Howard Roffman

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

Howard Roffman is fully committed to the representation of young men and their lives in his work. Like no other he manages to capture images of his boys, their passions and their search for tenderness behind the pose. Sensitively and respectfully he documents the awakening sexuality of young men. The name of Bel Ami is a legend, needing no additional introduction.

The Boys of Bel Ami

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Edmund White

Rare signed first edition in excellent condition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The well published author and regular contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and Vanity Fair profiles some of the most interesting writers and artists of the modern era, including Marcel Proust, David Geffen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Michel Foucault, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg, among others.

Arts and Letters—Signed

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please note images- slight blue staining on first two pages at bottom! will include both dust jackets (designed and original)

Missouri

If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come DAZZLING BOOKISH SHOP

see images for book condition! will be wrapped well with lots of bubble wrap. unread by me, but i purchased it secondhand

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail AFTERLIGHT

Saara El-Arifi

Special Edition with digitally stencilled edges of Faebound. 

Florida

Waterstones Special Edition

Faebound

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Hello Lovely Box Special Edition. Signed by author. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Parker

Ashley Shuttleworth

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Illumicrate 

The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the hidden world of faeries to humans. Choose your player. The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family. A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge. A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret. For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world. Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way? Wish them luck. They’re going to need it.

A Dark and Hollow Star

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Donna Tartt

A transfer student from a small town in California, Richard Papen is determined to affect the ways of his Hampden College peers, and he begins his intense studies under the tutelage of eccentric Julian Morrow. BOMC & QPB Alt. Tour.

The Secret History—Signed 

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Signed first edition in excellent condition. 

In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright has convinced Frances to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life.

The biography soon degenerates into a settling of scores and digressions on the misadventures of Mrs. Trollope's own family. By turns noble and petty, comic and tragic, it introduces us to literary lions, battling political theorists, gamblers and escaped slaves, and even the aging General Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. With hallucinatory realism, Mrs. Trollope paints French châteaux, Belgian fogs, Mississippi mud, and the gaudy splendors and cruelties of Haiti. And throughout this sparkling narrative, we find love in all its forms -- in the family, between races and generations, and within the same sex.

Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.

Fanny: a Fiction

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Stefan May

Rare edition in very good condition. Collectible. 

Photographs

After the success of COUPLES, also available from teNeues Publishing, Stefan May again lives up to our expectations with MEN, his new collection of highly erotic photographs of the male form. Here are pictures full of energy, vitality, pleasure, sensuality and sex appeal. Never before has the male body been so exciting or been photographed so close up. The male seducer, romantic, or macho ? everyone, male or female, can find the right man here! With the expert eye for the contours and landscapes of human bodies that made COUPLES such a feast for the senses, Stefan May presents this opulent collection containing some of his best pictures of men. This is erotic photography at its best! Stefan May, commissioned by magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Max, and Amica, also works for major advertising clients. Last year, both COUPLES and NEW YORK (NEW YORK was released under his pseudonym Lance Lensfield) were published by teNeues.

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bought new but didn’t realize I already owned it so it’s in perfect condition 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Sometimes a song can save your life. Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music—and to each other—always brings them back together again. Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all—with school, with his basketball club, and even with his one true passion: playing guitar. That is, until the day he finds his favorite hidden napping spot occupied by a strange boy cradling a broken-stringed guitar. At first, Uenoyama is nonplussed by Mafuyu Sato and his slightly odd behavior, but when, on a whim, he asks Mafuyu to sing, the power of that song pierces him to the core.

Given, Vol. 1

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The Principle of Moments

Lex Croucher

Front cover has slight crease
Does NOT come with signed bookplate
Rainbow crate edition with exclusive and original dust jacket

New Mexico

A Novel

Heartstopper meets A Knight's Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history.

It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other.

They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy and Arthur has gone digging for Gwen's childhood diary and found confessions about her crush on the kingdom's only lady knight, Bridget Leclair.

Realizing they might make better allies than enemies, they make a reluctant pact to cover for each other, and as things heat up at the annual royal tournament, Gwen is swept off her feet by her knight and Arthur takes an interest in Gwen's royal brother. Lex Croucher's Gwen and Art Are Not in Love is chock full of sword-fighting, found family, and romantic shenanigans destined to make readers fall in love.

"Fun and genuinely funny, with lovely friendships and first-rate dialogue. Gwen and Art may not be in love, but I fell for both of them." - Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Simon Snow trilogy

"Gwen & Art Are Not in Love was exactly what I needed right now--a delightful, heart-warming, hilarious historical romp, overflowing with queer panic and terrible jokes. I loved it." - Alice Oseman, New York Times bestselling author of the Heartstopper series

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love (rainbow crate)

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Alan Hollinghurst

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.

In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance--to his family's modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne's autograph album will change their and their families' lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried--until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.

Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts--haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism--The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.

The Stranger's Child—Signed 

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Nina Varela

*SIGNED* Owlcrate exclusive edition of Crier’s War! Amazing condition, and comes with Author’s Note card included. Looking for a new loving home!

Oregon

*SIGNED* Crier's War

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Francesca Flores

Stunning special edition with outstand cover, endpages, sprayed edges, and a signed page overlay. 

This is a sapphic fantasy romance and a great story!

