

Early Gay Literature
[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]
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]
[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]
[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]
BANG, Herman
Mikael
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1904
8vo, pp. 379. Contemporary threequarter marbled cloth boards, leather ribbed spine and corners, spine and device on front panel... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
BURNS, John Horne
A Cry Of Children
New York: Harper & Bros., 1952
8vo, pp. 276. Original grey and blue three-quarter cloth, lettered in white on spine.
First edition.
Published a year before Burns' death in Florence of a cerebral haemorrhage,... [more]
WILLINGHAM, Calder
End As A Man
New York: Vanguard Press, 1947
8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition of the author's first book, in a striking dustjacket designed by Roy Sanford.
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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]
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]
[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]
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]
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]
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]
