The Priest and the Acolyte
N.p: Printed for Private Circulation Only, [1894]. First edition. A classic of homoerotic literature and of the greatest... Read More about The Priest and the Acolyte
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N.p: Printed for Private Circulation Only, [1894]. First edition. A classic of homoerotic literature and of the greatest... Read More about The Priest and the Acolyte
Price: $2,500
New York: Grove Press, (1966). First American edition. Read More about Miracle of the Rose
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New York: Grove Press, (1963). First American edition. Read More about Our Lady of Flowers. Introduction by Jean Paul Sartre
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New York: Harper & Row, [1986]. First trade edition. Signed. Signed and dated on the title page by the Author. Read More about White Shroud. Poems 1980-1985
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American edition. Cornerstone of modern gay literature, Hanley's novel created an uproar in Britain at the time of its initial appearance. Read More about Boy
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London: John Lane at the Bodlsy Head Ltd, [1932]. First edition, printed on a specially made rag paper Number 103 of 105 deluxe copies, signed by the author. One of 105. Read More about Ebb and Flow. A Novel
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. Large Paper Edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, this copy no. 451, with an autograph letter, signed, mounted, in vol. I. Hawthorne to Henry Tuckerman, 1850 : ‘as soon as I get a book off my hands’. A choice set of Hawthorne, with a notable autograph..... Read More about Works] The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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London: 1896. Second, pirated edition. One of 100 copies (unnumbered). Symonds’ groundbreaking essay was first printed privately in 1891, then pirated here. It is “the first ‘scientific’ psychological–sociological analysis of homosexuality in English, exposing vulgar errors by a well-judged mixture of sarcasm, science, and common sense” (ODNB)Includes a chapter on..... Read More about A Problem in Modern Ethics. Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. Addressed...
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London: Jonathan Cape, [1936]. First edition, no. 271 of 379 copies. Read More about More Poems
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London: Grant Richards, [September], 1898. Second edition, one of 500 copies. Read More about A Shropshire Lad
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London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895. Scarce uniform edition of the novels and tales of the erratic and troubled Henry Kingsley (1830 - 1876), younger brother of Charles Kingsley. This uniform set, albeit without a general title-page, seems complete as issued by the publisher under Clement Shorter’s editorial supervision, and..... Read More about Works] Set of uniformly bound set of 12 titles
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New York: Knopf, 1984. First edition. First Book. Read More about Family Dancing
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Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1781; 1783; 1785; 1788. First edition. The Life of Alcibiades - in Dialogue. The life of the infamous and brilliant Athenian general and bad-boy, Alicibiades, famous for his beauty, and immortalized in Plato’s Symposium for his praise of Socrates. Meissner portrays his entire life in the form of..... Read More about Alcibiades. Erster [Zweiter … Dritter … Vierter] Theil
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[Cambridge, Mass: Laurence Scott, November, 1984]. Scott, Laurence. No. 47 of 60 numbered copies, signed by the artist and author. Read More about Snapshot of Adam [drop-title
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. First book published by Mishima in America. Read More about The Sound of the Waves. A Love Story. Translated by Meredith Weatherby
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New York: William Frederick Press, 1956. First Edition. Inscribed to author Matthew Josephson: “To Matthew Josephson with sincere good wishes and appreciation of admiration, James Purdy, February 8th, 1957.” Josephson is best known for his biographies of Victor Hugo and Stendahl. Nice association copy of the author's second book, a...... Read More about 63 Dream Palace
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[Baltimore: Privately Printed by the J. H. Furst Company], 1939. First edition. Her first book, published at age 10. First edition of the poet’s extremely rare first book, privately printed by her parents when she was just ten years old. Adrienne Rich’s father was the head of the pathology department..... Read More about Ariadne. A Play in Three Acts and Poems
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1955). First edition (H-E on copyright page). Read More about The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems
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Baltimore: Privately Printed by the J.W. Furst Company, 1941. First edition. First edition of the poet’s rare second book, a verse play privately printed by Rich’s parents when she was only twelve years old, two years after they printed her first book, Ariadne. A fine copy. Read More about Not I, but Death
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Paris: Imprimerie particulière [Albert Messein], 1871 , (actually 1923). First edition, number 141 of 150 copies (also 25 on Japon). Two of these three homoerotic sonnets (stupra = defilements) are printed here for the first time. The final one, known as the ‘Sonnet du trou du cul’, is infamous. Written..... Read More about Les Stupra
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London: Ellis and White, 1881. First edition. Inscribed to Lady Jane Swinburne. Inscribed to Algernon Charles Swinburne's mother, Lady Jane Henrietta Swinburne (1809-1896): "To The Lady Jane Swinburne With the most sincere and heart-felt regards of Theodore Watts." Watts was the dedicatee of this book and Algernon Charles Swinburne's companion..... Read More about Ballads and Sonnets
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San Francisco: Centaur Press, [1950]. First edition, one of 250 copies. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Read More about Medieval Scenes
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New York: Arrow Editions, [1940]. First edition. Read More about Gertrude Stein. A Bibliography
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New York: Harper & Brothers, [1957]. First edition. Read More about Gertrude Stein Her Life and Work
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New Haven: Yale, 1951. First edition. Read More about Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work
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New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1974. First edition, number 57 of 100 copies of the deluxe edition, specially bound, numbered and signed by the compiler. each contains an original print of an unpublished photograph of Gertrude Stein taken in Richmond, Virginia in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. Read More about Gertrude Stein. A Bibliography
Price: $300