Softcover. NY, Scala, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. The diversity of New York City's people, cultures, religions, and backgrounds make it the indicator of American sexuality. It is black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor, rough, and tender all at once. From Margaret Sanger's dissemination of birth control to the Stonewall riot of 1969, New York City has repeatedly seen its sexual dynamics changed and American and international culture follow suit. Published to coincide with the much-anticipated opening of the Museum of Sex in New York, NYC Sex features conversations between major cultural figures and historians on sexual topics, including Grady T. Turner on "Sodom on the Hudson"; Martin Duberman and Joan Nestle on queers; Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Xaviera Hollander, and Tracy Quan on whores; Karen Finley, Luc Sante, Gene Simmons, and Art Spiegelman on the underground; and Vanessa del Rio, Legs McNeil, and Annie Sprinkle on porn. And what's a book about sex without pictures? In between the steamy conversation, NYC Sex posts photographs by Mapplethorpe, Ferrato and Gatewood; 19th-century drawings and photographs; film stills; posters; magazine pin-ups; and images of sex symbols past and present. It's a treat the whole family can enjoy. NYC Sex is the official book of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Sex, which will open in New York in September.

Softcover. New York, powerHouse, 1st, August 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages, color photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy. For adults only. Every day, thousands of young Asian women go to work in the sex industry, a marketplace in which any desire can be satisfied for a price--despite the fact that many Asian countries are repressive to the point of banning certain standard sexual practices. For six years, Asian-American photographer Reagan Louie journeyed through this sexual underworld, visiting nearly a dozen countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Tibet, Thailand, and Japan, among others, photographing the day-to-day lives of women who, either by choice or by necessity, exchange their bodies for money. 

Softcover. Wet Angel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 b&w shamelessly provocative pin-ups.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Arena Editions, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. 125 erotic images used in research at the Kinsey Institute. Preface by Betsy Stirratt and Jeffrey Wolin. Very good in bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Arena Editions, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. 125 erotic images used in research at the Kinsey Institute. Preface by Betsy Stirratt and Jeffrey Wolin. Very good in bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008-12-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. 407 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Gilt stamped black cloth. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. Small chunk gone from rear of dust jacket. 407 pages.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. 188 pages. Full of beautiful women, as always. Kelly Marie Monaco, Joey Heatherton, Vincent Bugliosi, Howard Stern, etc. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Victoria Silvstedt on cover,The Timothy McVeigh Story, Dennis Rodman Interview, Carmen Electra, centerfold Carrie Stevens, George Carlin humor.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch Babes on fold-out cover. This month articles feature: Navy flier shows her stuff, breaks the Playboy barrier; Interview with Paul Reiser; Nascar, history of the sexual revolution, 60 to 69 (make love not war), playmate Anne Randalll and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Faye Resnick on cover, '3001: The Final Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke, Clint Eastwood interview, 20 questions for Michael Jordan, article on Don King, Miss March Jennifer Mariam and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom of rear cover 10 pages in rear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Claudia Schiffer on cover. Full of beautiful women as always including supermodels.Highlights: Lynn Thomas as Miss May, Donald Trump Article, Saul Bellow interview, 20 Questions for Lucy Lawless, and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1989, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom edge, rear cover. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Donna Mills on cover, centerfold Renee Tenison. Stories on sex inthe Cinema 1989 pictorial; abortion opinions; Donna Mills Knots Landing; interview with Garry Kasparov; solving the murder of Jimmy Hoffa; confessions of an SOB and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy on cover,180 pages Features Jenny, playmate of the month Nikki Schieler, "a tribute to blonde ambition"; Christopher Walken interview; NFL preview; Fred Goldman's grand obsession, dream girls Pamela and... Chris Farley's size XXXL mind; 25 hot sex sites online and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Holiday anniversary issue. Grant Hill interview. Billy Bob Thornton's outrageous ex; Bettie Page's story. Teri Hatcher 20 questions. How smart are you about Seinfeld. Queen of the B's, Shannon Tweed. Shel Silverstein's Street Smart hamlet. playmate review. Centerfold: Heather Kozar.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch babe Marliece Andrada on cover, also as Centerfold Miss March; Kevin Kline interview; swimsuit issue, playboy style; the real boogie nights - life and death of John Holmes and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Lisa Rinna Melrose Place mom on cover & Pregnant Pictorial; sweet life of Ahmad Rashad; smartest women in porn; Patrick Moynihan inteview; Vanessa Gleason Miss September and more.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Calif., Chronicle Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A brash retrospective of Helmut Newton, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Renowned for his carefully composed, cinematic shots of powerful women playing out erotic fantasies, Newton's signature style makes for a potent counterpoint to the more straightforward Playboy nudes.

