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Firenze (1988). 4to. 168pp. Elaborately illustrated exhibition catalog on d'Annunzio's life and wardrobe. Numerous photographs. Uncommon. Very good in wrappers. More

Paris: Les Editions Parisiennes [1933]. 249pp. A survey of the sexual attitudes of Moroccans in the 1930s, the author presents his observations as a travelogue with numerous references to prostitution and homosexuality. The book bears a printed dedication to Francis Carco, Very good in original wrappers, signature and ownership stamp on front endpages Uncommon. More

New York: Harper & Brothers (1931). A novel about the hypocrisy and tragedy of midwestern middle-class life, published when the author was 24 years old. Encouraged by Cocteau and Norman Douglas, Davis was a member of the group of artists and writers who lived at the famed Brooklyn Heights commune where Paul Bowles, Auden and Gypsy Rose Lee lived in the 1940s. A literary satire of Davis was written by Truman Capote in the form of the character "Boaty" in his unfinished work Answered Prayers The novel has a number of subtle gay themes and appeared during a short period in the early 1930s when several other novels with similar subjects were well-received. Very good in very good jacket, with a few small edge chips and light browning. Uncommon. More

Barcelona: Pons (1867). 310pp. 3rd. ed. A compendium of every conceivable sin relative to sex, written for the use of priests in dealing with their errant flocks. The treatise on church doctrine includes great detail relative to the variations of sexual improprieties, including bestiality, sodomy, pederasty, masturbation (with extensive discussion of the details of this vice). A fair copy in original boards, extensive browning throughout, front hing cracked, signature and stamps on title page. Uncommon. 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

London: Arthur Humphreys (1917). 40pp. A rather strange story of a young boy's obsession with an invisible friend named "Oscar." The protagonist continues to converse with this friend throughout his life. The author was also the author of another novel, Keddy: A Story of Oxford and died at Flanders in the year the book was published. Very good in original brown boards, light wear. Quite uncommon. The book is #204 on Murray's Catalogue of Selected Books from the Private Library of a Student of Boyhood, Youth and Comradeship. Young #1004. 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

Paris: Plon-Nourrit (1912). 64pp. A medical treatise on various aspects of "abnormal" psychology with emphasis on sexuality delivered at a medical conference in Tunis in 1912. Extensive discussion of "inversion" and related matters. Very good in wrappers, endpaper has one small corner clipped. More

London: The University Press (1897). 204pp. The rare suppressed edition of this collaboration between Ellis and Symonds. The second revised English edition with Ellis' Preface dated October 1897. Very few copies were ever circulated (at the behest of Horatio Brown, Symond's executor) and all later editions excised any reference to Symond's participation on the project. A very good copy in dark blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, corners a bit bumped, covers lightly worn, hinges starting, bookplate on front pastedown. More

Naples (ND) circa 1915. An uncommon early treatise on homosexuality, as well as other reputed sexual abnormalities. A fair copy, front wrapper not present, much of the spine has chipped, internally very good. More

Paris: Leon Vanier (1907). Two novellas, one of which was hailed by Rachilde as a minor masterpiece, both dealing with boys and thwarted love. The book was dedicated to Fersen's lover, Nino Cesarini, "blus beau que la lumière romaine." Edward Prime-Stevenson notes in his compendium The Intersexes called Une Jeunesse "the most artistic of Fersen's tales... It is a simple and graceful sketch of the passion of Robert Jélaine, a young French painter—sensual and prematurely disillusioned but not wholly embittered—for a Sicilian youth, Nino, with a head "like that of the David of Verocchio." The boy is living with his grandmother, at Taormina. Nino has inherited homosexuality, though he does not know it. But the instinct, and consequent incidents, bring his sudden separation from Jélaine." Very good in original wrappers, a bit browned, rebound in marbled paper boards. More

Paris: Vanier (1905). Fersen's semi-autobiographical novel about the decadent Lord Lyllian," a breathtaking mixture of truth and fiction" according to the scholar Will Ogrinc. Fersen includes among his cast of characters not only Oscar Wilde and Alfred Douglas, but Friedrich Krupp, Péladan, Robert de Montesquiou, Jean Lorrain and many others. The author's legal battles with his own "messes noires" happened several years before this novel was published and Fersen had retreated to Capri. A good copy in the very appealing wrappers designed by Claude Simpson, some wear and browning to covers, light repair to verso, bound in a 1/4 morocco binding with marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Thierry-Richard Sabatier, along with a tipped in clipping from le Figaro about Peyrefitte's book. An English translation of the novel, issued by Elysium Press, was published in 2005. More