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Rare Gay Erotic / Pulp Fiction - 1950s to 1970s
cheap erotic gay fiction 1970s onwards
The line between erotic and pulp fiction is narrow - for us the determinator is whether the story is driven more by sex or by plot. Although often dismissed as lacking any literary merit, some erotic / pulp fiction is surprisingly well written erotic. For the literary and social historian it can also offer interesting insights into the ives and attitudes of gay men and others at the time it was written. Most erotic / pulp fiction came from specialist publishing houses in the USA; most titles appeared only in paperback, but some - particularly those that reached a wider audience - first appeared in hardback. Titles below are in order of first publication.
One man's pulp is another man's literature - which means that the title you are looking for may not be here. Check our US novels to see what we've missed or the link above for our full list of cheap erotica.
Books are listed in order of first publication
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Butterfly Man
Lew Levenson
Castle Books, New York, n. d. (1960s, first publ 1934) (hardback)
"Secrets of the Third Sex! The untold story of the half world where men and women are no longer men OR women ... such is BUTTERFLY MAN"
£15.00
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The Divided Path
Nial Kent
Pyramid Books, New York, 1959 (first published 1949)
"he felt himself quiveringly alive with an emotion that threatened to overwhelm him. Here was a situation he must face - one from which he had no desire to escape, yet he felt he must do so. A feeling of terror obsessed him. He must not see Paul again."
£16.00
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Rough Trade
Lou Rand
Argyle Books, Los Angeles, 1964, 1st edition (hardback)
"Handsome homosexuals on a rampaging orgy of gay lust and the sultry women who tempt them. ."
£15.00
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Somewhere Between The Two
Jay Little
Paperback Library, New York, 1965 (first published 1956)
"Handsome Terry Wallace lived in the twilight of sex between the daylight of normal love and the night of
forbidden desire!"
£12.50
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The Gay Flesh
Joe Leon Houston
Argyle Books, Los Angeles, 1965, 1st edition (hardback)
"Virile handsome Carl Wolfe could have any woman he wanted - but he wanted only Chuck, a blond Adonis who left Carl after a brief interlude of friendship and desire."
£7.50
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Strange Marriage
James Colton (Joseph Hansen)
Argyle Books, Washington DC, 1965, 1st edition (hardback)
"This taut, frankly sensual novel begins with Randy's frantic search for a male lover to replace his beloved Corky . . . Randy's search for appeasement takes him down strange and dangerous pathways."
£17.50
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The Occasional Man
James Barr (James Fugaté)
Swan, Toronto, 1966, first published 1966 in USA
"No longer young and beautiful, David, at 40, was still handsome. Flat broke and depressed over the break-up of his affair with the man he had adored for fifteen years, David wandered lost and lonely in the back streets of the twilight world of sex."
£15.00
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The Joy Spot
Phil Andros (Samuel M Steward)
Frenchy's Gay Line, USA, 1971 1st edition
Version of La Ronde (the play by Arthur Schnitzler from 1900). A farm boy has sex with a motorcyclist who goes on to have sex with an effeminate older man who has sex with a policeman who . . .
£175.00
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When in Rome, Do . . .
Phil Andros (Samuel M Steward)
Gay Parisian Press, USA, 1971 1st edition
A rare first edition (later republished as Roman Conquests) by the author of Stud, whose exotic life included being a respected university professor and tattoo artist.
£150.00
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Todd
James Colton (Joseph Hansen)
Traveller's Companion / Olympia Press, New York, 1971 1st edition
"Todd was white and Felix was black and Felix's militant brother was determined that none of his family was ever going to be exploited by the whites, especially sexually."
£22.50
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Frost
Richard Amory
Olympia Press, London, 1972, first published USA 1971
"At the crossroads, beautiful Billy lies dead by his motorbike; at home the father plots more than just a simple murder; and in the Northern California hills Frost finds true love in the arms of another man."
£25.00
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Willow Song
Richard Amory
Freeway Press, New York, 1974 1st edition
"Richard Amory, author of Frost, returns to the headwaters of his inspiration, the meadows and forests which landscape his famous Song of the Loon, in this, his most poetic gay fantasy: Willow Song. A story of love. Now a gay masque."
£50.00
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Locker Room Lads
Chuck Howard
Surrey House, San Diego, 1974 1st edition
"Mike ... is ... a not-quite middle-aged man cast adrift in the tides of loneliness through the death of his mate, his only solace a boy almost grown to manhood. But in this case, in spite of previous fulfilling homosexual encounters, Mike becomes the not-so-willing but apt pupil of his son and his son's lover."
£40.00
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Post-1980 erotica:
Edmund Miller's Night Times (2000)
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"Terry Wallace rove slowly alone in his high-powered convertible, staring out over the passing scene. The night was beautiful, late April when it seemed that all the clean, untempered breeze of the world was here with its gentle winds; and the earth lay warm and fecund, burgeoning with buildings, the moonlight falling upon them like a soft blue net.
Out of the moonlit sky another familiar building took a square, solid stand. Another tree, another quiet sweep of shining water, another mast. Its tall pole and cross beams extended like welcoming arms, and at its base rocked the boat, lazily and serenely. Lights in its cabin shone, set there to hold out a warm welcome, through portholes ajar, and through them a radio could be heard playing the music of New Orleans."
Opening paragraphs, Somewhere Between The Two, Jay Little
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