Sexuality & Erotica
New York, The Macaulay Company, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket.
Rare first edition of this risqué novel of prostitution, following the fortunes of a brothel in northern Germany where fashionable women came to sight-see and sip champagne and fashionable men were frequent callers; the book is built as a sequence of chapter-vignettes, one for each of the nine women employed there. Leyla Georgie was at one time a Broadway actress.
Sexuality & Erotica
Translated by Meyer Leven
London, W.H. Allen, 1960.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
This novel - based on the author's real-life experiences - is credited as the first candidly lesbian novel, originally published in 1950, that "scandalized mid-century America" (The New York Times). An account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II, it sold four million copies in the United States alone.
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Secker & Warburg, 1958.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Largely autobiographical, Peyrefitte's famous work on adolescence deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest's will to protect them from homosexuality. An uncommon title, in attractive Ayrton jacket.
Sexuality & Erotica
Translated from the Japanese by Alfred H. Marks
London, Secker & Warburg, 1968.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Mishima's groundbreaking novel, Forbidden Colours (original Kinjiki, 1951), explores same-sex love, aesthetic obsession, misogyny and social constraints in post-war Tokyo, the title being a euphemism for erotic, forbidden love and colours once restricted by Japanese court rank.
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Heinemann, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another 'South Wind' but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful 'Cakes and Ale' (Time Magazine, 1936)
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Jarrolds, [1932].
First edition, first printing. 8vo. 39pp. publisher's catalogue dated Spring 1932 at end. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
A tale of sacred & profane love, by an author best known for his science fiction, adventure stories, and historical fiction books for children. This definitely a more adult venture.