One 3pp ALS from Sturgis to a cousin (dated Queen's Acre Windsor, 1917), enclosing an ink portrait of the recipient's mother done by Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG (1824 –1893). Sturgis is perhaps best known for his controversial novel "Tim, published in 1891. More

Lisbon (1923). 4to. Judith Teixeira (1880-1959) is considered by many to be the only Portuguese modernist poet. Castelo de Sombras was published in the same year as her controversial volume, Decadencia. Her books, along with those of António Botto and Raul Leal were seized by the Civil Government of Lisbon as a result of a campaign led by the conservative Liga de Acção dos Estudantes de Lisboa against "decadent artists, poets of Sodom, the publishers, authors and sellers of immoral books." Good in original wrappers, wear to covers and spine, occasional light spotting. Quite uncommon. More

NP:ND. Soft cover. Original 64 page typescript of this play by Toesca, from the estate of Jean Marais, with a number of penned notations in his hand throughout. Bound in a paper and cloth binding with penned title. It appears this play may have never been produced. More

Two autograph letters from the acclaimed painter to his longtime friend and confidant, Charles Kains-Jackson, both dated 1926. Tuke was best known for his paintings of maritime subjects, particularly of nude young men at the beach. The first is dated 11 February 1926, toward the end of Tuke's nine-week stay in Jamaica and was written on the letterhead of the Waterloo Hotel on Black River. Tuke writes: " I have done quite a lot of sketches & studies & found some good subjects, if one was ever to come back here for any length of time." The second letter was dated at Hampstead, England on 4 May 1926, shortly after his return, discussing his plans to visit the artist colony at Kardomah, Wales with friends: "Masson, Colin, and Towsey are all staying this week-end with Sidney Lomer!" Tuke's patron Sydney Lomer once famously asked Tuke to define the genitals more clearly in one of his paintings. "Colin' was possibly Colin Goodwyn, a model for his 1900 painting 'The Coming of Day'; 'Masson' was in all probability the artist's close friend Charles Masson Fox (1866-1935); and the final guest would be the photographer Stanley Towsey. Tuke also writes "If you come here I can show you a number of my sketches and you can inspect the new room I have added to the house." Signed as H .S. Tuke, each 2 pages, the first 8 1/2x5 1/2 inches, 21 1/2x14 cm, and the other a bit smaller; moderate wear and soiling to the first letter and minimal wear to the second. More

Six of the original photo-engraved printing blocks for the illustrations for the novel Fredi en Ménage, one of a series of transvestite novels starring Fredi. He plays housekeeper to an older man here, but he seems to spent most of his time in a silk kimono and high-heeled shoes. The engraved metal plates are mounted on to the original woodblocks used in the production of the book, all of which bear the title of the book on the side. The plates are in very good condition, several are lightly worn and have residue of the inks used in the letterpress process. The printing block for the cover illustration is included. More

Paris (2006). 32pp. Soft cover. Catalogue of an exhibition of Voinquel's photographs, with numerous reproductions: Cocteau, Piaf, Audrey Hepburn, Gerard Philipe, Arletty, Orson Welles and others. More

A vintage albumen print of four rather forlorn male nudes posing in an outdoor setting(4" x 6"). The photographer's blue (Rome) stamp on verso. Very good with light crease. The image is likely to date around 1900, when the photographer was working in Rome- he left Italy in 1910. More

Los Angeles (1991). 4to. Introduction by William Burroughs, and an afterword by the photographer. Very good in stiff wrappers. More

Lyon: Archives d'anthropologie Criminelle de Criminologie et de Psychologie normale et Pathologique. Tome XXV; #197 15 Mai 1910. Soft cover. This review contains a chapter of Westermarck's The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas dealing with homosexuality, here translated into French. Exhaustively documented with 228 footnotes. Very good in wrappers, edgewear and light sunning. More

Buffalo: Gallery Upstairs Press (1967). An early collection of poetry, some of which have a gay theme. One of 1,000 copies. Very good in blue wrappers.Young 4106. More

Paris: E. Figuiere [1922]. 168 pp. 2nd ed. Wilde's famous novel, adapted to the theater by Suzanne Mercet. (Although the author notes in the introduction: "Cette pièce n'est pas- une adaptation, c'est une transmutation de l'or pur du roman d Oscar Wilde en une matière dramatique aussi précieuse et aussi brillante, puisqu'il l'avait inconsciemment préparée." Very good in marbled boards, original wrappers present (with cover illustration by "Kit") #966 of an unknown edition Quite uncommon and likely the first dramatic presentation of Wilde's novel in France. More

London: Hutchinson (c. 1944). A record of the British journalist and broadcaster's service in the Royal Navy. The book is warmly inscribed on the endpaper to Evan, Viscount Tredeger. Laid into the book is a 2pp TLS from Wynn to Tredeger concerning the latter's hospitilization. Also included are several notes in Tredeger's hand relating to bets on horses. Tredeger, also known as Evan Morgan, was a Welsh poet, patron and friend of many literary and artistic figures such as Huxley, Augustus John, Firbank, and the Sitwells. Very good in very good jacket with some chips and edgewear. More