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S&M Collector
December 1974

1974, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

$65.00 - Out of stock

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December 1974 issue of S&M Collector, the cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included colour and b/w bondage photo features, fetish fiction, articles and incredible artwork, with contributors including Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Osamu Nakahara... This issue includes the work of Tadao Chigusa, Youji Muku (Toyonaka Yumeo), Haruo Shinozaki, Yoko Ozuma, Akira Minumura, Yoji Muku, Shiro Kasama, Takashi Koizumi, Youji Muku, Akira Kito, Makoto Miyama, Juan Maeda, Bill Ward, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Shoji Oki Yoji Muku Namio Harukawa Tadao Chigusa Mito Akiyoshi Sanpei Akashi Juan Maeda Yoko Ozuma Toshimi Fuji Hakuzan Shiraishi Ran Akiyoshi Haruo Shinozaki Osamu Nakahara Takashi Koizumi Akira Kito Bill Ward Youji Muku (Toyonaka Yumeo) Sun Publishing / Japan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Japanese Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

S&M Collector
November 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

$70.00 - In stock -

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November 1972 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.

Very Good copy.

File under: Shoji Oki Yoji Muku Namio Harukawa Tadao Chigusa Mito Akiyoshi Sanpei Akashi Juan Maeda Yoko Ozuma Toshimi Fuji Hakuzan Shiraishi Ran Akiyoshi Haruo Shinozaki Osamu Nakahara Oniroku Dan Akira Minomura Bill Ward Sun Publishing / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM

Die Philosphie im Boudoir (Philosophy In The Boudoir)
by Marquis de Sade; illustrated by Sibylle Ruppert

1980, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 362 pages, 24.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Manfred Pawlak / Herrsching

$80.00 - In stock -

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First edition of the deluxe, over-sized 1980 hardcover German re-print of The Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade (1740—1814), illustrated by Sibylle Ruppert (1942—2011), introduction by Guillaume Apollinaire and afterword by Jacques Lacan, published by Manfred Pawlak, Herrsching. German language.

Philosophy In The Boudoir (La philosophie dans le boudoir, 1795), is the most concise, representative text of all the Marquis de Sade's works, containing his notorious doctrine of libertinage expounded in full, coupled with liberal doses of savage, unbridled eroticism, cruelty and violent sexuality. The renegade philosophies put forward here would later rank among the cornerstones of Andre Breton's surrealist manifesto.

Though initially considered a work of pornography, La philosophie dans le boudoir has come to be considered a socio-political drama and perhaps the most representative of the Marquis de Sade's work and philosophy on religion and morality. Dedicated to "voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex", it tells of a young virgin ruthlessly stripped of virtue and schooled in the ways of sexual perversion and libertine philosophy. Continually throughout the work, Sade makes the argument that one must embrace atheism, reject society's beliefs about pleasure and pain, and further makes his argument that if any crime is committed while seeking pleasure, it cannot be condemned.

Very Good copy with VG dust jacket. Tanning to page edges.

File under: Sibylle Ruppert The Marquis de Sade Guillaume Apollinaire Jacques Lacan Manfred Pawlak / Herrsching Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Drawing Surrealism Theory / Essay Eros Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Hans Bellmer

1966/1967, German
Softcover, 21 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kestner Gesellschaft / Hannover

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First, only edition of this wonderful catalogue published on the occasion of a comprehensive exhibition of works by the German surrealist visionary Hans Bellmer (1902—1975) at the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, April 1966—June 1967(!). Absolutely brimming with content, profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with Bellmer's magnificent drawings, paintings, photographs, doll sculptures, and an extensive overview of his graphic works, alongside many texts, inc. notes by Bellmer himself, forward to Georges Bataille's "Madame Edwarda", list of Bellmer's works, exhibitions, bibliography, unseen photographic portraits, and many adverts for Bellmer's exhibitions and lithographic editions, evidence of the immense popularity of the master of European erotica surrealism in Europe. Texts in German.

Very Good copy.

File under: Hans Bellmer Unica Zürn Georges Bataille Hans Bellmer Kestner Gesellschaft / Hannover Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

The Culture of the Case : Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art
By Frederic J. Schwartz

2023, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25 x 16.8 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed.

