[publisher: Samuel Roth, New York] Hardcover 255pp., illustrated. Contents include: "Hands Around" [Reigen] by Arthur Schnitzler, with illustrations by Rene Gockinga; Acquasanta" by Andre Gide, "Harlem Harem" by Alfred Hines, Jr., "Episode" by Harry Roskolenko, "Midnight Place Pigalle" by Maurice Dekorba, "A Passion Before Death" by James Hanley, illustrated by John Gram, and with one illustration, printed in blue, bound in, etc. Also, "Forbidden Books by an Old Bibliophile" - a 32-page survey of erotic literature (Suburban Souls, Therese Philosophe, The Magnetism of the Rod (and several other works of flagellation fiction) and many more. Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good
[Seattle, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1953]
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Julian Press. G+/NONE. Date: 1929. Hardcover. Good+, purple cloth faded at edges. Title page with very small chip at bottom edge. ; Marvelous color frontis by Rene Gockinga, slight crease at lower corner. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall . 1929. Julian Press [US]

[publisher: Privately Printed] Hardcover First Edition Limited to 900 copies. Translated by Harold Berman. Illustrated by Rene Gockinga. Very Good, no jacket. Blue cloth, faded at the spine, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally.
[Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1930]
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Julian Press First Edition Hardcover Collectible-Very Good. No Jacket Julian Press, 1929. Illustrated by Rene Gockinga with line drawings throughout and a tipped-in full color plate facing the title page. Blue cloth slightly faded around the perimitter and the spine. Silver spine title still bright. No shelf wear or bumping to corners and spine ends.

[publisher: Julian Press January 1929] Hardcover First Edition Julian Press, 1929. Illustrated by Rene Gockinga with line drawings throughout and a tipped-in full color plate facing the title page. Blue cloth slightly faded around the perimitter and the spine. Silver spine title still bright. No shelf wear or bumping to corners and spine ends.
[St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1929]

[publisher: The Roxburghe Club, San Francisco] Hardcover First Edition Limited Edition. Flexible boards. Quarto. 29pp. The First Book of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. Translated by Theodore Wesley Koch. LIMITED TO 250, numbered copies; this is #183. Presentation copy, INSCRIBED (Greetings from) BY KOCH. Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn; Illustrated by Rene' Gockinga. Green paper covered flexible boards with green ribbon ties and slipcase. This copy has been wrapped in plastic fastened with celophane tape; tape has left tape stains on front and rear end-papers. Slipcase in very nice condition.
[Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1930]
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Good. (NP): The Julian Press, 1929. Hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued?) Bound in blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Privately printed due to its risque nature. With tipped-in COLOR POCHOIR Frontis illustration and other full page illustrations by Rene Gockinga. Very good overall condition with minor cover fading and shelf-wear. No marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (b/nb) [US]

[publisher: The Roxburghe Club, San Francisco] Hardcover Green paper-covered boards with spine label and green ties, slender 4to., (xi), 29. (1) pages, six facsimiles and two illustrations by Rene Gockinga. The first book published by the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. One of 250 numbered copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn on unbleached handmade paper. Tie ends are lacking, a small chip to the foot of the spine, else a clean, unworn near fine copy in archival mylar.
[Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1930]

Hardcover First Edition FOGAZZARO, Antonio. Eden Anto. Translated by Theodore Wesley Koch. Original flexible boards, ,printed paper spine label, green ribbon ties. San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1930. 4to. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies. Illustrated by Rene Gockinga. Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. The first book of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. Small bookplate, else fine.
[Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1930]

[publisher: The Roxburghe Club, printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco] Hardcover [xvi], 30 pp., including 6 facsimiles and 3 illustrations by Rene Gockinga printed in brown and yellow; quarto, flexible green boards with 4 green ribbon ties, slipcase. Text is a tale from the third authorized edition of Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" published in Ferrara in 1532. This Grabhorn printing is the first publication of the Roxburghe Club. Edition of 250 numbered copies, this #78. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 136.
[Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1930]
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[publisher: Pynson Printers At the Chocorua Press] Hardcover First Edition Good; Colorful design on fabric over boards, This is copy # 307 in an edition of 450 copies, each containing 6 original bright color plates by Rene Gockinga. Signed by Christopher Morley, Missing slipcase, spine dark from age, one tissure overlay is wrinkled ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall
[Rockford, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1929]

[publisher: The Roxburghe Club, San Francisco] Hardcover First Edition San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1930. 7.75" wide by 11.25" tall. A bright, square, tight copy. Pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. The first book published by the Roxburghe Club. Limited to 250 numbered copies, this being #228. Finely printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. This is a presentation copy, inscribed to Dr. Frederick P. Keppel [1875-1943, Dean of Columbia College, 1910-1918, president of the Carnegie Corporation, 1923-1941] and signed by the translator, Theo. W. Koch. Illustrated with a portrait of Ariosto and a title page of ORLANDO FURIOSO (1532), both engraved by F. De Nanto, and with several facsimiles of old manuscripts (from the Pierpont Morgan Library]. Modern illustrations by Rene Gockinga. Bound in the original green paper-covered boards, with a printed paper spine label. The four green silk ties remain bound-in, however the loose ends of the ties have perished. No slipcase. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Theodore Wesley Koch. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. Illus. by Gockinga, Rene . xx, 31pp.
[Henderson, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1930]

