PRIMARY
| 1. | ** | “George Gordon, Lord Byron” (George Colman, Jr.?), Don Leon (P) in “Don Leon & Don Leon to Annabella”. London, 1866. Reprint by Fortune Press, London, 1934. |
| 2. | ** | Alan Dale (Alfred J. Cohen), A Marriage Below Zero. NY, Dillingham, 1889. (PC). |
| 3. | *** | Camille des Grieux (Oscar Wilde? Lord Alfred Douglas?), Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal; A Physiological Romance of Today. “Cosmopoli” (Paris?), 1893. Reprint: Paris, Olympia, 1958. |
| 4. | ** | Lord Alfred Douglas, Two Loves; Hymn to Physical Beauty; Prince Charming; De Profundis; Sicilian Love-Song; St. Martin’s Summer; In Basildon Wood (P) in “Poems”. Paris, Mercure de France, 1896. Reprinted in “Lyrics”. London, Rich and Cowan, 1935. (See OTP). |
| 5. | ** | John Francis Bloxham (Lord Alfred Douglas?), The Priest and the Acolyte. London, Lotus, 1907. (Reprinted in Cory, 1953 with attribution to Oscar Wilde). |
| 6. | * | John Moray Stuart-Young, Osrac, the Self-Sufficient, and other Poems in “An Urning’s Love; Being A Poetic Study of Morbidity”. London, Hermes, c. 1907 |
| 7. | *** | Xavier Mayne (Edward I. Prime-Stevenson), Imre; A Memorandum. Naples, English Book-Press, 1908. (PC) |
| 8. | *** | Georges Eekhoud, Escal-Vigor. Brussels, Gutenberg Press, 1909. (PC) Reprinted as A Strange Love. NY, Panurge, 1930. |
| 9. | *** | A. T. Fitzroy, Despised and Rejected. London, Daniel, c. 1917. |
| 10. | *** | Strato, Meleager et al., Musa Puerilis (The Boyish Muse—258 ephebophilio poems and epigrams) in Greek Anthology v. IV, Loeb Library #85. NY, Putnam’s, 1918, 1926 & 1939 and Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1948. |
| 11. | *** | Earl Lind/Ralph Werther, Autobiography of an Androgyne (autobio). NY, Medico-Legal Journal Press, 1919. |
| 12. | *** | Earl Lind/Ralph Werther, The Female Impersonators. (Autobio). NY, Medico-Legal Journal Press, 1922. |
| 13. | * | Count August von Platen, Sonnets to Cardenio; Sonnets to Karl T. German in “The Sonnets of ... von Platen”. Boston, Badger, 1923. |
| 14. | ** | Aelius Lampridius, Antoninus Elagabalus (Bio) in “Scriptores Historiae Augustae” v. II, Loeb Library #140. NY, Putnam’s, 1924. |
| 15. | ** | Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (SN). NY, Knopf, 1925 in “Stories of Three Decades”. Many reprints incl. Pocket Library #32. |
| 16. | ** | André Gide, The Counterfeiters. NY, Knopf, 1927 & 1951. Also in Modern Library (OP) #51. (OTP-a?) |
| 17. | *** | Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain. NY, Boni, 1927. Various reprints incl. Modern Library #220. (See also OTP 1932). |
| 18. | ** | Robert McAlmon, Distinguished Air (SS) in “Americana Esoterica”. NY, Macy-Masius, 1927. |
| 19. | * | Louis Richard Thoma, Elagabalus (D:1 Act) in “Americana Esoterica”. NY, Macy-Masius, 1927. |
| 20. | * | Stefan Zweig, Episode in the Early Life of Privy Counsellor D (SN) in “Conflicts: Three Tales”. NY, Viking, 1927 (See Cory, 1953). |
| Stories of Saikaku, Ibara (SS) | ||
| 21a | The Love For His Dead Friend’s Sake. | |
| b | * | Love Vowed to The Dead. |
| 22a | The Final Reward For His Long Cherished Love. | |
| b | *** | At Last Rewarded For His Constancy. |
| 23a | ** | A True Friendship After A Feud. |
