Search Results: Titles starting with J from Well-Stacked Books

Henry Holt, 1998. Very Good. First US edition. Classic bio of the tragic Beat king.Very Good Plus in like jacket. Gift inscription.

Woodford Memorial Editions, 1980. Very Good. Second edition, perfect-bound softcover octavo, 244pp, printed yellow wraps. Uncommon anthology of Woodford's essays on writing, alludes to his "Rabelaisian Letters" also from the publisher, Woodford notably prolific erotica author. Very Good, moderate toning, light rubbing, a few small stains, spine crease, tender hinge w/ pp starting.

Self published, 2023. Near Fine. First Edition, perfect-bound softcover 8vo, over 300pp, b/w throughout, color wraps. Vintage digest paperback devoted to the work of pinup and fetish model, Miller, and a dive into her personal background. Scarce title. Faint rubbing and toning, Near Fine overall. For mature, consenting audiences.

American Match Company, 1950s. Very Good Plus. Vintage matchbook featuring glamour pinup art of notable pinup and Irving Klaw model, Jackie Miller, and a local map of the establishment's surrounding area on the matchbook inside (flap verso). Matchbooks started before 1970s as easy advertising for local businesses, gas stations, bars, restaurants, night clubs and other tourist attractions. Distributed by a mail-order company and one of the epicenters for matchbook production. Scarce. Retains original matches. About 1.5 x 1.75 inches, full color, with staples as issued. Very Good Plus, with faint rubbing, foxing, and toning overall, discreet surface bruises. Non-nude but for mature, consenting audiences.

Klaw, 1950s. Very Good Plus. Vintage adult photographs, produced by Irving & Paula Klaw, a brother-sister fetish publisher/photographer team who dominated the 1950s/60s underground & camera club trade groups who flew under the radar. These feature Klaw regular & Leonard Burtman model, Jackie Miller. Single-weight, b/w snapshot style photos 4 x 5 inches, small white border, model name & numbers at the bottom corner made prior to print transfer. Faintly handled overall, Very Good Plus. Non-nude, for mature, consenting audiences.

Picture Magazines, 1971. Very Good. Vol. 6 No. 5, October; distributed by Kable News, 35c cover price, 92pp, b/w throughout, color wrapper, 12mo, side-stapled perfect bound. Vintage magazine devoted to bawdy cartoons, jokes, and stories, without seminude glamour photography like their competitors at Humorama. This series ran 1970-78, final issues with barcode, from Lopez who also published men's magazines the previous two decades. Uncredited cover, Mel Scott rear cover, Gordon, Dawson 4pp, Hagglund, Slim, Don Hester, Ted Trogdon 4pp, Franchot, Lindensmith 2pp, Lutner 3pp, Palston, Hageman 6pp, Bob Zahn 4pp, Schochet, Hoppes, Bob Tupper 2pp, John Kennedy, Charles Dennis 4pp, Bill Wenzel 4pp, R. H. Dowting, Joe Shep. Very Good, slight roll, spine stress, short tears and creases to front.

M.F. Enterprises / Countrywide Publications, 1978. Very Good. Two vintage adult magazines devoted to nude and glamour pictorials, cartoons, fiction, editorials, forum, entertainment reviews, politics, color centerfolds, lesbiana, in the vein of Penthouse, 60s aesthetic even into 70s, pulpy. B/W/Color throughout, $1.95 cover price, 66pp, saddle-stapled, distributed by Kable News. Ran 1964-79, ~100 issues, specials. V13 N11, August 1978; nymphomania, swinging, blonde Helga 4pp, Camille & stud 5pp, ten Scarlet Masseuse 4pp, Juliet 3pp/center, 8mm film review, Bob & Pauline soft focus interracial 4pp, bejeweled girlfriends, fiction (hot model, delivery man, impotence, amputee), ads (Karen Brown, Christine de Schaeffer).V13 N2, September 1978; Jaguar Bond cover, picture panic collages, film review, subway group love, Bob & Eileen at beach 4pp, Wanda in desert 4pp/center, swinging, blonde Roberta (not Pedon) 4pp/center, Suzette on red 4pp, Pat & Carol 4pp, fiction (great train orgy, prison, pimps,… Read More

