RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR CATALOGUE


RARE



Ionica
Gerald Berners' spoof The Girls of Radcliff Hall depicted himself and his friends as lesbian schoolgirls. The novel created an uproar in high society in the 1930s.
Copy dedicated by author to Emerald Cunard
£2,750




Ionica
One of the best-known books of Uranian poetry, in a presentation box
1st edition, 1858, £275
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



OTHER LANGUAGES


do Brasil / from Brazil


deutsch / German


français / French


nederlands / Dutch


castellano / Spanish






EPHEMERA
Including 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.


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



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MORE FROM OUR PAST



PASSIONATE PHOTOS
queer lives
in words and pictures
HARLEM NIGHTS
an early gay classic
from 1931
DISTURBED YOUTH
first edition classic from the acclaimed US writer



THE LAST RESORT
when misery means marriage to a homosexual
BITTER SWEET
the lives and loves of six young people
ASIAN ROMP
straight comedy from gay writer Robin Maugham



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

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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: Tom Bianchi Fire Island Pines June
Turnon Muscles June



Latest addition: Hakan Lindquist's On Collecting Stamps
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