Ann Arbor: Youth Liberation, 1978. Second edition. 4to, 40 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. The second edition, issued two years after the first. Very good with some minor toning and smudging to wraps. More about Growing Up Gay. A Youth Liberation Handbook
Amsterdam: 1943. Amsterdam: dated 1941 [actually, 1943]. ALS on lined prison stationary, marked 'S.G.S. 8105-1942’. 29 lines, written in pencil. Addressed to “Eep” [Marius Roland Holst], and signed “Tiky.” One line blacked out, likely by a censor. With an accompanying letter by Willem Sandberg to Roland Holst about the damage..... More about Letter from Prison to Marius Roland Holst, with Related Ephemera including an Issue of De Vrue...
San Francisco: CUAV, [1984]. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" handbill, printed in black on orange paper. Women's Press printing slug to right margin. Handbill soliciting information on an attack on two gay men by a man who had responded to a sex ad in a newspaper, issued by the CUAV... More about Alert! Murder
San Francisco: Folsom Prison, nd [c. 1970's]. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed in gray and black on light gray wove paper. A poster for the San Francisco Gay leather bar. The poster is illustrated with a rear view of a naked man holding a manacle and ball and chain... More about Folsom Prison. Meet the Men
Various: c. 1970's-1980's. A collection of over 100 matchbooks and matchboxes, most of which appear to be from gay and lesbian clubs, bars, and bathhouses. A valuable record of one of the most ephemeral printed items related to gay and lesbian clubs. The graphic design of these matchbooks is often... More about Collection of 100 Matchbooks for Clubs, Bathhouses and Bars
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. First edition. 8vo, vii, 134 pp, bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth. Leland's last work, completed shortly before his death in Florence, and edited by Mrs. Joseph Pennell. A remarkable work, which predated Edward Carpenter's The Intermediate Sex, and which, among other things, according to... More about The Alternate Sex. Or the Female Intellect in Man, and the Masculine in Women
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled mottled orange wraps. Very good with some light paper toning and a small snag at head of spine. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications. More about Masters of Erotic Love. Essays on de Gourmont and Byron [Little Blue Book No. 451
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, stapled green-beige wraps. Very good with the usual page toning, and toning to the spine and margins of wraps. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications. More about Cup-Bearers of Wine and Hellebore [Little Blue Book No. 702
Np: 1981. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed. Illustrated with a photomontage credited to R. Reed. Original poster for performances by Sir Lady Java at the club "The Name of the Game". No city is listed, but this is perhaps in Las Vegas? Sir Lady Java (born Archille DeVille, New Orleans... More about Flyer for a 1981 Performance at The Name of the Game
Los Angeles: nd [c. 1970's]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset litho on on orange paper, with printed blackout of date. Photographically illustrated. The flyer for this show by the transgender pioneer, stating that "Java's New Show is one that all Angelenos will want to see." Sir Lady Java (born... More about Flyer for a Performance at Roy's Twenty Grand West
np: nd [c. 1970's]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset litho on on orange pape. Photographically illustrated. The flyer for this show by the transgender pioneer at Hustlers, illustrated with several photographs of the pioneer performer. Sir Lady Java (born Archille DeVille, New Orleans, c. 1940’s) was the first transgender... More about Flyer for a Performance at The Hustlers
San Diego: Oasis Lounge, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed. Illustrated with two photographs. Original poster for performances by Sir Lady Java at the San Diego club Oasis Lounge. Undated, but likely from the early 1970's. Sir Lady Java (born Archille DeVille, New Orleans, c. 1940’s) was the first... More about Oasis Cocktail Lounge Proudly Presents The Fabulous Internationally Known Sir Lady Java Review....
Np: nd. 4to, single 11 x 17" sheet folded once to make a four page booklet. Offset printed and illustrated with photographs and press clippings. A promotional booklet, perhaps created as a press booklet or nightclub giveaway. The booklet prints an unsigned 1 page biography of Sir Lady Java, followed... More about Who Is Sir Lady Java?
Np: nd. 4to, single 11 x 17" sheet folded once to make a four page booklet. Offset printed and illustrated with photographs and press clippings. A promotional booklet, perhaps created as a press booklet or nightclub giveaway. The booklet prints an unsigned 1 page biography of Sir Lady Java, followed... More about Who Is Sir Lady Java?
San Francisco: Solidarity- Gay/Lesbian Liberation, 1982. 8vo, single sheet folded once to make a four panel booklet. An anti-nuclear manifesto that urges Gay and Lesbian support for Proposition 12, the Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative, and makes the observation that the same politicians escalating the arms races also tend to... More about The Freeze: Lesbians and Gays take a stand!
New York: Gay Presses of New York, 1983. 8vo, trade paperback. First edition thus, the wrappered issue. Translated into English by Karla Jay and Yvonne M. Klein. A long overdue publication collection short stories, including the title work, which was first published in 1904. Vivien was one of the American... More about The Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories
[New York]: 1992. 8 1/2 x 11" poster, printed on recto only. The flyer for DW's memorial procession, on Wednesday, July 29, 1992, requesting those marching to assemble at 12th St and 2nd Ave in the East Village. Wojnarowicz had died one week earlier. The quote printed on the flyer... More about David Wojnarowicz Died of AIDS
Ann Arbor: Youth Liberation Press, 1976. First edition. Small 4to, 80 pp, illustrated wraps. Published as double issue (#52/53)--of FPS: A Magazine of Young People's Liberation. Important youth guidebook to feminism, including issues in the social life of high school, critiques of pedagogy and curriculum, and sections on gay issues. Newsprint... More about High School Women's Liberation