

Early Gay Literature
MILTON, Ernest
To Kiss The CrocodileNew 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]
McINTOSH, Harlan Cozad
This Finer Shadow
New York: Dial Press, 1941
8vo, pp. 408. Original blue-green boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.
First edition.
This Finer Shadow was rejected by every publisher it was sent to during... [more]
CRANE, Clarkson
The Western Shore
New York: Harcourt, Brace 1925
8vo, pp. 303. Original black boards, lettered in brown on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Clarkson Crane (1894-1971)... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREEN, Julian
The Transgressor
New York: Pantheon, 1957
8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt.
First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous... [more]
DAVIS, George
The Opening of a DoorNew 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]
OTIS, Harry
The Keval, And Other Gay Adventures
Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959
8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers.
First edition.
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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]
BOURJAILY, Vance
The Hound of Earth
New York: Scribner's, 1955
8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in black and yellow on spine.
First edition.
Bourjaily's second novel, about an atomic scientist haunted by post-Hiroshima guilt. Some... [more]
STONE, Grace Zaring
The Grotto
New York: Harper Bros., 1951
8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine.
First edition.
'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly ... [more]
BURNS, John Horne
The Gallery
New York: Harper & Bros., 1947
8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]
OWEN, Jack
The Beach Bums
New York: Coward-McCann, 1959
8vo, pp. 192. Original off-white boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition, signed by THE AUTHOR in the year of publication.
This was the author's only novel, a story of... [more]
EDMUNDS, Murrell
Sojourn Among Shadows
Idaho: Caxton, 1936
8vo, pp. 144. Original grey boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Murrell Edmunds (1898-1981) was from a distinguished Southern family, and abandoned a legal... [more]
BRINIG, Myron
SingermannNew 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]
COLEMAN, Lonnie
Ship's Company
Boston: Little, Brown, 1955
8vo, pp. 229. Original grey boards, lettered in green on spine.
First edition.
A compendium of vignettes of wartime life aboard the U.S.S. Nellie Crocker, including one about the... [more]
BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950
8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]
WINTER, J. Keith
Other Man's SaucerNew 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]
[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.
Early issue of this... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, 1965
8vo, pp. [4-14]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VIII.
