Search Results: Authors starting with C from Dorian Gallery

The Love God by Martin Campbell (Paperback / softback, 2014)One of the greatest historical love stories the world has ever seen is not one that is taught in schools. Across much of the pre-Christian Roman Empire sexuality was expressed very differently, but even in Ancient Rome romance can be a dangerous thing when it is with the wrong person. Antinous is handsome, athletic and intelligent, but being the son of a Bithynian fruit trader, his ambition to get to Rome is very distant indeed that is, until the great Emperor Hadrian appears in his home city of Claudiopolis and their eyes meet across a crowded square. That one look sparks a world of historical romance intrigue for the young Antinous, and he is taken to Rome to be inducted into the Paedagogium, where the noble sons of the city are trained for their future lives. But he can never quite shake his dreams of intimacy with the greatest man in Rome. Hadrian is equally intrigued by the young Bithynian. When the time comes for a tour of his empire,… Read More

James Joyce Press, 2004 Extremely scarce paperback edition. Out of print.

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen Written and illustrated by Leonard Cohen
HarperCollins, Ecco, McClelland and Stewart 2006.
First Canadian edition, FIRST printing. 25th Anniversary Edition. ISBN: 9780061125584
New unread condition. Cohen's own wonderful illustrations and vignettes throughout. Signed, and stamped by the author.
About: Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen's artistry with language… Read More

The Favourite Game& Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
ISBN 10: 0771021917 ISBN 13: 9780771021916 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. 1st ed, 1st printing.
Signed Collector's Edition
New and unread, signed. There is a slight bump to the top of the spine area. Name written at top of front pastedown. Otherwise a clean tight copy.
Leonard Cohen's two classic novels now available together in this collector's edition. This beautifully designed collector's hardcover edition brings together Leonard Cohen's acclaimed novels in a single volume. Published originally in 1963 and 1966, these novels have had a recent resurgence of popularity and sales around the world.
In his unforgettable debut novel, The Favourite Game, Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Beautiful Losers is Cohen's classic novel of the sixties. Funny, harrowing, and deeply moving, it is his most defiant and uninhibited work.

DEATH OF A LADY'S MANby Leonard Cohen A signed copy of the 1st Canadian Edition.McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1978ISBN: 0771021771
Great copy signed by the author. A very good copy, clean and tight internally, and some chipping to the top of the jacket spine edges.
A collection of poetry and prose interspersed with lyrics, discursive passages, and diary extracts from the legendary Canadian songwriter-poet First published in 1978, the theme of this insightful and moving poetry collection is love with all its dilemmas. It is largely autobiographical in tone, offering the reader insights into Cohen's private world. From the 1950s and 1960s onward, Cohen's mournful, thought-provoking lyrics and poems have formed the backdrop to the musings of generations.

Ecco, 2007 Let Us Compare Mythologies. by Leonard Cohen. 50th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. Ecco Press/Harpercollins 2007. Later printing.Signed and stamped by the author. Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is w available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry Series in Canada, with its original cover and illustrations by Canadian artist Freda Guttman.

Ecco, 2007 Let Us Compare Mythologies. by Leonard Cohen. 50th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. Ecco Press/Harpercollins 2007. FIRST printing.Signed and stamped by the author. Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is w available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry Series in Canada, with its original cover and illustrations by Canadian artist Freda Guttman.

Paris Nights by D. M. Crawford Publisher: Independently published, 2019. ISBN: 9781095410189 / 1095410180Edition: SoftcoverLanguage: EnglishExtremely scarce title."It was Sydney, Oxford Street in the mid to late '80s. From all walks of life, the roads that lead to this playground was called Sydney's, "Gay Golden Mile". A beehive of weekend social activities gathered on the Golden Mile that glittered with a life of sex, drugs, and clubbing, (& Drag-Queens) catering for everyone's taste and fantasies. DJ's were the Gods of the dance floor, playing a soundtrack to accompany your life. A semi-biographical account of a young man's journey into self-discovery leads to a chance encounter forming a bond and an unlikely romance between two men as they shared a weekend life together. Both from vastly different backgrounds experiencing the highs and lows of gay life on Oxford Street in the mid to late '80s. Mark was from Wollongong and beginning to experience the Oxford Street nightlife when Matt Paris came… Read More