In early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or creation of a “case” provided artists with a means to engage themes that ranged from blasphemy to Lustmord, or sexual murder. Shedding light on the case as a cultural form, Schwartz shows its profound effect on artists and the ways it dovetailed with methods used by these figures to exploit fundamental changes taking place across the mass media of their time.

As Schwartz shows, the case was a common denominator that connected seemingly disparate works. George Grosz and Rudolf Schlichter drew on it for their violent visual art, as did architect Adolf Loos when he equated ornament with crime. Expressionists, meanwhile, approached the question of whether the so-called “mad” shared a right of public expression with those deemed sane, and examined medical and legal approaches to what society labeled as insanity. The case also took on a personal dimension when artists found themselves confronted with, or chose to engage with, the legal system. German courts prosecuted John Heartfield and others for their provocative works, while Bertolt Brecht created publicity for himself by suing the firm to whom he sold the film rights to The Threepenny Opera. Provocative and insightful, The Culture of the Case offers a privileged view of the spaces of representation in which images—in some instances, as cases—functioned at a key moment of modernity.

Frederic J. Schwartz is Emeritus Professor of History of Art at University College London. His books include The Werkbund- Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War and Blind Spots- Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-Century Germany.

File under: George Grosz Rudolf Schlichter Adolf Loos John Heartfield Oskar Kokoschka Alfred Kubin Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Heinrich Maria Davringhausen Otto Dix Frederic J. Schwartz Bertolt Brecht Ernst Jünger The MIT Press / Massachusetts Painting Drawing Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Theory / Essay Surrealism Architecture / Interior Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Protest / Revolt Sociology / Politics

Le Sang et La Rose No. 1, 1968

1968, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 1 (1968) sets the scene perfectly, opening with Japanese author Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian by photographer Kishin Shinoyama in a pictorial feature "Les Morts Masculines", a photographic homage to Georges Bataille that also features the photography of Eikoh Hosoe, Ikkō Narahara, Masahisa Fukase, and Osamu Hayasaki, with models including Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, actor Akira Mita, author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, actor Jin Nakayama, playwright Jūrō Kara, and others. Other features include " All Japanese are Perverse" — stories by Japanese writers including Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Yutaka Haniya, Shinji Sōya; Henry Miller's letters to Anais Nin; a colour gallery of artwork by Belgian painter Paul Delvaux; articles on Vampire fantasy in the arts (including many original illustrations; Witches (illustrated by James Ensor); Oriental Eros, Ancient Indian poetry; Kama Sutra; female bi-sexuality; the history of gay (Danshoku) theatre in Japan; the full-colour art gallery "Masturbation Machine", featuring avant-garde artists Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Masuo Ikeda, Setsu Nagasawa, Carlos Marchioli, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Masakazu Horiuchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Koji Suzuki, Tommy Ungerer; the fully illustrated museum supplement "Pain and Pleasure : On Torture" by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history; pornographic stories by Guillaume Apollinaire and Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (who coined the term "Pornographer"); fiction by Pierre Morion (pseudo. André Pieyre de Mandiargues); critic Jin'ichi Uekusa on the controversial writings of Roger Peyrefitte, illustrations by Ernst, Bellmer, Labisse, Fini, Lam, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good copy with some spine damage and tanning/wear.

