Four 1930s Books on Flagellation
[BDSM, Flogging] Gone with the Whip / Queen of the Furious Lash, The Beastly Cossacks, Whipped By a Tyrant / Rhapsody in Blows / The Lingering Lash, or The Secret Fraternity of Pain and Enslavement
Notes: Four books bound in one volume, without wrappers; each title 48 pages. Illustrated with crude illustrations of men whipping women, women whipping men, and women whipping women, and even an African American woman whipping a white woman.
A collection of short stories of private and public flagellation, quite transgressive for its day and even a bit disturbing now (the final story describes a public event in which five women are whipped to unconsciousness).
Very scarce. One volume indicates it was one of just 200 copies.
Edition + Condition: Bound in modern green cloth with the title "Famous Spankings" stamped in gilt on the spine. Original wrappers to the books not retained. Still, a very scarce example of four books documenting sadomasochism at a time when censorship in the United States was quite severe.
Publication: New York: Clacker Press, 1937.
Item No: #4727
Price: $250