Malibu, California: World Publishing Co. 1969. 8vo, 130 pp, side-stapled and glued into printed wraps illustrated with a color photomontage, and internal black and white drawings (unattributed). Published in the AA World Library. Early, sensationalized study of the nascent computer dating technologies which began at the end of the 1960's... More
London: Confidential Dating Ltd. 1966. 8vo, single sheet folded twice to make six panel foldout. Offset printed in red and black. An 111 question questionnaire for one of the earliest computer dating systems, covering physical characteristics, hobbies and interests, character self-analysis, and location within England. The pamphlet states that "analysis... More
![COYOTE: A Loose Woman's Organization [Pin]. COYOTE, Margo St. James.](/pictures/thumb/26519.jpg?v=1531407715)
[San Francisco]: COYOTE, 1973. 1 1/4" diameter pin, illustrated with a drawing of a coyote licking lips in two colors. With the name of Margo St. James and the date printed on border. Original pin issued by the prostitite and sex worker advocacy group, an acronym for "Call Off Your... More
![Body Art 1-23 [Complete]. Henry Ferguson, ed.](/pictures/thumb/26324.jpg?v=1530041691)
Braintree, Essex, UK: Body Art, 1987-1995. 4to, each issue profusely illustrated in color. All issues published of the longrunning and comprehensive periodical devoted to tattooing, piercing, body paint, piercing, suspension, corsetry, dental implants, fashion, nipple training, drag, transdermal implants, genital modifications and other forms of body modification. All issues are... More
The Hague, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1972. First edition. Folio, 72 pp, saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. A key work of the sexual liberation movement in the 1970's, as well as one of the more innovatively designed uses of photography in a fictional narrative work of the period. Interior paper lightly toned... More
[Boston]: Computer Dance, 1966. 4to, 4t, single sheet folded once to make a 4 pp. booklet. Offset printed in blue on beige paper. Original questionnaire booklet for the first incarnation of the Computer Dance, the experiment linked to the development of Matching Hypothesis by Elaine Walster (aka Elaine Hatfield). The... More
Reseda, CA: Powell Publications, 1969. 12mo, 189 pp, perfect bound in illustrated wraps. Published in the Tiger Book series. Work of erotica featuring a young country girl as protagonist, and her sexual adventures when she gains access to the secret files of a computer dating service. An early work exploiting... More
New York: Enterprise Modern Services, 1969. First edition. Folio, tabloid format, offset printed with spot color. The debut issue of Kusama’s artists’ periodical, which combined open sexuality with political protest and fashion. This issue includes coverage of various happenings, such as the “Bust Out” in Central Park, the Nude Happening... More
Paris: Les Editions due Couvre-feu, [1933]. 16mo, 116 pp, elegantly bound in crushed red morocco with four raised bands at the spine and gilt compartments. Ruled in gilt at each panel, with gilt ornaments to the corners of the ruled panels and spine compartments. Original wraps bound in. Illustrated with... More
San Francisco: Sexual Freedom League, 1965-66. 2 1/4 x 3 7/8", offset printed on red card stock with rounded tips. Filled out with the member's name, and signed by the secretary of the league, with an expiration date of 9/66. With the number 16 written in ink at the upper... More
San Francisco: Kerista Collective, 1985. First edition. 8vo, 128 pp, perfect bound wraps. A publication by the polyfidelity commune focused on science and communal, utopian living, notable for including a relatively early article on the use of computers in the commune. The commune, which termed itself "an operational Scientific Utopian... More
London: BM Ducasse, [1972]. Foolscap, [8] pp [incl. covers], mimeographed from typescript on blue paper, and saddle-stapled into yapped yellow offset printed wraps. A translation into English of Jean-Pierre Voyer's 'Reich/Mode d'Emploi', here published and distributed by BM Ducasse - the British post-situ group which counted a young Tony Wilson... More
San Francisco: X's, [1979]. 8 1/2 x 11", original photocopy from drawing and holograph. A poster for a 1979 event at the San Francisco punk club X's, which had started as a punk night by Jeffrey Pollack at the comedy club The Punch Line, before moving to Columbus and Lombard... More