Genre & Subject / Gay & Lesbian from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. 294 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled 'Secret Court Files, 1920.' The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard… Read more about this item

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003. 207 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. "Cult film director John Waters and art critic and curator Bruce Hainley offer a provocative and personal interpretation of the theme of sex and sexuality in art. They have selected a wide range of works, from… Read more about this item

New York: Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, 1977. 120 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Issue 3). Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Pioneering issue devoted to radical lesbian artists, eroticism, and self-expression. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, 1981. 96 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Heresies, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Issue 12). Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Issue devoted to femiinist erotic art.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, 1977. 128 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Issue 2). Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Dorset Press, 1983. xiii, 346 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, foreedge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with creased flaps, protected in a mylar cover. "Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, King James I, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev, Ernst Rohm, and E.M. Forster. The legacies they left to the world are… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. Cloth, xv, 623 pages, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. "How have, major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis… Read more about this item

London and New York: Serpent's Tail; High Risk Books, 1996. 246 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Expected browning. First paperback edition. Essays from the Village Voice, Art in America, and Artforum. "Gary Indiana's essays, like his fiction, take no prisoners. In his fifteen years of writing cultural criticism, he has altered the way we look at ourselves… Read more about this item

London and New York: Cassell, 1996. Cloth, 154 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Viking; Penguin, 1998. xvii, 444 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In 1930 William Haines was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw - a talented, handsome, wisecracking romantic lead. After leaving acting he went on to become the interior designer to Hollywood's… Read more about this item

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. vi, 305 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: The American sublime: living and dying as an artist, by Edmund White; Through the looking glass, by Sarah Schulman; After Peter, by Alexander Chee; Howard, art,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983. 310 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Good+. Previous owner's blind stamp/title page. Arguably the best & most entertaining book on Warhol and his circle. Essential reading for anyone interested in the 1960s in America. "Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in… Read more about this item

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004. xxxv, 427 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then… Read more about this item

London: Serpent's Tail, 1992. 276 pages; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Expected browning. First UK Edition. "A collection of autobiographical essays which chart the author's life, from his violent childhood in suburbia, to his homelessness on the streets of New York City, to his eventual triumph as an artist. It explores American street life and street culture." - Publisher. .… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2016. vii, 261 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall… Read more about this item

London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2013. 412 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Spanning 125 years, Art and Queer Culture is the first major historical survey to consider the ways in which the codes and cultures of homosexuality… Read more about this item

New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1997. viii, 223 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 34 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum, January 17 to April 27, 1997. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. A groundbreaking exhibition with artworks by Janine Antoni, Matthew… Read more about this item

Chicago: Richard Gray Gallery, 1990. 20 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), 1 portrait; 22 x 27 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Richard Gray Gallery, February 2 to March 10, 1990. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1981. Cloth, 157 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Illustrated with drawings by Jonathan Hills. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light dust spotting/top edge. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Hills, Jonathan. 8vo. Collectible.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008. viii, 723 pages, [36] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Lincoln Kirstein's contributions to the nation's life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary journal Hound and Horn, as well as the modernist Harvard Society for Contemporary… Read more about this item