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Gay Pulp Erotica Novels. Group of twenty-four first editions, octavo-format paperback male gay erotic novels published by Greenleaf Classics in San Diego under a variety of divisional imprint names, including Corinth Publications, Sundown Readers, Nightstand Books, and Phenix Publishing. 1966-1968. Including Don Holliday's The Man from C.A.M.P.; and The Gay Trap; Burt Colman's The Latent Lovers; and J.X. Williams's Born to be Gay, from 1966; Holliday's Brothers in Love; and Gay Buddies; Marcus Miller's A Masculine Scent; Chris Davidson's Caves of Iron; Lance Lester's Cruising Horny Corners; and Dick Dale's The Cruising Class, from 1967; [and] Marcus Miller's Fruit Punch; and Darling Boy; Carl Branch's Idylls of the Queens; All Shades of Gay; and A Few of the Boys; Aaron Thomas's The Greek Affair; and Gay Orgy; Don Holliday's Home of the Gay; Julian Mark's Midtown Queen; Alan Fair's A Man's Affair; Gene North's dady's Boy; Dick Dale's The Fag End; L.J. Brown's The Queens are in the Parlor; and Richard Armory's Fruit of the Loon, from 1968. (24)William Hamling (1921-2017) was a science fiction writer, publisher, and fan from Chicago that built a paperback publishing empire by focusing on sexually explicit adult content. He started Greenleaf Classics in the mid-1950s, publishing the science fiction magazine Rogue. His first adult novels came out beginning in 1959 and were immensely popular. Song of the Loon sold more than a million copies. Hamling was one of the earliest publishers to print and sell erotic gay fiction.