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 extremities..... 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
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
Montreal: The Bizarre Publishing Company, 1952. Issue #8 of the influential illustrated sexual fetish, bondage, and S&M magazine. 68 pp. including wraps. Near Fine with bright wraps, light wear. The first 20 issues of Bizarre were edited, published and largely illustrated by John Coutts under the pseudonym "John Willie." It..... 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
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
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
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
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1962. 317 pp. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light creases to spine, light wear to wraps and toning to pages as expected, but on the whole a very bright and sharp example. The best-known account of pimping, often..... 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: Macfadden Books, 1963. First edition, first issue with dedication to Louis Berg and Rabbi Julius A. Leibert on copyright page rather than table of contents. 192 pp. Wraps. Very Good+ with light wear, small indent to front wrap, faint corner crease. An account of unusual and fringe sexuality..... 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
[New Orleans]: 1915. [ca. 1915]. [96] pp. The last edition of the famed "Blue Books," a series of directories to houses of prostitution in New Orleans's red-light district, Storyville. Bound in publisher's original pale blue wraps printed in red, bound with three staples and text printed only in black. As..... 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