From our past

Arbery Books is an online seller of old and rare books and ephemera, based in London, UK, and established in 2009. Our specialities are:

since 1900; erotic, gay, lesbian, sexuality and transgender fact and fiction
before 1900: curiosities, erotica, picaresque and sexuality


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Our online database changed in September 2012; it will take us about a year to convert all our stock to the new system.


RARE




What a drag

Almost unknown novel set in the world of a travelling troupe of female impersonators


first edition 1959 £60





... the Romans

Rare example of Phil Andros' erotic novel, later republished as Roman Conquests.


first edition 1971 £150
SECONDHAND


Love, not sex
The 1906 classic of gay romance
republished as erotica in 1992
1992 £15.00


Enraptured
For 200 years Ganymede symbolised love between Italian men and youths
1st edition, 1986
£17.50



OTHER LANGUAGES


do Brasil / from Brazil


deutsch / German


français / French


nederlands / Dutch


castellano / Spanish





EPHEMERA
Includes 1991 edition of a Polish gay guide, the souvenir programme for the 1979 London Gay Pride Week and Don Milligan's classic 1970s The Politics of Homosexuality.


gay ephemera
LESBIAN
Radclyffe Hall's novel of a marriage
satirised her own relationship
with Una Troubridge.



full list




AND MORE . . .



NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL
Compton Mackenzie's
Thin Ice in Italian
THE JOY OF PAIN
4,000 years of corporal punishment
SUPPRESSED FOR 50 YEARS
Robert Hichens' satire of Oscar Wilde and his circle



ALL ABOUT PIMPS
The whos, whys, hows, wheres and how muches
TROLLING THE DILLY
male prostitution
in London in the 1970s
THE COWARD
R H Benson was gay;
his stories weren't



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




Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare mainstream titles.
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