[Star], 1970s. Very Good. First Editions, no publisher/copyright/date stated; "Printed in U.S.A." on rear cover. Stapled 8vo softcover, $2.50 cover price, 72pp, color photographic front, b/w full-pg photos t/o. Vintage adult digest paperbacks, similar to modern "chapbooks" but explicit erotic fiction, nearly every other pg a grainy b/w softcore pornographic image. Covers feature posed models in heated embrace. Often these imprints lean towards occult, counterculture, sexual identity, & other subjects prominent publishers wouldn't touch, produced several titles featuring amateur pornographic photos throughout, these being a prime example. Very Good overall, all w/ light rubbing & toning, heavy edge foxing, 2 w/ remainder dots on page edges. Jersey Shore Sex, Ted Chase; Teenage Slaves, Casper Le'Duc; Surfside Sex, Adam Wilson. For mature, consenting audiences.

Johnson Publishing, 1986. Very Good. Vol. 70 No. 17, ISSN 00215996. Vintage digest magazine devoted to entertainment by and for the Black community, articles, picture features, reviews, columns, and advertisements. Began 1951, often pinup model covers, hailed as the "Negro Bible" by comedian Redd Foxx; notably covered the Emmett Till murder. Diahann Carroll cover/feature, General Frank E. Petersen, Dawn Hale 1pp, Sugar Ray Leonard, ads (beer, Ford, Primatene, cosmetics), vignettes (Jesse Jackson, Troy Beyer, Whitney Houston, Veronica Ali). Very Good Plus, faint creases and rubbing.

Johnson Publishing, 1982. Very Good. Vol. 62 No. 1, ISSN 00215996. Vintage digest magazine devoted to entertainment by and for the Black community, articles, picture features, reviews, columns, and advertisements. Began 1951, often pinup model covers, hailed as the "Negro Bible" by comedian Redd Foxx; notably covered the Emmett Till murder. Tim Reid and Daphne Maxwell cover/feature, KKK rallies, killer Wayne Williams, Adrianne Harris 1pp, Grammy Awards, ads (Camaro, alcohol, cosmetics, cigarettes), vignettes (Jesse Jackson & Pope, Cab Calloway, Chaka Khan, Quincy Jones). Very Good Plus, light creasing and rubbing.

De Danann Press, 1975. Very Good. Third Edition, first printing, quarto softcover, color wrapper, perfect-bound, [36]pp, b/w throughout, 1 "silver foil" plate, foldouts. Signed by the artist in ink on the first blank. Dublin native and popular Celtic mythology illustrator, and originator of the Che Guevara poster, this being his second book. A limited edition signed hardcover was also released, nearly identical in appearance. Very Good Plus, with light toning and bumps, brief corner creases, faint foxing.

Twelvetrees, 1985. Very Good Plus. First Edition, limited to 4000 copies, square 4to in original dust jacket, b/w throughout. Special monograph of the fetishistic photographer's erotic but dark works. Very Good Plus overall, light rubbing and toning, a few small scuffs and tears to the jacket. For mature, consenting audiences. International shipping at cost.

Carrol & Graf, 1984. Very Good Plus. 1st printing of this edition, 8vo hardcover in dust jacket, 262pp. Jazz Age erotica. Sequel to "Plaisir D'Amour." Very Good Plus, light rubbing & foxing, a few pp w/ ink marginalia; jacket w/ light foxing, rubbing & toning, a few small tears & creases. For mature, consenting audiences.

Dell, 1960. Very Good. D343, March (The Dell Great Mystery Library No. 27); 35c cover price. Vintage paperback, mystery and crime fiction. Very Good Plus, slight lean, crease to front.

Gnome Press, 1951. Good Plus. First Edition, octavo hardcover lacking original dust jacket, 381pp. Collects 12 stories. Andrew J. Offutt name stamp on the front endpaper. Good Plus, lean, rubbing, heavy toning, edge foxing, corner bumps, a few pp w/ pencil notations. A reader copy.

Cape Magazine Mgmt., 1959. Very Good. V3 N9, April 1959, 35c cover price, Kable News (dist.), b/w t-o, color front & cf, 102pp, saddle-stapled octavo softcover. Scarce issue. Lola Hall, June Blair, Jeannie Mann, Dane Arden, Jacques Pruner, Naja, strip queens, Tempest Storm, Nona von Tosh, Brandy Case, Dawn Danielle, Susan Darby cf, Margo Donnely, Georgia Peaches, France Nuyen, Meg Myles, Gloria Paul, Kalantan. V4 N1, December 1959, 35c cover price, b/w t-o, color front, 100pp, saddle-stapled octavo softcover. Scarce issue. Elaine Drew, Eva Lynd, Simone Auger, Tana Velia, Zahra Norbo, Eve Eden, Monique Van Vooren, Laya Raki, Marie Devereaux, Karen Borkowski cf.Vintage adult digests magazine devoted to burlesque & pinup, loaded w/ photographs & great models. Similar to Foto-rama, Picture Scope, Eye, Vue, but none the tabloid articles or copy writing. Both Very Good, rubbing, foxing, a few small creases & tears, date stamp on rear. For mature, consenting audiences.

High Society, 1994. Very Good. Original metallic fan club card for the "Julia Parton VIP Fan Club," entitling cardholder to one free Polaroid per engagement, and 10% off specified club items," member No. 1280. The Fan Club has since dissolved, little documentation available, but this card issued at the height of Parton's success and fame while she headed the adult entertainment magazine, "High Society," one of few women publishers of pornographic magazines. The magazine itself had been running in some variation since the 1950s. 3.5 x 2 inches, round corners, Parton silhouette printed in red, text in black, brushed gold lightweight metal (tin? steel?), thin as a credit card. A few tiny bruises on the verso, else Near Fine. A curious collectible for Parton fan club leftovers.

Various Publishers, 1980s. Very Good Plus. Vintage paperbacks, adult erotic novels. Buxom brunette and female entrepreneur Julia Parton on the front, two from BeeLine and an earlier appearance on a Star Publication title, an early appearance outside of magazines. Consenting Adults, BeeLine BL-50001-1, 1992, Tanya Springs, $4.99 cover price, 12mo softcover, 180pp, perfect-bound, photographic front cover.Landing Mr. Right, BeeLine BL-50185-9, 1995, Darian Thomas, $4.99 cover price, 12mo softcover, 176pp, perfect-bound, photographic front cover. Jennifer Shows Off / Stacey Is a Brat, Two Complete Novels TCN-3, 1988, no authors, $5.95 cover price, 12mo softcover, 300pp, perfect-bound, photographic front cover. Very Good Plus overall, light rubbing and toning, 1 with price sticker. For consenting, mature audiences.

Various Publishers, 1980s. Very Good Plus. Original b/w glossy photographs, & 1 color "Pretty in Pink" salesman sample calendar topper, produced at or near time of photo session, 1980s, featuring Julia Parton aka Joyce Patrick aka Nina Alexander. Photographers not credited, nor publisher generally, but first appeared in Parliament News & Nuance magazines series. An array of her modeling, solo or w/ costars, from early days late 1970s to 1980s, roughly a decade represented, from photo sessions originally published in pornographic magazines. Steve Sullivan's #366 (Glamour Girls: The Illustrated Encyclopedia,1999) & Kentucky native Julia burst on the scene early 1980s, w/ stunning lush dimensions, frequently billed as Dolly Parton's cousin, eventually an adult film actress & entrepreneur. She endured, made BDSM, was a regular in High Society magazine, paperback appearances are uncommon but pleasant. Sizes range 4.5x5.5 to 8x10, b/w/color, single- & double-weight stocks, 3 w/ white borders. All w/ faint… Read More

Various Publishers, 1961-62. Very Good. Two vintage adult paperbacks featuring supermodel and actress June Wilkinson, a noted Russ Meyer model, on the front. Two titles from two different publishers, but both some of the best and earliest pinup paperbacks of the 1960s. From her days as a topless dancer at the Windmill Theatre, to "The Playgirls and the Bellboy" (1963), to stage acting, June "The Bosom" Wilkinson is an endless suply of allure and talent. She was also on the infamous Vest Pocket paperbacks. The Devil's Mistress (Merit Book 525, 1961); Ravished! (Novel Books 6018, 1962. Likely a Meyer cover photo). Very Good overall. For mature, consenting audiences.