14 Erotica 73742 MOULIN ROUGE: History of


an Icon by Fien Meynendonckx Velvet bound, gilted and satin-bookmarked tome, published in 2012 and with text in English, French, Italian and German. Paris has always attracted a diverse range of musicians, actors, painters, sculptors, dancers and writers and the French are very proud of their Moulin Rouge. Here you will learn its rich history and of other leading cabarets of the Belle Epoch Montmartre. We look at the history, art and surroundings, the stars who rose to fame, the shows and dances and finally the influence the Moulin Rouge has had on fashion and film. The location and the Moulin Rouge’s appearance was crucial and it began around 1889 when a new artistic avant-garde came to life. Every page has a spectacular huge image, poster, postcard of the line up of the dancers, on duty and off, the exterior of this remarkable windmill building, poster art by such illustrators as Adolph Léon Willette and the businessman Joseph Oller, the charming Louise Weber who was catapulted into the world of cancan and the bright red-haired Jane Avril, Colette, Jean Gabin and the inimitable black dancer Josephine Baker. Tom Jones, the Tiller Girls, backstage, high kicks and splits, here is burlesque and cabaret and mime all rolled into one


spectacular volume. Half colour. First edition, 29.8 x 33.5cm.


£50 NOW £25


socialite. In Tom, Dick and Harry she stars in a sparkling comedy about a woman who just can’t say no to marriage proposals! Vivacious Lady brings together two of Hollywood’s best loved stars, James Stewart and Ginger, directed by the masterly George Stevens. Together for the first time are four of her signature performances in this four DVD box set from the late great Reader’s Digest. Limited stocks. £39.96 NOW £15


72392 ELIZABETH TAYLOR: Set of Three DVDs


Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison and others, these films won Academy Awards and Oscars. Cleopatra is a two disc set running time 248 minutes in colour, breathtaking in scope and grandeur. You are cordially invited to join George and Martha’s for an evening of fun and games in Ernest Lehman’s production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Cat on A Hot Tin Roof is another classic film which needs no further explanation. One off bargain price. £33.97 NOW £10


72875 AND FURTHERMORE by Judi Dench


A number of the characters appearing in this endearing autobiography have now made their final exits from the stage of life, including her dearly-loved husband, fellow actor Michael Williams, but Judi brings them all back to life. She has starred in an incredibly wide range of roles, from long-running TV sitcoms like As Time Goes By to James Bond films,


from classic serials such as Cranford to Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, and from First Fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Here she talks in depth about the highs and lows of her career, as she reflects on her life and reminisces about those who have mattered to her most - her family, her fellow-actors, directors and writers. 268 pages with a wealth of photos. £20 NOW £6


72525 GRETA GARBO: Divine Star by David Bret


In the male-orientated studio system, Greta Garbo wielded a power no other actress has ever possessed before or since. She called the shots and left her public begging for an encore that never came when she withdrew from Hollywood completely. This is the first biography to investigate fully the two so-called missing periods in her life - the first during the late 1920s, forcing MGM to employ a lookalike to conceal what was almost certainly a pregnancy, and the second during World War Two when Garbo was employed by British Intelligence to track down Nazi sympathisers. It also analyses in detail the original, uncensored copies of her films. Her true affections lay with the gay, Sapphic and Scandinavian members of her very intimate inner circle. Photos.


£20 NOW £6 73119 ZIEGFELD: The Man Who Invented


Show Business by Ethan Mordden Chicago in the 1860s was a city of raw enterprise, and Florenz Ziegfeld Senior used his entrepreneurial skills to establish a music academy catering for the new middle classes who were eager to acquire culture. His son, Florenz Ziegfeld Junior, would become one of the biggest theatrical managers on Broadway in the 1920s. His first success was the strong man Eugen Sandow, a baby- faced charmer with massive muscles who appealed to the ladies. Next on the list was Anna Held, rumoured to bathe in milk every day to preserve her legendary complexion. Ziegfeld and Held became partners but never married, so when Billie Burke came on the scene, captivating Ziegfeld with her red hair and comic talent, the way to the altar lay clear ahead. Each of Ziegfeld’s Broadway shows had to outdo the previous one, and Rio Rita, Showboat and Ziegfeld Follies were increasingly spectacular and also became highly successful films. 352pp, photos. £18.99 NOW £6.50


