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70953 STORY OF NUDE PHOTOGRAPHY by Giovanna Uzzana
The Studio Manasse monochrome images are some of the most intriguing, nestled among the more famous images like those of Alfred Stieglitz of Georgia O’Keefe, 1932, Leni Riefenstahl, Brassaï, Man Ray, Weston, Blumenfeld, Muybridge, Bill Brandt, Herbert List, Cindy Sherman, Jeanloup Sieff, Serrano, Helmut Newton, Mapplethorpe, Nadar plus dozens of anonymous photographic offerings. The fortunes of nude photography have accompanied the history of photography since its origins when the nude, rather than just having an anatomical purpose, began to be used for underground erotic artworks, inspired by fin de siècle aestheticism. With the arrival of avant-garde movements, nude photography became a genre with which to experiment. It resurfaced with Neorealism and then spread to the world of popular culture. In the 60s it was an expression of youthful subversion and by the 1980s, photographers produced flawless images. The male and female body is celebrated in all its beauty in these hundreds and hundreds of quality still photographs, mostly full page, many in colour. 502pp measuring 11½” square in a tremendously heavyweight tome published by Scala.
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finding compensation in their work, and finally the LLs (Lowered Libidos) may be looking for a nonsexual relationship, though this situation can change. Sheehy interviewed more than a hundred women. Open to mature pleasure? 354pp. $25.95 NOW £6.50
70777 1001 RIDICULOUS
SEXUAL MISADVENTURES by Gina McKinnon
An Essex couple who had sex in a crowded railway compartment got away with it until they lit post-coital cigarettes, provoking a chorus of complaint from the outraged non- smoking commuters. These 1001 anecdotes are interspersed with sections such as “top ten royal romps” and “top ten misadventures with inanimate objects”, while the
bottom of every page gives you an astonishing statistic. Paris Hilton achieved celebrity with a graphic sex tape, but not every aspiring porn artist is so lucky: Frasier star Kelsey Grammer aimed at notoriety by going to court over a porn tape that did not exist. Homicide convict Malcolm Fisher tried to claim that his wife’s death by electric shock was the result of sex games gone wrong, while two American men in San Diego vied for the affections of a young woman whose lust was inflamed by the sight of blazing motor vehicles. Among the more interesting sex toys is the “Vortex Vibrator” invented by a busy American mum, which works by hooking up to the vacuum cleaner during housework. 304pp, cartoons. £9.99 NOW £4
55018 HARRIS’S LIST OF
COVENT-GARDEN LADIES by Hallie Rubenhold ‘Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies’ was a bestseller of the 18th century, shifting 250,000 copies, all privately printed. An annual ‘guide book’ and published at
Christmastime, it details the names and ‘specialities’ of London’s prostitutes. During its heyday
during the years 1757-95, ‘Harris’s List’ was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. The author has collected the funniest, rudest and most bizarre entries penned by ‘Jack Harris, Pimp-General-of-All- England’ into this mischievous little book. Fat, pretty, large breasted, small waisted, big nosed, old and young, Harris gives all the details, warts and all, in the most interesting language. Includes full addresses and prices they charged and lovely woodcut illus. 158pp. £9.99 NOW £3
64464 IN PRAISE OF THE BACKSIDE by Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Rousseau in his ‘Confessions’: ‘Though buttocks are considered beautiful that are evenly placed, not too high, not uneven as in lame people whose hip-bones are displaced, so they do not stick out like a bay window; not so large and fat that you could dance on them, but not so skinny and sharp that you could drill holes with them, but rounded, hard, taught, so that they have a pleasing resonance when slapped, smooth and white.’ Sepia erotic photographs, daring woodcuts, salacious drawings and prints, colour plates and historic erotic drawings are boldly presented on every full page plate, one to a page, plus three detailed images on opposite page. Artists include Aubrey Beardsley, Corot, Courbet, Gauguin, Millet, Schiele and Veláquez. 256pp. ONLY £7.50
69560 DIRTY WORDS: The Story of Sex Talk by Mark Morton
For all tongues and lovers who love cunning linguistics here is a lip-smacking collection of smutty words, words for nakedness, love and desire, terms of endearment, body parts, words for the penis, vagina, clitoris, breasts, masturbation, kissing and fondling, oral sex, anal sex, and words for the exciting climax. What is a rantallion, a merkin, a wittol and is sacofricosis a crime? 368pp. £12.99 NOW £4
69802 JOY OF SEX: The Adventurous Lover by Susan Quilliam
Retaining the knowledge, insight and gravitas of Dr Alex Comfort’s classic original, every act of sex is an adventure. In the intimacy of making love, you leave your defences behind and engage physically with your partner. That can mean wrestling as well as caressing, crying and raging as well as murmuring and whispering. Kick-start your adrenalin and for when you need to push the boundaries of your relationship. 192pp with tasteful colour photos.
