Recent Acquisitions

Thought we should have a thread for what erotica we've recently acquired. My last four purchases:

Commander Amanda
Miriam
Westbury
Resort to War

I would like to complete the Commander Amanda series, I believe there are 3 more books: Amanda's Castle, Amanda in Berlin, and Amanda in Spain.

useful page on Commander Amanda here:

http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/commander_amanda_nightingale.html

The Trembling of a Leaf
The Enjoyment of Amy
The Pleasures of Cloris
Replenishing Jennifer
Vanessa
Please, Sir: Erotic tales of Female Submission
Westbury
I kind of went on a used book buying spree. Unfortunately, I'm wrting and drawing a webcomic, so I don't have much free time to read.

Hmmm...I'm thinking that we might have enough copies of the same titles to start a Book Group.

Just received a couple of Don Winslow titles, 'Master of Ironwood' and Secrets of Cheatem Manor. I've never read any of his works, hopefully I'll get around to them next year after I finish all of my Colleton titles.

I received a digital copy (ahead of the physical copy, both the spoils of a Kickstarter "donation") of A Steampunk's Guide to Sex. If the title excites you, I recommend you savor that moment and then walk away. The book is little more than a series of short articles about Victorian sexual topics, the best points repeated several times between writers, lists (LISTS?!?!?!?!?), and general sex info that is as much steampunk as it is anything else. The article on recycle bike tube floggers is cute, but you can get that info online easily. Also, there are a few retro tintype photos, but they're far too tame to recommend the book as a whole.

On the other side of the Kickstarter coin is the comics anthology, Smut Peddler. Some of the best, most playful, sex-positive erotic comics I've ever read are housed between these covers. I'd recommend this volume ten times harder than I reverse-recommend the Steampunk's book.

I got The Romance of Lust a few weeks ago. It's going in my collection with the other Victorian stuff, like The Oyster and The Pearl. (I hope these are the right touchstones...

For those with e-books in the mix, Project Gutenberg has the four-volume edition of The Romance of Lust. Free, of course.

I acquired and cataloged a book this month that I might note here: The Gentle Degenerates. The edition was a mmpb with an oh-so-1970s cover that wasn't yet represented among the LT images. I've remedied that, of course, and here it is:

Strange I mentioned Marco Vassi a few months back as regards how few members had his books in their library. I posted in Alternative Sexuality
http://www.librarything.com/topic/140704

paradoxosalpha- that is a great cover! How 70's, indeed. And I still have some old copies of Oui magazine.

I just picked up Walk On the Wild Side by Jeanette Jones-a book of trans photography; a couple Ladies Home Erotica books, and The Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies, all for the bookstore, of course.

Oh, and I had a used bookstore owner from Georgia in the other day. She saw my new erotica collection and said: "Oh, you got Top Shelf Books too. I keep 'em up there to keep the kids away. The sign says "Adult Romance", but we just call 'em Top Shelfers."

That can be the name of our Library Thing Erotica Group baseball team: The Top Shelfers.

10> Ha! LT's touchstone thingie sends us to a different Walk on the Wild Side - although I suppose werewolves are trans of a different sort ...

#8

I need that so badly for my "booby cover" tag...

I like how her left nipple almost seems to be a diacritical on the e.

> 12

Nice!

Heh, I love it that someone else took it up too.

5 members tagging 207 works! But mostly as "Umschlag Körper: Brüste," I think. I haven't seen tag translation in action like that before.

>3 groovykinda:

I'd be interested to hear what you thought of Sara Rawlings' 'Westbury', groovykinda. Of her two books I found this one so much more interesting than 'Ruled by the Rod', although I consider both as 'must-haves' for aficionados of flagellation erotica. Perhaps a little harsh for many. If you like school settings (with adult girls, of course) and canes, then for me, at least, 'Westbury' is up there on a par with P N Dedeaux. There's a superb scene in which a MILF gets the treatment.

CD-I moved to a smaller place, and it's in one of my many boxes of books stacked around the apartment. I'll dig it out and give it a go. I'm not as big a fan of erotic chastisement, but the little bit I read was quite good.
Not sure what I'm gonna do with Walk on the Wild Side. It's not my thing-I didn't look closely at it when I got it, and thought it was gonna be 50's erotic photos-and it's far too racy for the store. If none of you want it, I'll give it to a friend.

