Paperback. 190p., lightly worn covers else good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. gay pulp fiction. Spade Classics Spade 104. Gene Bilbrew aka Eneg aka Bondy was an African American fetish artist from Los Angeles.
Published by Catalina Island Museum Society, Inc., 1976., Avalon, Catalina Island, 1976
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
[CALIFORNIA]. First edition. 8vo. Color, stiff, pictorial wrappers, ii, 13 pp., double column, illustrated from photographs, sources. The story of an extra friendly seal who liked people and was an interesting character from about 1898 into the 1920's. Many of the old-timers fondly remember Ben and help to commemorate a statute to Old Ben as a Bicentennial project of the Avalon Beautiful Association in September, 1975. Many entertaining tales about Ben and his activities with the old-timers are told. Fine copy.