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The following titles are offered post-free in the UK, with discounts on orders of 3 or more. Most are in acceptable to good condition, which means they may have one or more of the following defects: creases, scuff marks, stains, fading, browning, pencil or ink inscriptions or other markings. Books that are in very poor condition have additional notes in italics (eg "pages loose" or "damaged cover").

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FICTION

Stephen AIREY (ed) code:HB034	Messer Rondo and other stories by gay men	Gay Men's Press, 1990 1st edition	£3.75
James BALDWIN code:X0098	Just Above My Head three decades of American history through the life of a gospel singer	Corgi, 1980	£4.25
Neil BARTLETT code:X00076	Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall "celebration of love . . . the stark reality of life for gay men in London"	Serpent's Tail, 1990	£3.25
Sebastian BEAUMONT code:X00092	The Linguist the aftermath of a love triangle	GMP, 2000	£3.25
Paul BOWLES code:X0099	The Sheltering Sky modern classic of Westerners adrift in north Africa	Flamingo, 1993	£4.00
Christopher BRAM code:X0096	In Memory of Angel Clare 1989 AIDS novel	Gay Men's Press, 1991	£4.25
Truman CAPOTE code:B0001	Music for Chameleons little or no gay content	Sphere, 1982	£3.50
William CORLETT code: X00090	Now & Then can love return after thirty years?	Abacus, 1996	£3.75
Ronald FIRBANK code: B0014	Valmouth and Other Novels	Penguin, 1982	£3.75
Stephen FRY code:MB0127	The Liar his first novel: little or no gay content	Mandarin, 1993	£3.50
Patrick GALE / Francis KING / Tom WAKEFIELD code: X00093	Secret Lives three novellas	Serpent's Tail, 1992	£3.25
Jean GENET code: B0004	Funeral Rites	Panther, 1971	£4.00
code: B0015	Miracle of the Rose	Penguin, 1971	£4.00
code: X00074	Querelle of Brest modern French classic - story of a sailor and the men and women who want him	Panther, 1973	£3.50
André GIDE code: X00016	The Immoralist "the story of a man's rebellion against social and sexual conformity"	Penguin, 1977	£3.00
code: X0059	Strait is the Gate little or no gay content	Penguin, 1971	£3.00
Joseph HANSEN code: X0045	Death Claims	Quartet (UK), 1974	£3.00
code: 000231	Fadeout	Quartet, 1973	£3.00
code: B0009	Job's Year	Plume (New American Library), 1985	£3.75
code: B0009	The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of	Owl (Holt, Rinehart & Winston), 1981	£3.00
Christopher ISHERWOOD code: B0031	Mr Norris Changes Trains	Penguin, 1973	£3.25
Francis KING code: X0084	The Man on the Rock portrait of con man, set in Greece	Arrow, 1975 (1st publ 1957)	£3.25
John KNOWLES code: B0010	A Separate Peace	Bantam, 1972	£3.25
DAVID LEAVITT code: 000155	A Place I've Never Been short stories	Penguin, 1990 (1st publ 1990)	£3.00
DAVID LEAVITT code: 000083	Equal Affections death and family	Penguin, 1989 (1st publ 1989)	£3.00

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Colin MACINNES code: B0028	Mr Love and Justice little or no gay content	Four Square, 1962	£3.00
Carson MCCULLERS code: X00088	The Ballad of the Sad Café "a simple triangle of unrequited love	Penguin, 1975	£2.75
Thomas MANN code: B0027	Death in Venice cover has Bogarde and Andresen from film	Penguin, 1972	£2.50
Armistead MAUPIN code: X00013	Further Tales of the City	Black Swan (UK) 1988	£3.50
Armistead MAUPIN code: X00013	More Tales of the City	Corgi (UK) 1984	£3.00
William MAXWELL code: X00083	The Folded Leaf implicit, not explicit gay content	Vintage, 1959 pages marked	£3.50
Gordon MERRICK code: B0018	The Great Urge Downward	Avon, 1984	£4.00
Yukio MISHIMA code: B0006	Death in Midsummer and other stories cover: Mishima in loincloth, wielding sword	Penguin, 1971	£4.00
code: X0101	Forbidden Colors aging author manipulates life of handsome young man	Tuttle, 1970	£4.00
Paul MONETTE code: X0078	Halfway Home "passionate story of two brothers, one gay, one straight, one with HIV, the other on the run"	GMP, 1999	£3.75
Oscar MOORE code: X0081	A Matter of Life and Sex "raw candour, shocking self-awarenss, frightening fatalism	Penguin, 1992	£3.50
Joseph OLSHAN code: X00091	Night Swimmer "fervent story of love and loss, of the perils and pains of intimacy"	Bloomsbury, 1995	£3.50
Joe ORTON code: X0085	Head To Toe his only novel - surreal and outrageous	Methuen, 1986	£3.75
Felice PICANO code: X0111	Like People In History "the gay Gone with the Wind" - Edmund White	Abacus, 1996	£3.75
code: X0077	The Book of Lies "roman-a-clef" " absorbing Henry James-style comedy of manners"	Abacus, 1999	£3.50
Manuel PUIG code: 000794	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Arena, 1984	£4.00
John RECHY code: B0012	Bodies and Souls	Star, 1985	£3.50
Forrest REID code: X0107	Young Tom "powerful evocation of childhood"	GMP, 1987	£4.00
Mary RENAULT code: B0034	Fire from Heaven the youth of Alexander the Great	Penguin, 1973	£3.00
code: B0020	The Bull from the Sea	Penguin, 1978	£3.00
code: B0013	The Bull from the Sea	Penguin, 1973	£3.00
code: B0035	The Last of the Wine	New English Library, 1970	£3.25
code: B0030	The Mask of Apollo	New English Library, 1971	£3.25
code: B0032	The Charioteer Renault's gay novel set during World War II	Pocket Books (US), 1967	£4.25
code: B0007	The Praise Singer	Corgi, 1980	£3.25
Shyam SELVADURAI code: X0115	Funny Boy growing up gay in civil war in Sri Lanka	Penguin, 1994	£4.00
Antony SHER code: X00094	Cheap Lives "a murderous love story" hardback with dustjacket	Little, Brown, 1995 1st ed'n	£3.75
Rupert SMITH code: 000998	I Must Confess "comic history of British popular culture"	Hamish Hamilton, 1998 1st ed'n	£4.00
Stephen SPENDER code: X0114	The Temple semi-autobiographical novel about pre-war Germany	Faber & Faber, 1989	£3.50
Luke SUTHERLAND code: 001277	Venus as a Boy "modern-day myth about the power of love" hardback with dustjacket	Bloomsbury, 2004 1st ed'n	£4.50
Colm TOIBIN code: B0019	The Blackwater Lightship little or no gay content	Picador, 1999	£3.50
Gore VIDAL code: B0021	Julian little or no gay content	Ballantine, 1991	£3.75
Gore VIDAL code: B0017	Messiah little or no gay content	Panther, 1973	£3.50
Gore VIDAL code: B0033	Myron satire: transgender with goal to demasculinise American men	Panther, 1975	£3.00
Gore VIDAL code: B0016	The Judgement of Paris short stories: little or no gay content	Panther, 1974	£4.00
Evelyn WAUGH code: MB0140	Brideshead Revisited the classic story of Oxford life and love	Penguin, 1981	£3.75
Patricia Nell WARREN code: B0024	The Beauty Queen "a blistering novel of political power and gay love	Corgi (UK), 1979	£3.00
code: B0024	The Fancy Dancer two men, one a priest, in a small Montana town	Bantam, 1977, poor cover	£3.00
code: B0025	The Front Runner 1970s bestseller	Bantam, 1975, poor cover	£2.75
Edmund WHITE code: X00001	A Boy's Own Story	Picador, 1983	£2.75
code: X00048	Forgetting Elena	Penguin, 1983	£2.75
code: X0110	Forgetting Elena & Nocturnes for the King of Naples	Picador, 1984	£3.00
code: X00002	The Beautiful Room Is Empty	Picador, 1988	£2.75
Christopher WHYTE code: X0109	The Gay Decameron group of gay men in Edinburgh	Gollancz, 1998 hardback, ex-library	£4.75
Oscar WILDE code: B0023	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Penguin, 1976	£2.75

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NON-FICTION

James BALDWIN code: B0026	No Name in the Street personal statement on US "political and social agonies"	Corgi, 1972 cover loose	£2.00
Raymond DE BECKER trans M Crosland & A Daventry code: B0029	The Other Face of Love: A definitive study of homosexuality	Sphere, 1971	£3.25
Simon CALLOW code: X0113	Love Is Where It Falls an account of a passionate friendship hardback with dustjacket	Nick Hern, 1999 1st edition	£4.00
Edisol W DOTSON code: 000361	Putting Out The Essential Publishing Resource Guide for Gay and Lesbian Writers	Cleis Press, 1997	£3.50
Stephen FRY code: X0112	Moab is my Washpot autobiography hardback with dustjacket	Hutchinson, 1997 1st edition	£4.00
G W IRELAND code: 000560	Gide Writers and Critics Series	Oliver & Boyd, 1963 cover loose	£3.75
Christopher ISHERWOOD code: X0097	My Guru and His Disciple search for spiritual truth in 30s and 40s Hollywood	Magnum, 1981	£4.00
Philippe JULLIAN code: X00080	Oscar Wilde biography of the author	Granada, 1981	£3.75
Mark SANDERSON code: X00089	Wrong Rooms "memoir of love, loss and its aftermath	Scribner UK, 2003	£3.25
Michelangelo SIGNORILE code: 000640	Queer in America	Abacus (UK), 1994	£4.00
Anthony STORR code: X00014	Sexual Deviation	1971	£2.75
Jos VERSTEEGEN code: B0002	A Cultural Travel Guide to Gay and Lesbian Amsterdam (Gay Games Amsterdam 1998)	1998	£3.50
Stanley WEINTRAUB code: X0100	Beardsley biography of the famous artist	Pelican, 1972	£3.75
D J WEST code: X00023	Homosexuality	Penguin, 1960	£2.75
Oscar WILDE code: B0003	De Profundis and Other Writings	Penguin, 1980	£3.50
Oscar WILDE code: X0108	The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde	BBC / Orion, 1997	£2.50

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