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L'Enfant Amour
Paris: Flammarion (1969). Peyrefitte's relections on youth and their achievements- from Greece to contemporary times. One of 1,000 numbered copies. Near fine in wrappers. A bit uncommon. More
Les Amities Particulieres
Marseille: Jean Vigneau (1944). Hardcover. 4to. The first edition of Peyrefitte's classic novel of schoolboy love. Rebound in marbled boards and vellum spine, wear and browning at edges, the copy #1702. More
South from Naples
London (1954). Hardcover. A record of journeys in Italy with a number of amusing anecdotes. illustrated by Guenther Boehmer. Very good in very good decorative jacket, minor edgewear. More
Fantasies
London: Privately printed (1923). Uranian poetry by the author of several similar volumes extoling the virtues of such relationships. Printed by Francis Edwin Murray who issued a number of Uranian texts. One of 28 large paper copies, good in grey boards, covers browned and worn, spine starting to crack. Original prospectus for the book laid in (one sheet folded). Bookplate (by Ralph Chubb) of Anthony Reid on front pastedown.Young 3041*. More
Photographie 1947
Paris/London (1947). Soft cover. 4to. One of the most important collections of post-War photographs from some of the masters- Ansel Adams, Brassai, Penn, Henle, Willy Ronis, Barbara Morgan, several by George Platt Lynes and numerous others. The photographs were printed by gravure and are quite well done. Good in spiral binding, a little edgeworn as is common with this book, with wear to spiral binding, as well. More
Dekapente Hell nika kam mata aphan : Marp ssa, kalokairi 1992
[Greece: 2011]. 28pp. A collection of the author's poetry beautifully printed on Greece. Fine in wrappers. Inscribed by the author on endpaper. More
Hommage a Marie-Blanche, Comtesse Jean de Polignac
Monaco (1965) 4to. A lavishly produced memorial tribute to the Comtesse de Polignac, who for many years was at the center of the artistic and social life of Paris. She was the daughter of the couturier, Jeanne Lanvin and belonged just as much to the music world as she did to the fashion world. Janet Flanner commented, "She had a voice like a well-trained lark." Salvador Dalí wrote in My Secret Life, "In spring it was very pleasant at Comtesse Marie-Blanche de Polignac's, where from the garden one listened to string quartets played in the interior, all aflame with candles and the Renoir paintings." This collection consists of tributes by an array of her friends and colleagues, including Lady Diana Cooper, Colette, Louise de Vilmorin, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, Boris Kochno, Emilio Terry, Roderick Cameron and many others. Illustrations by Bérard, Jean Hugo, Picasso, Stravinsky and others. Numerous facsimiles and photographs laid into the text. Very good in chemise and clamshell box, some offsetting to box and small stain. Copy LXIII printed for Robert Veyron-Lacroix (one of 153 special copies). More
L'Égaré (Ou Le Cycle Légendaire De La Grèce Asiatique Et Africaine)
Paris: Figuière [1919]. One of several novels with a gay theme written by the French writer and contributor to the French literary journal PAN, most famous for his Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. Very good in original wrappers, inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Quite uncommon. More
Any Port in a Storm
An amusing postcard entitled "Any Port in a Storm" with two intoxicated sailors evidently headed to a romantic liaison at the "Lifebuoy Hotel." Very good, penciled notation on verso, stamped. More
Long-Haired Iopas: Old Chapters from Twenty-Five Years of Music-Criticism
Florence: Privately Printed by the Press of "The Italian Mail" (1927). 426pp. The author's magnum opus on musicology with forty-two essays on a variety of music-related subjects, including works on Wagner, Gounod, Rubinstein, Strauss, Verdi, Massenet, and assorted other subjects. Many of the essays bear dedications to an interesting assortment of his friends and acquaintances, including George Woodberry, Vernon Lee and James Truslow Adams. One of only 135 numbered copies, signed by the author, this example being #96. Very good in original wrappers, light wear to wrappers, spine lightly worn. More
Les Illusions
Paris: Charpentier (1909). 348pp. Very good in contemporary marbled boards, original wrappers not present. Rare. More
An original undated postcard
An original undated postcard ridiculing German "tourtes" most likely dating the first World War. Ranieri (1865-1929) was an Italian ceramist living in Paris and he often contributed to such magazines as La Baïonnette. Throughout the war years, his signature is often found on numerous caricatures distributed in the form of postcards used as support for anti-German propaganda. This particular example ridicules the German military for its effeminate ways, in the wake of the Eulenburg-Brand scandal some years before. Near fine, More
Les Deux Amants de Baia. Lentulus et Ascyltos.
