CALLUM James books
Short List #14
OCTOBER, 2014
callum james books
This is the longest short list I’ve yet issued. I hope it presents the eclectic mix of the
obscure, literary, queer, peculiar, scarce, interesting and ephemeral that you are used to
from Callum James Books and from the Front Free Endpaper blog. There is everything
here from cantatas and communes to poetry and pictures.
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1. AIREY, Stephen. Messer Rondo & Other Stories by Gay
Men. Gay Mens’ Press, London: 1983. Paperback. Twelve
short stories and a novella by Tom Clarkson, John Gowling,
Michael James, Tenebris Light, Paul Mann, Chris Payne,
David Rees and Peter Robins as well as Stephen Airey.
Good. £4
2. BARNES, Djuna. Selected Works of Djuna Barnes. Spillway
/ The Antiphon / Nightwood. Faber & Faber, London: 1962.
Very good in a very good jacket. £15
3. BRAY, Alan. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. Gay
Mens’ Press, London: 1982. Paperback. Very good. £4
4. BRITTEN, Benjamin. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ein
Sommernachtstraum. Opera in Three Acts Op. 64. Hawkes
and Son, London: 1960. The full vocal score in soft covers.
A black and white photomontage from the first production
on the cover. £50
5. BRITTEN, Benjamin. Rejoice in the Lamb. Festival
Cantata. Boosey & Hawkes, London: n.d. With words taken
from Christopher Smart’s long poem of the same name and
including the sequence “I will consider my cat Jeffrey”.
40pp stapled into card covers. Very good. £6
6. BRITTEN, Benjamin. Psalm 150 for voices and instruments. Boosey & Hawkes, London: n.d. Vocal score
and keyboard part. 12pp in card covers. Very good. £6
7. BRITTEN, Benjamin. Missa Brevis in D for Boys’ Voices and Organ. Op. 63. Boosey & Hawkes, London:
n.d. Written for the George Malcolm and the boys of Westminster Cathedral Choir. 14pp in card covers. Very
good. £6
8. BRITTEN, Benjamin. Saint Nicolas. A Cantata. Boosey & Co., London: n.d. A cantata written for the
centenary celebrations of Lancing College in Sussex. Very good. £6
9. BRITTEN, Benjamin. Canticle II. Abraham and Isaac. Op. 51. Boosey & Co, London: n.d. 28pp stapled into
thin card covers with a design by John Piper. For this, and the next item see Front Free Endpaper on 17.09.14.
£15
10. BRITTEN, Benjamin. Canticle III. Still Falls the Rain. Op. 55. Boosey & Co, London: n.d. Words by Edith
Sitwell. 16pp stapled into thin card covers with a design by John Piper. £15
11. BROPHY, Brigid. The Finishing Touch. Gay Mens’ Press, London: 1987. Paperback. This edition includes an
introduction by the author in which she makes it clear that the female headmistresss at the centre of this novel
was based in part on Anthony Blunt. Fair with spotting to the page edges. £4
12. Communes. The Journal of the Commune Movement. 7 issues nos. 38-44 issued from June, 1972 to Winter
1973/4. Very well illustrated and full of articles on commune life in all its manifestations. Letter pages also
make for fascinating reading. Stapled into soft card covers. See Front Free Endpaper on 24.08.14. Very good.
£40
13. [CONJURING] Catalogue of Printed Books including an extensive collection of books on conjuring
and magic. Sotheby & Co., London: sale on 18th March, 1974. A 40pp auction catalogue with some b/w
illustrations. £5
14. CROWLEY, Aleister. Astrology. With A Study of Neptune and Uranus Liber DXXXVI. Edited and introduced
by Stephen Skinner. Neville Spearman, Jersey: 1974. Very good in a good, lightly shelfworn jacket. £22
15. ELIOT, T. S. Collected Poems 1909-1935. Faber & Faber, London: 1937. Second impression. Very good in a
good jacket that has some nicks and rubbing at the edges. £15
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16. FERNANDEZ, Lluis. The Naked Anarchist. Gay Mens’
Press, London: 1990. Paperback. An epistolary novel
in which a young gay man in exile in Amsterdam is
sent letters from people he has left behind in Valencia.
