Search Results: Erotica from Charles Agvent

Paris: Editions Nilsson, n.d. [@1930]. First Edition. Wraps. Some foxing throughout, heaviest at endpapers and not affecting the illustrations. The fragile illustrated paper dustwrapper is intact but for a 1-1/2" chip at the base of the spine. Very Good. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-1/8") in stiff paper binding with a thin brown paper cover with watercolor decorations on front and rear panels, as well as the spine. The French text is accompanied by 6 hand-colored pochoir plates by G. P. Joumard on the same thin paper tipped in. Stated limitation of 100 copies.

(New York and Fribourg): (Pamela Verlag) and (Transworld Art), (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine case. Salvador Dali. Portfolio with loose sheets (12-1/4" x 17-1/2") laid in a paper cover and cloth portfolio lettered in silver on the backstrip, as issued. Copy #26 of 150 with English text and 10 ORIGINAL DRYPOINT ENGRAVINGS in color (image size 5" x 7-1/4" on 12-1/4" x 17-1/2" sheets), each SIGNED by the illustrator.

Basle & Geneva: Galerie Schreiner/Galerie Schreiner-Letu SA, [1975]. First Edition. Hardcover. Some scratches to the covers and rubbing to the front joint. Near Fine. Large folio (18" x 19") in full gilt-decorated and lettered black morocco leather by Zaehnsdorf with gilt dentelles and silk endpapers. Edited by Gerard A. Schreiner. Copy #91 of 99 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page and at the end of the introduction, dated "75." Illustrated with 20 six-color ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS, each individually SIGNED and numbered by Feilding. The lithographs are largely erotically-infused fantastic visions. According to Feilding's introduction, "'The dream of reason produces monsters,' said Goya, and indeed, fascination with the bizarre is as old and universal as the history of art itself. My attempt is to convey the waking dream, looking sublimates the desire to participate, and in the realm of the fantastic, it is a good deal safer."

London: Fuck Books Unlimited, 1967. First Edition. wraps. Slight rust marks from staples. About Fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson Appendix II. Stated First English Printing of this blatantly homoerotic poem but actually the second printing. Stapled light violet wraps lettered in green. Quarto (7-7/16" x 10"). Illustrated with a caricature of a naked man on the title page. Limitation somewhere between 250 and 400 copies. Apparently these light violet covers were used on the first copies before being replaced by bright green covers.

Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Charming book. Sylvain Sauvage. Octavo (6-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound in brown linen on which a psuedo-oriental design is deposited in gold through silk screens, the title stamped in gold on a blue leather spine label; the slipcase covered with gold paper lithographed in brown; 174 pages. Copy #258 of 1500 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and illustrated with more than one hundred drawings in the oriental manner by Sylvain Sauvage, printed in collotype and hand-colored by Etienne Giradot. A number of the illustrations are of a mildly erotic nature. Issued unsigned after the artist's death.

Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Charming book. Sylvain Sauvage. Octavo (6-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound in brown linen on which a psuedo-oriental design is deposited in gold through silk screens, the title stamped in gold on a blue leather spine label; the slipcase covered with gold paper lithographed in brown; 174 pages. Copy #1307 of 1500 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and illustrated with more than one hundred drawings in the oriental manner by Sylvain Sauvage, printed in collotype and hand-colored by Etienne Giradot. A number of the illustrations are of a mildly erotic nature. Issued unsigned after the artist's death.

Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Some rubbing to the leather spine label. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Charming book. Sylvain Sauvage. Octavo (6-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound in brown linen on which a psuedo-oriental design is deposited in gold through silk screens, the title stamped in gold on a blue leather spine label; the slipcase covered with gold paper lithographed in brown; 174 pages. Copy #322 of 1500 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and illustrated with more than one hundred drawings in the oriental manner by Sylvain Sauvage, printed in collotype and hand-colored by Etienne Giradot. A number of the illustrations are of a mildly erotic nature. Issued unsigned after the artist's death.

Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to leather spine label. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Charming book. Sylvain Sauvage. Octavo (6-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound in brown linen on which a psuedo-oriental design is deposited in gold through silk screens, the title stamped in gold on a blue leather spine label; the slipcase covered with gold paper lithographed in brown; 174 pages. Printed on handmade paper and illustrated with more than one hundred drawings in the oriental manner by Sylvain Sauvage, printed in collotype and hand-colored by Etienne Giradot. A number of the illustrations are of a mildly erotic nature. Issued unsigned after the artist's death. Of a total of 1500 copies, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies.

Haarlem, Holland: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and just about Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-7/8" x 12") bound in cream-toned buckram printed in crimson with an allover flower-and-leaf pattern and a paper spine label; 560 pages. Translated by Arthur Machen; selected and annotated by J. Rives Childs. Copy #887 of 1500 copies illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan with 16 full-page color plates and 16 in-line text drawings. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The previous eight-volume edition done by the club was not illustrated.

Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Variable foxing to the endpapers. Very Good or better in two Very Good slipcases. Eight tall octavo (6-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of this classic of erotica. Copy #845 of 1500, issued unsigned.

Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Fine in two Fine slipcases. Eight tall octavo (6-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of this classic of erotica. Copy #509 of 1500, issued unsigned.

[Haarlem, Holland]: [Limited Editions Club], [1972]. Original Art. Fine. Rene Ben Sussan. The complete publisher's archive of 16 ORIGINAL watercolors, some mildly erotic in theme, and 17 ORIGINAL line drawings by Rene Ben Sussan used for the book. The watercolors are 5" x 8" on 7-3/4" x 11-1/4" paper with the line drawings on smaller, various sized sheets. All are lettered in the upper corner in red ink with pencil annotations below the image. Housed in a paper folder from the publisher. Accompanied by an out-of-series copy of the book SIGNED by the artist that was bound upside down. Rene Ben Sussan was active from the 1920s to the 1960s and illustrated many books, including 8 for the Limited Editions Club alone.

Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Small university bookplates on the front pastedown of each volume. Near Fine in two slipcases, one Near Fine the other would be but for a closed split at one top edge. Eight tall octavo (6-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of this classic of erotica. Copy #281 of 1500 copies, issued unsigned.

Weimar: Bruno Wollbrück, [1919]. First Edition. Hardcover. Etchings Fine in a Very Good case lacking one of the flaps. Walther Klemm. The title translates as "Sixteen Etchings on Original Sin. An Erotic Creation Story." Folio (12-1/2" x 15-3/4") consisting of title page, two pages of text, limitation page and 16 SIGNED erotic original etchings by Walther Klemm tipped-in to passe-partouts, all laid in a cloth portfolio. Copy #152 of 300 (of a total edition of 360) with various image sizes, nearly all depicting a woman engaged in sexual acts with various animals.