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Early Gay Literature
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McINTOSH, Harlan Cozad
This Finer Shadow
New York: Dial Press, 1941
8vo, pp. 408. Original blue-green boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.
First edition.
This Finer Shadow was rejected by every publisher it was sent to during... [more]
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FORD, Charles Henri, and TYLER, Parker
The Young and Evil
Paris: Olympia Press, 1960
Small 8vo, pp. 186. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels and spine.
First Olympia edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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CRANE, Clarkson
The Western Shore
New York: Harcourt, Brace 1925
8vo, pp. 303. Original black boards, lettered in brown on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Clarkson Crane (1894-1971)... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GREEN, Julian
The Transgressor
New York: Pantheon, 1957
8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt.
First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous... [more]
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OTIS, Harry
The Keval, And Other Gay Adventures
Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959
8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers.
First edition.
Young 2953
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BOURJAILY, Vance
The Hound of Earth
New York: Scribner's, 1955
8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in black and yellow on spine.
First edition.
Bourjaily's second novel, about an atomic scientist haunted by post-Hiroshima guilt. Some... [more]
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STONE, Grace Zaring
The Grotto
New York: Harper Bros., 1951
8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine.
First edition.
'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly ... [more]
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BURNS, John Horne
The Gallery
New York: Harper & Bros., 1947
8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]
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OWEN, Jack
The Beach Bums
New York: Coward-McCann, 1959
8vo, pp. 192. Original off-white boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition, signed by THE AUTHOR in the year of publication.
This was the author's only novel, a story of... [more]
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EDMUNDS, Murrell
Sojourn Among Shadows
Idaho: Caxton, 1936
8vo, pp. 144. Original grey boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Murrell Edmunds (1898-1981) was from a distinguished Southern family, and abandoned a legal... [more]
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COLEMAN, Lonnie
Ship's Company
Boston: Little, Brown, 1955
8vo, pp. 229. Original grey boards, lettered in green on spine.
First edition.
A compendium of vignettes of wartime life aboard the U.S.S. Nellie Crocker, including one about the... [more]
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BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950
8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]
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One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, 1965
8vo, pp. [4-14]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VIII.
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One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, 1964
8vo, pp. [4-34]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VII Nos. 3, 4.
A scarce survivor, and a near fine... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter, Spring 1964
8vo, pp. [4-35]. Original blue stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VII Nos. 1, 2.
A scarce survivor, and ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Summer, Fall 1963
8vo, pp. [40-71]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VI Nos. 3, 4.
A scarce survivor, and ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter, Spring 1963
8vo, pp. [4-36]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VI Nos. 1,2.
Early issue of this... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Fall 1962
8vo, pp. [40-71]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. V Nos. 2,3,4.
Early issue of this... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