Softcover. New York , Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, 54 color photographs by Stefano de Luigi. With an essay by Martin Amis, "A Rough Trade". Tight, clean and crisp. Explores the world of pornography in Los Angelas, Tokyo, Budapest, Milan, Prague and Dortmund. Features interviews conducted with industry workers and stars in LA.

Hardcover. Twin Palms, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket (with pink belly band dj present and intact). Lavishly illustrated in duotone photographs of female nudes. During the 1920s. a time when the United States was, from all appearances, open to artistic experimentation, a Bay Area photographer named Albert Arthur Allen unwittingly took on the Goliath of nudity and politics. An obscure figure who operated outside the margins of the fine art community, Allen was known to a small coterie of clients who bought boudoir studies, pictures of comely young voluptuaries. (In Europe these photographic etudes were an acknowledged integral part of the academic tradition.) A homespun aesthetician who had a marked propensity for self-invention, Allen produced photographic protfolios that were initially inspired by the naturist movement. Today his images, which are typically perceived as high camp, are more familiar than his name.

Softcover. Milano, Longanesi & Co., 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 103 pages. Text in Italian. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to edges and end papers.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Sylvia Plachy, a photographer for the Village Voice, and James Ridgeway, a reporter for the same publication, have delved into the depths of the pornography trade to explore and explain both its allure and its vulgarity. There is a sense of shock value in exposing the most lurid of fantasies--a man who has his dominatrix mummify him in concrete--that is tempered with theories as to how such an industry could have evolved. We also get to meet for ourselves those in the trade, providing a walk on the wild side within the safe confines of photographs and words.

Hardcover. New York, Skira, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 199 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Twenty-five years after Mapplethorpe"s death, an overview on his nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes, and other works compiled by the art critic Germano Celant. Robert Mapplethorpe"s wide, provocative, and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Since 1977, Germano Celant has studied the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, participating in interviews and writing essays for several publications and exhibitions. For the first time, this volume gathers the complete anthology of Celant"s writings on the artist.

Softcover. Gottingen, Steidl, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs by Sam Taylor-Wood throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sam Taylor-Wood, Hayward Gallery, London 25 April - 21 June 2002.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Edited and with an afterword by Gerard Malanga. Foreword by Robert Creeley, Brown buckram binding. Bibliography, brief biographies of contributors. Malanga examines the intersection of photography and voyeurism in this intriguing collection of interviews with and previously unpublished images from thirty artists and writers, including Peter Beard, Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha, Larry Rivers, Duane Michals, William Burroughs, Jeanloup Sieff, George Krause, and Francesca Woodman.

Hardcover. New York, Warner Bros., 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Folio, with original pictorial mylar envelope. Complete with CD and comic book in rear.

Softcover. US, Taschen, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. Black and white pictures of famous women. Nudity. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Sports Illustrated, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. In its annual swimsuit issue 10 years ago, Sports Illustrated first presented photographs of gorgeous models in swimsuits that consisted of nothing more than paint artistically & painstakingly applied to their nude bodies. This book brings together a collection of astonishing painted-swimsuit photographs.

