All items are first editions, unless otherwise noted.

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D'Allesandro, Sam (1956-1988). The Zombie Pit Freedom, CA, Crossing Press, 1989. Uncorrected galley proofs, fine in fine aqua colored paper wraps, 124 pages. Photo of Sam laid in. $45

D' Arcangelo, Angelo. The Homosexual Handbook. New York, Travelers Companion, 1968. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps with very minor scuffing, 276 pages. Reprinted in 1969 and 1971 (London), this was the first book to attempt an over view of practical homosexual lore and folkways, including book reviews, a bibliography of famous Gays (including J. Edgar Hoover), and advice letters about sex-all addressed to Uncle Fudge. Nicely done with not too heavy of a hand. Only 2 OCLC holdings, Michigan State and Cornell. $125

David, Villers. Love In London. London, Duckworth, 1954. Fine in red cloth covered boards. Fine dust jacket designed by David with a bit of barely noticeable spotting. The story revolves (actually spins out of control) around a Latin American Ambassador Senor Calderony y Carrambas and his lovely wife and daughter. Both the broads have the hots for their handsome, young, tall, and blond British body guard Tom English. Unfortunately the Carrambas's interior decorator, Tristan, also has the hots for Tom. In the end, Tristan almost gets Tom and Senora Carramba gets Tristan by blackmailing him and refusing to pay her enormous redecoration tab. All in all a rather sticky wicket. Interestingly, this work is not mentioned in either Young or Summers. There are only 3 OCLC holdings in America, all of the 1959 American Coward McCann edition. $225

Davidson, Chris. Buffy Rides Again (Gay Pulp fiction) San Diego, Adult books, 1968. Fine in fine paper wraps. "he was the frosh flash of a fag fraternity (fearlessly flicking the flaming fairies from Phi Phi Rho)." Norman listing 1692, Young listing 914* $75

Priapean Tomes abashedly offers what are, without a doubt, the most revolting and tasteless Gay pulp novels ever written. Hey, but given the American ability to turn a buck from any tragedy (just ask Spielberg), why not.

Davidson, Chris. Go Down Aaron. San Diego, Ember (a imprint of Greenleaf), 1967. Fine in fine paper wraps, 160 pages. Cover art depicts Aaron cowering in a dirty cell as he stares between the black jack booted calves of his tormentor. Norman listing 1698, Young listing 919* $125

"The Nazi had used Aaron's tortured flesh in every conceivable way and still he continued to submit to their twisted hungers in order to escape the gas-chamber's ultimate seduction. But there was no way for him to escape what he had become, a perverse tool of Nazi degradation, the target of every sadist and deviate in the Third Reich. (no wonder he couldn't get his beauty rest)"

After which, fleeing to Latin America with the help of the Vatican and various Swiss banks, they set up shop again in..

Keith, Ian. Homo Horror An Island of ex Nazis replay the concentration camp game. San Diego, French Line, 1970. Fine in fine paper wraps, 160 pages. Cover design of a male symbol wrapped in barbed wire. Norman listing 2637. No OCLC holdings. $100

David, Richard. (pseudonym of Dick Sanders--not list as such in Young) Ride The Whirlwind. NY, Vantage Press, 1973. First American edition Fine in fine DJ, 352 pages. The novel "follows one eventful year in the life (of) an attractive 23 year old homosexual cowboy from Amarillo who searches determinedly for a permanent and meaningful relationship amidst the instability and superficiality of modern gay life." Author was an avid fan of Zane Grey and probable just got carried away. Book dedicated to Wild Bill. Young listing 911*. Inscribed by Sanders as follows: 9-9-73 To Russ Thanks for pouring the champagne! Best Wishes Dick Sanders (Richard David)" Only 2 OCLC holdings, California State and Ohio State. $175

Another copy. Fine in fine DJ. $75

Davidson, Chris. Song of Alexander. (Gay pulp fiction) San Diego, Phenix, 1969. First edition, first printing. Fine in slightly creased paper wraps. A graphic revisionist rendering of the repeated risings of Alexander the Great. Macedonian men meet greased Greek Gods. A true story once found only in the dustbin of history, now artlessly recreated. Troves of Thebeans trashing about. Good clean classical colon fun. Norman listing 1704. No OCLC listing. $100

