Sex/Erotica from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Doubleday Direct, Inc., 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A 3-novels-in-1 omnibus of late '90s romantic erotica from a trio of women authors noted for their work in this genre. "The Top of Her Game," by Emma Holly; "Stand and Deliver," by Helena Ravenscroft, and Susie Raymond's "Taking Liberties," are the books in this fourth Black Lace omnibus… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Wyeth was perhaps America's foremost realist painter of the last half of the 20th century. In 1986, it became known that Wyeth had over 14 years drawn and painted one of his neighbors in Chadds Ford, PA, Helga Testorf, in the nude without the… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel of the award-winning Dubus features April Marie Connors, a young Florida mother and stripper at the Puma Club for Men, who breaks her one ironclad rule of never bringing her daughter to work, where the girl becomes a wild card in… Read more about this item

New York: Venus Books, 1954. First Edition. . Original Paper Wraps. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Venus No. 182: "The Intimate Affairs of a Burlesque Star," An adult novel featuring an innocent country girl who becomes a queen of New York burlesque, learning all about show business, sex and men on the way. Paperback Original, First… Read more about this item

New York: Berkley Books, 1956. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Berkley Books G-21. A novel about life in a 1930s Chicago whorehouse, featuring Bessie Cotter, a young blonde woman who hasn't forgotten her humanity. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. Pictorial wrappers show a small stain in title box, very light wear at corners… Read more about this item

New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Large Softcover. Near Fine to Fine. A large selection of Golub's drawings from 1947 until shortly before his death in 2004. A total of 99 drawings in a variety of media including oil stick, acrylic, crayon and ink. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 124 pages in… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday/Random House, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Palahniuk, the current master of literary provocation and mayhem, charges into the erotic and pornographic in his ninth novel. "Snuff" features porn queen, Cassie Wright, who is capping her legendary sex-on-film career with a documentary of her assault on the world record for serial fornication.… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This is Marlowe's second novel, preceded by his bestselling "A Dandy In Aspic," a "memoir" written by an unnamed protagonist who is probably mad and certainly dead, a man doomed to love one lost girl and equally doomed to be the lover of… Read more about this item

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1996. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Fine/Fine. A unique collection of erotica, spanning some seven centuries from Boccaccio's "Decameron," in the 12th century to Nicholson Baker's "Vox," published in the last decade of the 20th and including selections from classic authors including Casanova, James Boswell, Voltaire and Bram Stoker as well as contemporary writers such… Read more about this item

London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., 1996. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A selection of eleven pieces of erotic fiction that amply demonstrates the breadth of Victorian Era erotica, including "The Loves of Venus," "The Whore's Catechism" and "The Farmer's Daughter." Boards and text are clean, tight, square in a dustjacket showing only very minimal surface and edgewear.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Baker, author of the bestselling "Vox," has written a near-masterpiece of erotic fantasy, made up of equal parts of humor and sex, featuring Arno Strine, who likes to stop time and then undress women. Arno is working on his autobiography, "The Fermata," which is a… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In his tenth novel, Boyle has found a perfect subject for his particular imagination and talent -- human sexuality. The book features John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey at Indiana University, becoming a member… Read more about this item

New York: Castle Books/Book Sales, 1993. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Erotic excerpts from the novels of well-known authors, including Andrea Newman, Philip Roth, Henry Miller, Erica Jong, D.H. Lawrence, Emile Zola, Mary McCarthy, Pauline Reage, Frank Harris, Daniel Defoe and Marquis De Sade, with an introduction by Italian porn star and politician, La Cicciolina;… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of erotic short stories with a sexual content leaning to S&M and BDSM, described on the dustjacket as "stories about mastery, slavery, and the darker side of desire;" boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. A… Read more about this item

New York: Penthouse International Ltd., 1982. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. The International Magazine for Men, Vol. 13, No. 9; sexual humor, cartoons, centerfold, photo essays and other erotica including "The Ten Most Bizarre Sex Crimes of the Twentieth Century," as well as "Titallation" by Nick Tosches and "Jennifer's Lover," by science… Read more about this item

New York: Penthouse International Ltd., 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. The International Magazine for Men, Vol. 15, No. 1; a Special Anniversary Issue celebrating the magazine's 14th year includes the usual sexual humor, cartoons, photo essays and centerfold but also features articles by prize-winning reporters, Tad Szulc, Jack Anderson and Harrison… Read more about this item

New York: Penthouse International Ltd., 1982. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. The International Magazine for Men, Vol. 13, No. 10; sexual content including humor, cartoons, centerfold, and photo essays as well as erotic fiction; also an article by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz; an interview with Ted Turner, who had recently established… Read more about this item

Aurum Press (Gibralter) Limited, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. a collection of erotic photographs, both black and white and color, by twelve contemporary artists including Bailey, Peccinotti, Kane, Michals, Skremneski, Lategan, Haskins, Vogt and Sieff; hardcover, quarto, 9 x 12"; text and boards are clean, tight, square, two corners very lightly bumped; dustjacket shows tiny chip at top… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The award-winning Boyle's tenth novel features John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Indiana University Professor Alfred Kinsey just as Kinsey begins his now famous research that resulted in the Kinsey Reports on Sex; a collectable copy… Read more about this item

New York: New American Library, 1964. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Mentor Classic MP 578; a selection of Ovid's erotic poetry that resulted in his expulsion from Rome by the Emperor Augustus; translated from the Latin by Horace Gregory; First Printing of the First Mentor Edition; text is… Read more about this item