World Food Books

The Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature: the Grin of the Gargoyle
Edited & Translated by Brian Murdoch

1995, English
Softcover,‎ 259 pages,‎ 22.8 x 15.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Dedalus / Cambs

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First 1995 edition.

Brian Murdoch provides an alternative view of the Middle Ages, showing the anarchy and decadence which lurked below the surface of a devout and conformist society. The grinning gargoyle, which mocked the solemnity of Gothic cathedrals, symbolises the violence, depravity and irreverence inherent in man which could not be suppressed by the church.

Texts translated from the prose, chronicles and verse of the period, such as the Trial of Gilles de Rais, Boccaccio's Decameron, I Have a Gentil Cok, A Black Mass and Metrical Verses on the Subject of his Prick, reveal the wilder aspects of medieval man. Brian Murdoch has assembled and translated texts from Medieval Latin, Old French, Italian, Scots Gaelic, Cornish, Old and Middle English, Old Irish and Welsh which will redefine the Middle Ages for the modern reader.

Brian Murdoch is Professor of German at the University of Stirling and a former Visiting Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he delivered the Waynflete Lecture in 1994. Primarily a specialist in medieval and renaissance literature (German, Latin, Celtic), he has also written on the literature of the world wars, and has translated classical and medieval Latin as well as medieval and modern German texts. He is the editor of The Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature and has translated for Dedalus, with his son Brian, the texts of The Dedalus Book of Roman Decadence.

VG–NF copy with block tanning.

File under: Brian Murdoch Dedalus / Cambs Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Out-of-print / Rare Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Occult / Esoterica

The Great God Pan
by Arthur Machen

1993, English
Softcover, 126 pages, 13.5 x 21.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London

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"An incoherent nightmare of sex..." That was The Westminster Gazette's description of Arthur Machen's first book, The Great God Pan, upon its publication in 1894. An unwittingly complimentary description for one of the greatest works of weird horror and decadence, in which Machen unfurls with his singular eye for the bizarre and macabre the tale of a young girl cursed by her unnatural parentage to become a creature of shape-shifting polysexual demi-human evil.

Wonderful collectable 1993 Creation Books reprint, with illustrations throughout by the great Austin Osman Spare.

Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language."

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: Austin Osman Spare Arthur Machen Creation Books / London Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare Eros Occult / Esoterica Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The Identity of Things
Edited by Michael Richardson

1993, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 20 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Dedalus / Cambs

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In the the public mind surrealism is associated primarily with its visual imagery: and this has served to obscure the richness of surrealist contributions in other spheres. This has been particularly so in respect of its rich storytelling tradition...Surrealism draws on older traditions of storytelling, most notably the fairy tale and the Gothic novel...it seeks to capture the mysterious essence of reality and to embody myth and the forces set free by desire.

"The range is impressive, and includes several women...Gisele Prassinos...Leonora Carrington and Meret Oppenheim; contemporary writers like Rikki Ducornet. Richardson makes available in English several early treasures, such as Salvador Dali's Reverie and Pierre Unik's Long Live the Bride, a wonderful tale of mistaken identity and metonymical transfer of meaning." —Fiona Bradley in the Times Literary Supplement

"'I went to fetch my car, but my chauffeur, who has no sense at all, had just buried it,' writes Leonora Carrington in this captivating collection of tales from 17 languages."—The Observer

VG copy.

File under: Leonora Carrington Meret Oppenheim Mary Low Marcel Mariën Philippe Soupault Andre Breton André Breton Meret Oppenheim Gisèle Prassinos Agustín Espinosa Anneliese Hager François Valorbe Irène Hamoir Jean Ferry Jindřich Štyrský Juan Breá Léo Malet Leonora Carrington Marcel Noll Mary Low Paul Nougé Pierre Unik Rikki Ducornet Marcel Mariën Julien Gracq Benjamin Péret Raymond Queneau René Crevel Dedalus / Cambs Surrealism Eros Dada Out-of-print / Rare Art Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica

Venus in Furs (and Selected Letters)
by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

1989, English
Softcover, 210 pages, 21 x 13.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Blast Books / New York

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Lovely Blast Books 1989 edition of Venus in Furs with introduction by literary critic and founder of Semiotext(e), Sylvère Lotringer.

