10 Erotica EROTICA
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- George Carlin
71401 MAKING LOVE TO MARILYN MONROE: The
Faber Book of Blue Verse edited by John Whitworth With poets ranging across the centuries from Fleur Adcock, Kingsley Amis, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dryden, Christopher Marlowe, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester to Paul Verlaine and Kit Wright, here is work that is tender, ribald, coarse and technically
adept, exploring that perennially fascinating subject, sex. One to dip into again and again to keep by the bedside. 305pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4
71331 DIRTY SCRAPBOOK by Sayuri Ogawa Make lusciously likable lollipops from the erotic sweets and treats for lovers and friends, enjoy a good deal of art history revisiting some of the classics in these specially drawn erotic scenes with private parts missing for you to fill in for yourself as we look again at a Mughal miniature, the Khajuraho-Lakshmana temple, erotic sumo from 1772, Spring Palace painting (or should we say mating!) to modern day signage by way of filling in your own favourite positions. There is a special colouring-in section, a tattooing section in the Skin Games, and you can fill in your own scribbles in this most un-ordinary portable scrapbook to express and reveal yourself. An adult doodle book like no other for ages 16 and over. Softback. £14.95 NOW £2.75
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 £2.50
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. £12.99 NOW £3
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 £3
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 £16
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.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
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
70541 SALVADOR DALI:
Erotic Sketches by Norbert Wolf
Shocking moments full of sexuality, cannibalism and a sensuality of eating fill the work of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) explicitly or surrealistically coded. Female attraction for him was reduced mainly to breasts and bottoms as in
the graphic study with the word Culo emblazoned on the lower spine. Some of these highly graphic and erotic drawings show anal sex, huge penises, serpents whereas others are very tasteful and well executed pencil sketches, preparatory drawings; and others spell words like Gala and Paul with very erotic, sadomasochistic acts in the fine line drawings. The Kiss has a sensuality of its own and is reproduced again on the back cover of this collection of 35 artworks. For adults only. 64pp with red satin ribbon tie. $25 NOW £7.50
70538 REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN:
Erotic Sketches by Norbert Wolf
Rembrandt ran a large and efficient workshop in Amsterdam and was surrounded by many pupils who emulated his style. It was common practice at the time to have nude models in the studio. Rembrandt’s
drawings are rarely signed for the most part because they were not intended for the art market. Nude at a Stove, 1660-62 bears astonishing affinities with the ordinary life that Edgar Degas was to create in the 19th century. His male nudes are not heroic figures, but gawky youngsters such as the 1646 etching of a seated male nude recalling the physical ordinariness of the gods. The stigmata of life itself is imprinted in these studies. 31 drawings, black chalk, grey wash, pen and ink etchings. With red ribbon tie.
$25 NOW £7.50 70539 EDGAR DEGAS: Erotic
Sketches by Norbert Wolf 56 works are illustrated such as Girl Putting on her Stocking, The Morning Bath, Life Study of a Standing Nude, Siesta in the Salon, Morning Frolic, the Toilet, Woman in a Tub and Nude Woman Doing her Hair among them. Immature female ballet dancers are seen in an
unsteady, flickering light. Degas increasingly focused on the subject of women bathing and drying themselves and resting after the provision of sexual services have been concluded. He is interested in capturing the physical presence of the woman and bringing out her animal sexuality. Reproduced in colour, one per page, some with blank pages opposite so that the eye is drawn into the image. 64pp with red ribbon tie. $25 NOW £7.50
70540 OSKAR KOKOSCHKA:
Erotic Sketches by Norbert Wolf
Austrian born Oskar Kokoschka was a subtle draughtsman who had demonstrated in his 1906-07 drawings of children from a family of circus performers an emaciated almost androgynous group of anatomically stunted figures. With
the occasional hint of colour for shadowing his laconically modelled later figures, the hand of the artist created poses that betrayed his interest in the complex portrayal of movement. The subsequent new studies of young girls, clearly based on Gustav Klimt’s drawings, were exhibited as a ‘Cabinet of Horrors’. Klimt alone recognised in him ‘the greatest talent of a young generation’. These lithographs, whenever they address nudity, show the immature, fragile bodies of adolescent girls and boys on the brink of leaving their paradise of innocence to enter the unknown territory of erotic desire. Coloured pencil sketches, one per page, and other charcoal drawings are reproduced on thick quality paper. 34 illus, red ribbon tie. $25 NOW £7.50
70912 EROTIC SKETCHES: Set of Four Buy all four hardbacks and save more. $100 NOW £28
70557 SEX AND THE SEASONED WOMAN Pursuing the Passionate Life by Gail Sheehy
Over 100 women of 45 and above were falling over themselves to tell Sheehy about their sexual experiences and to respond to her online questionnaire. Passionates (40%), healthy, independent, sexy women, likely to be involved with someone but not eager to marry. The next group is Seekers (20%), hungry for sex, actively seeking partners but not having much luck. WMDs (Women Married, Dammit!) are frustrated within their relationships, SQs (Status Quos) are resigned to not having a partner, often finding compensation in their work, and finally the LLs (Lowered Libidos) may be looking for a nonsexual relationship, though this situation can change. 354pp. $25.95 NOW £5
