All items are first editions, unless otherwise noted.

Nava, Michael. The Little Death. Boston, Alyson, 1986. Paperback original. First of the Henry Rios mysteries which Summers calls the best recent series of Gay mystery novels. Fine in fine paper wraps, 165 pages. Signed by Nava. $85

Another copy. Fine in fine paper wraps. $25

Navarre, Yves. Sweet Tooth. Translated from the French by Donald Watson. Dallas, Riverun, 1976. First American edition after a 1973 British edition. Fine in black cloth covered boards, fine dust jacket some slight soiling to rear panel, 220 pages. Young listing 2843* $50

Newell, Steven Wayne. Dreams Of Allon. NY, Geneva (vanity), 1987. Fine in slightly edge worn DJ, 199 pages. A biology teacher's fantasy involving submarines, dictators, aliens, time travel, and Gay liberation. Total confusion but not to be missed as the DJ blurb says "should be in every thinking man's library." Garber (listing 640m) says it "contains some interesting ideas but is virtually unreadable. " OCLC listing. $250

NEWSEX. (1989-90) Complete set of issues one through five. Fine in fine paper wraps, photo illustrations. Published by Steve Dambach. Each issue signed by Dambach. Drawing by Micahel Goodwin and Bruce Lee (no, not that one). Very limited edition magazine. All in excellent condition. $250

Volume One Works in Progress, Men In Love, Follow Me plus a very short piece featuring Al Parker talking about his overhang.

Volume Two Sex After The Quake, Cockpumps (my computer thinks this is a misspelled word) Sex In A Vacuum, Handballing with Trust, more mud , etc.

Volume Three Sex in the name of God (dess)

Volume Four First Anniversary Issue The Art Of Bruce Lee (tattooist)

Volume Five Naked Public Art New Works by Gavin Dillard, who really shows off in this issue.

Nickels, Thom. Walking water/After All This. (novellas) Austin, Banned Books, 1989. Paperback original. Fine in fine paper wraps, 170 pages. Garber listings 641 M and 643 M. $25

Nicosia, Gerald and Richard Raff. Bughouse Blues an intimate portrait of Gay hustling in Chicago. New York, Vantage, 1977. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with fine dust jacket, 207 pages. Dedicated "To Our Mothers", which is really kinda sick considering the nature of the book and the fact that Raff committed suicide just before this book was released-depressed over not having a job and tired of having to hid his homosexuality from others. Chapter headings include Portrait of a Bughouse Regular, The Hustler's Night Off, Derrick The $35 Boy, The Gay Bordello, Joel The Client Turned Hustler, The Etiology and Morality of Gay Hustling, and Pursuit of the Whole (taken from Corvo's Desire and Pursuit of the Whole). Multiple (15) OCLC holdings. $75

Nixon, Jack Lowell. Adonis Smiling Blindly. New York, Vantage, 1972. First edition, first printing. Fine in dust jacket with a chip to the spine top. In this vanity press stinkeroo, Felix and his perverse male companion maintain a nonstop Parisian orgy financed by a lustful heiress-enough to make even Proust blush. Young listing 2874*. No OCLC holdings. $150.

Norse, Harold. Beat Hotel. Atticus Press, 1983. First English edition after a 1963 German. One of 100 copies signed and numbered by Norse. Mint in mint DJ, 76 pages. Not listed in Young but should be. $350

"The fags rush frantically into the pissors to cream...

Shadows lengthen along the quay. Bookstalls close. The wind turns cold, gathers sharp edges of night. A few leaves fall, dance crazily..the round bare feet of snoring drunks holding up shit smeared fingers. ..loud gasps of horror as plastic tourists frantically flee from creaming queers..throw up over the deck rail..over the firemen who dream of jacking each other off in the barges below..the firemen toss and turn in their bunks..dreaming of fucking the queers..then crossing themselves guilty..the terrible Swine God appears sticks his brown snout into their dreams.."Watch it!" he warns.."if ya don't wanna burn for this you gotta kill queers! piss on bookworms! Wipe out intellectual scum! We want real hogs under our flag...thinking people pollute the nation. I want pigs who obey obey obey! ANY SONOFABITCH WHO DOESN'T LIKE IT CAN SUCK MY BLOODY PILES HEHEHE!!" The Swine God squeals with malicious laughter..grunting and farting with malevolence..then suddenly vanishes..his brown snout dripping shit..from sticking into everybody's business. After all he owns this piece of real estate in the galaxy. The firemen shudder in their sleep and turn on their bellies. Stick fingers up their asses diddling themselves into organisms of fear and frustrations..they dream of bashing queers."

