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Love Between the Covers - Collectible Erotica

Sometimes scandalous. Always collectible. Erotica has been an omnipresent aspect of literature, shaking up societal norms since ancient times. Battling censors, doing jail-time or narrowly escaping death sentences, the real-life adventures of the writers are almost as dramatic as the books themselves. It’s no wonder some of these titles are considered treasures, fetching thousands of dollars.


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More Erotica:

The Perfumed Garden
Sheikh Nefzaoui

The Tao of Love and Sex
Jolan Chang

My Secret Life
Anonymous

The Olympia Reader
Maurice Girodias

Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille

Pop-up Kama Sutra

Sir Richard Burton, F. F. Arbuthnot

Pop-up Kama Sutra

This lively distillation of the world's most famous sex guide features choice excerpts from the original text, translated in 1883 by the renowned explorer Sir Richard Burton, and is illustrated with vintage color plates from India. Best of all, six incredible pop-ups present the Kama Sutra's most interesting, instructive, and wildly acrobatic positions in three dimensions.

First Editions From: $30.21 - $67.96
All Editions: $6.95 - $76.02

The Delta of Venus

Anaïs Nin

The Delta of Venus

In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru.

First Editions From: $8.00 - $50.00
All Editions: $1.00 - $160.00

Story of O

Pauline Reage

Story of O

The classic erotic novel, The Story of O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and pychological tests. It is a unique work not to be missed.

All Editions: $1.78 - $1,698.14

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

Here the Prince reawakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him…as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.

Signed Copies From: $26.81 - $350.00
All Editions: $3.95 - $795.00

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

First Editions From: $18.00 - $45,000.00
All Editions: $1.00 - $45,000.00

Venus in Furs

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs

First published in 1870, Venus in Furs gained for its author both notoriety and a degree of immortality when the word "masochism"--derived from his name--entered the psychiatric lexicon. The novel describes the sexual obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman with the desire "to be the slave of a woman."

All Editions: $2.00 - $300.00

Autobiography of a Flea

Anonymous

Autobiography of a Flea

Stunning classic of Victorian erotica. Through a casual observer, we see all that society's hypocrises and vice on display. The flea travels from house to house, observing lecherous priests, the deflowering of beautiful young bella, her friend Julia and numerous amorous encounters, all in a writing style that puts you right there at the center of the action.

All Editions: $4.00 - $55.75

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

Marquis de Sade

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration -- a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud -- of the psychopathology of sex, it is considered Sade's crowning achievement and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935.

All Editions: $7.98 - $65.00