LGBTIQ+ Gay Poetry
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A Lover’s Cock and other gay poems
$50.00 Add to cartArthur Rimbaud; Paul Verlaine
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980.
Translated by J. Murat and W. Gunn. A collection of erotic gay poems from the love affair of Rimbaud and Verlaine. -
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
27cm x 20.5cm. 23 pages. Lettered wrappers. Text is in Greek.
The fourth published collection of poems by Greek writer Costas Taktsis (1927-1988), published shortly before he traveled to Australia where he lived on and off between 1954 and 1964, becoming close friends with modernist painter Carl Plate, and where he wrote part of his acclaimed novel, The Third Wedding. Openly gay, Taktsis’ writing provides some of the few homosexual perspectives from the Pre-Junta years in Greece. Seemingly contradictorily, he opposed the Gay Liberation Movement of Greece (AKOE), largely on the basis of the inclusion of trans rights, all the while secretly prostituting himself as a transvestite woman. He was found strangled in his flat in August 1988 and the case has never been solved. This copy inscribed by Taktsis to the British novelist Francis Henry King, King came out as gay in the 1970s.
Stain to wrappers spine tail and some soiling to front panel. Minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Very Good Condition. -
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
24.5cm x 17cm. 32 pages. Lettered wrappers. Text is in Greek, one poem in English.
The third published collection of poems by Greek writer Costas Taktsis (1927-1988), published shortly before he traveled to Australia where he lived on and off between 1954 and 1964, becoming close friends with modernist painter Carl Plate, and where he wrote part of his acclaimed novel, The Third Wedding. Openly gay, Taktsis’ writing provides some of the few homosexual perspectives from the Pre-Junta years in Greece. Seemingly contradictorily, he opposed the Gay Liberation Movement of Greece (AKOE), largely on the basis of the inclusion of trans rights, all the while secretly prostituting himself as a transvestite woman. He was found strangled in his flat in August 1988 and the case has never been solved. Colophon stating a limitation of 250 numbered copies. Taktsis disavowed his first three poetry collections and it is said many copies were destroyed. 3 copies recorded in OCLC, all in the United States. This copy unnumbered and inscribed by Taktsis to the British novelist Francis Henry King, and with two typescript poems by Taktis laid in, King came out as gay in the 1970s.
Stain to wrappers spine tail. Minor tanning to wrappers. Interior clean. Very Good Condition. -
The Deformity Lover and Other Poems
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Third Edition.
21cm x 13.5cm. 85 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor shelf wear. Minor foxing to edges. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Size Queen, and other poems
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. 111, [1] pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley.
Minor rubbing to wrappers upper panel. Minor foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Snapshots for a Serial Killer: A Fiction and a Play
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. vi,130 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Tanning to wrappers. Very minor chip to fore-edge of wrappers lower panel. Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Angels of the Lyre: A Gay Poetry Anthology
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 13.5cm. 248 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Spine discoloured. Vertical crease to wrappers front panel, dent through back panel, very minor rubbing, minor tanning to verso. Foxing to edges. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Gay Love Poetry
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 13cm. xvi, 254 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Foxing to edges and first few pages. Minor tanning. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations, 1950-1980
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 13cm. 145 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
The true first edition. Includes most of Flowers and Leaves, along with translations of six of the ‘7 Greeks’ and of Rainer Maria Rilke and Harold Schimmel.
Minor creasing to wrappers lower panel. Foxing to top edge, minor to other edges. Previous owner’s name and date. Good Condition. -
Eros in Boystown: Contemporary Gay Poems About Sex
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First Edition.
16cm x 11cm. 64 pages. Grey cloth, blue lettering, pictorial jacket.
Very Good Condition in Good Jacket. Very minor foxing to top edge. Soil mark to rear pastedown. Bookplate of Dr Gary Simes, pencil annotations. Waterstain to top and bottom edge of jacket. Very Good Condition. -
The Name of Love: Classic Gay Love Poems
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First Edition.
15.5cm x 10.5cm. 88 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering, all edges blue, pictorial jacket.
A very minor mark and crease to endpapers. Very minor shelf wear to jacket. Near Fine Condition. -
Straight Hearts’ Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947-1980
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. 239 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Very minor bumping to corners. Minor foxing to edges. Minor tanning. Previous owner’s and bookseller’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Homage to Cavafy
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First Edition.