File under: Max Ernst Léonor Fini Felix Labisse Wilfredo Lam Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Natsuyuki Nakanishi Masuo Ikeda Setsu Nagasawa Carlos Marchioli Kuniyoshi Kaneko Masakazu Horiuchi Tadanori Yokoo Koji Suzuki Tommy Ungerer Tatsumi Hijikata Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Eikoh Hosoe Ikkō Narahara Masahisa Fukase Osamu Hayasaki Kishin Shinoyama James Ensor Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Jin'ichi Uekusa Roger Peyrefitte Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Yutaka Haniya Shinji Sōya Henry Miller Suehiro Tanemura Guillaume Apollinaire Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Jūrō Kara Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Photography Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 2, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 2 includes photographic features by Yasuhiro Yoshioka and Yoshihiro Tatsuki, the artwork of French decorator of department store mannequins and surrealist Sunday painter Clovis Trouille, Venus in Furs erotic photo shoot by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yokoo Tadanori, Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Alberto Martini, Félicien Rops, Rene Magritte, an incredible feature "Machine for Murder" with art by Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomi Ungerer, Koichi Tanigawa, Osamu Tsukasa, Tatsuo Ikeda, Marcel Duchamp, Seiichi Horiuchi, and others, an article on the erotica of Ukiyo-e with a fold-out colour three panel poster, the fully illustrated museum supplement on Demonology by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history, texts by Apollinaire, Burroughs, Mutsuo Takahashi, articles on laws pertaining to homosexuality, Kama Sutra, shoe fetishism, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Yoshihiro Tatsuki Clovis Trouille Tadanori Yokoo Yasuhiro Yoshioka Yokoo Tadanori Hans Bellmer Leonor Fini Alberto Martini Félicien Rops Rene Magritte Hiroshi Nakamura Tomi Ungerer Koichi Tanigawa Osamu Tsukasa Tatsuo Ikeda Marcel Duchamp Seiichi Horiuchi Yasuhiro Ishimoto Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Georges Bataille Mutsuo Takahashi Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Eros LGBTQ+ Art Surrealism Counterculture Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 3, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 232 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 3 (with cover by Bronzino, 1554) includes full-colour photographic feature by Kishin Shinoyama ("Virgin In Uniform" featuring models/artists Angela Asaoka, Akaji Maro, Yoko Ashikawa) and beautiful Shomei Tomatsu photo feature ("Scoptophilia"), the artwork of the great French cross-dressing painter-photographer Pierre Molinier, texts by Jirō Kawamura, Yumiko Kurahashi, Taruho Inagaki ("Memories of Hemorrhoids or "New Tsurezuregusa"), Akiyuki Nosaka ("Dear Penis, Goodbye"), Minoru Minamihara ("The Mystic Thought of Love in the Case of Jakob Böhme"), Takiji Kobayashi, The Fictitious Garden of Babylon by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Tsunekazu Murata ("Witch's Ax : Concerning Heresy in Medieval Europe"), translation of Franz Kafka "Metamorphosis" illustrated by Franco Gentilini, recent research on homosexuality by film critic Jin'ichi Uekusa, Kama Sutra, more Gay (Danshoku) Japanese Theater history, Marquise de Blancvilliers by Koji Nakata, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shomei Tomatsu Pierre Molinier Franco Gentilini Yokoo Tadanori Angela Asaoka Akaji Maro Yoko Ashikawa Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Franz Kafka Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Jun’nosuke Yoshiyuki Kôichi Iijima Jûrô Kara Ikuya Kato Minoru Yoshioka Ryûichi Tamura The Marquis de Sade Georges Bataille Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Jirō Kawamura Yumiko Kurahashi Akiyuki Nosaka Minoru Minamihara Jakob Böhme Takiji Kobayashi Tsunekazu Murata Jin'ichi Uekusa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography Surrealism Philosophy Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Art Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Photography Sociology / Politics

Le Sang et La Rose No. 4, 1969

1969, Japanese
Softcover, 286 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose was a groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and this, the fourth final issue, and rarest of the four, edited by critic Masaaki Hiraoka and especially designed by self-taught painter, graphic designer and political activist, Kiyoshi Awazu (!)

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. Much like an instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design as principally to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 4 includes photographic features by cinematographer Yasuhiro Yoshioka (Woman in the Dunes, Kwaidan, The Face of Another, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief), work by pioneering, self-taught visual artist and designer, Kiyoshi Awazu, Hans Bellmer, illustrations by the incredible Hiroshi Nakamura, sadomasochism in cinema, Ukiyo-e and Shunga art (erotic Japanese prints), writings by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Jun’nosuke Yoshiyuki, Kôichi Iijima, Jûrô Kara, Ikuya Kato, Minoru Yoshioka, Masaaki Hiraoka, Tadanori Yokoo, and Ryûichi Tamura.   Much more....

Very Good copy.

