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Certificate of Merit 1965. Tattoo Club of America [award plaque] by Sparrow, Phil [Samuel Steward] - 1965

by Sparrow, Phil [Samuel Steward]

Certificate of Merit 1965. Tattoo Club of America [award plaque] by Sparrow, Phil [Samuel Steward] - 1965

Certificate of Merit 1965. Tattoo Club of America [award plaque]

by Sparrow, Phil [Samuel Steward]

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n.p.: the Club, 1965. 12.75x11 inch wooden base with metal plaque, some smudges to the metal portion. "This is to certify that Phil Sparrow of Chicago, Ill. has been elected by the Members of the Tattoo Club of America as one of the most Outstanding Tattoo Artists of the World, and is awarded this Certificate in testimony of his Excellent Work." Facsimile signatures of the president, v.p. and secretary of the Club.
Parisian Lives: a novel

Parisian Lives: a novel

by Steward, Samuel M. aka Phil Andros aka Phil Sparrow

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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780312596668 / 0312596669
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Hardcover. 215p., very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped slightly shelf worn dust jacket. In this novel originally written under the title "A Hunting We Will Go!" Sir Arthur Lyly serves as a fictional representation of Sir Francis Rose, who was, like Steward, a friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
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Drummer: America's Mag for the macho male; #34, 1980; Mr. Benson

Drummer: America's Mag for the macho male; #34, 1980; Mr. Benson

by Payne, Robert, editor, Jack Prescott [aka John Preston] Jim Kepner, David Sparrow [aka Samuel Steward] Roy Dean, Harry Bush, Bill Ward, Pat Rocco, Phil Andros, et al

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San Francisco: Alternate Pub, 1980. Magazine. 86p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illustrated with b&w explicit drawings and photos of Leathermen in action, lacks the foldout centerfold poster, else very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Sixth installment of the serial novel written by John Preston as Jack Prescott aka Mister Benson.
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Drummer: America's Mag for the macho male; #36, 1980; Mr. Benson and Party in Florida

Drummer: America's Mag for the macho male; #36, 1980; Mr. Benson and Party in Florida

by Payne, Robert, editor, Jack Prescott [aka John Preston] Jim Kepner, David Sparrow [aka Samuel Steward] Roy Dean, Harry Bush, Bill Ward, Pat Rocco, Phil Andros, et al

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  • first
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San Francisco: Alternate Pub, 1980. Magazine. 84p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illustrated with b&w explicit drawings and photos of Leathermen in action, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Eighth installment of the serial novel written by John Preston as Jack Prescott aka Mister Benson.
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TRIPTYCH OF ORIGINAL SCRATCHBOARDS FOR STEWARD'S UNPUBLISHED TRANSLATION OF JEAN GENET'S QUERELLE
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TRIPTYCH OF ORIGINAL SCRATCHBOARDS FOR STEWARD'S UNPUBLISHED TRANSLATION OF JEAN GENET'S QUERELLE

by STEWARD, SAMUEL (aka PHIL ANDROS, PHIL SPARROW, PHILIP VON CHICAGO, et al.) (GENET, JEAN

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No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards, two 12'x 15", the other 16" x 12", depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one, which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward (1909 - 1983), the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "(Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2010), took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, associations with George Platt Lynes, Glenway Wescott and other literati, and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries, journals, photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail (and which he shared with Kinsey). Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after… Read More
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