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We have in stock many more erotica titles than are listed here, and are particularly strong on titles published in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century: Olympia Press, Pall Mall Press, Palladium Publications, Librairie Astra, Erotica Biblion Society, and many more besides, including French-language imprints. If you would like to send us a wants list, you can do so at the contact page.

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PETERS, Adam

Business As Usual

Paris: Week End Books, 1958

Small octavo, pp. 192. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition, published simultaneously by the Ophelia Press (an Olympia imprint) with the authorship creditied to 'Soliman Peters'.... [more]

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MAD JACK

Emilienne

Paris: Edition de L'Etoile, 1954

Octavo, pp. 137. Original grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in blue on front panel and spine.

First edition.
A second edition of this title, published later in the 1950s and... [more]

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£35.00

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DEXTER, Erle

Mabel's Torments

Paris: Oceanic Press, 1958

Small octavo, pp. 188. Original grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black.

First edition.
Oceanic Press was established in 1958 as a rival to Maurice Girodias's Olympia... [more]

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[MARIEL, Pierre] ANONYMOUS

L'Amour Et La Magie

Paris: Editions Prima, 1936

Large octavo, pp. 447. French text. Original pictorial paper wrappers.

Second edition, the first published by Les Editions Georges-Anquetil in 1926 in an edition of just one hundred... [more]

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£85.00

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CRANE, Harold

Pursuit Of Happiness

Paris: Oceanic Press, 1959

Small octavo, pp. 199. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Two books bound in one : the title story, and Success Story. Both are rubbish, and of quite outstanding... [more]

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£30.00

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WILSON, Mary

The Voluptuous Night

Paris: Mediterranean Press, 1957

Small octavo, pp. 167. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
The title story is a pornographic translation of the Vivant Demon's story Point de Lendemain,... [more]

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£35.00

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[ANONYMOUS]

Histoire de Mary et d'Arabella ou Les Voluptes Secretes d'Un Debauche

Paris: Le Serail Royal, 1952

Octavo, pp. 129. Original grey paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front panel.

Third edition, the first two having been published in the 1890s.
This edition was... [more]

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£45.00

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[ARAGON, Louis] ANONYMOUS

Irène

Paris: Chez L'Auteur [Jean-Jacques Pauvert], 1952

8vo, pp. 108. Variant binding: blue stiff paper wrappers, white title label on front panel. Fifth (blank) leaf missing, as in all copies. French text.

Second... [more]

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£250.00

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[pseud, SCHNURRER, Adam] ADAM

Taxi

Amsterdam: Sombrero, 1986

4to, pp. 48. Original illustrated card wrappers. Dutch text.

First edition.
A suite of graphic short stories -- graphic in both... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£30.00

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DONVILLE, G. [Illus. HEROUARD, Charles]

Les Confidences De Chérubin

Paris: Aux Galants Passe-Temps, 1939

8vo, pp. 229. Rebound in red boards lettered in gilt on spine, half-title, index and page of advertisements bound in.

Second edition. French text. No. 1316 of 2225 copies.
Lesbian spanking novel from the stable of Jean Fort, the clandestine publisher of mostly sado-masochistic

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£100.00

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[intro. RICE, Anne] KLEIN, Kelly

Under World

New York: Knopf, 1995

4to, unpaginated. Photographic illustrated boards, black spine lettered in silver. Dustjacket.

First edition.
Man Ray, Helmut Newton,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[?pseud.] COMBOURG, Marie

Journal Intime D'Une Provenciale

London-Calcutta-Melbourne [Paris]: Philéas Fogg [Eric Losfeld], N.d. [c. 1956]

8vo, unpaginated [pp. 90]. Illustrated wrappers. French text.

First edition. Stated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£500.00

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[pseud. QUENEAU, Raymond] MARA, Sally

Journal Intime

Paris: Editions Du Scorpion [Jean Halluin], 1950

8vo, pp. 254. Original printed wrappers.

First trade edition, after 120 numbered copies on Alfa.

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£50.00

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[pseud. ROBBE-GRILLET, Catherine] de BERG, Jean

The Image

New York: Grove Press, 1966

8vo, pp. 143. Original off-white boards, lettered in black on spine.

First US edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE: 'Pour... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£495.00