File under: Yasuhiro Yoshioka Kiyoshi Awazu Hans Bellmer Hiroshi Nakamura Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Jun’nosuke Yoshiyuki Kôichi Iijima Jûrô Kara Ikuya Kato Minoru Yoshioka Ryûichi Tamura Masaaki Hiraoka Tadanori Yokoo Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Photography Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Occult / Esoterica Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

S&M Collector
October 1973

1973, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

$70.00 - Out of stock

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October 1973 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.

Good copy with some loose but present central pages.

File under: Shoji Oki Yoji Muku Namio Harukawa Tadao Chigusa Mito Akiyoshi Sanpei Akashi Juan Maeda Yoko Ozuma Toshimi Fuji Hakuzan Shiraishi Ran Akiyoshi Haruo Shinozaki Osamu Nakahara Akira Minomura Oniroku Dan Bill Ward Sun Publishing / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Counterculture Japanese Photography

S&M Collector
February 1976

1976, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

$75.00 - Out of stock

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December 1973 issue of S&M Collector, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1972—1985 and founded by Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma. Cover artwork by Haruo Shinozaki. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, each issue of S&M Collector included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, illustrated fetish fiction, articles and a heavy selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries, with contributors including Oniroku Dan, Ran Akiyoshi, Shoji Oki, Yoji Muku, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Mito Akiyoshi, Sanpei Akashi, Juan Maeda, Yoko Ozuma, Toshimi Fuji, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Ran Akiyoshi, Haruo Shinozaki, Akira Minomura, Bill Ward, Osamu Nakahara, and many more. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads.

Very Good copy with some loose but present central pages.

File under: Shoji Oki Yoji Muku Namio Harukawa Tadao Chigusa Mito Akiyoshi Sanpei Akashi Juan Maeda Yoko Ozuma Toshimi Fuji Hakuzan Shiraishi Ran Akiyoshi Haruo Shinozaki Osamu Nakahara Youji Muku (Toyonaka Yumeo) Akira Minumura Shiro Kasama Reiko Kita Takashi Koizumi Bill Ward Oniroku Dan Akira Minomura Oniroku Dan Sun Publishing / Japan Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

H. R. Giger
Biomechanics

1988, German
Softcover, 96 pages, 42.5 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Edition C. (Edition Crocodile) / Switzerland

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, very first 1988 Swiss edition of H. R. Giger's Biomechanics, published by Edition C. (Edition Crocodile). In his classic series of oversized and visually overwhelming early art volumes, this book comprises a retrospective showcase, from 1964—88, of Giger's work, designed by and with running commentary by Giger himself, with over 200 drawings, paintings, and sculptures, and including concept art for the film Poltergeist II, and design paintings for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer albums. With a foreword by legendary Science Fiction author and longtime Giger fan Harlan Ellison, who dubs him "out latter-day Hieronymus Bosch."

Very Good copy with light wear and light pinch to spine.

File under: H.R. Giger Harlan Ellison Edition C. (Edition Crocodile) / Switzerland Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Drawing Painting Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare

Too Negative No. 3
February 1995

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Too Negative   No. 3, February 1995. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue features the Latin American corpse/death photography of Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, bondage and fetish photography by Kiyoshi Ikejiri, the artwork of Trevor Brown, the Police Hospital on Bangkok photographed by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, tattoos, female bodybuilders, gynaecology photographs, loads of abnormal medical photography, fetish and bondage photoshoots, close-up genital photography, deranged art/collage, you name it.

Very Good - Fine copy.

File under: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Trevor Brown Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Art Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography Japanese Photography Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Occult / Esoterica Film / Video

 Too Negative No. 5
July 1995

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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 Too Negative No. 5 July 1995. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,    Too Negative No. 6 August 1995, features Thailand corpse/death photography by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Trevor Brown artwork, Crime Museum photography, Chokudo Shibuya, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, western hardcore porn, asshole photography by Goro Asawa, Kotaro Kobayashi, x-ray porn, western obesity porn / adipophilia, Berlin sex, death art by noise artist Raita Ishikawa, Lisa Palac's Future Sex, piercing fetish, bizarre sex, medical photography, plus much more.  

Very Good copy.

