Literature and Poetry

London: John Murray, 1970 Includes a feature on Thomas Chatterton and a short story by Alan Moorhead.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1990 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Interzone, 1982 Early issue of seminal English science fiction, horror and fantasy magazine featuring Nicholas Allan, Angela Carter, Josephine Saxton and others.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1985 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1984 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Tandem, 1968 Obscene and bawdy songs.. Reprint. Paperback. New. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: Playboy Press, 1972 Anthology of stories by Bill Cosby, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Russell and many others.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: New English Library, 1966 Collection of bawdy jokes and cartoons from Playboy magazine.. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by LeRoy Neiman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1958 A selection from both schools of male opinion. Quotes dealing with the pros and cons of women from famous men throughout history. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Jeff Hill. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: John Murray, 1962 Includes Ronald Firbank, John Sansom etc.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1932 Anthology of quotes from 18th.c. libertines with 4 delightful coloured illustrations, part of the "Les Pensees illustrees" series. Covers split. Pages uncut. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1993 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1932 Anthology of quotes from 18th.c. libertines with 4 delightful coloured illustrations, part of the "Les Pensees illustrees" series. Pages uncut. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions Nilsson Anthology of quotes from 18th.c. libertines with 4 delightful coloured illustrations, part of the "Collection Libertine" series. nd c.1930s. French text.. First Edition. Paperback in Wraps. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1932 Anthology of quotes from 18th.c. libertines with 4 delightful coloured illustrations, part of the "Les Poetes et l'Amour" series. French text.. First Edition. Paperback in Wraps. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Interzone, 1982 Early issue of seminal English science fiction, horror and fantasy magazine featuring J.G. Ballard, Thomas M. Disch, Rachel Pollack and others.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Dublin: Rainbow, 1985 First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1893 Includes reviews and features on many of the dedcadent authors. Some minor underlining.. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Poetry Society, 1983 Includes Stephen Spender, John Fuller, Jeremy Reed, Thom Gunn.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1984 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1984 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1992 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1985 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Diamond Publishing Group, 1984 Further back issues are available from £5.00 each. Please ask giving issue number.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: Checker Books, 1981 A supere collection originally Privately Printed and published in 192 as "The Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailor's Sons, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Paradies, Limericks, And Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel Now for the First Time Brought Together in Book Form". [No Place]:. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1919 This copy once belonged to uranian poet and publisher Francis Murray and includes his ownership plate on the front wrap and the author's name written in Murray's hand opposite the title. This is the copy listed in the Michael de Hartington Catalogue No. 3 "English Homosexual Poetry of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" produced in 1972. (d'Arch Smith LIA p.150 and 250). Very rare.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Berkley Medallion, 1963 Pulp erotic novel. Translated by Lowell Bair.. First English Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Martin Secker, 1924 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Paris: Olympia Press, 1958 A novel about schizophrenia.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Globe Playhouse Publications, 1981 New poems by Abse, Clarke, Fainlight, Holbrook, Jones, Mahon, Meredith, Ormond, Raine, Rosenthal, Rumens, Sweetman, Tripp, Weiss and Wright. Introduction by Dannie Abse.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Germany: Np Erotic novel. c.1960s. German text.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: TVRT Press, 1978 Some rubbing, pen price on cover. Rare.. First Thus. Paperback. Good. Illus. by William Wegman. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Vintage, 1996 Poet, painter, engraver and visionary, William Blake was a radical spirit fired by genius. This work shows Blake in the context of his period - caught up in the Gordon Riots, excited by the French Revolution and attracted by various forms of spiritual radicalism and sexual magic. It reveals the true affinities between Blake's art and his poetry, and recreates the atmosphere of 18th-century London.