Sexuality
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# 43136
RU PAUL (supermodel of the world)
[RU PAUL]. Make love not AIDS
Postcard, unused, with portrait of RuPaul Charles by Mike Ruiz, printed verso ‘Make love not AIDS salutes RuPaul for his continued support in the fight against AIDS’.
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# 43135
TOM OF FINLAND
Tom of Finland : recent drawings. Philip Masonic : recent photographs
New York : Robert Samuel Gallery, 1980. Exhibition invitation card, 18 x 12 cms, three panels, folded, two illustrations, printed on heavy black card. Scarce Tom of Finland exhibition ephemera.
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# 41529
HILLERSBERG, Lars; SVEDBERG, Lena; DE GEER, Carl Johan, et al.
Puss. (Complete set, plus prospectus)
Stockholm : Puss, 1968-1973. A complete set of twenty-five issues; number 1 (January 1968) – number 24, (1973), plus the unnumbered issue and the rare prospectus which advertises the Puss preview presented at the Konsthall, 2-14 December 1967. Quarto (nos. 1-21 and the unnumbered issue, as well as the 4-page prospectus) and folio (nos 22-24); …
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# 42985
HAMMER, Barbara (1939- )
Goddess Films : sales & rentals.
Berkeley, CA : Barbara Hammer / Goddess Films, [1979?]. Single sheet, 350 x 270 mm, folding to 180 x 90 mm, printed on both sides, photographically illustrated; light creasing and marks to the outer covers when folded, otherwise excellent condition. Important – and very scarce – trade brochure for Goddess Films, the distribution company of …
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# 42515
[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)
Gay vote. News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club
San Francisco : the Club, 1978 – 79. A collection of 13 issues of a highly significant periodical in the gay civil rights movement, commencing with vol. 1 no. 2. Each issue pp. 4, illustrated, in fine condition, unfolded and unposted. The first issues are subtitled News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, and …
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# 42496
HOGAN, Lou Rand; COSTAIN, David (illustrator)
The Gay Cookbook (first edition)
/ by Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. Los Angeles : Sherbourne Press, 1965. First edition, first impression. Large octavo, lettered paper boards (bumped at corners, spine sunned, lightly marked, stain to fore edge), pp. viii; 280, line illustrations; internally clean. A good copy of the true first edition, issued in much larger format …
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# 43014
MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); LEYLAND, Winston
Physique. A pictorial history of the Athletic Model Guild
San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [96], illustrated with erotic photography of male nudes. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and all-nude magazine in the United States. It is an example of a ‘beefcake’ magazine which published images of athletic and attractive …
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# 43009
MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); TOM OF FINLAND
Physique pictorial. 16 issues featuring covers by Tom of Finland
Los Angeles : AMG, 1961 – 1976. 16 issues of Physique Pictorial all featuring covers designed by legendary gay artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (known by the pseudonym ‘Tom of Finland’, each issue octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white photographs of male nudes. The breakthrough publication which saw Touko Laaksonen’s ‘dirty little …
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# 42514
San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.
[GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982
San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …
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# 42513
[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)
If you could see us now … the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club celebrates Harvey’s 50th birthday.
[San Francisco] : [Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club], [1980]. Newspaper, 380 x 290 mm, pp. [20], central crease, illustrated in black and white. Includes a contribution from Jane Fonda. Celebration souvenir newspaper of the life of gay politician Harvey Milk who was assassinated eighteen months prior, with articles about gay political activism in San Francisco, …
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# 43000
GLOVER, Dr. Leland E.
Sex life of the modern teen-ager
New York : Belmont Books, 1961. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), pp. 221, pages toned. Contents: Dating [but listed as ‘Petting’ on the back cover – not quite the same!] The Sexually Aggressive Boy The Promiscuous Girl Wild Parties Pre-marital Experience Motherhood Without Marriage “Shotgun Weddings” Abortion VD Adjusting to Adulthood
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# 43040
WILLARD, Avery
Leather
Compiled under the direction of Avery Willard. Washington : Guild Press Ltd., 1965. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly creased), pp. [72], central pages neatly detached, a couple of pages marked, illustrated with full page black and white photographs of fantasy scenes of men in various dress and undress of leather. Does not include full frontal nudity. …
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# 43036
LAAKSONEN, Touko Valio (1920 - 1991), a.k.a. TOM OF FINLAND
Tom of Finland Album 2
[New York?] : NPC, circa 1970. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated in black and white with Tom of Finland’s homoerotic imagery. Includes the introductory essay Physique art expounds upon the inevitable b M. Erick Evans, and an order form for male nude magazines from Media Arts in New York. Probably a pirated publication of Tom …
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# 42855
TOWNSEND, Larry (1930 - 2008, pseudonym of Bud Bernhardt)
The Leatherman’s Handbook
New York : Olympia Press, 1972. Octavo, paperback, original wrappers, light rubbing to corners, crease to spine with crack in text block, pp. [viii]; 319; [7 – advertisements], internally clean, a very good to fine copy. ‘The only definitive exploration of the gay S & M leather scene over written by a qualified writer who …
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# 42888
BARTON, Crawford (1943 - 1993)
Beautiful men
San Mateo, CA : Liberation Publications, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a little rubbed and creased), pp. [96], internally fine. Iconic and seminal photobook, the first publication from Crawford Barton, who is noted for his documentation of the emergent gay subculture in San Francisco from the 1960s to 1980s. Rare.
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# 42724
NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)
[SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)
New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, owner’s name to upper panel, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing …