The Gay Detective

Lou Rand
Fresno: Saber Books, 1961.
First Edition.

17cm x 11cm. 151 pages. Illustrated wrappers.

First edition of the first American gay detective novel, later reprinted as Rough Trade. Cover art by Bill Edwards. Lou Rand Hogan was the pseudonym of Louis Randall, a San Francisco chef and author of The Gay Cookbook. Gay pulp. Saber Book SA-18. YOUNG 3193*.

Creasing to spine. Chipping to crown, and small chip to crown fore-edge corner of wrappers lower panel. Good Condition.

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