Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

59 c CHARLES [HENRI] FORD (1908-2002) & PARKER TYLER (1904-1974) The Young and Evil. 8vo, modern lime green and tan morroco bound by Stephanie Gibbs; original brown front wrapper (corner restored) and rear f lap printed in red bound in; ownership inscriptions on two early blanks, staining to bottom blank margins of prelims and first 25 pages; in card folding portfolio with morocco lettering label over hand-painted spine. Paris: Obelisk Press, (1933). [2,000/3,000] scarce first trade edition . Elusive novel of 1920s gay life in the drag balls of Harlem and the speakeasies of Greenwich Village. There were supposedly 2500 copies of the trade edition (see lot below), of which some 500 were destroyed by British customs, and US customs returned all copies that arrived in America. Also issued as a signed limited edition of 50 copies. 60 c CHARLES [HENRI] FORD (1908-2002) & PARKER TYLER (1904-1974) The Young and Evil. 8vo, original tan wrappers printed in red, moderately toned and brittle, slightly cocked, gentle splits along spine and joints. Paris: Obelisk Press, (1933). [1,500/2,500] first trade edition of a rare and fragile book . Djuna Barnes said of this novel, “never, to my knowledge, has a certain type of homosexual been so ‘fixed’ on paper.” Gertrude Stein commented that the work “creates this generation as This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald created his generation. It is a good thing, whatever the generation is, to be the first to create it in a novel.” 59 60