Davy, Ross. Kenzo: A Tokyo Story. Australia, Penguin, 1985. Reissue of 1983 edition. Fine with some wear to lower left corner, 167 pages. [sold]

Delany, Samuel. Tides of Lust. London, Savoy, 1981. Fine in fine paper wraps with a very small and shallow cut (less than 1/16th of an inch) running through the base of the book, not affecting text, 173 pages. Only 5 OCLC holdings for this edition. $125

Originally written in 1973 along with the novel Hogg, Tides of Lust was first published by Lancer in New York ( 6 OCLC holdings) who specialized in smut books. Like the other two publishers, who had earlier agreed to publish the book but never did, Lancer went belly up shortly after issuing Tides. Most of the press run was never distributed (probably being pulped by the bankruptcy executor). In 1981, Tides was reissued by Savoy. However, the British Government impounded the novel before it was distributed and burned the entire press run. Tides has never been published again. What evil possesses this book and curses all who are involved with it (except the author).?

In polite academic discourse, the subject of Tides deals with the most basic of all Jungean sexual archetypes-the amorphously amoral and all consuming sexual licentiousness untamed and unfiltered that underlies our conscious lives and perceptions. The book's story line (set in a Southern shrimping town ala Porky and Bess) explicitly describes a varied and vast plethora of sexual activities long considered taboo, such as bestiality, incest, interracial couplings, necrophilia, coprophilia and homosexual acts, both as individual acts by themselves and in some rather inventive combinations. Not since Sade, has there been quite such a book. Unlike traditional pornography, which is meant to stimulate, Tides is a philosophical novel, exposing us to ourselves and laying bare the roots of our unseen and unspoken sexual desires.

Two of the novels most touching scenes center around the playful antics of two bastard sons (one white the other black but both well hung), their separate mothers, and their shared father-all merrily romping away with each other in the cabin of a swaying boat-and a charming father and son dwarf tag team who play around with the dead, the near dead, and each other.

God it's hot out here! I'm sweating like a stuck pig

Delany, Samuel. Hogg. Black Ice Books, 1994. Corrected Bound Galleys. Fine in fine paper wraps, 223 pages. $250

Known in Europe for his eccentric blend of dark humor, literary illusions, and twisted eroticism, Akbar remains a virtual unknown here in America. To rectify this wrong, PT offers the following scarce edition of his The Traveler's Companion.

Del Piombo, Akbar (pseudonym of Norman Rubington). The Travelers Companion. Covina CA, Collectors, 1967. First American printing after the 1957 Olympian press edition. Fine in fine paper wraps. No U.S. holdings of this edition, only two of the 1957 edition. This title not listed in Young or Summers although it contains secondary plot lines involving homosexuals.

The Travelers Companion consists of two novellas, A Crumbling Facade and I Have Come Back. As with most of his other works, Akbar populates these stories with a wild assortment of randy fading aristocrats, such as the Baroness von Sprathen Olaf-Pinz, house guests that out stay their welcome, and freakishly endowed servants and camp followers. Throw in crumbling mansions, aslyums for the sexually insane run by nuns (footnote 1), none stop mosh pits, and a wide assortment of candles, bottles, ears of corn, bicycle handles, goats, etc. and you get one devil of a good read. $150

1. "a horde of livid nuns invaded the room brandishing an ugly army of whips and lashes which they took to flailing about..dispersing the sex-mob with outraged cries (sic transit gloria mundi)"

Deutsch, Deborah. The Flaming Heart. Washington, DC, Guild Press, 1964. Fine w/o DJ, 271 pages. Young notes the role Guild Press played in reprinting many classic Gay works of the 1950s, in addition to its standard fare of pulp fiction. 1958 Boston edition is Young 989*. $35

