Erotica-Sex & Sexuality from Gargoyle Books

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pyramid, 1971. First Paperback 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. A novel about "orgies, incest, drugs, homosexuality, necrophilia, murder, satanism, & living sacrifice" with lurid cover art to boot! Designed to tap into the growing societal panic about out-of-control teenagers in the late-1960s, with hints of the Satanic Panic that would arise… Read more about this item

The Century Company, 1914. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Groundbreaking investigation of this social problem, in 455 pages with Index & an Introduction by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., acting chairman of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, the organization he had founded in 1911 to combat white slavery, delinquency, crime, and sex trafficking. Hoping… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Greenberg, 1951. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Writing from the perspective of "a quarter century of participation in American life as a homosexual,'' the author offers a "spiritual autobiography" of his shame & guilt, attempt to find love, attempt to find a cure through psychoanalysis, marriage to a… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1985. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Explores the portrayal of women by male artists, examining paintings that celebrate women & their sexuality vs those that reveal underlying hostility & misogyny. In 230 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout with 120 black-and-white illustrations + 23 color plates. A… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Random House, 2002. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First nonfiction work by this award-winning writer in which she "explores sex and gender through portraits of people who are widely considered not normal." Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away since Brand New--just removed from storage where they… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-. After years of censorship & much uproar about this book in Europe in the late 1920s, it was published in the US in 1930, but only in a much-abridged version. The present volume represents the Original Unexpurgated Edition of this classic work… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/San Francisco, California: Cleis Press, 1993. First Edition, 2nd Printing 2nd Printing. Soft cover. VG+. A FIRST EDITION, second printing, from 1993, this trade paperback has decorative wrappers with an erotic image to front cover. 251 pages, including author bios & other titles from this publisher in rear. Condition is VG+: completely clean save for a… Read more about this item

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: New England Free Press, 1972. First Edition Later Printing 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Precursor to the book of the same name (with a slightly different subtitle) that would become a cornerstone of the second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s, breaking all kinds of barriers that stood in the way of women taking control… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, Inc., 1968. Paperback Original (PBO) . Soft cover. Very Good. Both celebrated & reviled, the film on which this book is based, created by Swedish director Vilgot Sjöman, has gone down as one of the most significant pieces of cinema in the 20th century, the first movie to be branded with… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Allen Lane/Penguin, 1974. Revised Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Explores the many ways that homosexuals were oppressed in the United States in the 1970s, when psychology still classified homosexuality as a "deviant mental illness,'' based on the author's visits (from his home in Australia, where he was a university professor) to San Francisco &… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Freedom Editions, 1996. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tasteful & tantalizing collection of lesbian erotica/soft porn images captured by a wide array of lesbian photographers, primarily stark & revealing black-and-white photos, interspersed with some color, complemented by Introductions by both editors & quotes by subjects & photographers throughout. Photographers of note include… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Random House/Bookworks, 1973. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Jaqua, Joseph. Starting from the premise that orgasm is a natural body event--like sneezing, it is argued that it will occur naturally & without effort if the conditions are right. This book helps you set up those conditions with a series of… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Castle Books/Book Sales,, Inc., 1964. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. A Castle Books hardcover reprint with original DJ from 1964 of this S&M classic, in 128 pages. With light gray paper-covered boards lettered in black to spine, this 12mo (4.75" x 7.5") is in VG- condition: completely clean inside, binding strong & straight,… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Orgone Institute Press, 1949. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Expanding a 1928 paper "On Character Analysis" that forged the way for "a new epoch in psychoanalysis,'' Reich here incorporates Freud's notion of "overcoming resistances" in the patient to examine "character resistances" that serve as a type of armor, & that must… Read more about this item

All Star Books, 1958. First, Thus . Soft cover. Good. Scarce, off-brand (All Star Books, AS-43) paperback edition of the most famous pseudonymous "satire on smut,'' orig. published by Olympia in Paris, where it was originally banned, before being published by the US in 1958. Complete & unexpurgated, in 189 pages. N.d. Mass Market Paperback with a woman's… Read more about this item

Woodbridge, Connecticut: Research Publications, 1983. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Long out-of-print & scarce, this is a comprehensive guide to the microfilm collection of 18th & 19th century writings in a wide array of scholarly fields, including social histories, city guidebooks, dictionaries, art books, romances, & sociological/psychological/medical treatises on rape, incest,… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon and Schuster, 1973. First Paperback . Soft cover. VG-/G+. Revolutionary, groundbreaking work arising from the second-wave feminist women's movement of the 1970s, representing women's efforts to take their health, bodies, & choices about their sexuality & reproduction into their own hand. Orig. published in hardcover in 1971, this is the First Paperback… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: Alyson Publishers, 1992. First Softcover Edition . Soft cover. VG-. Predicted to be "surprising & illuminating, even in leather circles,' this collection of 28 essays/articles/interviews explores the hidden world of S/M, leather bars & clubs, & radical sex across gender identifications & sexual orientations, "merging the erotic & the soulful.the spirit & the flesh." In 328… Read more about this item

Tao Publishing, 1987. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Fine. The author, chairman of the Foundation of Tao & trained in both Western & Chinese medicine, offers a taoist approach to sexual health & functioning in both men & women, including many exercises, dietary suggestions, practices, & positions (with line drawing illustrations). Secrets from the classic & often-suppressed… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1974. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Pioneering study of sadomasochism (S&M) across history. Along with psychological studies & sociosexual analyses, the book offers a comprehensive appendix of literary works describing various S&M practices, along with other B&D & erotic techniques. 345 pages. From a single-owner collection,… Read more about this item