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JUNE  2009 BOOK SELECTION

POLYESTER BLOG

PHOTOGRAPHS & EPHEMERA


 
 

 

THE BIG BOOK OF LEGS
Dian Hanson, ed
 
Gams and more gams snapped by the men who idolize them.  From the same team that brought you The Big Penis Book and The Big Book of Breasts.

hardcover
       59.95

   
   

PINK BOX
Inside Japan's Sex Clubs
Joan Sinclair


A
journey inside the secret world of fuzoku (commercial sex) in Japan, snapshots from pure innocence to peek-a-boo eroticism -- nearly 200 photos shot in 80 different clubs.

 
paper & vinyl cover        35.00

   
   
MAPPLETHORPE
Polaroids
Sylvia Wolf


Over 200 of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid photographs of the 1970s--a medium in which he established the style that would bring him international acclaim.  .
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  hardcover     reg 60.00      sale 40.00
   
   

VISIONS FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Arlen Schumer

Image captures from several of the original episodes offer a new, artistic perspective on the seminal tv series.  

out of print      hardcover        29.95

   
   
CAR CRASHES
And Other Sad Stories
Jennifer Dumas & Mell Kilpatrick


Not for the squeamish.  Vintage images from 1950s California insurance photographer Kilpatrick.


out of print      hardcover      39.95
   
   

WRITTEN ON THE CITY
Graffiti Messages Worldwide
Axel Albin & Josh Kamler


Painted, penciled, sprayed and chalked onto sidewalks and walls in Madrid, Sofia, San Francisco, Montevideo, London and elsewhere. 

 
 was  26.99      sale 14.95


 

FIRST INTO NAGASAKI
George Weller


Four weeks after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the author disguised himself as an American officer and filed a series of dispatches and photos documenting the material and human devastation.   Unfortunately, those dispatches were seized by order of General MacArthur and those accounts remained unpublished until recently discovered by the author's son.

19.95
       hardcover
THE CLASSIC PIN-UP ART OF
JACK COLE

Alex Chun & Jack Cole


Sought after limited edition of this newly published
collection of the rare '50s pin-ups that led to the artist's final gig, as Playboy's first star cartoonist.    

49.95
       hardcover       out of print   
CHARLATAN
America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam
Pope Brock

Fascinating, true story of John Brinkley, born in rural North Carolina, attended medical school in Chicago, started touring as a medicine man hawking miracle tonics and became famous for transplanting goat testicles into impotent men.


24.95        hardcover
BOYSTOWN
La Zona de Tolerencia

Bill Witliff, ed.

Fascinating volume of amateur photography taken in and around the brothels of 1970's Boystown along the U.S./Mexican border.

39.95        hardcover       out of print

BADLANDS
Charles Gatewood

Perhaps
the most comprehensive book of cult photographer Gatewood's images and one of the best photo documentation of America s sexual underground.

sale 19.95       
was  37.95

VIDEOS

   

VIXEN! (1968)
Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page
dir. Russ Meyer


Classic Russ Meyer, one of the first films to be given an X rating, one of the director's biggest moneymakers.  Highly recommended (and not just for the breasts!).  No longer available in the U.S.

  
import      17.95

CHAINED FOR LIFE (1951)
Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton
dir. Harry L. Fraser


The Hilton sisters, conjoined twins famous in the 1930s - 50s, self-financed this  tale of murder and mystery in an effort to achieve movie stardom.  Unfortunately, they lacked a script, cameraman and competent director.  As a film, this is as grade Z as it gets.  As a slice of pop culture its a seminal work.. 

7.95  


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