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67985 THE EAST, THE WEST, AND SEX: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein
The Victorian explorer Richard Burton, translator of the Thousand and One Nights, promoted the myth of eastern sexual connoisseurship, and the Ottoman empire also exerted its fascination, with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, feminist wife to the ambassador in Constantinople in the early 19th century, writing an account of Turkish sexual practices which presented the inmates of harems as enjoying a freedom unheard-of in the west. A different kind of case history is that of Amy R. She explains that western men are attractive to Asian women because they represent escape. 325pp, photos. $27.95 NOW £2.50
68772 CLASSIFIED by H. G. Cocks From single typist looking for love in the 1920s, sporty girls and artistic boys, the perils of the personal columns, white slavery by post, bits of fun and the lost world of pornography and fetish, wife swapping and the contradictions of sexual revolution, the Internet and the future and going back to ‘lonely soldiers’ of the First World War, through to the swingers of the 1960s and the social networking sites of today, this is a special book unearthing the history of the modern personal ad. 228pp. Illus.
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67054 SEXUAL SYMBOLISM: A History of Phallic Worship by Richard Payne Knight and Thomas Wright
Payne Knight examines the worship of generative organs among Egyptians, Greeks, Persians and other peoples of the ancient world and moves on to the British Isles, including the evidence of phallic worship from the Roman station at Adel, near Leeds, and the crude
carvings of women exposing their genitals and the initiation rites of the Templars. 237pp, paperback, line drawings.
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69451 VENUS IN INDIA by Captain Charles Devereux
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When Captain Charles Devereux joins his regiment in India and leaves his wife and young child behind in England, he anticipates a lonely posting. What he had not expected was to encounter the lubricious charms of Lizzie Wilson. When he is warned off the lovely Lizzie, Captain Devereux joins in action with Fanny, Amy and Mabel. Victorian erotica at its best. 299pp in paperback. $7.95 NOW £3.50
70241 FORBIDDEN ASIA The golden age of Chinese erotic art dates from the Ming period (14th- 17th centuries) when intellectual and moral liberty flourished. In the following centuries the prudery of Confucianism destroyed many ancient Taoist sex manuals, followed by the equally repressive effects of
Christianity and the Maoist revolution. The erotic illustrations that survive come from 18th and 19th century marriage manuals illustrating different positions in love-making and passed to the daughters of a family. Each double spread in the first half of this beautiful little chunky book features text and illustrations from these manuals. The second half moves on to Japanese woodcuts from the shunga tradition advocating abandonment to the pleasures of each moment. The great master Utamaro worked from 1770-1800 and was the inspiration for the traditional style based on the practices of the courtesans of the Yoshimara district of Udo. Images of abandonment typically involve penetration by large penises and the woman ecstatically biting a cloth to express her ecstasy. New publication. 255pp, colour reproductions on every page. ONLY £8.50
69702 DIRTY WORDS: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex edited by Ellen Sussman
Sexual practices, positions and terms are defined, expounded and ruminated upon, often in the most outlandish and unspeakable manner. The Mile High Club, Phone Sex, Tantric Sex, Gadara, Foreplay, Hermaphrodites, Exhibitionism, Coitus Interruptus, Climax, Celibacy, Bisexuality and Don Juan are some of the topic headings which are printable in our family magazine, among the hundred or so here. Each begins with a definition, followed by a story, fictional or otherwise, a discussion, a first-hand experience, an historical perspective or a good old cogitation upon that topic. A-Z format. 290pp with brief biogs of all the contributors.
