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No place [San Francisco ?]: no publisher [Taxipress ?], no date (ca. 2009). First edition. 12mo (7.25" x 5.5"), 50 unnumbered pages & covers. Stapled stiff paper wraps. Not located by OCLC as of 7/21/2023.
Soiled, edge wear, rubbing, sheets misaligned, staples replaced, a good or so example of a crudely produced pamphlet.
Ms. Argo was a member of the now disbanded Sister Split, a lesbian-feminist spoken-word and performance art collective in San Francisco. Among the vignettes presented here are "With All the Girl Skin Going By," "Sometimes Me and My Best Friend Accidentally Fuck," and "Swallow." Her other books include "The Creamsickle" which won a Lambda award, and "Girls I've Run Away With."

New York: Random House, (1947). First American edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Spender at the half-title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6"), 60 pp. Publisher's decorated paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black cloth, in printed dust jacket.
Covers lightly browned at the upper margins, modest offsetting, foxing, & toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, occasional minor handling marks, otherwise very good in browned & foxed dust jacket, rubbed at the fold along the spine, with edge wear including nicks & small losses, still good or better.
Spender's seventh book of poetry, this dedicated to sister-in-law Margaret Spender who died on Christmas day, 1945

Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmunder, (2000). First edition. Tall octavo (9.5" x 7"), 75 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards lettered in silver on the spine, without dust jacket as issued.
Small bruise at the forward edge of the rear cover, otherwise Fine.
The self-taught photographer's first book, Raymond Vino died just four years after publication.
"Vino's critical eye gives him the ability to photograph men at their best, reflecting his vision of strength, passion and romance."~Excerpted from the colophon.

San Francisco: Sexual Freedom League, volume 1, no. 2, January 1970. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 40 pages including covers, provocatively illustrated. Photo offset on newsprint.
Lightly stained, modest edge wear primarily affecting corners, otherwise very good.
Contents include: "Group Marriage," "Statement from Harrad West," "Woman Power," "Toward Understanding the Homosexual," and more.
The Sexual Freedom League was founded in 1963 in New York City by Jefferson Poland (also known as Jefferson Fuck Poland and Jefferson Clitlick) and Leo Koch. Among the luminaries associated with the league were Margo St. James, Richard Thorne (also known as "Ohm"), and "Mother Boats," AKA Brian Traynor.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Revolutionary Lesbians/ Spectre Collective, no date [1972]. Folio broadside (14" x 8.5"). Folded once horizontally, slightly toned, otherwise Fine. Spectre, the voice of the Ann Arbor Revolutionary Lesbians, published just six tabloid newspaper issues in 1971 & a broadside in 1972 (here offered) announcing termination of publication. As they explain:"Real change has got to happen. So now we're gonna put our energy into the dykes we care about alot - to make everyday struggles that we have to make ... to have more energy to give the everyday support that we need ... so that we KNOW that the changes, the support are REAL …"

[Syracuse, New York: Ed-U Press (Syracuse University; Institute for Family Research and Education], no date (1971 ?). 4to, unpaginated [16 pp including covers], cartoon illustrations throughout. Publisher's stapled paper wraps.
Lightly tanned, 3 inch tear affecting the last leaf (repaired with archival tissue), modest edge wear & creasing, Good or better.
Enormously controversial in its day, Dr Sol Gordon's "Ten Facts," directed at adolescents, was the most popular of his "Zing Comix" series. By 1974, as the New York Times reports, 625,000 copies had been sold. With a strong hippie - psychedelic vibe, using what today seems like a pragmatic, non-judgmental approach, Gordon covers masturbation, homosexuality, perversion, venereal disease, penis size, pornography, abortion, and more. Banned from general distribution at the State Fair in Syracuse, an appeal brought by the ACLU was denied in 1974 because, while not obscene, the publication "suggests that sodomy is acceptable and it surely condones and… Read More

Original digital publicity image ca. 1990's measuring 11 inches by 8.5 inches boldly inscribed & signed in gold ink by Cheryl & Erika. Place & photographer unknown, verso blank.
Tape residue on the verso, otherwise very good.
Very sexy bondage & LGBTQ themes presenting a pair of gorgeous blonde girls: Erika in a leather bustier & heels, apparently sans panties, Cheryl in thigh high boots. We were unable to find any reference for them but we assume they had a burlesque, striptease act.

