Publisher’s Export Co.
72pp., including covers, semi-glossy magazine featuring articles, interviews, previews and reviews of nudie, exploitation, and mainstream films, illustrated with photos/stills in black and white and duotone. Features: Edy Williams feature and photos; I STARRED IN PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIES (article); FRENCH WITHOUT DRESSING (racy women ohh-la-la!); BEAST ALLEY - Japanese exploitation film; THE GO-GO SPOTS.. AND HOW THEY GO! (a look at those wild and wanton dancers); V.D. - THE SHAMEFUL EPIDEMIC SWEEPING AMERICA (article); plus articles on the Hollywood films SHIP OF FOOLS, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, and A PATCH OF BLUE. Also, cartoons and a full-page ad for Publisher’s Export Co. paperback books. Saddle stapled magazine. Some wear, spotting and soiling to cover. Interiors vg. Good+
Book Id: 48328
$65.00Esquire
156 pp. Richard Joseph pens "The Intelligent Angler's Guide to the Pacific-Orient." Especially interesting is 4 large b/w photographs of strippers: Trudy Wayne, Vegas Carr, Maie Ling, and Carol Hayes. Howard Junker on 50's slang. Fashion, travel, and war.
Book Id: 57096
$25.00![LILY AYERS [LILLY AYERS]](/glam/images/items/27834.jpg "LILY AYERS [LILLY AYERS]")
Tear sheets of the pin-up / burlesque star. 23 sheets; includes color covers from Cabaret (August 1957; front and back covers), Cabaret Quarterly (Vol. 4), Modern Man (Dec. 1955), and Playboy (August 1955; photo-collage painting by LeRoy Nieman); plus articles Burlesque to Big Time and Burlesque Intellectual from Modern Man; color centerfold from Follies (Sept. 1958); 2-page b/w spread from Frolic (April 1957); misc b/w articles and photos, some featuring other burlesque stars of the day (Candy Barr, etc.) . Some age-toning to some pages; semi-gloss pages such as those from Modern Man have fared better. Some occasional notations to the margins in pen; pen marks on Playboy cover. A nice selection. Very good
Book Id: 27834
$55.00
Parliament
Magazine not seen. Image 15.25" x 8" on board 20" x 12". Ink, crayon and gouache on board. Minor corner bumping, smudging to margins. Water stains to bottom edge outside image area. Image very good.
Book Id: 46058
$200.00
Parliament
pp. 60-61. Magazine not seen. Artist is John Brooks Miller. Image 13.375" x 9.25" on board 20" x 15". Ink, crayon and collage on vellum fastened to board. Corners bumped, some loss of paper from tape. Image very good.
Book Id: 45965
$150.00by Alexander, H.M.
Knight Publishers
xii+ 124pp. [+ 38pp. b/w plates]. Frontisp., appendices, photographic section. With 63 photos by Max Peter Haas. 'In Strip Tease, Mr. Alexander takes you to a burlesque show, and guides you through it... You go backstage with him and he gives you the lowdown on the strippers and comics and producers.' Recalls the glory days of burlesque, before censorship closed the New York theaters down. Chaptes include: Out Front. The Strip Started Somewhere, Backstage with a Minsky Grinder, Techniques and theTeasers, The Money Guys. The People vs. Sam Kraus, The End of Burlesque? Appenidices provide a glossary of burlesque sland and some titles of past burlesque shows. Candid and performance photos, including tow of Josephine Baker.
Book Id: 68731
$125.00by Castle, Charles
Franklin Watts
319pp., foreword by Miss Bluebell, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs, bib., index. This book provides a history of the Paris music hall, from anecdotes about the stars and the theater to describing the whole process of presenting a revue. It is both a social and theatrical history, a story of changing and unchanging attitutes to female beauty, eroticism, fashions and glamour.
Book Id: 15231
$5.50by Charvil, Jean
Editions Planete
344pp. Preface by Jean Duvignaud. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Bibliography. History of the 20th-century art form, with chapters on its development, technique and accessories (oh la la, the G-string!), the queens of striptease and their producers, and an interesting section on its influence on other arts & media, with photos of pulp fiction covers and men's magazines, plus comics, fine art, playing cards and pens. Short but interesting section on death imagery in burlesque shows. Strippers include Jennie Lee, Cha Landres, Rita Cadillac, Rita Renoir, Ghora de Venise, Dorothée, Lady Phu Ky Cho, Lily Saint-Cyr, Dolly Bell, Virginia Bell, Coccinelle, Brigitte Bardot (in stills from a film sequence) Bertha von Paraboum (in Nazi costume), et al. Text in French.
