One for my baby, a novel
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. 250p., first edition, dj. About a comedian in the 1950's night club circuit. More
Cat.No: 3791
Modern first edition
The Soviet people at war
New York: The American Council on Soviet Relations, [1942?]. Pamphlet. 46p., wraps, very good condition. One of the Hollywood ten. More
Cat.No: 227
Spain again
San Francisco: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, 1975. 228p., illus., wraps faded on spine, inscribed by Alvah Bessie. He returned to Spain having been persuaded to appear in a film about the war. More
Cat.No: 14585
The symbol
New York: Random House, 1966. 305p., first edition, inscribed by Bessie to Ralph Gleason, founding co-editor of Rolling Stone magazine, edgeworn dj. More
Cat.No: 134499
The un-Americans
New York: Cameron Associates, 1957. 383p., paper browned, slightly edgeworn, first edition, dj with minor closed tears. Novel about the red scare and HUAC. More
Cat.No: 388
Mission Accomplished
New York: Macmillan, 1958. Hardcover. 201p., very good first US English0-language edition in half-cloth boards and price-clipped worn dj. Third novel by the Bantu author from Cameroon, the first to be published in the US. Also called "Mission to Kala" in the UK. More
Cat.No: 223707
King Lazarus, a novel
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1960. Hardcover. 191p., first English edition, previous owner's name else very good condition in a shelf worn dj with a slightly faded spine and tears at the head of the spine. First published in French. More
Cat.No: 223587
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Babalon 156 [poems]
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1970. 65p., introduction on jacket flap, limited to 1000 copies, a very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial French-fold wraps. Bialy had just completed a doctorate in Molecular Biology. An AIDS sceptic he went on to sign as one of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal... More
Cat.No: 203249
Amuse Bouche; a Russell Quant mystery
Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2003. Paperback. 268p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. First Russell Quant mystery. Gunn page 126. More
Cat.No: 163934
Flight of Aquavit; a Russell Quant mystery
Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2004. Paperback. 299p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Second entry in the series set in Saskatoon, Canada. Gunnpage 126. More
Cat.No: 164185
Queer Free: a novel
New York: Calamus Books, 1981. Paperback. 199p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Young 288*. A novel of gay segregation set partly in LA and partly in SF. More
Cat.No: 13937
Down the long table
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955. Hardcover. 298p., first edition, very good condition in a like dj with minor edge wear. Novel about a Trotskyist in the 1930's, by a former Trotskyist who was active in the US, England and Canada. More
Cat.No: 12293
For Nights Like This One: stories of loving women
East Palo Alto: Frog in the Well, 1983. Paperback. 107p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. African American author. More
Cat.No: 26763
Lovers' Choice stories
Seattle: Seal Press, 1987. Paperback. 152p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Second book of stories by the Lesbian African American author. More
Cat.No: 36368
Elizabeth Bishop: the collected prose
London: Chatto and Windus, 1984. Hardcover. xxii, 278p., introduction, memoirs, travel tales, stories, remainder mark bottom edge otherwise a very good first UK edition in pale blue cloth boards with black panel and gilt titles on spine. More
Cat.No: 216526
Elizabeth Bishop: the collected prose
London: Chatto and Windus, 1984. Hardcover. xxii, 278p., introduction, memoirs, travel tales, stories, remainder mark bottom edge otherwise a very good first UK edition in pale blue cloth boards with black panel and gilt titles on spine in very good unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 216724
Thoreau in Love
North Charleston: Self-published by the author, 2013. Paperback. 277p., foreword, very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Historical gay romance. More
Cat.No: 228441
Prince of Umberlight: Book 1 in the series "Tales of Umberlight"
no place: Self-published by the author as Eye Scry, 2015. Paperback. 192p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay vampire fantasy set in a Utopian future written by a cisgender woman. M/M Romance. More
Cat.No: 226701
Twelve gates to the city
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2011. Hardcover. 339p., review sheet laid in, first printing, very good in a like dj. Novel set in Arkansas by the African American author who teaches at Atlanta's Clark University. More
Cat.No: 162693
Extra Credit
Boston: Alyson Publications, 1985. Paperback. 182p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps Novel. More
Cat.No: 13949
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Extra credit [signed]
Boston: Alyson Publications, 1985. Paperback. 182p., signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 33587
Owning Corey: a novel
no place: Self-published by the author, 2013. Paperback. 308p., fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Playing doctor. Georgia writer. More
Cat.No: 216784
Sunnybrook; a true story with lies ...
Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. 87p., humorous novel dramatically illustrated with color images, graphics and sidebars, brief personal inscription signed by Blackbridge, fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Blackbridge converted an art show into a story of a woman whose disabilities are threatened with exposure. More
Cat.No: 147735
The Cities
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967. Paperback. 157p., first edition (so stated) paperbound original, sewn textblock in decorated wraps. Find a tiny bottom-edge food stain pp.24-27, else clean and unmarked, and entirely sound. Creeley's net memoir is a fine introduction to Blackburn's life (his mother and grandmother, alcoholics, beat him... More
Cat.No: 240570