy Magazine included Candy on its list of the "25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written". Handsome and rare specimen of a title that is en… Read More

unknown: Unknown, 1885. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (Place not known) Japan, circa 1885, by our estimate; possibly as early as 1827, by others. Octavo, 17 pp, light brown wraps, wraps and pages probably of rice paper. Stitched binding. Creasing of covers, some peripheral wear, some apparent light soiling to covers. About very good. Text in Japanese; therefore I'm unsure of the exact vintage or character of this piece - but it is striking in its two pages of hand-colored illustrations of what are apparently erotic apparatus articles for sale. A singular piece for the erotica collector. Please see scans. L38n

Gillette, WY: Erik Drudwyn, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Fine; New and Pristine. See scans and description. Gillette, WY: Erik Drudwyn, 2013. Artist's Proof # 5 of 7, "Dangerous", Giclée. With COA signed, numbered and dated by Drudwyn. The Proof itself is also signed and numbered by Drudwyn, in white. See scans. 11" x 15", UltraChrome K3tm Archival Giclée on 250 gsm Crane's® Museo MaxT, for an original done in charcoal on Rives BFK. Not framed, not matted. Provenance: purchased here directly from Erik Drudwyn. An eminently flawless and collectible Drudwyn A/P, with COA. See scans. Quite perfect. See scans. L309

Dortmund: Die Bilbiophilen Taschenbucher, 1983. Pictorial Wraps. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Dortmund: Die BibliophilenTaschenbucher, 1983. IN GERMAN AND FRENCH. Erotica. 16mo., 6.5" x 4.75". Blue wraps with illustration pastedown on front cover. Unpaginated. Minute edgewear, else fine. A collection of full color erotica, taken from 19th century French miniature lithographs, showing "libertines" of that era engaged in all sorts of...sports. Though vintage in nature, these are all a little too HC for presenting scans here, the cover image (which see) being pretty much the only one suitable for that. Although the book was produced in Germany [being installment #149 in Die Bibliophilen Taschenbucher's aggregation of similar offerings] and has a bit of text in German, the lithographs reproduced all have short French captions - my personal favorite being "L'asperge a la sauce blanche" ["Asparagus with white… Read More

Lon Ryden, 2010. Soft cover. New. Lon Ryden. 2010: Original pin-up / good girl art by Lon Ryden, a noted illustrator specializing in the pin-up genre: "Entrance" (accent on which syllable?). 18" x 24", pastel colored pencil on art paper, sprayed with a fixative. Signed & titled by Ryden in the lower left corner. Fine, new. This is a bespoke piece by Ryden, done on consignment and pursuant to ongoing conversation, and there are of course no prints of it, anywhere. A fetching blond damsel makes her...entrancing entrance for her dinner date with...you. See scan (PG-13). RCB

New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. First Edition and First Printing of Vintage Contemporaries edition. Octavo, wraps designed by Susan Mitchell, 303 pp. + ads. Fine; top right corner micro-touched (see scan). L-33

Hornsby Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine; see scans and description. Hornsby Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. The quite scarce first, edition, published in 2011 by WCS, in this case accompanied by the even scarcer Fifty Shades Darker bookmark, printed with part of the cover design on the front side and some text on its reverse. This first edition is the Lulu variant, with the 90000 barcode number and the slightly differently arranged back cover text than the Hill Print Solutions variant (chronological priority for the two variants can't be determined for this title). Octavo, wraps, 383 pp. Cover image by E. Spek, cover design by Jennifer McGuire (see copyright page scan). Near Fine - very Near Fine, with just minor traces of handling outside, and none inside. See scans. Almost flawless and clearly never read.… Read More

The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dreamstime and Jennifer McGuire. The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. First Edition, the Hill Print Solutions print run - the rough analog of "third printing" of the first edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), photo-pictorial wraps designed by Jennifer McGuire and executed by Dreamstime, 372 pp. New. Faint spotting, as produced and shipped (all Hill copies of FSG I've personally seen have this issue; Hill copies are also iridescent under a scanner lamp, and images must be descreened), and lower left rear cover corner slightly pushed, also as originally shipped. Otherwise, Fine. New and never read. See scans. The memorable Fifty Shades of Grey started as an self-promoted book submitted to The Writer's Coffee Shop in2011. TWCS then contracted with Lulu Self-Publishing (for printing) and Lightning Source (for distribution) to fulfill a growing international wait… Read More

