Erotica from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

Paris: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. printed and stapled salmon stiff wrappers. Fine. 52 pages. 13.5 x 10 cm. An attempt to capitalize on French erotica, hyped by purposely ill spelled English, and three nude illustrations as sexy as cod liver oil. Probably published in the United States as a ruse with a price of 500 Francs on… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions De La Maison Française, 1947. Hardcover. Loose as issued in orig. stiff wrappers front cover lettered in red, housed in fine board chemise in fine matching slipcase. Dignimont, Andre. 225 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 500. Color illustrations by Andre Dignimont and engraved on wood in colors by Gerard Angiolini. Text… Read more about this item

Cosmpoli: Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1886. Hardcover. Three quarter maroon morocco and red cloth, marbled endpapers. Teg. Near fine. 236 pages 18.5 x 13 cm. Revised and corrected edition, apparently a pirate edition printed in Alencon. Probably written between 1410 and 1434, this work achieved a reputation in the Arab world akin to the "Arabian… Read more about this item

Paris & Vienna: KumstHaus Wien & Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2001. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Pierre et Gillies. 155 pages. 30 x 20 cm. Profusely illustrated, color photographs with complicated, exotic staging and backgrounds. Text in English, German and French. Happy hunting in exotica, gay variations, lots of private parts.

New York: Avant Garde Media, 1971. First edition. Wraps. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very good/Near fine. 28.5 x 28 cm. 15 issues, a complete set with 2 copies of issue No. 2 with cover illustration of Marilyn Monroe. A colorful potpourri on life during this period: drugs, sexual mores, politics, cultural turmoil, illustrated with photographs, serigraphs and colorful graphics.… Read more about this item

Paris: Pierre Larrive, 1949. Contents fine, loose as issued in fine orig. stiff cream lettered wrappers in near fine faux leather brown cloth chemise with spine paper label housed in matching slipcase very good slipcase. 229 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 89 (total edition of 422) on Chiffon De Bellegrave with an extra suite of… Read more about this item

New York: Lustrum Press, 1984. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Warhol, Andy. 95 pages. 30.3 x 24 cm. 43 black and white photographs, many erotic, accompanied by the author's poetry. Malanga worked with Andy Warhol at the Factory. This Bronx born poet was introduced to Warhol by his English professor at Wagner College:… Read more about this item

Paris: Le Impressions Des Roses, 1950. leather_bound. Full crimson morocco, top edge marbled. Fine. 427 pages. Limited edition, copy 190 of 300. 20 full page erotic pochoir plates by Pierre Leconte, and a host decorated initial letters and color chapter decorations. French text with wide text margins, original decorated stiff wrappers printed in two colors laid-in. Raised bands,… Read more about this item

Paris: Gibert Jeune, 1955. Later printing. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated tan wrappers. Very good in very good slipcase. 2 vols.. 346, 338 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Thirty-two full-page pochoir plates and seventy-nine black and white designs by Brunelleschi. Limited edition, copy 1192 of 3000 copies. Casanova illustrated with Brunelleschi panache: high socks, hi-jinks and high-camp. Bright, fresh… Read more about this item

New York: Helmsman, 1958. First edition. Boards. Orig. embossed black boards. Fine in slightly worn slipcase. 125 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Preface by George Jean Nathan. Index.

London: Quartet, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 4to, approx. 120 pages in text. Eighty-two black and white photographs. Afterword by Colin Osman. Stereo glass plates of a photographer known only as JBG, made ostensibly for a high-class Mexican bordello between 1900 and 1905, and discovered in 1975 in a flea market… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Verlag Von Albert Unflad, 1885. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco and marbled boards with raised bands. Very good. 484 pages. Text embrowned. Index. Ex-library.

Np: Au Doulx Temps, Nd. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers in glassine overwrapper. Near fine in bumped, floral slipcase. 120 pages. 18 x 12 cm, profusely illustrated with color lithographs, at least one per page. Limited edition, copy 117 of 800 on Velin de Lana.

Paris: Editions Michele Trickvel, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. Dubout. 295 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 286 illustrations in color and black and white. Preface by Frederic Dard. Limited edition, one of 1000. Survey of the work of the zany, often scatological French caricaturist.

Paris: G. Govone, 1938. Wraps. Orig. printed tan wrappers with unsewn text, loose as issued. Near fine. Lydis, Mariette. 187 (2) pages. 32 x 24 cm. Twelve color lithographs by Mariette Lydis, a delicate engraver noted for her prints with a style approximating that of Foujita. Limited edition, copy 304 of 382 on Rives paper printed by Fernand… Read more about this item