72543 STRONGEST MEN ON EARTH: When the


Muscle Men Ruled Show Business by Graeme Kent


1889 was an eventful year: a new era in entertainment was kick-started with the showdown between London’s two claimants to the title of strongest man in the world. Charles Sampson was a genuine muscle man who elevated his feats of strength to superhuman proportions by carefully concealed deceptions. £500 was offered to any man able to equal Sampson’s performance and a Prussian nobleman, Eugen Sandow, accepted. The proceedings were umpired by the Marquess of Queensberry who gave his name to the rules of boxing. The author has researched the full range of male and female strength acts to provide a fascinating insight into late Victorian entertainment. The craze lasted about 25 years. 314pp, photos. £20 NOW £5


72527 HELLO GORGEOUS: Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J. Mann


Born in Brooklyn in 1943, Barbra Streisand’s early life was driven by a desire to please the father she never knew. Her first success was at the Roundtable in East Fiftieth Street, a well-known gay hangout where she learned acting technique from the old pro Mabel Mercer. Her bisexual lover Darren Barré had persuaded her to start singing, and she astonished her friends by the emotional power of songs like “When a bee lies sleepin”. With The Jack Paar Show she started to get national TV exposure, and the role of Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It for You Wholesale brought her together with Elliott Gould. The scene was now set for her great role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. 566pp, photos. £25 NOW £5


72544 TALES I NEVER TOLD by Michael Winner


Film director and food journalist, Winner denies any gastronomic expertise, and the food stories tend to feature a gaggle of hungry luvvies. His idol Orson Welles insisted on a full hour’s lunch break, Winner is a stickler for punctuality, and this makes him walk out of Nigella’s TV show before it has even started. He hangs around impatiently for the Esther Rantzen show and then has a hammer and tongs battle on air. Winner’s dinner reviews include such judgments as “It was the worst-run restaurant ever”. 306pp, photos. £16.99 NOW £5


72607 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Ian Fleming


and James Bond by Ben MacIntyre Ian Fleming experienced first-hand almost every aspect of the legend he created: a harsh boarding school with no father figure, a lifetime’s cast of extraordinary characters, a playboy lifestyle and enjoyment of the finer things in life, an obsession with plots and gadgets, working in naval intelligence and, crucially, an immersion in the politics of the Cold War, the background to all the Bond books. Sometimes we observe more subtle parallels in women, food and drink, pastimes, military prowess, villains, plots, gadgets, guns and other gizmos. B/w photos and film stills. 236pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £3


72777 POSSESSED: The Life of Joan Crawford by Donald Spoto


Dancer, dramatic actress, business woman, corporate executive with Pepsi-Cola, Joan Crawford was rarely out of the news. Lucille Fay LeSueur escaped destitution by becoming a popular dancer and, from there, managed to make the decisive leap that transformed her into a luminous, unique star of the screen. She was married four times - once to the debonair Douglas Fairbanks Jr without being aware that he had failed to discontinue his relationship with Marlene Dietrich. She also had three adopted daughters and two adopted sons, but they all came second to her movie career. 336 pages, photos. £20 NOW £6.50


72871 COLIN FIRTH: The Biography by Alison Maloney


When offered the part of the dashing Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Colin Firth was 34, and considered himself past the age of the romantic lead. But his smouldering performance, and that iconic lake scene, set him on a path that would make him a heart throb and national treasure, to star in Bridget Jones’s Diary, Mamma Mia! and A Single Man. We look at the inside story of his rift with Rupert Everett, his playful rivalry with Hugh Grant, his years in the wilderness with Meg Tilly and the moment when he fell in love with his stunning Italian wife, Livia. From Hampshire to Hollywood via stately homes and sumptuous palaces and his work for charities like Oxfam, here is the private person revealed. 256pp in paperback, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £5


EROTICA


He soft-soaped her until she couldn’t see for the suds.


- Mary Roberts Rinehart


74391 MAMMOTH BOOK OF GORGEOUS GUYS


edited by Barbara Cardy From striking details of male anatomy to intriguing portraits, this is a photography book which extends our concept of what is beautiful. Over 400 erotic images by 46 leading photographers. Photographs of men, particularly naked men, always have two


subjects - the way the artist sees and represents that man and the way the viewer looks at that man. For example, the subject of a photograph can be a beautiful detail of a man’s anatomy - the work of Vin Kruger can show the inside of a man’s elbow, with beautifully


delineated veins. Equally unthreatening is the image of a man’s genitals with flowers growing out of his pubic hair. Other models are much more threatening, tattooed, pierced and muscular and others mere juveniles like the beautiful young boys, often made up and in costumes as photographed by Elizabeth May. Masculine and truly erotic is the work of Edward Lucie- Smith, in both colour and black and white and sensual, wet and inviting, the photograph by Harriet Leibowitz. 480pp in heavyweight softback. £10.99 NOW £5.50