Norse, Harold. Beat Hotel. Atticus Press, 1983. 2,000 paper back copies issued. Fine in fine paper wraps, 76 pages. No Library of Congress holdings [sold]

Norse, Harold. Carnivorous Saint. SF, Gay Sunshine, 1977. 210 pages. One of 26 (letter Z) signed by Norse specially bound copies. Includes an extra poem hand written by Norse and a small tipped in drawing also by Norse. Young 2880 * (regular edition is Young 2879 *) $750

Norse, Harold. I See America Daily. (a chapbook) SF, Mother Hen, 1974. Mint in paper wraps, 19 pages. 300 copies issued. Young 2882. $100

Norse, Harold. Karma Circuit. London, Nothing Doing, 1967. Fine in fine paper wraps, 66 pages. One of 50 copies numbered and signedby Norse. Also signed by Norse and dated San Francisco 1969 on f.e.pages. (Norse's own copy?) 1976 U.S. edition is Young 2883. $250

Norse, Harold. Memoirs Of A Bastard Angel A Fifty Year Literary And Erotic Odyssey. NY, William Morrow, 1989. Fine in fine DJ, 447 pages. Mentioned in Summers. $35

Norse, Harold. The Mysteries of Magritte. San Diego, Atticus, 1984. Printed broadside, mint. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Norse. No Library of Congress holdings $75

Norse, Harold. (translator) The Roman Sonnets Of G.G. Belli. Preface by William Carlos Williams. Introduction by Alberto Moravia. Highland NC, Jargon, number 38, 1960. Slightly worn paper wraps, else fine. Summers calls the poem lot at home a frank description of homosexual situations. $75

Norse, Harold. The Undersea Mountain. (poems) Denver, Swallow, 1953. Fine in fine dust jacket, 54 pages. First book by Norse, no Young listing. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. $250

Norse, Harold. The Undersea Mountain. (poems) Denver, Swallow, 1953. Fine in fine dust jacket, 54 pages. First book by Norse, no Young listing. Inscribed and dated May 1, 1953 by Norse on the f.e.p. as follows: "For David with great affection and gratitude Harold". $450

Although Norse had been whoring around New York for many years prior to the publication of his first book (picking up street trash, sailors, firefighters, and cops), the poems themselves only hint at his true nature, consuming passions, and poetic visions. Like many poets, playwrights, and authors of this time, Norse carefully hid, at least from hetrosexual readers, the homoerotic nature of his works, his observations and visions. Sponsored by both William Carlos Williams and Annis Nin, Norse was gaining a reputation among the New York literati for both his poetry and horse like pud. When the tensions of this cloistered life got to him, he ran off to Europe.

The poems in Undersea Mountain are wonderfully bleak, inventive, and moving at the same time. Carlos Williams was quoted as saying about them, "[they] have breached a new lead, shown a new power over the language which makes theories of composition so much blah..Readers are years behind you, only a few know what it is all about. But even William didn't know the total power of these poems. Hidden within them were clues and hints that, even today, most straight critics and professors miss. Sprinkled throughout are oblique references to trade, tearooms, sailors, and Moroccan pleasures. In his later works (and some of his unpublished ones from the 1940s and 1950s) these themes reappear in the nude-their true unvarnished power unleashed. For example, as the following excerpts shows, his 1974 poem Masturbation, openly reveals what he only hinted at 20 years earlier in The Undersea Mountain in which he uses only two lines to describe a tearoom--"graffiti scrawled on bathroom stalls/dirty news papers on the tile floor."

