Early Gay Literature

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DAVIS, George

The Opening of a Door

New York: Harper & Bros., 1931

8vo, pp. 265. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Variegated endpapers. Lacking the dustwrapper. Spine ends ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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MILTON, Ernest
To Kiss The Crocodile
New York: Harper & Bros., 1928

8vo, pp. 345, 4 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Bookplate to front pastedown,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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BRINIG, Myron
Singermann
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929

8vo, pp. 446. Original brown boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, lettering ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£175.00

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WINTER, J. Keith
Other Man's Saucer
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930

8vo, pp. 308. Original black three-quarter boards, yellow spine lettered in black. Illustrated endpapers. Lacking the dustwrapper. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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HERLIHY, James Leo
Midnight Cowboy
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965

8vo, pp. 253. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£195.00

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[Periodical] [STEIN, Gertrude]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Summer 1959

8vo, pp. [75-107]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Vol. II No. 3.

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[ed. CARPENTER. Edward]
Iolaus: An Anthology of Friendship
London/Manchester/Boston: Swan Sonnenschein, the Author & Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902

8vo, pp. 191. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Top edge... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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STODDARD, Charles Warren
The Island Of Tranquil Delights
Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Company, 1904

8vo, pp. 318. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Top edge gilt. Silk bookmark. Very minor rubbing... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£45.00

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[ed. CURB, Rosemary and MANAHAN, Nancy]
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking The Silence
Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1985

8vo, pp. 383, 3pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Original photographic boards.

First edition.

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£40.00

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[Gay Activism]
20 Questions About Homosexuality
New York: Gay Activists Alliance, 1973

8vo, pp. 24. Original olive green stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.

The New York-based Gay Activists Alliance was founded in 1969, six months after the Stonewall riots. Single-issue, politically non-aligned, the GAA quickly established itself as one of the most effective and well-organised gay pressure groups in the early years of the Gay Liberation movement.

This pamphlet, answering questions about homosexuality and the gay lifestyle not just for wider society but for those looking to acclimatise to their sexuality in the face of a hostile world, is a wonderful, touching survivor from the Gay Rights movement of the early 1970s. A fine copy, too.

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[Gay Ephemera] [Mattachine Society]
Mattachine Society: Minutes of Coordinating Council Meeting
N.p. [San Francisco] N.p. 7 February 1954

9 pp., typed, rectos only. Mark of rusted staple to top left. Hole-punched in three places in left margin. Two ink corrections, one... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£1,500.00

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[Gay Ephemera] [Mattachine Society]
Mattachine Society: Minutes of Coordinating Council Meeting
N.p. [San Francisco] N.p. 17 January 1954

3 pp., typed, rectos only. Inked initials ('VCEB') in top right corner of top page, mark of rusted paper clip to top... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£1,250.00

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[Gay Ephemera] [Mattachine Society]
Mattachine Society: Minutes Of Coordinating Council Meeting
N.p. [San Francisco] N.p. 1953

11 pp., typed (rectos only) and mimeographed, three on white paper and eight on yellow. Hole-punched in three places in left... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, 1965

8vo, pp. [4-14]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Vol. VIII.

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[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, 1964

8vo, pp. [4-34]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Vol. VII Nos. 3, 4.
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[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter, Spring 1964

8vo, pp. [4-35]. Original blue stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Vol. VII Nos. 1, 2.
A scarce survivor, and ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Summer, Fall 1963

8vo, pp. [40-71]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Vol. VI Nos. 3, 4.
A scarce survivor, and ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter, Spring 1963

8vo, pp. [4-36]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Vol. VI Nos. 1,2.
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