VINTAGE FETISH: IRVING KLAW
Books published by and about Irving Klaw, whose imprint ‘Nutrix’ began selling digest-sized fetish books in the late 1950s, featuring illustrations by some of the best fetish artists in the business (Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, Ruiz, Jim, and many others). Klaw also produced similar books using bondage photographs instead of illustrations.
[KLAW, Irving] Cruel Duchess of the Bastille Volume 1
[KLAW, Irving] Cruel Duchess of the Bastille Volume 1
No place: [Nutrix Co.], No date (early 1960's). Stapled wrappers. Slightly larger format than most Nutrix published booklets. 62pp. With 60 full-page drawings by Eric Stanton in comic book style, with captions. A very good copy. Scarce.
Tells the story of Lorraine who rebels against the cruel Mercedes, Duchess of the Bastille, who rules France while the Queen is busy. Mercedes and her cohorts mistreat many unfortunate victims by torturing them on stretch racks, binding them to a guillotine, putting them into leather restraining garments and spread-eagled for not paying taxes, and other cruelties.