> 18

That's not the right touchstone!

Here it is: http://www.librarything.com/work/2031998

No review on LT - looks a little out of my interest range as well.

Groovykinda,

Consider donating it to Lambert House LGBT youth center in Seattle, if it looks like something that might be empowering or supportive. (They have a library there)

21 We just got another coffeehouse that's supposed to be a safe, LGBT teen hangout, so I may donate it there. Otherwise, the older coffeehouse has a book exchange shelf. Last time I got an entire James Bond Signet collection in a trade.

Just got a reasonably priced copy of Beastly Behaviour, so that's next on my list. Then Westbury, I promise!

Currently enjoying The Old Perversity Shop, a Dickensian romp from Aishling Morgan. Pursuing the Victorian theme on a non-fiction level, I'm also picking my way through a Fanfare of Strumpets and have recently acquired The Other Victorians

Whipping Girl is another good one by Morgan. Lotsa naughty nuns!

I received Cthulhurotica as a solstice gift.

"Cthulhurotica: Or Lascivious Scenes Inside the Madhouse"
I'm looking forward to a review. That one sounds like it'd be difficult to do well.

Purchased a couple of ebooks, 'Chinatown' by Emanuela Bergman and Cheeks by Julius Culdrose/Aishling Morgan/Peter Birch.

Xmas gift voucher expended on Henry and June by Anais Nin

The bookshop have kindly offered to chase down a copy of the movie for me....I remember seeing it some 15 - 20 years ago as a video and no matter how carefully I have searched the DVD racks since - the search has been fruitless.

>28 australwind:-I wish I had known that. I have two copies of Henry and June in my bookstore. The movie's pretty cheap-I found it on alibris for $7.90.

I found out recently that an old friend I hadn't seen in years is Kate Davies, who writes erotic romances. I've been reading some of those.

groovykinda - your bookstore is quite some distance from me ;) nice though it would have been to have supported a fellow LTer - the airfare to the US then internals would have made it quite expensive to come visit! Is your bookstore online shopping friendly? There just might be other things that I would be interested in acquiring tucked away on your shelves....

Re: the dvd... been trying to get one suitable for region 4 - that makes it just a little harder to get.

I suppose there are easier ways of getting books than flying to the places...though, we do have a lot of incredibly good stores within an hour's drive, and Powell's is only 3 hours away...
If it's erotica you're after, I don't have a lot (yet), but message me and maybe I have it or can get it. I'll give you not only the Fellow LTer discount, but the Erotica Group Member discount as well!

Region 4-yoiks! That may be a little difficult to obtain. Good luck on that one.

Region 4 is where its at!!! (However, I don't think this is an obstacle of our making)

Its fairly typical of Australia to be different than the rest of the world....take cars, for instance. We have a set of standards that are different to the rest of the world so anything made for the Australian market has to comply & has to be tested to ensure that compliance...puts the cost up to the consumer on top of the cost of import.

Some would say that our standards mean a better quality and safer product but there are others that would argue that.

Publishing of anything in the book, television and movie field is also constrained by rights of distribution, copyright and other mechanisms which in the end slow down our access to current publications. Then we have the censorship issue...of course. Every country has its own censorship standards and ours have been verging on the ridiculous for years. There has been some relaxation but now it seems the nanny state want us all protected from the evils of sex while they let some of the most horrifically violent material through without a second glance.

oh... Soapbox moment... sorry folks!

You can disable the region control on many brands of DVD player with a simple numeric code - worth googling yours.

Here's some Henry & June movie trivia: one of France's greatest adult film stars, Brigitte Lahaie, has a small cameo in it as a prostitute.

32-I miss the old days. Back in 1980 I worked in a three-story tall Dalton's Books in downtown San Francisco. I worked on the Fiction Floor, and oh my, the Grove Press Victorian Erotica, displayed face out for all to enjoy. Good times.

Thanks for the recommendation and review of Whipping Girl, Lenny.

I bought the Kindle version and I'm finding it very arousing. I'm a little over halfway and now am rationing myself to make it last longer........

Will post a review when I come to the finish.

Oops - another touchstone fail. The Morgan version is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/1966990.

