Autobiographies & Biographies of Gay Interest
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SUBJECT TITLE (& author) EDITION PRICE
W H AUDEN Auden in Love
by Dorothy J Farnan
1985 1st UK £4.00
James BALDWIN Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
by James Campbell
1991 1st £15.00
Aubrey BEARDSLEY Aubrey Beardsley
by Robert Ross
1909 1st £45.00
Beardsley
by Stanley Weintraub
1972 £3.75
E F BENSON As We Were 1939 £7.50
Dirk BOGARDE An Orderly Man 1988 £2.50
  Snakes and Ladders 1987 £2.50
Malcolm BOYD Take off the Masks 1984 £5.00
Aldo BUSI Sodomies in Elevenpoint 1992 1st Engl £5.00
Frederick Rolfe, Baron CORVO Venice Letters 1974 1st £57.50
The Quest for Corvo
by A J A Symons
(signed by Symons)
1934 1st £175.00
Michael DAVIDSON The World, The Flesh and Myself 1966 £7.50
Peter DE ROME The Erotic World of Peter de Rome 1984 1st £12.50
Samuel R DELANY Heavenly Breakfast 1979 1st £7.50
  The Motion of Light in Water 1989 £5.00
Tom DRIBERG Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions
by Francis Wheen
1990 1st £4.50
Martin DUBERMAN Midlife Queer 1998 £5.00
Hanns EBENSTEN Volleyball with the Cuna Indians 1993 1st £8.00
Robin FARQUHARSON Drop out! 1971 £8.50
Stephen FRY Moab is my Washpot
bargain book
1997 1st £4.00
Jean GENET Miracle of the Rose 1965 1st UK £20.00
  The Thief's Journal 1965 1st UK £15.00
  The Thief's Journal 1978 pbk £4.00
André GIDE Journals 1889 - 1949 1967 £5.50
André Gide
by Albert J Guerard
1951 1st £8.00
Robert HUTTON Of Those Alone 1958 1st £16.00
Charles LAUGHTON Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
by Simon Callow
(signed copy)
1987 1st £25.00
Kenneth MARLOWE Mr Madam:
Confessions of a Male Madam
1965 £10.00
Robin MAUGHAM Come to Dust 1945 1st £35.00
Escape from the Shadows 1972 1st £8.50
W S MAUGHAM Seven Friends
by Louis Marlow
1953 1st £12.50
Paul MONETTE Borrowed Time 1990 £3.50
Jeremy NORMAN No Make-Up 2006 1st £8.00
Peter ROBINS Visits
(signed copy)
1992 1st £12.50
Jack ROBINSON Teardrops on My Drum 1986 1st £8.00
Charles Warren STODDARD Cruising the South Seas 1987 £7.50
Tom WAKEFIELD Forties' Child 1988 £7.00
Andy WARHOL Loner at the Ball
by Fred Lawrence Guiles
1989 1st UK £4.50
Denton WELCH Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer
by Michael De-la-Noy
1984 1st £7.00
Maiden Voyage
Denton Welch
1945 £10.00
The Journals of Denton Welch
edited by Michael De-la-Noy
1984 1st £12.50
Oscar WILDE Oscar Wilde and His Mother
by Anna, Comtesse de Brémont
1911 1st £50.00
The Truth About Oscar Wilde
by Lewis Broad
1957 £3.50
The Stringed Lute: An Evocation in Dialogue of Oscar Wilde
by John Furnell
1955 1st £12.50
Oscar Wilde: his life and confessions
by Frank Harris
1930 1st thus £10.00
Seven Friends
by Louis Marlow
1953 1st £12.50
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
by Neil McKenna
2004 £7.50
The Life of Oscar Wilde
by Hesketh Pearson
1947 £10.00
see also       Son of Oscar Wilde
by Vyvyan Holland
1988 1st thus £4.00
Peter WILDEBLOOD Against the Law 1955 1st £25.00
Tennessee WILLIAMS Memoirs 1977 £2.50




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"Indeed, military outposts were recognized as environments so notorious for sodomy that this could be adduced as a motive for clemency: in 1440 the government justified canceling a convicted sodomite's fine because, among other reasons, when he committed sodomy 'he was at military service and frequented soldiers, who are commonly profligate in that vice'."

Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Michael Rocke
Oxford University Press, 1996


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