An estate collection of 23 gay and homoerotic photobooks including: "Tom of Finland Retrospective II" 1993, hardcover. second edition. Published by the Tom of Finland Foundation (includes envelope with mail order Tom of Finland catalog of merchandise); "A Demand Performance," 1993. Softcover. Photographs by Annie Lebovitz. Published by Design Industries Foundation for Aids, all proceeds of the book went to the foundation; "Three," 1997, softcover. Photographs of Howard Roffman. Contains lithograph prints of original photographs. Published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag. Included is a is a postcard for more books by Bruno Gmunder; "Books for Men"; "Bill Costa: Icons," 1997. Softcover. Lithograph prints of original photographs. Published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag; "Beefcake: The Muscle Magazines of America 1950–1970" 1995. By F. Valentine Hooven III. Published by Benedict Taschen. Softcover; "Art in Psychique Photography: Vol. 1" Hardcover. Produced by Lon of New York in London, Physique Photogtaphy Studios. Art by David Angelo. Published by Man's World Publishing Company, Ltd. Ex Libris of R.H. Wolf on the inner cover. "Red" By Richard Robe. Softcover. Erotic fiction. Includes several nude photographs (we could find no record of this publication); "Dreamboys" Special issue of "Blue" published by Studio Magazines; "Guy to Goddess: An Intimate Look at Drag Queens" by Bill Richardson with photographs by Rosamond Norbury, published by Whitecap Books; "Dios Latino" photographs by Lorenzo Gomez, published by Pohlman Press; "Robert Mapplethorpe" with writing by Richard Marshall, Richard Howard and Ingrid Sischy. Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Bulfinch Press and Little Brown (has spine damage); "American Photography of the Male Nude 1940-1970 Volume I: BRUCE of Los Angeles" Published by Janssen Verlag; "Blue: Issue 37" 2002; "Blue: Issue 22" 1999; "Blue: Issue 33" 2001.
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