Books for Trade: Anon(Attributed to Stanilas de Rhodes) The Autobiography of a Flea.Printed for the Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York 1901 (1926)

January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 / Steve M. / 5 Comments

This one previously unlisted, because it is shaped like a small house brick and very difficult to scan, plus I don’t like the images. But it is a clandestine title and it is going to auction, so I best list it while I still have it,I have never seen another copy. I strongly suspect that the illustrations are copied from a much earlier edition. Ancient pornography with a very strong anti-clerical theme.

LINK: Clandestine Erotica: Some thoughts on Clandestine/Defiant Literature and the battle against Censorship

Anon(Attributed to Stanilas de Rhodes) The Autobiography of a Flea.Printed for the Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York 1901 (1926) In original green boards (which are marked and worn, in quarter leather, spine (worn at edges head and base of spine) title in gilt. 274 pages with 14 crudely executed full page illustrations, on glossy paper. Conforms to Note at end of Mendes( 1E). Very compact book, covers are about good with contents very good (stitching visible between pages 96-97) Still a rare edition complete with the illustrations and head and tailpieces.

The Illustrations

Frontispiece

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Memoirs of a Russian Princess

FLOSSIE, a Venus of Fifteen, By One who new this Charming Goddess and Worshipped at her Shrine

Books for Trade: -M.Belobeck, Saisi par le Debauche n.d n.p [1958 , Paris?] Clandestine (Losfeld)

December 8, 2015 / Steve M. / 5 Comments

Another clandestine Losfeld production, no real background information on this one

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Belobeck

M. BELOBECK saisi par le débauche. n.p., n.d. [c. 1958] 16mo. pp. 116. Six illustrations. [ – Dutel, 1869.] Prosecuted in March 1961.

The Illustrations.

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Bookcase Archive: [VALORBE, François] Graf Roth. – L’école des caresses. n.p., n.d. [c. 1955] (Eric Losfeld)

September 25, 2015October 15, 2024 / Steve M. / 6 Comments

Another clandestine Losfeld, title, previously posted in list form, but here with the illustrations. [VALORBE, François] Graf Roth. – L’école des caresses. n.p., n.d. [c. 1955] 8vo. Unpaginated, but pp. [168]. Twenty-four illustrations. [Bibliothèque Nationale: Enfer, 1514. Dutel, 1450] Prosecuted in September 1961. In only about good condition but complete with all illustrations.

NOTE: The head and Tail Piece decorations and those used to space the illustrations are not from this book.

L’école des caresses

Title Page

The Illustrations

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Bookcase Archive: Lamothe Phyne: Débauche au Pensionnat. Published Clandestinely, Bruxelles [Francis Flores, Toulouse], 1959

September 8, 2015October 15, 2024 / Steve M. / 8 Comments

Previously in list form only, another clandestine title from the 1950’s.

NOTE: The head and tail-piece and design between images are not from this book everything else is.

Lamothe Phyne: Débauche au Pensionnat.

Book Description: [Francis Flores, Toulouse], 1959. Paperback. Original edition. In-8 sheets (19×14) of 230pp., 1ff., In gray paper printed covers with an image of a blackboard. 12 illustrations inset in black on Bristol paper. First edition of a clandestine pornographic novel, published at the end of the 50’s in Toulouse by Francis Flores. Anonymous beautiful retro illustrations in ink. The book was first sentenced for gross indecency on September 21, 1960. Pia 303 Dutel 1346.

The Illustrations.

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Bookcase Archive: Saint-Luc, Mme la Vicomtesse; Fleurs de chair., En souvenir d`Isidore Liseux. Published by Montréal, Société des bibliophiles (Losfeld),, 1950

September 3, 2015October 16, 2024 / Steve M. / 7 Comments

Another clandestine production from Losfeld, and again an uncredited artist but I suspect the same chap who illustrated my last posted item.

Note, the head and tail-piece decorations and those between the illustrations are not from this book.

Fleurs de chair

En souvenir d`Isidore Liseux. Published by Montréal, Société des bibliophiles (Losfeld),, 1950In original card covers printed in red, 110 p.p. six illustrations also in red [Dutel 1581], First published by Auguste Brancart in 1893.

