Eric Kroll's Fetish Days, 1996 (First Edition, signed)

Benedikt Taschen, 1995. Very Good. First Edition, spiral-bound octavo in original plastic boards, b/w/color photography every other page, unpaginated. Inscribed by Kroll to fellow eroticist, Andrew J. Offutt, in holograph ink on the title page: "Turk - you have a good mind - Eric Kroll - 5/4/96." From Offutt's estate. Offutt was an avid science fiction author noted for his "Conan"-theme fantasy works, and wrote 100s of erotic novels under pseudonyms like John Cleve, Turk Winter, John Denis, and Opal Andrews; Winter was a name attached to his more violent novels, including the "Blunder Broad" comics series he produced with Eric Stanton. Kroll's formidable fetish photography in this 52-week day planner echoes much of Offutt's fetish and bondage fiction, and pays clear tribute to the dark fantasies of publisher/artist Stanton, even John Willie, featuring in all cases women bound, sometimes gagged, shining in leather. Kroll pushed Stanton's sensationalist snapshot style to glossy, composed scenes, while Offutt modernized and made accessible (under the counter) the erotic legacies of John Cleland and the Marquis de Sade. Near Fine, light rubbing, faint foxing. For mature, consenting audiences.