My own 'recent acquisition' is his Hound of the Baskervilles parody Beastly Behaviour. Great fun so far ...

I read Entwined: Unbound and loved it - very cool technology and concept.. e book only i think..

www.entwinederotica.com

{Thanks for the recommendation and review of Whipping Girl, Lenny.

I bought the Kindle version and I'm finding it very arousing. I'm a little over halfway and now am rationing myself to make it last longer........

Will post a review when I come to the finish.}

Nice, the other 2 in that series I didn't enjoy half as much as Whipping Girl.

I recently heard about Entwined, too and heard they were doing personalized stories for Valentine's Day (www.entwinederotica.com/valentwined). Pretty fun.

I'll also have to pick up a copy of Whipping Girl.

A recent trip interstate meant I was able to visit one of my favorite second hand book dealers.

I was surprised to find an extremely fine copy of "The Beautiful Flagellants of New York" on the shelves....

Before you all jump in and say its been available as a reprint in paper back form for years, I should point out that this is a French print for the Society of British Bibliophiles and is number 21 of a limited print run of 250.

It came home with me.

Score! Well found!

Frank Harris My Life and Adventures, Bestseller Library, possibly 1958? 3'6 paperback
Customer donated it this morning.

I have been building an erotic library, and just started reading Five-Minute Erotica

> 44

Three or four pages a go seems a bit ... abbreviated. Perhaps think of them as film treatments, and expand your favorite out to feature length.

Just purchased the ebook of Zoe Templeton's A Degree of Discipline. Never have ready any of her work before, looking forward to it.

>46 lennynero:

As far as I've been able to see, she wrote only two books, the other being A Master of Discipline. Her distinctive style (and selection of subject) comes over just as well, although I found it got a little intense by the end. However, an excellent plot, and a highly sympathetic approach to the subject of the sub-genre. A real shame that she only managed the two.

Don't know how erotic it is, but Turn Me On! by Jack W. Thomas has a great title and cover. Smokin' Bantam paperback sleaze from the early 70's.

In addition to that long-sought final volume of The Black Pearl, I snagged a copy of Satan's Love Child after it came up on another thread here.

> 49

Color me jealous on both counts!

Which cover did you get for Satan's Love Child? Mine is the black cover with the face on it.

I have the design with the nude, dagger and Baphomet pentacle - a classic 70's paperback combination!

> 52

Those are good tastes that always go well together.

Nice! I still need to order the 4th book in the series.

Just picked up the ebook of Sean O'Kane's Church of Chains. Another author I've never read.

My heart is broken.
I bought 3 boxes of books from an antique mall run by a friend. In it, I found:
Triangle of Sin, by Manning Stokes
Poor Damn Judy by Wanda Ball
A Grand A Body by Arthur Warne
Women on Wheels by Fred Malloy
Wicked Woman by Jud Parrish

Then, just after I added them, he came back today and said he'd sold 5 books that were previously listed on eBay and he needed them back. All I have left is Triangle of Sin.
I'm still going to leave them up in My Books, just so you can see what they look like. I scanned all the covers and added them. Nobody else in LibraryThing has them.

> 56

That stinks, and it doesn't sound very friendly to me.

ETA: BTW, your touchstones are an entertaining mess, there.

It would be interesting to know how he described them on eBay. They certainly weren't given the sort of keywords that would draw me to them, or I would have seen them listed, and believe me I do this diligently.

Put it down to my belief in the deviousness of mankind, but apart from the noted unfriendliness, I sense something fishy going on here.

Well, he's been pretty square so far. I'll check and see. He probably didn't market them properly, since, he said, that he didn't get much for them.
He's promised me some more books like that, so I'll let you know what happens.
In the meantime, I ordered most of the books online.
Yeah, I'm sure the touchstones go all over the place.

Acquired The Pleasure Quest of the R.S.P. today.

Scored a copy of Amanda's Castle off ebay.

>61 lennynero:

Well done! Dare I ask what search criteria you used? I'll have to shoot myself if it was the obvious 'Revelli'!

I think it was 'george revelli'. It's the paperback version and it was at a reasonable price and good condition. The last 2 in the series, Amanda in Spain and Amanda in Berlin are proving harder to find at a reasonable price. I finished the first book in the series over the weekend and loved it.