| 24a | A Buddhist Priest’s Letter To His Friend in Kyoto About His Coming Love Affair. | |
| 24b | * | Letter From A Buddhist Priest Telling His Friend That His Lover Comes To Him. |
| 25a | ** | All The Friends Died By Hara-kiri. |
| b | All Comrade-Lovers Die By Harakiri. | |
| 26a | He Followed After His Lover, After He Has Killed Him In Tortures. | |
| b | ** | He Followed His Friend Into The Other World, After Torturing Him To Death. |
| 27a | He Died To Save His Lover. | |
| b | ** | He Died To Save His Lover. |
| 28a | A Young Lad’s Soul Follows His Lover In Travel. | |
| b | *** | The Soul Of A Young Man Smitten With Love Follows His Lover On A Journey. |
| 29a | A Sad Love Affair Between Two Enemies. | |
| b | ** | The Tragic Love Of Two Enemies. |
| 30b | * | They Loved Each Other Even To Extreme Old Age. |
| 31b | *** | A Samurai Becomes A Beggar Through His Love For A Page. |
| 32b | * | An Actor Loved His Patron, Even As A Flint Seller. |
| 33b | *** | He Rids Himself Of His Foes With The Help Of His Lover. |
| 34b | ** | Love Long Concealed.
(PC)
The nine “a” stories as “Quaint Stories of Samurais” selected, translated and privately published (500 copies) by Ken Sato, Paris, 1928. The thirteen “b” stories translated from Sato’s larger French edition into much better English as “Comrade Loves of the Samurai” in E. Powys Mathers’ anthology “Eastern Love” v. II (3 vol. edition) NY, Liveright, 1930 or v. VII (12 vol. edition), London, Rodker, 1930. Pb. “Eastern Love”, Crest D199 contains 26b, 28b & 30b (Condensation) |
| 35. | * | Jacques Leclercq, The Case of Aristide de Saint-Hemme (SS) in “Show Cases”. NY, Macy-Masius, 1928. |
| 36. | ** | Naomi Mitchison, Take Back Your Bay Wreath (SS). |
| 37. | ** | Naomi Mitchison, O Lucky Thessaly (SS) in “Black Sparta: Greek Stories”. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1928. (TBYBW reprinted in Cory, see 1953; see also OTP, 1928). |
| 38. | ** | André Birabeau, Revelation. NY, Viking, 1930. |
| Eekhoud, A Strange Love. 1930 (see 1909) | ||
| 39. | ** | André Gide, The Immoralist. NY, Knopf, 1930 & 1948. Vintage K8. |
| 40. | * | Abel Hermant, The Last and The First Love. NY, Macaulay, 1930. |
| 41. | ** | Tiffany Thayer, Peter Androphilos (quasi-SS) in “Thirteen Men”. NY, Kendall, 1930. Reprints by Grosset & Dunlap, Old Wine et al. |
| 42. | ** | Blair Niles, Strange Brother. NY, Liveright, 1931; Harris, 1949. Pb reprint: Avon #493. |
| 43. | *** | André Tellier, Twilight Men. NY, Greenberg, 1931 & 1948. Pb reprints: Lion #24; Pyramid #262. |
| 44. | ** | William Carlos Williams, A Sailor’s Son (SS) in “The Knife of the Times”. Ithaca, N.Y., Dragon Press, 1932. Reprinted in “Make Light Of It”. NY, Random, 1950. |
| 45. | * | Kay Boyle, Gentlemen I Address You Privately. NY, Smith & Haas, ’33. |
| 46. | *** | Richard Meeker, The Better Angel. NY, Greenberg, 1933. LPb reprint: as “Torment”. Universal #13, c. 195- |
| 47. | *** | Robert Scully, A Scarlet Pansy. NY, Faro, 1933; Nesor, 1937. Reprinted (and completely rewritten with improved vocabulary and style) by “Royal”, n.p., n.d (Baltimore, Ottenheimer), c. 1940s/50s |
| 48. | ** | Parker Tyler & Charles Henry Ford, The Young and Evil. Paris, Obelisk Press, 1933. PC. |
