Erotica & Curiosa
[BURTMAN, Leonard] Exotique: A New Publication of the Bizarre and the Unusual (complete reprint, 3 volumes, boxed)
[BURTMAN, Leonard] Exotique: A New Publication of the Bizarre and the Unusual (complete reprint, 3 volumes, boxed)
Foreword by Kim Christy
Taschen Publications, 1998. Reprints of the original issues. Hardcovers. Thick octavos. 3 volume set in pictorial boards and housed in a pictorial box with one open end for volume removal. Each issued is paginated separately but there are more than 2000 pages in this collection. All 36 issues are reproduced in full including covers (most in color) plus original ads and illustrated throughout with b&w drawings and photographs. Volume three has a faint scrape across the front board but all in all the books are in near fine condition. The colorful and pictorial slipcase has some edge wear but remains in very good or better condition.
Between 1955 and 1959 Leonard Burtman, pioneer of the modern fetish publishing industry, published the fetish magazine Exotique, under his Burmel Publishing Company imprint in New York City. Exotique was the magazine of Femmes, Fiction and Future Fashions, and was known as a new publication of the bizarre and the unusual. There were 36 total issues, each one repinted here in this 3 volume set. "Exotique" presented the pin-up as a Femme Fatale, publishing shot after shot of the dominatrix adorned with tight corset, razor heels, complex underwear and an expression on her Face that demanded obedience. Enthusiastically casting from a roster of willing models (including the legendary Betty Page) as well as call-girls and dancers, Burtman experimented with bondage scenarios and group poses, and as a bonus hired in the maestros of the illustrative arts like Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew to bring his pneumatic ideal to life even more extravagantly. This colossal collection contains all this and more.