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Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Novel with a gay theme. Sewn but not bound, as bought direct from the publishers' warehouse in 1989.

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Novel with a gay theme. (Young 3870)

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth Second Edition This is the second edition of a novel, dedicated to Edward Carpenter, and reviled for its homosexual content on first publication in 1934. The author has added a short note in this edition in reply to criticism. The first line of this bold, tragic novel is: "Any fool can marry and have children." In the "Preface" to the first, 1934, edition of this work Underwood declares it the intent of his story "to show that it is just as possible for all that is beautiful and of good report to spring from an attachment between [two men] . as from any ordinary and so-called normal love-match. It is a delicate and difficult subject

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Paperback First Edition Novel about a homosexual priest. An important book in the history of Gay Literature. Tells the story of a young curate whose homosexuality obsesses a small community at the expense of other more serious problems. Sewn but not bound, as bought direct from the publisher's warehouse in 1989. (Young 3872) Rare.