World Food Books

Good Vibration
Photographs by Tetsuji Shimizu

1981, Japanese
Softcover (w. vinyl dust jacket + pin-up), unpaginated, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo

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"Bite me. Hate me. Bine me. Fuck me.
Please whip me more strong. One, sir. Two, sir. Three, sir. Hmm ah ha...."
—from the back cover.

Seldom seen, remarkable 1981 Japanese photo book by little known Japanese photographer Tetsuji Shimizu — an immersive exploration of the gay scene in San Francisco in 1980, brilliantly designed by Teruhiko Yumura (King Terri, Terrible Terri, etc.)! Rare even in Japan.

Published by Byakuya Shobo, this glossy, vinyl jacket-bound photo book is similar in format to Seiji Kurata's "Flash Up," published around the same time. While visiting New York, Shimizu was astounded by the sights of Christopher Street, the epicenter of LGBT culture. He traveled to the West Coast through word of mouth and immersed himself in the gay culture there, capturing the night-life of Castro and Folsom Streets with his camera — the leather daddies, the bondage dungeons, the bars, and back at the apartments. The impact of the images was so great that it inspired Shimizu to become a photographer. This is such a unique book that Nobuyoshi Araki said, "As I looked through this photobook, I wanted to become a subject myself."

The book also includes a fold-out pin-up, a chapter of intimate black and white close-up erotic scenes, polaroids and Kodachrome slide photo albums documenting the daily lives of friends in the SF scene — the boyfriends, the queens, the bears, fetish shops, sex toys, poppers and wardrobes, a chapter of reproductions of sex toy catalogues illustrated by the great San Francisco illustrator Rex, plus wild erotic artworks from Martin/Hottman/Teruhiko Yumura, master of the punk manga movement and the heta-uma illustration aesthetic.

Very Good copy in original publishers vinyl jacket. As common with old Japanese books preserved in these original plastic dust jackets, they shrink with age and here it has caused the back cover to partially crease.

File under: Teruhiko Yumura Tetsuji Shimizu Rex Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM

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

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

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

$90.00 - In stock -

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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

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

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

$82.00 - In stock -

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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

The World of Juan Maeda: Passionate Flames

1976, Japanese
Softcover, unpaginated, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cobalt /Tokyo

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Very rare 1976 book of decadent artworks by the renowned Japanese SM artist Juan Maeda (b. 1939). Issued a special edition of Gekiga Secret Pleasure, The World of Juan Maeda: Passionate Flames is cover–to–cover full colour painted illustrations of his bewitching erotic SM scenes of intensity spanning the 1970s, including elaborate fold–out pin–up panels. A fine artist amongst the illustrators, and one of the most highly collected, Maeda dropped out of high school and began illustrating manga in the early 1960s. Since the inaugural issue of SM Select, Maeda became a much sought after artist during the SM magazine golden era, working prolifically contributing to magazines such as Jitsuwa to Hiroku, SM Magazine, SM Select, Novel SM Select, SM Fan, Bessatsu SM Fan, SM Club, SM Phoenix, SM Secret Novel, SM Spider, and Mania Club, amongst others, and famously collaborating with the author Oniroku Dan. One of the most accomplished illustrators of the genre, Maeda is a disciple of the celebrated illustrator Taiga Utagawa, famous for his illustrations for children's magazines under the name Oka Tomohiko, who, from 1956, illustrated adult-oriented works himself under Taiga Utagawa and worked as a researcher of esoteric Buddhism. Maeda's style can be best described as "passionate" but also disquieting as his beautifully rendered soft pencil and ink wash depictions of female captive figures are frequently portrayed in the most arduous of kinbaku hardships. A very rare and beautifully produced volume of a bondage art master.

Very Good copy with some wear to extremities, light knock to cover corner with little effect to initials.

File under: Juan Maeda Cobalt /Tokyo Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Museums of Erotica
by Kyoichi Tsuzuki

2023, Japanese
Softcover (w dust jacket), 448 pages, 14.8 x 10.5 x 2.4 cm
Published by Seigensha Publishing / Kyoto

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Another to–be classic from Japanese writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki (Tokyo Style, Roadside Japan, Happy Victims, etc.) An in–depth photographic journey into Japan's disappearing wonderland haunts of the erotic imagination, all passionately documented in comprehensive detail and vivid colour on gloss magazine stock the way Tsuzuki does so well.

The Hihokan (Museum of Erotica) was created in the 1960s as an entertainment facility for adults as tourism diversified with the unprecedented tourism boom in Japan. The erotic installations were staged in a variety of elaborate ways and could be enjoyed as visitors made their way around the exhibits. A unique type of amusement park from the Showa period like an art space. They were a treasure trove of ideas brimming with creativity. Kyoichi Tsuzuki has been following the museums over the years, and once again presents a documentary that examines its appeal.

File under: Kyoichi Tsuzuki Kyoichi Tsuzuki Seigensha Publishing / Kyoto Eros Fetishism / BDSM Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Japanese Photography Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Fetinude (Graphik Erotik #7)

1994, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 14.5 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Amazing pocket art book of vintage fetish nudes, the seventh in the Graphik Erotik series edited by art director Makoto Ohrui (of SALE2/Fiction Inc./Purple/etc.) and published in Tokyo Japan by Kawade Shobo in 19914. Packed cover-to-cover with colour and b/w reproductions garnered from the underground bounty of European and American fetish and erotica publications. Perfectly compiled in the way SALE2 did so well, with elegant scrapbook style, dense with imagery, blown-up, full-bleed reproductions with wonderful tight crops of hindreds of photos and graphics from many publications.

Makoto Ohrui founded the publishing house Fiction Inc. (later Radical Silence Production), the magazine SALE2, the gallery THE deep in Tokyo, and the magazine THE International. Ohrui was art director for SALE2, Purple, Rockin' On, and designed many books.

