Stud

Washington, D.C.: Guild Press, Ltd, 1966. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Phil Andros on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the recipient: "en souvenir d'une nuit chaude a Milwaukee." [viii], 295 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, light rubbing to extremities. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and rubbing. "Phil Andros" was the name Samuel Steward used when he began writing gay pornographic novels in the late 1960s. Stud was the first, published in 1966 after a Supreme Court ruling restricted (truncated) the power of obscenity laws. Steward, entering his third career after spending a few decades as an English professor and tattoo artist, had previously been limited to publishing in European gay magazines. (Inventory #: 140947616)