A selection from my archives of straight, gay and lesbian, early 1960s, paperback sleaze featuring illustrated covers by Gene Bilbrew, Eric Stanton and Ed Alexander.
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Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Sunday, August 18, 2013
New York Art Book Fair 2013: Preview
In preparation for the art book fair in September (click for details) I will be posting a selection of material for sale at my booth: rare and out-of-print books, limited edition artist's books, film posters, '50s/'60s paperbacks, gay books and periodicals, photographs, digest sized 1950s fetish magazines, Bettie Page, American and European girlie magazines, Italian erotic comics fumetti 1970s, John Willie, American clandestine erotic booklets and much more. Click on the title of each of the categories below and a detailed page will open.
NB: the previews contain materials reserved
for purchase at the art book fair and are not available for prior sale
Limited edition artist's books
Le Dernier Cri, Re:Surgo (aka Bongout), Palefroi, Flockophobic
Andy Warhol's Blue Movie, Faster Pussy Cat, Kill! Kill!,
Berlin Bettwurst and My Father Is Coming
Paperback books
Published by First Niter, Unique Books and Satan Press with cover art
by Bill Ward, Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew
complete run of The Male Figure published by Bruce of Los Angeles,
a bound volume of Demi-Gods magazine, plus rare paperbacks,
European books and periodicals
Buster Cleveland, Ed Higgins, Scarlatina Lust
Irving Klaw, Exotique magazine and Parliament publications
a complete run of Exotique, publications by John Willie (Bizarre),
Irving Klaw, Burmel, Eric Stanton and Selbee
photographs and magazines
drag racing custom cars
Vasta Images/Books is an international dealer, based in New York City, specializing in the body, the nude and the erotic arts. Focus for the fair will be books, periodicals, photographs and ephemera, circa 1960s~2000s in our areas of specialty. Additionally featured will be material from the collection of the late John McWhinnie by arrangement with his estate.
Click for the Vasta Images/Books eBay store
vasta@earthlink.net
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Magnus Hirschfeld: Bilder-Lexicon 1930 Erotic Arts
In my early years of interest in erotica, the bibliography of German books published circa 1918 ~ 1933 loomed large in my imagination, something I needed to wrap my mind around. I became familiar with the bibliography through bookseller's catalogs while never actually handling any of the books. Eventually I purchased the key reference work, the BILDER-LEXICON Kulturgeschicte, Literatur und Kunst, Sexualwissenschaft. An iconic set of four huge volumes filled with color and black & white illustrations and photos, edited and published by Magnus Hirschfeld (Verlag fur Kulturforshung, Vienna/Leipzig, 1929~1931). A monumental work, the books are known in the trade simply as "the bilder".
Eightly years after is was originally published, it remains the unsurpassed illustrated dictionary of the erotic arts, sexual science and amourous literature with a particular focus on the bizarre, transgressive and tabou aspects of human nature. The books are filled with an extraordinary variety of illustrated citations starting in prehistoric times and continuing through to modernity. Every aspect of human sexual desire, feverish fantasy and abnormal proclivities of men and women is addressed. The areas of lesbianism, male homosexuality, passive/aggressive domination, transvestism and fetishism as well as perverted sexual desires that lead to social humiliation and shame were of particular interest to Hirschfeld.
Note that in 1933, just two years after the publication of the fourth volume in the original set, Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Studies was destroyed by the Nazis. Hirschfeld is viewed today as one of the most important figures in the then emerging field of modern sexual science while also playing a key role in the earliest days of rights for homosexuals. He also coined the word " transvestism" for his 1910, extremely rare two volume work, Die Transvestiten. He died in Nice, France in 1935. Excellent bio is here.
Illustrated is the 1962 facsimile of "the bilder", published in eight volumes, plus two supplemental volumes which updated the new edition.
Illustrated is the 1962 facsimile of "the bilder", published in eight volumes, plus two supplemental volumes which updated the new edition.
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