Certificate of Merit 1965. Tattoo Club of America [award plaque] de Sparrow, Phil [Samuel Steward] - 1965

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Hardcover. 215p., very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped slightly shelf worn dust jacket. In this novel originally written under the title "A Hunting We Will Go!" Sir Arthur Lyly serves as a fictional representation of Sir Francis Rose, who was, like Steward, a friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1981. Paperback. ix, 147p., illustrated with b&w photos, index, small corner crease, otherwise very good first edition trade paperback in black and red decorated wraps. Although Steward had drafted copious autobiographical notes for years, this autobiography was adapted from a series of shorter articles that he had published in the pages of Gaysweek and The Advocate. It also includes a new section about his longtime relationship with Alfred Kinsey.

San Francisco: Alternate Pub, 1980. Magazine. 86p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illustrated with b&w explicit drawings and photos of Leathermen in action, lacks the foldout centerfold poster, else very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Sixth installment of the serial novel written by John Preston as Jack Prescott aka Mister Benson.

San Francisco: Alternate Pub, 1980. Magazine. 84p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illustrated with b&w explicit drawings and photos of Leathermen in action, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Eighth installment of the serial novel written by John Preston as Jack Prescott aka Mister Benson.

No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards, two 12'x 15", the other 16" x 12", depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one, which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward (1909 - 1983), the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "(Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2010), took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, associations with George Platt Lynes, Glenway Wescott and other literati, and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries, journals, photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail (and which he shared with Kinsey). Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after… Leer más