Francesca Flores's The Witch and the Vampire is a queer Rapunzel retelling where a witch and a vampire who trust no one but themselves must journey together through a cursed forest with danger at every turn.

Ava and Kaye used to be best friends. Until one night two years ago, vampires broke through the magical barrier protecting their town, and in the ensuing attack, Kaye's mother was killed, and Ava was turned into a vampire. Since then, Ava has been trapped in her house. Her mother Eugenia needs her: Ava still has her witch powers, and Eugenia must take them in order to hide that she's a vampire as well. Desperate to escape her confinement and stop her mother's plans to destroy the town, Ava must break out, flee to the forest, and seek help from the vampires who live there. When there is another attack, she sees her opportunity and escapes.

Kaye, now at the end of her training as a Flame witch, is ready to fulfill her duty of killing any vampires that threaten the town, including Ava. On the night that Ava escapes, Kaye follows her and convinces her to travel together into the forest, while secretly planning to turn her in. Ava agrees, hoping to rekindle their old friendship, and the romantic feelings she'd started to have for Kaye before that terrible night.

But with monstrous trees that devour humans whole, vampires who attack from above, and Ava's stepfather tracking her, the woods are full of danger. As they travel deeper into the forest, Kaye questions everything she thought she knew. The two are each other's greatest threat--and also their only hope, if they want to make it through the forest unscathed.

The Witch and the Vampire

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Afterlight/illumicrate queer romance with sprayed edges, exclusive cover, and book art. 

Kentucky

Second Chances in New Port Stephen

Sasha Laurens

Dazzling Bookish Shop edition of Youngblood by Sasha Laurens. It comes with an alternative dust jacket, sprayed edges, and a signed bookplate. 

Will be shipped with care. Inspect all pictures for any damages. Open to offers and bundling. Please message with any questions. 

High school sucks. Especially for the undead.

"This is the lesbian vampire boarding school story I've always needed, but it's smarter, nastier, and more fun than I ever could have dreamed." --Kylie Schachte, author of You're Next


Kat Finn and her mother can barely make ends meet living among humans. Like all vampires, they must drink Hema, an expensive synthetic blood substitute, to survive, as nearly all of humanity has been infected by a virus that's fatal to vampires. Kat isn't looking forward to an immortal life of barely scraping by, but when she learns she's been accepted to the Harcote School, a prestigious prep school that's secretly vampires-only, she knows her fortune is about to change.
 
Taylor Sanger has grown up in the wealthy vampire world, but she's tired of its backward, conservative values--especially when it comes to sexuality, since she's an out-and-proud lesbian. She only has to suffer through a two more years of Harcote before she's free. But when she discovers her new roommate is Kat Finn, she's horrified. Because she and Kat used to be best friends, a long time ago, and it didn't end well.
 
When Taylor stumbles upon the dead body of a vampire, and Kat makes a shocking discovery in the school's archives, the two realize that there are deep secrets at Harcote--secrets that link them to the most powerful figures in Vampirdom and to the synthetic blood they all rely on.

Youngblood (Dazzling Bookish Edition) 

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New Jersey

Afterlight Edition 

Second Chances in Newport Stephen

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Ari and dante duology with free mini versions of it 

Minnesota

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.

Aristotle and Dante Duology with FREE MINIS

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Bookish Box’s special edition, unopened still in plastic covering. 

Georgia

Salt Kiss 

Greg Gorman

Greg Knudson

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Just Between Us

Known for his well-crafted portraits and sensuous male and female nudes, Greg Gorman is one of the most sought-after, highly acclaimed photographers working today. Delving into his own personal obsession with the male nude, Gorman here focuses his lens exclusively on one model. In their solid year off shooting, an unusual collaborative relationship evolved that explores the deepest aspects of mutual trust and the precarious balance of the model/artist relationship. This is easily Gorman's most authentic, erotic and sexually charged series yet. With 240 tritone plates.

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Kiss Her Once for Me

A. M. Strickland

A pansexual bloodmage reluctantly teams up with an undead spirit to start a rebellion among the living and the dead, in this dark YA fantasy by A.M. Strickland, author of Beyond the Black Door, whom Richard Kadrey calls “a storyteller of both grace and power.” In Thanopolis, those gifted with magic are assigned undead spirits to guard them—and control them. Ever since Rovan’s father died trying to keep her from this fate, she’s hidden her magic. But when she accidentally reveals her powers, she’s bound to a spirit and thrust into a world of palace intrigue and deception. Desperate to escape, Rovan finds herself falling for two people she can’t fully trust: Lydea, a beguiling, rebellious princess; and Ivrilos, the handsome spirit with the ability to control Rovan, body and soul. Together, they uncover a secret that will destroy Thanopolis. To save them all, Rovan will have to start a rebellion in both the mortal world and the underworld, and find a way to trust the princess and spirit battling for her heart—if she doesn’t betray them first. An Imprint Book

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Saara El-Arifi

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Jack Harbon

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Ashley Shuttleworth

A Dark and Hollow Star

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The Secret History—Signed

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Fanny: a Fiction

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Given, Vol. 1

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The Principle of Moments

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The Stranger's Child—Signed

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Second Chances in New Port Stephen

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Second Chances in Newport Stephen

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