Vasta @ NY ART BOOK FAIR '16 Vintage & Rare

Here's a preview of the recent additions to my inventory available for purchase at the 
NY Art Book Fair in September. As always, I will be presenting vintage and rare material alongside the contemporary limited edition artist's books and sexpapers. I look forward to seeing you there!

LOVE LOVE. Marz Verlag 1973  $225.00

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Parfums Mecaniques. Gilles Berquet Editions Jean-Pierre Faur 1996  $150.00

Cent Photographies Erotique. Pierre Molinier 1976  $125.00

Midi/Minuit Fantastique #20. Le Terrain Vague 1968  $50.00

L'Educatrice Passionnee. Jim Galding (illustrations only) 1936  $250.00

The Strap Returns. Irving Klaw ten plates by Malteste  $125.00

Richard Cerf. Polaroids 1982  $85.00

Jambes #2. Editions Paris-Photos 1933  $175.00

 Liliacees Langoureuses Aux Parfums d’Arabe. Irina Ionesco 1974  $875.00

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COUVRE-FEU Parisian Flagellation Novels '20s/30s Wighead + Galding NEW Book!

I rarely rave about a new book or publication, here's an exception. The long awaited Les Editions du COUVRE-FEU, the first volume in a long range, four-part series Le Collection bibliographique illustree de la litterature flagellante has just been published in Paris by Editions Astarte. A collaboration between the editor/publisher Alexandre Dupouy and Christophe Bier who did the research, wrote the excellent text and the extensive bibliographic annotations for each book cited. More info here.

 

A collection and reference to the list of sado-masochistic, bondage, flagellation novels published in Paris in the 1920s/1930s under various imprints of le maison Leon Vidal. Featured are illustrations by various artists, especially the incredible Wighead, as well as the always seductive fetish photographs created by the Ostra Studio. Includes extensive annotations and bibliographic information for all the books discovered by Bier and Dupouy, as well as thumbnails of the book covers in color and black & white. The most ambitious book published by Editions Astarte since the incredible 2007 Ostra Studio tome. 

More about Christophe Bier, his cinema research and his activities with Serious Publishing, here.

A must have for the masochist in your life!

Available in my eBay store

Next show: Los Angeles Art Book Fair

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