The Velvet Trap

New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1971.
First Edition.

17.5cm x 10.5cm. 192 pages. Illustrated wrappers.

“She spent one night with another woman–and never wanted a man again.” Cover illustration by Daryl Greene. One of the many lesbian pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. Often formulaic and issued in easily recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, the genre was written largely by male authors under female pseudonyms for a male readership, though a smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women writing under similar pseudonyms, brought more narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format. The genre as a whole ranges from outright formulaic titillation to more literary treatments of lesbian relationships within the constraints of the paperback original.

Creasing to spine. Minor tanning and very minor insect damage to wrappers vero. Good Condition.

AU$50