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Tokyo: Wakamatsu Production, 1982. Original Japanese B2 poster from the 1982 Japanese film. Text in Japanese. A married railway ticket puncher starts sedating women with chloroform in order to invade their houses. His cruelty escalates, and he grows bolder in his desires. A late release by controversial pink film director and producer Kôji Wakamatsu. 20.5 x 28.75… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2009. Vintage gatefold flyer for the 2009 exhibition, featuring posthumous work by Wallace Berman alongside contemporary work by Richard Prince. Conceived by writer and curator Kristine McKenna, and held at the Michael Kohn Gallery in in Los Angeles, January 15 through March 7, 2009. 8.5 x 5.5 to 17 x 5.5 inches. Near… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Alternate, 1983. First Edition. First Edition in book form, originally serialized in "Drummer" magazine in 1980. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Brian / John Preston." Introduction by "Drummer" editor Robert Payne. Rare. A key publication in late-twentieth-century leather culture, about a young man's search for the perfect master. Preston authored over 30… Read more about this item

London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2001. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED on the title page by editor Zadie Smith. Laid in with the book are two borderless color photographs of Smith giving a talk in Chicago in 2001, along with an event clipping regarding the same. A collection of five erotic stories, compiled by Smith shortly after… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Seeger Publications, 1950. Archive of photographs, text copy, cartoons, letters, story and photo submissions, banking documents and other ephemera from the short-lived men's magazine "My Escort," published in Hollywood, circa late 1950s. Not to be confused with the British men's magazine "Escort," which began publication in 1980. Detailed inventory available upon request. The majority of the… Read more about this item

Various American Cities: Various, 1975. Collection of 18 vintage photographs of sexploitation actress Edy Williams, circa 1965-1975. Collection includes ten bordered reference photographs, three studio still photographs, four borderless reference photographs, and one bordered press photograph of Williams with Russ Meyer. Five photographs with mimeo snipes on the versos, four with agency labels, and several with annotations in manuscript… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1954. Original photograph of Bettie Page, nude on the beach, shot in 1954. Stamp of photographer Bunny Yeager on the verso. Bunny Yeager was one of the first pinup photographers to work outdoors, in natural light, and subsequently became one of the most successful and prolific pinup photographers of the 1950s and 1960s. Yeager photographed a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1992. Vintage two-sided Japanese flyer for the 1992 film, featuring a full-color graphic on the recto, and the verso in black and white, with three film still photographs. Text in Japanese and French. Young Japanese couple, Kishin and Rie, are trying to survive living in Paris as private detectives, when the wealthy and powerful gangster Okuyama,… Read more about this item

N.p.: Alliance International, 1995. Vintage portrait matte photograph of director Atom Egoyan from the 1995 film. Bruce Greenwood, depressed and grieving over the loss of his child, is obsessed with Mia Kirshner, a young stripper at an upscale strip club, whose ex-boyfriend, Elias Koteas, the club's MC, still jealously pines for her. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. … Read more about this item

London and Paris: N.p., 1898. First Edition. First Edition. Although the title page claims the narrative to have been "translated from the French," OCLC lists Marie la Goule's "Yvette" as having been released in 1908, making it likely that this text is English in origin, with references to the French "original" being a promotional tactic on the part of… Read more about this item

Berlin: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1925. First Edition. First Edition. Compiles 24 erotic nude photogravures by noted Czech photographer Franz Fiedler. Included with the collection is a typed letter of recommendation on Fiedler's letterhead and signed by Fiedler, dated March 4, 1939, discussing an apprentice photographer's work. The letter discusses Fiedler's experiences with Heinz Hahn, an apprentice photographer who… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Treatment script for the 1973 3-D sexploitation film, seen here under the working title "International Stewardesses." Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Alan Colberg, with "Property of Alan Colberg c/o Stereo Vision" in manuscript pencil annotation on the title page, and his additional annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are an original photograph and large… Read more about this item

Paris: N.p., 1982. Vintage silkscreen poster for a single performance by American avant-garde jazz saxophonist Steve Lacy and Japanese avant-garde percussionist Toshi (the stage name of Toshiyuki Tsuchitori) at Theatre Mouffetard in Paris. The poster's challenging graphic reflects the bracing nature of the music both artists were creating at the time, borne out of jazz movements that… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Vintage photograph of the illustration of five stewardesses for the 1972 3-D sexploitation film, which was used in the film's marketing campaign. Sequel to the 1969 hit 3-D softcore comedy "The Stewardesses, "the most profitable 3-D film ever released, written and directed by Allan Silliphant (credited as Alf Sillman Jr.). Hoping to follow on the… Read more about this item

Paris: Galerie Rue Antoine, 1995. Two vintage color photographs taken by noted director and photographer Larry Clark, both taken for the 1995 Supreme calendar, and both with the stamp of Galerie Rue Antoine and Clark's signature stamp on the verso. The photographs were included in an exhibition of Clark's work in Paris, at the Galerie Rue Antoine,… Read more about this item

N.p.: Russ Meyer, 2001. Archive of thirteen vintage oversize photographs by director Russ Meyer, including twelve in color and one in black-and-white. Five photographs signed by Meyer on the verso. All of the photographs are from an edition of 20 and are numbered on the verso, with all twelve color photographs numbered "1/20," and the black and white photograph… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Inter-Relations, 1993. Volume 1, Issue 3 of Frank Moore and Linda Mac's post-porn zine, with performance artist and pro-sex activist Annie Sprinkle featured on the cover. Texts by Moore, Veronica Vera, R. (Dixi) Cohn, Sprinkle, Merle Tofer, Luna Sanguine, and Dorothy Jesse Beagle, with art/photography by Wink Van Kempen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sprinkle, LaBash, Mac Trunz, Amy Ardrey, and… Read more about this item

London: English Film Company Limited, 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film, here under the working title "The Will," with single annotation in manuscript ink of copy number "24" on first page. One of the better known British sexploitation films of the 1970s, having been the subject of a 1975 episode of BBC program "Man Alive" (season… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1993. Vintage reference photograph of Sharon Stone and director Phillip Noyce on the set of the 1993 film. Based on the 1991 novel by Ira Levin, and adapted by notorious screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, then the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood, noted for his provocative screenplays, such as "Flashdance" (1983), "Jagged Edge" (1985), "Basic… Read more about this item

New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1982. First Edition. First Edition, first printing, all paperback originals. Each volume INSCRIBED by the author, Andrew J. Offutt, on the first page to his son, noted writer Chris Offutt. "Corundum's Woman" (Number 2) is simply signed on the first page. From the author's estate. Offutt had gained some success writing adult novels… Read more about this item