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
Miami Beach: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1986. First edition. Copy 75 of 400 copies, signed by Willeford. Very slight bump to top board else Fine in Fine dust jacket. An uncommon pairing of Miami Blues author Charles Willeford with seven pulp stories of popular but critically-neglected author Fredric Brown. More
London: J. Johnson, 1795. First Edition in English of Catullus' complete works, side by side with the original Latin. xxxvi, 223, [3]; [iv], 236, [2] pp. Contemporary full calf, edges ruled in gilt, spine elaborately stamped in gilt with black title label and red numerical label. Complete in two volumes..... 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
San Diego: Nighstand Books, 1959. First edition, first issue. (States "NB 1503 aSn" code on bottom left of front cover. [Richmond p.57].) 191pp. Illustrated wraps. A Near Fine copy, with slight offsetting to spine from glue, a little wear to foot, slight crease to front cover corner. An excellent copy..... More
Ft. Lauderdale: Fantasies in Lace, Inc. [ca. 1994]. 52 pp. Folded photocopied sheets staple-bound in publisher's white semi-glossy wraps printed in black. Very Good with creasing and wear, evidence of mailing label removal to rear cover. The Florida company's mail order catalog specializing in hosiery and fashions for the cross-dresser..... More
San Francisco: Last Gasp Eco-funnies Co, 1971. First edition. Black and white photo illustrated wraps. 48 pp., including covers. Printed on rectos only. Staples a bit rusted, else Fine and unread. An attractive copy. A souvenir celebration of the Haight Ashbury performance troupe that anticipated many facets of glam rock..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. First American edition. [vi], 168, [1] pp. Crimson cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with former owner's name written on front free endpaper, citation written on rear endpaper, contents otherwise unmarked. In Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. The first volume in..... 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
[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
San Diego: Adult Books / Greenleaf Classics, 1968. First edition. Paperback original. Very Good with a little rubbing along edges, a bit of sticker wear to front cover, pages toned with age. An erotic novel by the creator of the Man from C.A.M.P. series. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) [vi], 245, [3] pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards with green cloth backstrip lettered in black. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners, light foxing, in Very Good dust jacket, rubbed, price-clipped, verso a bit foxed..... More
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1948. First edition, fifth printing. Signed by all three contributors: Alfred C. Kinsey, Clyde E. Martin and Wardell B. Pomeroy, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's bed cloth with spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very..... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1957. First edition. Signed by Gypsy Rose Lee and inscribed to former owner on half title page. [viii], 337 pp. Original cloth and striped paper-covered boards. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn and rubbed with small tear along joint near..... More
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[no place]: The Mattachine Society, 1958. Single folded sheet issued by the Mattachine Society as a fundraising appeal. It mentions the gains they're making with appearances on television shows and in public forums. The organization needed to raise $3,000 "before July 31st to pay for the Review's current indebtedness and..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications Inc. / Gold Medal, 1959. First edition. Signed by author "Bob Wade AKA Wade Miller" on title page; Wade was half of the writing team that went under the pen name "Wade Miller." 174 pp. Photo illustrated wraps. Near Fine with uncreased spine and bright cover..... 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
[no place]: [no publisher]. Late twentieth-century vernacular photo album containing 80 snapshot photographs measuring 4" x 6", with one image smaller than the rest. Images depict men dressing in drag, often on stage performing at an amateur or small event, or behind the scenes at their apartments, either partying or..... 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
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. First US edition. (Stated first printing. A forward by Reich to a prospective English translation in 1951 was completed in 1951 but not published.) xxix, 215 pp. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light small stain to fore edge in Near..... More
New York: Orgone Institute Press Inc., 1946. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) xxiv, 344 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners, pages age-toned, in Near Fine dust jacket with faint staining, lightly toned with age and shelf worn; much..... More
[New York]: [Fuck You Press], 1967. Tabloid format, headlined: Poet Ted Berrigan Teaches Parrot to Scarf Cock. Vol.1, No. 1. Very Good+ with a bit of bumping to corners, very slight toning. A one-off parody newspaper of the New York School, emanating from the Lower East Side on the crest..... More