74303 ONE HUNDRED STROKES OF THE BRUSH


BEFORE BED by Melissa P. Over one million copies of these erotic adventures of a sexually ravenous girl have been sold worldwide. Melissa’s fictionalised memoir was an instant bestseller in Italy where it scandalised the nation. It has now become an international literary phenomenon. Melissa begins her diary as a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of 14


leads her into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older. Very much a self-revealing schoolgirl’s confession, she is scandalous, word perfect and languid. We enter her sexual world - voyeurism, sadomasochism, group sex and more. Very much in the style of ‘The Sexual Life of Catherine M’. 121pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


74413 SLAP AND TICKLE: The Unusual History of Sex And the People


Who Have It by Tom Cutler A most unusual history of sex in all its variety as practiced by various human cultures down the years - the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, puritans, the Regency sex maniacs and those hypocritical naughty Victorians. From ‘vanilla’ to ‘fetishistic’, the book also looks at


sundry sex aids down the years, hilarious front page sex scandals, a peek at dirty books and filthy language and unexpurgated excerpts from decidedly saucy erotica of yesteryear. Learn about Auto Suck, which for a mere £25 is a fellatio simulator designed to plug into your car cigarette lighter and other odd sex aids like the dildo gas mask! Hugely entertaining, 305pp with line art. £12.99 NOW £6


74191 LOVE AND DESIRE:


Photo Works by William Ewing


Brassaï, Robert Doismeau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Henry Callaghan, August Sander and André Kertész and newer names like Mario Testino, Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton and Ellen von Unwerth together with the rising stars of the contemporary scene are some of the greatest practitioners of


erotic, sensual photography. Thames & Hudson publishers have produced a slipcased, heavyweight 400 page softback using quality paper to reproduce 267 duotone and 64 colour images, the best of the best, for you to study in detail at your leisure. From the postcard of Marilyn Monroe to a gelatin silver print of Josephine Baker 1925, Imogen Cunningham’s 1910 Family on the Beach, Julia Margaret Cameron’s 1865 Madonna and Child, to lovemaking sequences, nudes, clubbing and gay scenes to artistic abstracts and beyond. A veritable gallery for private enjoyment. First time discounted. £19.95 NOW £8


74318 TEMPLE OF DARKNESS


by Geoffrey Allen


Silver Moon classic erotica set in Ancient Egypt. A queen plots rebellion against Rome and engages the help of a beautiful black slave girl. She needs someone to get into the governor’s harem and spy for her. The slave girl has her own agenda however. She is Africanus, a gladiatrix trying to make her way back to Rome itself. Caught in the


murderous intrigue and passions of the harem, punished at every turn by sadistic senior concubines, she is recognised by someone from her past and her life is in danger. 238pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


74392 MAMMOTH BOOK OF


LESBIAN EROTICA edited by Barbara Cardy A Taste for Pain by Sarah Veitch, Please by Linda Suzuki, The Lay of the Grecian Urn by Roxy Katt, Peeping Through the Crack by Eva Hore and Confessions After Midnight by L. C. Jordan are among the 50 short tales of passion and lust from the pens of today’s most exciting writers of lesbian erotica


around the world. From intimate reminiscences to wild confessions and magical encounters, the stories are uninhibited, daring and sexy and of course arousing. 526pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


73001 THE LAWYER by Michael Hemmingson Kelly O’Rourke is an editorial assistant at a large publishing house. She has filed a lawsuit against the conglomerate’s best selling author after a questionable night on a yacht. Kelly isn’t quite as innocent as she seems; rather, as her lawyer finds out, she has a sordid history of sexual deviance and BDSM which may not be completely in her past. 184 page Blue Moon paperback. $7.95 NOW £2


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74437 PIERRE ET GILLES: Sailors and Sea


translated by Chris Miller It is probably Le marin (The Sailor, 1977) which is their most famous image of pretty boy in sailor suit, beautiful blue eyes wet with tears gazing into the distance with daisies in the background, the archetypal Pierre et Gilles image. Beauty is both male and female and even the


two dolls Le Deux Poupées from 1985, mermaids, Marc Almond from the early 1990s, bronzed, black, Asian, Medusa-like and Venus-like, Virgin Mary and Christ-like, bondage, fetish, tattooed to real photographs of the artists in the biographical section are included in this collection of colour photos. 192pp, Taschen. ONLY £6


