Autumn 2000

Dave Martin, ca. 1950s

Heavy stock, 8 by 10, very fine condition

$450

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Anderson, Forrest. Toward Other Shores San Francisco, Pan Graphic, 1961. First edition, first printing. One of only 300 copies, this being number 114, signed by Anderson on the limitation page. Fine in very good self wraps with edge toning. A scarce example of Gay poetry, mainly with nautical themes--blow the man down, my laddie went over the ocean, etc. Young listing 71*

[sold]

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Anonymous The Boys Of Ellenwood School New York, Church Book Society, 1863. First edition. Bound in embossed cloth covered boards, chipping to head and tail, small chunk missing from spine, 12mo, 108 pages. Text block fine with two black and white plates, inscription on f.e.p. Johnny takes Charley under his wing but turns crimson when taunted by the class bully about his affections. All ends well, however, when all God's children get their just deserts. [sold]

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Bourdet, Edouard. Les Tempes Difficiles Paris, Stock, 1935. A play in four acts. Especially bound for Carl Van Vechten (with his bookplate on the front paste down) in paper covered boards--the overall pattern whimsically deplicting a fairy land garden, designed by Fidelma Kirstein, sister of Paul Cadmus and wife of Lincoln. Original wraps bound in, 12 mo, 254 pages. Spine slightly aged toned and minor wear to lower corners. A wonderful multifaceted association copy. $325

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(Boy Scouts, German) Jahrbuch der Hitlerjugend 1938 Munchen, Nachf, 1938. Fine in fine orange cloth covered boards, slighlty chipped white Nazi eagle on front cover. A daily diary, fortunately unused, complete with black and white photos of camp sites and marshmellow roasts (or are they burning books?), etc. Appendices for recording ones swimming progress and for indentifing uniforms, etc. 12mo, 280+ pages. No mention of morally straight leaders in this baby.

$235

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Original (not a recent reprint) 7 by 5 inch color photos by J Brian. Fine condition, full margins. Stamped on the verso in black ink "Ivan Prescott 1968 J Brian Enterprises..San Francisco.." An interesting studio whose images appeared just after the cups came off. Although considered to be below the pale (not cited in any standard text on Male Beekcake), I find the images rather attractive and for those in SF in those times, certainly a touchstone of Gay artistic pornography.

For each photo, $75

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Bruce of Los Angeles. The Male Figure Review No. 1 Chicago, Lance, 1969. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps, 8 vo, 62 pages. Contains 62 full sized colored and black and white plates, including a spread on Warhol's boy toy Joe D'Alessandro. Much scarer than Bear Pond and better photography as well.

$275

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Bunda, Jared. St Mathews Passion Amsterdam, Acolyte, 1988. First edition, first printing. Very fine in very fine paper wraps, 12mo, 222 pages. Illustrated cover by Mario Graaf. British school highjinxes--the very dark side of Harry Potter. $75

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"I burn with a love that strict modesty prevents me to hide

Why am I constrained to be quite about it?

It being so contrary to my nature

Oh Muses it is to you I owe my happiness

My poetry even sung to Cithere

Have given me a bribing charm

which pursuades and pleases..."

Chappelle, (Jean de la de l'Academie Francaise) Les Amours de Tibulle Amsterdam, Chez Jean Fred. Bernard, 1715. Well bound in smooth calf with raised bands and gilt ornaments on the spines. Gilt lettering on red labels (titles) and on black labels (volume numbers). From the library of the Duke of Westminster with the bookplate of the great bibliophile Sir Richard Grosvenor (1689-1732), fourth Baronet in both volumes. Title pages in red and black, 24mo. Collation: First volume - 12ff, 252 pp for Livres 1 & 2; 5-124 for Livre 3 (Pagination erratic but no loss). Second volume - title, 125-304 for Livre 4. New title page. Pages 1-300 for Livres 5 and 6. Six woodcut classical engravings in Volume 1, two engravings in Volume 2. Woodblock title vignettes, initial letters and tail pieces. Shallow quarter moon loss to first title page not affecting text.

