Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 24.5cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in white on cover and spine; dustjacket; [94]pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to extremites, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; shelf wear to extremities; two small tears to upper..... More
![Pensées d'une Amazone [WITH] Pensées d'une Amazone, Ce Qu'Ils en Pensent. Natalie Clifford BARNEY](/pictures/medium/47617.jpg?v=1582322437)
Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1921. Nouvelle Édition. Collection of aphorisms cannibalized in part from an unfinished novel and separated into four loose groupings, the greater portion on the waste of the Great War and love between women. Additionally this edition offered with a 24pp. pictorial side-stitched pamphlet of blurbs written by..... More
Los Altos, CA: William Kauffman, Inc / for Public Education and Research Committee of California, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 197pp. Mild toning to covers, else fine. Survey of laws relating to venereal disease, abortion, homosexuality, sexual deviance, etc. Kauffman imprint is hand-stamped at base of title page..... More
[Paris: Le Terrain Vague/Editions du Scorpion, 1957]. A portfolio of 42 mostly abstract semi-erotic drawings based on the Oedipus legend, each within a captioned bifolium with die-cut window through which the illustration is visible. Boullet's work, produced throughout the post-war era, focused on gay themes, often in an erotic context..... More
San Francisco: Agenda Publishing Company, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 95pp.; photographic illus. Light soil to wrappers and a few internal pages, else Very Good or better. Collection of essays which originally appeared in the Socialist Revolution (later the Socialist Review), including Fernbach's "Toward a...... More
![Shirt Poem [Inscribed]. Kirby CONGDON](/pictures/medium/35275.jpg?v=1529353811)
Brooklyn: Cycle Press, 1974. First, Limited Edition. Single poem by Congdon, issued as Cycle Press Broadside No.1. A nice association between two small press poets. One of 250 numbered copies, this beign copy no.43. Slim octavo; string-tied illustrated wrappers; [12]pp; illus. With presentation inscription to poet Sidney Bernard on the..... More
London: Enitharmon Press, 1977. First Edition. Collection of Rolfe's correspondence to musician Harry Bainbridge. Trade Issue, one of 350 copies. Octavo; red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; original acetate overlay; 47, [1]pp. A Fine copy. More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1901. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); publisher's blue-grey cloth embossed in gilt; x,[2],421,[1],[2](ads)pp. Boards rubbed and worn, spine toned, joints cracked with some discrete repair in rear, else a Good or better copy. Collection of short stories set in Italy. More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1901. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original purple cloth lettered in white, top edge gilt; x,[2],421,[1],[2](ads)pp. Spine faded to tan, ends a bit cracked, upper cover title lettering very partially effaced. Still, a Very Good copy. Short story collection expanded from the six stories which..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Octavo (19cm.); original two-toned (reddish-pink over green) cloth, spine lettered in black; lx,[2],421pp. Corners a bit rubbed, tiny dent to fore-edge of upper cover, else an uncommonly Near Fine copy. Collection of short stories set in Italy, first published in 1901. More
Simon's Town, S.A. Janssen Publishers, [1998]. First Edition. Small quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 60pp; illus. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Male erotic images by the San Francisco photographer. More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue gilt-lettered wrappers; 45pp. Wrappers quite fragile with long shallow loss along upper wrapper fore-edge not affecting text, upper wrapper starting to separate, spine toned; interior about fine. About Very Good. The author's first book, comprised of two short pieces inspired..... More
London: Heinemann, [1967]. First Edition. Third title in Frankau's "Clothes of a King's Son" trilogy (preceded by Sing for Your Supper (1963) and Slaves of the Lamp (1965)). Set during World War II in the U.S., Bermuda, and Portugal and featuring a lesbian love-story subplot. DAMON et al. (2nd ed.)..... More
London: Bodley Head, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original simulated cloth boards in red pictorial dust jacket; 236pp. Top jacket extremities very gently worn, white spine lettering a bit toned, else Near Fine. Author's last, posthumously published novel, a psychological thriller and the author's second novel to feature a lesbian..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1965. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 411pp. Some light wear and scuffing to jacket extremities, shallow crease to front flap, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Bildungsroman of a young man and his sexual awakening, beginning at a...... More
![Durable Values: Selected Writings of Peter J. Gomes [Inscribed & Signed by the Editor]. Peter J....](/pictures/medium/30873.jpg?v=1529353635)
[Cambridge: Memorial Church, Harvard University, 2012]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in red photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],vi,636pp.; 8 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Fine. Inscribed and signed by the editor on front free endpaper: "For Fay Chandler, cherished friend of Peter--Happy Birthday! Cynthia Wight Rossano...September 2012."..... More
Baltimore: Diana Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 27pp. Fine, unmarked copy. First published collection by this African-American poet. GRIER p.52 (C***/A?) for latent lesbian themes. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies, this being copy no.91. Octavo; 3/4 photo-illustrated paper over patterned cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publiser's acetate dustjacket; 289pp, [7]. Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. More
Glen Gardner, NJ: Libertarian Press, 1950. First Edition. Ocatvo. Comb-bound pictorial thick card wrappers; 200pp. Small chip to front wrapper at corner of bound edge; text browned (but not brittle); Very Good. 2000 copies printed. Among the author's scarcer titles. More
Oakland: The Women's Press Collective, 1974. First Edition. Early, long poem by Grahn, the internationally-known lesbian poet, author, and cultural theorist who established the Oakland-based Women's Press Collective in 1969. First Printing. Slim octavo (22.5cm); light gray printed sheets, stapled into yellow-green illustrated wrappers; [16pp]; illus. Faint sticker shadow to..... More
![Fighting Terms [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Thom GUNN](/pictures/medium/21907.jpg?v=1529353328)
London: Faber and Faber, 1962. Revised Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pink dust jacket printed in dark blue and black; 39pp. Jacket extremities sunned (as usual), a few tiny chips and one closed tear, none approaching text, minor dust-soil, a hint of lean to spine, else a Very..... More
![My Sad Captains and Other Poems [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Thom GUNN](/pictures/medium/21906.jpg?v=1529353327)
London: Faber and Faber, [1961]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pale blue decorative price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and dark grey; 51pp. Jacket extremities lightly worn with one small closed tear to top edge of upper panel, additional coin-sized loss to top edge slightly affecting spine..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1932. First U.K. Edition. Sharp copy of the author's third novel, a brutally realistic story centered around the lives of three docker boys in Liverpool, and the relationship between the oldest of the three boys and his deaf and dumb widowed mother. Published simultaneously in a...... More
Boston: Boston Books and Art, 1970. First American Edition. Catalog produced for Hockney's exhibition held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, 2 April-3 May, 1970. Hardcover issue. Quarto. black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine; dustjacket; 100pp. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, lightly edgeworn, with a...... More
