Stud
Boston: Perineum Press, 1982.
First Alyson edition, fourth printing. Signed by Phil Andros on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the recipient "in souvenir of a hot night in a cave on Capri." 212, [4] pp. with four advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's printed wraps with cover art by Tom of Finland. Near Fine with light edgewear, spot of soiling and light indentations to front cover, and slight bump to lower corner. Foxing to upper edge of textblock. "Phil Andros" was the name Samuel Steward used when he began writing gay pornographic novels in the late 1960s. Stud was the first, published in 1966 after a Supreme Court ruling restricted the power of obscenity laws. Steward, entering his third career after spending a few decades as an English professor and tattoo artist, had previously been limited to publishing in European gay magazines.
Price: $1,250