Dew, Robb Forman. The Family Heart A Memoir Of When Our Son Came Out. Addison, 1994. Inscribed by Dew. 229 p. Author of Dale Loves Sophie To Death. $75

Diaman, N(ikos) A. Castro Street Memories. SF, Persona, 1988. Paperback original. Fine in fine paper wraps, 206 pages. $25

Diaman, N(ikos). A. Ed Dean Is Queer. SF, Persona Press, 1978. Fine in fine paper wraps, 175 pages. Diaman's first book. Young listing 993* and Garber listing 245M. OCLC listing. $45

Diaman, N(ikos). A. The Fourth Wall. SF, Persona Press, 1980. Fine in fine paper wraps, 128 pages. Young listing 994* Garber listing 244M. $25

Diaman, N.A. Second Crossing. SF, Persona, 1982. Fine in fine paper wraps, 123 pages. Inscribed by Diaman as follows: "7 July, 1982 to Lew Peace Love Joy Nikos" $75

Dickey, James. Deliverance. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, 278 pages. Signed by Dickey on the title page. Young listing 1000. $375

Dillard, Gavin. The Naked Poet. Beverly Hills CA, Bhakti Press, 1989. Fine in fine paper wraps, 48 pages. Poet is now truly indecently exposed on cover. $25

Dillard, Gavin. Notes From A Marriage. NY, Sea Horse, 1983. Fine in fine paper wraps, 71 pages. Dillard's first book of Haiku gay poems. Summers mentions Dillard. $25

Dillard, Gavin. Pagan Love Songs. Beverly Hills CA, Bhakti Press, 1987. Fine in fine paper wraps, 55 pages. $25

Dillard, Gavin. Waiting For The Virgin. NY, Sea Horse, 1985. Fine in fine paper wraps, 65 pages. More Haiku /discretely naked poet on cover. $25

Dillard, Gavin. Yellow Snow and other Poems. (with photos of the-we've seen it so much we're bored--naked poet) Beverly Hills CA, Bhakti Press, 1993. Fine in fine paper wraps, 104 p. Printed on recycled paper with soybean ink. (very Tofu, I suppose) , Inscribed by Dillard "For John Peace piss and porn Gavin 1993." $50

Dlugos, Tim. High There. (poetry) Washington, D.C., Some of Us Press, 1973. First book of Dlugos. Fine in fine paper wraps, not paginated. Paperback original. Fine in slightly edge worn paper wraps. Young listing 1023* [sold]

Dodd, Sam. Donnie and Clyde. (Gay pulp fiction) San Diego, Late-hour, 1968. Fine in fine paper wraps, 160 pages. Cover art depicts semi-nude Donnie and Clyde lounging in front of a Model-A Ford with machine guns drawn. "This is Donnie and this is Clyde. They're Gay and in love; they kill people to the tune of Tommy guns and rinky-swing melodies and gassiest roadsters that every puttered through the countryside and some of the most uninhibited body/mind sharing ever to slip out of (will this sentence ever end?) pinstripes to pound away like banjos strumming (until, finally, somebody put them out of our misery). " Only one OCLC holding, New York Public Library, so if you buy this gem and give it to your local library, I think you might make the evening news. Norman listing 1768. $100

Douglas, Alexander. (pseudo.) Friends A True Story Of Male Love. NY, Coward McCann, 1973. DJ slightly rubbed, else fine 223 pages. Young listing 1097*. $40

Driver, Carl. Once a Knight. Gay pulp fiction. San Diego, Greenleaf, 1969. Large format, fine in fine paper wraps. Inscribed by Driver "for Steven Arthur may the title be your motto. " Norman listing 1814. $125

Duberman, Martin. The Memory Bank two plays. NY, Dial, 1970. 94 pages. Young 1084. $35

Duberman, Martin. Midlife Queer Autobiography of a Decade. NY, Scribners, 1996. Advance proofs with promotional material laid in. 227 pages. Also a letter from Duberman's publicists requesting the magazine 10% to reprint an excerpt from the novel. $45

