San Diego: The Baths, [1980s]. Four panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches on glossy stock in very good condition but for staple punctures at upper left corner. Unfolds to an 8.5x14 inch handbill with "Absolute Danger" printed at the top and a list of prohibited sex practices. The Vulcan closed..... More
Cat.No: 349578
![Cat.No: 319251 The Club Turkish Baths Exclusively for Men [business card] 132 Turk Street...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/319251.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1711577493)
San Francisco: The Club, [1970s?]. Ephemera. Good though slightly curled 3.5x2 inch glossy red business card. The Club was located at 132 Turk Street which had been a Gay men's meeting place since the 1930s. The Club Turkish Baths was the largest, as well as the oldest, gay bathhouse in..... More
Cat.No: 319251
Paso Robles CA: Southern Pacific / the Hotel & Bathhouse, approx 1912. Pamphlet. 52p., glazed alkaline paperstock with captioned b&w photo-reproductions throughout, perhaps half of which show bathing apparatus and persons (male & female) in treatment. Softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch stapled color pictorial wraps. The staples have failed and have..... More
Cat.No: 284085
no place: Le Salon, no date. Paperback. 160p., price sticker on cover, lightly worn good first printing PBO in explicit camp photo-pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Le Salon Thunderbolt Books. More
Cat.No: 307327
West Hollywood: Mercury Capital Pub. 1999. Magazine. 52p., 10.25x13.5 inches, articles, news, reviews, opinion, events, local ads, services & resources, very good newsprint magazine in stapled glossy wraps. San Francisco Bathhouse Initiative. Gay & Lesbian Historical Society. More
Cat.No: 330594
Minneapolis: Positively Gay, 1979. Newspaper. 12p., very good folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, calendar of events, services, resources, photos, reviews. Murdered gay man in the park. National March news. Bathhouse raids. More
Cat.No: 330486
San Francisco: Coming Up! Inc., 1984. Newspaper. 52p. tabloid newspaper, news, reviews, columns, features, ads, services, resources, calendar of events, photos, light toning else very good on newsprint. Cover story on the gay baths in San Francisco by Allan Berube. On the closing of the baths due to the AIDS..... More
Cat.No: 235454
![Cat.No: 311462 Apollo: the alternative lifestyle tabloid; [six issues]. DOC, and publisher](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/311462.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767745957)
Las Vegas, NV: DOC Pub. 1996-1997. Magazine. Six issue broken run, various pagination, 8.25x11 inches, articles, listings, ads, events, photos,classified services & resources, very good magazines in stapled wraps. Issues include: vol. 1:3, Dec. 1996, vol. 2, #1-4 & 6, , January, February, March, April & June 1997. Early issues..... More
Cat.No: 311462
South Laguna: Publisher's Consultants, 1978. Paperback. 191p., toning, otherwise very good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Bathhouse Books BAB-110. More
Cat.No: 89294
St. Paul MN: The Lakeland Company aka "The Lavatory Company" 1935. Pamphlet. [56]p., sepia photo-illustrations with marginal sketches (the "embellishments"), small oblong wraps staple-fastened, 4.5 x 5.5 inches. Very good condition despite a few faint droplet-stains to front cover (we hope from plain water). Sales catalog depicting outhouses--from the ramshackle..... More
Cat.No: 334343
San Francisco: California Voice, 1983. Newspaper. 32p., includes covers, 11.5x15 inches, photos, art, ads, articles, news, reviews, services and resources, events and opinion, very good tall magazine on newsprint in stapled color pictorial wraps. Reprint of Hardman's story "Alexander the Great" No AIDS reporting but full-back-cover ad about Hepatitis B...... More
Cat.No: 208782
Los Angeles: Green Carnation Newspapers, 1977. Newspaper. 36p., folded tabloid newspaper, ads, services, reviews, news, columns, very good condition on newsprint. Cover story on Death at the Baths (the fire at the NYC Everard Baths). Subsequent title "Out!" More
Cat.No: 192513
San Francisco: California Voice, 1984. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, art, ads, articles, news, reviews, services and resources, events and opinion, very good on newsprint. This issue finds the onetime entertainment and arts paper turning into a full-blown political periodical. Cover stories on the closing of the baths, Harry..... More
Cat.No: 237431
San Francisco: California Voice, 1984. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, art, ads, articles, news, reviews, services and resources, events and opinion, very good on newsprint. Part two of Hardman's "From Modesty to Persecution" Carl Driver reviews "Fortune and Men's Eyes" at SF State. Announcement on reat page concerning the..... More
Cat.No: 237361
San Francisco: California Voice, 1984. Newspaper. 28p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, art, ads, articles, news, reviews, services and resources, events and opinion, very good on newsprint. Editorial calling Randy Shilts a Gay Uncle Tom. Review of "American Buffalo" with Pacino at The Curran. All performing arts and society news. This..... More
Cat.No: 237362
Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Advocate, 1969. Newspaper. 36p., very good condition folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, reviews, events, essays, opinion. Cover stories on the Groovy Guy Contest, Terror in the Tubs, a police raid on the baths. More
Cat.No: 327470
Tubingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1955. Hardcover. XII, 439p., profulely illustrated with expert sketches both descriptive and explanatory, plus artist's reconstructions (how such & such gate may have looked, &c). Hardbound in openweave blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Nice condition: the book itself has a short..... More
Cat.No: 261444
New York: That New Magazine, 1982. Magazine. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, reviews, news, ads, cartoons, photos, staples rusty otherwise a very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Introduction of a special 16p. San Francisco supplement titled "Our Town" Robert Mapplethorpe cover photo. More
Cat.No: 239480
Boston: GCN, 1984. Newspaper. 16p., calendar pull-out, toned folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, opinion, articles, events, ads, photos, services and resources. Also: School Gays, AIDS Funding. More
Cat.No: 331267
Toronto: The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press, 1976. Newspaper. 20p., + 8p. Our Image Review supplement #2, folded tabloid newspaper, illustrations, photos, news, reviews, opinion, resources, ads, light wear at folds & toning else very good on newsprint. Popert's report on Gays in the Unions and Rita Mae at the..... More
Cat.No: 279187
