World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
1988, Japanese
Softcover, 168 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fiction Inc. / Tokyo
$80.00 - In stock -
Issue No.33 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.
Issue No.33, the "Homosex Issue" features Quentin Crisp, Herbert List, Andy Warhol, Pierre Klossowski, David Hockney, Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, Mel Odom, Jean Cocteau, Aubrey Beardsley, Guglielmo Plüschow, Vincenzo Galdi, and much more. It also features the Fiction, Inc. section that samples a cross-section of content from catalogue publications including the work of John Willie, Bill Ward, Carlo, Guido Crepax, Eric Stanton, Ruiz, Sally Roberts, Irving Claw, Betty Page, and periodicals such as Rubber Magazine, Amateur Bondage, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, and much more...
Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.
Very Good copy with tanning and age to pages.
1992, Japanese
Softcover, 176 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fiction Inc. / Tokyo
$80.00 - In stock -
Issue No.43 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. Each issue covers different themes and features, heavy on fetishism.
Issue No.43, the "Sexploitation Films" issue features "Biker Films, Beach Party Films, LSD Films, Women in Prison Films, Mondo Films...", a filmography from "A Taste of Flesh" (1967) to "The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield" (1968), a long interview with cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, plus Carlo Mollino, Pierre Molinier, John Willie, Guido Crepax, Irving Claw, Betty Page, Gilles Berquet, and periodicals such as Sweet Gwen's, Bizarre, Gwendoline, Rigorosa Disciplina, and much more...
Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.
1986, Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fiction Inc. / Tokyo
$80.00 - In stock -
Issue No.28 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty bookshop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980—90s. Each issue covers different themes and features, heavy on fetishism.
Issue No.28, the "Fetishism" issue features collected writings and images around the theme of fetish by John Willie, Bizarre Magazine, Pierre Molinier, Irina Ionesco, Bernard Faucon (his incredible Summer Camp series), Irwing Klaw, Centurians Publishing Inc. bondage catalogues, Andy Warhol and much more... What's more, this issue comes complete with a green synthetic feather to kickstart your own sensual adventures.
Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.
1983, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$60.00 - In stock -
August 1983 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—Very Good copy with some general wear and cover rubbing.
1979, 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 - In stock -
January 1979 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 general wear.
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
$55.00 - In stock -
April 1974 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 general wear/tanning/staple rusting.
1979, 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 - In stock -
April 1979 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 general wear.
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
$60.00 - In stock -
March 1974 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 general wear and rusted staples.
1990, Japanese
Softcover, 278 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$50.00 - In stock -
May 1990 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Arisue Go, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki. From the late ‘80s, each monthly issue explored a title theme, such as: Women in masochism, Suicide, New pleasures in SM, Anarchy Readers, My Lolita Angel, The Kinbaku, Eros Feminine, Pornography, Secret Amusement, Comic Spirits (featuring artist Suehiro Maruo), to name a few.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Very Good copy, general light wear.
1992, Japanese
Softcover, 292 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$40.00 - In stock -
April 1992 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Arisue Go, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki. From the late ‘80s, each monthly issue explored a title theme, such as: Women in masochism, Suicide, New pleasures in SM, Anarchy Readers, My Lolita Angel, The Kinbaku, Eros Feminine, Pornography, Secret Amusement, Comic Spirits (featuring artist Suehiro Maruo), to name a few.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Very Good copy, general light wear.
1992, Japanese
Softcover, 278 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$40.00 - In stock -
February 1992 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Namio Harukawa, Arisue Go, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki. From the late ‘80s, each monthly issue explored a title theme, such as: Women in masochism, Suicide, New pleasures in SM, Anarchy Readers, My Lolita Angel, The Kinbaku, Eros Feminine, Pornography, Secret Amusement, Comic Spirits (featuring artist Suehiro Maruo), to name a few.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Good copy with a spine split, general wear.