Dukahz, Casimer. The Asbestos Diary. NY, Oliver Layton, 1966. Some DJ chips top and bottom of spine, else fine, 281 pages. Summers points out its "witty and wildly inventive word play-obvious literary merit." Young 1094*. Mentioned in Austin and an OCLC listing. $150

Dukahz, Casimer. Vice Versa. NY, Coltsfoot, 1976. Fine in fine DJ, 263 pages. Follows Asbestos Diary. Young 1095*. No OCLC listing. $125

Duncan, Robert. The Year As Catches First poems 1939-1946. Berkeley, Oyez, 1966. Fine in fine paper wraps, 93 pages. Young lsiting 1106*. 2,000 copies issued in paper wraps, 200 bound in boards, and 30 signed, numbered and illustrated hors de commerce copies. $45

Duplechan, Larry. (an African American writer) Eight Days A Week. Boston, Alyson, 1985. Fine in fine paper wraps, as issued copy, 260 pages. Duplechan's first book. $35

Duplechan, Larry. Tangled Up In Blue. NY, St. Martin's, 1989. Fine in fine DJ, 246 pages. Summers $25 [Sold]

Dylan, Bob and Janet King. The Fifth Sex The Forbidden World of Hermaphrodities True Case Histories. Libertyville, Ill., Monolith, 1969. Fine in fine paper wraps, 191 pages. Includes case histories of the following, among others: Penis Identity, Well Hung Girl, Orgy at Cripple Creek, Reluctant Thighs, Devil's Spawn, Missing Vagina, and (my fav) The Man Who Screwed Himself (gif also available to the lucky buyer). No OCLC or Kinsey listing and not listed in Weinberg. All inquires held in strict confidence. [sold]

Eakin, Benjamin. Fairy Tales Mother Never Told You. Austin, Ban Books, 1985. Illustrated by Eakin also. Paperback original. Fine in fine paper wraps. $25

On August 12, 1819 Lord Byron in a letter to John Murray described the Turkish baths in Smyrna as "marble palaces of sherbert and sodomy." Somehow that phrase about sherbert and sodomy got passed on and entered into the gay lexicon as the following title shows (especially since the letter to Murray was not unearthed until the early 1980s).

Ebbing, I.V. Sherbert and Sodomy.Tales of Turikish Taffy delights. (Gay Pulp fiction) N.p., Travelers Companion, 1971. Fine in fine paper wraps, 178 pages. Young lising 1130* and Norman listing 1856. $75

Edelson, Stuart. Black Glass. Salem Oregon, Dimi, 1993. Advance review copy, stamped "Not for sale," with publisher's slip laid in. Mint, 385 pages., 1,000 copies issued. Summers $75

Eighner, Lars. Bayou Boy. SF, Gay Sunshine, 1985. Fine in fine paper wraps, 158 pages. The 1992 edition suppressed the ages of the characters. Summers $45

Eisenhardt, Jens. Kim My Beloved. Amsterdam, Acolyte, 1989. First edition after the Danish, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps, 192 pages. $45

Elliot, Bruce. (pseudonym of Edward Field and Neil Derrick) The Potency Clinic. NY, Bleecker House, 1978. "The wickedly playful tale of a young Hollywood psychiatrist, husband, and father, who develops a little sexual problem, comes to New York to work it out and finds himself coming out." As issued in mint paper wraps. John Gill's copy. The Young listing is 1147* but he does not expose the identity of the authors. Plus a laid in signed typed two page letter dated November 27, 1989 to John Gill the poet from Edward Field in which Field gives this copy to Gill and identifies Derrick as the main author of the book Field also felt The Potency Clinic "would continue to sell .. building its reputation as a small classic." However, only 500 copies were ever printed and regardless of Field's wishes, no other publisher reprinted it. This is a very scarce item, particularly given the association and the laid in ALS. $250

Elliot, David W. Pieces Of Night A Novel Of Childhood NY, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Small bookplate on f.e.p., chip to back cover DJ, else fine, 228 pages. Young listing 1149 $35