| 49. | * | Rex Stout, Forest Fire. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Reprint by Grosset & Dunlap. (OTP-c?) |
| 50. | * | Kathleen Coyle, Undue Fulfillment. NY, Morrow, 1934. |
| 51. | *** | James T. Farrell, Just Boys (SS) |
| 52. | * | James T. Farrell, A Casual Incident (SS) in “Calico Shoes”, NY, Vanguard, 1934. Reprinted in Farrell Short Story Omnibus editions by Sun Dial & by Halcyon. (A Casual Incident reprinted in Cory ’53) |
| 53. | *** | Lew Levenson, Butterfly Man. NY, Macaulay, 1934. |
| 54. | *** | Reginald Underwood, Bachelor’s Hall. London, Fortune, 1934 (& 195-?) |
| 55. | *** | Jerry Cole, Secrets of a Society Doctor. (NY, Greenberg, 1935?) LPb reprint Intimate Novels #5, c. 195-. (OTP-a?) |
| Lord Alfred Douglas, Lyrics. 1935. See 1896. | ||
| 56. | * | André Gide, If It Die (autobio). NY, Random, 1935. MLP #34, 1957. |
| 57. | * | Stephen Spender, The Burning Cactus (SS) in “The Burning Cactus”. NY, Random, 1936. (Reprint by Cory, 1953). (See also OTP, 1936). |
| 58. | *** | Reginald Underwood, Flame of Freedom. London, Fortune, 1936 (& ’5-?). |
| 59. | * | Ernest Hemingway, A Simple Enquiry (SS) |
| 60. | * | Ernest Hemingway, Mother of a Queen (SS) in “The Fifth Column & the First Forty-Nine Stories”. NY, Scribner’s, 1938. Reprinted in Modern Library Giant (OP) G59, 1942. |
| 61. | *** | James Stern, Travellers’ Tears (SS) in “Something Wrong”. London, Secker & Warburg, 1938. Reprinted in “The Man Who Was Loved”. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1951. |
| 62. | ** | Leslie and Sewell Stokes, Oscar Wilde (D). NY, Random, 1938. |
| 63. | * | Noël Coward, Nature Study (SS) in “To Step Aside”. NY, Doubleday, 1939. Reprint by Sun Dial. Pb reprint: Dell D80. (See OTP, 1939) |
| 64. | ** | Georges Portal, The Tunic of Nessus. Paris, Astra, 1939. PC. |
| 65. | * | Federico Garcia-Lorca, Ode to Walt Whitman (P) in “The Poet in New York”. NY, Norton, 1940. New translation: NY, Grove, 1955. |
| 66. | *** | Harlan McIntosh, This Finer Shadow. NY, Dial, 1941; “Lorac” ’40s/50s |
| 67. | ** | Charles Jackson, The Fall of Valor. NY, Rinehart, 1946. Signet #715 |
| 68. | * | Janet Schane, The Dazzling Crystal. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. |
| 69. | *** | John Horne Burns, Momma (SS) in “The Gallery”. NY, Harper, 1947. Pb reprint: Bantam A807. (Reprinted by Cory, 1953). |
| 70. | ** | Stuart Engstrand, The Sling and the Arrow. NY, Creative Age, 1947. Reprint by Sun Dial. Pb reprint: Signet #786 (revised & abridged). |
| 71. | ** | Henry Thomas Hopkinson, Mist in the Tagus. Boston, Little, 1947. |
| 72. | ** | Mark Schorer, Long in Populous City Pent (SS) in “The State of Mind”. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1947. (Reprint by Cory, 1953) |
| 73. | ** | Hubert Creekmore, The Welcome. NY, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948. |
| 74. | *** | Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar. NY, Dutton, 1948. Reprint by Grosset & Dunlap. Pb: Signet #713 & 1218 (2 varying revisions). |
| 75. | ** | Tennessee Williams, One Arm (SS) |
| 76. | ** | Tennessee Williams, The Angel in the Alcove (SS) |
| 77. | ** | Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana (SS) in “One Arm”. Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, 1948 (1500 copies) & 1955. |
| 78. | ** | Isabel Bolton, The Christmas Tree. NY, Scribner’s, 1949. |
| 79. | *** | Michael De Forrest, The Gay Year. NY, Woodford Press, 1949. |
| 80. | *** | Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers. Paris, Morihien, 1949 and (PC) Olympia, 1955. Bowdlerized reprint as “Gutter in the Sky”, Philadelphia, Levy, 1955. |
| 81. | ** | Stanley Kauffmann, Fulvous Yellow (SS) in “Story: The Fiction of The Forties” ed. by Whit & Hallie Burnett. NY, Dutton, 1949. (Reprinted by Cory, 1953.) |
| 82. | *** | Nial Kent, The Divided Path. NY, Greenberg, 1949. Pyramid #AT32. (Revised) |
| 83. | ** | Ward Thomas, Stranger in the Land. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1949. |
| 84. | *** | James Barr, Quatrefoil. NY, Greenberg, 1950. Reprint by Vision Press, London, 1953 & 1957. |
| 85. | ** | Paul Bowles, Pages from Cold Point (SS) in “The Delicate Prey”. NY, Random, 1950. Signet #919 & 1296. (Reprint by Cory, 1953). (See also OTP, 1950). |
| 86. | ** | Harrison Dowd, Night Air. NY, Dial, 1950. Avon AT52. |
| 87. | ** | Richard Himmel, Soul of Passion. NY, Star #?, 1950 (LPb). As Strange Desires: NY, Croydon #4 (’52) & 22 (’54). |
| 88. | ** | Charles Jackson, Palm Sunday (SS) in “The Sunnier Side”. NY, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1950. Dell #504. (Reprint by Cory, 1953) |
| 89. | *** | Roger Peyrefitte, Special Friendships. NY, Vanguard, 1950. |
| 90. | ** | Thomas Hal Phillips, The Bitterweed Path. NY, Rinehart, 1950. Pb reprints: Avon T83 & 273. (OTP-c?) |
| 91. | *** | Loren Wahl, The Invisible Glass. NY, Greenberg, 1950. Pb reprints: As “If This Be Sin” Avon #380 (revised & abridged); As “Take Me As I Am” Berkley #G57 (very minor revisions) |
| William Carlos Williams, A Sailor’s Son (SS), 1950. See 1932. | ||
| 92. | *** | James Barr, The Bottom of the Cloud (SS) |
| 93. | ** | James Barr, The Good Kid. (SS) |
| 94. | *** | James Barr, First You Take A Live Goat (SS) |
| 95. | ** | James Barr, Hanging Fire (SS) |
| 96. | ** | James Barr, Success Story (SS) |
| 97. | ** | James Barr, Spur Piece (SS) |
| 98. | ** | James Barr, Tryout (SS) in “Derricks”. NY, Greenberg, 1951. Reprinted: NY, Pan, 1957. |
| 99. | ** | Paul Goodman, Parents’ Day. Saugatuck, Conn., 5 x 8 Press, 1951. |
| 100. | *** | Ralph Leveridge, Walk on the Water. NY, Farrar Straus, 1951. Pb reprints: Signet #940. As “The Last Combat,” Pyramid #G349. |
| 101. | ** | Fritz Peters, Finistère. NY, Farrar Straus, 1951. Signet #930. |
| James Stern, Travellers’ Tears (SS), 1951. See 1938. | ||
| 102. | ** | Grace Z. Stone (Ethel Vance), The Grotto. NY, Harper, 1951. |
| 103. | ** | Walter Baxter, Look Down in Mercy. NY, Putnam’s, 1952. Pb Reprint: Popular G121. (In contrast to “happy” ending of American edition, earlier British edition has “tragic” ending; Br. Pb Reprint in Viking WS502). |
| 104. | *** | Constantine P. Cavafy, At The Cafe Entrance; Representation; One Night In The Street; Grey; The Tobacco Shop Window; To Pleasure; The Next Table; To Remain; Their Beginning; He Came To Read; Silversmith; In The Dreary Village; The 25th Year of His Life and other Poems in “The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy”. NY, Grove, 1952. |
