Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

LARRY KRAMER (1935-2020)


Two inscribed first editions.
Faggots. New York: Random House, 1978. First edition, octavo, inscribed by Kramer: "For Kathy + Bill + Emily from its author" and dated April 1982 in black ink on the front flyleaf; bound in black publisher's cloth, blind stamped with the spine lettered in metallic red; with pictorial dust-jacket featuring Kramer's portrait on verso (some edgewear to jacket, verso toned); 9 1/4 x 6 in.

Reports from the holocaust: the making of an AIDS activist. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. First edition, octavo, inscribed by Kramer to his husband David Webster: "To Davie who takes such good care of me" in ink on front flyleaf; bound in black publisher's cloth, spine lettered in silver; with original dust-jacket, unclipped (minor bumps and creases to jacket); 9 1/4 x 6 in.