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73742 MOULIN ROUGE: History of an Icon
by Fien Meynendonckx Velvet bound, gilted and satin- bookmarked tome 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. 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. First edition, 29.8 x 33.5cm. £50 NOW £22.50
73402 STEVE McQUEEN: A
Biography by Marc Eliot McQueen was that rare Hollywood combination, both a classic actor and an icon in the tradition of James Dean. He earned his status as ‘The King of Cool’ through his roles in films like The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair and The Great Escape in which his thrilling motor-bike getaway stole the film. But he also turned down as many roles in what
turned out to be classic films, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Sundance Kid and The French Connection. 354 pages, archive photos. £20 NOW £4
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. 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 £5
74346 REDGRAVES: A
Family Epic by Donald Spoto Encompassing five generations of the family, the book describes the scarcely believable lives of acting royalty. From the ancestry of the brilliant, troubled Sir Michael Redgrave (1908-85) to the fiery and controversial careers of his children - Vanessa, the only British actress ever to win Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe and
Screen Actor’s Guild awards; Lynn (Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters), and Corin (Not About Nightingales, A Man for All Seasons), plus the successes and tragedies of the most recent generation, Joely and Natasha Richardson. By 2012 the Redgraves had marked seven generations of life in and of the theatre. 361 glamorous pages. First edition. £25 NOW £6.50
73291 PHALLIC FRENZY: Ken Russell and his Films by Joseph Lanza
Henry Kenneth Alfred “Ken” Russell (1927-2011) made some of the most daring, disturbing, establishment- baiting and beautifully-shot films of all time. Deranged Ursuline nuns, the demons of Mary Shelley and Byron, the sexual angst of Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Mahler, Tommy the messianic pinball wizard, prostitutes, Lady Chatterleys, lesbian vampires and frightening sex toys, not to mention Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestling in the buff, the list of morally deleterious images to his credit kept Mary Whitehouse and friends in a state of constant outrage, but people kept on coming to his films in their droves. 378pp, b/w stills. £22.50 NOW £6
73746 WEDDINGS AND
MOVIE STARS by Graham Marsh and Tony Nourmand From the most spectacular such as the royal marriage of Hollywood’s 1950s princess Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco to the insouciance of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner’s second marriage when
they both wore denim, Hollywood overflowed with great designers like Edith Head, Adrian, Banton, Irene Sharaff, Jean Louis and many others who all made exquisite clothes for a galaxy of gorgeous actresses. Here too are Balmain, Givenchy, Vivienne Westwood and Yves St Laurent. Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, the Wedding scene from The Godfather, the beautiful Hedy Lamarr marrying her third husband, British actor John Loder in 1943. Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story 1940, Lauran Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner and Mickey Rooney, Rita Heyworth, Joan Fontaine, Lana Turner. A mixture of real life and celluloid weddings. 288 huge pages, 35 x 30cm, glossy paper, colour.
£49.95 NOW £12.50
74811 SEX LIFE: How Our Sexual Experiences Define Who We Are by Dr Pamela
Stephenson-Connolly Perhaps best remembered as the blonde bombshell and funny lady in Not the Nine O’Clock News, Pamela Stephenson subsequently married comedian and actor Billy Connolly and trained as a psychotherapist, specialising in sexuality. She takes us on an eye
opening journey to explode the myths and address the embarrassing questions we always wanted to know about sex and our insatiable appetite for it. When did your sexual experiences start? Are you having more virtual sex than real sex? Can you get too much or not enough sex and what exactly is ‘normal’? Drawing on hundreds of intimate interviews with ordinary people of all ages, appetites and backgrounds, she reveals how the ever-present sexual force in each of us evolves throughout our lives. Making love may not come easily and spontaneously but it may be something we have to learn and it is high time that myths about sex, procreation and gender were busted. A stonking 472 page large paperback. £14.99 NOW £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. 508pp, colour. £25 NOW £6
73870 SEX: Collectors Item
with CD 1992 by Madonna Madonna’s explicit 1992 coffee table
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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. 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. 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. 132pp.
