ANDROS, Phil [pseud. of Samuel Steward].

San Francisco: Perineum Press, 1983-1984. First editions. 140; 159; 139; 145; 174pp. Glued in wraps featuring cover illustrations by Tom of Finland. All volumes signed and inscribed by Steward (as Phil Andros) to half-titles. Presentation copies of five volumes of gay erotic fiction written under his Phil Andros pseudonym by American academic, tattoo artist, and novelist Samuel Steward (1909-1993), each volume inscribed in Steward's charmingly rococo script to close friend Douglas Martin. A student of Steward's at DePaul University in the early 1950s, Martin wrote Steward a warm letter of re-introduction in 1977, thus sparking a prolific correspondence acknowledged by Steward's biographer Justin Spring as "the most significant and sustaining friendship of Steward's final decades," and "the single greatest consolation to him in his otherwise very lonely old age" (Secret Historian, p.378). Steward's fondness for Martin is evident in his inscription in My Brother, My Self: "For Doug—hopin