File under: Kotaro Kobayashi Trevor Brown Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Raita Ishikawa Chokudo Shibuya Kiyoshi Ikejiri Goro Asawa Tom Shobo / Japan Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Film / Video Photography Theory / Essay LGBTQ+

 Too Negative No. 6
August 1995

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 210 pages, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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 Too Negative No. 6 August 1995. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,    Too Negative No. 6 August 1995, features corpse/death photography by Kotaro Kobayashi, fetish photography by Kiyoshi Ikejiri, Japanese neo-surrealist Sakuba Tomomi, upclose genital "non-retouching" collage/photography by Goro Asawa and Yoshiki Tsutsumi, death art by noise artist Raita Ishikawa, formaldehyde fetus photography by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, genital piercing and modification, demented collage and collected imagery/medical/freak photography/illustration/porn, extreme anatomy imagery, lactating, pissing, western obesity porn / adipophilia, 'Bild Des Verbrechens In Ela Granti' crime scene photography from legend early 20th Century Japanese book, porn star John Holmes, artwork by Trevor Brown, plus much more.  

Very Good copy.

File under: Trevor Brown Kiyoshi Ikejiri Kotaro Kobayashi Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Tom Shobo / Japan Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Periodicals Art Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Film / Video LGBTQ+

 Too Negative No. 10
July 1997

1997, Japanese
Softocver, 208 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$130.00 - Out of stock

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 Too Negative No. 10 July 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,  Too Negative No. 10 July 1997, focuses around the special anniversary art galley that runs throughout the issue—" Welcome to the Feast of Immorality"—an almost cover-to-cover feature of artworks and photo documents spurred on by the question to editor Kotaro Kobayashi, "where lies the boundary between the grotesque and art", featuring the art of Andres Serrano, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Joe Coleman, and so many more, a feature gallery of Japanese gore illustrator Shin Taga, pre-execution photographic portraits in Vietnam, "torture in the Edo period" with reference to Yoshihiko Sasama and featuring the ukiyo-e shunga of Yoshikazu Hayashi, vintage corpse/death photography, medical photography, lots of erotica, grotesque artworks, collage, bady manipulation, plus plus plus.  

Very Good copy.

File under: Kotaro Kobayashi Joel Peter Witkin Andres Serrano Mike Kelley Paul McCarthy Cindy Sherman Joe Coleman Shin Taga Yoshikazu Hayashi Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Trevor Brown Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Photography Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art

The Dark Arts : Aleksandra Waliszewska and Symbolism

2023, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 220 pages, 29.5 x 18.5 cm
Published by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / Warsaw

$95.00 - Out of stock

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A look at the dark, symbolic work of Polish painter Aleksandra Waliszewska alongside historical artworks that influence her.

Painter Aleksandra Waliszewska creates densely narrative, art historically saturated oil and gouache paintings. Waliszewska’s pictorial universe is populated by supernatural characters and dark themes: devils, vampires, satanic creatures, possessed girls, apocalyptic scenes, bloodthirsty zombies, and other incarnations of the living dead. These characters are situated in dystopian urban landscapes, lost highways, deserted suburbs, gloomy housing estates, swamps, and other sites associated with the Eastern European landscape. Drawing from the specifically Slavic histories of the Upiór (the living dead), Waliszewska claims her artistic and conceptual descendance from premodern art and Symbolist works of the late 19th and early 20th century from Nordic, Baltic, and Eastern European regions.

The Dark Arts presents a dense visual narrative, reproducing over a hundred images of Waliszewska’s in juxtaposition with dozens of historical paintings and sculptures. Shifting away from the dominant figures of French and Austrian artists, this revisionist look at Symbolism through an Eastern and Baltic lens will introduce a wider audience to a rich and relatively understudied field of visual culture.

