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Love Conquers Everything...
It's been remarked on this blog a number of times that whilst it is always possible to read over the past our own desires it is actually quite rare to find genuinely homo-erotic or homo-romantic items...
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Vintage Swimwear: Germany 1969
It's Germany, it's 1969 and two young men are enjoying the sun and the water. Delighted with these five photographs which arrived today. They mean that the collection of vintage swimwear photos here...
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Photographing Victorian Interiors
I find photographs of domestic interiors fascinating. If I didn't already collect a thousand things: photographs like these would be high on my list. I have a fantasy that one day I could produce a...
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Alan Seeger War Poet
Having recently come across the inscription in my friend's copy of Iolaus by Edward Carpenter which seems so unequivocally part of a homoerotic or at least homoerotic story, this evening, we are back...
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Meanwhile, in the real world...
I'm delighted to say that Callum James Books are now in a real world bookshop. Gay's the Word in Marchmont Street in London has been trading through thick and thin since 1979 and has been an absolutely...
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Striking Portrait Photo
This handsome and striking fellow arrived in the post today. The photographer's stamp tells me it was taken in Milan in Italy. The verso is printed as a postcard and someone has written "Albano Rossi,...
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Albert Wainwright at the Hepworth
The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Yorkshire, has a large collection of work by one of our favourite artists here at Front Free Endpaper: Albert Wainwright. The great news is that they are putting a...
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Raven by Robert Scoble
This is the beautifully produced Raven. The Turbulent World of Baron Corvo by Robert Scoble. My copy of which arrived a couple of days ago from Strange Attractor Press. At nearly 400 pages it...
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Vintage Photo: Curiosity
I have no idea what's going on in this photo. It's tiny, less than an inch square, sometimes referred to as a 'gem' photo, and laid onto a carte-de-visite format card. I assume the date is 1901 but I...
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Callum James Books: The Art and Photography of Ian David Baker
We are delighted to announce a new catalogue published on our website. Ian David Baker is an artist whose current work is as an abstract painter. However, his career began back in the 1970s working as...
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Postcards to the Curious: M R James Postcards
I'm a big fan of the M. R. James Podcast, 'A Podcast to the Curious'. A part of my exercise regime is a regular three mile walk along the long flat road that butts up against the beach at Southsea and...
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New from Callum James Books: Strange and Supernatural
A new catalogue... Strange and Supernatural... Actually this is the third list on this theme we have offered this year. This one is fully illustrated in pdf-glory and available here:...
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Vintage photo: Milos's Throne at Knossos
This photo is from a lot which appear to all be by the same young photographer (pictured) who was on a tour of Southern Europe, possibly under the auspices of a photography club. The photos all appear...
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Gratuitous Vintage Swimwear
It's been a little while since we've had a completely gratuitous vintage swimwear post. Usually the photos on this theme that I post here are ones that have just arrived in my collection. In this...
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Frederick Rolfe Centenary: Gay News Editorial
As we approach the centenary of the death of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo, the Dutch magazine Gay News and its editor Hans Hafkamp (a friend of Front Free Endpaper) is to be congratulated for devoting...
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Frederick Rolfe Centenary: Boo-Hooray in New York and Venice
The Boo-Hooray gallery in New York is staging two exhibitions to commemorate the Baron's death. First in Venice, Italy, at La Casa di Parfait d’Amour, an exhibition of Rolfe first editions and...
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Vintage Photo
I love this picture. It was bought from the Internet and was delayed in its delivery which has had me hopping because I've been wanting to share it here ever since I saw it. When R saw it before I...
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Penguin Poets: e e cummings
Only a week or so ago I was wingeing about how I hadn't bought one of these in a while and amazed that I found one in Salisbury. It seems that, like busses, two come along at once because I found this...
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Jean Picart le Doux's Playing Cards
About a year ago I posted some pictures of a brilliantly illustrated pack of cards that I had acquired by Jean Picart le Doux that had been commissioned by Thomas de la Rue and Co. Ltd. I didn't have...
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