“Between supermelodrama, pornography and the
picaresque”. Good. £4
17. FORSTER, E. M. Maurice. Edward Arnold, London:
1971. Very good in a good, lightly rubbed jacket. £5
18. GIBSON, Ian. The Assassination of Federico Garcia
Lorca. W. H. Allen, London: 1979. This is an extensively
rewritten and revised version of Gibson’s earlier work The
Death of Lorca. Very good in a very good jacket with a
few light marks. £5
19. HALL, Radclyffe, The Sixth Beatitude. Hammond
Hammond, London: 1959. New and reset edition. Very
good in a very good and complete jacket. £10
20. HARRIS, H. Wilson. Human Merchandise. White Slave
Traffic – The Facts. Ernest Benn, London: 1928. A
detailed look at the trafficking of women and girls around
the world for prostitution following on from and using
the data from an influential investigation by the League
of Nations. Unusual in a jacket. This copy is in very good
condition with a good jacket that has some grubby marks
and a small square cut from the spine, probably where the
price was printed. £15
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21. HEGER, Heinz. The Men With the Pink Triangle. Gay
Mens’ Press, London: 1989. Paperback. A harrowing
account of the concentration camps by a gay man who
was there. Very difficult to read no matter how important.
£10
22. HODGES, Charles du Bois. In Search of Young Beauty.
A. S. Barnes & Co., New York: 1968. Third impression.
A photobook of both boys and girls in which each
photograph is discussed a little by the photographer.
Subjects are set in allegorical and narrative and ‘symbolic’
poses. Nudity. Fine in a near fine jacket. £50
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23. INGRAM, Tom. The Hungry Cloud. Collins, London: 1971. A children’s fantasy described by many who have
read it as a masterpiece. A brother and sister quest story as Kai and Flor travel to find the wise woman who
might have the answer to the threat posed by a huge cloud that has appeared over their land. Great black and
white illustrations from Bill Geldart, see Front Free Endpaper on 20.07.14. Very good in a very good jacket.
£40
24. IRELAND, John. These Things Shall Be. Boosey and Hawkes, London: n.d. Sheet Music. A setting of words
from a poem by John Addington Symonds. A curiously poignant setting which, although first performed in
1937 seems to be a product of the First World War, asking the question “what will the future bring?” and
proposing a greater, gentler more noble version of the human race. 38pp sewn into card covers which are
lightly marked. Good. £10
25. JANSSEN, Sally E. A Guide to the Practical Use of Incense. Triad Library and Publishing Co, NSW
Australia: 1972. Second revised edition. Includes chapters on “The History of Incense”, “The Spiritual
Significance of Perfume”, “Incense Ingredients”, “Methods of Censing” and others. Janssen was the Principal
of the Triad Yoga School. Very good in a good jacket with a little chipping and rubbing. £5
26. JAMES, M. R. Eton & King’s. Recollections, Mostly Trivial. 1875-1925. Williams & Norgate Ltd, London:
1926. A memoire from the man best known for his contribution to the ghost story. The front endpaper of this
copy has been put on slightly off square causing an odd rucking at the hinge but it is still solid in no danger of
coming apart. There is foxing to the prelims and first few printed pages but otherwise a straightforward copy
of a scarce book. £40
27. JOAD, C. E. M. The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World. Faber & Faber, London:
1944. Illustrated in b/w by Mervyn Peake. The direct article in the title before “Better World” is important
here for the better world in question is the one the young soldier hears promised to him as the end to which
all their fighting is pointing. The story has the young man encounter all manner of characters representing
different ways of reforming or organising the world, all of whom are humorous and many of whom are
rendered by Peake’s wild imagination. Very good in a very good jacket that lacks 1/8” to the head of the spine.