Masturbation The walls of the madhouse scream! I read them with my pants down. Nothing happens I witness terrible sex starvation scrawled in blood sperm shit RAPE MY MOUTH I'M A COCKSLAVE HOT HOLE WANTS BIG DICK PINCH MY TITS FISTFUCK ME The walls are raving with homosexual graffiti and I'm standing alone, bare assed among my own nightmares and fantasies in the john's eerie light and rancid YMCA smells..... The machinery of government hides the heart of people from each other Gandhi said and so it must appear on walls of toilets in letters of cum and shit

Norse, Walter. Gay Sex Technique. NY, QQ Press, 1971. Fine in fine paper wraps, photo illustrated, 31 pages. $25

Nutter Nathan M. Hearttracks. Arlington VA, Enamorado Press, 1971. A collection of poems and drawings. Fine in fine paper wraps, 77 pages. The entire back page is filled with apprecations to every one, it seems, in Northern Virginia-including assorted friends, tricks, work out buddies at the gym, bag boys at the supermarket, etc. $35

O'Connor, Philipages. Memoirs Of A Public Baby. Introduction by Steven Spender, who, after what he did to While England Sleeps, should know. Uncorrected page proofs. Fine in fine paper wraps, 229 pages. 1958 British edition is Young 2900. $45

O'Hara, John. The Big Laugh. NY, Random House, 1962. Fine in slightly discolored DJ, 308 pages. Young listing 2907. $35

Oliver, Jim. Closing Distance. NY, Putnam, 1992. Signed by Oliver. Fine in fine DJ, 288 pages. Oliver's first book. $45

Oliver, Mark. The Wanton Boys. A novel of doomed youth and an Italy the tourist never sees (unless he knows where to look) NY, Doubleday, 1959. First American edition. Fine in fine DJ with slightly soiling to rear wrapper, not price clipped, 255 pages. The story of Pasquale, a poor peasant boy, who certainly falls in with the wrong crowd and ends up selling his body to rich American and German tourists. Not in Young but definitely should be. No Library of Congress holdings. $125

Olson, Donald. The Secrets of Mabel Eastlake. Stamford, CT, Knights, 1986. Paperback original. Fine in fine paper wraps, 291 pages. [sold]

Orton, Joe. Head To Toe. NY, St. Martin's, 1971. Fine in fine DJ, 186pages. 1971 British edition is Young 2929. $35

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Does a banana or two a day keep the doctor away?

O'Sullivan, Lawrence. The Miscreant. NY, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Fine in fine DJ, 377pages. DJ states "O'Sullivan's powerful first novel about the profound friendship of two young men-- the author has lodged a protest against the unconscious desire to be a he-man and the conscious fear of latent homosexuality (or maybe vice versa)." Not listed in Young or Summers. $150

Otis, Harry. Camel's Farewell. Dorian Vignette Series 2. San Francisco, Pan Graphic, 1961. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps with stiff paper dust jacket. The nitwit owner, unfortunately, underlined large portions of the text and while these underlines and occasional marginal notes highlight the homosexual text, they are really rather ugly. Still, a very uncommon book. Another tour of Southern climes in which Harry brings his smutty mind to Marrakesh, Khartdom, and other places where Joe camels are still legal. Also contains a really nifty glossary of naughty Zulu words. So Hhampo to you too, you gemfuka. $75

Otis, Harry. The Keval and Other Gay Adventures. Los Angles, One, 1959. First edition, first printing. Mint in stapled paper wraps with a stiff paper dust jacket. Drawings and dust jacket design by Eve Elloree. In the series of short stories, Harry goes around the world in eighty ways, sampling the delights of men from the Nile to Bangkok and beyond. An extremely fresh copy of a very early pre-Stone Wall milestone. Young listing 2943* $275

Owen, Jack. The Beach Bums. New York, Coward-McCann, 1959. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, 191 pages. Signed by Owen on the f.e.p. One of the last beer burps from the Eisenhower generation of spaced out surfers-beach party blanket bingo before the ozone layer went to shit. Young listing 2951. $75.