Nice selection of 1960s men's magazines added on BrazenBooks. Lots of hard-to-find magazines, all in very good condition. I have done my best to list the featured models each magazine includes. Searching a model's name with the site search will find the book she appears in. Lots more of these classic magazines to come.
I recently unearthed a box of magazines from Delta Pictures and didn't know much about them. However, with the help of some other collectors, here are a few more facts.
Delta Pictures/Publishers was a small company that produced a large number of A5 photo storybooks from around 1970. The original format featured the names of subsequent magazines (usually three) on the back page. They included pictorial stories, where the opening page provided a few paragraphs that outlined a vague plot. The magazines often focused on couples or lesbians (often threesomes) and sometimes included multiracial content. All magazines had colour centre pages, with the rest consisting of full-page black-and-white images. It's all very 1970s, as you might expect, with stockings, boots, platforms, fancy knickers, and occasionally tights, all set against classic interiors.
They were not sold in newsagents but were mainly available in specialist shops in Soho, etc. They were all soft-core.
Around 1974, Delta created four series titles above the main story title: X Appeal, Erotic Dreams, Erotica Illustrated, and Liaisons. Shortly after this, Top Sellers, which published quality top-shelf magazines like Game, bought them. This was the time of the UK top-shelf golden era, which was very lucrative for publishers and retailers. We think Top Sellers was the UK arm of US Topps, a massive publisher that started the sports cards industry.
Top Sellers magazines added the four additional titles: X Appeal, Erotic Dreams, Erotica Illustrated, and Liaisons. The magazines became sequentially numbered, and storylines were integrated throughout the pictures. A few adverts were included, and the quality was upgraded, but the format was essentially the same.
It lasted only a few more years. We're not sure why it ended so abruptly—perhaps the American owners decided it wasn't their cup of tea. Vast numbers of magazine episodes were produced; we're guessing about 150 Deltas and 150 Topps.
I like them and have about 60 copies, which I think are worth preserving. I have made an initial eight available on Brazenebooks, with the rest to follow over the next few months. I have compiled a list of all the titles I know about, although I only have about half of these.
I have replicated this post on BrazenBooks, with the addition of a gallery of a few of the internal pages and a list of the titles I know about.
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A nice selection of French, German, and Swedish pin-up magazines has been added for sale over at BrazenBooks. Titles include "Minuit Cinq," "Evocations," "Paris Broadway," "Laufmasche," and other mixed titles. Links open in a new tab.
I have just made available a nice selection of ToCo prints, all originally bought from the Croydon offices. These are now available for purchase at Brazenbooks, all priced to sell, hopefully. Lots more prints to follow when I get the time.
While I have your attention, would anyone be interested in Lady Suspender and Rosalind Woods films?
Small selection of excellent condition copies of the SBS title Torso listed for sale on BrazenBooks. SBS magazines cater to those who enjoy rude girls in lingerie, knickers, stockings, and suspenders, provocatively posed in domestic situations.
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Nice selection of Fine (New) Nostalgia Publications titles available for sale on BrazenBooks.
Nice little selection of Gold Star and Gadoline titles listed on BrazenBooks. They are all in fabulous condition, just about as new, from a small collection I acquired recently. There are also more general Pin-Up and SBS titles to come. All secondhand books will from now on be listed on BrazenBooks. I will keep posting updates here so that you to easily link across.
Another 50-plus low and lower volume numbers placed up for sale, all in good or very good condition. Fiesta, for me, was at its best during the 1970s and 80s, with plenty of hair and see-through knickers on display. Thank goodness for memories. Treat yourself to a copy; you won't be disappointed. Fiesta - BrazenBooks
Escort magazine during the 1960s showcased British pin-up and glamour at its best, published as a full-size magazine rather than the familiar digest size that was popular throughout the UK in the 1960s. The content could not have been better, featuring full-page colour and black-and-white pictures mixed in with a bit of fiction and a few articles. What's so nice about it and what personally draws me to it is that there is great model information, with nearly all models being named and basic facts provided, making it all the more interesting to collectors 60 years down the road.
What I have always found interesting is that Escort was found in newsagents at the same time as the ever-popular Spick, Span, and Beautiful Britons books, which couldn't have been more different. Did the same customers buy both titles, and if they were Spick and Span fans, they might have been surprised to see some very familiar names in slightly racier pictures and poses. I suppose that those models who saw modelling as more of a profession than a few quid on the side were easily persuaded to show a little more. Lots of great-condition copies available at BrazenBooks.
Newly listed: one hundred plus copies of Fiona Cooper over at BrazenBooks. Please check out the post and the Fiona Cooper sales page.
BrazenBooks has new stock being added most days. Lots of new books have been added recently to the UK Vintage Top Shelf category.
I have started listing on eBay lots of small format '50s Pin-Up titles and Playboys, so have a look if that interests you (until they get taken down).
I have recently sorted the stock I have in my store, with just over 5000 books in reserve that I think are worthy of listing on BrazenBooks going into the future.
If you are a collector of titles from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, please keep checking back and use the search function to locate what you might be after, as the New In page only shows the most newly listed items, so it is quite easy to miss books if you only check in occasionally.
Public Auction - For books over and above the initial 5000 (there are a lot more, with approximately another 7000 in deep storage arriving in the next few months), I will be utilising an auction house, Beeston Auctions, who run specialist Adult Magazine Sales on a 2-monthly basis.
The next auction is on the 12th June, and the sale catalogue is released about 5 days before this date, so put a mark in your diaries.
I will be using Beeston Auctions for books that I just don't like or want to sell on my sites. So it's worth a visit if you are an avid collector; you never know what you might see, which is, of course, my problem.
Lots of great stuff to come both here and over at BrazenBooks.
I have a considerable amount of "Readers' Wives" titles from the late 1980s and early 1990s, which I am going to start listing over at BrazenBooks. "Readers' Wives" from the 80s and 90s, in my opinion, are just so much better than nowadays, where everything is more polished and produced. I certainly prefer the more amateur feel that these magazines have. It is worth considering that if your wife or girlfriend wanted to show off all of her hidden treasures, then the "Readers' Wives" sections or complete magazines devoted to just that were one way of showcasing yourself. We have to remember that internet access at home was not generally available until later in the 1990s, and even then, it was pretty limited. Nowadays, it is all too easy to set up an OnlyFans, Facebook, or Tumblr account and away you go. I have lots to choose from, and I am not going to list them all at once; it's going to take me months. If you like "Readers' Wives" magazines, be sure to keep checking BrazenBooks for newly added stock. Most of the stock I have is ex-retail and never been owned, with me having, in some instances, multiple copies of each title and number.
If you're into feet, high heels, and nylon-clad legs, I have listed a nice selection of specialist magazines focusing on feet, heels, and stocking fetishes, all in very good condition. The titles include Footsy, Heels and Hose, High Heels and others. Available now at BrazenBooks.
Nice selection of films listed on BrazenBooks.
All in excellent condition - some rare and hard to find productions, well worth a look. All very adult - so you have been warned!
