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INSIDE STORY June 1958
New York: JB Publishing, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Staplebound in wraps. Some light edgewear and rubbing. Interior toned but clean. Very good overall. June 1958 edition of this bi-monthly gossip magazine. Amongst celebritiy scandals and pop culture news is an account by a doctor Louis Maraventano describing in great.....
FIGHTING LESBIANS
n.p. [Twi-World Publications], n.d. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Color photographic wraps. Black and white photo illustrations throughout. Minor edgewear, with a few faint creases and touches of soil. Faint spotting to endpaper and title page. Very good plus. 158 pages. "'She was...a lesbian!' he cried, terrified." Pulp erotica with a......
PRINCE EDDY AND THE HOMOSEXUAL UNDERWORLD
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's quarter black cloth over dark grey boards. About near fine in like jacket; spine ends slightly bumped. Clean, bright, and tight. 246pp. Examines the male homosexual underground of Victorian London by way of Prince Albert Victor, who was.....
COMING OUT
Santee, CA: Blueboy Library, 1977. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Light edgewear and creasing. Remnant of original price sticker on front cover. Pages toned. Very good. 184pp. Gay-themed erotic pulp, notable for its use of post-Vietnam War veteran trauma as a plot device. With deceptively sensitive back cover.....
A PLACE AT THE TABLE: The Gay Individual in American Society
New York: Poseidon Press, (©1993). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Publisher's yellow boards with half cloth spine; in original printed dust jacket. A very good copy in like jacket. SIGNED by Bawer at title page. Trivial shelfwear and mild toning. Bright, clean, and tight. 269pp. A book about gays and.....
FANZINI '75
Brooklyn/Toronto: John Dowd/Art Metropole, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled wraps. Fine condition. Very sharp and clean. 90pp. Fourth issue of five. Baylin's magazine was conceived as "fanzine" to John Dowd, a "handsome New York leatherman with a physique reminiscent of a 'Tom of Finland' character" who participated in the.....
LESBIANISM AND THE SINGLE GIRL
Cleveland: Century Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. First Edition. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. Mild edgewear, minor scuffing. Near fine. 190 pages plus ads. Swinging '60s erotic take-off on Helen Gurley Brown's then-recent bestseller Sex and the Single Girl. Loosely organized into thematic chapters and faux-case studies, full of tales.....
THE MALE LESBIAN
Cleveland: Century Books / KDS, a corporation, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Black and pink pictorial wraps. Black and white illustrations. Minor edgewear. 234 pages. Very good plus. Sleaze paperback presented as the 'case study' of a lesbian trans woman, as understood in a late '60s cultural context.....
PRIVATE BOY
New York: Midwood Publications, Inc., 1975. First Edition. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Color photographic wraps. Light scuffing to back cover; moderate edgewear. Foxing to inside rear cover and order form page. Very good. 221 pages. "In the Glittering World of Movie Makers George Discovers His Bisexual Identity!" What a good.....
THE GIRLFRIENDS: An In-Depth Study of Love Between Woman and Woman!
Las Vegas: M-T Publishers, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Yellow-brown wraps. Minor edgewear. Near fine. Sleaze erotica; an "important and relevant study" of lesbian swinging, framed with classic '60s faux-psychiatric pontifications to circumvent obscenity laws. From the conclusion: "Lesbian swinging need not be debilitating. I can conceive.....
'TIS TYME YE SHUDE OFFER'TH UP THINE THANKS [Collection of Five Gay Holiday Cards and Posters in Accompanying Pictorial Envelope
n.p. 1968-9. Five holiday cards and posters in original 12.5'' by 9.5'' pictorial envelope, all with original mail folds as issued. Envelope ragged along edges with some tears, otherwise very good to near fine. Four of the cartoons are 18'' by 12'' (9'' by 12'' folded); one is 9'' by.....
BEST GIRLFRIENDS
New York: Star Distributors, Ltd., 1979. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. 180 pages followed by ads. Minor edgewear; faint trace of removed price sticker to front cover. Very good plus. Late '70s erotica following the adventures of a "big-city lesbian." Part of the "Eve's Journals" series.