£12
28. JOLLY, Hugh. Sexual Precocity. A Personal Study of 69 Patients. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield: 1955. A
medical study illustrated throughout with b/w photographs. Very good in a very good jacket. £10
29. KEYNES, John Maynard, The End of Laissez-Faire. The Hogarth Press, London: 1926. Published by the
Woolfs, good friends of Keynes, this is a text based on two lectures first given in Oxford and Berlin. The
paper-covered upper board has a significant water stain. £12
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30. KING, Francis. An archive of correspondence to a London-based bookseller. Dating from the 1970s through
to the 2000s this collection of letters and cards is full of interest giving both biographical and bibliographical
details throughout. The correspondence bears witness to a warm friendship and many shared meals and social
occasions. King discusses numerous other writers and personalities all with a kindly but sometimes sharp
observational manner about him. The archive is made up of 38 cards (either headed correspondence cards or
printed postcards/notecards) and 10 tls with one brief als on headed paper. Although a few of the cards are no
more than invitations to dinner, most contain plenty of good reading. SOLD
31. KING, Francis. A group of letters to Brian Hill, poet. Undated except by a later hand in pencil and with
subject matter suggesting the 1970s. King discusses Hill’s translations of Martial published in 1972 as An Eye
for Ganymede. Five als on various headed papers and one printed card with holograph note inside. SOLD
32. LAURIE, Peter. Teenage Revolution. Anthony Blond,
London: 1965. A rather fast paced piece of journalistic
writing on the ‘new’ phenomenon of the teenager. Very
good in a very good Jacket. £30
33. [LESBIANISM] Presenting the Past. Anne Lister of
Halifax 1791-1840 by Jill Liddington. Penine Pens,
Hebden Bridge: 1994. Softcover. Anne Lister was a
scholar, heiress and traveller who kept voluminous diaries,
a portion of which was in code to protect the details of
her lesbian affairs from prying eyes. This is the story of
how that code was deciphered. Light browning at the page
edges but overall very good. £20
34. MACNIECE, Louis. Solstices. Faber & Faber, London:
1961. Very good in a very good jacket that has some nicks
at the top of the spine. £10
35. MAIER, Jos. “Hoi”, Youth, Photographed by Jos. Maier.
POJKART, Lubeck: 1984. Somewhat scarce photobook
from the now defunct German publisher. No nudity. Fine
in laminated pictorial boards. £50
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36. MARLOWE, Christopher. The Works of Christopher
Marlowe edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke. Henry
Frowde, Oxford: 1910. Includes, of course, Edward
the Second, in which the King’s relationship with
Piers Gaveston makes for a very early piece of ‘gay
literature’, later filmed by Derek Jarman. A very nice
looking book in blue cloth with gilt titles. Very good.
£12
37. MEREDITH, George. The Letters of George Meredith
to Alice Meynell with annotations thereto 1896-1907.
The Nonesuch Press, London: 1923. The second
production from the Nonesuch Press, a numbered
limited edition of 850 printed on ingres paper. Paper
boards with a buckram backstrip. Very good. £10
38. MITCHELL, W. O. Who Has Seen The Wind.
Canongate, Edinburgh: 1980. First UK publication.
This is possibly the best loved book of Canada’s
best-loved author. The story of a boy as he grows
to maturity during The Depression on the plains of
Saskatchewan. Very good in a very good jacket. £10
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39. NONWEILER, Barry. That Other Realm of Freedom.
Gay Mens’ Press, London: 1983. Paperback. A young
gay man from Glasgow comes to London to be
disillusioned. Good. £3
40. OXLEY, C. T. Ghosts and Hauntings. The Ghosts
of the North Country. A Ghost Tour of Northern
Counties. No publisher: n.d. [c.1970s]. 76pp stapled
into printed wraps. A survey of haunting throughout
the north of England. Good condition with a couple of
creases to the covers. £4
41. PHILIP, A. A. and H. R. Murray. Sex Knowledge
Series. Knowledge a Young Man Should Have.
“Health and Strength”, London: n.d. [c.1930s]. The
Health and Strength magazine was largely concerned
with bodybuilding and physical culture but it had a
somewhat disturbing undertone created by the views
of its editor, T. Bowen Partington which included
support for eugenic sterilisation of the “unfit”. He was
also quite the anti-masturbation campaigner. He makes
an appearance here contributing one of a number of
appendices on the vice and how to overcome it. Most
of the book is a discussion of venereal disease and
hernias. Very good in green cloth. £6
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42. RAVEN, Simon. Friends in Low Places. Blond &
Briggs, London: 1972. Reprint. The second novel in
the ‘Alms for Oblivion’ series. Very good in a very
good, lightly rubbed jacket. £6
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43. READE, Brian. Sexual Heretics. Male Homosexuality
in English Literature from 1850-1900. An Anthology.
