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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.....
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.....
LESBIAN GANG
North Hollywood: Frimac Publications, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. 192pp. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minor edgewear and spine creasing; pages toned. Near fine. The rise and fall of January Vonne, ex-chorus girl and gang leader of the Leskits, who allowed her girls "no dope. Not even a marihuana cigarette, nor a......
'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.....
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.....
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AFTER DARK: The National Magazine of Entertainment [Complete run of 159 issues]
New York: Danad Publishing Company, 1968-1983. First Edition. Wraps. 4tos. Saddle-stapled wraps. 159 issues. Minor edgewear; occasional light soil to wraps. Very good plus overall. Two issues signed by cover feature subjects: Vol. 5 No. 9 January 1973 INSCRIBED by Bette Midler ("To Paul - Hubba Hubba, Honey / Bette.....
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.
SISTER FOR SALE
North Hollywood: Brandon House, 1965. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Mild edgewear, light scuffing to back cover, spine creased. Very good plus. 160pp. Sleaze pulp by the author of EXECUTIVE LESBIAN. Toni, call girl and "latter-day Zuleika Dobson," impresses her girlfriend by demonstrating her eidetic memory on Baron Corvo's History.....
"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.....
STRONG PLACE
New York: Amethyst Press, 1992. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial perfect-bound wraps. Very good plus. Moderate edgwear to wraps. Internally clean and sharp throughout, aside from one handwritten note near end. 84pp. Collection of poems by the celebrated poet, written from 1981 to 1984. Dlugos' first book published after his.....
NEVER ON SIN DAY
North Hollywood: All Star Books, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minimal edgewear. Near fine. 146pp. Gay pulp romance, with a protagonist torn between dutiful love for a woman and the stronger temptations of Ronan, an actor who lusts for glory and models "for a magazine called The.....
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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.....
THE GAY BOOK OF DAYS: An Evocatively Illustrated Who's Who of Who Is, Was, May Have Been, Probably Was, and Almost Certainly Seems to Have Been Gay During the Past 5,000 Years
Secaucus (NJ): Main Street Press / Lyle Stuart, Inc., (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Black boards with half cloth spine. Original photographic dust jacket. Edges of jacket lightly toned with age. Some light edgewear to jacket at top and bottom of spine. Interior bright, clean, crisp, tight. Near fine in.....
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.....
LESBIAN WITCH
New York: Bee-Line Books, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Moderate edgewear and creasing; foxing to back cover. Very good minus. 152pp. Pulp erotica. From the back cover: "[F]or this forbidden desire she was called a LESBIAN WITCH!" Be advised that the witchcraft is metaphorical.
TWO, THE HARD WAY (Numbers Illustrated Library, NIL 106)
(Miami, FL): The Blue Boy Library / Numbers, (1978). First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Photographic wraps. Very good. Wraps rubbed with light curling at corners. Clean throughout with typical toning to pages. Binding tight. Unpaginated. Gay sleaze paperback involving "two murders, a homosexual triangle, and over one million dollars in insurance.....
PILLOW TRAMP / LASH OF DESIRE
Chicago: Dollar Book Company, 1962. First edition thus. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Moderate wear and creasing. Black ink to both covers and spine, obscuring original price and affixed price tag. Very good minus. Two complete novels published as a "Dollar Double." PILLOW TRAMP, first published in 1959 as DEMANDS.....
DOUBLE HEADER!
New York: Bee-Line Books, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minor edgewear. Very good plus. 187pp. Sleaze erotica, with bisexual themes communicated through baseball metaphors ("They were switch hitters! These are the chicks who dig both men and women...") An Orpheus Red-Hot Book.