ONLY £99
ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 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. 314pp, photos. £20 NOW £4.50
73650 GROUCHO AND ME: The
Autobiography by Groucho Marx The “me” of the title is that comparatively unknown Marx called Julius Henry Marx - Groucho and Julius are one, but not the same. Julius is a writer from way back. When the New Yorker was just six months old in 1925 it commissioned four articles from one Julius H. Marx; when they asked the author for three more in 1929 they were signed Groucho Marx - Groucho had finally come out from behind his real name. What is so amazing about this book is that he tells it at the machine-gun rate of quips, bon mots and wisecracks that characterised his films and stage shows, and the reader is left quite breathless by the speed and rib-cracking hilarity of his delivery. Here is his rags to riches story, from being the middle of five sons born to a Yorkville, New York tailor to a career that took in writing, vaudeville, game shows and conquering Hollywood on the way. Paperback, 256pp. £12.99 NOW £6
EROTICA
The English have sex on the brain – which is a frightfully uncomfortable place to have it.
- Malcolm Muggeridge 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. Meanwhile he was hailed as the leader of ‘a new cult of sex and anarchy’ and faced one debacle after another. 532pp, paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £2
73642 DERRIÈRE by Julius Culdrose Julius Culdrose has spent over four decades delighting in every aspect of the female bottom - the different shapes and sizes, the possibilities of presentation, the aesthetics and uses and now reveals his explicit experiences and frank thoughts in this epic journey of bottom adoration. Contemporary, playful, adult. 232pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £2.75
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 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. 121pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.75
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
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. 305pp, line art. £12.99 NOW £6
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. ONLY £5.50
69630 THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG PENIS by Dian Hanson
Features over 150 massively endowed models from the 1940s through the 90s, including photos by Bob Mizer of AMG, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Rip Colt of Colt Studio, Craig Calvin Anderson of Sierra Domino, Hal Roth of Filmco, Jim Jaeger of Third World Studios, Falcon Studios, Mike Arlen, Fred Bisonnes, Carlos Quiroz, and Charles Hovland in a compact and inexpensive softcover format. 30% of the content is unique to this edition. 192 pages. English, French and German text. ONLY £7.50
73959 HIGH HEELS: Fashion, Femininity, Seduction
by Ivan Bartanian
High heels readily represent different feminine archetypes from the domestic to the fashionable, the dangerous, seductive and the femme fatale. Not only do they accentuate femininity by elongating legs, high heels are literally weapon-like like an ice pick as seen in the film Basic Instinct. Every shoe fetishist will adore this big sleek volume with mostly colour photographs of models teetering on heels, dressed and semi-clothed, nearly nude, crazy outfits, stylised amazingly designed footwear often with sheer fishnet tights, stockings, blindfolded, cuffed and chained, lipsticked, sleek haired, in lingerie, in bondage, in Polaroids and in studios. Chapters include The Nude in Heels and A Fetish for Photography, Fashion Photography of the 70s, and there are conversations with Valerie Steele, Manolo Blahnik, Nicholas Kirkwood and Charlotte Olympia. 192 huge pages and photography from the most famous names in photography for
magazines like Vogue and Marie Claire.