File under: Aleksandra Waliszewska Alison M. Gingeras Natalia Sielewicz Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / Warsaw Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Art Painting Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

KINBAKU
The Golden Age of Japanese Restrained & Tortured Artworks

2023, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket) 330 pages, 21 x 14.9 cm
Published by Treville / Tokyo Pan-Exotica / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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The first of its kind, "KINBAKU The Golden Age of Japanese Restrained & Tortured Artworks" collects the masters of Japanese kinbaku rope bondage and torture artworks by nine Japanese artists, spanning generations, artists who have refined the beauty of masochism and inherited the legacy of Japanese Shibari-e eroticism as pioneered by Seiu Ito. This book presents beautiful reproductions in colour and b/w of many extreme artworks by Kou Minomura, Yoko Ozuma, Yoji Muku, Ran Akiyoshi, Hajime Sorayama, Hiroaki Samura, Shoji Oki, Gengoroh Tagame, and Miyabi Kyodo. Each artist has bilingual introduction text, plus essays in Japanese by Akira Naka, Masakazu Tanaka, and Toshihi Soma.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, The Essentials of KINBAKU ART, held at Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo, 16 March—9 April, 2023.

"After World War II, people who had been freed from the long curse of asceticism sought entertainment and freedom in easy "reading", and a multitude of magazines were launched into the world. Among the numerous magazines were the forbidden maniac magazines. These unique magazines raised people's sexual and even aesthetic interests in , which involves binding the body with ropes, which played an important role in the formation of Japan's SM culture. From the late 1940s—1960s, bans on the magazines were threatened many times, but their popularity only grew and led to the "SM boom" of the 1970s and 1980's. In recent years, with the influence of movies and manga, and the rise of the Internet, the means of obtaining information have diversified, and kinbaku has developed its unique aesthetic and technical depth, and has become a unique spiritual culture, recognized for its importance in Japan and internationally. Art plays a significant role in the expression of kinbaku, and especially in the above-mentioned pioneering magazines, it was the illustrations drawn by the artists that lured readers into pleasure with their overwhelming images. This exhibition and publication introduces nine artists who have been active on the front lines of magazines from the dawn of the postwar period to the present day. A multi-faceted artist who built the foundation of SM magazines, a painter who modeled Eros with a variety of imagination, a painter who created a bold vision, and an artist who developed not only bondage depictions but also severe torture depictions. Although they used different mediums, they produced a huge amount of works that condensed each of their aesthetic senses. While looking back on the genealogy of bondage paintings and even sharp torture paintings, we trace the trajectory of the beauty of rare artists."

File under: Kou Minomura Yoko Ozuma Yoji Muku Ran Akiyoshi Hajime Sorayama Hiroaki Samura Shoji Oki Gengoroh Tagame Miyabi Kyodo Seiu Ito Akira Naka Masakazu Tanaka Toshihi Soma Treville / Tokyo Pan-Exotica / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Painting Drawing Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM

Erotic Art and Esotericism
by Toshiki Soma

2018, Japanese
2 Volumes, softcover (one w. dust jacket), 195 + 95 pages, 19 x 13 cm
Signed by author,
Published by Treville / Tokyo

$40.00 - Out of stock

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A must-have book for Biblio enthusiasts. Pursuing the ultimate in erotic expression, dismantling the boundaries between pornography and art, and exploring the deepest mysteries of the desires of and , Erotic Art and Esotericism is the latest collection of reviews by Toshiki Soma. With extensive illustrations and explanations, Soma charts a "Spiritual Map of Contemporary Erotic Art (Microcosmos)" via the works and publications of Hans Bellmer, Pierre Molinier, Jean Benoit, Gérard Gachet, Sybille Ruppert, Jean-Marie Poumeyrol, H.R. Giger, Zdzisław Beksiński, Nik Douglas & Penny Slinger, Bob Carlos Clark, Hajime Sorayama... Soma then collects a diverse array of illustrated biblio reviews exploring esoteric and fetishistic book subjects such as Surrealism's relationship to murder, sensual plants, cannibalism, African power dolls, witches... reviewing a selection of erotic photography books, the literature of Arthur Machen, René Daumal, and Nakai Hideo, the illustrated books of Keizo Miyanishi, Hideshi Hino, Kazu Yuzuki, Chieko Minowa and much more.

