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HOUSE OF LEATHER

HOUSE OF LEATHER by Conway, Jim [Fran Lebowitz]

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Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Title
HOUSE OF LEATHER
Author
Conway, Jim [Fran Lebowitz]
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good plus.
Description
New York: Cameo Editions, 1971. First edition. Very good plus.. First (and almost certainly only) printing of Fran Lebowitz's first published book, a sleaze novel to which she admitted authorship in 2010 - a sort of JANE EYRE through porn-tinted glasses. Fran Lebowitz, the "famous writer who famously doesn't write" (Freeman), avoided sleaze infamy by publishing under other names in her early career. "I published [HOUSE OF LEATHER] under the name of the headmaster who threw me out of prep school, Robert Paine Cook" (The Private Library), she recalled in a 2010 interview; that name was evidently changed to a house pseudonym by the publisher, an unfortunate obfuscation of an early example of Lebowitz's biting sardonicism. But the contents of THE HOUSE OF LEATHER - which she recounts she wrote for $500 based on "stapled pages [from the publisher] that told you how to write [...] and what had to be in each book" (The Private Library) - retain a certain (unnecessary) literary and cosmopolitan quality for which she later became known. A dark gay BDSM romp through a house in which residents corrupt and are corrupted, THE HOUSE OF LEATHER would not be out of place among gothics such as REBECCA or THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. The House is the first "character" we meet and the shadow that none of the other players can escape from. It's a very classical framing for a story packed with (albiet well-written) kinky smut, in which Lebowitz manages to convey a sex slave's longing for freedom and ultimate surrender while plumbing the depths of synonyms for various bodily fluids. Lebowitz has not been widely identified with HOUSE OF LEATHER outside of her remarks in 2010 - likely due to her muddling of the publisher's name (conflating Midway for Midwood), and the pre-publication alteration of her pseudonym. OCLC records just six scattered copies. A very nice copy of a notably scarce and little-known work. 7'' x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrapper. Midwood Books M-195-98. 184, [8] pages. Wrapper with mild edgewear, shallow crease to rear cover. Leaves uniformly a bit toned. A solid, clean copy.
OPEN LETTER OF NEWTON BOOTH TO JOHN B. FELTON

OPEN LETTER OF NEWTON BOOTH TO JOHN B. FELTON by Booth, Newton

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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
Title
OPEN LETTER OF NEWTON BOOTH TO JOHN B. FELTON
Author
Booth, Newton
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Sacramento: H.A. Weaver & Co., Steam Book and Job Printers, 1873. 7, [1 blank] pp. Last page prints the People's Union Independent Anti-Monopoly Ticket, for State Senate and Assemblymen. Very Good. Booth was elected Governor of California in 1871, campaigning as a Republican and with support from African Americans. In 1875, he resigned his office and, with the help of the Anti-Monopoly Party, was elected U.S. Senator from California. Booth had supported Lincoln in 1860. Felton, also a Republican and the Mayor of Oakland, had criticized Booth for an allegedly insufficient anti-monopoly stance. The offended Booth responded with this Open Letter, accusing Felton of joining "hired assassins of character," of suffering from "mental obliquity," and failing to be "generous, candid, fair or truthful." Not in Rocq, Cowan, Drury. OCLC 21739281 [3- Yale, UC Berkeley, Hayes Pres. Lib.], 228685535 [1- Huntington] as of January 2024.

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