61.
MILES, Richard.
That Cold Day in the Park.
NY: Delacorte (1965).

First edition. 182 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (August 1965) and INSCRIBED by Miles on the front free endpaper, “Warmest best regards / from Richard Miles.” Madame and The Blond in Paris. Source for the 1969 Robert Altman film starring Sandy Dennis. Young 2699*.
$75

62.
MONETTE, Paul.
Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown (1978).

First edition. 277 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Monette’s first novel, following a collection of poems. Review slip laid in. Young 2753*.
$55

63.
MURDOCH, Iris.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1970.

First edition. 401 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is clipped and re-priced. Young 2811*.
$100

64.
NEWMAN, A. pseudonym for Francis Edwin Murray.
Rondeaux of Boyhood.
London: [F.E. Murray] 1923.

First edition. 68 pp. Faint foxing to page edges, else near fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover and spine labels. Photographic frontis of boy in a tree. One of 200 copies. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by John Gambril Nicholson. Murray’s first collection of poems. Young 2851*.
$250

65.
NORSE, Harold.
Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems 1941–1976.
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 240 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Norse with an original holograph poem “The Singing Gallery” penned to the colophon page, and a small original drawing pasted the recto of the same leaf. Additionally INSCRIBED by Norse on the title page, “For Burton Weiss / with very best wishes, / Harold Norse / Mote Rio, CA / 6.vi.80.” Young 2880*.
$450

66.
PATRICK, Robert.
Robert Patrick’s Cheep Theatricks: Plays, Monologues & Sketches.
NY: Samuel French (1972).

First edition. 358 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Lanford Wilson. Illustrated. Dated (26/11/76) and SIGNED by Patrick on the half-title page. Young 2980*.
$50

67.
PEYREFITTE, Roger.
Special Friendships: A Novel.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1958.

First UK edition. 348 pp. Slight lean to spine, previous owner’s embossed name to front free endpaper, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine, which is lightly toned. Translated from the original French by Edward Hyams. Young 3036*.
$200

68.
PHILEBUS pseudonym for John Leslie Barford.
Fantasies.
London: Privately Printed, 1923.

First edition. 73 pp. Small bump to front cover, else near fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover and spine labels. One of 250 (of 280) copies. Poems by the author of LADSLOVE LYRICS and YOUNG THINGS. Young 3041*.
$150

69.
PICANO, Felice.
Late in the Season.
NY: Delacorte (1971).

First edition. 250 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Picano and additionally INSCRIBED to Samuel M. Steward, “For Sam ... Or was it at the / Dog Races? Morocco? 33’?...” From the collection of Burton Weiss, with his pencil note of provenance on the front free endpaper. Young 3049*.
$75

70.
PINERO, Miguel.
Short Eyes: A Play.
NY Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1975).

First edition. xvi + 127 pp w/glossary of slang. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Marvin Felix Camillo. A prison drama, written while Pinero was incarcerated. Winner of both the Obie and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. Young 3055.
$45

71.
PLATEN-HALLERMÜNDE, August Graf Von.
Platen: Selected Poems.
West Linton: Castlelaw Press, 1978.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 31 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine, two small pale spots on spine. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. Translated from the original German by Edwin Morgan. One of 100 (of 150) numbered copies SIGNED by Morgan. Additionally SIGNED by the printer/publisher Alex Frizzell. Young 3066.
$125

72.
PROKOSCH, Frederic.
Nine Days to Mukalla: A Novel.
NY: Viking, 1953.

First edition. 249 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by George Salter. Four shipwrecked Westerners attempt to navigate Arabia. Author photo and review slip laid in. Young 3127.
$75

73.
RAMP, James H.
The Love Smeller.
San Francisco: Fanfare Publications (1966).

First edition. 192 pp. Price on rear cover inked out with new price stamp, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Interlinked stories recording the story of twenty male couples, and one canine pair. Young 3190*.
$45

74.
RAVEN, Simon.
Brother Cain.
London: Anthony Blond (1959).

First edition. 247 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Raven’s second book, a spy thriller. Young 3208.
$150

75.
REID, Forrest.
Uncle Stephen.
London: Faber and Faber (1931).

First edition. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint toning to spine. SIGNED by Reid on the title page. Young 3252*.
$250

76.
ROLFE, Frederick William writing as “Baron Corvo.”
The Venice Letters.
London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974.

First trade edition. 80 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Cecil Woolf. Rolfe’s notorious letters to Masson Fox detailing his desperate times and sexual life in Venice from 1909–1910. Young 3344*.
$100

77.
RONAN, Richard.
Buddha’s Kisses and other poems.
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1980).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 96 pp. Fine in full red cloth with gold stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Ronan with a holograph poem, “Prayer” penned to the front free endpaper. Young 3346*.
$150

78.
RUMAKER, Michael.
A Day and Night at the Baths.
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press (1979).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 81 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Rumaker. Young 3387*.
$125

79.
SACHS, Maurice.
The Hunt.
NY: Stein and Day (1965).

First US edition. 176 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Peretz Kaminsky. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Surviving in occupied Paris in the early 1940s. Young 3395*.
$45

80.
SCARROTT, Michael pseudonym for A.S.T. Fisher.
Ambassador of Loss.
London: Fortune Press (1955).

First edition. 175 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and wear to tips of flap folds. Illustrations by B.H. Surie. Young 3443*.
$350

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