Mexican Pulp Art

From the Collections of Bobbette Axelrod and Ted Frankel
Introduction by Maria Cristina Tavera

The lurid cover art of Mexican pulp novels is a pop culture revelation. Never before seen in an English or even Spanish-language collection are the often surreal and psychedelic images of extraterrestrials, robots, dinosaurs, dastardly killers, Zorro, Santo, and many other icons from stories involving suspense, mystery, romance and the supernatural.

Jim Goad’s Gigantic Book of Sex

By Jim Goad

The author of the notorious ‘zine ANSWER Me!, Shit Magnet (Feral House), and the best-selling Redneck Manifesto (Simon & Schuster) lampoons every imaginable aspect of human sexuality in 224 hilarious, illustrated, full-color, R-rated pages.

Tales of Times Square

Expanded Edition

By Josh Alan Friedman

This classic account of the ultra-sleazy, pre-Disneyfied era of Times Square is now the subject of a documentary film of the same name to be theatrically released this year. With this edition Tales returns to print with seven new chapters.

The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People

Revised Edition

by Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky and Sylvia Wallace

For its initial edition in 1981, the legendary Wallace family read 1,500 biographies, pored over rare correspondence, legal transcripts and medical reports, and interviewed lovers, confidants and associates of many distinguished men and women in world history.

This 600-page illicit encyclopedia of the private lives of writers, politicians, athletes, popes, rabble-rousers, composers, rock stars and sex symbols has been revised and enlarged, with a dozen new entries, including ones on Kurt Cobain, Malcolm X, Wilt Chamberlain, Ayn Rand, Jim Morrison, Nico, Aleister Crowley, and more.

The Wallace family is known for The Book of Lists, The People’s Almanac and The Book of Predictions.

Voluptuous Panic

The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin

By Mel Gordon

This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon on the Spree” has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring clubgoers, filmmakers, historians straight and gay, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson.