| JAMES HANLEY BOY Boriswood Limited 1931. 272 pp, orange cloth hardback with black lettering to the spine, no dust jacket. € 80.00 ***Acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and EM Forster, suppressed for more than fifty years by a prosecution for obscenity, James Hanley’s 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work. Escape - in the form of stowing away on a ship - only deepens his exposure to the squalor and brutality that men are capable of, and when he arrives in Alexandria he learns there are some things that one can’t run away from. Narrated in unflinching language that is both visceral and acute in its observational power, Boy is a shocking book that stays in the mind long after it is read. This is the first trade edition in which the “obscene” words are replaced by asterisks. Former owner’s ex libris. Fine condition.*** |
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BRUCE WEBER BEAR POND Bulfinch 1990. First edition, 208 pp, hard cover with dust jacket, € 375.00 ***Black and white photographs of male nudes in outdoor settings; an erotic and nostalgic interpretation of American adolescence. Condition: Tiny nick to d/j on upper spine, otherwise a beautiful copy, as new.*** |
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Larry Clark:
Photographs. Groninger Museum, Netherlands (1999). First Edition. Quarto.Bound in embossed black faux leather with pasted color illustration on rear panel. Fine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition entitled "Larry Clark" at the Groninger Museum in 1999. 88,50 |
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MITZEL THE BOSTON SEX SCANDAL Boston, Glad Day Books, 1980. (pp 150), paper. Good copy. In the 1970s, massive police round-ups were launched in Boston and other cities, using the cover of sensational press lies and false charges of rape and abuse of minors. The Boston Sex Scandal is a detailed and documented story of the official attack unleashed in Boston. It is the history of political corruption, exploitation of homophobia, dirty politics by the established political machine, and the panic of established gay leaders in the midst of a witchhunt. It is, more importantly, also the story of a resistance, begun by a few radical homosexuals, which built on the gay community so that, for the first time, the gay movement embraced gay pedophiles and their cause and fought back. 45,00 |
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THE QUORUM. A MAGAZINE OF FRIENDSHIP
A facsimile edition with an Introduction by Timothy d'Arch Smith. Asphodel Editions, 2001. (pp 16 + 36). Cloth. Limited to 150 copies (8/150). A beautifully produced reprint of the first and only issue (1920) of the first homosexual magazine since The Chameleon. Contains poetry and articles by several 'Uranian' poets, including E.E. Bradford, John Gambril Nicholson, Charles Kains Jackson, and authors such as Arthur Gardner, Leonard Green and Kenneth Ingram. 134.00 |