Tellier (André) Twilight Men

London, T. Werner Laurie, 1933.

First UK edition, ‘limited to one thousand copies privately printed for subscribers only…’ 8vo. Publisher’s prospectus loosely inserted. Publisher’s cloth.

A story of the intermediate sex…this is the story of a beautiful, sensitive youth, born into that twilight zone so little understood by a world sympathetic alone to virility in its men. (publisher’s prospectus)

An important Gay American novel, originally published in New York two years earlier: “Andre Tellier has written, with frankness and sensitiveness, the story of Armand Bironge, from his first youthful emotional awakening to his shocking, cataclysmic end…” (Publishers Weekly, 1948).