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Suite d'Illustrations pour Marcel Proust
[1950]. The artist's personal collection of fifty original etchings which he created for Proust's epic novel, À la recherche du temps perdu. Jullian's etchings originally appeared in the 1949 edition of the book and have been described as a mixture of Honore Daumier and Rex Whistler. "No one evoked better a palace or a party, a vapid youth or a disabused dowager. No frailty goes unrecorded, no pretension unexposed." (Philip Mansel, Times Literary Supplement (2011). Each etching is annotated in pencil by the artist and the images are tipped into parchment boards, with an original penned drawing on the cover. Not to be confused with XV Portraits d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust, which was issued in an ediiton of 150 copies around the same time. Near fine with light wear to spine, wood veneer slipcase. More
L'amour Sèlectif
Paris: La Revue Blanche (1 Octobre 1896). Soft cover. Jackson contributes this essay on homosexuality and its place in society. His philosophical argument draws on Darwin, Raffalovich, Kraft-Ebbing, Havelock Ellis and others and is quite forward-looking in its plea for acceptance. Very good in original wrappers. Also included is the first appearance of Robert Scheffer's work, "Le Prince Narcisse: etude passionelle," a gay work subsequently published the following year. Very good, light wear and browning to wrappers and spine, small discoloration at spine. More
Troya’da Ölüm Vard .
[Ankara] Forum [1962]. 246pp. Death in Troy is a novel of repressed homosexuality by popular Turkish writer Bilge Karasu (1930-1995). A young man growing up in a small coastal village comes of age in an atmosphere of sublimated, disoriented male eroticism. Governed by religious and sexual taboos, rigid gender roles, stifling maternal love, and the enforced silences of social decorum, he is driven to the point of insanity from which he slowly and painfully returns. Told from several points of view and structured in a series of intersecting flashbacks and interior monologues, the novel describes the difficult geography of male intimacy from multiple perspectives-adolescent friendship, homosexual desire, mother-son bonds, and those between men and women. Perhaps the most important modern gay Turkish novel. Very good in original wrappers, light wear to covers. Uncommon. More
Verborgenheden : zeven gedichten
[Amsterdam] : Sub Signo Libelli, 1977. A beautifully presented collection of Cavafy's poems, one of 50 copies, fine in green wrappers. This example un-numbered. More
Caresses et Blasphèmes
Paris: Impr. de J. Haumont (1945). 34pp. Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy Kennard (1885-1948) was educated at Eton and circulated in Oscar Wilde's milieu (his mother financed the Epstein memorial for him at Pere Lachaise). He was also a great friend of Ronald Firbank and Vyvyan Holland and for many years was Firbank's most ardent supporter and literary confidant. One of several publications issued during his lifetime and surely one of the oddest- it might be argued that the book is in fact a spoof, created by a third party, to denigrate Kennard or bring amusement to others. The poems herein, all in English, are erotic to some extent, a number quite homoerotic: "O! let me calm/ Your fevered blood / Quick! Let me drink,/ Deep in the chasm,/ The growing flood/ Of your vast spasm!" One of 380 numbered copies, finely printed on Johannot, cream wrappers lightly worn. Rare. More
Hecataei Milesii Fragmenta. Scylacis Caryandensis Periplus
Berolini : Impensis G. Reimeri (1831). A dissertation on the life and writings of Hecataeus by the German philologist. Hecataeus of Miletus was a Greek philosopher whose studies of the natural world and geography were among the most provocative of his generation. This text contains a study of early surveys of the ancient world. Rebound in Italian paper boards, leather spine label, with the ownership stamp of Norman Douglas on front pastedown. Light foxing throughout. Map. Rare. More
An Interview with Henry Scott Tuke
Portsmouth: Callum James (2011). Reprint of an interview published in the Windsor magazine in 1895, which includes a number of illustrations. One of 50 copies (#6) printed. Fine in wrappers. More
Un Album de Vacances
Paris: Editions Serendip (2004). sm 4to. A beautifully produced facsimile ediiton of a photograph album assembled by Boris Kochno in the mid 1920s. The photographs include Pavel Tchelitchew , René Crevel, Eugène and Léonid Berman, Louis Marcoussis, George Auric and many others. Many of the images relate to vacation scenes in and around Toulon. One of only 200 copies printed letterpress, with an Introduction by Patrick Mauriés. Fine in stiff wrappers and slipcase. More
The Whole Family
Koh is a gay performance and visual artist who often used the term "asianpunkboy" to identify his works, which have been included in many notable collections. This is a boxed set to accompany his first solo exhibition, "The Whole Family" in 2003, comprising a list of elements for the show, a series of 21 lavender tinted portraits of one young man, short works by Bruce Labruce, AA Bronson, Matthias Herrmann, Richard Prince, Larry Clark, and Ryan McGinley (all relating to boys), a sample of lavender, a music CD, and a paper airplane. Housed in original cardboard clamshell box with blind-stamped pastedown label. Limited edition, one of 100 copies. Light wear to box, but the contents are fine as issued. More
Spieluhr der Liebe
München: Musarion-Verl (1920). 51pp. The gay Symbolist's collection of poems written in the style of eighteenth-century pastorals and set to music by the author. Originally published in Russian in 1910 under the title Kuranty Lyubvi [Chimes of Love]. Cover illustration by Kuzmin's lover Konstantin Somov. Very good, slight loss to spine and light wear to covers. More
Histoire merveilleuse et édifiante de Godemiché. Trouvée dans un ancien manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de la sacré Congrégation des Nonnes
