Search Results: Sex/Erotica from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Wyeth was perhaps America's foremost realist painter of the last half of the 20th century. In 1986, it became known that Wyeth had over 14 years drawn and painted one of his neighbors in Chadds Ford, PA, Helga Testorf, in the nude without the knowledge of Wyeth's wife or Helga's husband. When the 247 studies were exhibited at the National Gallery in 1987 and then went on a nationwide tour, there was extensive criticism of the museum and the work. First printing, first edition. About 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches. 208 pages in red cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine. 294 illustrations, 96 in full color with full documentation of the work, including a chronology of exhibitions, a selected bibliography and comments by the artist. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, no bumping, tearing or creasing. Dustjacket shows the painting, "Braids," 1979, in full… Read More

New York: Berkley Books, 1956. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Berkley Books G-21. A novel about life in a 1930s Chicago whorehouse, featuring Bessie Cotter, a young blonde woman who hasn't forgotten her humanity. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. Pictorial wrappers show a small stain in title box, very light wear at corners and spine ends, reading crease, o/w no tears, no surface creasing. Text shows slight age-tanning, a touch of spine lean, o/w clean and unmarked.

New York: Doubleday Direct, Inc., 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A 3-novels-in-1 omnibus of late '90s romantic erotica from a trio of women authors noted for their work in this genre. "The Top of Her Game," by Emma Holly; "Stand and Deliver," by Helena Ravenscroft, and Susie Raymond's "Taking Liberties," are the books in this fourth Black Lace omnibus edition. Originally published in 1993 by Black Lace, this copy is from the book club edition, a first edition thus. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 761 pages in black paper-covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows a photo of a rather modest nude female serving as background for the titles of the three novels. Back panel has a one-inch-square detail from the photo on the front below the omnibus' title over a black background. Boards show a touch of surface wear and spine ends are lightly bumped while text has single dogeared page (491-492), o/w boards and text are… Read More

New York: Random House, 1990. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Theroux's novel of a successful Chicago businessman driven by sexual obsession; a near perfect, unread copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1996. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Fine/Fine. A unique collection of erotica, spanning some seven centuries from Boccaccio's "Decameron," in the 12th century to Nicholson Baker's "Vox," published in the last decade of the 20th and including selections from classic authors including Casanova, James Boswell, Voltaire and Bram Stoker as well as contemporary writers such as John Updike, Marilyn French and Alina Reyes. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. The author's first book, nominated for a National Book Award, is a sort of emotional autobiography of one young woman's exploration of love, hate and sex in the 1970s; First Printing of First Bantam Edition; text is clean, tight, square in white pictorial wrappers that show some soiling, minimal surface and edgewear; front cover slightly rolled.

New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Large Softcover. Near Fine to Fine. A large selection of Golub's drawings from 1947 until shortly before his death in 2004. A total of 99 drawings in a variety of media including oil stick, acrylic, crayon and ink. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 124 pages in heavy card wrappers with "Satyr Lib!" a 2004 oil stick and ink on vellum drawing, featured on the front cover. Includes essays by Robert Enright ("Tensioned Against The Paper: Leon Golub and the Erotics of Drawing"), Meeka Walsh ("Animal Stories"), and an interview, "On Drawing," by Douglas Dreishpoon. Wrappers show only a tiny chip at the top of the spine, o/w very minor surface and edgewear. No tears, no creasing, not remaindered. Text is clean, complete and unmarked. Binding tight and square. Scarce and collectable.

