New York: Stein and Day, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Sappho Was a Right-On Woman comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950–2023). The first nonfiction book to discuss lesbianism positively and non-diagnostically and the..... More
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 213pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in..... More
New York: Harper, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Becky Albertalli in ink to publisher's tipped in sheet. First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 298pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper..... More
Tubingen: Verlag Claudia Gehrke, 1993. Paperback. 10 1/4" X 8 1/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A clean, solid copy of this collection of erotic photography featuring gay and lesbian sexuality, as well as..... More
Albion, California: Times Change Press, 1973. Third printing. Paperback. Featuring essays by Joanna Russ, Bertha Harris, Esther Newton, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Florence Rush, Jill Johnston, and more, this early feminist, lesbian anthology presents important voices of Second Wave Feminism on such subjects as culture, herstory, politics, celebration, and lesbian feminism. This..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by both Helen Macdonald and Sin Blache to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 468pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped..... More
Iowa City: Aunt Lute Book Company, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. This history of the Chicago lesbian newspaper Lavender Woman tells the story of one of the earliest out lesbian periodicals in the United States through interviews with and updates on the lives of key contributors, reprinted articles, notices, letters to..... More
New York: Philomel, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Chasten Buttigieg in ink at publisher's tipped in page. First edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in pictorial paper..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1977, 1979. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/4"; 6 7/8" X 4 1/4". 214pp, 246pp. Mild wear to color pictorial wraps featuring the art of Gene Szafran (1941-2011) and others, with bumping and rubbing to extremities and faint creases to spines. Bindings are firm, tight, and sound..... More
New York: Union Square & Co., 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kim Chi to page specially bound-in by the publisher. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 10 1/4" X 8 1/4". 224pp. Bound in pictorial paper over boards, with Autographed Edition sticker to upper board. Bumping..... More
Palo Alto, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. "In one very useful book pulled together from vastly scattered sources, college students and nonstudent lesbians alike will now be able to learn more about what it means to be a lesbian in America in the 1980s..." — Judith Schwarz..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. This presentable first printing of Angela Y. Davis' landmark account of her life as one of the 1960s' most iconic Black activists comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950–2023)..... More
New York: TOR, 2022. First American Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Sunyi Dean in ink to publisher's bookplate at half-title page. First Edition, with full number line indicating First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 298pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket, with dust-spotting..... More
![Item #12396 When Trees Were Green [Boy at the Window] SIGNED CORRESPONDENCE WITH QUEER BLACK...](https://undergroundbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12396_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674248902)
New York: Popular Library, 1951. Paperback. A signed handwritten postcard on the author's stationery accompanies this 1960s Popular Library edition of the first novel by queer Black poet, novelist, and playwright Owen Vincent Dodson (1914–1983), who was incredibly influential in the development of the Black Theater Movement. Responding to a...... More
New York: Feiwel & Friends, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by CG Drews in ink to Hazelthorn-themed bookplate at half-title. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first pritning. 8 1/2 X 5 5/8". 355pp. A hint of shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket, with very gentle bumping to..... More
![Item #17064 [Feminist Lesbianism] Sinister Wisdom, 22 Issues, 1984-1998: Issues 25, 35-40, 42-54,...](https://undergroundbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17064_1.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776717172)
Charlotte, North Carolina; Amherst, Massachussetts; Rockland, Maine; Berkeley, California: Sinister Wisdom; Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Ellenberger Desmoines; Michelle Cliff and Adrienne Rich; Elana Dykewomon, 1984-1998. First Edition. Paperback. A solid collection of these 22 issues of the foundational feminist, oldest surviving, and longest operating lesbian journal to date. Founded in..... More
Ann Arbor: Bywater Books, 2008. First Bywater Books Edition, First Thus. Paperback. Signed by Katherine V. Forrest and inscribed to previous owner in ink at title page, dated June 2010. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 221pp. Mild rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 229pp. Very mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bumps to bottom corners of blue cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Elizabeth Gilbert to title page. Stated first edition, first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 380pp. A hint of shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket, featuring "Signed Copy" sticker to front panel. Bound in red paper over boards, with spine backed..... More
New York: TOR, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Alix E. Harrow in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 311pp. Deep teal sprayed edges. Very mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket. Bound..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Adam Haslett in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition, Stated First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 323pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in..... More
Tempe, Arizona: Fourth World, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. This 1980s Southwestern lesbian feminist guide to community activism is the work of activists, collaborators, and spouses Dr. Donna Hawxhurst, staff consultant at the University of Utah's Women's Resource Center, and Dr. Sue Morrow (1942-2018), Professor Emerita in Counseling Psychology at the..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 258pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use..... More
Boston: South End Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. "Before many of us can effectively sustain engagement in organized resistance struggle, in black liberation movement, we need to undergo a process of self-recovery that can heal individual wounds that may prevent us from functioning fully..." In Sisters of the Yam, the..... More
Washington DC: Glad Hag Books; distributed by The Naiad Press and Persephone Press, 1979. Second Printing. Paperback. "Every womon here is proud of herself and her Lesbianism." — Joan E. Biren (JEB), dedication to Eye to Eye (1979). This important artifact of 1970s lesbian photographic and archival history comes from..... More
