Signed
Spider Kin.
Chicago: Robert Packard & Co, 1929.
Price: $400.00
About the item
Frontispiece and 3 full-page woodcuts by Packard. 94pp. Printed at the Peacock Press. 4to. Black wrappers, with silver paper printed onlay, in orange dj without spine, but with bio on back cover and ad for Forman Brown's Dobe Dollar Store on flap and with bookmark. Signed by author on title-page.
Item #326950
This is the first book by the noted gay author who also wrote the 1933 novel Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. The novel is regarded as the first American novel to present the 'gay' experience in a healthy light. [Under the pseudonym Richard Meeker.] When it was reprinted in 1995, under the assumption that the author was no more alive, Brown stepped forward and acknowledged the novel was heavily autobiographic.
He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind the famous Turnabout Puppet Theater in Los Angeles.