1991, Japanese
Softcover, 282 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$50.00 - In stock -
July 1991 issue SM Spirits, the ‘obscenity graphic monthly’ cult fetish magazine from S&M Sniper publisher Million Publishing, published between 1984—1993. Heavy with glossy "Bad Taste" sadomasochistic bondage photo stories, manga, SM art galleries, illustrated fetish stories and articles, SM Spirits featured the regular contributions from pervert masters such as Oniroku Dan, Ran Kousei, Arisue Go, Namio Harukawa, Tadao Chigusa, Suehiro Maruo, Shin Tendouji, Junichi Tate, Shima Shikou, Akira Ishigaki, Keiichi Nakahara, Kinichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Urado, Eikichi Osada, Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, Takashi Niida, and cover artwork by the amazing Masaru Ohtaki.
Not for the faint hearted. Mature readers only!
Very Good copy, general light wear.
1975, Japanese
Softcover, 274 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$70.00 $60.00 - In stock -
SM Kitan December 1975 issue, featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982). A cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), SM Kitan was a leading SM magazine published by the great Sun Publishing house, and was formerly known as S&M Abuhunter (changing its name to SM Kitan from August 1975). Heavy with wonderful artwork galleries in colour and bw, glossy bondage photo-features, illustrated fetish fiction, manga, fold-outs, and much more. Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982) illustrated many of the iconic covers, with regular contributors including Sotaro Aki, Tadao Chigusa, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Reiko Kita, Akiyoshi Akiyoshi, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Akira Kasuga, and Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara).
Very Good copy. Light wear/age.
1973, Japanese
Softcover, 1306 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Taiyo books / Japan
$60.00 - In stock -
January 1973 issue of SM KING, legendary Japanese SM magazine edited by Oniroku Dan (1931—2011), "the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan", published by Taiyo books between 1972—1974, with each issue featuring many colour and b/w photo features, illustrations, and fetish fiction. Regular contributors included actress Naomi Tani, Toshiyuki Suma, Norio Sugiura, Takashi Tsujimura, Yoji Muku, Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), Tadao Chigusa and Juan Maeda. This issue featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982), plus the work of Tadao Chigusa, Ko Minomura (Reiko Kita), Naomi Tani, Toshiyuki Suma, Juan Maeda, Oniroku Dan, and many many more.
Very Good copy. General light wear/age/marking.
2005, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Creation Books / London
$65.00 - In stock -
Scarce 2005 edition published by Creation Books.
The spectre of Gilles de Rais, satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. A fallen general, once the champion of Jeanne d'Arc, de Rais' riches and experimentations led him to the very gates of Hell.
With quotations, essays and fiction, as well as a complete chronology and register of people and places in de Rais' brief but cataclysmic existence, "Dark Star is a rich evocation of the satanic allure of the most intriguing figure in the annals of mass murder.
Features the writings of Georges Bataille, Blaise Cendrars, J-K Huysmans, Valentine Penrose, Angela Carter, Jean Genet, Marquis de Sade, André Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Gustave Flaubert, Richard Thoma, James Havoc, Charles Perrault, and many others
"Gilles de Rais - one of the most glorious, sinister, enigmatie figures in all European history"—Henry Miller
Very Good copy with some age rippling to the cover laminate.
2025, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 19 x 14 cm
Published by
Impatient Press / US
$38.00 - Out of stock
A chance encounter with two older fellows at the movie theater has the young vagabond Ligie on his way to Lot-8, a trailer park down the road with an unconventional local reputation. There, Ligie meets Big Joe and his extended Lot-8-family: a tight-knit community of freaks all sectioned together by the landlord at the outskirts of town.
Weaving together colourful characters and outright carnal debauchery, BIG JOE is a radical pastoral of community, desire, and the strangeness of knowing one another.
Featuring colour illustrations by Drake Carr and Sabrina Bockler.