"Reality and fantasy aren't just intertined, they're indistinguishable."

The legendary novel Venus in Furs earned its author entry into psychology books all over the world after the German psychologist Krafft-Ebing coined the term "masochism" from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's name.

Illuminating his darkest obsessions, Sacher-Masoch created the unforgettable Severin and Wanda—a "suprasensual" man who craves abuse and domination, and an idealized cruel, icy Venus come to life-literary reflections of Sacher-Masoch's own life. As Sylvère Lotringer writes in his foreword, "In Venus in Furs reality and fantasy aren't just intertwined, they're indistinguishable." A fascinating account of the pathology of submission and control, Venus in Furs bears the unmistakable mark of a literary classic.

Included in this volume is a selection from a remarkable series of letters between Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja, a nineteen-year-old aspiring writer, translated into English for the first time. The letters reveal just how blurry the line was between Sacher-Masoch's fantasies, literary efforts, and life as they bear witness to his single-minded, unrelenting pursuit of the whip held in the hand of a cruel woman in furs.

Together with the letters and foreword, Venus in Furs provides extraordinary insight into the compulsive imagination of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch grappling with the demons that both torment and delight him.

"A pioneering masterpiece."—James Cleugh, The First Masochist

Sylvère Lotringer, writer, theoretician, and founder of Semiotext(e), has written a foreword especially for this edition. His latest book, Overexposed, is about the treatment of sexual perversion in America.

Good copy with edge wear/age. Eraser-able pencil underling to forward only. Sample image only.

File under: Sylvère Lotringer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Blast Books / New York Fetishism / BDSM Eros Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Modern Ritual Magic: The Rise of Western Occultism
by Francis King

1989, English
Softcover, 223 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Prism Press / Dorset

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First Prism Press 1989 edition of Francis King's 'Modern Ritual Magic', expanded from the first 1970 Neville Spearman edition.

'This is the inside story of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and associated occult offshoots–told in its entirety for the first time. The author's researches into the conflict between W.B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley are described in detail, as well as the full story of Yeats early magical training and practices. Francis King also relates the often difficult relationship between Yeats and the influential Kabbalist, MacGregor Mathers.

However, it is not only the student of the Golden Dawn who will find this book absorbing. King also describes Rudolph Steiner's attempt to take over English occultism and links Bengali Tantricism with the magic of an American Mulatto. All the major figures in modern western magic feature in this book, which is rightly regarded as one of the major histories of the western esoteric tradition.

FRANCIS KING is also the author of Magic: the Western Tradition, Sexuality, Magic and Perversion and The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.. He co-authored Techniques of High Magic with Stephen Skinner.

Very Good copy with tanning to block edges, no spine creasing.

File under: Aleister Crowley W.B. Yeats William Butler Yeats S.L. MacGregor Mathers Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers Rudolph Steiner Francis King Prism Press / Dorset Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Eros

Shocking Cinema: The Breaking of Movie Taboos
by Phil Edwards

1987, English
Softcover (staple bound), 130 pages, 28 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Mentmore Press / NSW

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Published in 1987 by Australian film collector and dealer Phil Edwards, Shocking Cinema: The Breaking of Movie Taboos was a provocatively illustrated examination of controversial film censorship, underground features, and exploitation movies. It focuses on how motion pictures challenged societal norms regarding explicit sex, violence, and horror, covering the history of how various governments, local authorities, and moral watchdog groups banned or heavily edited boundary-pushing projects, traces the evolution of adult-oriented cinema, from early nudist camp movies to more explicit commercial works, how low-budget and independent filmmakers pushed the limits of on-screen gore, terror, and bodily mutilation and features rare commentary, stills, and breakdowns of movies that deliberately courted controversy by flouting accepted cinematic standards of their respective decades. In short: "Bone Crushing Terror, Big Boobs–Big Bucks!, Lewd, Crude & Ugly." Includes an 8–page sealed section of scenes the censors wouldn't let us see! It has been unsealed. Cannibals and Vampires, a gallery of sexploitation posters, and lots of eye–candy for the sick and twisted. Lots of Divine, lots of Russ Meyers, lots of horror. Phil Edwards was a prolific movie writer and contributor to Starburst, Cinema, 2000 AD, Famous Monsters of Filmland, People, Family Circle, American Cinematographer, L'Ecran Fantastique, Savage Action, Starfix and The Movie, amongst others.

