Search Results: Lesbian fiction from Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

[San Diego?]: Donna Camille, 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback original. Octavo. 121pp. Slight wear, near fine in illustrated wrappers. Two women in transition meet in a lesbian bar and fall in love.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in attractive very good or better dustwrapper with two small nicks on the front panel and a couple of tiny tears.. Author's first and seemingly autobiographical novel about the seemingly happy hetrosexual married life in the early Fifties, subtitled on the jacket as "A novel about the 'Found' Generation." Routsong, the mother of four daughters, eventually dispensed with her husband and writing under the pseudonym Isabel Miller produced the lesbian classic *A Place for Us*. The original edition was self-published in 1969 and sold by Routsong outside the meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version, was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title *Patience and Sarah*. *A Gradual Joy* is exceptionally uncommon, and this is a very nice copy.

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1959. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback original. Two creases on the front wrap, a fresh and unread very good copy. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's second book, and the first of her novels to feature her protagonist Beebo Brinker. Bannon wrote a handful of novels on lesbian themes, and then retired from the writing scene to become a successful, and for a time a married college administrator. Most of her books, all paperback originals, were re-released decades later by the Cleis Press in their series of lesbian pulp fiction classics.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Corner of the front fly clipped else near fine in very good dustwrapper with several modest chips at the extremities. Still a presentable copy of the author's very scarce second book and first novel.

(New York): Lyle Stuart, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Translated from the Dutch by Ilona Kinzer. Fine in fine, very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Quiet secretary rejects marriage when she realizes men are but shadows in her life, and falls for a young and unruly female journalist. In Grier (A3).

Budapest: Szépirodalmi, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 272, [8]pp. Original red cloth. Tail band a little dropped, a trifle rubbed, very good or better, in slightly nicked very good dustwrapper designed by Zoltán Huszárik. The first edition of Galgóczi's book of short stories. The second story "Törvényen belül" (literally: "Within the Law," but translated to English under the title "Another Love") was adapted into the film by Károly Makk under the title *Egymásra nézve* (Another Way) in 1982. An association copy, this copy Inscribed by the openly lesbian author to Pongrác Galsai, the Hungarian writer and literary critic, who published a study about Galgóczi and her works (*Szabálytalan arcképek: Galgóczi Erzsébet*) in 1976. Very uncommon inscribed.