Shuttlecock
San Francisco: Perineum (1984). Fie in wrappers, inscribed by the author. More
New Arrivals
Pour Oscar Wilde: des écrivains français au secours du condamné
Rouen: Association des Amis d'Hugues Rebell (1994). 108pp. A collection of writings about Wilde's incarceration by a number of French writers, including Stuart Merrill, Jean Lorrain, Laurent Tailhade and others. One of 500 copies, very good in wrappers, light wear to covers. More
Portrait of shirtless male at the beach taken by an unknown photographer (1960s/70s). (6 1/2" x 7 1/2"). Ink stamp on verso and penciled notations. More
Portraits of shirtless male in jeans
Two vintage photographs of a male model (likely taken in Italy in the 1950s/60s). (9 1/2" x 12"). Very good with silvering at edges. More
Vintage Photograph of Male Swimmer
Portrait of a young male in swimming trunks by an unknown photographer. (3 1/2" x 7 1/2"). Appears to date to the 1960/70s. Ink stamp on verso and penciled notations. More
Piazza Umberto (La Piazzetta) Capri, Italy
Vintage photograph of La Piazzetta in Capri taken by Islay Lyons in the early 1950s. (10" x 10"). Very good. More
Fontana dei Dioscuri
Vintage photograph (1950s) of the Fontana dei Dioscuri in Rome. Photographer's stamp on verso along with penned notations. (14" x 11 3/4"). Very good condition. More
Vintage portrait of Somerset Maugham
Vintage portrait of the acclaimed novelist taken at a luncheon in Capri at the home of Kenneth Macpherson and Islay Lyons (Nancy Cunard and Norman Douglas were also in attendance). Taken by Lyons in the early 1950s, stamped on verso with penned notation. (7" x 9"). Very good condition. More
Erlkönig ontraadseld
(1982). Dutch translation of Goethe's poem about the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking, a king of the fairies. Very good in wrappers, a bit of foxing to endpapers. Laid in are 1 ALS and 1 TLS from Braches to the collector Anthony Reid and a carbon copy of a TL from Reid to Braches in the year of publications. The letters relate to Reid's desire to publish the work in English and include Reid's translation. More
POETRY NEWSLETTER #9-10
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966). Works by Jack Scott, Tom Pease, Bukowski, Harvey Tucker and others. Very good, stapled decorative wrappers, light yellowing and wear to covers, small closed tear to rear wrapper. More
POETRY NEWSLETTER #12
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966). Works by Jack Scott, Tom Pease and others. Very good with assorted inserts, stapled decorative wrappers, light yellowing and wear to covers. More
POETRY NEWSLETTER #ATE
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966?). Works by Jack Scott, Bob Nystedt and others. Very good with assorted inserts, stapled into card wrappers with original design on cover. Very good. More
POETRY NEWSLETTER #11
Scranton: Poetry Newsletter (1966?). Works by Jack Scott, John Ruttenberg and others. Very good with assorted inserts, stapled into a illustrated portfolio. Very good. More
The Intrepid-Bear Issue: Intrepid #20/floating Bear #38
Buffalo: Intrepid Press (1971). 130pp. About fine in green stapled card covers, bump to lower right corner. Cover caligraph by Brion Gysin. Contributions by John Weiners,Gary Snyder, Richard Wright, Philip Lamantia, and others. More
The Gourmets' Almanac, wherein is set down, month by month, recipes for strange and exotic dishes, with divers considerations anent the cooking and the eating thereof, together with the feast days & the fast days and many proverbs from many lands; also the words and music of such old-fashioned songs as should be sung by all proud and lusty fellows; to all this is appended a garland for gourmets tressed with many quaint fancies and literary blossoms culled from the most noble
London: D. Harmsworth (1931). 357pp. This amusing collection of recipes is accompanied by a number of works by various artists, including Pavel Tchelitchew, Kristians Tonny, Jean Cocteau and many others. Very good in decorative fabric boards, light wear and marks to cover, flocked paper endpapers, bookplate on front pastdown. Quite uncommon. More
SW: Sudoeste
[Lisboa] Edições SW (1935). The first two issues (#1 and #2) of this important and short-lived periodical of the Portuguese Modernist movement. Almada Negreiros (1893-1970) is best known as a painter and worked closely with Mario de Sa-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa, among others, and belonged to the first group of Portuguese modernists. Both copies are in very good condition with light cover wear, occasional light spotting. More
Les aquarelles de Robert de Montesquiou: peintre ignoré de la nature, des fleurs, des légendes et du rêve
Paris: Le Goupy, [190-?]. The publisher's prospectus for an apparently unpublished work by the eccentric French dandy. One sheet folded, the description indicates that the book would be limited to 200 copies and the twenty images were to be reproduced in color. Very good, light browning. More
La vie privée du roi de Prusse, ou Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même
Amsterdam: Chez les héritiers de M.-M. Rey (1784). 136pp. The first appearance of this highly controversial memoir about Voltaire's complicated relationship with the eccentric Frederick the Great. The book's scandalous revelations about Frederick's homosexuality caused an immediate uproar and the book was banned in France. Despite the fact that Voltaire had died in 1778, there is considerable evidence that Voltaire had intended for the book to be published in his lifetime. See Lee, An American Voltaire- Essays @ 240-243. Very good in lightly worn 3/4 morocco boards, marbled endpapers, booksellers ticket on front paste down, silk marker. Quite rare. More
Ringo & the Renegades
New York: QQ Publishing Co. (1973). 30pp. Graphic homo-erotica by one of the icons of gay art. Very good in stapled wrappers, light wear. More
Antinoüs, estudo de cultura athletica
São Paulo: Weiszflog Irmãos (1920). 95pp. Good in rather worn boards, light browning. More
Anecdotes pour servir à l'histoire secrète des Ebugors
Medoso, MMMCCCXXXIII [1888]. 75pp. The second edition of this important early document about sodomy, with particular attention to the notorious Deschauffours affair of 1726 wherein Benjamin Deschauffours was burned at the stake in the Place de Grève in Paris for kidnapping boys and selling them to some 200 French aristocrats. The pamphlet depicts Deschauffours ("Fourchuda") as the champion of the oppressed class in Spira ("Paris") who in his zeal in defending a large army of Ebugors ("Buggers") was taken prisoner in the struggle, thrown into the fire by the partisans of the Cytherons (referencing the Greek island of Cythera, traditionally associated with heterosexual love). The pamphlet uses anagrams throughout to disguise its subject matter and supplies a four page key at the end to assist in deconstructing the essay. The pamphlet was originally published in 1733 is quite rare and was routinely banned by censors. Bibliothèque nationale, Enfer, n° 113 - P. Pia, Les Livres de l'Enfer, p. 49. Very good in marbled boards and calf spine, marbled endpapers, original wrappers present, silk page marker, light spotting to endpapers. More
Socialism and Agriculture. Fabian Socialist Series, No. 2
London: A. C. Fifield (1908). Carpenter contributes "The Village and the Landlord" originally published in the Albany Review in 1907. Very good in brown boards, dust jacket present, but is in poor condition with browning, tears and chips. More
Aspects sentimentaux du front anglais
Paris: Dorbon-Ainé (1916). Wartime memoir written by the British born celebrity chef. Secretary to Henri Gauthier-Villars (who called him "a little swindler and a huge homosexual") he wrote a number of books on cookery and contributed to Jacques Fersen's Akademos (see Sidney Place below). Privately printed edition of 300 copies (#48), this example without the etchings by Laboureur. Very good in decorative covers, spine a bit worn and chipped, light fading. More