Diana [The Story of a Strange Love]

Diana Fredericks [Diana Frederics]

New York

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Berkley Publishing Corp.

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1955

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First Berkley Printing.

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

First 1950s pulp edition 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).

Minor shelf wear and tanning. Very Good Condition.