Item #212
 Banned Books
 
 
1501. Guillaume Apollinaire. Two Novels.  Paris: Olympia Press, (1962).  Original printed wrapper with dec. green borders on title-page. 1st ed. thus (Traveller's Companion Series No.70).18 nf price partially crossed out in ink  else Near Fine. $35. USD Must use a credit card to  purchase or provide proof of age. 

1502. Lawrence Durrell. The Black Book.  Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1959. Original printed wrapper with dec. green borders on title-page. 1st ed. thus (Traveller's Companion Series No.77). Near Fine in wraps. Price 1,500 Francs.  $15. USD Must use a credit card to  purchase or provide proof of age. 

1503. The Illustrated Presidential Report of the Commission  on Obscenity and Pornography. San Diego: Greenleaf, 1970. A rare and classic banned book. Intro by The American Civil Liberties Union.  The actual Presidential Report, Illustrated by pictures of the type of pornography they discussed. A true satirical classic.,Extremely rare, and a major send-up of the Nixon administration. This copy is somewhat edgeworn with minor soil and a punched hole indicating that it was, at some point confiscated.  $150. USD Must use a credit card to  purchase or provide proof of age. 

1504. T. R. Smith (ed.). Poetica EroticaNY Horace Liveright 1931. No. 2624 of 3125 copies.Very good, lightly toned copy in a good DL with several small tears. Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. $100. USD 

1505. James Sherwood, Stradella.Grove Press, 1st US ed., (1967). DJ Slightly chipped, else at least VG/VG revised slightly from Paris original stated first printing. $10. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1506. D. A. F. De Sade. The 120 Days of Sodom, Volume Two. Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1962. Original printed wrapper 1st ed. thus (Traveller's Companion Series No.50). Near Fine in wraps. Price 54 Francs. $35. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1507. Arthur Rimbaud.A Season in Hell  Little, Brown, Boston: 1997. 89 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket. A Near fine reprint of the LEC. $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1508. Vladimir Nabokov. Ada. . New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1969 . Very Good, lightly toned stated first edition in a Good DJ with some edge chipping $25.USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1509. Peter Mathiessen. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.  New York Viking Press, 1983. Near Fine First edition in a Near Fine DJ with a trace of edgewear. $100. USD 

1510.Frank Harris.My Life and Loves Paris.Obelisk, 1960. Four Volumes rebound into two in red buckram stamped in gilt with marbled endpapers. original wraps not bound in. Except for slight toning Fine, a beautiful job of preserving fragile books, reissue of the original by Maurice Girodius at Editions Du Chene.  $55. USD Must use a credit card to  purchase or provide proof of age. 

1511. Henry Miller.Tropic of Capricorn. Paris: Obelisk Press, nd (1949). Original paperback rebound in brick colored buckram. reissue of the original by Maurice Girodius at Editions Du Chene. VG paper badly yellowed  $25. USD Must use a credit card to  purchase or provide proof of age. 

1512. Henry Miller.Tropic of Capricorn.John Calder London 1964, very good book with some soiling on edges, in slightly soiled and edge worn jacket also having small pieces missing, price is un-clipped book supplied in wrapper guard protector. Ink mark on Verso.  $25. USD Must use a credit card to  purchase or provide proof of age. 

1513. Henry Miller. The Rosy Crucifixion, Book One Sexus. Paris: Obelisk, 1949. Limited First Edition 2910/3000, 2 Vols. Both numbered Near Fine, tender hinges V.2 and some pencil marks. $500. USD Must use a credit card to  purchase or provide proof of age. 

1514. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass.  NY - London - Lagos: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1940 Cloth ("burlap"). No DJ. First Thus. General. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 317pp. A classic 4to edition of this work, bound in coarse cloth (Burlap? Jute? Hemp?),  BookVery Good in like slipcase with the usual sun-tanning on spine of the otherwise grass-green weave.  $20. 

