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True Crime Detective Magazines follows the evolution and devolution of this distinctly American genre from 1924 to 1969. Hundreds of covers and interior images from dozens of magazine titles tell…
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Sarahjane Blum,Louis Meisel
One big slice of cheesecake brought to you by Dian Hanson. Based on the acclaimed XXL compendium, this accessible volume gathers nearly 100 pin-up artists, with showcase chapters for the…
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Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed lord of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 10 years since his death. His high energy oils of…
While the original Big Book of Breasts was an overview of busty models of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, The Bigger Book of Breasts profiles the top models in encyclopedic…
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Featuring Julie Bell, Philippe Druillet, Frank Frazetta, H.R. Giger, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Rowena Morrill, and Boris Vallejo, among many others. This book combines original paintings with preparatory sketches, sculptures, calendars…
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In The Big Penis Book we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over…
Stand at attention with this pocket-sized army of free, proud, masculine fantasy men committed to pleasure and male camaraderie. With multi-panel comics and single-panel drawings and paintings, as well as…
This fresh edition of The Big Book of Pussy reframes not just the subject, but the format of this popular volume in the portable and affordable Bibliotheca Universalis size, meeting…
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The newsstand reeled from the Sexual Revolution in the 1970s. Real sex pioneer Peter Wolff vied with redneck Larry Flynt in the U.S.; England went cautiously nude; Germany went classy…
The Sexual Revolution brought France and Germany back into serious men’s magazine production, along with Italy, England and even Australia between 1959 and 1969. Playboy met serious competition from Penthouse…
Presents a collection of Robert Crumb sketches. This title includes over 600 unseen drawings created between 1996 and 2011.
A 220-page special edition that has a revised introduction, updated layout, and comes with two pairs of red/blue anaglyph viewing glasses so that you and a friend may marvel at…
Emphasizes on the curvy female foot.
From the Michael Stokes Collection, this extraordinary publication reveals a side of World War II never before made public: young Allied troops discharging tension in boisterous, naked play and intimate…
Over 150 of the choicest photos from the original volume into a compact and adorable package
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In this fresh, portable edition, Dian Hanson guides you over, around, and in between three decades of natural big-breasted nudes, including such infamous models as Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia…
Phallus and fascinate come from the same root word and in this new edition of The Little Big Penis Book, you’ll find fascinating roots galore. More than 400 photographs celebrate…
This monster tome has it all, with works by over 100 fantasy artists. Julie Bell, Philippe Druillet, Frank Frazetta, H.R. Giger, The Brothers Hildebrandt, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Moebius, Rowena Morrill…
Between 1959 and 1969 under the counter magazines, with more explicit and quirky content, appeared in the U.S. and Europe. Meet California’s King of Magazines, leg man Elmer Batters, bondage…
On the 396 pages of this book Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. It contains nine original interviews, including the first…
Includes photographs of women exposing their vulvas, from 1900 onwards. This title also includes interviews with the auteur known as Pussyman, the ex-cop who turned masturbation into millions with a…
Imagine walking into a room filled with the world’s finest contemporary erotic photographers, each with a portfolio of his or her best work. In this title, as you browse the…
Don’t let the compact size fool you: Within these modest covers waits a wealth of soft, natural, superlative breasts proudly displayed by top glamour models of the 1950s, ‘60s and…
Compact in format but no less magnificently endowed, The Little Big Penis Book will delight even the most hardened aficionado of the male member. No half-cocked measures here, as we…
This devoted compendium to the female derriere packs a whole lot of big booty into one petite treat of a book. Featuring more than 150 images of the biggest and…
The origin of the world for pocket change! Gustave Courbet got it right in 1866 when he painted a voluptuous woman’s furry cleft and titled it L'Origine du monde. We…
Over 150 of the best photos from the original volume are now in this compact book. From Betty Grable to Bettie Page, the greatest legs of the 20th Century are…
"Men's magazine" is a euphemism for "sex magazine," though when first conceived in Paris colorful illustrations, jokes and cartoons predominated. Volume 1 covers this genre from its sophisticated beginnings in…
After WWII the U.S. assumed men’s magazine dominance. This volume documents that rise from 1946 through 1959, in over 650 covers and interiors, including burlesque magazines, a rare title for…
Swedish Berth Milton and the Danish Theander brothers ended censorship by 1970. Sex shops across Europe and the U.S. showed it all, and the brave can see it here, in…
The Big Butt Book explores our fascination with female booty from high, round and perky to badonkadonk, in over 400 photos, interspersed with interviews including thic goddess Buffie the Body…
The third in Dian Hanson's wildly successful series on erotic body parts explores how the female leg became central to women's emancipation, from the French Revolution to the sexual revolution…
The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Explore how the…
Rough and ready, poised and provocative, this second anthology rounds off an erogenous exploration of today’s erotic photography. It showcases the work of emerging and established talents worldwide, practitioners who…
Sexy Book Editor Dian Hanson presents a three-volume history of pin-up magazines. The collection spans early publications masquerading as almost anything other than pin-ups, from movie magazines to spicy fiction…
Combining volumes 5 and 6 from the second R. Crumb Sketchbook boxed set and produced directly from the original artworks, this volume includes Crumb’s move to rural California, his marriage…
The complete adventures of Kake, Tom of Finland’s dark-haired, mustached leatherman, who travelled the world on his motorcycle to spread the seeds of ecstatically explicit gay sex. See Tom’s own…
The only international collection of Beijing photographer Ren Hang, whose images garnered some 90 shows in his brief six-year career, as well as a mass following online. Vivid and explicit…
Get beneath the tight jeans of Tom of Finland’s working-class heroes with this pocket-sized package of blue-collar lovers. With a brawny lineup of multi-panel comics and single-panel drawings and paintings…
Criminal justice never looked so good as in this pocket-sized collection of Tom of Finland’s favorite tightly uniformed cops and suitably butch criminals. Multi-panel comics and single-panel drawings and paintings…
Tom of Finland fell for Marlon Brando as The Wild One and created a fantasy world of hyper-masculine motorcycle outlaws - loving other hyper-masculine outlaws. Get your hands on his…
The world’s favorite dirty old man is back. This reprint gathers 14 complete stories and 60 single-page drawings of wildly inappropriate and psychologically twisted sexual fantasies, all lovingly selected by…
Dian Hanson,Tom, of Finland
In 1954 Tom of Finland, previously known for his military and blue-collar subjects, drew his first civilian motorcyclist dressed in black leather. This title explores Tom’s fascination with bikers through…
Richard Prince
Richard Kern keeps things hot but cool with a parade of sexy, laid-back women shot in his inimitable, low-key style. In casual, informal settings, these girls exude both attitude and…
Dan Nadel, Zak Smith
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. With his paintings now breaking…
John Waters,Camille Paglia,Todd Oldham,Armistead Maupin,Edward Lucie-Smith
Discover the full range of Tom’s talent, from sensitive portraits and frank sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love and haunting tributes and young men struck down by AIDS. Essays…
