Allan Bede (2 results)

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Uncommon pulp fiction erotica anthology, being a collection from MAN, "Australia's top masculine magazine". Several contributors, including Martin S. Lowan, Michael South, Cliff Howe, Allan Bede, John Carlton, Wilmon Menard, Earl Leaf, Sean Fitzgerald, & others. Front cover blurb: "Beauty: Passport to sin. Another Best of MAN. They're dangerous - but lovely". Classic 1960s-vintage cover artwork. Book number 6 in the Best-of MAN series. No date (Trove dates it "1963?"). Uncommon title, with Trove showing only 1 library in Australia holding a copy (Monash University). Mass market paperback. Printed in Australia. Slight handling wear, light creasing to covers, mild marginal toning/spotting, otherwise a clean tight solid softcover copy. 160pp. Scarce. SB-88.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Allan Mottram and Vernon Mottram (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Eighty-six black and white illustrations mainly from photographs throughout by Allan P. Mottram and Vernon H. Mottram, including frontispiece showing George Eliot from a painting by M. D'Albert Durade. Printed by F. J. Mansfield, Erith, London S.E. ***Good in dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and borders to spine and blind borders to front and rear boards. Gilt largely oxidised on the spine. Boards slightly faded. edges of boards slightly rubbed. Light diagonal crease across the front board. Front and rear hinges of spine starting to be fragile. Top edge of text-block gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut). Front free end-paper removed. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Spine slightly discoloured and marked. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Blind circular embossed bookseller's stamp: W. H. Smith & Son, 186 Strand W.C. to top corner of last page. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No dustwrapper. ***204 x 138 mm. xix preface, contents and list of illustrations to the front. 307 pages. ***Printed on high quality heavy paper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.