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We have in stock many more erotica titles than are listed here, and are particularly strong on titles published in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century: Olympia Press, Pall Mall Press, Palladium Publications, Librairie Astra, Erotica Biblion Society, and many more besides, including French-language imprints. If you would like to send us a wants list, you can do so at the contact page.

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[EROTICA] [illus. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey] ARISTOPHANES

The Lysistrata Of Aristophanes:

Paris: Privately Printed [?Vendôme Press], 1931

Large 8vo, pp. 61. Loose signatures laid in to stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red on front panel and spine. Unopened. Card... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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WILMOT, John, Earl Of Rochester

Sodom Or The Quintessence Of Debauchery.

Paris: The Olympia Press 1957

12mo, pp.123. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black.

First Olympia edition, no. 48 in the Traveller's Companion... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[attrib. PETRONIUS]

London Unexpurgated

London: New English Library, 1969

8vo, pp. 286, 2 pp. advertisements. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
An intriguing survey of the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[pseud. BEILES, Sinclair] MENG, Wu Wu

Houses of Joy

Paris: Olympia, 1965

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£25.00

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[pseud. ANON] STORM, Ralph. A

Intimate Interviews

Paris: Olympia, 1960

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£25.00

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[pseud. GLASSCO, John] UNDERWOOD, Miles

Under The Birch The Story of an English Governess

Paris: Olympia, 1965

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PETERS, Adam

Business As Usual

Paris: Week End Books, 1958

Small octavo, pp. 192. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition, published simultaneously by the Ophelia Press (an Olympia imprint) with the authorship creditied to 'Soliman Peters'.... [more]

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£30.00

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CRANE, Harold

Pursuit Of Happiness

Paris: Oceanic Press, 1959

Small octavo, pp. 199. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Two books bound in one : the title story, and Success Story. Both are rubbish, and of quite outstanding... [more]

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£30.00

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[pseud, SCHNURRER, Adam] ADAM

Taxi

Amsterdam: Sombrero, 1986

4to, pp. 48. Original illustrated card wrappers. Dutch text.

First edition.
A suite of graphic short stories -- graphic in both... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£30.00

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[pseud. RAY, Robin] VON GOTHA, Erich

El Sueño De Cécilia

Barcelona: Carton Comics, N.d.

4to, pp. [unpaginated]. Original colour illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
Pornographic graphic strips, with no... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£30.00

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[Erotica] NOUGARET, P.J.B.

La Capucinade

N.p. [Paris]: Arcanes, 1955

Small 8vo, pp. 159. Original cream stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black to front panel and spine. Uncut, unopened.

Arcanes... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£30.00

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MAD JACK

Emilienne

Paris: Edition de L'Etoile, 1954

Octavo, pp. 137. Original grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in blue on front panel and spine.

First edition.
A second edition of this title, published later in the 1950s and... [more]

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£35.00

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DEXTER, Erle

Mabel's Torments

Paris: Oceanic Press, 1958

Small octavo, pp. 188. Original grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black.

First edition.
Oceanic Press was established in 1958 as a rival to Maurice Girodias's Olympia... [more]

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WILSON, Mary

The Voluptuous Night

Paris: Mediterranean Press, 1957

Small octavo, pp. 167. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
The title story is a pornographic translation of the Vivant Demon's story Point de Lendemain,... [more]

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£35.00

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[ANONYMOUS]

Histoire de Mary et d'Arabella ou Les Voluptes Secretes d'Un Debauche

Paris: Le Serail Royal, 1952

Octavo, pp. 129. Original grey paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front panel.

Third edition, the first two having been published in the 1890s.
This edition was... [more]

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£45.00

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[Olympia Press] APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume

Amorous Exploits Of A Young Rakehell

Paris: Olympia Press, 1953

Small 8vo, pp. 110. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black.

First unexpurgated English-language edition, second... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£45.00

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[pseud. ANON] O'NEILL, Peter

Lover [Hell Is Filling Up]

Paris: Olympia, 1966

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£45.00

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[OLYMPIA PRESS] [pseud. OWENS, Iris] DAIMLER, Harriet

Woman

Paris: Olympia Press, 1965

Small 8vo, pp.181. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black.

Second edition. First published by Olympia as The Woman... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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