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MORTAL EMBRACE: Living with AIDS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A meditation, using military and medical metaphors, on the 20th century plague called AIDS. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-70197.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26094More details Price: $12.50 -
CAPITAL: A Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A haunting re-creation of a city throughout its ages. Meepers -- the homeless.. amateur archaeologist -- searches to understand the destruction of London in the Dark Ages and seeks to predict the capital's future. In a dazzling mixture of contemporary life and period speech, London is illuminated through the voices of Neanderthal man, Saxon kings, anonymous invaders, the flea that spread the black death, and the transsexual King Elizabeth." 222 pp. Dust jacket design by Craig Dodd. ISBN: 0-224-011634.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 44885More details Price: $25.00 -
NIGHT DIVING.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Denver: Spinsters Ink Books, (2002.). First edition - "A thoughtful and sensitive coming-of-age - and coming out - story." 225 pp. ISBN: 1883523524.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 42090More details Price: $12.00 -
IF YOU COULD BE MINE.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel set in modern day Iran. "Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. Theyve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in loveSahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light." 248 pp. ISBN: 978-1616202514.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 75525More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FAMILY OF MAX DESIR.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Dutton, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of a gay son who is forced to confront his fatherÕs intolerance towards his homosexuality when his mother falls seriously ill. ISBN: 0-525-241973.
Condition: Good only in very good dust jacket. (binding is cracked between pages 168 and 169, although the book appears almost unread, dust jacket is price-clipped)
Book ID: 13444More details Price: $13.50 -
THE BLUE STAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which explores the bonds between two men over 20 years, even as their lives diverge and reconverge. Set in Florence Italy and in New York City, this ends on a luxury cruise up the Nile on "The Blue Star." 244 pp. ISBN: 0-525243216.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71501More details Price: $17.50 -
DREAMS AND SWORDS.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1991. A collection of gay-themed stories of mystery and speculation. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-941483037.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 83403More details Price: $11.50 -
THE EMERGENCE OF GREEN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1986). First edition - Set in Los Angeles during the summer of 1984, this is the 4th novel by this Lambda Award winning writer, a frank novel of a married woman discovering her sexuality. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-930044-69X.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66261More details Price: $15.00 -
DAUGHTERS OF A CORAL DAWN.
Edition: 2nd printing. A trade paperback.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1986. Science fiction by this lesbian writer - a world in which the women have chosen to only have daughters. ISBN: 0-930044-509.
Condition: Near fine in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 18387More details Price: $10.00 -
DAUGHTERS OF A CORAL DAWN.
Edition: 3rd printing. A trade paperback.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1989. Science fiction by this lesbian writer - a world in which the women have chosen to only have daughters. ISBN: 0-930044-509.
Condition: Very good in glossy wrappers (corner bumped.)
Book ID: 18388More details Price: $9.00 -
THE MONARCHS ARE FLYING.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, (1987). First edition - The first novel by this Canadian author, a courtroom drama of a woman charged with murdering the woman who was her ex-lover, set in an intolerant small town, with a homophobic police detective. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-932379338.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79469More details Price: $12.50 -
BODY REMEMBER: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir by this award-winning poet, of how he - born with disabled legs - went through many reconstructive sugeries, and a look back at the support given by his working-class, Jewish family, as well as the hidden tensions in his family life, the doctor who alone did not recommend amputation, and finally of his sexual awakening. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525941622.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 69338More details Price: $15.00 -
WATERBOYS.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the 1960s in New York City - "A well-written, finely tuned first novel about coming of age in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s. . . . Gabriel is a subtle writer - especially in his understanding of Matthew's prepubescent sexuality - and his characters catch at your heart and take hold." (Kirkus) SIGNED on the half title page and dated in San Francisco in the year of publication. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-540.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual light toning to the pages, rem dot, a bit of wear to the ends of the dj spine) Books signed by Eric Gabriel Lehman are quite uncommon.
Book ID: 62798More details Price: $45.00 -
WATERBOYS.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the 1960s in New York City - "A well-written, finely tuned first novel about coming of age in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s. . . . Gabriel is a subtle writer - especially in his understanding of Matthew's prepubescent sexuality - and his characters catch at your heart and take hold." (Kirkus) 234 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-540.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (rubbing and slight edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 76156More details Price: $16.50 -
COMFORT AND JOY.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this award winning writer: A book which alternates scenes of the courtship between Ford, a rich doctor from a prominent Savannah family, and Dan, a hospital administrator from a poor family, who is also HIV postive, and of their trip to North Carolina at Christmas time to meet Dan's family. As one reviewer noted "In chronicling their history,Grimsley gets at something fundamental: the strange mixture of love and hate and anxiety at the bottom of every relationship, gay or straight." 291 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-250x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84562More details Price: $17.50 -
CHAMBER MUSIC.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 1979. First edition - Her third novel, an intense and intimate story: the ninety-year old widow of a famous American composer reaches back into her memories to tell the story of their life together - in turn of the century Frankfort, Saratoga Springs, Boston.
