Das männliche Foto
Prescha, Hamburg, 1960. 24pp. Uncommon collection of male photography, including some nudes. Very good in wrappers, light wear to covers. More
Prescha, Hamburg, 1960. 24pp. Uncommon collection of male photography, including some nudes. Very good in wrappers, light wear to covers. More
Trier (1942-1944) (3" x 4 1/4"). A unique WWII prison album of 15 black and white photographs and 1 negative documenting a romance between two French prisoners of war interned at the Stalag XII-D in Trier, Germany. Spanning a period between November 1942 and May 1944, most of the photographs and inscriptions on versos reveal a romance between Francis Garnier-Arnoul (the owner of the album) and a certain Christian. Among the inscriptions are the following: "Te connaitre, te voir, t'aimer. Bien douces choses Kiki. Gardons et profitons de ces jours heureux en souhaitant que cela puisse continuer. Ch" (To know you, to see you, to love you. Sweet things Kiki. Let's enjoy and always remember these hapy days withthe hope that this may last. Ch). "Trois jours que je ne t'ai vu. C'est long. Crois moi. Le soir je te verrai, et ma joie reviendra. Si tu pouvais lire en moi-meme maintent. Christian." (Three days I have not seen you. It's long. believe me. This evening I will see you, and my joy will return. If you could read me right now. Christian). "Unis par la pensee et par le coeur. Toujours l'un avec l'autre. Christian." (United by the mind and the heart. Always with each other. Christian) This wallet-size album contains five photographs showing the two lovers together (including one duplicate). Other photographs depict some of Francis' friends at the camp (Bruno, Louison, Elie, as well as a Dutch prisoner of war named Henk Timmer). Included are photographs indicating that the two lovers were part of the team publishing the Stalag newspaper. Five of the 15 photographs are inscribed by fellow prisoners of war who befriended Francis during their captivity. Most of the original photographs measure 2 1/2" x 3 1/2", with one measuring 2 3/4" x 2 1/2" . Very good, album is partly rubbed along edges, with paper string missing, most plastic sleeves to house the photographs are split or missing. Photographs in very good condition. More
Daniel O'Connor, London. 1922. Hardcover. Cream colored buckram bindign with gilt decorative cover and spine, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Gay, plus fifteen full page illustrations and facsimile of original title page. (i)-xxiv, 91 pages, including Bibliography, Index and Notes. Endpapers lightly browned, covers lightly rubbed and marked. Very good. Reprinted from the 1716 first edition. More
Paris: Gallimard (1991). 425pp. A collection of works and interviews, edited by Albert Dichy. Limited to 80 copies on Hollande, this is #19. Fine in wrappers, pages uncut. More
Tarik (2001). 71pp. Soft cover. A heavily illustrated record of the last years of Jean Genet in Morocco, with interviews of those he knew in his final years and numerous photographs. Very good in stiff wrappers. More
Berlin: Blaetter für die Kunst (1907). 4to. 53 pp. The lavishly produced tribute create by Stefan George to honor his talented young consort, Maximilian Kronberger. George's homosexuality is most clearly revealed in the love poetry he devoted to Kronberger, whom he identified as a manifestation of the divine. Kronberger died unexpectedly of meningitis in 1904 on the day after his 16th birthday. Deified by George, the cult of 'Maximin' became an integral part of the George circle. Printed in red and black with gold embossed cover drawing by Melchior Lechter and gilt edges. One of 200 numbered copies printed on Japanese paper, vellum boards, gilt edges, decorative devices throughout. photographic frontispiece. A stunning example of a very rare book. More
Elysium Press (1998). 1st Edition. Hardcover. The story of two boys growing up together on the New England coast and their absorption with the traditions of the Naragansett tribe. Illustrated by the author. One of 125 copies printed letterpress, bound in handmade paper with a hemp and fabric spine. More
Paris [L'Imprimerie Sainte-Catherine, Bruges] (1920-1921). 2 volumes. 8vo., 220pp.; 166pp. The first, privately issued edition of Gide's influential confessional memoir, issued four years prior to the first published edition, limited to twelve copies. Cyril Connolly, who included the book on his list of the 100 key books of the modern movement wrote that "Gide's autobiography is a work of art or rather the true portrait of the artist as a young man, for his horizon was much larger than Joyce's and he writes with an electric excitement". This first printing includes explicit passages suppressed in both the first published edition (1924) and the first English-language edition (New York, 1935) and was extremely controversial for its description of his sexual encounters with boys in North Africa. Considered one of his greatest works (certainly his most personal and revealing), the memoir recounts Gide's sexual awakening while on a journey to Algeria in 1893-94, where he met Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, who shocked him with their boldness. In Tunisia he lost his virginity at the age of twenty-three to Athman, a fourteen-year-old Arab boy, and came to accept his own homosexuality. Henceforth his published works invoked the never resolved tensions between a strict artistic discipline, a puritanical moralism, and the desire for unlimited sensual indulgence and abandonment to life. The memoir covers the first twenty-six years of his life Gide was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947, the first