La Lozana Andaluza (La Gentille Andalouse)
Paris: Liseux (188). 2 vols. 311pp; 327pp. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Translated by Alcide Bonneau. Very good in original wrappers (2 vols.).No 209 of 220 copies. More
Paris: Liseux (188). 2 vols. 311pp; 327pp. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Translated by Alcide Bonneau. Very good in original wrappers (2 vols.).No 209 of 220 copies. More
Benvenuto (1727) 112pp. Hardcover. Very good in three quarter leather binding with marbled endpapers. More
Paris: L'Edition (1918). 284pp. Memoirs of the famous French tragedien, who befriended Cocteau at a young age and helped to launch his career as a poet. Illustrated throughout with 24 drawings of Jean Lorrain, Robert de Montesquiou, Henri Bernstein, Sacha Guitry, Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand and others by Cappiello, de Losques, Lucien Laforge, etc. One of only thirty numbered copies on Japon (after 12 on Chine), this copy is also adorned with a warm inscription from the author on a title page from another addition which is tipped onto endpaper. A very nice copy in original decorated wrappers. More
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966?). Works by Jack Scott, John Ruttenberg and others. Very good with assorted inserts, stapled into a illustrated portfolio. Very good. More
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966). Works by Jack Scott, Tom Pease, Bukowski, Harvey Tucker and others. Very good, stapled decorative wrappers, light yellowing and wear to covers, small closed tear to rear wrapper. More
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966). Works by Jack Scott, Tom Pease and others. Very good with assorted inserts, stapled decorative wrappers, light yellowing and wear to covers. More
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966?). Works by Jack Scott, Bob Nystedt and others. Very good with assorted inserts, stapled into card wrappers with original design on cover. Very good. More
Paris Modern-Bibliothèque [1909?] 155p. The first illustrated edition of this novel, which caused a scandal when it appeared. because of its 'indelicate and unpatriotic' novel about military life, it includes one character, Laprévotte, a sodomite, who is cuaght 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). More
Paris: Persona (1982). These homoerotic poems are illustrated with drawings by Luis Caballero. An unnumbered copy warmly inscribed by the author on endpaper. Very good in wrappers, light stain to cover. More
Paris: Union Internationale d'Éditions (1909). 155pp. This "roman militaire" is similar to Lucien Descave's portrayal of army life in "Sous-Off" in its descriptions of the seamier aspects of military life. Deverin, an accomplished artist as well as writer, describes in some detail visits to brothels and assorted sexual improprieties. Very good in original decorative wrappers, light wear to covers and spine. The author has illustrated the front endpapers with an original signed drawing depicting a seated soldier. Uncommon. More
Hamburg : Schenck, 1957. Fine in wrappers. More
London: Published by the author (1904). 131pp. Bertram Dobell (9 January 1842 – 14 December 1914) was an English bookseller, literary scholar, editor, poet, essayist and publisher. Warmly inscribed on front endpaper by the author. Very good in light green boards, light spotting to foredge. More
London, J.W. Parker and Son (1858) 8vo., 128 pp. A rare volume on the conduct of young men given to the eccentric teenage poet and Etonian, Digby Mackworth Dolben at age 14. Dolben caused considerable scandal at Eton with his exhibitionist behaviour and homosexual eccentricities He wrote homosexual verses to his contemporaries and scandalized his tutors with his behaviour. Dolben drowned at 19 and was mourned by the great Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins: “there can very seldom have happened the loss of so much beauty (in body and mind and life) ... Inscribed in 1862 to Dolben by Edward Daniel Stone, classical scholar and a schoolmaster at Eton during Dolben's tenure there. Armorial ex-libris of George Digby Scott, rector of Bray Quite rare- the first book of Dolben's library of which we are aware. Full crushed brown morocco and gilt, some wear, evidence of old tape strip removal, all edges gilt. More
London: The Academy Publishing Company (1909). 30pp. The first collection of these sonnets, which include one dedicated to his soon to be estranged wife Olive Custance. Good in buff paper boards, bookplate on pastedown, some staining and wear to covers. Warmly inscribed to Christopher Jarchow (in 1931). Custom chemise and slipcase. More
Naples: Luigi Pierro (1906), 8vo. One of Douglas's early works, an account of Giordano's De Capreis insula from his Historia Neapolitana. The third in a series on Capri by the author. Original salmon wrappers stamped in black, photographic frontispiece missing (as in most copies). One of 250 copies. Woolf A9. Very good, light wear and small chips to spine. More
Graz: Neugebauer (2016). 277pp. Volume 8 of the Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence series, the correspondence commences in 1928 and ends shortly before Douglas' death in 1952. Fine in red fabric boards, as issued. Photographic frontispiece. More
Napoli: Guida (1988). 4to. An Italian reprint of the author's Summer Islands with a number of color photographic illustrations and notes by several hands. Very good in very god jacket, light edgewear. More
London: Chatto & Windus (1933). 2 vols. The author's illustrated collection of prescient memoirs, which includes one of the more prescient perspectives on Jacques Adelsward Fersen. One of 500 special signed and numbered copies, very good in buckram and patterned paper boards, end papers browned. More
Napoli: R. Tipografia Francesco Giannini & Figli (1907). 8vo, 58pp. One of 250 copies issued in Naples for private circulation. Woolf A12. The eighth of Douglas' series of monographs on Capri. Good in salmon wrappers, front cover detached. More
Bregenz und Thüringen (2014). 104pp. Bregenz und Thüringen (2010). 116pp. The ninth publication of papers delivered at the Norman Douglas Symposium in Bregenz in 2016, including essays on Douglas and his circle. Fine in blue wrappers. More
Bregenz und Thüringen (2016). 116pp. Soft cover. The ninth publication of papers delivered at the Norman Douglas Symposium in Bregenz in 2016, including essays on Douglas and his circle. Fine in blue wrappers. More
Graz: Neugebauer (2010). 312pp. Volume 3 of the Selected Correspondence of Norman Douglas, which includes nearly 40 years of letters between these longtime friends, covering a wide range of shared interests and acquaintances. Illustrations. Fine in red linen boards. More
Graz: Neugebauer Verlag (2011). 474pp. Edward Hutton was a prolific writer on Italian subjects and began an extended correspondence and friendship with Norman Douglas until the latter's death in 1952. An extensive selection of the letters is presented here in the fourth volume of the series issued by the Voralberger Landesbibliothek and edited by Arthur Wensigner.The correspondence covers a wide variety of subjects and includes references to many of their shared friends and enthusiasms. Fine in red fabric boards. More
Bregenz (2009). 127pp. An illustrated record of the 5th symposium on Norman Douglas studies held in Austria in 2008, with transcripts in English, German and Italian and contributions by Cecil Woolf, Arthur Wensinger, Neil Rirchie and others. Fine in stiff wrappers. More
Paris: Garnier (1920s). Advice on sexual matters to young men, including a discussion of homosexuality, etc. A fair copy in rather tired wrappers. More