Paris: Garnier (1920s). Advice on sexual matters to young men, including a discussion of homosexuality, etc. A fair copy in rather tired wrappers. More

Paris: Albin Michel (1928). An uncommon gay novel set in a Montmartre gay bar which accurately reflects the decadence of the 1920s through the eyes of the bar's owner Horace and his much younger lover. Very good in original wrappers by Vertes, light edgewear, wrinkling to spine. One of 10 special copies on Mongolfier (#9). Quite uncommon. More

Paris: Mercure de France (1899). 261pp. The second edition of this controversial gay novel, which was prosecuted for pederastic content in a widely publicized case. After a storm of protest and support from numerous literary celebrities, Eekhoud was eventually acquitted and the book has remained one of the foundational works of modern gay literature. Very good in period binding, original wrappers not present, light wear. More

New York (1993). Hardcover. 4to. Extensive study of male homoerotic photographs. Fine in fine jacket, warmly inscribed by the author. Ooffice. More

A collection of twenty-three vintage sexually explicit photographs (various sizes and formats) involving men in a variety of sexual acts. Eleven of the images appear to date from the 1940/50s and the remainder likely 1960s/70s. All are in very good condition and bear no markings as to origin, but appear to be amateur productions. Please inquire for further details. More

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (1950). 56pp. A collection of poetry by the New Orleans native with an introduction by Tennessee Williams. Warmly inscribed by the author to the Neo-Romantic painter Pavel Tchelitchew on front endpaper. Very good in very good jacket, with light rubbing. More

Elysium: Asphodel Editions (2005). 1st Edition. Hardcover. This edition is the first English translation of the eccentric Baron Fersen's decadent gay novel, Lord Lyllian: Messes Noires. 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. Printed at the Stinehour Press in Vermont. More

Paris: Èditions de la Mandragore [ c.1927 ]. 29pp. 8vo. Paul Souday (1869-1929) was one of the most important French literary critics of his time and the author of biographies of Gide, Proust and Valéry. Although very traditional in his tastes, he engaged in an extended correspondence with Proust and wrote his obituary for the New York Times. Nonetheless, Souday often fulminated with homophobic diatribes, including this excerpt in an essay on Gide's Les Faux Monnayeurs: "[There are] annoying analogies between André Gide's various heroes and Mr. Charlus and his friends. Oh! There is no crudity in the language here. All of this is discrete, veiled, and a very innocent reader would not necessarily understand what it's all about. On the other hand, it's all too clear. Truly, it becomes intolerable, especially with Gide's seriousness and insipid sentimentality." (See Levitz, Modernist Mysteries: Persephone @ 267.) Souday had presented a questionnaire on the subject of homosexuality to a number of other homophobic French writers in in 1926 edition of the literary journal Les Marges, which perhaps was the impetus for the present publication. The edition contains a number of short essays on a range of "issues" related to homosexuality and we surmise that the author was in fact submitting a parody of Souday and his compatriots. Very good in original stapled wrappers. Quite rare, no institutional copies located. More

New York and Pawlet (Vt) 1947-1978. Thirty seven publications either printed or published by the legendary small press. Fredericks and Saul began the press in an abandoned basement in New York City in 1947 and Fredericks continued the work of the press after moving to Vermont to teach classics at Bennington College. For decades, Fredericks issued hand-set limited editions by writers such as Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, James Merrill, Gil Orlovitz, Stephen Spender, William Everson and Bernard Malamud. Fredericks also printed a number of smaller (although often lavish) publications as Christmas mementos and for gifts. This collection, assembled over many years, includes ephermal printing, as well as TLS from Fredericks. For a complete listing, please contact. As a teacher at Bennington, Fredericks's students included the novelist Donna Tartt, who modeled a character on Fredericks in The Secret History (1993) and dedicated The Goldfinch (2013), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He was removed from his teaching post for a scandal involving a male student in 1992. His copious and neurotically maintained journals are on deposit at the Getty Center. More

NP; NP (c 1827). 8vo. oblong (13.5 cm. x 20cm). A series of 16 hand-colored copper engravings (8" x 5.5") relating to the death and interment of Pope Pius VII and the election of Pope Leo XII (printed on rectos only). Three additional colored engravings depict Pope Leo XII and costumes of the religious order of Adoratrices. Original full limp vellum with printed vellum label on spine, tissue guards, in custom blue cloth clamshell case. Light toning to covers, damp staining to bottoms of several pages (not affecting images). Ex-collection Islay Lyons. More

Paris: 14 September (1912). This issue of the french weekly contains a cover illustration by Faivre of an effeminate man with the heading: "l'Homme qui ne comprend pas les femmes." Very good in the usual somewhat fragile condiiton. More

Paris: Gallimard (1991). 425pp. A collection of works and interviews, edited by Albert Dichy.Limited to 80 copies on Hollande, this is #19. Fine in wrappers, pages uncut. More

Berlin: Blaetter fuer die Kunst, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this work by one of Germany's most important poets. Inspired by the French symbolist poet Mallarmé's vision of art for its own sake, George devoted himself to the production of highly refined, often hermetic, poetry for an elite audience. Der Siebente Ring (The Seventh Ring) refers to the intimate group of devotees bound to George as Master and contains the extraordinary series of poems celebrating the youth in whose perfect beauty George saw an incarnation of godhead, the fourteen-year-old boy Max Kronberger. George eschewed all conventions and issued this work under the imprint of his own journal, Blaetter fuer Kunst, displaying the unique typography that George himself designed, with the elegant ornamented borders, mystical illustrations and book design of Melchior Lechter, so reminiscent of various fin-de-siecle crafts movements. A beautiful copy in the original purple linen with gilt ornaments and raised spine bands. Very light sunning to spine, a few very small stains to cover, gift inscription (not by the author) on endpaper (in the year of publication), small tear to front spine joint. Rare. More