After whiling away many hours on http://olderoticart.tumblr.com/ I decided to order a couple of books from some of my fave artists on there, Sweet Submission 2 and Hot Moms 2.

Also found a copy of Amanda in Berlin on amazon marketplace.

@lennynero-that's a great site! Thanks for that link.
I've been collecting vintage sleaze paperbacks like crazy recently.
Out of Control and Man Hunt By Mark Clements
Sex With a Twist and The Hunger and the Hate by Joan Ellis
Male and Female and White Heat, both in hardcover by Jack Woodford I found Male and Female in perfect shape at Goodwill!
And my favorite: Alcoholic Woman, by Ruth M Walsh
I'm slowly making my way through them. I'll try and post some reviews.

> 64 - a great link - I like the total randomness of the content.

> 65 - Touchstone fail on Alcoholic Woman, I hope.
Do you mean http://www.librarything.com/work/5281318?

66 Speedicut- That's the one! Is there any way to change the Touchstone for that?

So far, Mark Clements is the writer I'm liking the most. I just picked up a few more of his works.

This Mark Clements, to be exact: http://www.librarything.com/author/clementsmark

Speedicut-I fixed the Mark Clements, but I can't get Alcoholic Woman to come out right.

Season of Infidelity just reviewed. Well out of my usual line, but a significant piece of writing. Would like to read more by the same writer, but I won't be holding my breath.

I've never read of his books, but I have several pinku films on dvd that are based on his works.

It's an odd reading experience, as Dan is looking back on a career that seems to have made him famous, but is largely inaccessible to non-Japanese speakers. Junchiro Tanizaki is mentioned in the text, and I'd guess that's he's a significant influence.

Season's greetings to all Eroticists!

Currently having a lot of fun with Behind Closed Doors by Alina Reyes. I generally treat 'literary erotica' with suspicion, but the 'Choose your own adventure' format is working for me, Alina's writing is stylish and charming, and her inventiveness is unflagging.

Scored a couple off of ebay yesterday. Displays of Innocents by Lucy Golden, a collection of short stories by one of my fave authors, her Lessons in Obedience is a personal fave. And Clotilda by P.N. Dedeaux, love his work, have never read this one.

>74 lennynero:

Dedeaux' Clotilda - emphatically NOT the book of this title that LT ascribe to one Jack Kent, who should know better than to entitle a children's book with the name of a work by a (somewhat extreme) exponent of the erotic chastisement genre - is actually a collection of four short novels set in different eras, linked by the servitude of the young woman who gives her name to the volume. It's an interesting and invigorating part of the Dedeaux oeuvre, although as is frequently the case, some may find its chastisements rather heavy.

Thank you Clifford, I think it's the only one of his that I haven't read and I am looking forward to it. Also picked up Displays of Experience and Accidents Will Happen to complete my Lucy Golden collection, another author I used to love reading but haven't seen a new work from in years.

So today I picked up the Cyclopedic Lexicon of Sex: exotic practices, expressions, variations of the libido. Now I can use words like acousimia and acrorthosis in a sentence. Which I just did, so I could have anyway, but now I could put them in some sort of context ... if the opportunity arose.

Just purchased the ebook of 'The Arena of Torment' by Geoffrey Allen, of which I can find no touchstone on librarything. It's the first of a four book series concerning the erotic adventures of a African slave in ancient Rome.

Also just got in the final book in the Commander Amanda series, Amanda in Berlin....finally!

Durham Red: Vermin Stars by Dan Abnett
Hell by Henri Barbusse
Meat Haus 7: Love Songs

Picked up the latest by Peter Birch, 'Maid Service'.

Macho Sluts by Pat Califia

And on another trip to the used bookstore: Nights in Aruba by Andrew Holleran and Oyster Redux

When it comes to Victorian erotica, I really wished some editions would have more critical explanation or a scholarly introduction. Oyster Redux is compared to The Pearl but little other information is given, at least to those fascinated by the history of erotic literature.

Deep South by Richard Manton. I've always wanted to read one of his and picked this one up relatively cheap.

An expanded edition of Sin-A-Rama by the good folks at Feral House.

Picked up some ebook versions of some long out of print books.

Departure from the Golden Cross
The Violated
The Territory Within
Carol's Tribal Custom