Diana [The Story of a Strange Love]

Diana Fredericks [Diana Frederics]
New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1955.
Second Berkley Printing.

16cm x 10.5cm. 188 pages. Pictorial wrappers.

Second 1950s pulp printing of the autobiographical novel of a lesbian first published in 1939. Grier in The Lesbian in Literature gives it the highest grade of importance, designating it a must have for any collection of lesbian literature. Diana “marks an advance in psychological perspective since Radclyffe Hall’s wholly emotional plea for tolerance a decade earlier.” (Jeannette H. Foster: Sex Variant Women in Literature).

Creasing to spine, light to wrappers. Minor soiling. Good Condition.

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