The Yellow journal; volume 13 number 13 Spring 2003
San Francisco: SF State University Asian American Studies Dept. 2003. Paperback. 169p., very good in original wraps. Illustrated with comic strips and drawings. More
Cat.No: 112399
San Francisco: SF State University Asian American Studies Dept. 2003. Paperback. 169p., very good in original wraps. Illustrated with comic strips and drawings. More
Cat.No: 112399
San Francisco: Asian American Studies; SF State University, 1998. Paperback. 109p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Poetry, fiction, and articles on Japantown and queer Chamoru men, among other topics. More
Cat.No: 284847
[Place of publication not identified]: Northwestern Electronic Company, [not before 1947]. Pamphlet. 3-21, [1]pp., color illustrations, wraps. 9 x 5.75 in. Gentle bump at the foot of the spine. Ad fiction for the sale of indoor lighting fixtures showing how electric lights have modernized and enchanted the Periwinkles, a typical..... More
Cat.No: 303562
Beijing: Ren min wen xue chu ban she, 1973. 2, 2, 259 pages, paperback, ex-library, thumbed and worn; a reading copy only. Chinese edition of a Vietnamese short story collection about war with the USA. More
Cat.No: 232723
London and New York: The Erotica Biblion Society, 1899 [actually an undated reprint]. Paperback. 138p., sewn textblock in 6.2x5 inch plain wraps with printed dj, untrimmed, a bit rumpled with several tiny dog ears; textblock threads have parted at pp.114/5 and the entire textblock is slack and at risk. An..... More
Cat.No: 144377
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1888. Hardcover. xvi, 290p., navy blue cloth boards stamped in silver, 7.5x5.5 inches; slight spine tilt, some foxing on top-edge, owner inscription on free endpaper (1892) alongside some pencil notation, a few signatures pulled (attached), else in good condition. Opening with an eye-catching and gruesome..... More
Cat.No: 274322
Chatsworth, CA: XXX, [1970s?]. Magazine. [40p] includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, monograph of explicit erotic gay male sketches accompanied by several anonymous stories and Dr. Skulley's foreword lending historical validation to the magazine, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. The artworks are vaguely familiar but most are rough sketches. They could..... More
Cat.No: 31197
[Pensacola, FL]: [Overground Distribution], 2004. Pamphlet. [36]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. Second, revised edition. Sub City Series, No. 2. Anthology of African literature featuring excerpts of works by authors from Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, and the Congo. Focused on anti-colonial literature; the last entry is a speech..... More
Cat.No: 277636
New York: Akashic Books, 2006. Paperback. 121p., signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback in black pictorial wraps, Book Essence Club label on cover. Nigerian poet and novelist living and teaching in Los Angeles. More
Cat.No: 226440
San Francisco: TPJA Publishing/Trafford, 2005. Paperback. 279p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, very good second printing trade paperback in original pictorial wraps showing a comix-style fantasy scene. Philippine-American author's self-published scifi about Arcturean aliens fraternizing with their creations in Atlantis. More
Cat.No: 133504
St. Paul: Coffee House Press, 1984. Paperback. 89p., personal inscription signed by the author on front free endpaper, very good first trade paperback edition, blue wraps and dj. Six stories set in the Pacific Northwest, compared to Hjortsberg and Brautigan. More
Cat.No: 109021
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006. Paperback. 156p., first printing, wraps. Very good condition. More
Cat.No: 159505
Austin: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2001. Paperback. 138p., trade paperback, barcode sticker on lower back cover, else very good. English translations from the Arabic. Modern Middle East Literature in Translation. More
Cat.No: 234055
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1932. Hardcover. 320p., first edition, soiling to pages and heavily soiled yellow cloth boards with vignette on cover, ownership name. Abdullah was the pseudonym of an American writer who supposedly came to the US from Yalta and whose parents were born in..... More
Cat.No: 267457
San Francisco: author, as Wangara Books, 1993. Paperback. 700p., massive self-published softbound, glossy black wraps titled in yellow. Entirely sound and clean with slightest signs of handling, a near-fine copy. Urban drug novel set in San Valencia, most likely San Francisco. Literate author knows low-life, worked on the text for..... More
Cat.No: 181198
New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1941. Hardcover. 320p., first edition, very good condition in a good dj (small red stains on front & rear panel). "The story centers around the unsuccessful uprising of the Austrian Social-Democrats against Dollfuss fascism in 1934. It deals with those three fateful days in which..... More
Cat.No: 275441
no place: Self-published by the author as Wings of Ink, 2017. Paperback. 222p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. M/M Romance by female author. More
Cat.No: 242976
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Hardcover. 263p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and edgeworn, unclipped dj. Young 5. Novel of a woman dying of leukemia who married her cousin, a composer. Gay subtext. More
Cat.No: 48832
New York: Routledge, 1993. Paperback. xxii, 666p., introduction, user's guide, further reading, footnotes, lightly-worn else good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Massive anthology. More
Cat.No: 51179
Pittsburgh, PA: the author, 1975. Pamphlet. 47p. staplebound booklet, rear cover partly toned, otherwise very good; signed by the author on the title page. Not found in OCLC as of March 2023. Short stories set in the Caribbean. More
Cat.No: 300888
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. Hardcover. 235p., dustjacket somewhat shelfworn with minor tears along edge, endpapers slightly toning, bookplate on rear paste-down endpaper, hint of foxing on top-edge of text block, else in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Autobiographical fiction based off of the..... More
Cat.No: 290472
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Hardcover. 311., previous ownership name in ink on f.e.p., mild foxing and toning of endpapers, shelfwear otherwise a good first edition in cloth boards and lightly-worn unclipped dj. Semi-autobiographical novel of a childhood as a Black in South Africa. More
Cat.No: 223779
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Hardcover. 255p., two small tape remnants and scuff on front pastedown otherwise a very good first UK edition in cloth boards and lightly-rubbed price-clipped dj. A novel of politcal intrigue on a Caribbean Island by the South African author living in England. This novel came..... More
Cat.No: 198535
Maple Shade: Lethe Press, 2010. Paperback. 221p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. A Romantic Gay Novel set in San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 272219
London: Allen and Unwin, 1965. Hardcover. 202p., preface, foreword, errata page tipped-in, very good first edition in cloth boards and lightly-worn unclipped dj. Semi-biographical debut novel by the author from Ghana; "deals with the life of that unusual creation of the European missionaries in Africa --the Catechist-- a Minister's helper..... More
Cat.No: 179900