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1965Best.-Nr. 21728Middletown CT: Wesleyan 1965. First Edition. 8vo pp. 83. paper wraps. VG. Poems. Wesleyan unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 112519Wesleyan: Wesleyan University Press 1965. 83p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Poetry. Young 751. Alabama-born scientist living as a poet on Saint Thomas. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 71193Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1965. First trade paperback printing. 83 pp w/index. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with sunning to red spine lettering. Review slip laid in. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press paperback books
1957Best.-Nr. 17783San German PR: Editorial La Nueva Salamanca 1957. First edn. 8vo pp. 86. Forewords by William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Rexroth. Paper wraps. VG in little chipped dj. Poems. Editorial La Nueva Salamanca unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 209604San Germán PR: Editorial la Nueva Salamanca 1957. Paperback. 86p 9x6 inch brown dust jacket and white wraps; chipping to jacket edges minor stain and textblock is detached from the head of spine down towards the middle otherwise good condition. First edition. Gift-inscribed by author on front endpaper undated. Poems on class homosexual love and more. Tram Combs was born in 1924 in Alabama then lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years graduating with a physics degree from the University of California. He was openly gay at least two decades before Stonewall and a contributing writer to homophile periodicals. By the early '50s he had settled in the Virgin Islands while operating his own bookshop specializing in Caribbean literature. Editorial la Nueva Salamanca paperback books
1965Best.-Nr. 65894Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1965. First edition. 83 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with toned spine. Young 751. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 9216San German Puerto Rico: Editorial La Nueva Salamanca 1957. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY TRAM COMBS on the half-title. A solid copy to boot of the 1957 1st edition. Clean and VG in its original cream wrapers. And in a bright VG dustjacket with very light creasing along the panel edges. Octavo 86 pgs. Forewords by both William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Rexroth. Signed by Author. Editorial La Nueva Salamanca unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 97702Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Combs was a peripatetic poet who was among the first generation of Woodstock New York artists and writers. He grew up in the deep South and eventually settled in the Virgin Islands where he opened a book store. Wesleyan University Press hardcover books
1959Best.-Nr. 196773Los Angeles: One Inc 1959. Magazine. 32p. including covers 5.5x8.5 inches very good digest-size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. One Inc. which took its name from Thomas Carlyle's statement that "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one" was founded in LA in 1952 as a homophile organization with connections to the Mattachine Society. As the first pro-gay journal of its kind it serves as an important source for pre-Stonewall homophile studies. In 1954 the US Post Office declared it obscene leading to a four-year legal battle chronicled in its pages that concluded with a favorable decision as part of Roth vs. United States. Aside from its articles covering topics ranging from the Beatniks and Gay marriage to homosexuality and national security One Magazine also featured poetry and short fiction by numerous prominent authors. One Inc unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 71192Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1965. First edition. 83 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with red spine lettering faded. INSCRIBED by Combs “for Muriel Mac / best of cousins / with love / tram / St. Thomas 19 III 65.” Young 751. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 9484Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1966. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY TRAM COMBS on the front free endpaper. A sharp copy to boot of the 1966 stated 2nd printing. Clean and Near Fine in a bright price-clipped VG dustjacket with a light trace of soiling along the panel edges. Octavo 83 pgs. Signed by Author. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 71194San Germán: Editorial La Nueva Salamanca 1957. First edition. 86 pp. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Forewords by William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Rexroth. INSCRIBED by Combs on the front free endpaper “for / dear Adele / tram / get well quick / 9/57.” San Germán: Editorial La Nueva Salamanca, unknown books