73545 CAPITAL AFFAIRS: London and the


Making of the Permissive Society by Frank Mort


The author presents the fifties as a decade when the foundations of the permissive society were laid. Changing attitudes towards homosexuality focused on questions of how homosexual men recognised themselves and each other, and how homosexuals with ordinary lives were distinguished from the flamboyant sex workers of Soho. The 10 Rillington Place murders raised questions of violence towards women. Socially mobile women like Christine Keeler, centre of the Profumo scandal, were sexually available sometimes for money, sometimes for free and occupied new ground in the study of the sex industry. There were changes in the sexual knowledge available through magazines, cinema and live theatre, with static shows at the Windmill being overtaken by striptease and by the male nudity on offer at the Revuebar, which attracted adventurous women as well as men. Meanwhile a new drug culture associated with Caribbean settlers in Notting Hill made West London a scene of experimentation. 508pp, colour photos. £25 NOW £7


73571 POEM OF THE PILLOW AND OTHER


STORIES edited by Gian Carlo Calza The 18th century saw the perfection of Japanese erotic art, ukiyo-e shunga, and the 23 masters represented in this gorgeous book all lived during the late 17th century to the mid-19th. Sexual activity in these prints is mostly depicted clothed, with only the private parts visible, and the context is frequently a clandestine encounter, a moment of intimacy during an excursion, a risky rendezvous while the legitimate partner is asleep. In the 17th century Edo (Tokyo) became a centre for the leisured classes and at the same time young men in Japan far outnumbered women, leading to a proliferation of “green houses” or brothels. Some art was in frankly pornographic form, other erotica was exquisitely produced with a beautifully innocent front page for the eyes of the censor, who well understood the convention that he should look no further. The 17th century Yoshiwara Pillow Pictures are both a sex manual and a depiction of the courtesan’s inner sanctum. In the next century, Sukenobu created “The Shining Dimple of Love”, sparking a revolution in style with his refined features and extraordinary mastery of the female figure, often in the nude. 464pp, exquisitely produced with full page colour reproductions. Interleaved information about the artists and their work. £29.95 NOW £17.50


73631 ADVENTURES IN THE ORGASMATRON:


The Invention of Sex by Christopher Turner Viennese psychologist Wilhelm Reich was one of the most influential and notorious thinkers of the 20th century. He placed subjects in a tall, slender construction called the orgone box which he believed would elevate ‘orgastic potential’, rid the body of repressive forces, improve sexual potency, and enhance overall health. Reich’s sexual and political theories caught on, famously among the countercultural writers and artists in America Ginsberg, Burroughs, Mailer and Bellow. Meanwhile he was hailed as the leader of ‘a new cult of sex and anarchy’ and faced one debacle after another. 532pp in paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £2.50


73665 TEMPLAR PRIZE by Deanna Ashford At last free of a disastrous forced marriage, Edwina de Moreville accompanies Richard the Lionheart on a quest to the Holy Land. Recently reunited with her first and only love, Stephen Comte de Shalais, their passion for each other is as strong as ever, but the path before them is shrouded in danger and betrayal. Storms at sea, cruel emperors, tyrant kings, renegade Knights Templar and Saracen noblemen all make their desperate situation even more perilous, until even Saladin has a part to play in their destiny. Black Lace fiction. 256pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50


73870 SEX: Collectors Item with CD 1992


by Madonna **COLLECTABLE** Madonna’s explicit 1992 coffee table book ‘Sex’ is the most sought after out-of-print title in the US in the past 12 months according to bookfinder.com. The singer’s limited-edition picture book caused controversy when it was first released for its risqué images and went on to become a collector’s item. Bibliophile has found stock in Germany and imported them. All are pristine and in silver foil shrink wrap, with hard silver metallic cover, spiral binding, Warner (US) edition, 13¾” x 11¼” profusely coloured in colour and black and white and with a leaflet/comic. Unlike many collectable used copies, we have the scarce original pictorial foil envelope and CD all intact. Please note that this is a heavy item, 1.1kg and is most definitely for adults only with its graphic erotic content. Shot in New York City and Miami, the locations range from hotels and burlesque theatres to the streets of Miami and features such well known models as Naomi Campbell who, it is said in her innocence, did not realise quite how dirty her singer friend could be! Sexual fantasies in photos and words with the erotic imaginings highlighted by a series of innovative special effects. Very collectable. 132pp. ONLY £99


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