1515.Voltaire. Candide.Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library, 1979 Faux Leather. As New/No Jacket.  $15.USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1516. Terry Southern. Blue Movie. New York, NY: The World Publishing Company, 1970. Hard Cover. Near Fine with previous owner's gift inscription and light soil in edgeworn/clipped, Good DJ First Edition stated.. $20. USD

1517. Nadine Gordimer. Burger's Daughter.  NY: The Viking Press, 1979. Very Good First American edition with previous owner's signature in near fine clipped DJ. $15. USD 

1518. Barry Devlin. Carnal Cargo. NY: Vixen, 1952. A Near Fine first edition with a fox fep where (apparently) a clipping was laid in a Near fine DJ. Jack Lawrence series. $25. USD Must use a credit card  to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1519. Barry Devlin. Chains of Silk. NY: Vixen, 1954. A Near Fine first edition in a Very Good DJ. Jack Lawrence series. $25. USD Must use a credit card  to purchase or provide proof of age 

1520. Havelock Ellis. The Evolution of Sexual Modesty, The phenomenon of Sexual periodicity, Auto-Eroticism. Volume 1, Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Phila: F. A. Davis, 1919 Good (hinges starting) of the third printing of this classic study. $12. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1521. Havelock Ellis. Sexual Selection in Man. Volume 4, Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Phila: F. A. Davis, 1919 Good (hinges starting) of the third printing of this classic study. $12. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1522. Grace Metalious. Return to Peyton Place.  New York: Julian Messner, 1959. Deeply toned Near fine first edition in Very Good chipped DJ. $10. USD Must use a credit card  to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1523. Kim Savage,. HELLION NY, Vixen Press 1951. 1st edition. VG in dust jacket chipped along edges. $25.USD Must use a credit card  to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1524.Georges Lewys. The House of Love. Paris Book Club of New York By Lavater-Dorettee, Inc. 1935 Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good.DJ  Cream and lavender boards with gilt spine titles. Lavender endpapers. Limited Edition. #1016 of 1100 Copies. First Edition in English. Drawings by Steindl from Life. Illustrated frontispiece of nude, complete with descriptive tissue-guard. $35. USD Must use a credit card  to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1525. Paul Verlaine.Royal Tastes Erotic Writings. New York: Harmony Books, 1984 ¼ Cloth. Very Good/Very  Good. 1st revised. 8vo. 192 pp. Bottom edge bumped. Dj sl. rubbing. Complete French text of Amies with Alan Stone's  translation. Verlaine's  poems; with Belle Epoque photos. $12. USD Must use a credit card  to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1526. Felix Bryk. Voodoo- EROS.   N.Y.: United Book Guild, 1964. Ltd ed 223/500 Very Good lacking DJ. $20. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1527. Peter Wright. Spy Catcher. New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1987. Very Good First American Edition in Near fine lightly rubbed DJ  $25. USD 

1528. Lawrence Durrell. The Black Book..  Covina, CA Collector's Publication 1967. Stated First American Printing notwithstanding the 1960 Dutton. Collates exactly with the 1959 Olympia TC and thus is the first American unexpurated edition. $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1529. Edith Cadivec. Eros- The Meaning of My Life. NY: Grove Press, 1969. VGHB/NoDJ.FIRST PRINTING.TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN BY. HUGO GASPARI. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT CLASSIC  $10.USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1530.  D. A. F. De Sade. The Bedroom Philosophers. Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1965. Original printed wrapper Near Fine 3rd Printing (Traveller's Companion Series No.49). in wraps. Price 18 Francs. $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1531. William Talsman. The Gaudy Image. New York: Olympia Press, (1958).  Some wear and creasing to wrappers Very Good First American Edition. William Talsman is apparently James M. Smith. The book has a gay theme. $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1532. Robert Gover.Here Goes Kitten. New York: Grove Press, Inc. 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good DJ. First Edition. Slight edgewear to dust jacket; with two or three short clean tears. 
$25. USD. 

