A BOOK
(1923)
First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature.
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GIOVANNI'S ROOM
(1957)
First UK edition of Baldwin's second novel, a story of love and and fear that first revealed Baldwin's full capacities as "the greatest American prose stylist of his generation" (Tóibín).
THE ROMANCE NOVEL IN ENGLISH: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999
2021
Limited edition of this rare book catalogue describing and illustrating 100 lots that trace the history of the genre, signed by Type Punch Matrix co-founder Rebecca Romney.
EDGE OF TWILIGHT
(1959)
First printing, paperback original, of this lesbian pulp novel with an unambiguously happy ending, a gorgeous copy.
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
(1969)
Signed first UK edition of the famous radical science fiction novel on gender and isolation by one of the most influential writers in the genre — an exceptionally beautiful copy.
GONNA TAKE A HOMICIDAL JOURNEY
(1998)
Signed first printing of this final book in the Lauren Laurono series, in which the detective's efforts to patch things up with her partner with a nice vacation are interrupted by a suspicious suicide.
THE MEASURABLE WORLD
(1995)
Inscribed first printing of this erotic mystery, in which a botanist must get to the bottom of her estranged husband's murder while navigating the romantic attentions of her best friends Ralph and Rita.
DHALGREN
(1975)
First edition, paperback original, of the ULYSSES of the United States, the MOBY DICK of science fiction, the DHALGREN of DHALGRENS.
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COUNTESS DRACULA [The Bloody Countess]
(1970)
First English-language paperback edition of LA COMTESSE SANGLANTE, re-titled to coincide with the release of the Hammer horror film based on Penrose's singular gothic historical fantasia.
MARTHA'S OPÉRA
1946
Scarce, lovely first edition of Penrose's neo-gothic epistolary novella.
GIVE MY SECRETS BACK
(1995)
Signed first edition of this entry in the "Lesbian cop" Alison Kaine series, in which Kaine investigates the murder of a popular lesbian author.
A GRAVE TALENT
(1993)
Signed first edition of Laurie R. King's first book, the first of her series about lesbian detective Kate "Casey" Martinelli.
LOVEY CHILDS: A Philadelphian's Story
(1969)
Exceptionally clean first edition, first printing of O'Hara's novel about two women in love, set in the 1920s.
BREAK EVERY RULE
(2000)
First printing of this collection of essays by the lesbian postmodernist "known for her audacity" (front flap).
MORE DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR
(1988)
First printing of this second collection of the long-running lesbian comic strip, the origin of the Bechdel Test, and "one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period" (Judith Levine).
MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
1927
First edition of Hemingway's second short-story collection, a beautiful copy in the second-issue dust jacket (within a month of the first issue).
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