[nice tight copy, no discernible wear, just the tiniest bit of soiling to bottom edge]. Trade PB "The period is 1935 to 1938, the location Dallas, the star a young boy named William Carfax who -- long before he discovers his sexuality -- discovers his drug of choice, the movies. Real life pales by comparison." View More...
[some foxing/soiling to page edges, spine slightly turned; jacket heavily edgeworn, several small chips and tears]. Early gay fiction, a novel exploring "the inner thought processes of a youth, Gaylord Le Claire, who finds himself developing into a homosexual. As we first meet Gaylord, he doesn't realize why he is unlike anyone else he knows; why he has longings to be near a high-school friend, Bob Blake; why he wishes he were a girl. His unhappiness is intensified by the cruelty of his school friends, who realize before he does what he is and what it means." It takes a trip to New ... View More...
[light shelfwear, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket lightly edgeworn, one short closed tear and associated creasing at top of front panel]. "A novel of a woman's escape from the twilight zone of the intermediate sex," this is the concluding segment of a landmark of lesbian fiction, "The Scorpion" ("Der Skorpion"), originally published in Germany in three volumes between 1919 and 1931. The complete work was first published in English translation in the U.S. by Greenberg as two separate books: "The Scorpion" (1932, translated by Whittaker Chambe... View More...
