Variations Theme by Cory Donald (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 436 pages; No markings; Pages tight; minor page wear; slight foxing on page edges; Dark blue hard covers with gild lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear;; Dust jacket has black and yellow background; red, black and white lettering; Front dj lists authors of stories; dj has some tears; scuffing; smudges and rubbing. A collection of stories that examines the personal, social, and psychological problems brought into play by the least-understood of all human emotions. A significant collection by some of the world's greatest writers. Authors include: Sherwood Anderson; Paul Bowles;John Horne Burns; Guy De Maupassant; James Farrell; Charles Jackson; Christopher Isherwood; Henry James; D H Lawrence; Stephen Sender; Paul Verlaine; Stefan Zweig; Denton Welch; Paul Verlaine; Mrk Schorer; Wilson Lehr; etc. RARE VINTAGE COPY.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

First edition. 436 pp. Very small mark to front cover, else fine in bright dust jacket which has a few short tears and light overall edgewear. Bookseller Burton Weiss wrote: First edition of what is probably the first anthology of gay short stories to be published in the United States. The twenty-one contributors include Sherwood Anderson, Paul Bowles, John Horne Burns, Henry James, Christopher Isherwood, D.H. Lawrence, Charles Jackson, Denton Welch, William Carlos Williams. Two stories, by Guy de Maupassant and Paul Verlaine, were newly translated by the editor himself, with Verlaine's "Charles Husson" not having previously been published in English. "Donald Webster Cory" is the pseudonym of the sociologist Edward Sagarin (1913-86), derived, by reversal, from "Corydon," a shepherd boy in much ancient Greek homoerotic poetry and the eponymous protagonist of André Gide's influential book of dialogues. Sagarin, as "Cory," was a gay activist in the early 1950's. His best-known work, THE HOMOSEXUAL IN AMERICA: A SUBJECTIVE APPROACH (1951), was the first widely-read book in the U.S. to demonstrate the legal, social and economic discrimination leveled against an "amazingly large" segment of the American population and to put forward a strong defense of homosexual rights. It viewed gay people as "the unrecognized minority." Although it was published pseudonymously, Sagarin wrote the book "as a homosexual," as he did THE HOMOSEXUAL AND HIS SOCIETY: A VIEW FROM WITHIN (with John P. LeRoy, 1963). Some years later, Sagarin rejected much of this early work, decided that homosexuality was a disease like alcoholism, and published anti-gay articles in sociology journals under his real name. Nevertheless, THE HOMOSEXUAL IN AMERICA remains an immensely important book in the history of the gay rights movement, and 21 VARIATIONS ON A THEME remains a pioneering anthology. SIGNED by Sagarin as Donald Webster Cory on the front free endpaper. Young 811*.…