This is a rare work and was not included in the 1700 edition of the works of La Chappelle, since it was first published in Paris in 1712-13 in 3 volumes (see Jones or Cioranescu). It is not an historical work, but a novel concerning the Gay Roman poet Tibullus, with some excerpts from his famous love poems (translated very freely into French).

La Chappelle (1651-1723) entered the Academie Francaise in 1689. Both Chaudon and Querard give the date of his birth incorrectly as 1655.

$2,500

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(Comics, Gay) Jay, A. The Uncensored Adventures of Harry Chess That Man From A.U.N.T.I.E. First ediiton, first printing. Fine in fine paper illustrative wraps, 8vo, 38 pages. Philadelphia, Trojan Book Service, 1966. Introudction by Clark Polak. First appearing in Polak's Drum Magazine, Jay's Gay oriented comic were indeed the first to commercially broach the comic strip genre. $175. Timid by today's standards, but for the jaded check out the following....

(Comics, Gay) MEATMAN Gay Male Comics San Francisco, Gay Sunshine Press, 1986. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine one-half cloth and paper covered boards, large 8vo, 187 pages. One of only 26 cased bound copies Lettered and signed by the editor Winston Lyland. The first of a very popular series of erotic comics which ran to over 20 volumes. Lavishly illustrated with black and comic strips (and just plain smut) by A. Jay, Tom of Finland, the Hun, Parkman, etc.

$300

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Demuth, Charles. Charles Demuth by William Murrell New York, Macmillan, 1931. First edition, first printing. Very fine in brown cloth covered boards, bright gilt cover vignetter and title, thin squarish 8vo. Original salmon colored paper dust jacket with minor edge wear. Frontis photograph of Delmuth by Steiglitz. Complete with 54 black and white illustrations of Delmuth's work, including the homosexual themed illustration for McAllmon's A Distinquished Air Ex Libris Carl Van Vechten with his distinct bookplate of a cello playing cat and naked black lad fan dancer on the front paste down. [sold]

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Garret, Erwin Clarkson. Io Triumph Philadelphia, Winston, 1928. Very fine in full navy blue calf skin covered boards, gilt fillets on spine and covers, five raised bands, gilt title, gilt dentelles, marbled end papers, a.e.g., 8vo, 333 pages. Inscribed by Garret on the f.e.p.

A very curious collection of closeted Gay poetry--to wit, besides the series of trench footed WWI poems, he lays particular stress on Anaceron and Theocritus--two Greeks not known for their attraction to women. The only love poems involving women cite his mother, Sapho, and Jamie, his 6 old niece. $150

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Gunther, J.M. Birken Sonnenschein und Zelte (Trees, Sunshine and Camping) Erzahlung aus der Hitlerjugend. Leipzig, Aton, 1934. First edition, second printing 5 - 9 thousand. Excellent condition in half linen and pictorial illustrated paper covered boards, squarish 12mo, 135 pages, former owner's name and 1941 date neatly (what else) inscribed on f.e.p. Illustrative dustjacket with two small tears to head and tail of front hinge. Cover designs and black and white text drawings by Rolf Winkler. Tales of outdoor adventure and backstabbing Communist miscreants. Very scarce in this condition--no copy found at the National Boy Scouts Headquarters library.

$425

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Hakim. The Chronicles of Qamar: Crowstone Amesterdam, Sparatacus, 1983. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps (slight bump to rear lower spine), 12mo, 383 pages. Tolkien meets Captain Kirk and they both go off to baths with Peter Pan. Classic mishmash of fantasy and sci-fi with ephebic intent. $100

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Higgins, Dick. of celebration of morning a polysemiotic fiction New York, West Glover VT, Printed Editions, 1980. Very fine in cloth covered boards, one of 900 casebound copies, tall (17") folio, 86 pages. Friendly neighborhood boy (Roger Berard) gets sucked into a whirlwind of jagged verse and confusing metaphysics. Is also talked into taking off his pants for au naturale photo shoots. However, if you frolic in cow pastures long enough, you usually end up smelling pretty bad.