21cm x 15.5cm. [48] pages, black and white illustrations. White wrappers, lettered jacket.
Ten Poems by Constantine Cavafy; Ten Photographs by Duane Michals.
Very Good Condition in Fair Jacket. Minor foxing to wrappers and first and last pages, moderate to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Jacket upper flap cleanly split. Very Good Condition. -
L’amicizia Amorosa: Antologia della Poesia Omosessuale Italiana dal XIII Secolo a Oggi
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. 288 pages, [5] advertisements. Pictorial wrappers. Text is in Italian.
Creasing to spine. Foxing. Previous owner’s name, pencil annotations. Good Condition. -
Pagan Love Songs
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. [107] pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor shelf wear. Foxing to edges. Previous owner’s and bookseller’s stamp, International Bookshop, Melbourne. Very Good Condition. -
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 13cm. 410 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Spine creased. Minor foxing to top edge and wrappers verso. Tanning. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Rock-n-Roll Sally
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First Edition.
21cm x 15cm. 32 pages. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Australian gay poetry by performance artist, anarchist, and activist Sasha Soldatow.
Minor foxing. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Hombres (Hommes)
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First Edition.
19cm x 12.5cm. [iv], 48, [4] pages. Lettered wrappers. Text is in French.
The first edition of Verlaine’s third and final collection of poetry, being a homage to homosexual love and sex, and including ‘Le Sonnet du trou du cul’ (The Sonnet to an Asshole), co-written with Arthur Rimbaud in 1871. Originally distributed as hand written copies, this is the first trade edition produced by Albert Messein after Verlaine’s death, ‘Imprime sous le manteau et ne se vend nulle part’ (Printed under the cloak and not sold anywhere). One of 500 copies of the standard first edition, this being number 75. Handwritten corrections to the pagination from page 44 as usual.
Upper fold of wrappers front panel splitting, and with a small chip to the crown fore-edge corner. Spine rubbed. Minor soiling to the rear panel and occasional to the interior. Rough edges, a few with very minor corner chips. Very Good Condition. -
The Times of Zenia Gold: A Verse Novel
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 56 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Small price sticker and very minor crease to tail fore-edge corner of wrappers lower panel. Minor foxing to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
Works and other Smoky George Stories
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Expanded Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. [ii], 184 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Chicken
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. 80 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
A collection of boy-love poems accompanied by photographs, photo collage, and illustration.
Foxing to top edge, minor to other edges. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Cargo: Australian Gay Writing, Issue 14
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First Edition.
21cm x 14.5cm. 60 pages. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
“The only regular [Australian] magazine solely devoted to the publication of poetry and short stories by and about lesbians and gays. Issues alternated between being written and edited by lesbian of gay writers.” (Michael Hurley, A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Writing in Australia)
Minor tanning and very minor soiling and creasing to wrappers, sticker ghost to lower panel. Minor foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge: Poems
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First Edition.
20cm x 12.5cm. 77 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Not Love Alone: A Modern Gay Anthology
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 13cm. 144 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Bookseller’s stamp, International Bookshop, Melbourne. Very Good Condition. -
Gay Tales and Verses from the Arabian Nights
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. [iv], 100 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Foxing to edges, minor to wrappers verso and first and last pages. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Foreign Parts
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 96 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Bookseller’s stamp, International Bookshop, Melbourne. Very Good Condition. -
Buddha’s Kisses and Other Poems
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 96 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Sticker ghost to wrappers lower panel. Minor foxing to edges, wrappers verso, and first and last pages. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
A Lover’s Cock and other gay poems
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Second Printing.
22cm x 14cm. 63 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Black and white illustrations.
Translated by J. Murat and W. Gunn. A collection of erotic gay poems from the love affair of Rimbaud and Verlaine.
Small stain and tanning to wrappers lower panel. Foxing to edges. Previous owner’s stamp and bookseller’s stamp of International Bookshop, Melbourne. Good Condition. -
The Badboy Book of Erotic Poetry
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First Edition.
17.5cm x 10.5cm. 399 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Spine creased. Top edge foxed. Moderate tanning. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 97 pages, black and white illustration. Pictorial wrappers.
Foxing to top edge, minor to other edges, wrappers verso, and first and last few pages. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition.