New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Paperback Edition Jeremy Reed convincingly becomes Isidore Ducasse in this brilliant and exotic re-creation of the world of The Songs of Maldoror, the blasphemous text which detonated 19th century literature and later formed one of the cornerstones of Andre Breton's Surrealist Manifestos. Enthralling and entertaining from first to last.

Collection of challenging essays which bring together writers and singers who share a common thread of creativity from the cutting edge of their given field.Reed considers singers ranging from Frank Sinatra and Leonard Cohen to Marc Almond and Scott Walker and writers as diverse as Lautramont, Eugenio Montale, Jean Genet and Oscar Wilde, as well as examining the subjects of angels in poetry and poetry and magic. Included also is an insightful piece on Aleister Crowley and the left-handed path.The book establishes a fusion of literary and serious pop culture, a field that the author has made his own over the years, and one in which he excels. Jeremy Reed, is renowned for his celebration of outsiders, and apart from being a widely-published poet and novelist he has written biographies of Marc Almond and Lou Reed.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Brian Jones, rock 'n' roll godstar; founder member of the Rolling Stones, the murdered androgyne whose fragile psyche was ultimately broken by an industry which, nonetheless, provided him with the means to luxuriate in the bizarre and unorthodox. Jones's alcohol and drug excesses, his tormented and often psychotic states, his dandified propensity to cross-dress, his love of literature, privileged background and expensive speaking voice all placed him in the decadent tradition, the last of a rarefied aesthete's lineage. His tragic murder at the age of twenty seven further substantiated his place in the Byronic legend of the chosen one who dies young. In The Last Decadent, author Jeremy Reed locates in Jones's obsessive fantasy world a terrain firmly aligned with the opium visions of Charles Baudelaire, the sartorial extravagence of Oscar Wilde, the sybaritic indulgences of Count Stenbock. Reed vividly recolours Brian Jones's brief, but incandescent and extraordinarily subversive life amidst the pop and fashion whirlwind of the Sixties, and in doing so presents perhaps the most illuminating and evocative portrait yet written of a fallen rock 'n' roll angel.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Jean Genet, the poet-thief and one of the 20th century's most enduring gay icons was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child accused of stealing from his foster parents Genet at the age of 10 was sent to a reform school and spent most of his youth in the all-male communal life of harshly disciplinarian reformatories, including Mettray. In the 1930s, he was variously a deserter, a vagrant who begged his way across Europe, a prostitute, a thief and one of the dispossessed. Learning that imagination was a tool the authorities couldn't suppress, he emerged in 1942 from a series of prison stays with the first of his extraordinarily subversive novels, Our Lady of the Flowers. Taken up by Cocteau and Sartre Genet quickly became a legend to the underworld for his novels The Miracle of the Rose, Funeral Rites, Querelle of Brest and The Thief's Journal, all of which fused an inherent romanticism with the celebration of crime. An enigmatic, flagrantly controversial figure, whose creativity was largely extinguished by the 1950s, Genet lived his life as an itinerant outsider and in the 1970s became a spokesman for the Black Panthers, and finally championed the struggle for a Palestinian homeland, writing his last posthumously published book A Prisoner of Love in defence of their cause.; The only biographical and critical study of Jean Genet in print; Illustrated throughout.

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Signed by Author A tribute to the life, loves, attitudes, lyrics and music of Marc Almond. A sympathetic and vivid portrayal of a controversial, enigmatic modern star living and working at the creative edge of his art. Hand numbered limited edtion 46/100 signed by author, artist and editor. Unbound in Wraps, as Issued.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket as Issued Hard Cover First Edition Signed by author and Photographer An intimate and stunning collection of b&w portrait photographs of contemporary pop/gay icon, Marc Almond. Taken over a 3-year period, and forming some of the most revealing and risque poses of his 20-year career, Adored & Explored seamlessly joins his private and public personas. From pensive backstage shots to dramatically flamboyant poses reflecting the charismatic onstage performer, this shimmering collection is perfectly complemented by text from award-winning writer, Jeremy Reed. 'A luscious photo-gallery of the private Marc Almond..Believe it, this is frozen fin de siecle fury. You want pop culture that plumbs the depths? It's here darlings!' - QX. 'Revelatory black and white images of the star.' The Pink Paper. No. 41 of 50 copies only, signed by author and photographer.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition This contains: Inspiration by Steve Clark; Passion by John Smith; Again by Ramsey Campbell; The Fingers by Stephen Sennitt; Catalepsy #1 by Aaron Williamson; Monsters by Tony Reed; Eloise by David Conway; The Nostalgia for Desire by Clint Hutzulak; Love Comes in Fragments by James Havoc; Tourniquet by Terence Sellers; Research by Paul Buck; A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream by Adele Olivia Gladwell; Hotel de Filles by D. F. Lewis; When the Whip Comes Down by Jeremy Reed; And the Sun Shone by Night by Paul Marks; and Vixen Naked Ultra Luncheon by Michael Paul Peter Philbin.