VG copy with a coupe of loose pages in he sealed section. All present.

File under: Phil Edwards Mentmore Press / NSW Out-of-print / Rare Eros Crime / Violence Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Film / Video Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM

Ero–Mondo
Edited by Shunichi Karasawa

?, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket + obi), 222 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Futami Shobo / Japan

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"! WARNING!
The author and publisher do not advocate practicing any of the activities listed herein.
Many are dangerous and some lethal. People who choose to engage in these activities do so at their own risk."

Amazing picture book edited by Shunichi Karasawa (b. 1958), Japanese author, collector and critic of b–class books, manga, medical and bizarre culture, responsible for many books on subcultures of sexuality. Ero–Mondo is 'a large picture book full of illustrations of people who have gone wayside because they pursued the "extremes of pleasure", and the more you look at it, the more you want to do it!'. A b/w scrapbook surveying the history of various "abnormal" bodily pleasures or as the cover states: "A ton of super perverted people". Erotic asphyxiation, masturbation machines, chastity devices, Erotic lactation, Flagellation, Sadism, Masochism, body modification, body abnormalities, auto fellatio, sex toys, toilet play, golden showers, cross–dressing, adipophilia, and much much more.

VG copy in VG dust jacket w. VG obi.

File under: Futami Shobo / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Art Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Film / Video Drawing Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Counterculture

Sibylle Ruppert
Dark Light on White Shadow

2026, English / German
Hardcover (clothbound), 304 pages, 31 x 25 cm
Published by Distanz / Berlin Kunsthalle Gießen / Gießen

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Grotesque and Somber. Dark Light on White Shadow is a retrospective of the largely unpublished oeuvre of Sibylle Ruppert, whose hyperrealistic works were inspired by Marquis de Sade and Georges Bataille.

Edited by Nadia Ismail / Kunsthalle Gießen and Paul J. Walter / Estate Sibylle Ruppert

Sibylle Ruppert (b. Frankfurt/Main, 1942; d. Paris, 2011) turned childhood fears and wartime experiences into art. Born the night of the first massive bombing of Frankfurt Main, she spent her early years between nursery and improvised air-raid shelter. Ruppert's richly detailed drawings, paintings, and collages investigate her traumas and the rifts within us they leave behind. Her works reveal a visual language in which bodies menace one another and fuse to produce grotesque creatures. Drawing inspiration from writers like Georges Bataille, Comte de Lautréamont, and Marquis de Sade as well as the artists Francis Bacon and HR Giger, Rupert created a prolific surreal erotic and dystopian imagery — a singular oeuvre in hues of brown and gray. In 2010, a year before her death, the artist was the subject of a retrospective at the HR Giger Museum in Gruyeres.

The book Dark Light on White Shadow pays fresh homage to her oeuvre, which was displayed at Kunsthalle Gießen in 2023. With essays by Kate Brown, Nadia Ismail, Vera Kattermann, Annekathrin Kohout, and Paul J. Walter.

File under: Sibylle Ruppert H. R. Giger Nadia Ismail Paul J. Walter Comte de Lautreamont Georges Bataille Marquis de Sade Distanz / Berlin Kunsthalle Gießen / Gießen Drawing Art Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Fetishism / BDSM

Etsuko Miura
The Doll Bride of Frankenstein (signed)

2006, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 126 pages, 22 x 16 cm
Signed by artist,
Published by Treville / Tokyo

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Signed copy of the first 2006 hardcover edition of this masterpiece collection of handcrafted and beautifully twisted creations by Japanese doll artist Etsuko Miura shot by photographer Atsushi Tani in one of the most intense collaborations of the genre. 'The Doll Bride of Frankenstein' takes it's cue from Bellmer's ball–jointed doll to the gothic fantasy of Miura's operating table.