1533. Daniel Defoe. Roxanna The Fortunate Mistress.NY: The Bibliophilist Society, 1931 Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. cover slightly worn at edges. Plain brown wrapper classic erotica. $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1534. Baird Bryant. Play this Love with Me. New York: Olympia Press, 1967.  First American Edition.Published formerly under the pseudonym "Willie Baron." Very Good in wraps.  $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1535, Norman Singer. Curtain of Flesh.  New York  Bee Line Books-Traveller's Companion Series  1968  First Thus,Very Good some creasing to cover and edge wear  $12. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1536. Harriet Daimler. The New Organization. Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1962. TCS No. 40 2nd edition  Original printed wrappers. Near Fine. green border on title page, First published by the Olympia Press in 1957 as THE ORGANIZATION, has the points of an Olympia first as the original was on a list of censored books and the new title sought to hide the contents. $25. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1537. Francis Pollini. Night.  Paris: The Olympia Press (1960) First edition. Near Fine. A landmark book about brainwashing. TCS No 83 green border on title page price 18 NF. $100. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1538. Philip O'Connor. Steiner's Tour. . Paris: The Olympia Press, 1960. Soft Cover in Wraps. Very Good Plus. First Edition TCS No 80 green border on title page price 18 NF. $35. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1539, D.H.Lawrence.The Rainbow.  New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition with MCMXVI on the title page and 1915 on the copyright page as required. VG-in tan, pebbled cloth stamped in black, some toning and edgewear. $135. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1540. Anais Nin. Fire.   New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995.b Fine stated and supported First Edition First Printing in a Fine DJ.  $20. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1541. Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch. Venus and Adonis. NY: Windsor, 1933. "Plain brown wrapper" edition of the underground classic. VG/ No DJ $10. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1542. Anais Nin. Ladders to Fire. New York E.P. Dutton & Co. 1946. Very good condition in worn d.j. 213p., illus. Illustrated by Ian Hugo (etchings). 1st edition. $45. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1543. Alberto Moravia. The Woman of Rome.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Co. 1949 1ST U.S. Edition Very Good in a good DJ with several tears and chips all small.. $20. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1544. Soliman Peters. Business as Usual. Covina, CA: Collectors Publications, 1967 Soft Cover. VG. 1st U.S. Printing stated. $8. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1545. Harriet Daimler (Iris Owens). Woman. Paris: Olympia Press, 1965. Very Good Traveler's Companion Series No 61. $35. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1546. Gregory Corso. The American Express. Paris: Olympia Press, 1961. Fine Traveler's Companion Series No 85.green border on title page price 15 NF some spotting to covers and first couple pages  $65. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1547. D.H. Lawrence. A Modern Lover. New York: Viking, 1934. First U.S. edition Very Good with some edgewearand minor spine fray. $45. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1548. Colette. Renee  La Vagabonde. Garden City, NY Doubleday 1931.  A Very Good stated First Edition (First American & First of Remfrey-Kidd Translation). In a Good DJ with a 1' chip to front and edgewear. $30. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1549. Anonymous. Suburban Souls. NY: Grove, 1968. VG 1st in like DJ a rare first of this influential erotic classic that put Grove on the map. $25. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1550. Fred. Chas. Forberg. Manual of Classical Erotology. New York, NY  Grove Press  1966  First Printing  Very Good Facsimile edition of English edition of 1844 in a Good edgeworn DJ $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1551. John Howard Griffin. Black Like Me. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin,  (1961). Stated Ninth Printing Very Good lacking DJ, signed on the title page by Griffin. EX- Bart's Books, Ojai, CA $125. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1552. Bradley Smith. The Erotic Art of the Masters. New York & La Jolla, CA:  The Erotic Art Book Society/Gemini-Smith, (1974)Near Fine original edition in a very Good DJ. Introduction by Henry Miller. $35. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1553. Richard Von Krafft-Ebing. Psychopathia Sexualis. Chicago: Logan Brothers, 1931. Revised Edition from the 12th German Edition. Soil and shelf wear else Near Very Good, no DJ. $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1554. Alberto Moravia. The Wayward Wife. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1960 1st US edition. . Translated from the Italian by Angus Ferguson. VG, one corner bumped, in a VG dust jacket with some edge wear and rubbing at the folds. $20. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1555. Jean de la Fontaine. Tales and Novels. New York: William Godwin, 1933 Red Cloth. Good/. NO DJ  some bumping to book spine, fading  top edges of boards. "These gaily wicked poems can be 
compared only to Boccaccio's Decameron or Balzac's Droll Stories." Seven etchings by Clara Tice. 
brown paper wrapper edition "privately printed" $10. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1556. Lars Ullerstam, M. D. A Sexual Bill of Rights for The Erotic Minorities.  New York: Grove Press, 1966. Near fine stated First Printing in Near Fine Unclipped DJ. $12. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1557.  D.H. Lawrence. A Propos of  Lady Chatterly's Lover: Being an Essay Extended From "My Skirmish With JollyRoger." London: Mandrake Press, 1930. VG/No DJ. Spine sunned light agr toning and edgewear. $45. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1558. Anais Nin. The Children of the Albatross. New York: Dutton, 1947. Stated First Edition Very Good lacking DJ, second state lacking collophon. $25. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1559. Vilgot Sjoman. I am Curious (Blue) New York: Grove Press, 1966. Fine stated First Printing in Near Fine Unclipped DJ. Illustrated with stills from the movie. $45. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1560. Anonymous. Love 1 & Love 2 Erotic Tales from Scandinavia.  New York: Grove Press, 1966. Near fine stated First Printing in Very Good Unclipped DJ. Illustrated with stills from the Danish film "Darling Playthings." $20. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.
 
