Literature and Poetry

New York: Dell, 1965. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Signet, 1968 Collection of short stories.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: New English Library, 1969 The book made Southern a world famous, sought after author. Candy is essentially a Beat lampoon of family values and high literary correctness; Voltaire’s Candide re-written for the sexual revolution. Southern and Hoffenberg’s eponymous heroine is a wide-eyed sexual patsy who leaves home only to suffer a series of sexual degradations that she bears with the same naïve stoicism of her high literary counterpart. When the Olympia Press published the novel in 1958 it became an instant succès de scandale. Banned in France but pirated all over the world due to a copyright oversight on Girodias’ part the novel brought Southern a worldwide readership.. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965 The book made Southern a world famous, sought after author. Candy is essentially a Beat lampoon of family values and high literary correctness; Voltaire’s Candide re-written for the sexual revolution. Southern and Hoffenberg’s eponymous heroine is a wide-eyed sexual patsy who leaves home only to suffer a series of sexual degradations that she bears with the same naïve stoicism of her high literary counterpart. When the Olympia Press published the novel in 1958 it became an instant succès de scandale. Banned in France but pirated all over the world due to a copyright oversight on Girodias’ part the novel brought Southern a worldwide readership.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Boston: N.H. Whitaker, 1831. front board missing, title page grubby - in need of restoration.. First US Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Peter Owen, 1973 Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This confirmed Nerval's place as a pioneering modernist, a precursor of the French Symbolists and a vital model for such writers as Marcel Proust, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud and Michel Leiris.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: Evergreen Books, 1983. Collection of poems."She writes with skill, elegance, and innovation using unforced and almost inconspicuous rhyme." Some rubbing to boards.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Broomsleigh Press, 1976 Collection of poems."She writes with skill, elegance, and innovation using unforced and almost inconspicuous rhyme." Some rubbing to d/j.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Domino Books, 1965 Early lesbian novel. Scuff to cover from label removal.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Domino Books, 1965 Early lesbian novel.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Domino Books, 1965 Early lesbian novel.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979 Tear to top of cover along with minor stain.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Robert Hale, 1957 Drug novel set in Thailand. d/j edges chipped and torn.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1967 A full analysis of the doctrine to which Tolstoy was committed during the last 30 years of his Life. Some minor staining to boards.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George G. Harrap, 1925 Rebound in strong library binding.. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Evelyn Paul. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Multimedia Publishing Corp., 1975 First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George G. Harrap, 1919 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Panther, 1970 The follow-up novel to Anarchists in Love.. Second Printing. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Richmond: Mills & Boon, 1987. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1918 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1985 An appreciation of the works of D.H. Lawrence.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Beacon, 1964 Pulp erotic novel. Rare in this condition.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Luxor Press, 1969 A middle aged degenerate finds a way to realise his fantasies. Some wear and chipping to d/j.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pyramid, 1965 Sexuality and prostitution novel set in Singapore.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: New English Library, 1967 Essay on Beardsley with a selection of his illustrations.. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1974 Includes Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson and John Davidson. Members of the Rhymers' Club, a group of poets that met in the early 1890s to dine at the Cheshire Cheese and read poetry, included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, John Todhunder, and W.B. Yeats. The Club published two books of poetry at the suggestion of Yeats (as he told Lady Gregory) because he wanted copies of the poems that Dowson had read.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1971. First Thus. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Richards Press, 1965 Anthology with biographical notes on the authors. Includes Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, John Gray, W.B. Yeats, Arthur Symons, John Davidson, Lionel Johnson, Aubrey Beardsley and others.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Cecil Woolf, 1988 Superb collection of essays in appreciation of the work of English writer Colin Wilson.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Ithaca Press, 1987 First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Bee-Line, 1968 UK edition by Roydock books.. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Copenhagen: Privattryk, 1959 Facsimile of the first and only edition of 100 copies. Rare.. Facsimile. Pamphlet. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Canada: Oberon Press, 1978 Novel about a Jewish youth growing up in the sixties.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Peter Owen, 1967 Edited by Patricia Meyerowitz.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Welcome Rain, 2002 In the foreword to his new biography of poet-adventurer Rimbaud, Steinmetz, who edited the 1989 Editions Flammarion Complete Works of Rimbaud, asserts that, as a narrator, he will allow Rimbaud's actions to give birth to their own significance, rather than overburden them with qualification. In practice, Steinmetz has as much difficulty refraining from laudatory remarks as a sportscaster. At a certain point in the development of his poetic style, Rimbaud quits the use of references to the Parisian Commune, which had saturated much of his previous work; according to Steinmetz, he is suddenly "on the same wavelength as eternity." The poet's constant irritation with his family is always considered just; his lack of sympathy for his lover, Paul Verlaine, is seen as the rightful rejection of a pathetic companion. Steinmetz allows as little interpretive leeway as conceivable in recounting a life that seethes with contradiction, spontaneity and violent longing. To his credit, Steinmetz is able to communicate the alternating spasms of self-love and self-loathing that seem to have animated Rimbaud's existence and driven him to devour, then abandon, creative media from poetry, to carnal desire, to compulsive travel. Yet, for all Steinmetz's enthusiasm, the real Rimbaud remains, as the biographer himself repeatedly asserts, "someone who cannot be found." These pages constitute a vivid retelling of the Rimbaud legend; but Rimbaud the human being, almost completely obscured by that legend, continues to evade definition. (Mar.)Forecast: Graham Robb's "robust" but equally mythologizing Rimbaud came out last October. Steinmetz, however, does a better job of communicating the sense of an erratic but exciting mind at work. This should appeal to readers of poetry and French literature. Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 - 10 November 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive. He produced his best known wrks while still in his late teens, Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an enfant Shakespeare", and gave up creative writing altogether before he reached 21. He remained a prolific letter-writer all his life. Rimbaud was a restless soul, travelling extensively on three continents before his premature death from cancer less than a month after his 37th birthday.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1989. With an introduction by John Adlard. Hand numbered limited edition 110/110, printed on Gainsborough paper. Frontispiece cut after the title-page of the 1894 "Studies of Death". Original gray wrappers, proof copy with hand written title.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. Translated with an introduction and notes by Philip Sidney Woolf and Cecil N. Sidney Woolf.. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Frankfurt am Main: Stema Buch Erotic novel. German text.. Second Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Berkley Medallion, 1967 A world totally engaged in the pleasures of eroticism. Originally published as Toi, Ma Nui . Translated by Lowell Bair.. Second Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Irving Stettner, 1982. Includes contributions by Henry Miller, Mohammed Mrabet, Seymour Krim, Tommy Trantino and others.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Shavertown: Irving Stettner, 1992. Includes contributions by Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Tommy Trantino and others.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Irving Stettner, 1980. Includes contributions by Henry Miller, Mohammed Mrabet, Seymour Krim and others.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Shavertown: Irving Stettner, 1996. Includes contributions by Howard S. Levy, Tommy Trantino and others.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Irving Stettner, 1982. Includes contributions by Henry Miller, Mohammed Mrabet, Paul Bowles and others.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Midwood, 1968. Erotic novel about a man and two women by an author who went on to write for the New York Olympia Press.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 Stevens argues that James's writing contains daring and radical representations of transgressive desires and marginalized sexual identities. He demonstrates the importance of incestuous desire, masochistic fantasy, and same-sex passions in a body of fiction which ostensibly conforms to, while ironically mocking, the contemporary moral and publishing codes James faced. James critiques the very notion of sexual identity, and depicts the radical play of desires which exceed and disrupt any stable construction of identity. In a number of his major novels and tales, Stevens argues, James anticipates the main features of modern 'gay' or 'queer' fiction through plots and narrative strategies, which opposes heterosexual marriage and homoerotic friendship. This original and exciting work will transform our understanding of this most enigmatic of writers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Fortune Press, 1952 Chosen with a foreword by Dennis Williamson. First edition only printing. Edelstein suggests only review copies were circulated before the publisher was compelled to destroy the balence of the printing, before publication. Rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Portland, Maine: Mosher Press, 1915 Limited to 300 copies on van Gelder paper.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903 Limited to 425 copies on Japan vellum.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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