| 105. | * | Robert Liddell, The Unreal City. London, Cape, 1952. (OTP-a?) |
| 106. | *** | Jay Little, Maybe Tomorrow. NY, Pageant, 1952. |
| 107. | ** | Arch Alfred McKillen, Foxhole; Fragment; When He and I Met and other poems in “Death of the Scharnhorst and other poems”. NY, Vantage, 1952. |
| 108. | ** | Douglas Sanderson, Dark Passions Subdue. NY, Dodd Mead, 1952. Pb reprint: Avon AT67. |
| 109. | * | Dyson Taylor, Bitter Love. NY, Pyramid G60, 1952; G278, 1957. |
| 110. | * | Denton Welch Journals, ed. by Jocelyn Brooke (Autobio). London, Hamish Hamilton, 1952. |
| 111. | ** | Angus Wilson, Hemlock and After. NY, Viking, 1952. (OTP-a?) Br. Pb Reprint: Penguin #1086. |
| 112. | *** | Donald Webster Cory (ed.), 21 Variations on a Theme including |
| *** | Wilson Lehr, No Competition (SS). NY, Greenberg, 1953. (The other 20 stories cited separately or not relevant). | |
| 113. | *** | John Cromwell, A Grain of Sand. London, Owen, 1953. |
| 114. | * | Mary Heathcott, Neil’s Girl (SS) in “Story No. 4” ed. by Whit & Hallie Burnett. NY, Wyn, 1953. (OTP-c/e?) |
| 115. | ** | Mary McLaren, The Twisted Heart. NY, Exposition Press, 1953. |
| 116. | ** | Wilma M. Prezzi, Dark Desires. NY, Padell, 1953. |
| 117. | *** | Mary Renault, The Charioteer. London, Longmans Green, 1953. |
| 118. | * | Andrew Rosenthal, Third Person (D) in “Plays of the Year v. 7”. London, Elek, 1953. (OTP-a?) |
| 119. | * | Theodore Sturgeon, World Well Lost (SS) in “E Pluribus Unicorn”. NY, Abelard-Schumann, 1953. Pb reprint: Ballantine #179. |
| 120. | * | Robert Anderson, Tea and Sympathy (D). NY, Random, 1954. Pb reprint: Signet #1343. (OTP-c/f?) |
| 121. | ** | Edith de Born, The Imperfect Marriage. London, Chapman & Hall, ’54. |
| 122. | * | Dean Douglas, Man Divided. NY, Fawcett Gold Medal #407, 1954. (? OTP-c/f) |
| 123. | ** | Jean Evans, Martin Beardson (quasi-SN) in “Three Men”. NY, Knopf, 1954. |
| 124. | *** | Rodney Garland (Adam de Hegedus), The Heart in Exile. NY, Coward-McCann, 1954. Pb reprint: Lion #76. |
| 125. | ** | Jean Genet, Thief’s Journal. Paris, Olympia, 1954. |
| 126. | ** | Ruth and Augustus Goetz, The Immoralist (D). NY, Dramatists’ Play Service, 1954. (See also original Gide, 1930). |
| 127. | * | Harold Levitt, One Foot To The Sea (D). NY, Burdge, 1954. (OTP-c?) |
| 128. | ** | Robert Lowry, The Victim (SS) in “Happy New Year, Kamerades”. Garden City, Doubleday, 1954. Pb reprint: As “This Is My Night” (book title), Popular #676. |
| 129. | *** | Gordon Merrick, Demon of Noon. NY, Messner, 1954. Pb reprint: As “Lovers in Torment”, Popular #703. (OTP-a?) |
| 130. | ** | Vin Packer, Whisper His Sin. NY, Fawcett Gold Medal #426, 1954. |
| 131. | *** | Tennessee Williams, Two On A Party (SS) |
| 132. | ** | Tennessee Williams, Hard Candy (SS) |
| 133. | ** | Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio (SS) in “Hard Candy”. Norfolk Conn., New Directions, 1954. (See OTP, 1954). |
| 134. | ** | Margaret Yourcenar, Hadrian’s Memoirs. NY, Farrar Straus, 1954. (OTP-a?) Reprint (PC): Anchor #108. |
| 135. | *** | James Barr, Game of Fools (D). Los Angeles, One Inc., 1955. |
