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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.....
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.....
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.
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.
"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.....
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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.....
JR.: Special Edition, Winter 1968, No. 5-5
New York: Tomorrow's Man Publishing Co., (1967). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. Stapled. Light stress at spine, edges. Overall clean, bright. An uncommon issue of JR., a male physique photography publication produced by pioneering gay interest, New York magazine publisher, Tomorrow's Man. Credited photographers include Rikki, Defosses, Hoffman.....
THE MODERN MALE: No. Two, Autumn 1967
New York: Tomorrow's Man Publishing Co., (1967). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. Stapled. Mild stress at spine, edges. Overall well preserved, clean. The scarce, second issue of MODERN MALE, an uncommon male physique photography publication produced by pioneering gay interest, New York magazine publisher, Tomorrow's Man. Credited photographers.....
THE MODERN MALE: Volume One, Spring 1967
New York: Tomorrow's Man Publishing Co., (1967). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. Stapled. Split beginning at spine fold. Mild stress at spine, edges. Overall well preserved, clean. The scarce, premiere issue of MODERN MALE, an uncommon male physique photography publication produced by pioneering gay interest, New York magazine.....
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.
TAILS OF SCORPIO Vol. 1, No. 5 [September 1979].
Holyoke, Massachusetts: Scorpio L. C., 1979. First Edition. 4to. stapled wraps. [18]pp. Periodical very good: light wear, four pin holes at tops of all leaves, a few small soil spots to a few pages including verso of rear wrapper; Very good. Also includes: unused sheets of club letterhead, club matchbook.....
LESBIAN LOVE
n.p. Nightstand Books, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Light edgewear. 191pp. Very good plus. Midcentury sleaze pulp featuring tragic lesbians, "ambi-valent" women, and a great deal of misapplied psychoanalysis. The usual attribution to a pseudonymous Marion Zimmer Bradley is, while not proven, almost certainly correct.
POOL OF LONELINESS
New York: Midwood, 1977. First Edition. Wraps. Mass market paperback. White printed wraps. Minor edgewear; light rubbing to covers. Very good. 192 pages. Late '70s pure sleaze erotica of revived "boarding school passions", titled shamelessly after Radclyffe Hall's classic WELL OF LONELINESS to give the reader a hint. Midwood #60930.....
LOCKER ROOM LOVERS
(Wilmington, DE): An Eros Publication / Guy Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Photographic wraps. Very good plus. Small dampstain to rear wrapper and fore edge. Clean throughout if moderately toned as usual. Crisp and tight overall. 158pp. Guy Press (GYP-107) gay sleaze paperback set in a locker room.
THE PASSION OF MICHEL FOUCAULT
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth over white boards in photographic dust jacket. A very good copy in like DJ. Some light sunning/toning to jacket; small closed tear to back panel. Some judicious underlining to pages, here and there. Else clean and.....
HOLLYWOOD WIFE SWAPPERS
Van Nuys, CA: Venice Publishing Corp. 1969. First Edition. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. 186 pages plus advertisements. Moderate creasing and edgewear; spine slightly cocked and scuffed. Pages lightly toned. Very good minus. "Bares the Orgiastic Behavior of the Lesbians, the Bi-Sexuals, the Heteros and the Lavender Lads of.....
LESBIAN TWINS
Fresno: Vega Books, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minor rubbing and edgewear; light creasing to spine. Very good plus. "Without seeming dumb, I had to know, had to hear her confirm my meager conception of lesbianism." Midcentury sleaze pulp that has, like its hero, a fairly limited.....