"In Frankenstein's pitiful wounds can be seen the pure-heart of both boy and girl as they progress from childhood to adulthood."—Etsuko Miura

Miura carries on his aims in a sensational manner to create intensely majestic "Eros and Thanatos" bride dolls that evoke an ultimate eroticism in the context of the Pygmalion aesthetic.

Includes bilingual (Japanese/English) essay by Hiroshi Fujita (psychoanalyst, plastic surgeon, anesthetist), profiles of Etsuko Miura & Atsushi Tani, and afterword by Etsuko Miura.

Near Fine–As New copy signed to title page in metallic ink.

File under: Etsuko Miura Atsushi Tani Treville / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Eros Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Art Signed Books

Shūji Terayama
Kamen Gaho

1991, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket + obi), 128 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heibonsha / Tokyo

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Wonderful photo-book chronology of the world of Shūji Terayama (1935—1983) and his experimental theatre troupe Tenjō Sajiki (with Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, Fumiko Takagi, ...), a major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene of the 1960s and 70s. Terayama's activities encompass a who's-who of the Japanese avant-garde arts and literature of the time. This book visually documents it all; the filmography, performances, installations, happenings, exhibitions, posters, publications, and all else that resonated from Japan’s most revered and provocative avant-garde film-maker and his collaborators. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of illustrations in colour, duo and b/w with Japanese commentary, biographies and chronology. A wonderful, visually mind-blowing reference for anyone interested in the work of Terayama, Tenjō Sajiki, Surrealist performance, or Japanese avant-garde underground (Angura) theatre.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. In 1967 Terayama founded Tenjō Sajiki with Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi, a Japanese experimental theater troupe. A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

Very Good—Near Fine (w/o obi — image just a sample)

File under: Tenjō Sajiki Kujō Kyōko Yutaka Higashi Tadanori Yokoo Fumiko Takagi Shūji Terayama Akira Uno Aquirax Uno akira Heibonsha / Tokyo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Surrealism Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

The Tears of Eros
by Georges Bataille

1989, English
Softcover, 213 pages, 20.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by City Lights Books / San Francisco

$120.00 - Out of stock

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First 1989 City Lights English translation, long out-of-print.

Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common death. This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Death and Sexuality and Prehistoric Lascaux or the Birth of Art . In it Bataille examines death—the "little death" that follows sexual climax, the proximate death in sadomasochistic practices, and death as part of religious ritual and sacrifice. "Bataille is one of the most important writers of the century."— Michel Foucault Georges Bataille was born in Billom, France, in 1897. He was a librarian by profession. Also a philosopher, novelist, and critic he was founder of the College of Sociology. In 1959, Bataille began Tears of Eros , and it was completed in 1961, his final work. City Lights published two of his other Story of the Eye and The Impossible . Bataille died in 1962.

French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work.

Very Good copy, light wear to extremities/corners.

File under: Georges Bataille City Lights Books / San Francisco Surrealism Occult / Esoterica Eros Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Theory / Essay Philosophy Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Art

Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures
Edited by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou

2026, English
Softcover, 432 pages, 23 x 16 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures examines the influence of cruising cultures on architecture and urban life, unfolding a typology of spaces produced by sexual – primarily gay – subcultures. From the appropriation of sites such as parks, public restrooms, and streets to purpose-built spaces like sex clubs, bars, and bathhouses, as well as the new form of virtual dérive generated by geosocial dating apps, cruising has subverted the libidinal cartography and use of the modern metropolis.

The book considers these spatial practices through the lens of artistic avant-gardes that have emerged at the intersection of sex, art, and architecture. It follows the eponymous curatorial project initiated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus Myrup, Octave Perrault, and Charles Teyssou, which traveled from Paris to Venice and on to New York, Fire Island, and Stockholm.

Features Andreas Angelidakis, Monica Bonvicini, Tom Burr, Shu Lea Cheang, Victoria Colmegna, DYKE_ON, General Idea, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Henrik Olesen, Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Hannah Quinlan + Rosie Hastings, Carlos Reyes, Prem Sahib, Jaanus Samma, S H U Í (Jon Wang + Sean Roland), Steven Warwick, Robert Yang, Trevor Yeung, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation), Studio Karhard, Etienne Descloux, Horace Gifford, Pol Esteve + Marc Navarro, Madelon Vriesendorp, Samuel R. Delany, Hal Fischer, Gayle Rubin, Joan Nestle, David Wojnarowicz, and more...

Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou are a Paris-based curatorial duo. Their recent projects include Paris Orbital, a series of events at the Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce, and the Conversations series for Paris+ par Art Basel in October 2023.

File under: David Wojnarowicz Andreas Angelidakis Monica Bonvicini Tom Burr Shu Lea Cheang Victoria Colmegna DYKE_ON General Idea Sidsel Meineche Hansen Henrik Olesen Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) Hannah Quinlan + Rosie Hastings Carlos Reyes Prem Sahib Jaanus Samma S H U Í (Jon Wang + Sean Roland) Steven Warwick Robert Yang Trevor Yeung Diller Scofidio + Renfro Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) Studio Karhard Etienne Descloux Horace Gifford Pol Esteve + Marc Navarro Madelon Vriesendorp Pierre-Alexandre Mateos Charles Teyssou Samuel R. Delany Hal Fischer Gayle Rubin Joan Nestle David Wojnarowicz Steven Warwick Spector Books / Leipzig Art Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Eros Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture LGBTQ+ Film / Video

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.

Good-Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear. Some rippling to back cover.

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 - In 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. 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

Rear View
Nick Tosches

1981, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Delilah Books / New York

$140.00 - In stock -

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First 1981 edition of Rear View, Nick Tosches’s superb photo-essay homage to the bottom in all it's splendor, lavishly illustrated with photography by Jeff Dunas, Bob Guccione, Geoff Howes, Stan Malinowski, Donald Milne, Siwer Ohlsson, Peter Vann, Carl Wachter, Harvey Wang, Jacky Winter, Zox. "In light of the designer jeans phenomenon, America's fascination with and exploitation of the derriere is examined in text and photographs". Features designer jeans by Jordache, Zena, Calvin Klein, Jesse Jeans, Sergio Valente. Art direction by Horst Weber. A now cult classic of the era.

Good—Very Good copy with some geenral light wear to boards/extremities.

File under: Jeff Dunas Bob Guccione Geoff Howes Stan Malinowski Donald Milne Siwer Ohlsson Peter Vann Carl Wachter Harvey Wang Jacky Winter Zox Nick Tosches Delilah Books / New York Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Plexus 17
October 1968

1968, French
Softcover, 162 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$50.00 - In stock -

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Issue 17 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 17, October 1968. Cover by Gilles Rimbault. Features a gallery of art by Gilles Rimbault, Didier Moreau, Georges Wolinski, photography by Emil Cadoo, actress Geneviève Grad, Anton LaVey, Emmanuelle Arsan, Yves de Saint-Agnes, Jacques Sternberg, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age, small sticker damage to lower cover (sample image only)

File under: Georges Wolinski Gilles Rimbault Didier Moreau Emil Cadoo Geneviève Grad Emmanuelle Arsan Yves de Saint-Agnes Jacques Sternberg Anton LaVey Planète / Paris Periodicals Art Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Counterculture Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drugs / Psychedelia

Plexus 29
November 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 130 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$50.00 - In stock -

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Issue 29 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 28, November 1969. Cover by Jean Coulot. Features a gallery of art by Jean Coulot, Raymond Bertrand, Tiger Tateishi, actress/model Elsa Martinelli, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Emmanuelle Arsan, André Guillois, and article on Hitler illustrated by Gérard Gachet, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age, small sticker damage to lower cover (sample image only)

File under: Gérard Gachet Raymond Bertrand Tiger Tateishi Elsa Martinelli Jean Coulot Pieyre de Mandiargues Emmanuelle Arsan André Guillois Planète / Paris Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Photography Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Drugs / Psychedelia

Plexus 26
July 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 144 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$45.00 - In stock -

