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Gay Subjects
Andros, Phil, pseud. of Samuel Steward. San Francisco Hustler. SF: Gay Parisian Press, [1970]. Paperback, 153pp + ads. Fine. $35
Auden, Wystan Hugh. The Gobble Poem. Green wrappers. London: Fuck Books Unlimited, 1967. 4to, 5pp stapled into green wrappers. Excellent copy. $150 | First UK edition of Auden’s notorious poem. | |
Auden, Wystan Hugh. The Platonic Blow. NYC: Fuck You Press, [1965]. Square 8vo, 12 unnumbered pages. Excellent copy. $200 | First edition of Auden’s very naughty poem, written in 1948 for the private amusement of friends. | |
Bruce of Los Angeles, pseud of Bruce Harry Bellas. The Male Figure, nos. 1-35 complete. Los Angeles, Bruce of Los Angeles, [1956-1966]. 8vo, 44pp each. Illustrated, some color. Wrappers, saddle-stapled. An excellent set. $1000 | A full run of The Male Figure, showcasing the photos of Bruce of Los Angeles, the king of male physique photographers, and the bodies of dozens of good-looking models in posing straps. No frontal nudity. | |
Courage, James. A Way of Love. NYC: Putnam, [1959]. 8vo, 255pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine, but see note. $50 | A page is tipped in between the copyright page and the copyright page, with a color photo attached. | |
Curtis, Walt. Mala Noche. Portland, Oregon: Out of the Ashes Press & The Mississippi Mud Magazine, [1977]. Square 8vo, 50pp. Wrappers, saddle-stapled. Illustrated. A few small blemishes to cover. $35 | First edition. Gus van Zandt would adapt this story for his rarely-screened first film. | |
Garland, Rodney. The Troubled Midnight. NYC: Coward-McCann, 1955. 8vo, 252pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $40
Hansen, Joseph. “James Colton,” pseud. Strange Marriage. Second binding. LA: Argyle Books, [1965]. 8vo, 176pp. Boards, in dust jacket. Fine. $75 | First edition, second binding. “Passion assumes weird shapes when a virile homosexual first tastes the love offered by a hungry and tempestuous woman.” | |
Hansen, Joseph. “James Colton,” pseud. The Outward Side. NYC: Other Traveller [Olympia Press], [1971]. Paperback, 169pp. Remainder marks on front cover, bottom edge. $25
Symonds, John Aldington. A Problem in Modern Ethics, and, A Problem in Greek Ethics, in matched green bindings. “London”: no publisher, no date. 8vos, viii + 135pp and viii + 73pp respectively. Green buckram boards, spine stamped in gold. Fine. $100 | Symonds’ turn-of-the-century defenses of homosexuality, in matched bindings. Perhaps a 1925 edition. | |
Tavel, Ronald. Street of Stairs. NYC: Olympia Press, [1968]. 16mo, [iii] + 264pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to spine of dj. $50 | First edition. A homosexual love affair between an American expatriate and a Moroccan thief, told by forty different voices in a procession of tales. Ronnie Tavel was scenarist for Chelsea Girls and other Warhol factory films (whatever that means). | |
Valentine, John, pseud. of Chester Anderson. Puppies.
Glen Ellen, CA: Entwistle Books, 1979. 8vo, 173pp. Wrappers, with die-cut hole. Fine. $25 | First edition. Gay memoirs from one of the Haight’s leaders in the Sixties. | |
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