From Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
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[LGBTQ] Routsong, Alma. A Gradual Joy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. First edition, first printing. Orange hardcover with silver gilt titling. Price-clipped dust-jacket with small nicks and tears, mostly at the spine ends. Author's autobiographical first novel about her seemingly happy heterosexual married life in the early Fifties, subtitled on the jacket as "A novel about the 'Found' Generation." Routsong eventually became a lesbian activist and under the pseudonym Isabel Miller, produced the lesbian classic A Place for Us. The original edition was self-published in 1969 and sold by Routsong outside the meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version, was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title Patience and Sarah. A Gradual Joy is uncommon and scarce. The pages are clean and crisp. This book is in very good condition and jacket is in Very Good condition with a few very small closed tears and minor chip at on the upper-right turn. Else, a handsome copy of a scarce first edition. Seller Inventory # 19413
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Title: Alma Routsong 1953 First Edition A Gradual ...
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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