signed first edition
1964 · Cleveland & New York
by Rule, Jane
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition. First American edition. Signed by Jane Rule on the front free endpaper, inscribed to poet and compuer science pioneer Josephine Miles, "For Jo[,] Probably illegal "skys of [illegible] vision", but there is a "human show". Jane." 224 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. One of the first novels to deal with lesbian characters in a literary/ romantic context (rather than pulp or erotic), and published in hardcover rather than paperback. The basis of a 1985 film. Uncommon signed.
(Inventory #: 140946369)