Elliot, Summer Locke. Some Doves And Pythons. NY, Harper & Row, 1966. Signed by Elliiot. Fine in fine DJ, 249 pages. Young 1151. $75

Elmslie, Kenward. Communications Equipment. Providence MA, Burning Deck, 1979. Fine in fine paper wraps, 10 pages. Sponsored by an NEA grant. 500 copies issued. Includes list of Burning Deck publications and an Elmslie bibliography $45

Elmslie, Kenward. Motor Disturbance. Columbia University Press, 1971. Fine in fine paper wraps, 75 p. Winner of the 1971 Frank O'Hara poetry prize. Elmslie's first book of poems. A copy of this book was on display at the National Portrait Gallery's exhibit Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s. $75

Elmslie, Kenward. (editor) ZZZZZ (poetry) Calais VT, Z Press, 1975. Fine in fine paper wraps, 136 pages. Covers and logo by Joe Brainard. [sold]

Elmslie, Kenward. ZZZZZ Calais VT, Z Press, 1976. On page 102 the poem A-N from the Alphabet Work is Inscribed by Elmsie "For David Happy 67th Kenward" Also, the poet Ron Padgett Signed his poem Cufflinks. In addition, this publication contains two poems by Brad Gooch--Natural High and Walk which precede the publication of his first work--The Daily News. Fine in paper wraps, 117 p. $100

[Erotica] Cop Rape. No place, publisher, or date (circa late 1970s, early 1980s?). A spiral bound collection of ten 8 by 11 inch black and white drawings by Steve Masters portraying a very active day in the life of some boys in blue. Extremely explicited, not for the faint of heart. Although a few sheets are detached, the overall condition is fine. Suitable for framing and hanging in dungeons or great Christmas cards for your family if you want to be written out of the will. No library holdings. Buy now and get a free pair of keyless handcuffs and an autographed Billy club from the New York City Police Department (slightly used) $150

[Erotica] How To Enlarge Your Penis (No. 2). Houston, Anson, 1975? Fine in fine paper wraps, 48 pages. For those of you who missed out on No. 1, here's your chance to give it another go around. Lavishly illustrated with black and white and color photos. A extremely scarce and early how to vacuum pump book. $45

[Erotica] The following three books by Sean Johnson were published in the early 1970's. Each cover is adorned with a cut out tintinnabula (flying dick) and is illustrated by Sean. There were four books in the series (the missing one being Hardhat Sex). Norman does not cite these editions but rather the later 1978 Rotterdam editions. All are in fine condition in fine paper wraps, 32 pages. There is only one OCLC listing and holding (Brown) and that is for the 1978 reprint of Cellblock sex. No Kinsey holdings. For each book, $150

Cellblock Sex (1978 reprint is Norman listing 3820)

Roadside Sex (1978 reprint is Norman listing 3822)

Surfside Sex (1978 reprint is Norman listing 3823)

[Erotica] Morin, Jack. Men Loving Themselves. Burlingame, CA., Down There Press, 1980. Paperback original. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps. Lavishly illustrated with black and white photos of guys doing what they do best. $45

[Erotica] Payne, Robert. The Story of Q., N.p., privately printed, 1977. Follow the adventures of a simple country lad when his parents sell him to white slavers. Passed from hand to hand, from chateau to dungeon, from sadist to sadist, young Q grows to accept a love that's definitely not mainstream. In the end, however, he finds acceptance and worth as part of a circus side show (as the naked tattooed man, but I won't get it to that here). Large 8 by 11 inch format, printed on coated paper, 63 pages. Fine in paper wraps, outer wraps scuffed and bruised, inner wraps fine. Illustrated by Olaf with 10 full page black and blue (that is white) drawings plus two folded leaves that open to reveal a diorama of the travails of Q himself. Only one OCLC holding, University of Illinois (and don't ask me how or why this book managed to end up there). No Kinsey holding. Young listing 2992* $325

