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French Frills: Fotos circa 1920s ~ 1930s
French Frills: Fotos circa 1920s ~ 1930sA selection from the depths of the digital archives. A "best of" medium (5" x 7") and large format (7" x 9"), circa 1920s and 1930s, legs and lingerie images by...
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J.David Illustrations: Prostitution & High Heels Paris 1950s
J.David: Prostitution & High Heels Paris 1950sWhile preparing a previous post of digest sized, French girlie magazines I found these four wonderful magazines with cover illustrations by J.David. So...
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Guy Bourdin: Bloomingdale's Lingerie Catalog 1976
Guy Bourdin: Bloomingdale's Lingerie Catalog 1976Guy Bourdin, considered one of the greatest and most innovative fashion photographers of the 20th century was in his own way, disconnected from his...
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The Body Beautiful: Five Volumes New York 1930s
The Body Beautiful: Five Volumes New York 1930sThe contribution made by Americans to the bibliography on the body, its form and figure in photography, is almost non-existent until the 1930s when a...
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Parliament Men's Magazines: Genesis The Early 1960s
Started in the late 1950s as the American Art Agency, Parliament Publications, located in Los Angeles, created the best men's, adult bookstore magazines in the United States. Each issue featured high...
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Paris-Hollywood Magazine: Early Years 1950s
Esther Williams cover, circa late 1940sOne of the most important men's magazine of the 1950s and 1960s was Paris-Hollywood, later to be known as Folies de Paris et de Hollywood. An oversized...
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RAFF - 1960s Danish Men's Magazine
Long before Scandinavia became synonymous with the publication of erotic magazines, books and films there were the Swedish, digest sized girlie magazines, rarely seen outside of the region. RAFF, one...
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French NUDISM Vivre d'Abord Nudist Magazine 1950s
Vivre d'Abord! an exceptional, large format French nudist magazine published in the 1940s and '50s. Beautifully designed and printed throughout in gravure, the earliest issues printed in sepia tones....
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Female Domination: Bondage S/M Magazines 1970s
A selection of American, German and English full-size, bondage, fem/dom, s/m, fetish magazines circa 1970s from the archives. Once this genre started appearing in adult book stores, with little...
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Burlesque Historical Society 1950s Postcards Strippers
The Burlesque Historical Society of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established circa 1950, was mandated to publish the Cavalcade of Burlesque magazine. The publication, part trade magazine, part promotion...
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Eric Stanton's SWEETER GWEN John Willie Homage 1960s
The Adventures of Sweeter Gwen published as two digest sized magazines in the 1960s is Eric Stanton's homage to John Willie's classic bondage story Sweet Gwendoline. Note that one of the characters in...
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George Topfer 1920s French Spanking Drawings
Three erotic artworks by the French artist Georges Topfer, known primarily for his illustrations for flagellation novels published in Paris, late 1910s through to the early 1930s. Topfer's work...
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OSTRA STUDIO Fetish Fashion Bondage S/M Paris 1930s
The fetish, bondage, female domination photographs, created by the combined talents of the Ostra and Biederer Studios remains some of the the most seductive fantasy imagery produced anywhere during...
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Color Photos: 1960s Amateur Nudes American Snapshots
A collection of small format color, amateur photos, circa 1960s, not doubt "processed" at the corner drug store ... "yeah, they'll be ready on Friday". 60 years ago and looking very contemporary in...
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L'AUTRE MONDE ~ Surreal Bizarre Journal Paris 1870s
The premiere issue of the extremely rare L’AUTRE MONDE. Journal des Trepasses. Published in Paris, early 1870s. A surreal, bizarre, oversized, four-page journal about death, dying and the after life,...
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MARQUIS Men's Magazine: Los Angeles late 1960s
Marquis magazines, published in Los Angeles, began appearing in the mid-1960s. Quantity-wise they were no competition for Parliament Publications whose list of titles dating back to the beginning of...
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Klaw Mutrix Magzines: Transvestism 1960s
Irving Klaw best know for his amazing photographs of top models, including Bettie Page, was also a publisher of digest sized 'zines. Published by his Mutrix Publishing Company in New York City and...
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Over The Knee! 1950s Spanking Toupee & Glasses OTK
I love this series of amateur style photographs, early 1950s, featuring the lovely submissive with her dressed pulled up and her panties pulled down. She's showing off her legs and wonderful ass while...
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40RTY Plus: Busty Babes 1960s Selbee
In the early 1960s Selbee Publications in New York City became interested in the concepts of "specialty" magazines and created 40+ Forty-Plus. These very scarce, medium format publications featured...
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NYLONS & NUDES 1950s Digest Size Garter Belts & Stockings
In the mid/late 1950s in New York City the first specialty magazines appeared, all in a "digest" size format (approx 5.5" x 8") created by a handful of independent publishers. The magazines were sold...
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1950s GIRLIE PIX: Cheesecake Busty Babes Nudes
Sexy 1950s babes posed in and out of lingerie: bras, panties, garter belts and stockings. 4 x 5" glossy photos, sold in sets via ads in girlie magazines and adult bookstores. A selection of demurely...
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Krazy Kittens French Adult Magazines 1970s
One of my favorite titles published in Paris mid-1970s Krazy Kittens filled with erotic photos pirated from American adult magazines. Trashy, low quality printing and production, nonetheless the whole...
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Asian Beauties: Photographs 1950 Nudes
Rarely seen in the genre of 1950s photographs sold in adult books store and offered for sale in the back of men's magazines were images of minority women, especially Asians. Here from the archives a...
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Sexpapers Collection 1969~1990s
A collection of over 300 sexpapers, adult newspapers For Sale; published mainly in New York City from 1969 to the 1990s. Inquire at vasta@earthlink.neteBay storevasta@earthlink.net
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Vasta Eros Series 'Zine Launch: Guyette Volume Two
Save the Date October 15thEROTIC ART FAIR October 15th 12pm-7pm @ TV EYE Erotic Art Fair presented by Please KnockVasta will be there offering vintage materialfrom our inventory, including books,...
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