Cover illustration by Drake Carr
Samuel R. Delany is the author of numerous books and novels, including the Nebula Award-winning Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection, as well as Nova (now in a Library of America anthology) and Dhalgren. His 2007 novel Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award. Other erotic novels include Equinox, Hogg, The Mad Man, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, and Shoat Rumblin. Delany was the subject of a 2007 documentary, The Polymath, by Fred Barney Taylor, and he has written a popular creative writing textbook, About Writing. He is the author of the widely taught Times Square Red/Times Square Blue and numerous books of essays; his book-length autobiographical essay, The Motion of Light in Water, won a Hugo Award in 1989.
1982, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and plastic sleeve), 126 pages, 33 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Bijutsu Shuppansha / Japan
$140.00 - In stock -
Published in 1982 and long out-of-print, Masquerade is one of the finest artist books of Japanese illustrator and graphic artist Aquirax Uno. Lavishly illustrated and elaborately designed and directed by the artist himself, this beautiful album collects Uno's most stunning fantastical illustration and painting throughout the 1960s—1980s, alongside texts and photography of Uno in his atelier. Masquerade collates a cross-section of Uno's graphic work spanning his entire career, his iconic and innovative print, book, and theatre works, including many new, unpublished works and illustrations printed in large format across many full-colour fold-outs — a wonderful way to capture his decadent, provocative, stream of consciousness line work in intimate detail. Highly recommended!
Aquirax Uno, also known as Akira Uno (b. 1934) is a Japanese graphic artist, illustrator and painter who was very influential in the 1960s and 1970s. His incredibly unique work is characterized by fantastic visuals, capricious and sensuous line flow, flamboyant (and occasionally grotesque) eroticism, and frequent use of collage and psychedelic bright colours. Uno was prominently involved with the Japanese underground art of the 1960s–1970s, and is particularly notable for his frequent collaborations with Shuji Terayama and his experimental theater Tenjo Sajiki.
Aquirax Uno, also known as Akira Uno (b. 1934) is a Japanese graphic artist, illustrator and painter who was very influential in the 1960s–1970s. His incredibly unique work is characterized by fantastic visuals, capricious and sensuous line flow, flamboyant (and occasionally grotesque) eroticism, and frequent use of collage and psychedelic bright colours. Uno was prominently involved with the Japanese underground art of the 1960s–1970s, and is particularly notable for his frequent collaborations with Shuji Terayama and his experimental theater Tenjo Sajiki.
Good copy with heavy foxing to cover edges and end pages, original publisher's textured plastic protector sleeve with usual slight shrinkage from age, edge wear. Sample images only.
1994, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi strip),
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Shincho Sha / Tokyo
$100.00 - In stock -
First 1994 edition of Hair by Kishin Shinoyama, his glossy full-colour photo collection of elegant nudes where the focal point is women's pubic hair, the forbidden fruit of Japanese censorship laws.
Kishin Shinoyama was born in Tokyo in 1940. He began shooting award-winning advertising photography while still a student at Nihon University. After several years with the advertising agency Light Publicity, Shinoyama began working as an independent photographer in 1968. In the decades since, he has taken portraits of some of the most recognized people of our time, including Yukio Mishima, Momoe Yamaguchi, Rie Miyazawa, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In his Gekisha and Shinorama series, Shinoyama has used the latest technologies to create new modes of expression. His recent digital multimedia project digi KISHIN brings a new perspective to both photography and cinema He has dedicated his practice to exploring intimacy and the human body, as well as documenting his home place of Tokyo. His sensual photographs often depict the body within the architecture of the city or conversely, the inherent sculptural qualities of the naked human form.
Near Fine copy with good obi strip.