This 2-volume set includes the "Erotic Art and Esotericism" (Booster Booklet), which expands on—in full colour—Soma's selections of artists surveyed, featuring hundreds of artworks and associated book-references. Artists include: Hans Bellmer, Pierre Molinier, Jean Benoit, Gérard Gachet, Sybille Ruppert, Jean-Marie Poumeyrol, H.R. Giger, Zdzisław Beksiński, Nik Douglas & Penny Slinger, Bob Carlos Clark, Hajime Sorayama, Seiu Ito, Kazutomo Fujino, Ayako Nakagawa, Petter Hegre, Henri Maccheroni, Jamie MacCartney, Richard Cerf, Gilles Berquet, Trevor Watson, Laszlo, Tony Ward, Laurent Bunaim...

Limited edition signed by the author.

File under: Hans Bellmer Pierre Molinier Jean Benoit Gérard Gachet Sybille Ruppert Jean-Marie Poumeyrol H.R. Giger Zdzisław Beksiński Nik Douglas & Penny Slinger Bob Carlos Clark Hajime Sorayama Seiu Ito Kazutomo Fujino Ayako Nakagawa Petter Hegre Henri Maccheroni Jamie MacCartney Richard Cerf Gilles Berquet Trevor Watson Laszlo Tony Ward Laurent Bunaim Toshiki Soma Treville / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Photography Japanese Photography Fiction / Poetry Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Crime / Violence Surrealism Dada 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Drawing Occult / Esoterica Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Signed Books

SM Secret No. 26

1988, Japanese
Softcover, 300 pages, 21 x 14.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by First Publishing / Japan

$80.00 - In stock -

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One of the more obscure Japanese hardcore SM magazines, SM Secret was edited by Hiroshi Kawate and published by Takanori Shinya, and later Ryoichi Matomaru, between the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Wrapped in possibly the most bold, startling airbrushed covers of the genre, SM Secret was a glossy magazine dedicated to fetish/bdsm, born out the publication "Orange People" — one of the magazines that led the "husband and wife exchange" boom in the 80's. To be expected, this magazine too centres around amateur reader exchange of "Secret" sexual customs and fet-life behind closed doors, filled with photographic features, photographic Secret letters and stories from readers, articles, fetish advertisements, most heavy on photo features of femdom, malesub, torture, cross-dressing, wax play, rubber dress, bondage, urolagnia and queen/mistress S&M.

Very Good copy.

File under: First Publishing / Japan Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Japanese Photography

Bound Lady
Fetish Bondage Photo Collection

1991, Japanese/English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 60 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tsukasa Shobo / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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CHAIN BONDAGE; ROPE BONDAGE; STOCKING BONDAGE; GUM BONDAGE; COSTUME BONDAGE; TUBE BONDAGE; RESTRAINTS — FANTASTIC PHOTOS OF BONDAGE ART; SWEET, SWEET CHAIN; FOXY BLACK B&D DOLL; BOUND IN A CHAIR; COSTUME LAND; BONDAGE CLINIC; LADIES IN RESTRAINT; PRISONER...

Very rare and published in 1991, "Bound Lady" ("The Magazine For and By Bondagers") is a full-colour glossy SM photo collection by photographer and kinbakushi Kinichi Tanaka, and body design by Go Arisue (b. 1954), one of the world's top kinbakushi. Tanaka (b. 1947) was the main photographer for the Japanese cult fetish magazine S&M Sniper throughout its existence, and both Tanaka and Arisue were contributed to SM Select and SM Fan and shot for many pink movies throughout the 1970s—1990s. Tanaka is a member of the Japan Photographic Art Society and the Shinshashinha Association. "Bound Lady" features Eri Kikuchi, Yuka Kikuchi, Arisa Himeno, Mayu Odagiri, Matsurika Abe, Manami Harada, Rie Kudo, Rena Hashimoto, Aki Sayuri, Yuka Moriguchi, Makoto Chiaki, Ai Okano, Rena Hashimoto, Ryoko Narumi, and others in themed f/f bondage photo shoots. Also features photography by Koji Yokoyama.

"diagnosis and treatment are available to slaves here"

Very Good copy.

