First Edition in dustjacket identical with the first but for 75 cent price and plug at lower front flap stating that "the issuance of this new edition at reduced price is made possible by (a) use of the same plates made for the original Edition. (b) acceptance by the author of a reduced royalty". A gripping expose of female prisons and the abuse of the convicts as well as cases of lesbianism and narcotics use by the co-author of I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang. Burns first garnered fame from the book and film of his brother's life as featured in "I Am A Fugitive From A Georgia Chain Gang". A scarce companion piece especially so inscribed and signed by Burns at front free endpaper in 1940. "The book itself is a commentary on the blindness and ignorance and cupidity from which spring the black records of our American prison systems. Not only the chain gangs of the South or the prison pens of the West, but now the penitentiaries of the East are revealed as holes in hell." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, centimeter chip at lower spine end, few edge nicks and modest wear. Item #20528

First English Edition. Mahlon Blaine illustrations. Octavo, original red pebbled boards, gilt lettering at spine. Erotic novel of a young lesbian and her conflicts with marriage and men, and the woman she loves. Very Good plus with gilt lettering worn at spine, dime sized chip at page seventeen, lacking dustjacket. Item #18611

First English Edition. Very scarce novel of a young woman who "as she matured, the flow of her affections, dammed at their normal outlet, sought other channels of escape. Like the heroine of 'The Well of Loneliness,' her danger lay in her emotions". Found in Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction' with the following description: "Classic novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian characters are rare in French literature (although bisexual women are relatively common), and this was one of the best known; it follows the heroine from childhood to old age." Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips, piece of clear tape along top spine end, verso with tape shadows at edges. Item #39737

New Edition, but presumably the first Houghton Mifflin printing, a Jonathan Cape edition appeared in 1929, WorldCat references a Doubleday edition dated 1926. One of only two novels to be awarded both the Prix Femina and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (the other being E. M. Forster's A Passage to India. "This story of Gian-Luca, the fatherless and nameless Italian waiter who was an alien among exiles, an artist without an art". Becoming disgusted with his job and even with food itself, gives away his belongings and lives as a hermit in the forest. The book's mystical themes have been compared to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. Hall is best known for her lesbian classic, The Well of Loneliness. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #30666

First American Edition. Drama adapted by Barbara Burnham from the famous German play, Gestern Und Heute, of a sensitive girl sent to an all-girls boarding school who falls in love with one of her teachers. Basis for the German produced film, Madchen in Uniform, one of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. A young Jessica Tandy is credited in the original cast list for the production at The Duchess Theatre in London, and is presumably pictured at front dustjacket panel which features a still from the production. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest shelf wear, some darkening and few small dampstains at spine, lower spine end and most of top edge of jacket with white paper-tape at verso. Item #21898

First Edition. Paul Bartlett Taylor dustjacket art. Humorous novel with possible gay content, the jacket copy stating that one of the sons, Stephen, "preferred the society of his friend Wilfred". "Here's the synopsis of the book in a larger context: The story of what Major Gander's legacy did to Major Gander's descendants. After various bequests were prepared for, there remained 70,000 pounds residuum. This sum, he provided, should devolve upon whichever of his survivors should, five years after the date of his will, be the parent of the most children. He believed in procreation, and especially he wished the Gander strain continued. It seemed a good one to him. But the idea of a progeny race did not appeal to the descendants. Hilary was a little old, and she, seemed out of it. Stephen much preferred the society of his good friend Wilfred to marriage. One boy was far away—in America or Australia or somewhere else in accessible. Katherine's husband was on his way home from India; she met him in Paris And Daisy was a rather spinsterish woman who kept her husband from liquor when she could and was the mother of a nine-year-old child and had a passion of flowers, the names of which she could not recall. Besides which there was the family's female golfer who couldn't imagine children, because she would have to give up at least four months play for each of them. The possibilities are endless." Uncommon American edition. Near Fine in nearly Very Good modestly edge chipped dustjacket, top spine end with quarter sized chip. Item #25064

Presumed Early Printing of the "Second Edition with Additional Matter" without date at title page. "De Profundis was written while its unfortunate author was a prisoner in Reading Gaol, and it contains what is probably the most sincere and personal expression of his peculiarly artificial and sensitive nature". Near Fine, ownership blind-stamp at front and rear endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end and edges, few closed tears mended at verso with archival tape. Item #23742