Winter 2003

(an illustration from Tote-road and Trail)

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Apuleius. Cupid and Psyches; the excellent narration of their marriage translated into English by William Adlington out of the latine books of the GOLDEN ASSE, 1566. London, Fortune Press, 1927. Unpaginated, #154 of 700 copies printed on handmade paper, dust jacket with a small piece of tape at the head of the spine. Publisher Caton so perfectly imitated the Nonesuch Press typography that a lawsuit forced him to surrender 600 copies of this book to Nonesuch for destruction. Young listing 105.

$425

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Benerath, Henry (pseudo. of Albert Rausch). Geschichten Vom Mittelmeer Berlin, Albert Nauck, 1952. First edition, fine condition, 18.5 by 12.5cm, 196 pages. Bound in pink cloth covered boards, very fine dust jacket. A collection of three "Gay" themed short stories by this Der Kreis camp follower.

$125

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Bruce of Los Angeles (pseud of Bruce Harry Bellas). The Male Figure. Los Angeles, Bruce of Los Angeles, [1956-1966]. 8vo, 44 pages each. Illustrated, some color. Wrappers, saddle-stapled. A full run (issues 1 to 36) of The Male Figure, showcasing the photos of Bruce of Los Angeles, the king of male physique photographers, and the bodies of dozens of good-looking models in posing straps. No frontal nudity. An excellent set.

[sold]

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Coccioli, Carlo. Manuel Le Mexicain Paris, Libraire Pons, 1956. First edition, very good in good paper wraps, 20.5 by 14.5cm, 314 pages. Spicy Mexican pedastry with a salsa ending. Fairly common but this copy is inscribed by Carlo on the f.e.p making it fairly uncommon. The 1958 English edition is Young 700.

$175

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Dawless, Smith. Discovery and other poems. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1931. Complete and in fine condition, 24 by 16.5cm, bound in half black cloth and paper covered boards, spine slightly faded, unpaginated (22 leaves). One of 150 copies, signed by the book designer on the colophon page.

Stanford annually awarded the best student contribution to the Stanford yearbook. Not mentioned is that the two-page title poem - Discovery - and many of neutral pronoun love poems are addressed to Dawless's lover, Harry Hay, who was himself producing proflific amounts of homoerotic poetry at the time. Later Hayes was thrown out of the Communist party because he was gay and thrown out of the Gay movement because he was a Communist. He should have stayed in bed with Dawless. Not in Young.

$675

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Descaves, Lucien Sous-offs; roman militaire, illustrations d'après les aquarelles de Paul Thiriat. Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque [1909?]. Complete and in fine condition, 24.3 by 17cm, 155 pages. First illustrated edition (though few of the illustrations suggest the book's gay content, the colored frontis portraits some rather swishy officers in flaming red trousers casting lewd glances at each other).

Sous-offs "caused a great scandal when it appeared. An 'indelicate and unpatriotic' novel about military life, it includes one character, Laprévotte, a sodomite, who is caught in Le Havre with a group of seven boys. It was prodeeded against for indecency ('outrage aux moeurs'), and the defendants were acquitted in March 1890." - - Patrick Pollard, André Gide: Homosexual Moralist, Yale University Press, 1991).

$375

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du Dognon, Andre Viscomte. Les Amours Buissonnieres (sodomy in the shrubbery). Paris, Scorpion, 1948. Fine in fine paper wraps, 18.5 by 12cm, 286 pages. One of only 120 copies.

$250

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Ellis, Royston. The Cherry Boy A Sequence of Poems. (London): Turret Books, 1967. Square octavo, decorative brown & white wraps printed in red. [13] pp. plus colophon printed in red ink on pink paper. Near fine. Of an edition of 200 copies, this is one of a hundred numbered copies. Inscribedby the author to a well known historian of Gay art. Designed and printed at the Trigram Press, London.

$225

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Fuller, Roy. Poems. London, Fortune Press [1940]. First edition in fine condition, 19 by 13cm, 38 pages, bound in full black cloth covered boards. An interesting collection of rather morbid poems, two of which are overtly Gay themed--one to his lower class squeeze who is about to go off to war and the other to his dead lover killed in the Spainish Civil War. Also includes a rather ugly poem about John Addington Symonds being covered in bird droppings.

Signed by Fuller and interestingly inscibed by him to George Sims on the f.e.p. with a reference to Ishmael and the "Hellenic Restaurant"--where everything on the menu is Greek inspired no doubt. Ex Libris George Sims with his book plate on the front paste down. Also of interest is the Sims book plate which includes the phrase "call me Ishmael"--why not throw in Meville while we're at it.

$450

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Hay, Harry. Radically Gay Boston, Beacon Press, 1996. Uncorrected page proofs. Fine in fine purple paper wraps, 22.5 by 15.5cm, 376 pages. Signed by Hay on the title page.

$75

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Hernández Catá, Alfonso. El Angel de Sodoma. Madrid, Mundo Latino, 1938. First edition in fine condition, 15.5 by 10cm, 199 pages. Bound in half cloth and paper covered boards, orginial wraps bound in. Remains of a private library sticker on the spine. Inscribed by the Republican diplomat to José Diaz Canseco.

$250

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Hervez, Jean. Le Baiser: mignons et courtisanes au XVIe siècle, les baisers royaux - baisers a la cour et a la ville - baisers a la scéne - baisers pervers - baisers épiscopaux. Baiser Vénal. Ouvrage orné de quartre illustrations hors texte. Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1924. 286p. + illus., slightly edgeworn wraps. With material on homosexuality, transvestitism, etc., scattered throughout.

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Lee, Nathaniel, (1653?-1692). Casar Borgia son of Pope Alexander the Sixth a tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre by Their Royal Highnesses Servants. . . London, Printed by R.E. for R. Bentley, and M. Magnes ..., 1680. First edition in very fine condition, 21.8 by 15cm, [8], 70, [2]. Bound in later half leather and marbled paper covered boards. Prologue by Dryden. There is a variant state with page 60 misnumbered as 90, in this copy page 60 is numberd correctly. Wing L846.

Summers cites Lee as being "the master of homosexual representation", with this play in particular featuring both homoerotic undertones and an active sodomite in the shape of a buffoon Cardinal who waxes poetic over a troupe of near naked Carribbean Indian boys who are the entertainment at one of Borgia's dinner parties--hula hula hula. Very rare.

$1,600

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Lorrain, Jean Monsieur de Bougrelon (with color etchings by Drian). Paris, Les Editions d'Art Devambez, 1927. A livre d'artiste with 16 color etchings (with aquatint) by Drian-- glassine interleaves with some offsetting of the plates. From a total edition of 375 copies, this is one of 250 numbered copies on fine Arches woven paper. First edition, very fine condition, 27 by 22cm, 143 pages.

From the collection of Luis de Caralt, a Barcelona publisher who was Spain's leading collector of modern illustrated books, with his bookplate--a pile of books surmounted by a Fascist helmet. Bound for Caralt in quarter red goatskin and marbled boards. Top edge gilt and gilt decorated spine, marbled endleaves. Original wraps bound in.

$750

Lorrain, Jean Monsieur de Bougrelon (with etchings by Brodovitch). Paris, Les Beaux Romans, 1928. 20.3 by 15cm, 173 pages.

$250

Lorrain, Jean M. de Bougrelon (illustrated by Marold et Mittis). Paris, Guillaume, [1897]. Complete and in fine condition, one of 50 copies on Japon paper, top edge gilt, 14.8 by 8cm, 231 pages. Bound in half black leather and marbled paper covered boards.

$300

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Malloch, Douglas. Tote-road and Trail: ballads of the lumberjack. Illustrated in full color by Oliver Kemp. Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill Company 1917. 172p., six color plates, first edition, slightly edgeworn. With the extremely uncommon dust jacket in good condition--slightly soiled and rubbed, with a photograph of Douglas on the rear panel. Young 2465.

"He sings of the open, of hard work..of exposure..of rough living and rough loving. It is verse which belongs to..the strong-armed school.. a healthy antidote to the softening tendencies which creep in with an age that loves luxury too well"---oh dear I feel a swoon coming on.

$250

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Martin du Gard, Roger. Un Taciturne Edition Originate Paris, Gallimard, 1932. First edition, number 104 of 190 copies. Fine in fine paper wraps, 18.5 by 12cm, 236 pages. Interesting pederastic play.

$275

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McNally, Terrence. The Ritz New York, January 1975. An orginial mimeographed script, fine condition, 29 by 23cm, 113 pages. Bound in blue paste boards. Copy of F Murray Abeaham, who played Cris in both the Broadway production and later film. Signed by both Abeahan and McNally on the title page.

Also included are 66 preproduction leafs dated earlier than January with many corrections and deletions--many in Abeaham's hand. The deletions are rather interesting in that references to poppers, Cub Scouts, and the Catholic school system were strongly excised. No wonder the work as seen by the public rang slightly off key. Unique. [sold]

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Moreck, Curt (pseuudonym of Konard Haemmerling, 1888-1957). Die Pole des Eros Hannover, Heinrich Bohme Verlag, [1918]. Fine in decorative paper wraps--spine a bit tatty and partially split rear hinge. Title page in red and black, introductory quote by George Stefan, illustrated with fey lithographs by Josef Eberz, 85 pages. Number 126 of 180 copies. Signed by both Moreck and Eberz on the limitations leaf.

An extremely rare German Gay novel. Written in 1912 about the same time as his other two novelles Jokaste die Mutter (pub. 1912) and Buser des Gefuhls (pub. 1915). Ebers also illustrated Moreck's collection of short stories Der Strachlende Mensch (pub. 1920). Rounding out this burst of decedant writting, Moreck also translated Wilde's Soleme into German with illustrations by Beardsley in 1918. Thereafter, Moreck turned into one of the best writers about Weimer decadence.

This copy of Poles des Eros is extreme rare. There are no US, UK or German institutional holdings. I could find only one European holding at the Bern/Basel bibliotheque.

$2,500

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[Photography] Bruce of Los Angeles. A wonderful classically posed 8 by 10 inch photo, circa 1950s. Fine condition, full margins. Stamped on the verso. Models are Bud Pryor and Gail Stanley. Scan is partial. A number of similar photographs are available. Additional scans available for serious inquires.

$625

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Pitts, J Martin. Gymnopaediae Old Stile Press, 1989. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the artist 4to. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Fine copy in pictorial cloth slipcase

In the days of the ancient Greeks an annual ceremony took place outside the temple of Apollo Karneios. Under a full moon naked boys danced and sang paeans to the patron of the Palaestra, Apollo Kourotrophos. "The beauty of movement and form which would have been seen on these occasions is here imagined by Martin Pitts in a swirling sequence of linocut images". $300

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Porché, François. Verlaine; tel qu'il fut. Paris, Flammarion Éditeur, 1933. First edition in very fine condition, 12mo, 444 pages, wraps. Inscribed by Porche.

$195

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Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of (1647-1680) and Fletcher, John, (1579-1625). Valentinian, a tragedy as 'tis alter'd by the Earl of Rochester, and acted at the Theatre-Royal together with a preface concerning the author and his writings, by one of his friends. London, Printed for Timothy Goodwin, 1685. First edition, complete and in fine condition, (8), 82, (1)--the Cambridge copy is lacking the preface. Bound in modern brown cloth covered boards. Wing F1354 and Young 1282. Very uncommon.

$1,600

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Rostand, Maurice. Les Insomnies poèmes, 1914-1923. Paris Ernest Flammarion 1923. 282p., inscribed by playwright Edmond Rostand's flamboyant son, later printing, wraps. Contains two poems about a 15-year-old boy and another describing and defending the poet's own effeminancy.

$250

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Schwarz, Oswald. Uber Homosexualitat: ein beitrag zu einer medizinischen anthropologie. Leipzeg, Georg Thieme, 1931. First and only edition, fine condition, 25 by 17.5cm, 122 pages, paper wraps. Fairly uncommon in America.

$175

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Stoddard, Charles Warren. Poems San Francisco, Roman and Company, 1867. Complete and in very good condition, 23 by 15cm, bound in green pebbled cloth with fraying to top and bottom of spine and bubbling to front and rear boards, 123 pages. Illustrated by William Keith. Typography by the famous San Francisco printer and engraver Edward Bosqui. This is an advanced copy indicated as such in pencil on the title page by the publisher.

$325

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Strange, Edward Fairbrother. Plaissy in Prison and Other Poems. London, Printed for the author by A A Kennedy, 1892. Fine in three-quarters green calf and paper covered boards, 23 by 14.5cm, 62 pages, deckled edged handmade paper, one of 200 copies numbered and signed by Strange, also inscibed and dated by him on the f.e.p. Original paper wraps bound in along the errata slip.

Includes a Gay eulogy "In Cornwall" that closely, if in a much short format, paces Tennyson's In Memoriam. Extremely rare with no UK holdings.

$1,200

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Symonds, John Addington. A Problem in Greek Ethics London, Apeoiiatitita, 1908. Complete and in very fine condition, 23 by 15cm, 73 pages. One of only two or three bound in green satin and gilt decorated boards--very slight wear to spine ends but overall very bright and fresh.

$345

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Vidal, Gore. Williwaw. San Francisco, Arion Press, 1996. A wonderful limited edition issued on the 50th anniversary of the orginial publication. Folio (30 by 22cm), 119 pages, bound in black cloth covered boards, handmade paper, designed by Andrew Hoymen. Includes three black and white photos of Vidal one of which shows him camping it up besides a snow covered pine tree. Also includes the prospectus for this work and others by Arion. Signed and numbered (one of 250 numbered) by Vidal. Fine in fine dust jacket.

$325

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Vignons, Max De. Fredi a L'ecole: Le Roman D'un Inverti. Paris, Librairie Artistique, 1929. First edition, fine condition, 20.3 by 13.8cm, 215 pages. Illustrated and with the four extra naughty drawings on very stiff paper that were available only to mail order purchasers. Extremely uncommon.

$975

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Wolf, Charles. Die Kastration bei sexuellen Perversionen und Sittlichkeitsverbrechen des Mannes. Basel, Schwabe, 1934. First edition, complete, 26 by 18cm, xii, 300. Very good in very good paper wraps with scattered foxing to the first and last leaves. Drawn largely on the work of Hirschfeld. Very uncommon with five European but no UK or major US holdings.

$750

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