WHITMORE, George

NY: Free Milk Fund Press, 1974. [8] leaves in self-wraps, stapled at top edge (covers oriented as octavo, but with texts printed vertically along entire leaves). Some light dampstains to covers; toning to edges of leaves; very good. The first book by American poet, novelist, and playwright George Whitmore (1945-1989), a noted chronicler of the gay experience and the AIDS epidemic, which claimed his life at the age of 43. Ten poems candidly exploring gay and autobiographical themes, including his boyhood experiences in Colorado and his life as a young man in New York. Issued by Whitmore on the Free Milk Fund Press he operated out of his Upper West Side apartment. Scarce; OCLC locates nine institutional copies, including at Yale, who hold the George Whitmore papers.