Mentulus Erectus (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. " In which L. Erectus Mentulus, PhD., late fellow of Oxford College, draws from his various experiences for the instruction, entertainment and greater zest of his colleagues, friends and admirers". Mass market with some wear along the edges, small scuffs and dings, short closed tear to edge of rear cover and chip to heel of spine. Pages tanning. Text appears unmarked and the binding remains solid.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Venus Library Book V-1031-T, 1st printing (PBO), no month, 1971. Photo cover art by George Adams. 182 pages. Actually contains two novelettes, The Passionate Pedant and Torrid Tales. "Establishes incontrovertibly that the sexual enjoyment of women of divers races is evocative of distinctly different types and degrees of pleasure." In other words: high-brow sleaze. This book is spotless and uncreased. Mild age toning to pages but it appears an unread copy. Scarce title. VG+ to NF.

Done By the Hand Of The Author Into A Manuscript At Oshkosh, Wisconsin. September, 1939.104 typed mimeographed leaves (printed on rectos only) in bound illustrated wrappers (7.5" x 10.5"), VG or better overall (soiling and edgewear). Contains five (5) approximately 5" x 5" hand-color tipped-in drawings of erotic sex acts."Cast in the form of entertaining and edifying mono-dialogues of the theorem that all women are different, and that the sexual satisfaction to be obtained in their carnal embrace is likewise diverse" and "establishes incontrovertibly that the sexual enjoyment of women of divers races is evocative of distinctly different types and degrees of pleasure, through narratives of his own experience, with particular emphasis upon psycho-physiological adumbrations et cetera."Erotic work by Lupton Wilkinson (1902-1993) writing as L. Erectus Mentulus. Ironically, when he wrote this work, Wilkinson was head of publicity for the Hays Office in Hollywood?the Hays Production Code, of course, set decency standards for motion pictures, including those regarding nudity and sexual perversity.Exceedinglyscarce. No copies in commerce or OCLC.

One Hundred Copies Done Into A Book By The Hand Of The Author. Taos, New Mexico. May, 1938. Color title pastedown, stitch string bound octavo. VG or better overall (two-inch closed tear and edgewear to cloth covers, internally clean). 122 mimeographed leaves printed on rectos only. Contains one hand-colored lithograph opposite title page and eleven (11) 3" x 3.5" pasted-in photographs mostly of close-ups of female genitalia ("from negatives in the author's files or generously posed by lovely collaborators"). Additional photos upon request.Erotic novel by Lupton Wilkinson (1902-1993) writing as L. Erectus Mentulus. Ironically, when he wrote this work, Wilkinson was head of publicity for the Hays Office in Hollywoodthe Hays Production Code, of course, set decency standards for motion pictures, including those regarding nudity and sexual perversity.Scarce. 3 holdings per OCLC (Vanderbilt, Penn, Arizona).

First Edition, the clandestine issue, limited to 100 mimeographed copies. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 in.). (4), 4-122 ff., explicit color drawing as frontispiece, 12 explicit b&w photo prints (not reproductions). Original teal blue wrappers with white title label printed in burgundy laid-on, stab-stitched with decorative burgundy string. Housed in a modern, full gazelle brown crushed morocco felt-lined clamshell box designed and executed by Richard Smart (unsigned), with gilt ruled borders, gilt rules, title, and ornament to spine. Upper board of the clamshell bears an arresting central design of the female vulva moulded in blind bas-relief against a background of public hair lightly tooled and moulded in blind, the whole highlighted with a gilt spray: the flower of womanhood. The celebrated classic original American erotic novel, a collection of explicit short stories related by "the professor" in Socratic dialogues with a traveling salesman, a druggist, and a barber - local denizens who have been trading low-brow dirty stories - the better to raise their consciousness about, and appreciation of, the many dimensions of female sexuality. Ironies abound in erotica. The author, Lupton Wilkinson (1897-1954), was a top executive in The Hays Office, Hollywood's self-censorship bureau, established in the '20's to clean up indecency in front of and behind the camera at a time when sexual situations and behavior in the movies had become, by period standards, controversially overt and sexsationalistic. He helped develop and execute a campaign to rein in the studios and supportive fanzines, leaving the job in 1936 to become a regular contributor to the very magazines he had been battling against, apparently fed up with hypocrisy. Small chip to upper corner of top wrapper, slightly discolored spots to top wrapper and title label, otherwise a Very Good copy in a Very Fine unique and highly unusual box.