LGBTQ Literature
[Honolulu, HI]: Hardy Marks Publications, 1997. First edition. Octavo. Pink vinyl padded boards with gilt lettering and decoration; diary lock with two keys on a pink cord; wrapped in original plastic from publisher. 127,[1] pp. Fine. First edition. Preface by the filmmaker Mary Harron who directed I Shot Andy Warhol.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. With Illustrations by the Author. First edition. Navy blue cloth; title and author in inverted triangle escalloped in gilt on front panel; spine stamped and lettered in red with gilt ornamentation. 323[1] pp. Frontis (a Ryder family tree), and all illustrative plates by the author.....
Greenwich & New York: The Dial, April 1923. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. xvi,[2],329-432,xxviii pp. Plates, one tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a fine copy. Barney's poem, which appears on pages 379-80, queries the usefulness of change for change's sake. NCB, as she was.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Bright green loth, paper spine label. Frontis, five plates. With the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Little Purdy. Label darkened, else a near fine copy, lacking the jacket. A must for Bloomsbury collectors.First edition. Dedicated to his friend John Maynard Keynes, Strachey presents his biographical portraits.....
London: Peter Owen, [1965]. First British Commonwealth Edition. Octavo. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt spine. 271,[3] pp. Dust speckled top edge, spine ever-so-slightly cocked, else a clean, bright, very good copy; pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing, rear panel slightly soiled, else good and presents well. Scarce in this condition. .....
[New York]: Pantheon, [1958]. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in.....
New York: Pantheon, [1953]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1978]. First edition. Large octavo. Lavender blind-stamped cloth, silver spine. 302,[2] pp. Black & white photographs throughout. Appendix, notes and sources, bibliography. Assembled, and with commentary, by Robert Phelps. Publisher's review slip laid in. Near fine, in a very good plus pictorial dust jacket.....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt purple cloth. Frontispiece. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with H. D. on a film set. First edition. An intellectual and historical approach to H. D.'s late poetry that challenges feminist approaches that have tended.....
![Item #410 A LETTER TO MADAN BLANCHARD [THE HOGARTH LETTERS NO. 1.]. E. M. FORSTER](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/410.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686760114)
Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. Buff paper, hand-sewn wrappers, printed in black and blue. Cover design by the surrealist artist John Banting. 27pp. 7⅜ x 4¾. Black and white engraving of Prince Lee Boo Second Son of Abba Thulle. First edition.....
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart / A Mario Sartori Book, [1987]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards, copper stamped on spine. First edition. Frontispiece illustration. 119,[65] pp. First edition. A biography with 106 illustrations on 64 black & white plates. Author's preface, foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, epilogue by Sir.....
[N.p. (Buffalo)]: [Frontier Press], 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stiff grey-blue paper wrappers with a printed and decorated spine label. Roses and thorns vignette on title page. Fine, as new. First (unauthorized/pirated) edition, based on a preliminary draft, and differing from the poems published a year later by New Directions.....
![Item #830 THE WELL OF LONELINESS [Signed Limited Edition]. Radclyffe HALL](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/830.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762116425)
New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Victory edition. Tall octavos. Gold cloth, blue paper, embossed with silver Art Deco design stamped on upper panel and spine. Frontispiece portrait. Two volumes; xxiv, 506 pp. Top edge gilt, fore-edges uncut; spines sunned, silver gilt rubbed, as usual. A few preliminary leaves faintly foxed, else.....
London: The Hogarth Press, [1944]. First edition. Octavo. Cream colored stapled wrappers, printed and decorated in black and orange; design by Keith Vaughan. 31 pp. Publication limited to 1000 copies. Poems of hauntings, lost young men, and the folly of war. Purported to be a presentation copy, inscribed by the.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1968]. Two volumes. Black cloth, silver spine and mirrored floral emblem to upper panel. Decorated endpapers. xxiii,[3],4-475,[5] & xxi,[3],4-754 pp. Volume I frontispiece in cyanotone of Strachey in 1904 by Simon Bussy, Volume II frontispiece portrait of Strachey in 1913 by Vanessa Bell. Numerous.....
London: The Hogarth Press, 1949. First edition, first impression. Plum colored cloth, gilt title and decoration. 109 pp. Sunned at spine, ownership inscription of Elizabeth Plunket Greene on front free endpaper, else very good, in the scarce Duncan Grant designed jacket, unclipped, with an internal reinforcement at the crown of.....
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925. Teal blue wrappers, paper label. First edition. Light use at edges, else about fine, and absolutely hilarious.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1950. First edition. Small octavo. Cloth boards, gilt spine. 86 pp. A slender book of essays and poetry, recipes, ghost stories, and songs, compiled by the poet Edith Sitwell mainly about the pleasures to be found in Winter. Cats are mentioned, as are spirits -.....
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1973. First American edition. Octavo. Navy cloth, gilt spine. Top edge red. 177 pp. Color frontispiece photo by Mark Gerson of Dora Carrington's portrait of Lytton Strachey. Edited and with an Introduction and Commentaries by Paul Levy. Printed in Great Britain. Bookplate of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [2005]. Thick octavo, cream cloth. First American edition. 698 pp. Edited by Paul Levy, assisted by Penelope Marcus. Levy, one of the co-executors of Strachey's literary estate, presents the fascinating correspondence of [Giles] Lytton Strachey, one of the most influential and persistent members in.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First American edition. Mauve paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine and onlay to upper board. 37pp. First American edition. Printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office, typeface designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Near fine in good printed dust wrapper with.....
![Item #809 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 1937 [with] NEW JERSEY FARM CHRISTMAS IMAGES. Monroe WHEELER,...](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/809.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758156449)
Clinton, New Jersey: Monroe Wheeler, Christmas 1937. Privately printed holiday greeting designed and printed by Monroe Wheeler, featuring Glenway Wescott’s seasonal poem “New Jersey Farm Christmas Images,” laid in as a separate folded sheet and hand-signed in red ink by Wescott. Printed on handmade Guarro paper. The main card (28.....
New York: Friedmans', 1920. Paper boards, paper label to spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait. A few finger smudges to boards, labels a trifle worn, very good or slightly better. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, this being No. 52. The pioneering attempt, by the innovative publisher/bookseller.
Boston: The Poet Lore Company, [July-August, 1916]. First edition. Tan wrappers printed in black and red. The "Vacation Number," with contributions from Jaroslav Hilbert, Gertrude Gardner Brainerd, George Norlin, Paul H. Grummann, and Oscar Wilde. Wilde's "The Happy Prince, A Play in One Act," dramatized by Lou Wall Moore and.....
Tavistock Square, London: by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937. Bell, Vanessa [dust wrapper]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pale green cloth printed in gilt. 7 1/8 x 4 3/4" Cream dust wrapper printed in black and brown, designed and signed in the design by Vanessa Bell. A very.....