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1970. One of the
standard anthologies and a great starting point for both the
experienced reader in the field and the newcomer. This is a
somewhat well-loved copy with a complete but very rubbed
jacket. £5
44. REED, Jeremy. Selected Poems. King Penguin, London:
1987. Paperback. Very good. £4
45. REED, Jeremy. Blue Rock. Jonathan Cape, London: 1987.
“Identity becomes something fluid as the psychiatrist Ernst
Moravia finds his personality usurped by one of his patients,
an adolescent boy who is obsessed with the natural world and
is himself in danger of losing his autonomy to an invasive
spirit from the animal kingdom”. Very good in a very good
jacket. £5
46. [SCOUTING] 15 Magic Lantern Slides. The black and
white positive photographs on the glass slides are evidently
part of a presentation about an expedition by a group of
Sea Scouts and show them and their leaders in boats,
swimming, climbing and so on, in and out of uniform. The
first of the sequence has a caption written onto the slide, to
be projected alongside a photo of the Sea Scouts by their
boat “Scoutietone News”. The black passepartout edging is
separating slightly on one slide but they are in otherwise very
good condition. Among scouting material, items relating to
the Sea Scouts are unusual. £60
47. SEWALL, Richard B. The Lyman Letters. New Light
on Emily Dickinson and Her Family. The University of
Massachusetts Press, Amhurst: 1965. Very good in a very
good jacket that is somewhat faded at the spine. £15
48. SIMS, George. The Immanent Goddess. The Fortune Press,
London: [1947]. Poetry. Lightly bumped at the edges of the
backstrip. £12
49. SIMS, George. Some Uncollected Authors XV: Vincent
O’Sullivan an offprint from The Book Collector. 8pp stapled
into thin buff card. £10
50. SIMS, George. The End of the Web. Walker and Company,
New York: 1985. Paperback. Signed to the poet Roy Fuller,
“Roy from George” on the title page. Very good. £12
51. SIMS, George. Sixteen Poems. Privately Printed (at the
Tragara Press), Edinburgh: 1995. Dark green covers, lightly
bumped at the corners. One of eighty-five numbered copies
out of a total of 150 copies. Very good. £15
52. [SIMS, George] In Memory of George Frederick Robert
Sims. An order of service for the funeral service of George
Sims at St Nicholas Church, Hurst. A single folded sheet of
printed card making 4pp. Laid in is a photocopy of Sims’s
obituary in The Independent stapled to a handwritten note
from Anthony Rota. £15
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53. [SIMS, George] Catalogues. A collection of 14 of G. F. Sims’s renowned catalogues. Nos. 69, 68, 76, 73, 74,
83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 105, 106, & 107 all in very good condition save for some rusting to the staples which is
common with these catalogues. Stuffed full of the obscure, the decadent and the rare. £30 the lot.
54. SMITH, Joan (ed). Femmes de Siècle. Chatto & Windus, London: 1992. Paperback. Stories by women taken
from 1890s sources such as The Yellow Book published alongside stories also by women but from the 1990s.
Very good. £5
55. SMITH, Timothy d’Arch. Love in Earnest. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1970. An ex-library copy with
all the usual treatments. Jacket a little rubbed. £40
56. SPENDER, Stephen. World Within World. The Autobiography of Stephen Spender. Hamish Hamilton, London:
1951. Very good in a very good jacket. £5
57. [SPENDER, STEPHEN] Stephen Spender. A Life in Modernism by David Leeming. Duckworth, London:
1999. A little shelf wear to the jacket, otherwise very good. £5
58. SPRAWSON, Charles. Haunts of the Black Masseur. The Swimmer as Hero. Vintage, London: 1992.
Paperback. A cultural history of swimming and diving including much mention of Corvo. Lightly marked.
Good. £3
59. St MARTIN, Georges and Ronald C. Nelson (eds). The Boy. A Photographic Essay. Book Adventures, New
York: 1964. Quarto. The first of two books on the same theme by these editors and with this publisher. Two
sections in colour. Photographers include Joas Le Doare, Robert Manson, Carl Mansfield, and many others,
including some little known names today. Very good in a fair jacket that has some chips, rubbing to the folds