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1998). First edition. Small square quarto (10" x 10"), 96 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's cloth-patterned red paper over boards lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Previous owner's bookplate at the front free endpaper, otherwise Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a small stain mostly evident on the verso at the base of the spine.
"Eschewing the outdoor settings often associated with his art, Bianchi uses the studio as a backdrop as he creates his most intimate and erotic portrayal of gay men ..."~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Tarzana, California: "Published semi-monthly" by the editor, issue number 105, [1970]. 4to, 80 pp., illustrated. Pictorial stiff paper wraps, stapled. Edge wear, rubbing & creasing, otherwise good or better.This issue features an endorsement for Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, who was apparently contemplating a run for Lieutenant Governor. "A local Los Angeles gay men's publication containing bar and entertainment news, gossip, articles, columns, drag queen news and events, photographs, male beefcake, and fabulous, fabulous vintage ads." ~Courtesy Tyler and Brad's Index to Early Gay Publications & Periodicals.

Atlantic Beach, Florida: no publisher, volume 1, number 1, December, 1970. Single sheet measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Not found in OCLC as of 4/2/23.
Trace of soiling, otherwise fine. Probably a one off, we find no indication of further publication. Includes a poem by Cynthia Woodworth entitled "For Her."
"WHITEBOOK will grow, of course. Each issue will exceed in quality its predecessors, and additional pages will be added. To maintain free notices, we must of necessity restrict the volume of general-interest content - there are legions of other fine women's journals which print recipes, expound on the problems of suburbia, etc. There is only one WHITEBOOK and it will be unique, we pledge. It's yours!"

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 6 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"Again I sought Dorothy's society, who helped further to destroy any lingering prejudices I still had, about the ways in which the sexes may use their genitals, either in giving pleasure to each other, or men with men, or women ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 3 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"My introduction to the pleasures, and mysteries that have ever been associated with the couch of Love was not entrusted to a novice; no timid, simpering girl taking her first step toward the realization of forbidden joys but to a woman; a woman of thirty ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

Washington, D.C.: off our backs, inc., Volume 4 , number 1, Xmas [December], 1973. First edition. Tabloid newspaper measuring 15 inches by 11.5 inches with 32 pages, illustrated by mecca reliance.Folded horizontally as issued, lightly tattered including a couple of tears, briefly toned & foxed, easily Very Good.This issue is exclusively devoted to Carol Anne Douglas' novel, Mary Anti-Mary. Ms. Douglas was part of the editorial collective for this venerable feminist journal from 1973 to 2008. As noted on page one:Off our backs is proud and happy to publish Carol Anne Douglas' novel Mary anti-Mary in this special holiday issue." Off Our Backs was initially published on February 27, 1970 and ran continuously until 2008 when financial constraints forced termination. It was the longest running publication of its kind. As gleaned from the website of the University of Maryland, which holds the archive for this important journal, the mission of Off Our Backs was "to provide news and information about women's… Read More

Washington, D.C.: off our backs, inc., Volume 1, number 5, May 16, 1970 First edition. Tabloid newspaper measuring 15 inches by 11.5 inches with 16 pages, illustrated throughout from photos & art work. Folded horizontally as issued, slight edge wear, moderately toned, otherwise very good. Off Our Backs, edited by a consensus collective, was initially published on February 27, 1970 and ran continuously until 2008 when financial constraints forced termination. It was the longest running publication of its kind. As gleaned from the website of the University of Maryland, which holds the archive for this important journal, the mission of Off Our Backs was "to provide news and information about women's lives and feminist activism; to educate the public about the status of women around the world; to serve as a forum for feminist ideas and theory; to be an information resource on feminist, women's, and lesbian culture; and to seek social justice and equality for women worldwide."