1561. Vilgot Sjoman. I Was Curious. New York: Grove Press, 1966. Near fine stated First Printing in Very Good Unclipped DJ. Illustrated with stills from the movies I am Curious (Yellow and Blue) $20. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.

1562. Derek Humphry. Final Exit. : The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying. Eugene, OR: The Hemlock Society, 1991 Near Fine/ DJ has large chip in rear else Very Good. $10. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.

1563. H.W. Long. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living  New York: Eugenic Publishing Co. 1922. Red Cloth. Good/No DJ.  Interior is lightly age toned. edgewear.$8. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.

1564. Anthony Heckstall-Smith. The Consort. New York: Grove Press, 1965 Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Both  DJs. Publication was suppressed in Britain for fear of offending the Royal Family. $25. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.

1565. Marie C. Stopes. Married Love. New York, Eugenics Publishing, 1932. Very Good lightly toned 2nd printing of the third revised edition, the first to carry the vindication of the book in court. in fair DJ.  $15. USD  Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.
 
1566. Longus. Daphne & Chloe.New York: Rarity, 1931.  Very good with a faded spine lacking a DJ, Illustrated by John Austen  brown paper wrapper edition "privately printed" $15. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 

1567. (George) Bernard Shaw. Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant : The First Volume, Containing the Three Unpleasant Plays  New York: Brentano's, 1905. The third play: "Mrs. Warren's Profession" was the source of an ongoing battle between Shaw and Anthony Comstock, in which Shaw coined the term "Comstockery". Good/No DJ label on spine chipped,spine frayed at top split at bottom, rear hinge crack. previous owner's signature. First Thus. On Auction 

1568. Jett Sage. Crazy Wild. NY: Olympia Book Society, 1969. Second printing thus. Near fine in a good (edge worn with a couple of short tears) dust jacket $12. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age. 
 
1569. Pierre Louys. The Adventures of King Pausole.New York: William Godwin, 1933  Very good with a faded spine lacking a DJ, Illustrated by Beresford Egan  brown paper wrapper edition "privately printed" $20. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.  

1570. E.R. Hutchinson. Tropic of Cancer on Trial: A Case History of Censorship. NY: Grove Press USA 1968 First Edition Hardbound VG/NVG DJ. A nice, tight copy w nice text in DJ, Dj soiled 
On Auction 

1571. Scott Stone. Devil's Web.New York: Vixen Press, 1955.  Very Good/Good DJ. First Edition. $12. USD Must use a credit card to purchase or provide proof of age.  

 

 
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