| 136. | *** | Lonnie Coleman, The Theban Warriors (SS) in “Ship’s Company”. Boston, Little, Brown, 1955. Dell D185. |
| 137. | * | Rupert Croft-Cooke, The Verdict of You All (Autobio). London, Secker & Warburg, 1955. |
| 138. | ** | John Furnell, The Stringed Lute, An Evocation in Dialogue of Oscar Wilde (D), London, Rider, 1955. |
| 139. | *** | Audrey Erskine Lindop, The Outer Ring. NY, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955. (Original British title: Details of Jeremy Stretton.) Pb reprint: As “The Tormented”, Popular G160. |
| 140. | *** | Peter Wildeblood, Against the Law (Autobio). London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. Br. Pb Reprint: British Penguin #1188. |
| 141. | *** | James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room. NY, Dial, 1956. Signet #1559. |
| 142. | * | Frank Cauldwell, The Firewalkers. London, Murray, 1956. (OTP-a?) |
| 143. | *** | Israel Gerber, Man on a Pendulum (Autobio). NY, American, 1956. |
| 144. | *** | Jay Little, Somewhere Between The Two. NY, Pageant Press, 1956. |
| 145. | * | Joseph de Pelissero, Road of No Regrets. NY, Greenwich, 1956. |
| 146. | ** | Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine. NY, Pantheon, 1956. (OTP-a?) |
| 147. | ** | Gerald Tesch, Never the Same Again. NY, Putnam’s, 1956. Pb reprint: Pyramid G342 (Revised). |
| 148. | *** | Gore Vidal, Three Stratagems (SS) |
| 149. | *** | Gore Vidal, The Zenner Trophy (SS) |
| 150. | *** | Gore Vidal, Pages from an Abandoned Journal (SS) in “A Thirsty Evil”. NY, Zero Press, 1956. Pb reprint: Signet S1535. |
| 151. | *** | Peter Wildeblood, A Way of Life (Autobiography). London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ’56. |
| 152. | ** | Margaret Campbell Barnes, Isabel the Fair. Philadelphia, Smith, 1957. (OTP-a?) |
| 153. | *** | Helen P. Branson, Gay Bar (Memoirs). San Francisco, Pan Graphic, 1957. |
| 154. | *** | Martyn Goff, The Plaster Fabric. London, Putnam’s, 1957. |
| 155. | * | Julien Green, The Transgressor. NY, Pantheon, 1957. |
| 156. | ** | Saikaku Ibara, Gengobei the Mountain of Love (SS) in “Five Women Who Loved Love”. Tokyo, Tuttle, 1957. (see also 1928). |
| 157. | ** | Sir Compton Mackenzie, Thin Ice. NY, Putnam’s, 1957. |
| 158. | *** | Milton Rebow, Oh Dear. NY, Key, 1957. |
| 159. | * | David Stacton, Remember Me. London, Faber & Faber, 1957 (OTP-c?). |
| 160. | *** | Anonymous (Michael Nelson), A Room in Chelsea Square. London, Cape, 1958. |
| 161. | *** | Jean Cocteau, The White Paper. Paris, Olympia. NY, Macaulay, ’58. |
| 162. | ** | Lennox Cook, No Language But A Cry. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958. |
| 163. | ** | Roger Gellert, Quaint Honor (D). London, Secker & Warburg, 1958. |
| 164. | ** | Eve Linkletter, The Gay Ones. PbO: Fresno Calif., Fabian Z124, 1958. |
| 165. | ** | Kenneth Martin, Aubade. NY, Citadel, 1958. |
| 166. | *** | Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask. NY, New Directions, 1958. |
| 167. | ** | Iris Murdoch, The Bell. NY, Viking, 1958. (OTP-a?) |
| 168. | * | Dennis Murphy, The Sergeant. NY, Viking, 1958. (OTP-c/f?) |
| 169. | ** | James Ramsey Ullman, The Day On Fire. Cleveland, World, 1958. (OTP-a?) |
| Oscar Wilde?, Teleny. 1958. See 1893. |