Title Page

The illustrations

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Bookcase Archive : Anon (James Reddie Campbell) The Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon N.p., n.y.(1925?)

August 30, 2015October 17, 2024 / Steve M. / 2 Comments

Another late clandestine publication, Peter Mendes in his “Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English” Scolar Press 1993/1998, at index 87 A/B, lists 3 copies, the first with the original title Printed for the Nihilists Moscow, 1881, (possibly published by Brancart) the second with the variant title “My Life’s Adventures” The Erotica Biblion Society 1904, he references a third copy which appears to match the one listed here. The original edition was prosecuted and presumably lead to the change of title in the Erotica Biblion edition.

This copy is embellished with three engraved erotic illustrations that look to me to have come from an earlier publication if this indeed the 1925, edition, Mendes does speculate about an unseen edition which might have served as the master for this copy which probably originated with J.Berge, in Rotterdam c 1902-1905.

Pleased to have found two very small printers devices in this copy that serve with the title as decorations to this page, the floral banner between the images does not come from this book.

Anon (James Reddie Campbell) The Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon N.p., n.y.(1925?)

The Illustrations

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Bookcase Archive: Anonymous ( Vicomtesse de Saint-Luc) , Les Curiositès: Undated (1959), No Place (Paris?) Clandestine (Losfeld)

August 20, 2015October 17, 2024 / Steve M. / 11 Comments

Another clandestine Losfeld this one a reproduction of (part) of an earlier clandestine title by Brancart.

NOTE: The head and tail pieces and decorations between the illustrations are not from this book everything else is.

Les Curiositès

In Original Black card covers with title in red on cover and spine. 8vo. pp. 159. Eight coloured illustrations. [Dutel, 1329.] All illustrations and text present and correct.

Title Page

A reprint of vol. II of Liqueurs et Parfums des Importantes Fabriques de Lesbos, Cythère et Gomorrhe… published at Amsterdam by A. Brancart in 1894.Curiosités (Les). – S.l.n.d. [P., Eric Losfeld, fin des années ’50], in-12, en f., couv. noire impr. en bistre, étui. Edition clandestine ornée de 8 illustrations en coul., très libres. Il s’agit d’une réédition du tome 2 de Liqueurs et Parfums paru pour la 1e fois en 1894.

The Illustrations.

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Bookcase Archive: Le Parc Aux Cerfs, Baron de B. ,Edition Versailles (Eric Losfeld) 1950

August 19, 2015October 17, 2024 / Steve M. / 6 Comments

Another clandestine Losfeld, title, previously posted in list form, but here with the illustrations. As far as I can ascertain the text is a reprint of an 18th century gallant, but I would be interested to know what title the illustrations were from originally.

NOTE: The head and Tail Piece decorations and those used to space the illustrations are not from this book.

Le Parc Aux Cerfs

Le Parc Aux Cerfs, Baron de B. ,Edition Versailles (Eric Losfeld) 1950 8vo. pp. 165. in uncut sheets. Eight illustrations. tipped in. [Dutel, 2135.] Prosecuted in June 1961. Limited to 300 copies. The authorship and place of publication are given on the wrapper only. In protective, anonymous card covers and slipcase.

The Illustrations

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Bookcase Archive:Memoirs of Fanny Hill, by John Cleland, A Genuine Reprint of the Rare Edition of 1749, Paris and Benares, The Kamashastra Society 1907

August 16, 2015October 17, 2024 / Steve M. / 2 Comments

Well yet another clandestine edition of Fanny Hill, and although I can find references to Kamashastra editions I cannot find an exact match for this one, it is stated a limited edition of 250 copies, I have found editions with and without plates, but this one has a frontispiece and 11 explicit plates, after Paul Avril, and all but one are hand coloured, or at least partially coloured, I must say the plates are a bit odd and appear to have been coloured by someone who was possibly colour blind. Regardless a rare enough item and interesting in its oddity.

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Memoirs of Fanny Hill

Memoirs of Fanny Hill, by John Cleland, A Genuine Reprint of the Rare Edition of 1749, Paris and Benares, The Kamashastra Society 1907.

The Illustrations

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Books for Trade: Anon(Attributed to Stanilas de Rhodes) The Autobiography of a Flea.Printed for the Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York 1901 (1926)