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
69811 INITIATION OF AURORA TRILL by Harry Temple
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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 £2.50
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 £15
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
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. 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 £14
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
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 £7.50
70777 1001 RIDICULOUS SEXUAL
MISADVENTURES by Gina McKinnon 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. 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
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. 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. ONLY £30
70799 EROTIQUE by Michelle Olley Erotic art goes back to the Kama Sutra and beyond, and unlike porn, which tends to diminish the subject, it appeals to the viewer emotionally and intellectually. This study of 46 practitioners of the erotic is a convincing mix of the classic and popular. The author surveys the 19th century French Romantics and the decorative libido of Aubrey Beardsley’s fantasies before moving on to 20th century exponents of the erotic. Magritte, Picasso, Dix, Emin, Klimt, Emin and Watt are mainstream painters whose erotic work is part of larger oeuvre, but graphic artists are also well represented here. Following its heyday in the 1950s, the pin-up began to be seen as a commercialised art-form which had lost its original glamour. Michael Manning’s black and white gender-bending graphics also draw on Japanese erotic tradition, while the Swiss-born H.R. Giger, the man behind The Alien, continues to scare and disturb. 224pp, almost 200 colour plates, critical essays.
£20 NOW £8 FICTION
‘Suppose your Aunt Dahlia read in the paper one morning that you were going to be shot at sunrise.’ ‘I couldn’t be, I’m never up so early.’
- P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing
71102 STONEMOUTH by Iain Banks Stewart Gilmore is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth with its five mile beach can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than sea-fog, gangsters, cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. There’s supposed to be a truce between Stewart and the town’s biggest crime family, but it is soon clear that only he is taking this promise of peace seriously. Stu uncovers dark stories, and his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than he had anticipated. A fast-paced novel cracking open adolescence, love, brotherhood and vengeance from this popular author of The Wasp Factory. 357pp. £18.99 NOW £6
71240 HEARTSTONE:
Shardlake Goes to War by C. J. Sansom Summer 1545. King Henry VIII’s invasion of France has gone badly wrong and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and
England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. Shardlake is invited to investigate claims of ‘monstrous wrongs’ committed against his young ward, which have already involved one mysterious death. He journeys to Portsmouth because it gives him the opportunity to investigate the mysterious past of a young woman incarcerated in Bedlam, whom he has befriended and whose family once lived nearby. The tangled skein of events involves Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne, and events will eventually converge on board one of the King’s great warships, which is waiting to sail out and confront the approaching French fleet. Will Shardlake manage to solve the mystery in time? A huge 631 pages, with maps. £18.99 NOW £7
71215 SPITFIRE GIRL by Lily Baxter
It is 1940 and in London, 18 year old Susan Banks longs to learn to fly, to serve her country and realise her dream. But she knows it is out of the question for a girl like her - a foundling, unwanted and unloved and dependent on strangers for her welfare. But she meets Tony Richards, a flying instructor based in Hampshire and when she is forced to flee London, she heads out into
the country. She is taken in by the kindly landlord of the local inn and his daughter. Susan works hard to earn her keep and her friendship with Tony, now recalled to duty, blossoms into love. But then she receives devastating news - Tony is missing in action and wonders if she will ever see the man she loves again, and realise her dream of becoming a Spitfire girl. 441pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £3
71216 WE’LL MEET AGAIN by Lily Baxter
April 1939, and unaware that the German war machine is advancing towards the Channel Islands, 17 year old Meg Colivet and her sister are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall passionately in love. But all too soon Britain is at war with Germany, Guernsey has been
occupied, and Meg’s family home requisitioned by the German army. Meg insists on remaining with her father helping to save her beloved island from the ravages of war. She then finds herself face to face with Rayner, now a German officer, and her life is thrown into turmoil as they risk their lives to meet in secret. Basic provisions become scarce and Meg is torn between love and duty and has a terrible choice to make. 451pp in paperback.
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71397 LIBERTY by Garrison Keillor
The grumpy Garrison is back with his novel of Lake Wobegon. For six years Clint, Lake Wobegon’s mechanic and treasurer of the Lutheran Church, has run of the Fourth of July parade. What was once a line of pick-up trucks and girls pushing prams with cats inside is now a dazzling spectacle that attracts the attention of CNN, and
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