Prostitution
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Mandate: the national magazine of entertainment & eros; vol. 8, #7, October 1982: Male Prostitution
by Staggs, Sam, editor, Leigh W. Rutledge, Edmund White, Steve Masters, Al Parker, Marilyn Monroe, et al
New York: Modernismo, 1982. Magazine. 98p., including covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with b&w full-frontal physique photos as well as entertainers and performers, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Interview with Edmund White. Leigh W. Rutledge on hiring male escorts. Long article on the death of Monroe accompanied by classic b&w photos.
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£24.28
Under the Raj: Prostitution in Colonial Bengal
by Banerjee, Sumanta
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998. Hardcover. 228p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, frontis., very good condition in an unclipped, lightly worn dj.
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£16.19
Ameyukisan no uta あめゆきさんの歌
by Yamazaki, Tomoko 山崎朋子
Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1978. 278p., very good hardcover in a sun-faded and slightly shelfworn dustjacket. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Text in Japanese. Biography of Yamada Waka, who was kidnapped and sent from Japan to Seattle to work at a brothel in 1897. After escape and conversion to Christianity in San Francisco, she became a well-known women's rights activist. An English translation was published as "The story of Yamada Waka: from prostitute to feminist pioneer.
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£16.19
The San Francisco Phoenix: a magazine of news, the arts and informed dissipation; vol. 1, #6, for period ending November 23, 1972; S.F.'s Hungry Children
by Bryan, John, editor
San Francisco: The Phoenix, 1972. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, ads, services, resources, news, events, opinion, very good on newsprint. Cover story "SF's hungry children." The "SF male whores" story on p. 17 is an interview with a call boy who has sex with both men and women. Article on Norman Mailer. Report on Scorpio Halloween at The Palace with drag performers including Divine.
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£24.28
The House at Number 10 (Signed copy)
by Johnston, Dorothy
Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 2005. Very Good condition. Signed by the author on the title page. 257 pages. "A novel about complex relationships people develop with the buildings they live and work in, about betrayal and the will to vengeance, but most of all itis about the resiliance of friendshipm and the transformative power of the imagination." Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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£15.86
Queer Hustler
by Culver, Ed
San Diego: Publisher's Export Co, 1967. Paperback. 154p., good first printing PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction . French Line FL 29. Lesbian character is raped by the main bisexual character.
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£24.28
The Hustler; the story of a nameless love from Friedrich Street
by Mackay, John Henry, (aka Sagitta) translated from the German by Hubert Kennedy
Self-published by the translator at Xlibris, 2002. Paperback. 304p., very good reissue edition trade paperback in red pictorial wraps. Self-published by the translator. A fifteen year old runaway boy becomes a street hustler in 1920s Berlin. Originally published in 1926 in German.
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£12.14
The Boys of Boise: furor, vice, and folly in an American city
by Gerassi, John
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Hardcover. xviii, 328p., introduction, chronology, appendixes, index, very good second printing in cloth boards and unclipped dj. First book -- on a homosexual scandal in Boise in the 1950s -- by an author who went on to a dashing career as a New Left Internationalist in the 1960s and 1970s.
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£20.23
Street Corner Meat illustrated
by Anonymous [cover & illustrations by Adam?]
New York: Star Dist, 1982. Paperback. 180p. + ads, illustrated throughout by explicit drawings, price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-523. Cum beat the meat and feel the heat On the avenue I'm taking you to Forty-Second Street.
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£20.23
Sunday is the Day You Rest
by Terrell, John Upton
New York: Coward-McCann, 1939. Hardcover. 107p., illustrated with two drawings, the first one a nude, mild dust soiling else very good first edition in lavender cloth and price-clipped, lightly edgeworn dj. Chicago-born Terrell worked as a cowboy in Montana and a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle. He was known for his works on the American West. The story of a single eventful Sunday in the life of a small-town prostitute.
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£60.70
Berkeley Barb: vol. 14, #16 (#349) April 21-27, 1972; Council Okays Car-Free Telly: Never on Sunday; Rock Fest Gang Rape Seen; Meat Rack Blues; Bobby-Spassky Bout Off
by Scherr, Max, editor
Berkeley: Max Scherr, 1972. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid, illus., evenly toned, wraps edgeworn, address label on front wrap, else good condition. The cover stories are about car-free Telegraph Avenue, an eye-witness account of a gang-rape at a concert, male sex workers and the canceling of a chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, respectively. Plenty of sex ads in back pages of issue.
