Diana

Paris: Editions des Deux-Rives, 1959.
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18.5cm x 12cm. 279, [7] pages. Lettered wrappers, illustrated jacket. Text is in French.

French translation by Jean Gompel with an illustrated jacket by Leon Bonnotte, of the autobiographical novel of a lesbian, Diana: The Story of a Strange Love, first published in English 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. Minor tanning. Crease to tail edge of page 249. Small closed tears to jacket spine head and tail. Good Condition.