RUMAKER, Michael. A Day and a Night at the Baths.

(Bolinas, CA): Grey Fox Press, 1979.  First paperback edition. Softcover. 20.5cm by 14cm. 81 pages. An evocative narrative of a gay man’s first trip to the Everard Baths, a realm of, “grime and sweat and steam and chlorine,” on a cold winter day in the 1970s. The sweeping, poetic prose Rumaker employs throughout the piece echoes the courageous language of the then-nascent Gay Liberation movement.  A very good copy in illustrated wrappers.