a non-homosexual nature, are not prime considerations in determining the asterisk rating, which refers only to homosexual content.

Reprints are cited wherever known, especially inexpensive paperbacks. In this connection, the following abbreviations are used: Pb: Paperback of the conventional size (approximately 4.5 x 7").

Most names are written out (Avon, Signet, Bantam, Popular etc.). However, where space is limited: Perm is "Permabook"; PB Pocket Book; PL Pocket Library Lpb/LPb refers to odd-size cheap paperbacks, popular in the early 1950s, roughly 5.5 x 7.5", with flexible cover e.g. Universal, Croydon) Pb0 or LPbO indicates work originally published in this format, with no prior "regular" edition. This is further indicated by publication date following serial number (not usually given for paperback reprints). AFE/ASE refers to a third type cheap paperback, used by Armed Forces. PC (Paper Covers) indicates quality paperback" or paperback original by regular-book publisher in U.S. or Europe.

In this group, MLP stands for Modern Library Paper. Where the work has been revised or abridged in paperback reprint, this is indicated, the word "drastically" referring, when used, to expurgation or revision of the homosexual content

This bibliography does not include any unchecked "hearsay" works. Insofar as it may fall short of completeness (through the end of 1958) it is only by mischance, and it is to be hoped that any works missed are in the less significant categories. The Second Edition is tentatively scheduled for March, 1961 and in the meantime, the publisher will be pleased to receive any suggestions for changes or additions for the next edition. It will be noted that with respect to new titles in 1959 and 1960, a half-page remains blank in the Primary section (at the end) and there is a whole page for 1959 and for 1960 which can be filled in by pencil or pen as new titles come to the reader's attention.

While the intention has been to be as objective as possible, there is inevitably an element of personal opinion, both as regards the asteriskrating and the distinction between Primary and OTP. As there are, frankly, a few dozen works which could be considered as falling into either the Primary or the OTP section on the basis of the definition used, these will be found to have at the end of the citation the notation "OTP-x?" when placed in the Primary section, and the notation "Primary?" when placed in the OTP section.

The chronological arrangement has been chosen in preference to one alphabetical for two reasons: 1) To provide a convenient picture of the increase of the number of works in historical perspective (which is, after all, a chronological one); 2) To make it simple to keep the bibliography up to date (an alphabetical listing would require revision as each new work is published). Readers wishing to find all the works of a wellknown author included herein, will in most cases find the author listed in the Authors' Index (p. 32); however, even when an author's name is not found in this index, the reader will in most cases know at least the decade of publication, and from that point it will only require glancing at the appropriate alphabetical position on a few successive pages to locate the name and work.

In addition to the Authors' Index, there are four other indexes at the end of this bibliography, ranging over national locales, special locales, professions and special occupations, and special topics, roles etc. The reader will find these indexes very useful, whatever his special interests may be. The abbreviations applicable to the Indexes are explained in a note at the beginning of the index section (p. 29).

The sources for this bibliography are of course many, but acknowledgments are due especially to the following: To Donald Webster Cory for his pioneer bibliography in Homosexual in America, continued for several years in his book service; to the Village Theater Center, which has been especially helpful for contemporary British works; to the Mattachine Society of New York which, in preparing the Mattachine bibliography (on a somewhat different basis), has acted as a clearing house for many contributors, especially P.M. Noel I. Garde, Editor

PRIMARY

1. "George Gordon, Lord Byron" (George Colman, Jr.?), Don Leon (P) in "Don Leon & Don Leon to Annabella". London, 1866. Reprint by Fortune Press, London, 1934.

2. ** Alan Dale (Alfred J. Cohen), A Marriage Below Zero. NY, Dillingham, 1889. (PC).

3.*** Camille des Grieux (Oscar Wilde? Lord Alfred Douglas?), Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal; A Physiological Romance of Today. "Cosmopoli" (Paris?), 1893. Reprint: Paris, Olympia, 1958.

4. ** Lord Alfred Douglas, Two Loves; Hymn to Physical Beauty; Prince Charming; De Profundis; Sicilian Love-Song; St. Martin's Summer In Basildon Wood (P) in "Poems" Paris, Mercure de France, 1896. Reprinted in "Lyrics". London, Rich and Cowan, 1935. (See OTP).

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5. John Francis Bloxham (Lord Alfred Douglas?), The Priest and the Acolyte (London, Lotus, 1907. (Reprinted in Cory, 1953 with attribution to Oscar Wilde).

John Moray Stuart-Young, Osrac the Self-Sufficient and other Poems in "An Urning's Love; Being A Poetic Study of Morbidity". London, Hermes, c. 1907.

7.*** Xavier Mayne (Edward I. Prime-Stevenson), Imre: A Memorandum Naples, English Book-Fress, 1908. (PC)

(PC) 8.*** Georges Eekhoud, Escal-Vigor. Brussels, Gutenberg Press, 1909. Reprinted as A Strange Love. NY, Panurge, 1930.

9.*** A.T. Fitzroy, Despised and Rejected. London, Daniel, c. 1917. 10.*** Strato, Meleager et al., Musa Puerilis (The Boyish Muse-258 ephebophilic poems and epigrams) in Greek Anthology v. IV, Loeb Library #85. NY, Putnam's, 1918, 1926 & 1939 and Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1948.

11.*** Earl Lind/Ralph Werther, Autobiography of an Androgyne (Autobio). NY, Medico-Legal Journal Press, 1919.

12.*** Earl Lind/Ralph Werther, The Female Impersonators. NY, Medico-Legal Journal Press, 1922.

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Count August von Platen, Sonnets to Cardenio; Sonnets to Karl T. German in "The Sonnets of ...von Platen" Boston, Badger,1923.

14. ** Aelius Lampridius, Antoninus Elagabalus (Bio) in "Scriptores Historiae Augustae v.II, Loeb Library #140. NY, Putnam's, 1924.

15. ** Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (SN). NY, Knopf, 1925 in "Stories of Three Decades". Many reprints incl. Pocket Library #32.

16. * André Gide, The Counterfeiters. IV, Knopf, 1927 & 1951. Also in Modern Library (OP) #51. (OTP-a?)

17.*** Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain. IY, Boni, 1927. Various reprints incl. Modern Library #220. (See also OTP 1932).

18. ** Robert McAlmon, Distinguished Air (SS) in "Americana Esoterica". HY, Macy-Masius, 1927.

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Louis Richard Thoma, Elagabalus (D:1 Act) in "Americana Esoterica". NY, Macy-Masius, 1927.

Stefan Zweig, Episode in the Early Life of Privy Counsellor D (SN) in Conflicts: Thre ce Tales". NY,Viking, 1927 (See Cory,1953).

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