Triangle by Stokes Manning (5 results)

Paperback. B-276 very good , creases PBO. Cover by Milo. lesbian paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Beacon B276 Lesbian content. Cover by Milo, author referred to as "Bruce Manning" on the back cover. Nice square spine; rubbed; small creases at top and bottom of front cover; bottom corner back cover bumped and creased.Interior tanning but clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. Adult Material >> 154-Pages; Lesbians; collectible for its role in LGBTQ paperback history; About Three Girls who shared Forbidden Ecstasies, and a man who meant to show them that his kind of love was best! The novel appears to follow a trio of lesbian women and a man who attempts to break them apart.>>> Small 1/2" Crease to Lower Left back cover corner, Minor Shelf-wear, Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. MILO LINGERIE GGA Good-Girl-Art Painted cover (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). B276. 35c. ''About three lovely girls who shared forbidden ecstasies.and a man who meant to show them that his kind of love was best!''. Cover art by Milo. A sharp, unread copy. Fine (unread) copy but for slight wear along top spine edge.

First Edition. Stokes, Manning. Triangle of Sin, 1959, belongs to the postwar market for lesbian themed mass market fiction, in which same sex relationships reached broad paperback audiences while publishers frequently framed them through sensational language, heterosexual intervention, and sexual transgression. The novel concerns a married woman involved with two women and a husband attempting to reclaim his marriage, placing lesbian relationships within a narrative designed for the commercial pulp market. Its place within this collecting field is independently established by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which holds Triangle of Sin in its Archives Center Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection. Stokes, Manning. Triangle of Sin. New York: Beacon Books, 1959. First edition. 154 pages. Mass market paperback, octavo. The illustrated cover depicts three women and advertises the story with the line, "About three lovely girls who shared in forbidden ecstasies.and a man who meant to show them that his kind of love was best!" The same wording is recorded with the Smithsonian copy. The combination of three female protagonists, "forbidden" desire, and a male character explicitly positioned as an alternative to their relationships demonstrates how lesbian subject matter could be packaged for a mass readership through provocative imagery and copy while retaining a heterosexual corrective within the promotional framing. Published in 1959, Triangle of Sin dates from the expansion of lesbian pulp fiction in the American paperback market, when inexpensive novels provided widely distributed depictions of relationships between women despite restrictive contemporary attitudes toward homosexuality. The survival of the title in a dedicated Smithsonian lesbian pulp collection further documents its place within the material history of LGBTQ popular publishing. Front cover corners slightly chipped and bumped; otherwise the cover remains bright. Very good condition.…