London: Penguin Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. In "Delta of Venus", Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Her vibrant and..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Anaïs Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics. Anaïs Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus, Little Birds is broader in scope, encompassing the entire breadth of human sensuality. Each of the 13 stories captures a moment..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of..... More
New York: Charter, 1966. First Printing. Paperback. Jake Winkman, spy and bridge enthusiast, gets caught up in a deadly game of Washington intrigue. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Nigel Snell (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Rare. When a mother and her two little girls are brutally murdered on Florida's steamy west coast, soft-hearted attorney Matthew Hope decides to defend the only person confessing to the crime, the only person without a motive. More
New York: Zenith Books, 1958. Samson Pollen (cover art). Paperback. Zenith books no. ZB-2 Originally published under the title Catalogue. More
New York: Hogarth, 2015. Deborah Smith (tr.). First US Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. A beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of..... More
London: Pan Books, 1959. Sixteenth Printing. Paperback. No. X236 British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to meet with Corporal Tatiana Romanova, a Soviet intelligence operative who claims to want to defect, and offers a valuable decoding machine as a show of good will. Unfortunately for..... More
London: Pan Books, 1957. Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to investigate the enigmatic Mr. Big, a mysterious criminal with ties to voodoo, who is believed to be a SMERSH operative helping to fund Soviet activity in New York. While on his mission..... More
London: Pan Books, 1966. Eighth Printing. Paperback. No. X527 British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to Cuba to kill “Pistols” Scaramanga, a notorious assassin, only to find that Scaramanga is at the heart of a KGB plot to destabilize the region. James Bond..... More
London: Pan Books, 1959. Eighteenth Printing. Paperback. British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to investigate a man believed to be cheating at bridge at a London club. He is drawn into a much more complex web than he ever imagined when he discovers that his target..... More
London: Pan Books, 1964. Second Printing. Paperback. No. X350 British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, travels to Switzerland on the tail of Ernst Blofeld, the leader of the terrorist group SPECTRE. Bond finds Blofeld, but he also finds himself falling in love with Tracy di Vicenzo. On..... More
London: Flamingo/Fontana Paperbacks, 1986. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion..... More
London: Minerva, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Nothing Natural centres with illuminating precision on a sado-masochistic relationship. Rachel is in her thirties, a single parent admired by her friends for her self-sufficiency … But when she meets the compelling, sinister Joshua she discovers another side to herself … In a sense..... More
Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995. First Wordsworth Classics Edition. First Printing. Paperback. In the 300 years since its initial publication, Li Yu's book has been widely read in China, where it is recognized as a benchmark of erotic literature and currently enjoys the distinction of being a banned-in-Beijing classic. More
New York: Signet, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. Two hip, sexy, talented women try to make it big in Hollywood. More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. Rare. Italy, during the Renaissance, was a time of culture but also of uninhibited corruption. And no family was more depraved than the infamous House of Borgia. Here is the story of their cruel, passionate, erotic adventures that Evergreen Review..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1966. Fourth Printing. Paperback. #N3198. Rare edition. Three short novels. 1) Eugenie de Franval, a story about a man who makes his own daughter his mistress and then proceeds to involve her in a plot to murder her mother. 2) Miss Henrietta Stralson..... More
Berkeley, California: Black Lizard Books, 1988. Kirwan (cover art). First Edition. Paperback. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Special Award. This is Murray Sinclair's first novel. Ben Crandel, a half-successful porno novelist, has come to Los Angeles to make his mark in the movie business. In..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1969. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Rare. # T1234 A Modesty Blaise novel. More
London: Pan Books, 1973. Third Printing. Paperback. Rare. Modesty and Willie go to Central Africa. More
London: Pan Books Ltd, 1975. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Rare. A Modesty Blaise novel. More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1979. First Printing. Paperback. The former best seller about sex and money in Hollywood's high society. More
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