Christie's South Kensignton (1999). Soft cover. A wealth of paintings, decorative objects, photographs and memorabilia from the Keppel estates in Florence (l'Ombrellino) and La Tour de St. Loup de Naud in France. Fine in wrappers as issued. Numerous illustrations. More
Paris (1909) #422. 4to. This edition of L'Assiette au Beurre, the long running satirical French magazine, presents a number of images of stereotypical effeminate gay men in various social settings. Very good in lightly worn covers. Numerous illustrations. Uncommon. More
Utrecht: Gedrukt by Pieter Muntendam, naer de origineele en by den autheur ondertekende (1731). 22pp; Gedrukt voor den autheur, [1731]. 12pp. Emanuel Valk (1697-1732) was minister in Velzen (1723-1730) and later in Vianen. In 1730, he was suspected of sodomy and resigned from his church and moved to Utrecht, where he wrote pamphlets about his case. In 1732, he was arrested in Utrecht and handed over to the police of Vianen, where he subsequently committed suicide in his cell. Two in a series of contemporaneous pamphlets issued about the case, very good, unbound, slightly yellowed with edgewear. More
An original vintage photograph of a male nude by the celebrated French photographer, known for his portraits of Jean Marais and Parisian film stars. The image bears the blindstamp of the photographer at lower right and is in very good condition. Voinquel's vintage photographs are highly collected and have been reproduced in several monographs of his work. (4.5" x 6"). More
An original vintage portrait (c. 1890-1900) of a male youth, mostly likely "Ahmed" who appears in other images by the photographer. (9" x 6.25") mounted on a sheet from a photography album. More
Leipsic: E. Rowohlt (1911). 35pp. Attractively produced volume of these homoerotic poems, printed in two colors and bound in linen. With the bookplate of Gerrit Komrij on upper pastedown. Drugulin-Druck 8. Redenbacher 96. 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
Blackwell's: Oxford (1922). 110pp. Classical tales retold by this aesthete of the Lewes Brotherhood, art collector and Uranian author. Very good in blue boards, spine label worn, light edgewear. Uncommon. More
Boston: Merrymount Press (1900). Perhaps the best of Warren's writings, a short story based (arguably) on a similar story by Oscar Wilde. Warren is known for his sale of classical antiquities and the Lewes House brotherhood of aesthetes, as well as his several books of Uranian poetry. One of 300 numbered copies printed by D.B. Updike and illustrated by Arthur Gaskin, covers and spine lightly borwned, light scratch to cover. Uncommon. More
London: Elkin Matthews (1913). 32pp. sm. 8vo. Sandys Wason was a contemporary of Lord Alfred Douglas at Oxford and, along with him, one of the founders of the short-lived and controversial literary magazine, The Spirit Lamp. This small collection of poetry is heterogenous, but has a faintly religious tone. He later became a priest in Cornwall but was was removed from his post for "doctrinal and liturgical disobedience."Very good in brown boards, light cover wear. Quite uncommon. More
A collection of four pamphlets printed for the Corvine enthusiast and biographer. Included are: The King (1958) 12pp.; A Christmas New Year Letter (1960) 8pp; An Intrusion Upon Eternity (1961) 12pp; The Angel that Didn't Fly (1964) 8pp. Printed at St. Albert's Press and Press of Leonard Bahr. Very good in sewn or stapled wrappers. More
London: Enitharmon Press (1976). A posthumous collection of Welch's intensely personal poetry and a selection of his drawings, with an Introduction by Jean-Louis Chevalier. Mine was a lost and moony life Alone among the fields at night: Or in the loft with the sick smelling apples Blistering along the shelves in the moonlight. Mine was a life all to myself With torn newspaper about my feet, But now I lie beneath this enemy sky At the end of the longest street. Of a total edition of 660 copies, this is one of 60 special numbered copies on blue paper and specially bound. A fine copy. Uncommon. More
North Pomfret (1993). The first publication of Elysium Press, printed by hand over the course of a year in the Studio Arts Workshop at Dartmouth College. This previously unpublished essay is an account of the author's first meeting with his mentor, Edith Sitwell and captures his minutely observed insights into human behaviour and aesthetics that earned him a loyal following in his short writing career. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan, with an Introduction by Edmund White. Fine, as issued in Japanese silk boards, glassine 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
London (Tate Gallery). Reproduction of the Expedition of Rare Meats mural at the Tate, with an explanation. The murals are reproduced in color on a folding pamphlet, printed on both sides. Very good. Reproduction of the Expedition of Rare Meats mural at the Tate, with an explanation. The murals are reproduced in color on a folding pamphlet, printed on both sides. Very good. More
New York (1988). Hardcover. Touted by some as the best novel about sexual awakening since Catcher in the Rye. Inscribed by the author on title page. Very good in very good jacket. 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
Privately printed (1951). 150pp. A memorial publication dedicated to Oscar Wilde's niece, with contributions by Natalie Clifford Barney (who financed the edition), Victor Cunard, Janet Flanner, Allanah Harper, Elizabeth de Gramont and numerous others. A very good copy in original wrappers, with light browning to cover edges, slight bumping to several pages. One of a limited number of copies printed, (#173); another edition appeared the following year. More
London: Grant Richards (1906). 328pp. There are nine contributions (poems) by Wilde, including "Theocritus" and "The True Knowledge." Very good in gold stamped boards, wear to head and tail of spine, edgewear. More
Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart (1882). Hardcover. Wilde contributed the foreword to this eccentrically produced book of poetry, which he arranged the publication for while in America. Rodd and Wilde had been close companions for some time, but this book prompted their estrangement. One of an unknown ediiton of deluxe copies, printed on one side of each leaf only in brown ink on thin handmade parchment paper, interleaved with green tissue paper, bound in vellum, top edges gilt. Very good, vellum a bit darkened, small portion of front pastedown missing. Uncommon. More
Three TLS and one typed card from Williams to collector Anthony Reid, all dated 1980. Williams was the longtime principal of the Jargon Society, the important small-press publisher founded in 1951 by Williams. The amusing letters are filled with book gossip and reference Ralph Chubb, Ian Young and a number of shared interests. Very good, laid into a custom paper envelope by Reid, along with his Ralph Chubb bookplate. 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
Woubrugge: Avalon Press (2002). 44pp. The first publication of Alfred Douglas' appeal on behalf of Wilde, submitted to the Mercure de France in 1895, but never published. One of 250 copies printed letterpress. Fine in linen boards, inscribed by Wintermans on front endpaper. More
New York (1965). Hardcover. How to influence newspaper columnists and win invitations. Very good, very good jacket., minor tears, edgewear. Uncommon. More
Paris: Tallandier [1938]. 221pp. Novel based on the life and favorites of King Henry III, long reputed to have been homosexual. A contemporary chronicler of the period notes that they made themselves "exceedingly odious, as much by their foolish and haughty demeanour, as by their effeminate and immodest dress, but above all by the immense gifts the king made to them."Very good in illustrated wrappers, light edgewear and browning. Uncommon. More