NP: Édition Française [19-] 101pp. One of several books of historical fiction with gay themes written by Redni, all of them quite rare. More
L'Éphèbe de Pergame; suivi de Lucien, Les amours
Paris: Édition Francaise. Redni's translation of the homoerotic portions of Petronius' Satyricon and Lucien's Les Amours. Redni is also known as the author of Luxures antiques. Voluptés tragiques. One of 100 numbered copies printed on Hollande, initialed by the author (#VI). Very good in illustrated wrappers, a bit of foxing to untrimmed edges. Uncommon. More
Sunshiny upper
Jersey: Purple Sandpiper Press (2003). 8pp. A collection of poems dedicated to Alan Clodd, accompanied by artwork by Edouard Tanguy. Limited to 100 copies, and twenty signed silk bound copies (of which this is #3). Very good in elaborate silk boards, inscribed by the author on colophon page. More
Private Road
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Light sunning to jacket spine. More
Rimbaud a Aden
Paris (2001). 4to. Reflections on Rimbaud's visit to Aden in 1880 with numerous photographs retracing his peregrinations. Attractive and interesting book. Fine in wrappers. More
A Letter to Claud
Iowa City: Typographic Library (1975) 4to. Soft cover. The second edition of this facsimile letter, limited to only 50 copies. Inscribed by Donald Weeks, the owner of the original letter, to Anthony Reid in the year of publication. Not in Woolf. One sheet folded and laid into plain blue card wrappers. The five illustrations by Rolfe have been redrawn and reduced. A fine copy. More
Ballade of Boys Bathing
Holborn (1972). Soft cover. Number 33 of 200 numbered copies. Fine in fine envelope. More
Ballade of Boys Bathing
Holborn (1972). Reprint of a piece originally written in 1888. One folded sheet printed in three colors. One of 200 copies printed. Fine in the original printed envelope, with ex-libris of Alex. Bridge on Envelope, along with his signature. More
Letters to James Walsh
London: Bertram Rota (1972). A series of letters written by Corvo between 1903-1911, with several facsimiles. Edited by Corvo's biographer, Donald Weeks, with copious notes at rear. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. One of 500 numbered copies. More
Poems
London: V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press (1931). 12mo. Dadie Rylands was a Scholar at Eton and at King ’s College, Cambridge, where he read classics and English literature. After graduation he worked for a few months at the Hogarth Press with Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who printed and published two volumes of his poetry. Poems was printed by hand by Virigina and Leonard Woolf. One of 350 numbered and signed copies (#260). Very good in decorative paper boards. First edition, first issue, with the comma after the "L" on the title-page. More
Quaint Stories of the Samurais
Paris: Printed for Private Distribution (Contact Editions, 1929). The author of these gay stories was a seventeenth century Japanese writer whose stories about samurai man-youth relations have been widely reprinted. The stories collected here were translated by Ken Sato and are the first English transcriptions, published by Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions. Originally intended to be a two volume book, McAlmon reported to Sylvia Beach that many of the stories "got lost in the mails," but there were still enough (111 printed pages), he reckoned, to provide amusement "without the matter getting wearisome." He had read the Sato manuscript on his trip to America and had found a pleasing naiveté in the stories as well as "situations so completely horrifying to Anglo-Saxondom" that he vowed "they'd better be done."' (Hugh Ford, Published In Paris, Garnstone Press, 1975). Very good in original lightly worn wrappers, small closed tear at head of spine. With the small bookplate of renowned gay collector Herbert Boyce Satcher on front free endpaper. One of 500 copies printed, although rarer in commerce than this would imply. More
La Sodome des Antilles, ou le Sauvage du Mont-Pelé
Paris: Librairie Generale Catholique (1922). 287pp. A fictionalized version of the events leading up the the eruption of Mt. Pele in 1902, which resulted in the death of 30,000 people around St. Pierre, the capitol. St. Pierre has been described as the Sodom of the Caribbean, a town rife with prostitution, decadence, blasphemy, homosexuality and unbelief and many believed this was the reason for the eruption. The author portrays assorted sacrileges and "decadent behavior" that occurred immediately before the eruption. Very good in original wrappers, light wear to covers and spine, pages uncut. Quite rare. More