[Erotica] RFM (editor) A Collection of S/M Volume 3. Glendora, CA, RFM, 1977. Fine in slightly dust soiled paper wraps. Photo illustrated plus drawings by Sean. A collection of short stories dealing with extremely unpolitically correct sex. Volume 1 in this series is Young listing 3164* No OCLC listing, no Kinsey Institute holding. $150

[Erotica] RFM (editor) Andros. Glendora, CA, RFM, 1977. Fine in slightly dust soiled paper wraps. Photo illustrated plus drawings by Sean. More nasty short stories, including my all time favorite, "The training of a total toilet slave" No OCLC listing, no Kinsey Institute holding. $150

[Erotica, underground] Story No. 1. Prior to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s which expanded the boundaries of free speech, most Gay erotic stories were circulated by means of hand typed manuscripts. Sometimes available from behind the counters of local dirty book stores, they also circulated among the Gay community much like a chain letter-recipients were expected to type out additional copies and then pass them along. In this way a number of underground erotic classics, such as Three In A Barn (which was suppose to have originated in the Army camps of WWI) , were passed from one generation to another. Perhaps unique in the annuals of American literature (although quite often seen in authoritarian states such as the former Soviet Union), this almost Homeric tradition helped preserve a vital part of the Gay written heritage. Story No. 1. is one such hand typed manuscript.

Although the story itself is, by today's standards, rather tame, it is suffused with an almost palatable sexuality as the two main characters coyly meet and fall into a whirlwind of unbridled emotion and lust, perfectly capturing one aspect of the pre-Stonewall Gay milieu. (On a less stuffy note, the party progresses, friends drop by, the vermouth runs out, and things really get out of hand.) Fine, eight single spaced hand typed pages on onion skin paper, yapped hard paper boards slightly frayed. $350

Esser, Kevin. Mad To Be Saved. Gay Press of New York, 1985. Fine in fine paper wraps, 165 pages. $25

Esser, Kevin. Streetboy Dreams. New York, Gay Presses of New York, 1983. Paperback original. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps, 172 pages. Esser's first book about a teacher's affair with an Hispanic street boy who sells candy in bars (a rather ass backwards approach, but what the hell) $45

Evans, Arthur. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. Boston, Fag Rag, 1978. Paperback original. Sponsored by an NEA grant. Fine in very slightly edge worn paper wraps, 180 pages. $35

Everhard, Jim. Cute and other poems. SF, Gay Sunshine, 1982. Fine in fine wraps. $25

Everton, Ian. Alienation. NY, Gay Men's Press, 1982. Fine in fine paper wraps, 209 pages. $25

Exander, Max. Man Sex and Other Stories. Illustrated with drawings by Richard White. San Francisco, Gay Sunshine, 1985. Paperback original. Fine in fine paper wraps, first edition, 159 pages. Only three OCLC holdings, Gerber/Hart, Michigan State, and Brown University. $30

Faber, Franciose. Pianissimo. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1956. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward. Faber's first (and as far as I can tell or hope, last) novel . Fine in very slightly edge worn dust jacket, blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering, 176 pages. First British edition Young listing 1191. $100

A daughter's saga of her pianist father. "The chords and discords of her passionate reaction (to the discovery that her father wanted to tickle more than just his young male pupil's ivories) at first sounded with violence and a sense of outrage, ended by echoing pianissimo in her heart (twanging all the way, no doubt)."

Fabian, Gerald. Odissea Finita an elegy for a lost shipmate (poetry) Walnut Creek, CA, Very Stone House, 1969. Fine in fine paper wraps. Covers illustrated by Robert Berner. Young listing 119* A copy from Paul Mariah's library. $125

Fainlight, Harry. London A Book of Poems. N.p., privately printed, n.d. (circa 1959-1963?) One of 25 copies. Thirty pages on heavy stock paper. Bound in faded purple cardboard file wraps. Inscribed by Fainlight as follows: "To Ed (Sanders?) Harry Fainlight There are 25 copies of which this is no. 6" Contains many homosexual oriented poems, such as Meeting, Echo and Company, City Park, and Aristo Hotel, many of which were later reworked and published under different titles. Also contains the first draft of his most famous poem The Spider. Quite possible his first publication. No NUC, OCLC, or RLIN listings. No Young listing. Also no listing in Ed Sanders's Peace Eye bookstore mid 1960s series of catalogs. $1,900