A shameless $175

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Hoffman, Bob. How to be Strong, Healthy & Happy York, 1938. Ninth printing. Very good in cloth covered boards, 8vo, 400 pages. A wonderful collection of muscle builders through the ages, from Sandow to Sansone (pictured above). Lavishly illustrated with black and white and colored plates. Although Hoffman would later turn extremely homophobic, at this time he had no clue just like the State of Florida. $175

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Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida a report of the Florida legislative investigation committee. Washington, DC, Guild Press, 1964. Very fine in very fine paper wraps with a lurid purple cover, 8mo, 48 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates. Starting out as a condemation of Gays, the report turned into more of a how to guide. The plates themselves were especially tintillating--to the degree the official publication was recalled and pulped, leaving to the Guild Press to reissue this bluenose misstep.

$125

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Lund, Asger. The Boy and the Dagger Amsteradam, Sparatacus, 1982. First English edition after the 1963 privately printed prune Danish edition. Fine in fine paper wraps, 12mo, 190 pages. Lavishly illustrated with scandelously bad art by Richard Steen. Dangers and dungeons face our barely pubescent heros as they wade their way through the fetid 16th century Europe. $150

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Pat Milo, ca. 1950s

Heavy stock, 7 1/2 by 9, fine condition

$650

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Muscleboy incorporating Demi-Gods New York, Young Physique, 1965. June July 1965 Volume 2 Number 4. Mint in mint laminated paper covered boards, 87 pages, 8 vo. An extremely scarce casebound edition of one of the most popular muscle magazines of the preStonewall period. Features color and black and white photos by Kris of Chicago, Lyric Studio, Western Photography Guild, etc. No such casebound copy of any issue has appeared on the market in the past 8 years.

$300

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One Inc. Homosexuals Today edited by Marvin Cutler. Los Angeles, One Inc, 1956. Mint in mint black cloth covered boards, 8vo, 188 pages. An extremely interesting and rare publication that offers a look into the worldwide homosexual movement of the 1950s. Includes histories of various American Gay organizations and publications such as One, the Mattachine Society, The League, Knights of the Clock, The Sons of Hamidy, Legion of the Damned, Vice Versa, etc. Also devotes considerable space to foreign organizations and publications such as Der Kreis, Vennen, Humanitas, etc. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and photographs, including stills from the Swiss production of James Barr's Game of Fools.

$350

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Pater, Walter. Greek Studies A Series of Essays London/New York, Macmillian, 1895. First edition, first printing, large squarish 12mo, 315 pages. Fine condition, bound in full tree calf leather, five raised spine binds, panels in floral gilt design, red leather label with gilt lettering, edges gilt fillet, all edges marbled, some slight wear to hinges, spine panels and spine head, minor scratches to boards, hand marbled end papers and embossed dentelles. A very lovely copy made more desirable since it was a gift from an Eton teacher to one of his pupils--inscribed as such on the f.e.p.

$350

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Pulp fiction

Dandridge, Guy Oh Counselor Roadhouse Classic, 1971. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine photo illustrated paper wraps (remainder mark to bottom edge), 160 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white photos. A Gay young divinity student is set loose in a boys camp as a counselor and all hell breaks loose. Norman listing 1675 $45

Davidson, Chris Buffy and the Holy Quest Adult, 1968. First edition, first printing. Fine in good pictorial paper wraps (hinge creases, small tear to rear hinge), 160 pages. Becoming a teenager is very difficult on the body and soul as Buffy finds high school extremely hard to handle, especially his married gym teacher. Young 913* and Norman listing 1691. $45

Greene, Jay The Cadets Midwood, 1969. First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine photo illustrated wraps (light creases to back cover), 184 pages. "Word spread quickly through the cadets barracks about Frankie Morris and what he would do for any boy who knocked on his door (and I bet it involved sharing fudge receipes)" Young listing 1592 and Norman listing 215. $25  

Proferes, James Prison Punk Guild Press, 1969. First edition, first printing. Fine in very good paper wraps (light hinge crease), 105 pages plus ads for more Guild Press Gay books. Interesting cover design with a photo of the prison punk overlaid on a Etienne drawing of more prison punks. Lavishly illustrated with naughty black and photos. Wild sex and a stolen GTO pave the road to perdition. Young listing 3199* and Norman 3456. $45

Roberts, Pudgy Sea Food 101 Enterprises, 1969. First edition, first printing. Fine in good paper wraps (light crease to lower left hand corner, some areas of scuffing), 91 pages. "How (Chuck) gets out of the sucking whirlpool of his warped passions makes this novel stand head and shoulders above may others (I can't think of any right off the bat, however)" Norman listing 3565. Pudgy also did a how to book on female imposturing after his flirt with fame as a novelist roared down the runway like a flaming Concorde. Norman listing 3565. $45

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" Rare and racy are the stories of those olden days--of turning up in beds

of midnight orgies confined to upper boys who were permitted any license"

page 63 Eton College

Reddall, Henry Frederic. School-boy Life in Merrie England Pen-pictures of the Great Public School of England New York, Philips and Hunt, 1891. Very fine in orange cloth cover boards, illustrated frontis, 286 pages. [sold]

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Scully, Robert. A Scarlet Pansy New York, Faro, 1933. First edition, first printing. Good minus in red cloth covered boards, dusty edges, spine chipped and soiled, 370 pages. Illustrated frontis (see above). A scarce title in any condition. A bold and explicitly homophobic look at Gay life during the First World War period--the bar scene is worth the price of admission alone. Young listing 3476*

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Sherwood. Boys Will Be Boys or The Difficulties of a Schoolboy's Life. A Schoolboy's Mission by Mrs. Sherwood and Her Daughter Mrs. Kelly. Darton and Co., London, 1854, 1st Edition, date on title page, Preface dated June 16,1854. Hardcover, 4.5" x 7", 315 pages, embossed original beige cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine darkened, bright gilt lettering on front. Five color frontispiece and one other full-color engraved illustration of boys tussling in an apple grove.

A school prize volume with an inscription to the winner dated 1855 on the f.e.p, small gilt stamped "Prize" on the front board and the winner's initials "EM" stamped on the rear cover. Overall good minus condition, boards turned in at edges, fraying and minor chips to spine head and tail, small tears to top and bottom of hinges, spine aged darken, edges dusty. Text block missing first endpaper, ex-library stamp on f.e.p. and rear pastedown ("YMCA Library, Nashville, Tenn.", no other library markings), occasional foxing, otherwise clean and white. Frontispiece and title page water-stained, but only on open margin not affecting image. (Although this sounds pretty awful, its not too bad of a copy)

An interesting and very scarce item. One of the earliest British School Boy novels, predating as it does Tom Brown by 3 years.(the only library copy I can locate is in UCLA's rare book collection) $375

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Stoddard, Charles Warren. The Island of Tranquil Delights Boston, Turner, 1904. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine green cloth covered boards with gilt spine lettering and a gilt cartouche on the front board--very fresh. Former owner's named inked over on f.e.p. Illustrated with a title page vignette and tail piece of of naked poi boy seductively reclining under a spreading banana leaf. After taroing himself out on all the native delights, poor Charles finally sets sail back to San Francisco biding the Sandwich Islands a fond adieu. Not in Young but should be. $125

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Winchester, Joseph. (ed) Pulling it Off Masterbation Practices of 191 Mid-Western American Boys. Amsterdam, Acolyte, 1987. First edition, first printing. Very fine in very fine paper wraps, 12mo, 224 pages. Cover illustration by Mario Graff. What the Boy Scouts practice but don't preach. $75

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Zupp, Peter. The Chornicles of the Desert Ranch School Amsterdam, BL, 1985. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine paper wraps (some scuffing), 12mo, 170 pages. Lust in the Arizon dust and tumbling weeds. $75

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