41.
HARVEY, Reginald.
Park Beat.
NY: Castle Books (1959).

First edition. 189 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A long night in Central Park. Young 1723.
$125

42.
HARWOOD, Lee.
The Man with Blue Eyes.
NY: Angel Hair (1966).

First edition. [48 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers with a slight fade to spine. Cover by Joe Brainard. One of 500 copies. Young 1725*.
$50

43.
HIGHSMITH, Patricia.
The Boy Who Followed Ripley.
London: Heinemann (1980).

First edition. 291 pp. Faint bands of offsetting to endpapers, else fine in fine dust jacket. Young 1799.
$75

44.
HUDSON, Joris.
Love Costs Sixpence More: A Fantasy.
London: Trine Books, 1967.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 56 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal drawings by Philippe Jullian. Preface by John Symonds. Printed at the Trigram Press. One of 50 numbered copies on Glastonbury Antique laid paper SIGNED by Hudson. A friendship at Oxford in the 1930s. Young 1913.
$450

45.
HUTTON, Robert.
Of Those Alone.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson (1958).

First edition. 235 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with tanned spine. An autobiography “of an unashamed and unrepentant homosexual.” Uncommon. Young 1932*.
$150

46.
KING, Louise W.
The Day We Were Mostly Butterflies.
London: Michael Joseph (1963).

First edition. 191 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Cover art by Broom Lynne. Four episodes in the life of Miss Moppet, “a lady truck driver” Lillian Richardson, and narrator Maurice Calhoun, an interior decorator. Young 2127.
$75

47.
KITCHIN, C.H.B.
Ten Pollitt Place: A Novel.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1957.

First edition. 237 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with three short closed tears to the rear panel, and wear along top edge. A comedy of decaying manners. Young 2156.
$75

48.
LAMBERT, Gavin.
A Case for the Angels.
NY: Sial Press, 1968.

First edition. 185 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Don Bachardy. Englishwoman Dora Poley navigates swinging Los Angeles. Young 2213.
$50

49.
LANSING, Gerrit.
The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward.
Plainfield: North Atlantic Books (1977).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 127 pp. Near fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Lansing. Young 2239.
$125

50.
LEHMANN, John.
The Reader at Night and Other Poems.
[Toronto]: Basilike (1974).

First edition. [38 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Lehmann. Original prospectus laid in. Young 2294.
$35

51.
LEVIN, Meyer.
Compulsion.
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

First edition. 495 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket that is lightly toned. Crime novel based on the Leopold and Loeb trial, source for the 1959 film and a successful stage adaptation. Young 2314.
$150

52.
LEYLAND, Winston. ed.
Gay Sunshine Interviews: Volume One.
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1978.

First edition. 325 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 474 copies. Interviews with Burroughs, Charles Henri Ford, Genet, Ginsberg, Giorno, Lou Harrison, Isherwood, Norse, Orlovsky, Rechy, Vidal, and Tennessee Williams. Young 2328*.
$100

53.
LITTLE, Jay pseudonym for Clarence Lewis Miller.
Maybe-Tomorrow.
NY: Pageant Press (1952).

First edition. 345 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light overall edge wear. Jacket art by Dave Lyons. Gaylord Le Claire’s journey of self-discovery. Young 2360*.
$200

54.
LOCKWOOD, Tom.
Destination Nowhere.
NY: Castle Books (1966).

First edition. 192 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Laid into this copy is a promotional flyer from distributor Village Books and Press featuring this book which they describe as “‘The Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ of special fiction.” Young 2376*.
$75

55.
LOWLAND, Jacob pseudonym for James Stratton Holmes.
The Gay Stud’s Guide to Amsterdam and Other Sonnets.
Amsterdam & Paris: C.J. Aarts, 1978.

First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Includes a glossary, “for use in schools.” Number 048 in the “Amsterdamse Cahiers” series. Young 2395*.
$75

56.
MARTIN, Kenneth.
Waiting for the Sky to Fall.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1959.

First edition. 254 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. SIGNED by Martin on the title page, with his holograph note to the copyright page, “The reason for the blacked out section on the dust jacket is that we were threatened with a libel suit. I’d been sent a fan letter by another writer called Delanoy. I used his last name for a decadent character, and we were threatened with a libel suit. We settled by blacking out the name on the dust jackets that hadn’t been distributed. Ken Martin.” Young 2541*.
$350

57.
MAUGHAM, Robin.
The Man with Two Shadows.
London: Longmans, Green (1958).

First edition. 165 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Maugham in the year of publication to his friend, George Rylands: “For Dadie, with love from Robin 23 Oct 58.” Bookseller Burton Weiss’ pencil annotation of provenance on the first leaf. Young 2572.
$100

58.
MAXWELL, William.
The Folded Leaf.
NY: Harper & Brothers 1945.

First edition. 310 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. Jacket endorsement by Irwin Edman. Dated (March 1945) and INSCRIBED by Maxwell to Edman, “For Irwin / gratefully and with the amazed / knowledge that, although he / is a philosopher and I am / perhaps a poet, we are one / and the same shady character. / Bill.” Young 2592.
$2500

59.
McKILLEN, Arch Alfred.
The Death of the Scharnhorst.
NY: Vantage (1952).

First edition. 62 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by McKillen on the front free endpaper with a small drawing of a tall ship, “To Timothy d’Arch Smith / I climbed to the top of a mast / one day / and I looked at the World and the / Far away, — / and I’ve never come down from that / Mast! / Arch Alfred McKillen.” Smith’s bookplate affixed inside front cover. McKillen’s first book, a long poem on the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst. Young 2619*.
$50

60.
MENEGAS, Peter.
The Service.
London: Arlington Books (1971).

First edition. 133 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Second novel by the author of JACKLOVE. Young 2660*.
$50

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