$19.99 NOW £3.50 70559 TAO OF SEDUCTION Erotic Secrets
from Ancient China by Lin Liao Yi In 1972 Chinese archaeologists discovered three tombs dating from the Western Han Dynasty, 206 BC to 8 AD, in Hunan province. They found four bamboo rolls each about 4,000 words long and three of these texts - The Ten Questions, The Harmonisation of Yin and Yang and The Supreme Path - are the oldest existing treatises written on the subject of sexuality. This book begins with The Ten Questions on the art of love, posed by ancient emperors. The answers are paradigms of wisdom that can help prevent illness and allow us to attain a long life and enjoy fully radiant sexuality. ‘After three rounds of intercourse you will learn to control ejaculation. In this way your vital energy will be strengthened.’ There are also techniques for harmony between man and woman and a list of the ten positions of the sexual act - the tiger’s ride, the intertwining serpents and so on. 174 large pages with frequently explicit drawings in colour. Bound as a traditional Chinese text, with a lavish binding and illus with exotic Chinese paintings. 9" x 13½”. £20.95 NOW £16
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69813 SADOPAIDEIA by Anonymous Omnibus two volumes in one of this underground English classic, first published in 1907. The experiences of Cecil Prendergast, undergraduate of the University of Oxford, shows how he was led through the pleasant path of masochism to the supreme joys of sadism. Edwardian in tone and Rabelaisian in content, it relates the bawdy adventures of a young gentleman. Cecil succumbs to the erotic allure of the domineering Mrs Harcourt. Under her careful tutelage he avidly learns the sublime arts both of submission and triumph with the lovely Muriel, Juliette, Gladys and other adventurous young ladies she brings his way. 250pp in facsimile reprinted paperback. £4.99 NOW £3
69809 BLUE BUTTERFLY by Don Winslow A set of nine literary vignettes culled from the London journal of the same name, The Blue Butterfly. In exquisite detail and sensual power, some of the women you meet are beautiful, some merely pretty in an ordinary sort of way, some exotic and some might be called commonplace, yet for the man who loves each woman, they represent a charming example of her sex with a unique seductive appeal that makes her memorable in the annals of erotica. 177 page paperback. £4.99 NOW £2.50
69810 DARK GAMES by Michael Perkins In a perverse triangle of obsession, submission and power, Anna insists that her lover does not reveal his identity to her. In trade, this sexual Scheherazade must relate detailed descriptions of her sexual escapades to her master as they make love. Robin Flood competes with Anna for the master’s attention, seeking out progressively bolder and more promiscuous scenarios, ultimately destroying the triangle in this dark game of submission. 186pp in paperback. £4.99 NOW £2.50
69573 MAN TO MAN: A History of Gay
Photography by Pierre Borhan A fast-paced overview of the principal themes of 19th and 20th century homoerotic photography. Here are layouts in Vogue and other fashion magazines to the tongue-in-cheek advertising campaigns of Calvin Klein, plus rare and unpublished prints as well as such classics by seminal photographers as Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, John Dugdale, Jan Saudek, Pierre et Gilles, Nan Golden, Tom Bianchi, Duane Michals and other pre-eminent artists whose images are now widely collected by museums and the general public. The first section covers the years 1840-1918 when men posed in studio images as friends (Walt Whitman), covering the trend of voyeurism (Wilhelm von Pluschow) moving to the years of emancipation, 1819- 1969. There was an emergence of gay male photographers, George Platt Lynes and other anonymous images of eroticism. Early daguerreotypes to luminous black and white and full colour artworks of today. 350 works, artfully tasteful and sexy rather than crude. 25cm x 31cm, 288pp. 2007 first edition. £50 NOW £20
69811 INITIATION OF AURORA TRILL by Harry Temple
Driven by her restless desire for occasional, furtive lesbian love-bouts, Aurora Trill can only dream of the consummate relief she craves in her sleep, shouting obscene phrases of encouragement to her fantasy lover. But leaving London, she encounters Harry Temple, a man trained in the carnal arts and together they embark on a physical journey that surpasses her wildest fantasies. 148pp, paperback. £4.99 NOW £3
70244 1000 EROTIC WORKS OF GENIUS by Victoria Charles and Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Bonnard, Dalí, Bécat, Chagall, Man Ray and Barbara Hepworth all appear in a chapter entitled Decades of Promise, 1922-1960. Arranged from pre-history and primitive forms, through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the golden age of the body, the elegance of the body (1853-1918) including the luminescent Torso of a Man, 1800, by Ingres and Goya’s Maja Desnuda, the silks and ruffles of David and Delacroix through to the years of realism and revolutions from the 1960s to 2000. Quality glossy paper, 1000 erotic artworks. 543pp. ONLY £16
69812 MAX by Richard Manton Max is a perfectionist bookstore owner in a cathedral town, middle aged, apparently with no relatives and few friends. He is also ‘rather interested in the female bottom’ as he puts it, and his life is one long quest for pretexts which allow him to use his cane or whip upon its bare cheeks. In the stories selected for this volume, we see Max at work in his book shop and occasionally on the Sussex coast, righteously enforcing discipline in a world that he feels badly needs it. 194pp in paperback. £4.99 NOW £3
69962 THREE: The Art of the Ménage à Trois by Sadie Johnson
Come on now, be honest, we reckon that everyone has at some time fantasised about a ménage à trois, or a threesome in our more straightforward tongue. After all, it is only natural to delight in the thought of a warm tangle of limbs and the thrill of a sensation overload. However, things are a great deal more complicated than finding two somebodies to leap into bed with. For instance, a man may have a long-held yearning to spend a night with his partner and another woman, and when the subject of three-in-a-bed is raised she is thrilled at the prospect - only she had in mind another man. Inside this salacious, decadent book you will find all the guidance, encouragement, caveats and possibilities you will need to embark on your sinful three-way adventure, or whether you decide to consign it to the realm of fantasy. With red-hot colour photography of gorgeous guys and girls showing you what you could be missing in MMF and MFF combinations, useful tips for initiating and getting the most of the experience, role-play, dressing up, use of toys, overcoming shyness and full and frank discussion of all the pros and cons of troilism. 122pp, colour photos, highly explicit for adults only. $19.95 NOW £5
70226 HOT STUFF: 30 Temporary Tattoos by Mitch O’Connell
Too Hot to Handle, Taste My Muffin, Horny, Hot to Trot, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Are among the 15 designs, two of each, to encourage you to be as delightfully wicked as you want. Wash away these dirty temporary tattoos when finished, and don’t tell us what you got up to! Softback, colour. £7.99 NOW £2.50
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He was an author whose works were so little known as to be almost confidential.