Very Good copy, with obi.

File under: Makoto Ohrui Makoto Ohrui Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Photography

Sadomasochism (Graphik Erotik #2)

1993, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), unpaginated, 14.5 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Amazing pocket art book of Sadomasochism, the second in the Graphik Erotik series edited by art director Makoto Ohrui (of SALE2/Fiction Inc./Purple/etc.) and published in Tokyo Japan by Kawade Bunko in 1993. Packed cover-to-cover with colour and b/w reproductions of European and American erotica illustrations and photography depicting all manner of lashings, spankings, and torture contraptions through the ages, including artworks by Carlo, Loïc Dubigeon, Serge Nazarieff, Serajat, Jean-Pierre Muhlstein, Juan Jose Fernandez, Luis Vigil, anonymous works from Bizarre Classix, reproductions of private collection prints, and much more. Perfectly compiled in the way SALE2 did so well, with elegant scrapbook style, dense with imagery, blown-up, full-bleed reproductions from many publications. Also includes two postcards bound-in featuring SM photography.

Makoto Ohrui founded the publishing house Fiction Inc. (later Radical Silence Production), the magazine SALE2, the gallery THE deep in Tokyo, and the magazine THE International. Ohrui was art director for SALE2, Purple, Rockin' On, and designed many books.

Very Good copy.

File under: Makoto Ohrui Carlo Serge Nazarieff Serajat Jean-Pierre Muhlstein Juan Jose Fernandez Luis Vigil Loic Dubigeon Makoto Ohrui Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Erotica Universalis: From Pompeii to Picasso
Edited by Gilles Néret

2011, English
Softcover, 575 pages, 19.5 x 14 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taschen / Cologne

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Wonderfully indecent pictures from famous scribblers and anonymous talents alike (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition)

From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age – whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso – have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those of our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire, Verlaine or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard, Dali or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations for these naughty books.

Very Good copy.

File under: Agostino Carracci Antoine Borel Marcantonio Raimondi Félicien Rops Aubrey Beardsley Hans Bellmer Pablo Picasso Rembrandt Edgar Degas George Grosz Robert Crumb Albrecht Dürer Michelangelo Buonarroti Parmigianino Rembrandt van Rijn François Boucher Jean-Honoré Fragonard Bernard Picart Gustave Courbet Auguste Rodin Henri Matisse Salvador Dalí Gustav Klimt Egon Schiele Balthus Jean Dubuffet Tom of Finland Gilles Néret Taschen / Cologne Eros LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Art Drawing Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Fetishism / BDSM Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Topaz Vol. 1 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
April 1993

1993, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

Inaugural April 1993 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, published by Eichi Publishing. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow Yumi AZZLO Yumi Yamazaki (AZZLO) Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

Topaz Vol. 4 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
December 1993

1993, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

December 1993 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Out-of-print / Rare Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Japanese Photography Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Topaz Vol. 5 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
February 1994

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$55.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

February 1994 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

This issue was slightly smaller in dimensions and skipped the poster.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography

Topaz Vol. 6 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
April 1994

1994, Japaanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$65.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

April 1994 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography

Topaz Vol. 8 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
August 1994

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$65.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

August 1994 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Japanese Photography

Oriette Wood
Adult Rubbish

2026, English
Softcover (screen–printed + staple–bound), 28 pages, 21 x 14.4 cm
Published by Oriette Wood / Naarm

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Adult rubbish is part tractor manual part queer fog. Empowerment slurs meets dark narrative inspired by body horror novels (Dennis Cooper, Derek McCormack) and French graphzines (Henriette Valium, Richard Bruno).

File under: Oriette Wood Oriette Wood / Naarm Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Australian Art LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM

Oriette Wood
FIST

2026, English
Softcover (screen–printed + staple–bound), various sized books bound together, overall 26.5 x 20 cm
Ed. of 15,
Published by Oriette Wood / Naarm

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"Fist is a bad trip from the shopping mall of the mind. Beware each screen printed page more glib than the last."

Ed. of 15!

File under: Oriette Wood Oriette Wood / Naarm Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM Eros Australian Art LGBTQ+

Bondage Fairies Book 3
by Kondom

1995, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 164 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by World Comics / Japan Kubo Shoten / Japan

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Very rare original first printing Volume 3 Japanese book collection of the infamous cult classic eromanga "Bondage Fairies" by Kondom, published by Kubo Shoten way back in 1995. Volume 3 of the first ever book collection bringing together over 160 pages of the the original series from the early 1990s, in the original Japanese language, as they appeared in the pages of Kubo Shoten's Young Lemon magazine for the first time as "Bondage Fairies". Includes colour artwork galleries.

Created by manga artist Teruo Kakuta under the pen name "Kondom", a multilingual pun, meaning "little insect" in Japanese and "condom" in English, Bondage Fairies is an erotic series about highly sexual female forest fairies, who work as police officers protecting the forest, whilst engaging in a wild array of anthropomorphized, inter-species sexual acts. The series began in Japan in 1990 as Insect Hunter, but it was quickly banned from sale by the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance. Under a new title, the manga was serialized in manga magazine Lemon Kids. The series is among the earliest sexually explicit manga (eromanga) commercially translated and published uncensored in the United States where the earliest editions date from 1994 (Venus Press). Eros Comix subsequently published a multi-volume series of the collected Bondage Fairies, and subsequent stories, now all very collectible. Translated to Swedish, German, French, and Italian, Bondage Fairies is one of the most popular underground adult Japanese comics outside Japan.

Near Fine copy in original NF dust jacket.

File under: Teruo Kakuta (Kondom) World Comics / Japan Kubo Shoten / Japan Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM