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AN OBSCENE DIARY THE VISUAL WORLD OF SAM STEWARD
by Justin Spring
Special Edition of 1,000. Hardcover and softcover in slipcase.
Includes two books, both 8.5 x 11 inches.
Book 1: Softcover 116 pages. Book 2: Hardcover 200 pages.
$150.00
An Obscene Diary The Visual World of Sam Steward chronicles the extraordinary
visual works of this talented and largely unknown, writer, artist, photographer,
and sexual outlaw also known a tattoo artist Phil Sparrow and pornographer
Phil Andros. This special edition, limited to 1,000 copies presents a diverse
and powerful collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures, decorative objects,
illustrations and photographs that are remarkably varied in style, and often quite
contradictory in mood and tone. Bound in two volumes and slipcased, the
collection presents more than 700 images. This edition complements the
forthcoming Farrar, Straus and Giroux biography by Justin Spring, entitled Secret
Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and
Sexual Renegade and presents a wealth of previously unpublished material,
including a large quantity of highly erotic and sexually explicit polaroids taken by
Steward in the early 1950s.
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THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FREDERICK ROLFE
Baron Corvo
1860-1913
by Donald Rosenthal
Asphodel Editions announces the publication of the first compilation of the photographic works of Frederick, Rolfe, (Baron Corvo) by Donald Rosenthal. Rolfe is worthy of interest as a photographer whose best works, particularly in the genre of the outdoor male nude, are early and excellent examples of their kind. He was the leading English exponent of Arcadian photography in Italy, a field that otherwise was dominated by German artists and their Italian followers. His outdoor figure studies from Italy show the same consistency and artistic control that characterize his nearly contemporary Toto stories and the later Hadrian VII.
Limited to two hundred casebound copies ($85.) and fifty numbered slipcased copies. ($150.) The book was printed in color on Mohawk Superfine and is bound in Japanese cloth. 145pp. ISBN: 1-893450-49-X (regular edition); 1-893450-48-1 (special edition)
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LORD LYLLIAN: BLACK MASSES by Jacques d'Adelswärd Fersen
This edition is the first English translation of the eccentric Baron Fersen's decadent gay novel, Lord Lyllian: Black Masses. Fersen (1880-1923) was arrested in 1903 and charged with indecent assault and "exciting minors to debauchery". He was forced to leave France and settled in Capri, where he began the novel the following year. Originally published in 1905, it was one of the first novels written about Oscar Wilde after his demise and is filled with outrageous descriptions of fin de siècle excesses, including Fersen's own addiction to opium and adolescent boys. The edition is limited to 500 copies bound in black silk moiré, with a reproduction of the original cover illustration by Claude Simpson tipped onto the cover. Jeremy Reed has contributed an Introduction to the edition. $65
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Jullian, Philippe. Marraine.
A short story about a penpal relationship between Marraine, ostensibly a middle aged provincial French spinster, and a French legionnaire serving in the Far East. Jullian paints an amusing portrait of this long distance courtship and brings the tale to a surprising conclusion. Printed letterpress in an edition of 150 copies, with illustrations by the author. $50
CZANARA, The Art and Photographs of Raymond Carrance: CZANARA. Raymond Carrance was a highly talented artist, photographer and book illustrator, whose work is largely unknown today. He used the pseudonym "Czanara" for his homoerotic work and this collection will present a number of his photographs and drawings done in the 1950s and 60s. Available spring 2006.
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