Hardcover. New York, Sports Illustrated, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, IHardcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. In it's 47 years of publication, "Sports Illustrated"'s annual Swimsuit issue has put the 'super' in the careers of countless supermodels. The man who showcased these beautiful faces in such beautiful places? Legendary photographer Walter Iooss Jr., who now shares his personal catalogue of swimsuit shots through the years, annotated with recollections, journal entries, personal collages and private snapshots. With 272 large-format pages of iconic imagery.

Hardcover. New York, Sports Illustrated, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Celebrates the art of that uniquely American institution, the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue.Beginning with the inaugural issue on January 24, 1964, which featured model Babette March in a modest four-page spread, Knockouts goes on to document the evolution of the swimsuit issue through five decades of models who, largely by virtue of their appearances here, became celebrities, including Elle Macpherson, Cheryl Tiegs, Tyra Banks, and Kathy Ireland.Besides assembling a selection of the best photographs in book form for the first time, Knockouts offers an ample selection of outtakes and other previously unpublished photos, various quotes from models, photographers, art directors, and commentaries on the logistics and technical aspects of the shoots and the exotic ports of call in which they were staged.

Hardcover. TACO/Taschen, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages.

Softcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover, 231 pages, b&w illustrations. In the mid 1980s photographer and writer Scot Sothern embedded himself in the dark inner-city hallows of Los Angeles and took photographs and wrote about what he saw. He shone a light upon the discarded people whose daily existence consisted of glass pipes and slaps across the face, men and women who never had a chance in this world. In 2011, 25 years after beginning the project, this documentation led to his first solo show, Lowlife, at the notorious Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles. Previously dormant, undiscovered, and rejected by a plethora of editors and curators, this show brought much attention to Sothern and lead to two books: one of photographs called Lowlife and a memoir called Curb Service. Sothern's work has since become an Internet live wire eliciting either accolades or condemnation from anyone who comes across it.Streetwalkers is a bleak, real examination of street prostitution in contemporary America by an artist and writer whose own illicit compulsions and literary muscle inform every page. This is the complete collection of Sothern's work from the Lowlife years as well as from recent shoots. In addition, included are his features from "Nocturnal Submissions," his online column for VICE magazine. With new work and previously unpublished stories, this 30-year project is now final and should continue to cause strong reactions from all who see it.

Softcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Books, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, b&w photos throughout. Here are the ladies who pioneered and perfected the art of titillating performance in the 1950s, as captured by famous female photographer and pin-up girl Bunny Yeager. Celebrities shown include Dixie Evans, Blaze Starr, Bonnie Bell, Michelle Toots LAmour, and Kitten DeVille, and Lana Loy. These women practiced the art of teasing with varying and increasing degrees of nudity, and were billed under many monikers, including stripper, exotic or erotic dancer, burlesque queen, and stripteuse. Though most strip clubs have abandoned the delayed gratification of teasing in recent decades, the art of striptease is undergoing revival. Yeagers images embody the mix of sultry and playful that characterized the art during the 1950s. Here famous subjects pose in the spotlight amidst smoky nightclubs, as well as at home or relaxing on the beach. If you love women, youll love this journey back into the era of the 1950s.

Softcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 148 pages, b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. During 1945 Andre de Dienes (1913-1985) photographed a young model named Norma Jean. His subsequent five-year working relationship with the woman who became Marilyn Monroe is the beginning of de Dienes's career in Hollywood. He photographed celebrities, and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South. But his first love in photography was the female nude, and in his lifetime he photographed and published thousands of these pictures. Selected from the archives of his estate are seventy-five of the finest images printed by the artist. Reproduced actual size these prints are a time capsule of half-century old interpretations of female beauty.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 148 pages, b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. During 1945 Andre de Dienes (1913-1985) photographed a young model named Norma Jean. His subsequent five-year working relationship with the woman who became Marilyn Monroe is the beginning of de Dienes's career in Hollywood. He photographed celebrities, and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South. But his first love in photography was the female nude, and in his lifetime he photographed and published thousands of these pictures. Selected from the archives of his estate are seventy-five of the finest images printed by the artist. Reproduced actual size these prints are a time capsule of half-century old interpretations of female beauty.

Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Genius innovators in haute couture, AP have commissioned Mike Figgis to portray Kate Moss in her first acting role, resulting in four unique films: "Shadows", "Scale", "Exhibitionist and "Narcissus" - "The 4 Dreams of Miss X". Shot in night vision, these films are intensely intimate: a beautiful woman's private dream experiences. Two films have been released online in 2006, with the final two released in January and March 2007. Brought together for the first time on DVD, you can now enjoy Kate Moss' first ever speaking role at home and full screen.

Softcover. NY, Thunders Mouth Press, 1sts thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages in color and b&w. Helmut Newton's best photographic work from the 1960's to the 1990's traveled around Europe in a major retrospective in 1993. This 1996 first printing collection contains all the icons of Newton's special fields of interest including fashion, nudes, portraits as well as works for which he became world famous: the sensational fashion photos for the British magazine Vogue, Liz Taylor with a parrot in a swimming pool, Helmut Berger naked at his fireplace, Helmut Kohl with a German oak, Salvador Dali on an IV drip, the "Big Nudes" and some of his later macabre wax figures. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages with color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book is the first comprehensive selection of Jeff Burton's work in pornography which began in the 1980s with his portraits and stills for pornographic video boxes. This oversize volume captures the lush atmosphere and isolation of the men and women working in the California pornographic industry through the eyes of one of its most brilliant observers.

Softcover. NY, Citadel Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, color and b&w photos. An updated 20th Anniversary Edition with new material. She has been called the most photographed model in history. From her modest beginnings in Nashville to her legacy as a cult figure, here is the true story of America's iconic pinup queen, legendary Playboy centerfold Bettie Page--including her stormy marriages, her trial for attempted murder, and her decade-long isolation in a California mental institution.

Hardcover. US, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Beautiful photography. Clearly 50's era glamour and models. Tastefully erotic but not pornographic. The famous "red velvet series" featuring Marilyn Monroe is included, along with many many others.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages. Introduction by Anne Rice. A collection of 154 black and white and color images from: Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Imogen Cunningham, Steven Meisel, Man Ray, Bettina Rheims, Helmut Newton, Sally Mann, Kurt Markus, Jerome Zerve, Ellen von Unwerth, Andre Kertesz, Arthur Elgort, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Herbert List, Eve Arnold, Brassai and numerous others. Photographs of the nude (or rather semi-nude) male and female in underwear.

Hardcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, color photographs. Limited text. The Velvet Hammer Burlesque has put the "tease" back into striptease. based in Los Angeles, the world famous troupe kick started the current era of Neo-Burlesque reviving the traditional American genre and elevating the classical performance. This book presents photographs of the group's voluptuous ensemble of dancers and performers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. London, Melcher/Virgin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Features photographs by Atget, Larry Clark, Walker Evans, Larry Fink, Weegee, Susan Meiselas, and more. Essay by Luc Sante. Slip case and covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black boards stamped in white, 250 pages, color photos. Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dancefloor and private room etiquette, from emotional and intellectual connections between dancer and client, to the often-blurred boundaries that exist in between.Journalist Emily Dinsdale and filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes have collected images and stories from the women working in the London strip clubs over several years. Having been part of the industry themselves, they have a unique and intimate access to the seldom-heard stories, giving voice to an age-old industry, from the perspective of the traditionally voiceless workers. Supported by original, behind the scenes photography from the authors, these narratives express vulnerability, empowerment, curiosity and the complexity and duplicity of relationships--in short, what it is to be human.

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Larry Utley, 1st, April 30, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Adults only. 117 pages, color photographs throughout. Light rubbing, edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.