Paris: Flammarion (1953). A fine copy of this novel, one of 250 numbered copies printed on alfa, laid into a marbled paper and vellum slipcase and box. More

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

Elysium Press (1998). Soft cover. A short story in which the author's evocative prose addresses those mysteries of life which lie just out of sight. One of 100 numbered copies hand sewn in stiff wrappers of Fabriano paper. More

Hogarth Press (1932). Hardcover. Novel set in London, printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press. A very good copy, just a bit of foxing on endpapers, very good jacket (designed by John Banting) with some edgewear and two smallish chips. office. More

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

London: Martin Secker (1939). 218pp. Pryce-Jones was a highly regarded writer and literary critic and editor of the Times Literary Supplement in the 1950s. A member of both the social and the intellectual elite in Britain, he moved to the United States in his later life but maintained his connections to a wide circle of prominent friends. The author's first novel, published pseudonymously, which portrays the unhappy life of a vain young Englishman and his struggles with his homosexuality in pre-Nazi Germany. Brian Howard, one of the gayest "Bright Young Things" wrote a brilliant review of the book for the New Statesman: "Pink Danube lies in what, to me, is the most comforting of modern fiction countries. To the north, lies the new, industrial town of Isherwoodstadt, and to the south, the vast, old, lazy pleasure-cities of Comptonia and Normanville, from which, one fine days, one may descry Firbank Island. It is somewhere on the central plateau, near the site of the old, deserted capital, Yellowbook, that we find Pumphrey Cottage." See Lancaster, Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure @ 399-400. Very good in buckram binding, ex-library with several stamps on endpapers. The book is extremely rare and rarely appears in commerce. More

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

London, New York, F.A. Stokes Company [1896]. 197pp. An odd story of a man's attempt to maintain a "Platonic" relationship with a female friend, which ultimately ends in failure and much emotional drama. Very good in illustrated red linen boards. Quite uncommon. More

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Light sunning to jacket spine. More

London: D. Bogue: [Chiswick Press] (1881). The British peer's first collection of verse, preceding Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf for which Oscar Wilde provided an introduction. Rodd and Wilde eventually parted ways after Wilde courted scandal and Rodd went on to a prominent career in the Foreign Service. The poem "If any one Return" has a particularly homoerotic caste. By the high cliff's edge where the wild weeds twine, And he would not speak or move, But his eyes would gaze from his soul to mine, My eyes that would answer without one sign, And that were enough for love. Good in parchment wrappers with ownership inscription of Henry Dunkin (alumnus with Rodd of Haileybury School) dated 1881. Wrappers chipped with loss at edges, penciled notes of Brian Reade on endpaper. More

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

Paris, La Centaine (1926). These 222 letters from Remy de Gourmont addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney during the years 1910 to 1915, serve, as the recipient wrote, both of "preface, comment and conclusion to Letters to the Amazon", published in 1914. Illustrated with 52 original lithographs by Rouveyre. One of 100 special copies on Japon, this example #3. Warmly inscribed by the illustrator, and signed by Edouard Champion and Natalie Barney on title page. Bound in 1/2 morocco, front panel very weak, light wear to boards, some light foxing on tissue guards. More

Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press (1966). 4to. 27pp. A collection of poems by Sanders, Ken Weaver, Tuli Kupferberg and others, printed on multi-colored papers. Includes such Sixties classics as "Group Grope," "The Harness Queen" and assorted other drug-inspired lyrics. The name of the group was apparently inspired by Norman Mailer and the lyrics combine politics with literary and drug allusions.Very good, covers a bit darkened, light wear, unstapled (original staple snot present). Signed by Sanders on title page. More