Published Books

A picture ebook:

Charles Guyette's High Heeled Shoes: Photographs circa 1940

edited by George Monk

This is a collection of American high heel shoe photos from circa 1940. The book includes 71 full page photographs and an introduction. Read more about Charles Guyette's High Heeled Shoes.

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Damsel in Distress

by George Monk

Megan, a professional bondage model, specializes as a damsel in distress. In real life she hopes a knight, one with darker impulses, will ride over the horizon and rescue her. Read more about Damsel in Distress.

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Thankfulness

by George Monk

This is the story of a remarkable young woman living in a world just slightly different than ours. Read more about Thankfulness.

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The Coverlet

by George Monk

She had one lasts thing to do, the embroidered coverlet for her lover’s bridal bed. In a few days time Sir Gruron and his bride, La Coudre, would come home after their marriage. Then La Frayn, The Ash Tree, her duties done, could leave once her choice was made. Read more about The Coverlet.

 

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Books in the Works

Irving Klaw's Pinup and Burlesque Photographs

by George Monk

Kindle photobook(s) of Irving Klaw's pinup and burlesque photographs taken in the 1940s and early 1950s are still in the design stage. There will either be a single book with three sections or three smaller books -- mostly pinups, mostly burlesque, and mostly fetish -- filled with photographs from a bygone era. Irving Klaw was based in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He started out selling books but found by accident that selling pinup photographs was more profitable. By 1950 he was publishing a wide range of original and purchased photographs, short movies and comics. Through the 1950s Klaw's focus shifted sharply towards bondage and fetish photographs, movies and booklets. The photogaphs that have been selected, all scanned from original prints, are from the earlier period of Klaw's production, without any bondage.

 

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