San Francisco: Roxburgh Club, Date: 1930. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by Theodore Wesley Koch. Illustrated with 4 wash-drawings by René Gockinga and 6 full-page facsimile plates. One of 250 numbered copies of the first book issued by the Roxburghe Club. Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Bound in paper boards. Slipcase slightly bumped at corners. Prospectus laid in. 1930. Roxburgh Club US

[publisher: Roxburgh Club, San Francisco] Hardcover Translated by Theodore Wesley Koch. Illustrated with 4 wash-drawings by René Gockinga and 6 full-page facsimile plates. One of 250 numbered copies of the first book issued by the Roxburghe Club. Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Bound in paper boards. Slipcase slightly bumped at corners. Prospectus laid in.
[Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1930]

Hardcover First Edition MORLEY, Christopher. The Palette Knife. Illustrated by Rene Gockinga With Six Original Water-Colors. Orig. decorated cloth. Chelsea, N.Y.: The Chocorua Press, 1929. First edition. One of 450 copies signed by Morley. A fine copy.
[Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.]

Chelsea, New York: The Chocorua Press, Date: 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gockinga, Rene. 4to. Attractive pictorial linen covered boards, no glassine, housed in the original brown slipcase. Edition of 450 copies, printed with six illustrations done by hand in colour by Rene Gockinga. Signed by Christopher Morley and no. 365/ 450. Crude repair to one side of the slipcase, book near fine. 1929. The Chocorua Press [CA]

[publisher: Chocorua Press, Chelsea, NY] First Edition First edition. One of 450 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Six hand-colored illustrations by Rene Gockinga. Near fine with a touch of darkening on hinges, and cover lightly soiled; in a lightly rubbed slipcase.
[Middletown, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1929]
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[Chelsea, New York: The Chocorua Press, Date: 1929] Limited to four hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number 403. Signed by the author on the colophon. . Decoratively colored and illustrated linen. . Quarto. Illustrated by Rene Gockinga. Six pochoir plates and a pochoir enhanced title page, all of which have tissue guards. Black and white vignette. A few small stains on covers. A very good copy. An essay on painting by the author of Thunder on the Left (1925), Kitty Foyle (1939), The Haunted Bookshop (1919), and Parnassus on Wheels (1917). 1929. The Chocorua Press, [US]

[publisher: Chochorua Press, New York] Hardcover Small 4to. Unpaginated. 6 hand painted watercolor illustrations w/tissue guards by Rene Gockinga. Multi-colored cloth binding in brown slipcase. Case split along bottom edge. Signed by the author. One of 450 copies. Case in fair, interior in very good condition.
[Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1928]
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New York: Chochorua Press, Date: 1928. Hardcover. vg. René Gockinga. Small 4to. Unpaginated. 6 hand painted watercolor illustrations w/tissue guards by Rene Gockinga. Multi-colored cloth binding in brown slipcase. Case split along bottom edge. Signed by the author. One of 450 copies. Case in fair, interior in very good condition. 1928. Chochorua Press [US]

[publisher: The Erotica Biblion Society [Jacob Brussel] 1923 [c. 1932], London and New York [NYC]] First American Edition, the Scarce Illustrated Issue of this classic of erotology. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.). [6, incl. half-title), 153, (1, blank) pp., 6 b&w inserted plates with captions (7 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.). Originally published by Charles Carrington in 1898, this title is an English translation of Instruction libertine, ou Dialogues entre Charles et Justine sur la theorie physique de l'amour et les diverses manieres de s'en procurer les plaisirs materiels ("Sadopolis, 1860" i.e. Bruxelles: J.-P. Blanche, 1870). "Malay" was the pseudonym of J. René Gockinga (1893-1962), who, born in the Dutch East Indies, moved to Amsterdam c. 1913, and resided in New York City 1924-c.1935. Influenced by Aubrey Beardsley and Dutch Symbolist, Carel de Nerée, his work was exhibited during the summer 1917 at the d’Audretsch gallery in The Hague. While in NYC, he worked as an artist for Jake Brussel, the notorious publisher of erotica. Mendes records that "There was at least one clandestine reprint done in the U.S. 8 x 5 1/2 inches, [same collation]. 8 plates." Brussel offered the book with or without plates, and if ordered with plates offered them with hand-coloring. No hand-colored copies have been recorded. These plates originally appeared in Brussel's American edition of Venus in India; Brussel used the extras to illustrate the title u ...