Condition: Very good in wrappers.
Book ID: 1487More details Price: $15.00 -
CHAMBER MUSIC.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 1979. First edition - Her third novel, an intense and intimate story: the ninety-year old widow of a famous American composer reaches back into her memories to tell the story of their life together - in turn of the century Frankfort, Saratoga Springs, Boston.
Condition: Very good- in wrappers.
Book ID: 50277More details Price: $12.00 -
THE LADIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the story of the "ladies of Llangollen"- two well-born eighteenth century Irish women who defied convention and eloped as a married couple. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242635.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 38651More details Price: $16.50 -
LIFE DRAWING.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Grove Press, (1991). Grumley's first (and only) novel, published posthumously - a semi-autobiographical coming of age story of a young gay man, set mostly in New Orleans and in California. Introduction by Edmund White and afterword by George Stambolian. Both the introduction and the informative afterword put the novel in the context of Grumley's career as one of the founding members of the Violet Quill and his life as partner to the writer Robert Ferro, both AIDS victims. 156 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 83804More details Price: $13.50 -
SEPARATIONS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition - Her second collection of poems (the first, Presentation Piece, won the National Book Award and was the Lamont selection.). ISBN: 0-394731638.
Condition: Good overall - some minor wear to the covers - previous owner's name (that of another poet).
Book ID: 67917More details Price: $11.50 -
RADCLYFFE HALL A Life in the Writing.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56055More details Price: $20.00 -
GRAVEDIGGER.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Peter Owen, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery, set in Southern California, featuring gay claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, who is investigating why a disbarred lawyer, desperate for money, would file and claim and then disappear. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-720605911.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (small stain affecting the outer edge of the front fee endpaper and half title pagej)
Book ID: 85482More details Price: $45.00 -
ONE LAST MIRROR.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A penetrating love story set in Sri Lanka, this is Harvey's first novel after publishing seven volumes of poetry. ISBN: 0-395-36975-4.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (dj- little edge wear)
Book ID: 15236More details Price: $15.00 -
TIRESIUS I:9:B: GREAT SLAVE LAKE SUITE.
Edition: First printing.
Santa Monica, CA: Momentum Press. 1980. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of this epic poem probing the underside of American life - the first collection of poetry by this influential editor, who died of complications from AIDS in 1991..
Condition: Fine in dark green cloth, no dustjacket as issued.
Book ID: 18995More details Price: $45.00 -
TIRESIUS I:9:B: GREAT SLAVE LAKE SUITE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Santa Monica, CA: Momentum Press. 1980. First edition - The first book by this influential poetry editor, who died of complications from AIDS in 1991 - an epic poem probing the underside of American life, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book award. Square format. 112 pp.
Condition: Good in dark green wrappers with white lettering (some wear to the covers, remainder mark, contents are clean and unmarked)
Book ID: 69167More details Price: $12.00 -
STRAIGHT WOMEN, GAY MEN: Absolutely Fabulous Friendships.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Berkeley, CA: Wildcat Canyon Press, (1999). SIGNED first edition - A book which combines real-life stories with pychological insight and blasts stereotypes. SIGNED on the title page by author Laura Rafaty. Notes. 257 pp. ISBN: 1885171617.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69984More details Price: $15.00 -
A THOUSAND WINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Laotian born author, one which follows follows a gay cook from his native, war-torn Laos to internment in Thailand to San Francisco. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525942807.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77901More details Price: $17.50 -
SENSING LIGHT FROM DARK: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Ulysses Press. (2016). First edition - "San Francisco, 1979 an epidemic begins" Written by a doctor who was just beginning his internship days after the CDC reported a mysterious, fatal form on immundeficiency, and who went on to become a leading Bay Area AIDS physician, this novel "follows the lives of three people from vastly different walks of life, who find themselves thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives." 346 pp.
Condition: Fine in blue printed wrappers with clear acrylic covers..
Book ID: 69979More details Price: $15.00 -
RECENT HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - one which "traces the need of sisters Rosie and Noonie to choose their own lifestyles even as they continue seeking the approval of their eccentric mother, Elsa Gluck. Estranged by Rosie's lesbianism, the three women are brought together again by the failure of Noonie's traditional marriage and Elsa's terminal cancer." (Library Journal) 268 pp. ISBN: 0-399133577.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (a few spots to top edge of textblock, light toning to pages).
Book ID: 87608More details Price: $16.50 -
RECENT HISTORY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (1988). First edition - The author's second novel - one which "traces the need of sisters Rosie and Noonie to choose their own lifestyles even as they continue seeking the approval of their eccentric mother, Elsa Gluck. Estranged by Rosie's lesbianism, the three women are brought together again by the failure of Noonie's traditional marriage and Elsa's terminal cancer." (Library Journal) 261 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed gold wrappers (crease to corner of back cover).
Book ID: 83998More details Price: $17.50