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
William BECKFORD The Caliph of Fonthill
by H A N Brockman
1956 1st £12.00
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 Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo
by Miriam J Benkovitz
1977 1st US £14.00
Venice Letters 1974 1st £57.50
The Quest for Corvo
by A J A Symons
signed by author
1934 1st £175.00
Michael DAVIDSON Some Boys 1998 £10.00
Samuel R DELANY Heavenly Breakfast 1979 1st £7.50
Martin DUBERMAN Midlife Queer 1998 £5.00
Hanns EBENSTEN Volleyball with the Cuna Indians 1993 1st £8.00
Lionel FIELDEN The Natural Bent 1971 £8.50
André GIDE Journals Vol I 1889-1913 1948 1st UK £8.00
Journals Vol II 1914-1927 1948 1st UK £10.00
Journals 1889 - 1949 1967 £5.50
André Gide
by Albert J Guerard
1951 1st £8.00
Gerald HAMILTON Conversations with Gerald
by John Symonds
1974 1st £12.50
Robin MAUGHAM Come to Dust 1945 1st £35.00
Escape from the Shadows 1972 1st £11.00
W S MAUGHAM Seven Friends
by Louis Marlow
1953 1st £12.50
Paul MONETTE Borrowed Time 1990 £3.50
Peter ROBINS Visits signed by author 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
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 Robert Harborough Sherard
1906 1st £60.00
see also       Son of Oscar Wilde
by Vyvyan Holland
1954 £6.00




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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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