STRANGE MARRIAGE
Los Angeles: Argyle Book Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey boards in tiger-striped magenta dust jacket. Moderate wear to jacket, with some chipping to spine ends and small tears to edges. Boards bumped at corners. Very good in very good minus jacket. The author's second novel, a luridly packaged.....
THE SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West
London: Routledge, (1994). Second edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Some reading wear to spine. Pages bright and clean. Binding tight. 368pp. A widely-acclaimed history of gay and lesbian visual artists and their work (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, etc.).
HOMOSEXUALITY & CIVILIZATION
Cambridge: Belknap/Harvard University Press, (2003). First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Front cover curling. Touches of reading wear to spine. Bright, clean, and unmarked throughout. Tight. 623pp. Award-winning history of homosexuality that looks at early civilizations (Greece, Rome), Imperial China, and premodern Europe.
THE TRANSEXUALS
Libertyville, IL: Oligarch Publishing Co., 1969. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Light edgewear and scuffing. Very good plus. 192pp. Pseudo-scholarly pulp erotica with a case-history framing around "the bold new world of the sex change." With a foreword by "Alfredo Rathermann, Ph.D." An Hourglass Book.
"WE CAN ALWAYS CALL THEM BULGARIANS": The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage
Boston: Alyson Publications, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth boards in original pictorial dust jacket. Very light soiling to jacket and trivial wear to top and bottom of jacket at spine. Minor sunning to jacket flaps. Touches of soiling/toning to top and fore edge of pages. Interior clean.....
MUCK RAKERS, INC.
New York: Brookwood Publishing Corp. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth in dust jacket. Mild edgewear and scuffing, with a small closed tear to upper edge of front panel. Small closed tears to margins of pp.125-132, not affecting text; large closed tears to pp.139-140. Good only, in very good.....
POWERLESS: Selected Poems 1973-1990
New York / London: High Risk Books, (1996). First edition thus. Wraps. Small 8vo. Photographic wraps with French flaps. Very good plus. A bit of light rubbing to wrappers. Pages moderately toned throughout, and slightly brittled; else clean and tight. 115pp. Edited by David Trinidad, with his editor's note, and.....
THE FIFTH SEX
Libertyville, IL: Oligarch Publishing Co., 1969. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Yellow wraps. Minor edgewear. Faint touches of soil to front cover and light rubbing to back cover. Very good plus. 192 pages. Exploitation sleaze purporting to tell all about "The Fifth Sex, the small but substantial group of hermaphrodites that.....
FARM (November 1990)
New York: Feature and Instituting Contemporary Idea, 1990. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Minor edgewear and rubbing; pages toned. Near fine. Scarce periodical anthology of gay fiction. Includes contributions from Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück, Brad Gooch, David Sedaris (a very early appearance), Gary Indiana and many others.
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[Cross-Dressing Fetish Album]
np: [ca. mid-1980s]. Square folio brown faux-leather contemporary commercial album. Containing 97 color photographs loosely inserted in compartmented plastic sleeves (six to a page). Most 3"x 5", some smaller, with some Poloroids. A couple of images trimmed, a few more creased. Some annotations to versos. Else well-preserved. Easily very good.....
EL TORO: Volume 1, Issue 1
[San Francisco?]: np, [ca. 1965]. Wraps. 4to. Pictorial color wrappers. Stapled. Mild handling wear creased at spine. A single folded leaf loose from staples. Overall sound, clean. An uncommon, [likely] pre-Stonewall gay men's magazine. With 32 full page, full male nude, color photograph reproductions. No place of publication, though backgrounds.....
EL TORO: Vol. 1, No. 1
New York: Tuxedo Books, (1964). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. Stapled. Mild handling wear. Ink price written to front. Overall sound, clean. With color and black and white photographs throughout as well as original art including a cover by Steve Masters, two pieces signed Santiago, and an advertisement.....
COMING OUT
(New York): Signet New American Library/Times Mirror, (1977). First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Trace edgewear. Pages toned as usual. Binding tight; appears unread. 271pp. A Signet paperback original. The story of a freshly divorced man exploring his gayness. "How do you tell the world you are.....