$49.95 NOW £12
74455 FUTURE OF EROTIC FANTASY ART
by Paul Peart-Smith When illustrator, cartoonist, designer and concept artist of over 20 years’ experience Paul Peart-Smith began his research into today’s erotic
fantasy it was his contention that John Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare which is the forbear of erotic fantasy art in its many forms. The demonic figure of an incubus squats upon her stomach, and as if things were not disturbing enough already, the duo are being observed by an unusual voyeur, a white-eyed horse with flaring nostrils. It combines eroticism, enigmatic horror, myth and fantasy and remains today extremely unsettling. The artists featured in this volume of sensual art are Fuseli’s descendants. In nine chapters with titles such as Illuminating Urges, Sinister Sensuality, Vivacious Vixens, Sci-Fi & Cyber Gals and Angels & Fairies, here are the most spectacularly curvaceous and phenomenally well-endowed amazons, warriors, ethereal beings, witches, vampires, succubi, princesses, demons, nymphs, elves, pixies, angels - in fact, the entire range of not- quite-human but overtly female beings. The book features over 180 full or three-quarter page artworks in vivid, eye- opening colour, with details of and comments from the artist, and how the picture was created. Astounding, sexy stuff in 192pp, 10" square format.
£19.99 NOW £10
72280 YEARN by Tobsha Learner With convincing characters and well crafted prose, this series has been billed the ‘thinking woman’s erotica’. A movie star longs for anonymity. A Sydney sculptor wonders whether a lover can be summoned by the act of artistic creation. A London weatherman inspires obsessive lust and devastating storms. An 18th century biographer discovers a magic, erotic ritual that will change his life forever. A collection to have you begging for more. 390pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50
72422 SHOT BY KERN edited by Dian Hanson Real world, real girls where the look on a model’s face might be enough to get you aroused. Photographer Richard Kern in collaboration with the ultra-cool American magazine Vice, was interviewed with his naked models behind-the-scenes and here are a lot of very pretty, smart girls getting naked and Kern making
them look fantastic. Stretched across the kitchen counter, brushing teeth, wearing pants, towels artfully draped, hair tousled, some unshaved armpits, doing a back bend, bending over the bed, touching toes and seen from behind, wearing opaque tights, an opaque blouse, girls with girls, under a shower or hose pipe, all young and alive, perky and soft, freckles, jumping up, on the beach and outdoors, and all looking totally happy and relaxed with their bodies and in front of the camera. One big colour photo per page plus free 60 minute colour DVD with all original material by Kern and music by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. 8.9 x 11.8", 288pp. ONLY £28
73538 ALL MAN! by David Earle Ernest (“Papa”) Hemingway epitomised the mid-century macho male, an image he cultivated assiduously in his stories and features for men’s magazines, most of which purveyed sex and soft porn on the one hand and violent action on the other. He himself was a favourite subject for journalists, giving rise to myth-making headlines such as “Slaughter and Sex Titillate Papa’s Pulse”. This fascinating book assesses Hemingway and his persona with reference to men’s magazines of the post-war period. The powerful woman is often a poisoner or blackmailer, modelled on the roles of Marlene Dietrich, whom Hemingway adored for her “masculinity” and strong screen personas. Coping with trauma following the war years loomed large in many men’s lives, and the magazines aimed to educate men into expressing their emotions while retaining masculinity. 177pp, colour.
£26.95 NOW £7 72639 STRONGMAN: Vintage Photos
of a Masculine Icon by Robert Mainardi The archive photos in this book compare the professionalised world of bodybuilding with the world of amateur pride in a well-built frame, starting in the 1880s and running to the mid-20th century. Eugen Sandow was a British strong man of German extraction who was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, and other big names followed him into the limelight, such as Tony Sansone and Jules Bacon. Italian wrestlers in an arm- lock contrasted with two nude amateurs practising a throw in 1880, or a snapshot of men larking around on the beach in 1940. 200 sepia photos of pure beefcake. 112 pp. Remainder mark. $24.95 NOW £5.50
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72968 CANING ABLE by Stan Kent A modern-day version of the melodramatic tales of Victorian erotica full of dastardly villains, regimented discipline, corporal punishment and forbidden sexual liaisons. The novel features the brilliant and beautiful Jasmine, a seemingly helpless heroine who reigns triumphant despite dire peril. Mixing libidinous prose with a changing business world, the novel gives treasured plots a welcome twist - women who are definitely not the weaker sex. A Blue Moon paperback, 227pp. $7.95 NOW £2
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