openly gay man to have received the award. In the presentation speech offered at the award ceremony, the Swedish Academy stated "The significance of these memoirs thus is indicated in the mysterious Biblical quotation of the grain of wheat which here represents the personality: as long as the latter is sentient, deliberate, and egocentric, it dwells alone and without germinating power; it is only at the price of its death and its transmutation that it will acquire life and be able to bear fruit." Si le Grain ne Meurt was placed on the Catholic Church's list of prohibited books in 1952, the year after Gide's death. Lovely examples in the original wrappers, laid into chemises and slipcases (signed Devauchelle) , raised dentelles, gilt decorations, marbled endpapers. The first volume (this example is #8) was issued in an edition of twelve copies and the second volume (#1) was issued in an edition of thirteen copies. A beautiful example of an important twentieth century document. . More
München : Delphin-Verlag, [1925]. 150pp. Giese (1890-1935) was a German psychologist who dealt in particular with psychotechnology . Giese describes the differences between the ideals of beauty in America versus Europe and conjures a variety of explanations, including eugenics and various business models. deal with everything from victory in war to differences in business models. Very good in good (worn at edges with small tears, etc). Uncoommon. More
[Beverly Hills], [©1940]. 78pp. A self-published guide to astrology, with a number of amusing observations. Inscribed to the aesthete Baron Alexis de Rede on front pastedown: "To Alexis/with admiration/A true friend". Very good in green boards, a bit faded. More
NP: ND (1990). 4to. A series of eight posters bemoaning Helms' morally deficient views on AIDS, immigration, poverty and other issues in his 1990 Senate race. Very good, laid into wrappers, which have a bit of wear to edges. More
Paris; Bernard Grasset. 1st Edition. Soft cover. More
Paris: L'Édition Moderne [1904]. 287pp. A novel centered around the story of Antinoüs and his love for the Emperor Hadrian. One of several collaborations between the two accomplished authors. A good copy in decorative wrappers, light wear to covers with small chips and closed tears to wrappers. It appears the original wrappers have been tipped on to a replacement paper spine. Warmly inscribed by both authors on endpaper. More
Paris: La Pionniere (2000). A charming miniature accordion book with illustrations by Godin, issued in an edition of only 20 numbered copies. This is a HC example, signed by the illustrator. Very good in handmade pink wrappers. More
Barcelona : Tip. La Educación, 1943. Very good in wrappers- the cover wrapper has a printed image that is pasted to the cover. More
A fascinating group of 27 pen and pencil drawings by Gaston Goor, circa 1924. Gaston Goor (1902-1977 ) was a highly accomplished, but controversial painter of adolescent boys, a metier that he pursued nearly all of his adult life. These very early drawings demonstrate the range of his talent and are a precursor to some of his several illustrated for writers such as Charles Maurras and others. Various sizes, please inquire for details. More
Paris: Horizons de France (1929). 298pp. A collection of writings by Mario Meunier, Jean Giono, Alain-Fournier and others, illustrated throughout with head pieces by Gaston Goor. Very good in wrappers. More
London: Heinemann (1901). According to the closeted author's preface, this fantasy is set on an island hitherto inhabited by Lutherans, in a remote but temperate province of Northern Europe. Very good in white parchment binding, top edge gilt. Bookplate of collector Herbert Boyce Satcher on front pastedown. More
Paris: Georges Crès & Cie, 1912. A fine copy in original wrappers, rebound in 3/4 morocco, gilt top edge, raised bands with gilt. More
Paris: Cres (1914). Soft cover. One of 114 numbered copies on vert chartreuse. Very good in original green wrappers, rear hinge a bit weak. Gourmont's classic devoted to his friend Nathalie Barney. More
Paris: Louis Cellot (1765). 32pp. The first edition of this legal brief regarding the trial of Anne Grandjean (later Jean-Baptiste), who was born and raised as a girl. At age 14, she discovered her attraction to other girls and her sympathetic father had her re-baptised as Jean-Baptiste, insisting she live as a young man. Later in life, while living as a married man in Lyon, a childhood friend informed Jean-Baptiste's wife that she had married a 'hermaphrodite'. She was subjected to judicial scrutiny and was declared to be female and required to live as a woman and have no further congress with the female sex for the rest of their life. The official memoir of the case is thus a remarkable source of detail concerning contemporary orthodox notions of sex and gender, of particular interest in the current age. Very good, signature on title page, original wrappers have large been excised. More
London: Eric & Joan Stevens (1983). A collection of several of Gray's poems written between 1890-1892, several of which appear here for the first time. One of 125 numbered copies (#113), near fine in wrappers. Bookplates of Anthony Reid (by Ralph Chubb and John Buckland Wright)) laid in. More
Edinburgh: Tragara Press (1983). Gray's translation of Theodore de Banville's play, likely done in 1892. Introduced and annotated by Ian Fletcher. The proof copy in original wrappers with a list of Tragara Press books laid in, along with Anthony Reid's bookplate by John Buckland Wright. More
Fag Rag Books, Boston, 1989. Gay history with an introduction by Charles Shively. Near fine in wrappers. More