VINTAGE FETISH: LEONARD BURTMAN
Books published by Leonard Burtman such as Exotique (inspired by Willie’s Bizarre Magazine), Masque, Connoisseur, Bizarre Life, and many others, including single issue topical publications. He was the first to employ a professional, nationwide distribution network for his fetish publications.
[BURTMAN, Leonard] Exotique. A New Publication of the Bizarre and the Unusual. No. 14 (1957)
[BURTMAN, Leonard] Exotique. A New Publication of the Bizarre and the Unusual. No. 14 (1957)
New York: Burmel Publishing Co., No date [1957]. First Edition. Stapled color wrappers. Octavo. 64pp. Cover art by Gene Bilbrew. Additional artwork by Bilbrew and Eric Stanton inside plus b&w photos. Old price stamp to front, very faint vertical crease to front cover. A very good copy.
Contents include A Fashion Fantasia; La Cabeza Humana (fiction by Allan Wilson); From Me to You by Tana Louise (Burtman's wife) with 4 full-page photos of her. With a cartoon serial by Gene Bilbrew called "Mistress."