New York: Castle Books/Book Sales, 1993. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Erotic excerpts from the novels of well-known authors, including Andrea Newman, Philip Roth, Henry Miller, Erica Jong, D.H. Lawrence, Emile Zola, Mary McCarthy, Pauline Reage, Frank Harris, Daniel Defoe and Marquis De Sade, with an introduction by Italian porn star and politician, La Cicciolina; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface or edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A wide-ranging collection of erotica by women writers from Sapho in the seventh century BC to Margaret Atwood in the 1980's; hardcover First Printing of First U.S. Edition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some light scratching on back panel o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Baker, author of the bestselling "Vox," has written a near-masterpiece of erotic fantasy, made up of equal parts of humor and sex, featuring Arno Strine, who likes to stop time and then undress women. Arno is working on his autobiography, "The Fermata," which is a very sexy, funny, and altogether morally confused piece of work. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; the white dustjacket shows a trace of soiling. A collectable copy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel of the award-winning Dubus features April Marie Connors, a young Florida mother and stripper at the Puma Club for Men, who breaks her one ironclad rule of never bringing her daughter to work, where the girl becomes a wild card in a game of psychological suspense involving, among others, Bassam, a rich Saudi Arabian, and AJ, just thrown out of the club for being too familiar with his stripper. First Printing, First Edition. A small remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows very minor edge wear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The award-winning Boyle's tenth novel features John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Indiana University Professor Alfred Kinsey just as Kinsey begins his now famous research that resulted in the Kinsey Reports on Sex; a collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In his tenth novel, Boyle has found a perfect subject for his particular imagination and talent -- human sexuality. The book features John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey at Indiana University, becoming a member of Kinsey's "inner circle" of researchers performing the groundbreaking studies that resulted in the Kinsey Reports. The boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: New American Library, 1964. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Mentor Classic MP 578; a selection of Ovid's erotic poetry that resulted in his expulsion from Rome by the Emperor Augustus; translated from the Latin by Horace Gregory; First Printing of the First Mentor Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; wrappers show very minimal surface and edgewear.

Aurum Press (Gibralter) Limited, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. a collection of erotic photographs, both black and white and color, by twelve contemporary artists including Bailey, Peccinotti, Kane, Michals, Skremneski, Lategan, Haskins, Vogt and Sieff; hardcover, quarto, 9 x 12"; text and boards are clean, tight, square, two corners very lightly bumped; dustjacket shows tiny chip at top corner of rear panel, o/w minimal surface and edgewear; Near Fine/Near Fine. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of erotic short stories with a sexual content leaning to S&M and BDSM, described on the dustjacket as "stories about mastery, slavery, and the darker side of desire;" boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This is Marlowe's second novel, preceded by his bestselling "A Dandy In Aspic," a "memoir" written by an unnamed protagonist who is probably mad and certainly dead, a man doomed to love one lost girl and equally doomed to be the lover of hundreds of others. Previous owner's signature and '1973' in lower inside corner of front pastedown, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows some surface and edgewear, including two small tears and minor chipping at the bottom of the spine but no significant flaws. A collectable copy of a hard-to-find title.

New York: Gramercy Publishing Co., 1964. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Edited by James Barke and Sydney Goodsir Smirth; A collection of bawdy Scottish folksongs and poetry, either written or found by poet Robert Burns; Book Club Edition; text is clean and tight, top edge slightly soiled; dustjacket is rubbed, slightly edgeworn with small tear upper right corner of front panel, spine faded with small tear.

New York: Penthouse International Ltd., 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. The International Magazine for Men, Vol. 15, No. 1; a Special Anniversary Issue celebrating the magazine's 14th year includes the usual sexual humor, cartoons, photo essays and centerfold but also features articles by prize-winning reporters, Tad Szulc, Jack Anderson and Harrison Salisbury; also an excerpt from thriller writer Lawrence Sanders' latest work, "The Seduction of Peter S." Glossy 8 1/2 x 11", 190 pages, stapled paper covers; text is clean, tight, square; covers show a tiny bit of chipping at spine ends, o/w almost no surface or edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Penthouse International Ltd., 1982. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. The International Magazine for Men, Vol. 13, No. 10; sexual content including humor, cartoons, centerfold, and photo essays as well as erotic fiction; also an article by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz; an interview with Ted Turner, who had recently established the first 24-hour cable news network, and an excerpt from Michael Korda's first novel, "Wordly Goods;" 8 1/2 x 11", 200 pages stapled, paper covers; text is clean, tight, square; covers show only very minimal surface and edgewear.