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1941 Acton, a raconteur and aesthete, was born at the Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy, the son of American heiress Hortense Mitchell, and Englishman Arthur Mario Acton. A younger brother, William, a gay artist of modest achievement, died an apparent suicide in 1944. Raised in a household of connoisseurs, young Acton met Diagilev, Cocteau and others. He entered Eton (1918-22) where with his classmate Brian Howard he promoted modern dandysm and founded the Eton Society of the Arts. Unabashedly gay, Acton entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1922, succeeding as planned in dictating fashion and taste, and to "rule" as he and Howard had at Eton. While at Oxford, he had an affair with Evelyn Waugh. At Oxford he founded the literary magazine the Oxford Broom; immortalised by author Evelyn Waugh as the flamboyant and decadent dandy 'Anthony Blanche' in Brideshead Revisited (1944). In 1932 Aton traveled to Peking to lecture, write and translate Chinese poetry. In Peking he lived like a mandarin, finding Buddhist serenity as wel as opium and fulfilment with numerous Chinese youths. It is during this period, however, that he met Desmond Parson, a young Englishman who was one true love of his life. Rebound in strong library binding. Rare in any state.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1971 Includes extracts from the works of Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 2000. A biography of Ernest Dowson who was a major poet of the late-Victorian Decadent period who wrote some of the most quoted lyrics in English verse including them 'gone with the wind' and 'days of wine and roses', showing how his strange delights and sexual excesses were worked into the pure verse of lyrics such as 'Cynara'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Arrow Books, 1993 There is no unlisted telephone number in Los Angeles that is harder to get than that of Alex Adams - for the last 20 years "madam to the stars". Sex provided by Alex has been the town's ultimate guilty pleasure, the most whispered secret of the Man Who Has Everything. That the rich, the famous, the powerful and the celebrated would actually pay for sex may shock the person in the street. Why they pay for sex, whom they pay and what they pay for constitutes a sub-culture within the Hollywood mystique. But now the veil of secrecy can be lifted and the secrets can be told. Alex Adams has retired, and she is ready to talk. The Hollywood elite are nervous - and they have good reason. Alex Adams grew up in Manila. After working in a parish house in San Francisco and failed marriages, she became interested in the selling of sex after reading a book by an unnamed elegant British lady gardener who was actually "the" madam of her generation.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: William Heinemann, 1954 Biography. Some minor marks on rear board.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1980. Account of Apollinaire's tempestuous relationship with a beautiful English governess. Hand numbered limited edtion 139/145, printed on Glastonbury Antique laid paper. Rare.. First Edition. Paperback. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press. more information

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London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1969 Biographical exploration of the man described by W.B. Yeats as "Scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men." Includes an unpublished essay on Stenbock by Arthur Symons and a bibliography by Timothy d'Arch Smith. Limited to 750 copies, this copy not numbered.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Cheadle: Carcanet Press, 1975 Includes the romantic and bawdy verse of John Dryden, Earl of Rochester John Wilmot, Charles Sedley, George Etherege, Peter Motteux and other 18th century poets.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Beacon Books, 1963. Early lesbian novel.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Beacon, 1963 Pulp erotic novel. Rare in this condition.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: The Libra Collection, 1970 Selection of Russian erotic folklore tales collected by Afanasyev with annotations by Guiseppe Pitre and introduction by Gordon Grimley. Taken from the Charles Carrington original.. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Evanston: North Western University Press, 1991. Classic Russian drug novel about cocaine addiction from the 1920s translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. M. Ageyev is the nom-de-plume of a relatively obscure Russian author of the early 20th century, Marc Levi (alt. spelling Mark Levi). His best-known work, Novel With Cocaine (also translated as the Cocain Romance), was published in 1934 in the Parisian émigré publication, Numbers. Nikita Struve has alleged it to be the work of another Russian author employing a pen name, Vladimir Nabokov; this idea was debunked by Nabokov's son Dmitry in his preface to "The Enchanter". Levi's life is shrouded in mystery and conjecture. He seems to have returned to the U.S.S.R. in 1942 and spent the rest of his life in Yerevan, where he died on August 5, 1973.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1980 Six weird tales and ghost stories including his classic The Fetch featuring what may well be the most horrific witch-figure in all ghostly literature.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: W.H. Allen, 1961 First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Herbert Jenkins Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Pierre Le Touche. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1981 Tackles basic questions central to the study of psycholinguistics, such as whether language is restricted to humans, whether there is biological evidence for innate language activity, how children learn language, and how we understand, plan and produce language. The author investigates these issues with regard to animal communication, child language and the language of adults, and provides references and suggestions for further reading.. Fourth Printing. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: GMP, 1990 Gay novel.. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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