Fine 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Paperback First Edition

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Fine Cloth First Thus Drugs 'from the ice age to the age of anxiety' including 'myths about 'dope fiends'', 'race memories under LSD', 'coffee and the skin of toads etc'.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall New Hard Cover First Edition Best known as the young man who first seduced Oscar Wilde, Robbie Ross was able to maintain a firm position within the establishment being a regular guest at Downing Street while living an openly homosexual life. Robbie was a writer, critic, art dealer and administrator, and a pivotal figure on the London literary and artistic scene from the mid-1980s to his death towards the end of World War I. Above all he was Wilde's devoted friend, and years later his ashes were placed in Oscar's tomb as he had always wished.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Based on an in-depth study of bisexuals in San Francisco conducted by the authors from 1983 to 1988, this enlightening report suggests that sexual preference is much less fixed then is generally assumed. Most of the interviewees established a heterosexual identity first, then "added on" same-sex relationships. Few of the subjects were stereotypically bisexual, i.e., equally attracted to both sexes. On the contrary, many frequently changed their mix of same- and opposite-sex partners. The AIDS epidemic, show the authors, had a decisive impact on formerly monogamous bisexuals, with men moving in a heterosexual direction and women in a homosexual direction in an attempt to protect themselves from the virus. The bisexual respondents felt that homosexuals were just as prejudiced and negative toward them as were heterosexuals. Weinberg and Williams are professors of sociology at Indiana University, Pryor is an associate professor of sociology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

New 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Paperback First Edition Includes clinical case histories of men who prefer younger girls along with a short bibliography of major sources.

New 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Paperback First Edition Includes clinical case histories of men who prefer younger girls along with a short bibliography of major sources.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Paperback Edition Beginning with "vamp" Theda Bara's 1915 silent-film debut in A Fool There Was, Dijkstra (Idols of Perversity), writing with passionate feminist scholarship, decodes images of women as predators, destroyers and vultures who deplete civilized males of their creative energies. He unmasks predatory females in Hemingway, H.L. Mencken, Elinor Glyn's bestselling 1907 potboiler Three Weeks, and unravels the sexist assumptions of sociologist Emile Durkheim, sexologist Havelock Ellis and philosopher of love Remy de Gourmont. Shuttling between high and popular culture, Dijkstra argues that antifeminine, racist and imperialist attitudes merge in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, in Kipling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, in Jung's psychology of unchanging archetypes, in the social Darwinist teachings of Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. Finally, he traces a trajectory of fantasies involving men attaining supermale status from Nietzsche to Ezra Pound and Hitler. His conviction that sexist imagery, codified around 1900, still dominates the popular imagination informs this brilliant, often startling study. Dijkstra is professor of American and comparative literature at UC-San Diego.

Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Paperback First Edition Introduction by John Russell, b&w photos of the 132 exhibits. The exhibitions were held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 January-3 March 1974, Bristol City Gallery, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery & Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery. Some creasing.

New 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall New Hard Cover First Edition An elaborate photo document of Bangkok's infamous Red Light District. Nick Nostitz is a 32-year-old German photojournalist living in Bangkok and working throughout the Far East. A member of Hamburg's Focus agency, his images have appeared in many magazines from Max and Spiegel to the Benetton published Colours. This book is the fruit of seven years' work, beginning in the early 1990s when he first decided to immerse himself in Bangkok's nightlife and produce a photographic record of what he saw and lived. 'Its about addiction' he says. 'Addiction to a crazy, hedonistic lifestyle that is also a refuge. I see a subculture where the exchange of money for sex is only superficial. Most people see only the prostitution and the explotation; my images challenge this view and go much deeper. For everyone caught up in the nightlife-bar girls and transsexuals, transients and tourists, refugees from their respective societies-there is an emotional addiction; an endless cycle of happy illusion, ecstasy, intensity, doubt and despair. My work symbolises these stages.'

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Accounts of communal farming and labour.