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Desperate Asylum
by Flora Fletcher
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust jacket
- Seller
-
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY, 1955. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust jacket. This book is very light, and shipping will be upgraded to first class mail.. Paperback Original. Size: 4.25" x 7". 192 pages. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. LION LIBRARY LL 44. Paperback Original. Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with colorful painted cover art by Clark Hulings. Lesbian themes, lesbiana. Listed in Grier's The Lesbian in Literature. Cover copy reads: "A brilliant story of lesbian love. Two Damned Souls: Lisa and Avery...saw in each other a chance for escape. And so, in a frantic flight for normality, they were married. But they cold not know the terrible depths into which their union would plunge them." / Cover bright but missing 1/2" from foot of spine. 2.5" closed split to bottom of front hinge. Light reading-creases. Binding square and solid. Illustrator: Clark Hulings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 8 ounces. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::Lesbian / Lesbiana; 1950s; Inventory No: 024111. BZDB373 Sleaze, vintage paperback, 1960s GGA Vintage Paperbacks::Lesbian / Lesbiana; 1950s; Clark Hulings Fletcher Flora Desperate Asylum
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hang Fire Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024111
- Title
- Desperate Asylum
- Author
- Flora Fletcher
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Paperbacks / Lesbian / Lesbiana;
Terms of Sale
Hang Fire Books
Returns accepted within thirty days IN SAME CONDITION. Refund initiated on receipt and inspection of returned item.
About the Seller
Hang Fire Books
Biblio member since 2005
Brooklyn, New York
About Hang Fire Books
Hang Fire Books specializes in vintage paperbacks and pulp fiction but carries a wide selection of rare and OP titles. We're based in Brooklyn, New York. Private viewings can be arranged by appointment.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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