Vermont: Park Street Press, 1989. The Perfumed Garden, originally written in the 15th century by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi, explores sensuality through a blend of practical advice and poetic expression. Sir Richard Francis Burton's unexpurgated translation is the most well-known and frequently studied English version of this Arabic erotic literature.Burton’s.....

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc., 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This biography is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of ballet, modern art, and LGBTQ+ history in America, offering a comprehensive portrait of Lincoln Kirstein as a cultural titan and a catalyst for.....

Chapel Hill, NC: Professional Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The author describes the joys and vicissitudes of traveling to unique places.

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994. Soft cover. The author shows the many ways in which women's scriptural performances are liberating. Shifting decisively from women's experience" to discursive practices, she offers three sample readings of emancipatory discourses" from diverse social locations that better display the variety of ways in which women are.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. LITERARY SIGNIFICANCE — THE SEA STORY STRIPPED BARE—A NOVEL THAT PROVOKED THE LAW Boy occupies an unusual position in twentieth-century British literature because its literary history became inseparable from censorship. A later inexpensive British edition.....

London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Christopher Isherwood remains a titan of 20th-century prose, best known for 'Goodbye to Berlin'. 'Lions and Shadows' serves as the intellectual blueprint for his later masterpieces, offering a clear-eyed account of the 'Auden Generation' and their.....

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Polly Aller, a single parent, and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experience and her own difficult questions.

New York: Routledge, 1995. A critical examination of the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of British imperialism. McClintock argues that these categories were not merely social constructs but were actively mobilized to sustain and legitimize colonial domination.The book introduces the concept of the "empire of domesticity,".....

New York: Ecco Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Charismatic, brilliant, and beautiful, the American writer Natalie Clifford Barney, who lived in Paris for most of her long life, is best known for three things: her Left Bank literary salon, often acknowledged as.....

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Williamson examines the cultural and historical contexts in which Sappho's poetry was produced and received, shedding light on the complexities of female authorship in ancient Greece, offering a compelling feminist analysis of Sappho's poetry, exploring how her works have been interpreted and reinterpreted through the.....