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Issue 26 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 26, July 1969. Cover by Roman Cieślewicz. Features a gallery of art by Claudine Wick, Georges Wolinski, an "unprecedented document on homosexuality" an investigation by Pierre Hahn featuring contributions by Roger Peyrefitte and Michel Butor (writers), Claude Dumezil (psychoanalyst), Daniel Guérin (sociologist), Marc Oraison (priest), Roger Bastide (ethno-sociologist), André Baudry (director of "Arcadie"), Daniel Guérin, Jacques Sternberg, Hair, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Roman Cieślewicz André Baudry Claudine Wick Georges Wolinski Roger Peyrefitte Michel Butor Claude Dumezil Daniel Guérin Marc Oraison Roger Bastide André BaudryDaniel Guérin Jacques Sternberg Pierre Hahn Planète / Paris Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica LGBTQ+ Drugs / Psychedelia

Plexus 30
December 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 130 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$40.00 - In stock -

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Issue 30 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 30, December 1969. Cover by Bonneville. Features a gallery of art by Max Savy, the first ever pornography fair in Copenhagen, Contemporary art and the sexual revolution (Niki de Saint Phalle, Mel Ramos, Alina Szapocznikow, Martial Raysse, Roy Lichtenstein, Christo, Tom Wesselmann, Yves Klein, David Hockney, Richard Lindner, Bernard Rancillac, James Rosenquist, Larry Rivers, etc. by Pierre Restany, French author Catherine de Prémonville, Edgar Morin, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Catherine de Prémonville Edgar Morin Max Savy Alina Szapocznikow Niki de Saint Phalle Martial Raysse Christo Yves Klein David Hockney Richard Lindner James Rosenquist Larry Rivers Roy Lichtenstein Tom Wesselmann Pierre Restany Jacques Sternberg Catherine de Prémonville Edgar Morin Planète / Paris Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Eros Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Sociology / Politics Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art

Plexus 25
June 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 162 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
Published by Planète / Paris

$55.00 - In stock -

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Issue 25 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 25, June 1969. Cover by Michel Plaisir. Features a gallery of art by Hans Bellmer, Yves Chaix, Jacques-Armand Cardon, Pierre Bonnard by Pierre Cabanne, erotic photography by Ica Vilander, manifestations of POSSESSION (from voodoo, Macumba, sorcery, to Surrealism, Happenings, Yoga and L.S.D.), Pieyre de Mandiargues, Jacques Sternberg, Michel Bernard, Henri Guillemin, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Hans Bellmer Pierre Bonnard Michel Plaisir Ica Vilander Jacques-Armand Cardon Pierre Cabanne Pieyre de Mandiargues Jacques Sternberg Michel Bernard Henri Guillemin Planète / Paris Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Australian Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Photography Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia

Plexus 24
May 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 162 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
Published by Planète / Paris

$35.00 - In stock -

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Issue 24 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 24, May 1969. Cover by Pierre Le Colas. Features a gallery of art by Pierre Le Colas, Modesto Roldan, Ivan Steiger, photography by Jean Clemmer, Piero Fornasetti, Roger Caillois, Robert Sheckley,
and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Pierre Le Colas Modesto Roldan Ivan Steiger Piero Fornasetti Jean Clemmer Jacques Sternberg Planète / Paris Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Eros Sociology / Politics Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Photography Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Plexus 11

1967, French
Softcover, 168 pages (w. Leonor Fini pin–up), 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Issue 11 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 24, May 1969. Cover by Leonor Fini. Features a gallery of art by Leonor Fini (with beautiful colour fold–out pin–up), Maurice Henry, Christiane Sabatier, erotic photography by Sam Haskins, Japanese tattoos, interview with Paul Gebhard (American anthropologist and sexologist,) Pol Quentin, Pierre Restany, photos of French actress Dany Carrel, James Thurber, Jean Tardieu, Jean Clemmer, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Leonor Fini Sam Haskins Maurice Henry Paul Gebhard Dany Carrel Pol Quentin Pierre Restany Planète / Paris Surrealism Art Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Photography Eros Occult / Esoterica

Plexus 27
September 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 132 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Issue 27 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 27, September 1969. Cover by Julie Leblanc. Features a gallery of art by Julie Leblanc, actress Sylvie D'Haetze, Mao, Michel Lancelot, Jean Gourmelin, Bernard Le Roy, Jean Clemmer, Denis Manceaux and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Julie Leblanc Jean Gourmelin Sylvie D'Haetze Jean Clemmer Denis Manceaux Mao Michel Lancelot Bernard Le Roy Planète / Paris Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Eros