and repaired tears. £100
60. St MARTIN, Georges and Ronald C. Nelson (eds). Boys Will Be Boys. Book Adventures, New York: 1966.
A larger and thicker photo book still that capitalized on the success of the earlier The Boy: A Photographic
Essay by the same editors. The photographs were culled from the work of the same group of photographers
including Hajo Ortil, Charles Egermeier, Jacques Simonot, Robert Manson and many others. Very good in a
good jacket that has some repaired tears and small chips. £210
61. St MARTIN, Georges and Ronald C. Nelson (eds). The Boy. A Photographic Essay. Book Adventures, New
York: 1967. Third impression. Another copy. This one is without a jacket, in good condition but with a
somewhat faded backstrip. £45
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62. TOM of Finland. The Comic Collection. Volume 1-5. Taschen, Koln: 2005. Five small format softcover books
in an illustrated slip case. Tom’s work is so often sold to us in prints and postcards it is easy to forget that
much of it derived from erotic comics that told stories. Here are those stories from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Lightly bumped at the corners of the slipcase and a few of the individual volume corners. Overall still very
good. £40
63. [VARIOUS] Walking After Midnight. Gay Men’s Life Stories. Routledge, London: 1989. The life stories of 14
gay men living between the 1920s and the 1980s. History for some and memories for others, these interviews
were gleaned from the Hall Carpenter Archives and the Gay Men’s Oral History Group. Very good. £4
64. [VENICE] Venice by Daniel Pidgeon. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London: 1895. Although now
available as a print on demand title, this original edition in green boards and with a heliograph frontispiece
of the Bridge of Sighs seems scarce. The tissue guard and title page are somewhat foxed but otherwise the
interior is clean and bright, green cloth a little rubbed and bumped. £23
65. [VENICE] The Venetian Republic by Horatio F. Brown. J. M. Dent & Co., London: 1902. Small format book
in the Temple Primer Series. Brown was an authority on Venice and lived there for most of his life, also a
minor Uranian poet. This copy has an inscription on the endpaper showing it was given at Venice in 1909.
Very good. £15
66. [VENICE] The Sea-Charm of Venice by Stopford A. Brooke. Duckworth & Co., London: 1907. The green
boards of this book are a little spotted by moisture: one likes to think from the lagoon. Good only. £12
67. WAGNER, Gillian and Valeria Lloyd. The Camera and Dr Barnardo. Barnardos, Hertford: 1974. This year
marked the centenary of Dr Barnardo setting up a ‘photographic department’ within his organisation and this
booklet containing two essays and a section of illustrations reproduced from the organisation’s archives, was
published to coincide with an exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery. 40pp stapled into card covers. Light
fading at the spine. Very good. £8
68. WALKER, Mitch. Men Loving Men. A Gay sex Guide and Consciousness Book. Gay Sunshine Press, San
Francisco: 1981.Fifth printing. Photographs by David Greene and drawings by Bill Warrick with many other
illustrations. Paperback. A brilliant book, still relevant and fascinating to read. Much more than a sex manual
and years ahead of its time. £10
69. WAUGH, Alec. My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles. Cassell, London: 1967. A march through all the
literary figures that came the way of Alec Waugh with anecdotal reporting of each including Sassoon,
Walpole, Graves, Grant Richards, Desmond Coke, Edmund Gosse, Vyvyan Holland and many others as well
as ‘my brother Evelyn’. Very good in a very good jacket. £5
70. WENDT, Lionel. Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon. Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd for the Trustees of the Lionel Wendt
Memorial Fund, London: 1950. See Front Free Endpaper on 17.10.14 for sample images. A good copy with a
gift inscription on the endpaper in a scruffy jacket with extensive brown tape repairs and reinforcement on the
verso. £150
71. WEST, Arthur Graeme. The Diary of a Dead Officer. The Office of the Herald, London: 1918. Posthumously
edited by C. E. M. Joad, a contemporary of West both at school and at Oxford, the book consists of an
introduction by Joad, extracts from this young officer’s diary and then his poetry, often thought to be the
first realistic poetry of WW1 including titles such as “God! How I Hate You You Young Cheerful Men.” and
“The Night Patrol.” Beginning with his enlistment in a fever of duty and patriotism, the diary charts how
the experience of war took away those beliefs and eventually even his belief in God. Although it has been
reprinted, including in a beautifully illustrated edition by The Old Stile Press just this year, the first edition
is very scarce. It was produced by the left-wing paper The Herald and printed by Francis Meynell’s Pelican
Press, whose press mark is at the back of the book and this was in 1918. By 1919 publication had been
taken over by George Allen & Unwin and most institutional copies bear their imprint on the title page. Some
authorities even give 1919 as the year of first printing. Meynell also published Siegfried Sassoon’s Protest.
The gilt stamped decoration on the brown paper boards of this copy is rather worn and the upper board bears
a large label from Garnam’s Circulating Library: there are no other signs of library usage. The interior is clean
if a little browned. Several gaps have opened between sections making it a little delicate in the hand. A scarce
and fascinating item with a real place in the history of the First World War. £200
72. WESTON, Edward. Photographer. Torso of Neil. 35mm slide . Produced by MOMA in New York. A
transparency of the famous photograph by Weston of a boy’s torso. The catalogue details of the original
photograph are printed on the surround of the slide. £12