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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
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Content: The Fortune Press was, for most of its existence, a one-man operation, publishing a wide and esoteric list that included Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis amongst its authors. The Press also brought out a number of books with implicit or explicit gay themes, many of which are now very rare. This volume consists of a short biographical essay on the founder of the Press, by the man who acted as Caton's assistant towards the end of his life, and a comprehensive bibliography of books published by the press. Background / Biography: For a list of Fortune Press titles available from Arbery Books, click here. Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"What connection has Dylan Thomas with a ticket-tout and Wallace Stevens with a pornographer? Who used the printer of Ulysses to set up the poems of Lord Alfred Douglas? Why did Cecil Day-Lewis know a slum-landlord in Brighton? Who was Kingsley Amis's first publisher and why did Amis kill him off in one of his novels? Whom did Philip Larkin call a lazy sod?. Reginald Ashley Caton, the common denominator of those questions, would not have been pleased at this investigation of his life and activities. Always elusive, secretive, diffident about imparting any information about his publishing career and totally silent about his private life, he would have felt betrayed by this essay and the hand-list of his books. He was angry enough when, in my bibliography of his most prolific author, Montague Summers, I published evidence that a Roman Catholic book of devotion issues under the imprint of St Peter's Press was the anonymous translation of this equivocal cleric and published by the Fortune Press under a saintly pseudonym. Caton firmly believed that the Vatican had forbidden theological institutions to buy the book solely because of my exposure of translator and publisher despite the Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat of which both he and Summers were inordinately proud. When I got to know him better he would occasionally throuw out a hint here and there but basically he preferred to remain, as Summers once called him in a letter, 'the enigma of Belgrave Road'." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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