Venus of Lesbos

London: Gadoline, 1975.
First UK Edition.

17.5cm x 11cm. 157 pages. Illustrated wrappers.

Bedside Books BB1337, the English edition of the Newstand Library pulp. Cover illustration by Robert Bonfils. 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.

Moderate shelf wear and minor staining to lower wrappers, minor shelf wear to upper. Good Condition.

AU$100