Patience & Sarah

8vo. [8], 3-215, [3] pp. Red cloth with decorations and lettering in blue on the front board, silver lettering inset in a blue rectangle bordered in silver on the spine; bright blue endpapers and pastedowns; blue topstain. Price of $5.95 on front jacket flap. Jacket design by Barry Zaid. Katz, Gay American History; Young 2707. Winner of the first Stonewall Award in 1971. Originally self-published in paperback under the title of A Place For Us in 1969. A historical novel based on the life of Mary Ann Wilson, an American primitive painter of the early 1800's, who lived on a farm in upstate New York with her devoted female companion. Very Good with slight lean, rubbing to the blue on the spine, and previous owner's name on free front endpaper in a Very Good or better dust jacket with a small closed tear to the top right corner of the front panel, a few faint traces of edgewear, and mild discoloration to the reverse.