File under: Kinichi Tanaka Koji Yokoyama Go Arisue Tsukasa Shobo / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fashion

Hans Bellmer
Oeuvre Gravé

1969, French
Hardcover (cloth bound), 106 pages, 21 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Éditions Denoël / Paris

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First Edition of the catalogue raisonné of the engraved work of German Surrealist Hans Bellmer, published in 1969 by Éditions Denoël, Paris. Wrapped in the publisher's debossed black covers featuring Bellmer's Céphalopode of 1965, this handsome volume opens with "Morale of Engraving", a four page introduction by author Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues (in French). The rest of the book is made up of 141 beautifully reproduced engraved works of Bellmer, including his exquisite works complimenting Georges Bataille, Marquis de Sade, Joyce Mansour, Louis Aragon, Charles Baudelaire, and others, followed by a 7 pages complete catalogue raisonné index, including work title, date, process and technique, dimensions, printing justifications, editors and other details. An essential title in any Bellmer collection and important reference.

Very Good copy, tanning to board/page edges with age.

File under: Hans Bellmer Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Georges Bataille Marquis de Sade Joyce Mansour Louis Aragon Charles Baudelaire Éditions Denoël / Paris Surrealism Art Drawing Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare

S&M Sniper
October 1994

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 300 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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October 1994 issue of S&M Sniper, the cutting-edge cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979—2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM counterculture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, each issue came wrapped in the iconic hyper-stylized airbrushed front covers of artist Yosuke Onishi, veiling the core content of non-fiction realist degradation and an eclectic, expressive editorial of kinbaku and all manner of SM, and extreme fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), legendary SM writer and editor Dan Oniroku ("the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan"), features by legendary SM and seppuku performer, actress, and author Hiromi Saotome, features by contributing photographers Nobuyoshi Araki, Masaaki Toyoura, Kenichi Murata, Nobuhiko Ansai, Kinichi Tanaka, Domu Kitahara, sadistic BDSM trainer Shima Shikou, and regular writings by convicted murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa!! Including his translations of Guido Crepax comics from Italian to Japanese. This was not a magazine like the others. Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, dungeons, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more.

This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Yosuke Onishi, Romain Slocombe, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Yayoi Honda, Akira Minomura, Kinichi Tanaka, Aki Ryo, Masahito Tokuno, article on collectible SM magazines, SF SM story feature by Date Kuniaki, scatophilia, SM manga, Shima Shikou, Hiromi Hiraguchi, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.

Very Good copy.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Nobuyoshi Araki Yosuke Onishi Romain Slocombe Yayoi Honda Akira Minomura Kinichi Tanaka Aki Ryo Masahito Tokuno Date Kuniaki Shima Shikou Hiromi Hiraguchi Masami Akita (Merzbow) Million Publishing / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

S&M Sniper
April 1983

1983, Japanese
Softcover, 300 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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April 1983 issue of S&M Sniper, the cutting-edge cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979—2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM counterculture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, each issue came wrapped in the iconic hyper-stylized airbrushed front covers of artist Yosuke Onishi, veiling the core content of non-fiction realist degradation and an eclectic, expressive editorial of kinbaku and all manner of SM, and extreme fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), legendary SM writer and editor Dan Oniroku ("the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan"), features by legendary SM and seppuku performer, actress, and author Hiromi Saotome, features by contributing photographers Nobuyoshi Araki, Masaaki Toyoura, Kenichi Murata, Nobuhiko Ansai, Kinichi Tanaka, Domu Kitahara, sadistic BDSM trainer Shima Shikou, and regular writings by convicted murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa!! Including his translations of Guido Crepax comics from Italian to Japanese. This was not a magazine like the others. Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, dungeons, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more.

This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Yosuke Onishi, Dan Oniroku, Fumika Kitahara, Yukio Sakamoto, Suehiro Maruo, Gen Takise, Juan Maeda, Hiromi Hiraguchi, Gekko Hayashi, Katsu Yoshida, Aki Uchiyama, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.

Very Good copy.

File under: Gekko Hayashi Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara) Dan Oniroku Nobuyoshi Araki Yosuke Onishi Fumika Kitahara Yukio Sakamoto Suehiro Maruo Gen Takise Juan Maeda Hiromi Hiraguchi Katsu Yoshida Aki Uchiyama Dan Oniroku Million Publishing / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject