New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Two-part study about lesbianism, examining how lesbians live their lives and their place in the women's movement. "Very little has been written about Lesbianism. What has appeared in book form has been written by men. This is the first account written... More about Sappho Was A Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism
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 about Drawings of the Male Nude
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 about Sex Code of California: A Compendium
[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 about Oedipe, ou Tout le Monde ne Peut Pas Être Orphelin
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First American Edition. A Beat Generation cornerstone, and basis for David Cronenberg's bizarre 1991 film starring Peter Weller. MAYNARD & MILES A2.b; YOUNG 361. First Printing, one of 3500 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); black paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine;... More about Naked Lunch
New York: Grove Press, 1964. First American Edition. Third volume in Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. Maynard & Miles A10.a. First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Octavo; red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 187pp. Some pinpoint rubbing to spine lettering, with small, faint blue penciled notation to front... More about Nova Express
[Amsterdam: Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, 1988]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original grey stiff card wrappers printed in dark grey; unpaged; color plates, text in double column. Fine. More about Painting
![The Sotadic Zone [Limited Edition]. Richard BURTON](/pictures/medium/42853.jpg?v=1541460610)
New York: Privately Printed by the Panurge Press, n.d., ca. 1930s. First Thus. Limited to 2010 copies of which this is an unnumbered out-of-series copy. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's buff decorative card wrappers, yapp edges; 107pp. Light shelf wear, brief splitting mid-spine edges, a few leaves somewhat messily opened, else a.... More about The Sotadic Zone [Limited Edition
New York: Brentano's, N.d. Third Brentano's Printing. 12mo; floral pictorial boards; 39 leaves printed recto-only. Ink ownership mark inside front cover, dated 1903. In the second binding, and lacking extra leaves at rear. Spine darkened; light soil to covers; Very Good. There were three undated Brentano's editions, all of which... More about The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3
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 about Capitalism and the Family
![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 about Shirt Poem [Inscribed
[New York]: New Directions Book, [1953]. First Thus. Novel first published in 1934, featuring Corvo's alter ego Nicholas Crabbe and his struggles against poverty in Venice as he falls in love with his androgynous (female) valet Zildo. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in pale blue and white pictorial dust jacket;... More about The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice
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 about Letters to Harry Bainbridge. Edited with an Introduction by Miriam J. Benkovitz
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 about In His Own Image
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 about In His Own Image
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 about In His Own Image
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 about Metamorphose: New Erotic Images
New York: Midwood / Tower Publications, 1962. First Edition. Stunning copy of a key lesbian paperback novel. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; red edge-staining; 188pp, [4] ads. Faint shadow of sticker residue to upper left corner of front wrapper, and upper left corner of rear wrapper... More about Gay Girl
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 about Odette D'Antrevernes and A Study in Temperament
Philadelphia: Bradley Printing Co., 1914. First Edition. Deluxe 25th-anniversary keepsake of this Catholic orphanage founded in 1889. Nicely printed and well illustrated with protraits, views of the grounds, and scenes in the boys' dormitories, classrooms, vocational training spaces, athletics grounds, etc. Uncommon; none others in commerce (2013); OCLC gives 3... More about Jubilee Souvenir of St. Joseph's House for Homeless Industrious Boys, 725-735 Pine Street,...
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 about Over the Mountains: A Novel
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1949]. First American Edition. Love story-cum-psychological thriller, The Willow Cabin was Frankau's most successful novel. Though described as "Mrs. Marshall Dill, Jr." in the author bio (rear jacket flap), Frankau was involved in numerous lesbian relationships and is also known for her lesbian novels... More about The Willow Cabin
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 about Colonel Blessington
![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 about Durable Values: Selected Writings of Peter J. Gomes [Inscribed & Signed by the Editor
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 about Forty Acres and a Mule. Illustrated by Casey Czarnik