Fair, Allen. A Man's Affair. (Gay pulp fiction) San Diego, Phenix, 1968. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps. Mark and Paula's marriage ends up on the rocks in "a world flanked on all sides by violence; a stinking whirlpool of murder, rape, rolling, robbery, degeneracy-beyond its ugly borders there are few to come to its aid" when Wayne enters the picture. I guess a lot of the stench came from the prose-to wit-'Mark pulled himself up to meet the tremendous force that protruded into him-with one final might thrust the bodies collided as if in midair, their passions spilled out on the earth, scorching the most minute beings that lay in their path" (and creating one hell of an environmental mess in the process). Norman listing 1933. Only one OCLC holding, New York Public Library. $75

Feinberg, David. Eighty-Sixed. NY, Viking, 1989. Initialed, inscribed, and signed by Feinberg. Two small stains on f.e.p., else fine, 326 p. Winner of the 2nd annual (1990) Lambda award for the best Gay Men's Fiction. Feinberg's first book. Mentioned in Summers $225

Feinberg, David. Eighty-sixed. New York, Viking, 1989. Advanced reading copy. Fine in fine aqua colored paper wraps, 308 pages. John Updike's copy with his signature on the f.e.p. $150

Fennelly, Tony. The Closet Hanging. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1987. Mint, 216 pagesuthor now identified as a women on DJ. One of Richard LaBarte's five worst novels. "There is a danger in even the most well-meaning of straight women portraying the Gay life. Who needs self-hatred masking as light entertainment?" (I don't think he read the first book) Mentioned in Summers $35

Fennelly, Tony. The Glory Hole Murders. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1985. NY. Mint in mint DJ, 204 p. Fennelly's first book. Summers $45

Fenster, Percy. Hot Pants Homo. (Gay pulp fiction) North Hollywood, All Star, 1964. Fine in fine paper wraps, 155 pages. "Women lusted after this handsome jazzman..it took him years to agony to realize he wanted a man." Lurid cover illustration of a half naked man clutching a writhing woman who is in the process of digging her red lacquered nails into his back and actually drawing blood; no wonder he switched. No Norman listing. Only two OCLC holdings, Michigan State and New York Public Library. $125

Ferris, Haviland. (pseudo. of John Davis) A Passage Of Witches. (poetry) Champaign IL, Final Press, 1981. Fine in fine paper wraps. Other works by Ferris listed in Young. $25

Ferro, Robert. Blue Star. New York, Dutton, 1985. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, 244 pages. Signed by Ferro, very uncommon. $300

Ferro, Robert. Second Son. New York, Crown, 1988. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, 215 pages. Anne Rice called this book "rich, poignant, unforgettable..it leaves one with a rare feeling of having been in touch for a little while with the things that really matter." Signed by Ferro on the title page, very uncommon. $300

Ferro, Robert. The Others. NY, Scribners, 1977. Slight water stain lower edge of back DJ, else fine 86 pages. DJ art designed by Michael Grumley, author's lover of many years. Scarce copy of Ferro's first, not very well selling, novel. Summers calls it a "little known and highly mysterious novella." $350

Fey, Edwin. Summer in Sodom. LA, Argyle, 1964. Fine in fine DJ, 155 pages. Young 1235*. $175

Fierstein, Harvey. Torch Song Trilogy The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First. New York, Gay Presses of New York, 1979. Paperback original. First edition, first printing with price of $5.95 on back cover. Fine in fine paper wraps with a touch of wear to spine tips and front hinge, 173 pages. First publication of the Gay Presses of New York. $45

Fisher, Peter. Dream Lovers. New York, Seahorse Press, 1980. First edition, first printing. Paperback original. Fine in fine paper wraps with slight creasing to back panel. Cover art by Dennis Forbes. Not listed in Young, no OCLC holdings. $45