A Rome, Aux frais des religieuses du Couvent des Carmélites (1776) 48pp. [1871]. The Abbe Du Laurens was and intriguing subversive libertine and philosopher who spent more than 25 years in prison for his controversial writings, this being among the most licentious. This collection of essays on dildos was originally published in 1763 and is in reality a commentary on the Bible and religion and includes an essay on the subject by "M. de Saint-Evremond". Very good in original grey wrappers, slight wear to covers. Limited to 100 copies, this example is unnumbered. Perceau 42 (indicates that some copies have illustrations- not present here). More
The Death of Madame
Harrison of Paris (1931). 25pp. The seventh publication of Harrison of Paris, translated by Monroe Wheeler, which recounts the death of Charles I's daughter (Louis XIV's sister-in-law), which the author had witnessed. A lovely little book bound in full vellum in the publisher's black paper-covered clamshell box titled in gilt. Printed on Iridescent Imperial Japan vellum, and limited to 325 copies. See, Ford, Published in Paris @335-36. The book and box are laid into a mailing envelope with Monroe Wheeler's penned notations and another notation in the hand of his longtime companion Glenway Wescott ("I don't suppose you want to provide Brooke [Astor] with this? Worthy of her or, the opposite"). Laid into the book is Wheeler's ex libris. More
Der Gemüthausdruck des Antinous ein Jahrhundert Angewandter Psychologie auf dem Gebiete der Antiken Plastik
Berlin: Verlag Spemann (1891). 92pp. A detailed description of existing works in German dealing with Antinous, with 60 works discussed, including those by Hausrath (aka George Taylor) and Gregorovious. Very good in wrappers, small chip to cover, pages uncut, folding chart at rear. Uncommon. More
La verte vieillesse
Lyon: A. Rey (1921). 457pp. Alexandre Lacassagne was a French physician and criminologist who edited the influential Archives d'anthropologie criminelle for many years. It was in this context that he became acquainted with Andre Raffalovich, who contributed a number of essays on homosexuality to the journal. This was the author's last work and bears a warm inscription to Raffalovich on front endpaper. Very good in original wrappers. More
Pédérastie. (Extrait du Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales de Dechambre, série 2, tome 22, 1886)
Paris: G. Masson: P. Asselin (1886). Alexandre Lacassagne (1843-1924) was a professor of forensic medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon and wrote extensively about issues related to homosexuality. This work is an extract from Dechambre's Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales (série 2, tome 22, 1886) and became an important milestone and was praised by Havelock Ellis among others. The article is inscribed by the author to his colleague Dr. Charles Vibert, very good in later plain wrappers. More
Traité de la l'Hysterie
Paris: Bibliothèque Médicale (1903). 128pp. One of a series of books on sexology and mental disease. Good in original wrappers, wear to covers and spine. More
Traité de la l'Onanisme
Paris: Bibliothèque Médicale (1903). 128pp. The history, causes and cures for onanism, penned by the former medical doctor who worked for the police prefecture in Paris at the turn of the century. One of a series of books on sexology and mental disease. Good in original wrappers, wear to covers and spine. More
Die Fragmente der Sappho / Übertr. u. eingeleit. von Georg Lange
München: Musarion-Verlag [1922]. 73pp. Uncommon collection of Sapphic poetry accompanied by a title drawing and three plates based on ancient models. Very good in decorative faded pink boards. No copies in WorldCat. More
The Tides ebb out to the Night. Being the journal of a young man, Basil Brooke. Edited by his friend H. Langley
London: H. Henry & Co. (1896). 311pp. A rare decadent novel in the form of a journal and letters, which resembles a French Symbolism work. The introduction cautions: "Basil Brooke....[has] a tendency toward softness, fatalistic acquiescence, and pervasive unsatisfactoriness which are so regrettably "in the air"...he becomes one which it may be good to present at the present time- if only for warning." There are descriptions of decadent London rooms and much drug-taking and a failed romance. The introduction also notes that the book was completed before the recent death of a well known French writer (Paul Verlaine?). Brian Reade's penned ownership signature on endpaper and his penciled notation where Beardsley is mentioned in the text. Quite rare- there appear to be no institutional copies in the US. Good in boards, marbled endpapers, light wear to corners, spine a bit dulled. Gilt stamp on front cover of the Kingsley hotel, so this is likely a later binding. More
Sailors Don't Care
New York: Cape and Smith (1930). The author's debut publication, a ribald novel which drew upon his experiences working on a tramp freighter after departing Williams College. He went on to write several other works and is best known for his mystery novels. Originally published by Contact Editions in 1929, this edition is somewhat revised with some expurgated scenes. A very good copy in blue boards, lightly worn with the original illustrated dust jacket with light edgewear, signature on endpaper. More
L'Outrage Public a la Pudeur et la Contravention d'Affiches Indécentes
Troyes: Éditions la Renaissance (1967). 227pp. An extremely detailed review of the definitions employed by the state to determine what is offensive to the public with particular reference to what constitutes obscenity. A number of legal cases are reviewed and there is a discussion of how this relates to advertising for gay enterprises, as well. Very good in wrappers. More
Oil Rig #99
"Across the blazing sands of the Sahara- in a savage land of forbidden passions, they came to find a fortune- and found each other. The original vintage film poster for this classic of gay porn, starring Ryan Harker and Bud Wallace. Very good, with light edgewear. More
Strichjunge Karl
Berlin (1954). A reprint of a study of male prostitutes in Berlin. Illustrations. Very good in decorative wrappers, one corner bumped. More