- Stanley Walker 70747 ALAN FURST: Three
Great Novels by Alan Furst Kingdom of Shadows, Dark Star and The Polish Officer are three cracking wartime thrillers recreating the terrors of espionage and combat. Follow Alan Furst through smoky alleyways, hushed back rooms and glittering salons as Europe stands on the precipice of war. In Kingdom of Shadows, a Hungarian cavalry officer will trade conspiracies with
British spies and SS renegades on the orders of his uncle, a mysterious Count. In Dark Star, André Szara, a Pravda journalist and survivor of the Polish pogroms, will quickly find himself out of his depth after retrieving a battered briefcase. In The Polish Officer, Captain Alexander de Milja will become a spymaster in the anti- Nazi underground, posing as a poet, coal merchant and fascist sympathiser. Set in the years from 1937-39, the novels move from Paris to Warsaw, from Vienna to the Ukraine, capturing the shadowlands of a secret war. Omnibus large paperback. 824pp with maps. £16.99 NOW £6
70569 THE KING’S SECRET
MATTER by Jean Plaidy First published in 1962, this is a welcome reprint of the historical novelist’s work which blends romance and drama. After 12 years of marriage, the once fortuitous union of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon has declined into a loveless stalemate. Their only child Mary is disregarded as a suitable heir, and Henry’s need for a legitimate son to protect the Tudor
throne has turned him into a callous and greatly feared ruler. When the young and intriguing Anne Boleyn arrives from the French court, Henry is easily captivated by her dark beauty and bold spirit. But his desire to possess the wily girl leads to a deadly struggle of power that promises to tear apart the lives of Katherine and Mary and forever change England’s faith. A tremendous re-enactment of these deadly times with all the colour and detail of life at the courts of Greenwich and Hampton Court and the intrigues of the cardinals and courtiers. 412pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.75
70742 THE REAVERS
by George MacDonald Fraser After 12 gloriously scandalous Flashman novels, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser gives us a hilarious tale of derring-do from a different era. It is the turn of the 17th century and we are in the wild Borders of Scotland. A casket of jewels, an accidental murder, an estate at risk and a plot to overthrow the king are the order of
the day. The irresistible and feisty Lady Godiva Dacre and her ‘chocolate-box pretty’ companion Mistress Kylie Delishe find themselves stranded on a desolate road as highway robbers threaten their lives and possessions. From nowhere a dashing hero singlehandedly defeats the villains, but not before stealing Lady Godiva’s treasured jewels, along with her heart. Despite preposterous alliances and uproarious complications of the heart, the women must rely on one another as secret identities are revealed and a perilous coup endangers the Scottish throne. Our heroines confront wizards and witches in a triangular plot that threatens national security. 268pp with roughcut pages in this US first edition 2008. $24 NOW £4
70859 ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE PARIS OPTION by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynes
The destruction of a super-computer threatens worldwide chaos. It is a mission for Covert-One. An explosion shatters a laboratory in Paris and among the dead is the creator of a molecular or DNA computer. Suddenly US fighter jets disappear from radar screens, all
telecommunications abruptly stop, and the entire US begins to shut down with devastating consequences. Only the power and speed of a DNA computer could cause such havoc. Following a trail across two continents, Covert-One Jon Smith uncovers a web of deception that threatens to reshape the world. By the author of The Bourne Legacy, a gripping thriller. 471pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
70699 A DREAM IN POLAR FOG
by Yuri Rytkheu translated by
Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse Described by one critic as a ‘world- class writer’, Rytkheu brings the majestic, inhospitable Arctic to life in a moving story of cultures in collision, and sometimes in accord, in the far north. It is 1910. When ice traps John MacLennan’s ship in the Bering Strait, the youthful sailor,
whilst trying to widen a small fissure with dynamite, blows up his hands. His captain hires several local Chukchi men to take him by dogsled to a Russian doctor and vows that the ship will wait for his safe return. But gangrene sets in, and John’s hands have to be amputated by a local medicine woman. Then strong winds break the ice shelf and his ship sails off without him. He gradually learns to adapt to his handicap, and to the Chukchi way of life, finding friendship and love among his hosts. Even his role in the tragic accidental
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