1973, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 24.8 x 19.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Herd Publishing / NSW
$70.00 - Out of stock
" ... IS CHARIS, SO NAMED BY A FATHER WHO COLLECTED DEAD LANGUAGES. BORN IN STAWELL 1939, SPENT A DREAMY VICTORIAN GIRLHOOD, TRAINED AS NURSE AND MIDWIFE. WAS IN LOVE WITH JESUS TILL THE AGE OF 21 WHEN SHE DISCOVERED MEN. WENT LOOKING ELSEWHERE FOR HER BLUE PRINCE. HE CAME ACROSS HER IN ANDALUSIA. SPENT SOME YEARS THERE BEFORE TRAVELLING THE EAST AND THE AMERICAS. SETTLED IN AUSTRALIA 1969. COLLABORATES WITH HUSBAND SCHWARZ IN PRODUCING FILM, PHOTO, AND PROSE. IS TRUE SCORPIO, HAS ALWAYS DRAWN HERSELF OUT, HAS NO FORMAL ART TRAINING. IN EUROPE HER WORK IS DESCRIBED AS INDICATIVE OF 'PERFECTLY BALANCED SCHIZOPHRENIA'. HER AMBITION IS TO LIVE FROM THE FRUIT OF HER IMAGINATION."
Very rare sealed copies of Australian artist Charis (Schwarz)'s one and only book of erotic drawings, published by Herd Publications in Sydney, run by Gustav Herstik and his wife, who operated the Love Art sex shops. Herd Publishing was a publisher of a variety of pornographic magazines, including some of the earliest Australian-produced homosexual porn magazines, Stallion and Apollo. A rare early example of the decadent and sensuous artistic output of Charis, one of the last survivors of bohemian Kings Cross and a life-long collaborator with her husband, the late George Schwarz. Producers of poetic works of film, photography, print and prose, simultaneously erotic, taboo, progressive, liberated, too provocative/evocative for the Australian art establishment, Charis and George were the creators of the first Australian hardcore sex films to be passed by the censors (and also refused classification).
"We are witness to depictions of female desire not seen before in the history of Australian art. There are hints of mythologies and magic rituals. Everything is in flux, animals and humans merge and decouple. Mirror images double and distort, orifices, chakras and pleasure points are the keys to reading the images. [...] the gamut of human sexual expression. Amongst the bravura flourish of penmanship the images depict fetish, animalia, group, same sex and single sex desire. There are mythic lovers, imperious duenna, self-possessed and knowing schoolgirls. Hair, flowers, fans, mirrors, umbrellas and candles are recurring motifs. Seemingly simple but infinitely complex, these drawings are important because they reveal a hitherto hidden aspect of female experience and imagining. Within the reams of art history the drawings have echoes of the heady syncretism of Jan Toorop (1858-1928) and Alastair (Baron Hans Heming Voight) (1857-1969), but more importantly they reveal the zeitgeist that also informed other more well-known women artists of the period including Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) and Mary Beth Edelson (1933-2021)."—Craig Judd, from Power Paradise: The Art of George Schwarz & Charis
Highly recommended.
As New dead-stock, still sealed, but with varying degrees of age to stock and plastic bags, occasional small damages from insects or storage.
1974, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Random House / New York
$85.00 - In stock -
The first edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art, one of the greatest books on cinema, published in 1974. Reprinted in 2005 by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, that edition also quickly went out of print and this landmark book has not been available since. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago for this classic volume are still relevant today. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.
Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.
VG copy, single crease to front cover edge, not other real damages, well preserved throughout. Image only a sample.
2005, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 15 x 21.1 cm
Published by
Grove Press / New York
$39.00 - Out of stock
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date.
Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist who grew up in the Southern California. In 1976, he founded Little Caesar Magazine and Press, which he ran until 1982. In 1985, he moved to Amsterdam for two and a half years, where he began his ten year long project, The George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels that includes Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His post-George Miles Cycle novels include My Loose Thread, The Sluts and God, Jr. Other works include the short-story collections Wrong and Ugly Man, poetry collections The Dream Police and The Weaklings, as well as the recent Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries.
Dennis Cooper currently spends his time between Los Angeles and Paris.
"Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer"—William Burroughs
"Cooper’s language is at first intense, nearly minimal, then suddenly, it ascends into vision"—Kathy Acker
1993, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 220 pages, 13.6 cm x 19.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Seikyūsha / Tokyo
$110.00 - In stock -
New Tribalism In Sexual City, Prick Up, Rubbers, Gay Fetishism, Consensual SM, Modern Primitives, Pre-Tech Tattoo, Fakir Musafar, Ignore the White Culture, Body Manipulation, Hyper Pornography, Harrison Marks, Allen Jones, She-Male, Mannequin, Kinbaku, Seppuku, Kyoko Hamura, Rightbrain, Trevor Brown, Roman Slocombe, Medical Art, Forest Of Guts, Auto Erotic, J. P. Witkin, Anatomic Images, Discipline, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkoglar, Aktion, Meat Performance, Trans-Gender, Transmutation, John Gacy, Ed Gain, Death ...
First hardcover edition of "Terminal Body Play", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1993. Covering all the above subjects with b/w illustrations, "Terminal Body Play" explores a plethora of physical utopias, including a revived ancient culture of body decoration and manipulation, the pleasure of the body perverted by BDSM, the dematerialised body of performance art, the aesthetics of murder, medicine and anatomy, and so much more. Merzbow is a noise project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of noise technician Masami Akita. As well as a legendary underground noise artist, Akita is a prolific writer in Japan and frequently writes on the arts, music, erotica, esoterica, modern architecture, and animal rights, with articles on emerging subcultures and underground extreme cultures appearing in publications like SM Sniper, Studio Voice and Fool's Mate. His development of the Merzbow aesthetic ran parallel with a series of investigative books in which he catalogued and introduced a vast amount of hermetic types of music, sexual practices and autonomous creativity to a fairly conservative (but not close-minded) Japanese audience. "Terminal Body Play" is one of these very books.
First edition, Japanese text, fine copy with fine "textured" and illustrated dust jacket.
1999, English
Softcover, 130 pages, 21 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sub Dee Industries / Melbourne
$50.00 - Out of stock
"This book contains surrogate fiction, gelatinous poetry, art that bites... It is amorphous, androgynous — as butch as a builder's jockstrap and as sour as a lemon. It considers the options, yet puts the foetus at risk, it takes the time for foreplay, yet loves a deep shag.
Amorphik probes the Outer Limits of Sexuality with raw wit and savage intelligence, and is determined to be banned in Queensland.
Just wait and see..."
Australian new erotica anthology edited, designed and published by Simon Sellars. Featuring the work of Samantha Bews.Symon Brandonatasha Cho, Rob Cover. Sasha Cunningham. Kieran Dell, Kristoph Eggleston, Sarah Endacott, Michael Haward. Hilaire. Kim Hunt, Tana Mccarthy, Garth Madsen, Matthew Firth, Scott Flaherty, Diana Harris, Vasilios Billy Mavreas, Erika Niesner, Ben Paradox, Tony Reck, Dee Rimbaud, Sarala, Peter Christmas Savieri, Bronwyn Scanlon, Simon Sellars, Dana Shavit, Dee Teflon, Der Teufel, Nick Umney, Tim Umney, Andres Vaccari.
Very Good copy with light wear/creasing to covers.
1993, English
Softcover , 96 pages, 28 x 22.23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
NBM / New York
$110.00 - Out of stock
First English 1993 edition of this classic work of erotica where the heroine is introduced to the pleasures of being administered—and administering—spankings! Legendary Italian comic book writer and artist Manara beautifully and abundantly illustrates the tongue-in-(ahem)-cheek text by Enard. Luxuriously presented trade paperback in sepia and black colours and with flaps. Originally published in France in 1991, translated into English by Elizabeth Bell for Eurotica, an imprint of NBM, New York. A favourite of Manara's collections, for obvious reasons.
VG copy.