London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. lg 8vo. Termed a "book of monologues" by the author, the short works have titles such as: "Faint," "Sob." "Was," etc. "In general, to help a man is like reviving an assassin who has designs on your life. For beyond the truth that most men are naturally your enemies, the one who solicits your help shews by the very act that you have something which he has not, and which he cannot like you for having." Chocolate brown cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition, second binding, with Grant Richards's imprint at the toe of the spine. Very good, light wear to edges. More

Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro (1956). Uncommon collection of poetry, one of 550 numbered copies. A fine copy in wrappers. More

Fairfax: Red Hill Press (1977). Hardcover. One of fifty special copies signed by the author and illustrator, Carol Yeh. A lovely copy in linen boards. More

London : Smith, Elder, 1915. 128pp. 2 pl. 2 portraits. A collection of poetry by Phillips, published posthumously, along with his notes from the front and several letters of condolence. Very good, cream boards a bit marked, corners bumped, light spotting. Inscribed on front paste down: “Marmie from Mother/March 3rd 1916. More

Paris: Fortune Press (c. 1929). 112pp. Hardcover. A variant edition without illustrations. One of 1550 copies on unbleached papers. Very good in blue buckram boards, light sunning. D'Arch Smith 431a. More

Paris: Librarie de la Plume (1901). 330pp. Liane de Pougy was a famed courtesan of Belle Èpoque France and Folies Bergères dancer, one of the most famous women of her generation. This novel chronicles her lesbian affair with Natalie Barney, whom she encountered in a dance hall in 1899. They maintained a close personal relationship for the rest of their lives and had a long and voluminous correspondence. Very good in original lightly worn and sunned wrappers, edgewear and small tears, small stamp to cover, endpapers lightly foxed, bound in 1/2 marbled boards. Quite uncommon. More

Utrecht: From the Ballroom (1993). A fairy tale and a song printed under the direction of the master printer, Ger Gleis. The edition is published letterpress and the musical score by the composer, Joost Kleppe is included at the end. A beautifully printed edition, bound in 1/2 vellum and decorative Farbiano paper (with designs by Purdy) and slipcased. One of an small number of special copies, signed by Purdy and Joost Kleppe. The entire edition numbered 111 copies. Near fine in paper slipcase. More

Paris: Mercure de France (1895). One of Rachilde's more uncommon books, with a préface by Marcel Schwob. According to Birkett. Sins of the Fathers (at 171): “Rachilde’s best work consist of the short stories that appeared in the 1890s…in the collection Le démon de l’Absurde”. Contains “Les Vendanges de Sodome” wherein “the men of Sodom first committed the sin against nature in the arms of their young brother Sineus, whose sweet shoulder had the scent of honey.” Originally published the preceeding year. Rare novel on the hyper-sexualized relationship between the protagonist Sylvain and his cousin Jeanne, who has paralyzed legs because of a fall. "In Le démon de l'absurde, the twin ideas of fetish and sealedness are carefully brought together: Sylvain realizes that he can caress Jeanne's inert body as though she were a statue, without her feeling it, and when he accidentally touches her he feels an orgasmic "terror mixed with extreme pleasure" (...) (M.R. Finn, Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography: Fin-de-siècle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde, p.87). From the library of A. Diepenbrock, with his owner's entries on frontwr./ first free endpaper. Very good in buckram boards, original wrappers present. More

Madrid [Sucesores de Rivadeneyra] [1922]. 280pp. 2nd. One of the eccentric's early erotic novels, which raises the controversial issue of abortions in Spain. See Heuer, Alvaro Retana Recuperado @646. Very goof in illustrated wrappers, light foxing, rebound in 1/4 leather boards. More

Paris: Librairie Artistique et Médicale (1909). 102pp. An early study of homosexuality in historical and contemporary times. A fair copy, wrappers worn, spine missing, pages browned. Uncommon. More

London (1977). Hardcover. Edited by M. J. Benkovitz. One of the special edition of 45 numbered copies specially bound and printed on Basingwerk Toned Parchment. The regular edition consisted of 350 copies. A near fine copy. More

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

Rugby: George Over (1889). Sayle's second book of verse, highly praised by John Addington Symonds and reviewed by Charles Kains Jackson in the Artist and Journal of Home Culture. Sayle went on to become a noted bibliographer in Cambridge, where he lived most of his life. Original white buckram a little yellowed, covers a bit marked, light browning to endpapers, erratum present at rear. Inscribed by the author to Godfrey Llloyd ('Godfrey Lloyd / from / C.S. / Cambridge/ June 20. 1897.') on front endpaper. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. Limited to 220 copies. Uncommon. Young 3439. d'Arch Smith 250. More