Search Results: Photography / Subjects & Themes / Erotica from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Palm Springs, CA and New York: Palm Springs Art Museum; DelMonico Books, 2012. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, January 21 to May 27, 2012. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean inside copy. Faint droplet stain/top edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Southern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre. Since the end of World War II, Southern California's backyard pools--those blue-green oases in an otherwise often arid landscape--have symbolized any number of American ideals: optimism, wealth, consumerism, escape, physical beauty, and the triumph of man over nature.… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1998. ix, 132 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Traces the evolution of the beauty pageant. Well-illustrated with photos, postcards, ephemera. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Cologne: Taschen, 1995. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), chiefly colour illustrations; 31 cm. Text in French, English and German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine lightly bumped at the crown. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. A photographic portrait of African women. Richly illustrated with colour plates. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Amphoto Books, 1989. Cloth, 175 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Subtitle on DJ: Techniques of the top glamour photographers. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Erotica. Includes: Michael Boys, Bob Carlos Clarke, Lucien Clergue, Jan Cobb, Beverley Goodway, David Hamilton, John Kelly, Cheyco Leidmann, Patrick Lichfield, John Mason, Byron Newman, Uwe Ommer, Chris Thomson, and James Wedge.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Los Angeles: St. Ann's Press, 2000. Cloth, 138 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition distributed by the Speed Art Museum. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Stated First Edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Collectible. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Erotic art. "American-born photographer Levinthal has earned national recognition by creating potent, ironic, and sometimes controversial visions using miniature figures and toys as characters in staged tableaux. Since publishing his first major work in 1977 (Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43), he has worked with Barbie, blackface memorabilia, toy soldiers, and various modeling figures to explore the icons and stereotypes of popular culture. Levinthal executed his series Modern Romance in the mid-1980s. Echoing the paintings of Edward Hopper and film noir, these are scenes of urban life in dreamy neon-lit color and… Read More

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002. 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First Edition, First Printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Adults only. "Doris Kloster is one of the world's leading fetish photographers. Unlike the work of most of her contemporaries in this field who specialize in photographing fetish and fashion models in artificial studio settings, her work shows the secret real-life decadent world of dominance and submission. The previously unpublished color, duotone, and black-and-white photographs presented in Fetish World were shot on location in many private dungeons and provide an unforgettable insider's view of dominatrixes and their slaves in full costume and highlighting their use of sexual props and positions." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Eros Magazine, Inc., 1962. Pictorial boards, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine bumped at the crown, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. No. 2 (Summer, 1962) features photo essays on JFK, French prostitutes and the erotic art of India, and Mark Twain's short story "1601". 1st. Hardcover. Good. Folio.

New York: Eros Magazine, Inc., 1962. Pictorial boards, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Boards lightly soiled, Front cover scraped along the foreedge. Age toning, a little musty. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Includes the last studio photos of Marilyn Monroe, in the nude & partially clothed, taken by Bert Stern on July 21, 1962, six weeks before her death. Also in this issue: an article by Bonnie Prudden, an extract from Fanny Hill, and a piece on Samuel Roth.. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Folio.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. Cloth, xxix, 514 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First United States Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Arguably the most comprehensive book on the subject of erotic art with a provocative Brancusi sculpture gracing the front cover. CONTENTS: Art and pornography; Sexual themes in ancient and primitive art; Ancient and primitive cultures, by John H. Field; Eroticism in Oriental art and religion; India, by edited by Peter Webb from a lecture given by Philip Rawson;Eroticism in Western art; Decadent art, by Simon Wilson; Sexual attitudes in Victorian art and literature; Erotic themes in Victorian art and photography; Erotic themes in Victorian literature, by Barry Curtis; Twentieth-century erotic art; Compulsive eroticism in twentieth-century art; Eros and Surrealism, by Robert Stuart… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998. 112 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition: September 1998. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Erotic photography; female nudes, BDSM fetish wear.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Cloth, 120 pages, chiefly illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Pauline Reage's classic erotic novel The Story of O is sumptuously illustrated with Doris Kloster's fetish photographs. The Cadillac of erotic photography. Adults only.. 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Garden City, NY: American Photographic Book Publishing; Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979. Cloth, [112] pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Sensuous nudes. Erotic art.. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Tokyo: Bunkasha, 2012. 1 volume, all illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Japanese erotica. Scantily-clad young Asian women (sex workers) posed in industrial, working-class, and shabby environments, sometimes with Communist insignia. (Note the hammer-and-sickle on the front cover.). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2005. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 32 x 35 cm. Edition of 4000 copies. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates of Jeff Burton's photographs. Includes a Porn Manifesto by Bruce Hainley. Erotica.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Aperture, 1998. 111 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Random House; Ridge Press, 1971. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), chiefly illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Previous owner's bookplate/paste-down endpaper (inside front cover). One corner bumped, age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Erotica.. 5th. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Atherton, CA: Aaron Press, 1985. [6] pages, [14] leaves of plates, chiefly colour illustrations; 28 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Founders Gallery, University of San Diego, September 25 through November 1, 1985. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Cologne: Taschen, 1997. 95 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Subtitle on wraps: Erotic Photos of the Twenties. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Subtitle on cover: Erotic photography of the twenties. "Photographic material used in this volume stems from Uwe Scheid Collection, U berhernn"--Title page verso. Includes quotations from Wili Warstat's The beauty of the nude (1929), Erotic photography (1931), Illustrated cyclopaedia of art history (Germany, 1928), Eduard Fuch's Illustrated history of customs and manners (1912), and Carl Heinrich Stratz's The beauty of the female anatomy (1898-1922). Aspectual history of photography: p. 94-95.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., Publishers, 1981. 109 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, with rubbing & wear to extremities. Age toning.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Cologne: Taschen, 2009. 419 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour) 33 cm. 25th Anniversary Edition. Text in English, German and French. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.