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               Eros-Goldstripe Books EROS GOLDSTRIPE was phase two of Reuben Sturman's publishing/distribution enterprise, replacing his mid-sixties adult publication/distribution network World-Wide News Corporation. Eros Goldstripe was set up in 1971, giving Sturman an original line of publications that were his to distribute exclusively. Prior to creating Eros-Goldstripe, Sturman was distributing the productions of a variety of book and magazine publishers, and it had been several years (since 1968 -- the demise of WWNC and its various colorful SATAN PRESS, WIZARD, etc. booklines) since he could push his own books as opposed to peddling the wares of Brandon House, Greenleaf or Peachtree (down South). Eros-Goldstripe gave Sturman another opportunity to work with packager Stanley Malkin who had arranged the services of Gene Bilbrew for him in producing the various SATAN PRESS, WIZARD, CHEVRON and related booklines. Rather than working with Bilbrew however, the task of creating a number of illustration-heavy adult booklines was given to the incomparable Bill Ward -- who took on the challenge and created what I feel is the best work of his career in the full color Teenage Library series covers and the voluminous B&W interior illustrations for both the BIZARRE BOOKS series and the (harder-core) COMMAND BOOKS series. The Eros-Goldstripe booklines also carried on the writing of Hugo Paul Little in the Dr. Geunter Klow series (for which Bill Ward provided many full color cover paintings as well). Eros-Goldstripe created and distributed the following booklines including: Like the First Niters, After Hours, Wee Hours and Unique Books before them, the Eros Goldstripe family of books offered a further penetration of the dark mysteries of discipline and alternative sexuality into the mainstream of society. Be sure to cross-check the "Writers" and "Artists" and "Themes" areas also! |
The WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX ... series began appearing in 1971, hot on the heels of Dr. David Reuben's blockbuster bestseller with which the title and graphic design is virtually indistinguishable. Of course, these books go far beyond the Reuben volume in terms of graphic detail, photographic illustration and lurid vibe. The text is heavily dosed with B&W photos recycled from the hundreds of photo spreads Sturman had used in his magazines over the recent years. Look for a young John Holmes packaged into #GPD-02 |
Paul Hugo Little's fictional persona, Dr. Guenter Klow, is one of the more outrageous characters grown wild in the steamy landscape of mid-century sex publishing. Ever sensitive to the permutations of human desire and what might to be referred to by a lesser intelligence as perversion, Klow's experiments, investigations and observations fueled several dozen books, and spawned a small Eros-Goldstripe cottage industry of imitators, including equally preposterously named Gerda Mundinger, Jose Lengua, Hildegarde Hesse and others. |
Teenage Library stands as perhaps the high-water mark of Bill Wards full-color book cover art -- hip, funky and subversive in its outrageousness -- conjuring a vision of Archie comics as seen by Russ Meyer! Hey Kids!. Collect 'Em all! |
Bizarre Books .... were indeed that! Outrageously erotic unlikely pulp confections slathered with leather-clad dominatrici, horny ogres, horny orgies, and if the writing was not evocative enough, each book featured 10 or 11 Bill Ward masterworks in pen and ink. |
Command Books carried on the tradition of Bizarre Books with hard-boiled tales of hard-boiled pulp illustrated by the great Bill Ward. The Command Books had the distinction of going a little more hard-core in their depiction of the sex play featuring bulging male erections along with blossoming female genitalia. To some, these represent Ward's second-half career high. |
As indicated in the introductory notes above, Eros-Goldstripe issued dozens of booklines from 1971 to 1979 and beyond. So, while we collect scattered examples of the various book lines, we will temporarily present them here in this MISC. category. When we reach some sort of critical mass within each series, we will devote an entire section to them, but for the present, look here for a scattered group of different Eros-Goldstripe singletons. |
  Emerging with the collapse of censorship and legal loopholes due to untraceable and overseas copyrights, numerous publishers made hay while they could by importing (and sometime stealing) manuscripts from other pornographers who were legally hamstrung to act on infringement claims. With these prevailing conditions, the 60s saw a spring of classic erotica flow forth in cheap and inocuous paperback editions -- Continental Classics, Classic Editions, and a slew of minor minimalist productions ... evocative of the original Obelisk Press, Olympia Press, and other verbotten European porn presses. |
 For those readers who did need wish to shop at adult book stores, a handful of publishers began producing "erotica" with upscale glossy photo covers from writers of perhaps more restraint and certainly more literary veneer. Pandora, Pinnacle, Blue Moon, Masquerade and others are all collected here. |
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