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LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY<br />

Bruce Weber Bear Pond<br />

Bullfinch p<strong>res</strong>s, New York, 1990. First Edition, First Printing.<br />

Quarto. Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket.<br />

PROFUSELY INSCRIBED by Bruce Weber.<br />

Bear Pond is Weber’s now classic work of homoerotic figure<br />

studies is a celebration not just of <strong>the</strong> male body, but of <strong>the</strong> idyllic<br />

landscape of <strong>the</strong> Adirondack lakes region of upstate New York.<br />

Dedicated to his <strong>the</strong>n-ailing longtime friend and colleague Donald<br />

Sterzin, Widely regarded as one of his finest works, it appeared<br />

at time when AIDS was ravaging <strong>the</strong> gay community. It’s<br />

classicized imagery is a poignant counterpoint to <strong>the</strong> devastation<br />

being wrought by <strong>the</strong> disease. It was published to benefit <strong>the</strong><br />

New York City AIDS <strong>res</strong>ource center and contains <strong>the</strong> moving<br />

original poem Gold Day by Reynolds Price.<br />

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