This mixed-media collage features two young men dressed in scouting uniforms and subverts typical Boy Scout imagery into a homoerotic artistic statement. Demélier typically worked on smaller, sketch-sized mixed media pieces that he heavily layered with ink, gouache, and cut paper fragments and his work is often transgressive and deeply satirical. This piece integrates the collage into a painted frame and is also painted on the glass itself. Signed at lower right and on verso which includes dates of 1977 and 1983. Purchased at the liquidation sale of the Musée de l'Érotisme in Paris in 2016. Several of his works are in the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. Very good, light loss to edges of frame, a few small chips. More

Curridge (1924). 2nd ed. The first publication by Chubb, with ten wood engravings by the author. Issued in an edition of 200 copies. Reid A1. The "second edition" imprint is usually considered to be a ruse intended to increase dwindling sales. Chubb has penned a note on the cover: "A youthful wotk (1924)- the first production of my press- esperimental. (I use hand-lithography now). R.N.C." A very good copy with light cover wear, small closed tears at foredge. Bookplates of Anthony Reid (after Chubb) and David Chambers. More

An accomplished pen and ink drawing of a standing man, inscribed at lower left. Old paper mount, notations on verso (6 3/4" x 10"). Old crease running laterally- likely folded at an early date. The inscription reads: "Souvenir de la Salle de Police/ 14 juillet 1878/ E.V. (?)" The date on the image was Bastille Day, although it wasn't yet declared an official holiday and the Universal Exhibition was also underway at the time. The artwork appears to depict a soldier or official detained in a guardroom or detention room, perhaps. Light age-toning to paper, but in very good condition. Ex-collection Ralph Baumgarten, Paris. More

Kent: Intimacy Press (2001). Uncommon collection of Genet's poetry. Fine in wrappers, inscribed by the author along with a 2pp ALS from the author. More

Vintage photograph of the two friends posing in the garden at the home occupied by Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler. Very good, although the bottom edge appears to have been improperly developed. From the estate of Roberto Gianatta, Jared French's heir. (7" x 5"). More

[Francestown, N.H.]: Typogapheum (1995). 41pp. Introduction by Caspar Wintermans. One of 100 copies bound in green cloth.Fine. More

Philadelphia: David McKay (1884). Originally published in 1855, this edition was published by Whitman's friend David McKay. A unique example with a number of photographs and letter bound into the book: 1) 1pp ALS (27 July) from Whitman to an unknown recipient ("Camden, New Jersey/Dear Sir/In answer to yours of the 24th, there is no immediate prospect of any new Volume of mine/I enclose some little slips may perhaps interest you/Walt Whitman"). Lightly trimmed. 2) Offset photograph of Whitman (frontispiece from the Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers/1895). Small staining at one edge. 3) Copper engraving of Whitman, printed onartist's rage woven paper. (between pages 28-29). 4) Hand-colored intaglio (photogravure) portrait of Whitman. (between pages 50-51). 5) Photogravure (or aquatint) portrait of Whitman. Light water stain to top of page, not affecting image. (between pages 98-99). 6) Photogravure of Whitman as a middle aged man, light water damage to top of page, not affecting image. (between pages 146-147). 7) Photographic (salt?) print by Napoleon Sarony of Whitman (c. 1878). Faded. (between pages 170-71). 8) Photographic gelatin-based print of Whitman by Matthew Brady. Poor condition and very faded. (between pages 218-219). 9) Three-quarter length portrait photograph of Whitman with his nurse Warren Fritzenger, standing, and a pile of logs behind him, on the wharf, probably near his Mickle Street house in Camden. Published in Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891, by two Lancashire friends, J. Johnston, M.D., and J.W. Wallace. London : G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1898, page 55. Light water damage to top of page, not affecting image. 10) Albumen print of Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, circa 1878. (between pages 314-15). 11) Etching of Whitman by Jacques Reich, based on a famous 1891 photograph of Walt Whitman taken by painter Thomas Eakins inside Whitman's home in Camden, New Jersey. (between pages 338-39). Good in 3/4 green leather binding, marbled boards and endpapers, spine gilt in six compartments, top-edge gilt, gilt-decorated morocco-backed clamshell box, joints dried and flaked, narrow stain along some margins. More

A standing portrait of Vidal, circa 1950, taken on the front porch of his historic Greek Revival mansion located along the Hudson River in Barrytown, New York. Vidal acquired the mansion after he had commercial success with his early books. Good condition, although there are a series of closed creases in the upper third of the image, mounted to a board. 10 1/2" x 15" More

Edinburgh: Privately Printed (Tragara Press). (1989). This printed monologue features the ghost of Sandy Stone, an elderly suburban Australian man from Melbourne who reflects on his life, his neighbors, and mid-twentieth century domestic routines from beyond the grave. One of 130 numbered copies (#100) printed letterpress. Fine in wrappers. More

Lancaster: All Kinds Blintzes (2002). Originally published in Stein's 1918 collection, Geography and Plays, this short "word-portrait" was written about her longtime companion, Alice Toklas. The work portrays Alice's early life, her journey leaving home after her mother's death, and ultimately celebrates the deep union and love between Stein and Toklas. Fine in handmade Thai paper sewn wrappers, lavender paper. One of 26 copies (H), tipped-in photograph of Toklas. More

Privately Printed: Monaco (1961). oblong 4to. 129pp. The lavishly produced testament to Lopez-Wilshaw's extraordinary home in Neuilly sur Seine, built in 1899 for the architect Paul Rodocanachi. Thirty original photographs by Jean Vincent of the interior decor and gardens are tipped into the text by Philippe Jullian. Printed in two colors on heavyweight Auvergne papers specially watermarked with the Lopez-Wilshaw crest, red silk endpapers. A near fine copy in cream linen boards (light discoloration), the clamshell box is in very good condition with only light edgewear and minor sunning. Of 300 copies printed, this is copy #2 with the printed name of Lopez-Wilshaw's longtime lover Baron Alexis de Redé. The leather spine of the box is heavily gilded (not present in other copies). Provenance: Collection Du Baron de Redé Provenant De L'Hôtel Lambert (Sotheby's Paris: 2005). Laid into the slipcase is a mounted original color photograph along with another color transparency, both of the interior of the home. More

Paris: Gallimard (1946). This three act play was inspired by the eccentric real-life King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Cocteau directed a 1948 film version of the play, starring his lover Jean Marais. One of only five copies ("V") of the tête de l'edition printed on Japon, near fine in wrappers. More