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The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2012-07-03. Paperback. Used: Good.

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Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Metal, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 7" x 4-1/2" (19 x 11.5 cm), perfect-bound paperback. Yellow page edges, some foxing on inside covers, tight copy. 144 pp.

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Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 7" x 4-1/2" perfect-bound paperback. Spine very slightly slanted, one corner of the upper cover with a dog-ear crease, a little rubbing to the rear cover and spine, but a bright attractive copy. One contemporary reviewer wrote: "The first half of this book is moving and literate and had it ended as well as it began it would be the all time best in paperbacks." By the prolific Taylor, a giant in the field of lesbian fiction. 144 pp.

[LGBTQ Pulp] Book from famous female author of Lesbian pulps Valerie Taylor, which was rare as most pulps were written by men under pen names. Taylor, Valerie. Stranger on Lesbos. New York: Crest Books - Fawcett World Library. First Edition Early Lesbian Mass Market Paperback. 144 pages. Measures 4.25" x 7". Early Lesbian pulp novel with noir-inspired cover art featuring a woman in shadows with the tagline: "The searching novel of a lonely young wife faced with the temptations of unnatural love." Taylor came from a "tradition of women's activism"; with one of her great-grandmothers marched in the first suffrage parade in Elgin, Illinois in 1889. She also frequently and proudly referred to her Potawatomi heritage. She joined the American Socialist Party at age twenty-two and led with the purpose of telling lesbian stories that reflected reality. She stated: "I began writing gay novels around 1957. There was suddenly a plethora of them on sale in drugstores and bookstores... many written by men who had… Read More

London: Neville Spearman, 1960. First UK Edition, and first hardcover edition, preceded by an American edition in paperback published by Gold Medal in 1959. Author Valerie Taylor was a LGBT and women's rights activist, and cofounded the gay and lesbian advocacy group Mattachine Midwest in 1965. She also helped found the Lesbian Writers' Conference in Chicago in 1974. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Owner bookplate on the front endpaper. Jacket spine lightly toned, with a hint of wear at the spine ends.

London: Neville Spearman, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition, and first hardcover (the true first was a paperback original published in the U.S. in 1959). Fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Ann in sisterhood, Valerie Taylor." Taylor was a co-founder of Mattachine Midwest in 1965 and of the Lesbian Writers' Conference in Chicago in 1974. This is one of several novels by Taylor to explore lesbian themes. Scarce.