Hornsby Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine; see scans and description. Hornsby Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. The quite scarce first edition, published in 2011 by WCS. The Hill Print Solutions variant, with the 51999 Barcode number and the slightly differently arranged back cover text than the LuLu variant (chronological priority for the two variants can't be determined for this title). Octavo, wraps, 383 pp. Cover image by E. Spek, cover design by Jennifer McGuire (see copyright page scan). Near Fine, with a long but thin and modest crease at front cover and a tiny tweak at top right front cover corner; see scan. Otherwise, quite flawless and clearly never read. Protectively archivally stored. Second title in the memorable trilogy by E.L. James, the first such worldwide success to start as an e-book and… Read More

Hornsby Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good; see scans and description. Hornsby Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2012. The true first edition & printing, published in 2012 by WCS, in this case accompanied by the scarce Fifty Shades Freed bookmark, printed with part of the cover design on the front side and additional title information on its reverse. Octavo, wraps, 456 pp. Very Good, plus some; crease at lower left, front cover is the only notable flaw. Touch-wear elsewhere; see all scans. Contents flawless. Sharp, bright, tight, scarce. Clearly never read. In archival protection. Fifty Shades Freed, ISBN 9781612130606, third title in the memorable trilogy by E.L. James, the first such worldwide success to start as an e-book and print-on-demand copies. Uncommon as this 2012 WCS First, more so with the bookmark, of… Read More

Hornsby, Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good. See scans and description. Hornsby, Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. First State of the First Edition, with no numeral on the spine and the lulu bar code number 90000 on the back cover. Octavo, wraps, cover illustrated from an art photo by "Papuga2006"; 372 numbered pages. About Very Good; this copy has been read. The cover corners are curling (see scan), and there is some spotting to the page fore-edge. The Bookmark is Near Fine, with a light crease near the bottom (scan). This is the extremely scarce first state of the first edition, with the equally scarce original WCS Fifty Shades of Grey bookmark that accompanied it. WCS copies dated in 2011 and with the lulu bar code number which do have a spine numeral "I" are also first editions, but a later… Read More

The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dreamstime and Jennifer McGuire. The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. First Edition, the Lulu / LightningSource print run, with the spine roman numeral - the rough analog of "second printing" of the first edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), photo-pictorial wraps designed by Jennifer McGuire and executed by Dreamstime, 372 pp. Better than Very Good plus; about Near Fine; corners just touched, small folding to the corners of several consecutive pages, and the glossy cover, held at an angle, shows several faint impressed lines, presumably when original owner had written made lines on a piece of paper using the book as a hard surface. Sharp and clean, showing no smudging, soiling or other signs of prior use except as noted. See scans. The memorable Fifty Shades of Grey started as an author-promoted submission to The Writer's Coffee Shop in 2011, who then… Read More

Los Angeles: Frederick's of Hollywood, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Los Angeles: Frederick's of Hollywood, 1996. Frederick's of Hollywood Model of the Month Calendar for 1997. 10 3/4" x 8 1/2", photo-illustrated wraps, 24 p. Back cover shows a very faint crease, else Fine, virtually as new. See scan. Only the first names and other key facts about the models are included with their quite fetching photographs, but without doubt some of them are now well-known models. L-Pr1

Dunellen, NJ: Gay Book, Incorporated, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. Just Fair; see description and scans. Dunellen, NJ: Gay Book, Incorporated, 1936. Enoch Bolles cover. The November, 1936 issue of Gay Book, a classic - and scarce - 30s pulp publication of the type typically sought out by traveling gentlemen. Quarto, staple-bound wraps, 64 pp. Fair, and just barely that; soil and stains over much of both covers, numerous perimeter chips, including a large one at back cover, covers loose. See scans. Nonetheless, complete, and, as a year 1936 issue, quite scarce. All the standard girlie photos and cartoons, throughout the 64 pages - see sample scans - that defined this genre. This copy is in rough shape, though, and is collectible only for the cover art by the remarkable Enoch Bolles (see scan of corner signature), and its scarcity as a 1936 issue, of which few seem to have survived. Classic pulp americana. See scans. LPR13