Book Id: 68732
$25.00by Derval, Paul
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
ix+147pp., preface by Maurice Chevalier, numerous black and white photo illustrations, translated from the French by Lucienne Hill. Written by the owner-manager of the Folies-Bergere in Paris.
Book Id: 1172
$5.50by Farnsworth, Marjorie
Bonanza Books
194pp., foreword by Billie Burke Ziegfeld, numerous black and white photo ill., index. "In this profusely illustrated history of the Follies, Marjorie Farnsworth tells the story of many of the beautiful Ziegfeld girls."
Book Id: 3261
$5.50by Farnsworth, Marjorie
Bonanza Books
194pp., foreword by Billie Burke Ziegfeld, numerous black and white photo ill., index. "In this profusely illustrated history of the Follies, Marjorie Farnsworth tells the story of many of the beautiful Ziegfeld girls."
Book Id: 788
$5.50by Horvat, Frank (photographs); Patrick Lindermohr (text)
Editions Recontre
Oblong 8vo. 199pp. Illustrated from b/w photos by Frank Horvat. Text includes a short introduction, notes on accesssories, costumes, etc.; interview with Crazy Horse Saloon owner Alain Bernardin, extract from Metaphysique de Strip-Tease, by Denys Chevalier; interview with Rita Renoir; cultural history of strip-tease. Photographic sections are printed with a gravure-like technique with rich tones and intense blacks. Photo sections include: Le strip-tease dans la rue; Paris by Night; Le Sphynx a Pigalle; Haute ecole; Le Crazy Horse; Le strip du visage (a 16-page sequence of close-ups of Rita Renoir's face); A travers les ages. Text in French.
Book Id: 68733
$25.00by Parker, Derek and Julia.
David & Charles
192pp., intro., fully-illust. from b/w and color photos, bib. and index. Here they are, starting with the Victorian era and the beauties of the Moulin Rouge and London Coliseum, going onto the Folies Bergere, and the girls of the New York Follies and Busby Berkeley's Hollywood musicals - all the way to their modern transformation as Playboy Bunnies and Music Hall Rockettes. Please note: Oversized volume: this book will require additional shipping for destinations outside the US; we will ship at cost.
Book Id: 67195
$10.00
by Robert, Jacques
Charles Skilton
Sm. 4to. 128 pp. Illustrated with many b/w photos, printed on flesh-colored paper. 'A tour of the Capital's gay pleaure haunts!' From the Place Pigalle to the Champs-Elysees, Saint-Germain des-Pres to Montparnasse, here's a guide to the striptease and burlesque shows of the Lido, Carrousel, Crazy Horse Saloon, Folies Bergere, Le Sexy, the Moulin Rouge, Tangier, El Djazair, Nuits du Liba, Maxim's, the Grand Masked Ball and more. Includes photos by Daniel Frasnay, et al, of Patachou, Coccinelle, Lili Niagara, Juliette Greco, Dalila, Christy Couty, Bijou, Rita Renoir, Michelle Roinet, Simone Clary, Cara Sirocco, Dodo d'Hambourg, Lady Phu-quin-cho, Bambi, Les Lee, Capucine, Linda Romeo, Sandy Karina, Gisele Robert, Dora Diane, Lido lovelies, Bluebells, can-can dancers, et al.
Book Id: 68242
$15.00by Sobel, Bernard
Bonanza Books
194 pp. Illustrated in b/w. Index/. 'The history of American burlesque begins with a Greek classic and ends in a leg show.' From the British Blondes and its heyday in the vaudeville era, to its decline, Bernard Sobel charts this history of American burlesque, its producers and its stars - Little Egypt, Jimmy Durante, Millie de Leon, Mary Garden, W.C. Fields, Gypsy Rose Lee, Cynthia the Silhouette, Lily Christine, Mae West, Sophie Tucker, Zorita, et al. Laid in is a single sheet supplemental index created by a former owner, listing many stars left out by the book's indexer.
Book Id: 67341
$15.00by Wortley, Richard
Chartwell Books
160pp., over 200 ill. in black and white and color, index. "This sparkling survey of strippers and their art features a worldwide selection of erotic entertainments beginning with the 'tableaux vivants' and 'tights dances' of the l9th-century burlesque houses and music halls and ending with contemporary nightclub acts.."
Book Id: 8702
$15.00