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£24.28
The Medieval Underworld
by McCall, Andrew
London: Book Club Associates. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Plates and Drawings. 319pages. Looks at outlaws and brigands; homosexuals; heretics; witches; Jews; prostitutes; thieves; fraudulent beggars and vagabonds. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.
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£9.51
Call House Madam: The Story of the Career of Beverly Davis
by WOLSEY, Serge G
San Francisco: Martin Tudordale Company, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early reprint(?). 442pp. Red papercovered boards. Bottom corner of first few pages with a dampstain, else very good in a heavily price-clipped very good dustwrapper with a large stain visible mostly on the insode of the jacket. The story of Hollywood madam Beverly Davis gives "an inside view, a wide open exhibition, of the activities behind the doors of a call house, the affairs of lesbians, the perversions engage in by men...
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£80.93
Hell's Belles: Denver's Brides of the Multitudes With Attention to Various Gamblers, Scoundrels, and Mountebanks and a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier
by Secrest, Clark
Aurora, CO: Hindsight Historical Publications, 1996. First Printing. Wraps. Very good. Quarto, 10.75 x 8.6 inches, softcover, very good. 348 pp, illustrated with some loosely laid in addenda sheets and errata slip. Based on the work of Denver lawman's scrutiny of local papers for crime information starting in 1883 and kept as clippings in notebooks for over 40 years.
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£24.28
A Bibliography of Prostitution
by Bullough, Vern, ed.; Elcano, Barrett, ed.; Deacon, Margaret, ed.; Bullough, Bonnie, ed
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1977. Hardcover. x, 419p., dark blue boards, gilt title, 5.75x8.75 inches, very good. Garland Reference Library of Social Science (Vol. 30).
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£24.28
Fina Mot: Mein Leib - Meine Ware; lebensbleichte eines mädchens von der strasse
by Mot, Fina, Prof. Dr. Th. von Lingen
Amsterdam: Sekreta-Archiv Sexualkundlicher Dokumente, 1920. Hardcover. 250p., text in German, very good subscription edition numbered 626 in dull plain cloth boards with light wear and toning. Autobiography of a streetwalker of the 1910s. Only one holding located in OCLC as of 5/2021.
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£121.40
Call House Madam: the story of the career of Beverly Davis
by Wolsey, Serge G
San Francisco: The Martin Tudordale Corporation, 1945. Hardcover. 442p., worn 7th printing, scrawled previous ownership in ink, poor in gray cloth boards and faded gilt titles. This biography of the Hollywood madam contains some material on lesbianism. Grier B.
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£12.14
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[Business card for Fran's Star Ranch brothel] we may doze but we never close!
Beatty, NV: The Ranch, 1970. 3.5x2 inch business card printed one side only on gold field, very good condition. Fran's was so named between about 1970 to 1997. It became Angel's Ladies and as such has been featured in documentaries and punk rock videos. It had a truck turnaround and an airstrip (where in 1978 during a promotional stunt a plane crashed and the wreckage was left in front of the billboard to attract visitors).
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£12.14
The Male Hustler
by Shearer, Johnny
Cleveland: Century Books, 1966. Paperback. 190p., very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction masquerading as scientific case-studies. CB 012.
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£28.33
La Prostitución en la España Contemporánea
by Guereña, Jean-Louis
Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia, 2003. Paperback. 471p., french-fold wraps, 5.75x8.75 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Estudios.
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£24.28
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Boku chojo desu [I (masculine pronoun) am the eldest daughter] ぼく, 長女です
by Yukichi 諭吉
Tokyo: Yoshimoto Bukkusu ヨシモトブックス, 2010. Paperback. 223 p., text in Japanese, very good in trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Author was born Kunimi Rika. Describes growing up in the Osaka area as the only girl among five brothers. It contains extensive discussion of Yukichi's experience working in the "water-trade" (mizu-shobai); commercialized host/hostess clubs. Yukichi worked as a host in an onabe club (onabe are biological females who identify as male or present themselves as male).
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£20.23
Life of a Call Girl's Daughter
by Handy, Eula C
npl: Self-published by the author, 2001. Paperback. vi, 137p., wraps, 5x8 inches, illus., very good condition.
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£9.71
A consumer's guide to male hustlers
by Itiel, Joseph
New York: Harrington Park Press, 1998. Paperback. x, 172p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies, John P. De Cecco, editor.
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£12.14
The Girls of Nevada
by Vogliotti, Gabriel R
Citadel Press, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£7.27
