RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR CATALOGUE


RARE



Mother Clap's Molly House
This fascinating study of gay life in
eighteenth century England
is now difficult to find
1st edition, 1992, £90




Der Unschuldige
This forgotten novel by one of Germany's pioneering gay activists is an early classic in gay literature
1st (limited) edition, 1931, £2,800
SECONDHAND


Crime doesn't pay
Joseph Hansen's gay insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter made his debut appearance in this novel
1st UK edition, 1972, £8.00


Men in Frocks
Female impersonation in the
performing arts from
ancient times to the present day
1st rev edition, 1995, £5.00



BARGAIN BOOKS
UK p&p included
discounts for three or more titles

FICTION full list
Shyam Selvadurai
Funny Boy: £4.00

Stephen Spender
The Temple: £3.50

Luke Sutherland
Venus as a Boy: £4.50

Felice Picano
Like People In History: £3.75

Christopher Whyte
The Gay Decameron: £4.75

Joe Orton
Head To Toe: £3.75

NON-FICTION full list
Simon Callow
Love Is Where It Falls: £4.00

Stephen Fry
Moab is my Washpot: £4.00

OTHER LANGUAGES


do Brasil / from Brazil


deutsch / German


français / French


nederlands / Dutch


castellano / Spanish
LESBIAN
Our stock includes first editions of
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness
and The Master of the House (signed).



full list




MORE FROM OUR PAST



BODY AND SOUL
beautiful black men by Duane Thomas
'ALLO SAILOR!
men-loving pirates in the seventeenth century
ALL NIGHT LONG
erotica from the desk of an English professor



QUEER STREET
gay lives in Britain
from 1895 to 1995
SEXUALITY
what ancient Greeks
thought about sex
THE PAIN THRESHOLD
an interpretation of Sacher-Masoch's work



EPHEMERA

Recent additions include a 1991 edition of a Polish gay guide, the souvenir programme for the 1979 London Gay Pride Week and Don Milligan's classic 1970s socialist analysis: The Politics of Homosexuality.


ephemera



PERIODICALS

Check out physique magazines from the 1950s and early gay lifestyle magazines from the 1960s onwards, including the groundbreaking Christopher Street.


periodicals from the UK and US



       periodicals in other languages


BOOKS WANTED

We are always interested in buying old and rare gay books. Contact us if you have a single copy or a whole library for sale. Recent requests from our customers include:

• Thirteen by "A Boy" ("Aubrey Fowkes"), Fortune Press, London, UK, 1950

• St Matthews' Passion or similar title, set in a British boys' boarding school

Click here for other books on our wanted list.



THEME PAGES

See our current stock by / about / from

Aubrey Beardsley

Jean Cocteau

Jean Genet

André Gide

Joseph Hansen 		Robin Maugham

James Purdy

Frederick Rolfe / Baron Corvo

Oscar Wilde & Lord Alfred Douglas

The Fortune Press


NEW BOOKS



Latest additions: Mark Henderson's Luminosity February 2012
Spartacus Guide 2012 March 2012
For the Love of Bali March 2012



Latest addition: Jonathan Kemp's Twenty-Six
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