Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled green wraps titled in black, with printing slug to back cover. One of the scarcer books in the series, and a superb one, written by Jim Thompson's mentor, and author of the Rideout novels The Green Corn Rebellion and Pretty Boy. "Erotic enjoyment is..... More
New York: Hillman Books, 1961. First edition. 16mo, 160 pp, paperback. First and only edition of this novel of bisexual life in Greenwich Village, which was written under pseudonym by the New York School writer Joseph LeSueuer, written while he was living with Frank O’Hara. The actually ends up in..... More
Napoli: Gennaro M. Priore, 1905. 8vo, 281 pp, complete with all 15 plates as called for. early rebind in workmanlike green cloth, not preserving the original wraps, with typewritten title label affixed to spine. Red silk bookmark bound in. First edition of this important early study of tattoos and tattooing..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in beige wraps printed in black, with copyright date of 1920 to cp (based upon the Boni & Liveright edition, the book was first published by Haldeman-Julius in 1924). Gibbs 661, in the LBB(2) wrapper. Very good with toning and some light rubbing to..... More
np: Compass Line, 1967. First edition. 12mo, 160 pp, illustrated wraps. Beat exploitation novel set in New York City, the protagonist a college student who wanders the streets and a series of clubs, including a gay club named "The Harlequin" and a club called "The Inverted Donkey." "Free Lust...They lived..... More
![Item #30359 Confidential Chats With Wives [Little Blue Book No. 645]. Gloria Goddard](/pictures/thumb/30359.jpg?v=1669160283)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1927. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps wraps. Gibbs 645b, in the LBB(2) binding. A work of marriage advice by Goddard, who was one of the most frequent writers in the Little Blue Book Series, along with her partner, Clement Wood. A very good example with a touch marginal toning..... More
![Item #30364 Evolution of Love [People's Pocket Series No. 172]. Ellen Key](/pictures/thumb/30364.jpg?v=1669244973)
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. Gibbs 172b. A long essay on love by the Swedish feminist and suffragette, including cultural ramifications, erotic love, etc. "She will no longer be captured like a forest or hunted like a quarry; nor will she like a placid lake..... More
![Item #30312 Debate on Birth Control [Little Blue Book No. 208]. Margaret Sanger, Winter Russell](/pictures/thumb/30312.jpg?v=1666818151)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1921. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs' 208a, variation no. 4, with the LBB(2) binding. An early printing, likely made around 1924 or 1925, of this important debate on birth control in the LBB series. Besides the title debate, it also includes Shaw vs. Roosevelt on..... More
![Item #30223 Wit and Wisdom of Dickens [Pocket Series No. 381]. Robert Swasey](/images/noimage.png)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1923. 32mo, stapled blue wraps printed in black. Gibbs 381. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs' 91a, but possibly a variant unnoted by Gibbs, with the Appeal Pocket Series title page but with the PPS (c) binding, in blue wraps. Foreword by Philip Snowden. More