Roman Conquests [revised edition of "When In Rome, do -"]
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ISBN 10: 0912516763 ISBN 13: 9780912516769
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154p., very good second printing of the Perineum Press edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Phil Andros, Steward's hustler alter-ego, finds himself in Roma. Seller Inventory # 263090
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In the sensual ambiance of Golden Rome, Andros begins his adventures with a romantic encounter on Keats' deathbed, and two weeks later ends with a symbolic joining at the poet's grave. Almost every day he has a new erotic encounter with: a bersagliere at the RR terminus, a carabiniere in black boots, a sweating hirsute plasterer found on a scaffold, a marchetta adventurer, a street gamin with the form of an Adonis, a sexton with a feeling for ritual, a sailor who gives him a surprise at the Colosseum, and a metropolitano who takes him in tow,
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Title: Roman Conquests [revised edition of "When In...
Publisher: Perineum Press, San Francisco
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Paperback
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. ROMAN CONQUESTS, Phil Andros [Samuel M. Steward], softcover, 1983. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. Faint pencil marks at top of half-title page. No bookplate or signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The illustrated wraps are in very good condition. 8 ½ x 5 ½, 154 pages, 9 ounces XX [From Open Library website] Samuel Morris Steward, also known by the pen name Phil Andros, was a novelist and tattoo artist later based in Oakland, California. He was born in Woodsfield, Ohio and attended the Ohio State University. He began teaching English at OSU as a university fellow in 1932 during the final year of his PhD and was given his first post as a university professor in 1934 at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. In 1936 he was dismissed from a position at the State College of Washington due to the portrayal of prostitution in his novel Angels on the Bough. He moved to Chicago, teaching at Loyola until 1946 and then at DePaul University. In 1952 he began tattooing in Chicago under the name Phil Sparrow partly because he did not want to jeopardize his teaching job at DePaul. He stopped teaching two years later to write and tattoo full-time. He visited Paris in 1937 and met [Gertrude Stein] and Alice B. Toklas with whom he corresponded for 20 years after Stein's death. He also met with many other literary figures such as Lord Alfred Douglas (the lover of Oscar Wilde), Thomas Mann, and André Gide. Steward's 1981 memoir Chapters from an Autobiography detailed these relationships, as well as other experiences. He also edited the book Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (Houghton Mifflin, 1977), and wrote two "Gertrude Stein-Alice B. Toklas Mysteries" featuring the famous couple as detectives. Steward was also introduced to Thornton Wilder by Gertrude Stein, who at the time regularly corresponded with the both of them. Wilder famously drafted the third act of Our Town during a brief affair with Steward in Zurich on their first meeting. Steward met famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey around 1949 and became an unofficial collaborator, helping Kinsey find new contacts. In 1949, he participated in a BDSM scene for Kinsey to film, with a sadist that Kinsey flew in from New York. He said Kinsey was as approachable as a park bench and described him as a liberating influence. In the early 1950s he made pornographic drawings, many of them based on his own Polaroid photographs. Some of his art was published in the trilingual Swiss homosexual journal Der Kreis (The Circle). In the 1960s Steward began writing gay erotica under the name Phil Andros. His works dealt with rough trade and sadomasochistic sex. Since the legality of gay erotica was still questionable, its authors and publishers had little recourse against piracy; Steward's own San Francisco Hustler was published without permission by Cameo Library as Gay in San Francisco by "Biff Thomas". The name Phil Andros, which he used both as a pen name and the name of his protagonist, comes from the Greek words for love and man. Steward died at age 84 of chronic pulmonary disease in Berkeley, California. Seller Inventory # 002645
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Roman Conquests
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ISBN 10: 0912516763
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1983). 154pp. VG copy, small crease to bottom corner of cover. Seller Inventory # 020098
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roman conquests
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ISBN 10: 0912516763
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scandalously inscribed, 1983. samuel morris steward, better known by his pseudonyms phil andros and phil sparrow, was an american tattoo artist, pornographer, and prolific diarist. steward meticulously documented his sexual experiences, keeping extensive secret journals and statistical records of his encounters. his writings, published under the phil andros persona, became an important part of the gay literary scene. in the 1960s, steward began publishing his erotica in magazines under the name phil andros. early works explored themes of rough trade, sadomasochistic sex, and the racial and power dynamics in interracial male sexual encounters. he released his first story collection, $TUD, in 1966. by the late 60s, steward expanded into pulp pornographic novels, often using the character of phil androsa hustler navigating a world of erotic adventuresas his narrator. in "roman conquests," andros embarks on a passionate journey through golden rome. a romantic, symbolic encounter on the deathbed of the poet john keats leads to a culminating moment two weeks later at keats' grave. in between, andros experiences a series of erotic encounters across the city: a bersagliere at the train station, a carabiniere in black boots, a sweaty plasterer on a scaffold, a marchetta adventurer, a street gamin with the body of an adonis, a sexton with a sense for ritual, a sailor who surprises him at the colosseum, and a metropolitano who takes him in tow. san francisco: perineum press. isbn: isbn: 0-912516-76-3. 8.5x5.35". 154 pages. softcover. bound in paperwrappers. book condition: mild shelf wear, stain to foot of spine. near fine-. Seller Inventory # 1134