Lads O' the Sun: Memories
NP:ND [c. 1928].
Item #8192
The exceedingly rare publication by the author of Men and Boys: An Anthology, one of only three copies known to exist (the British Library and the Kinsey Institute copies being the others). Consisting of 35 original photographs of youthful male nudes, each tipped on to blank pages accompanied by various poems tipped on to the facing page. This example is from the collection of Herbert Boyce Satcher, a protege of Slocum’s and appears to have been created especially for him (#12). See Rosenthal, An Arcadian Photographer in Manhattan: Edward Mark Slocum @ 36.
Along with three empty bindings from the Satcher collection, all of which have Slocum’s pseudonym “Edmund Edwinstone” printed on the spine: “Filii Amoris”; Lads’ Law” and “Themselves”. Edwinstone was the pseudonym used by Slocum on a limited number of copies of Men and Boys and these rather lavish bindings apparently held further private photographs, all of which were removed at some point.
Bound in the same Italian paper over boards as used in Men and Boys, very good with light wear to spine and boards, title page and first signature loose, front hinge starting, corners lightly bumped.
Price: $10,000.00