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] The Irving Klaw Archives
[KLAW, Irving] The Irving Klaw Archives
Van Nuys: Harmony Communications, 1978. First Edition thus. Newspaper format magazine, approx 11.5 x 17 inches, reprinting Irving Klaw bulletins. Illustrated from b/w photographs and artwork. A little bit of edge wear but all around this is in near fine condition.
In the late 1940s and all through the 1960s, Irving Klaw sent out illustrated bulletins to his mail order customers showing what was new, and, in case anybody had missed anything, what was old. Usually these bulletins appeared in the form of a 4-page (sometimes 8 page) 8.5 x 11 inch catalogue containing small sample photos of the bondage, fetish and conventional pinup pictures, films and cartoons, which were available in the Klaw inventory. Twice a year came the biggie - "Cartoon and Model Parade," a giant 40 page illustrated booklet showing off a larger cross-section of the wondrous Klaw line. Usually, about 10 of these pages had to do with bondage. What we have here is a collection of 74 of those bondage pages from about 10 of those "Cartoon and Model Parades" of the early 1950s. It is one of the largest collections of Klaw out-of-print bulletins ever assembled.