Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

61 c [ROBERT McALMON] ROBERT SCULLY (1895-1956) A Scarlet Pansy. Frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s plum cloth, leaning and slightly shaken, scattered small stains and scratches, corners worn with light exposure, printed paper spine label, toned and rubbed; pencil annotations to first few pages, occasional foxing chief ly to blank margins, ex-collection Gershom Leman (part of the clandestine erotica underground in NY in the 1930s) with his inked signature to front f lyleaf. New York: William Faro, Inc. [i.e. Samuel Roth], 1933. [800/1,200] scarce first edition of a vivid depiction of queer life in the early twentieth century , told through the coming-of-age story of Fay Etrange, the gender non-conforming protagonist. Though Fay is never referred to as male, it was obvious to readers, but not the authorities, who never filed obscenity charges. Pseudonymously written by Robert McAlmon, modernist poet and publisher and an active member of Greenwich Village’s early 20th century Bohemian milieu. Along with William Carlos Williams, he founded the famed Contact Review, one of the most important of the so-called “little magazines” instrumental in bringing Modernist poetics and prose to the public, and later founded Contact publishing, which published Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, H.D., and Mary Butts, among others. 61 62 62 c GEORGE PLATT LYNES (1907-1955) Serge Lifar. Silver print, the image measuring 9 1 / 2 x7 1 / 4 inches, 24x18 1 / 2 cm, with Lynes’ East 52 Street hand stamp and the title, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1933; printed 1960s. WITH— Male nude with tattoos. Attributed to George Platt Lynes. Silver print, the image measuring 8x5 inches, 20 1 / 2 x12 3 / 4 cm, 1934. [1,500/2,500]