San Francisco: Spinsters / Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987. Signed by Gloria Anzaldua on the verso of the front wrap, "Para Judy, Ojale que te guste mi librito. Contigo, Gloria E. Anzaldua / 2 Febrero 89." [xvi], 203, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Second printing of the first edition..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1953. First English language edition. 105, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good, spine darkened, a few light scratches to front wrap, toning to wraps. The first English translation of Georges Bataille's erotic novella The Story of the Eye. More
New York: Avon, 1960. First edition. 144 pp. Wraps. An About Very Good copy with a slightly concave creased spine, price scratched on front cover, wear at head and foot. Not a bad copy. One of oft-neglected writer Gil Brewer's better noir novels, of which Bill Pronzini writes, "What makes..... More
Montreal: Bizarre Publication Co., 1946-1958. Issues 1-25 of the famous fetish and bondage magazine, plus mail order advertisement with loose sample images and ads for Fantasia Footwear. Nearly complete as a run except for the final issue (No. 26). Stapled wraps. A Near Fine set, generally excellent, bright and very..... More
[no place]: [Duncan Clark]. [ca. 1870] Single handbill printed on recto only measuring roughly 6" x 5.25", announcing "Duncan Clark's / Jan. 13th / Lady Minstrels." No stranger to trouble with the law, what manager Clark advertised as a traveling "Lady Minstrel" show contained several men in drag. A performance..... More
New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1910. First edition in English, and one of the most important works in Freud's oeuvre. Bound in contemporary black pebbled cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to binding, bumped corners. Contemporary owner name to verso..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition, first printing. Signed by Erich Fromm on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth stamped in white and metallic green. Near Fine with spine lightly toned and lightly frayed at the edges, pages..... More
[no place]: [no publisher], 1969. [ca. 1969]. Three original Gay Pride embroidered patches. Two circular patches measuring roughly 2.74" in diameter, and one rectangular measuring 4.75" x 2. One patch says "Gay Power," a second, "69" and the third "GAA" for the organization Gay Activists Alliance. Some creasing, toning, several..... More
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[Los Angeles]: [Bullshot], 1978. Single sheet printed on recto only on Bullshot letterhead, with title reading "Bullshot Bully??!!" announcing a contest to select a "Bully" (or waiter) to serve at the new Los Angeles nightclub/disco gay bar. The event was emceed by gay and straight porn star, Jack Wrangler, who..... More
London: The Casanova Society, 1926. First British edition. x, 183 pp. Copy #313 of 1,500 copies on deckle-edged laid watermarked paper; original cloth-backed paper boards. Good+ in like dust jacket. Bumped corners, split hinge at p. 96, foxing to terminals and dust jacket, the latter having some edge wear and..... More
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1953. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alfred C. Kinsey on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt titles blocked in dark blue on the spine, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with fading to spine and light wear to cloth at..... More
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1953. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alfred C. Kinsey on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt titles blocked in dark blue on the spine, lacking the dust jacket. Good, with curvature to the boards leaving the binding unsquare. Pages tanned..... More
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Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1948. 1948, 1953. Two volumes, both first edition, first printing, both volumes signed by Alfred C. Kinsey and inscribed to George Brasler, with the second volume being additionally inscribed to his wife. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering blocked..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by both William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's original ocher cloth boards with gilt spine titles blocked in maroon. Near Fine with slight residue to..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by both William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original ocher cloth boards with gilt spine titles blocked in maroon. Near Fine with pages toned..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. Fourth printing. Signed by William H. Masters on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owner, and with a typed letter from the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation signed "Bill" by William Masters. Bound in publisher's original ocher cloth boards with gilt spine titles..... More
Rome (actually Neuchatel, Switzerland): De l'Imprimerie du Vatican (Francois Mallet), 1783. First edition. iv, 192 pp. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with light wear to boards and foxing. British publisher, novelist, book collector and bibliographer Michael Sadleir's copy with his small bookplate on paste down. A...... More
Berkeley, CA: The Printmint, 1971. First edition. [2], 32, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Near Fine with light creasing and shelf wear. The first and only printing of a surreal, cosmic, sex-themed comic book by Spanish-American underground comix legend and rock poster designer Victor Moscoso, called by Underground..... More
Portland, OR: Feral House, 1995. First edition. Signed by Adam Parfrey on the title page, inscribed "The New One For the New World ODOR Your eternal schmatta Adam P." 371, [3] pp. with frontispiece by Joe Coleman, later used for the cover of Apocalpyse Culture II. Bound in publisher's wraps..... More
Los Angeles: Feral House, 2000. Signed by Adam Parfrey, contributor and editor, on the title page in red ink. xii, 458 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Second printing of the first edition. Near Fine with bumping to top corner, some sticker schmutz on rear cover. Uncommon signed. The follow-up to..... More
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1927. Author's Autograph Edition, signed by Maurice Parmelee. Copy 91 of an unspecified limitation, issued in advance of the first edition. xiv, 303 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with fraying at head, light shelf wear, former owner's name written..... More
New York: Esquire, 1936. First edition. Signed by George Petty on the title leaf, inscribed "to 'MITCH' HEINEMANN from a guy who is flattered to think he is interested [/] With every good wish [signed] George PETTY." 10 1/4" x 14". Bound in publisher's slick black boards with gilt lettering..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1937. First edition of the first gay guide to London, offering "an ironic--if heavily veiled--indictment of contemporary sexual mores." Ostensibly taking the form of coded dialogue taking place in the "Theleme Club" between a young man with prophetic knowledge of the city telling an older..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1954. First English-language edition. 187, [3] pp. Original purple wraps over card covers. A Near Fine copy, light wear to tips, spine slightly creased and the fugitive purple is a little sunned but much less than is common. An uncommon paperback original that presents well, often..... More
Los Angeles: Freedom Press, 1977. Second Revised Edition. iv, 66, 58 [reproducing 18 tiny pages per sheet] pp. Oblong wraps. Text in English and German. Very Good+ with small tear near foot, a little foxing to back wrap. An uncommon counterculture edition of radical Freudian psychologist, writer, and inventor Wilhelm..... More