Price: £100
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1963
Stock Number: 71031
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 204, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket very bright, with a miniscule nick at head of front panel and a hint of rubbing to extremities, very good
Publication Details: W.H. Allen, 1963
Notes: The debut of an author, or at least of a nom-de-plume - recent research by Brad Bigelow on his Neglected Books website has deduced it to be among the pseudonyms of the prolific Peter de Polnay, a Hungarian émigré writing in English, here (Bigelow conjectures) protecting his identity in order not to brook conflict with his Catholicism for the orientation of its sexual themes. The novel is, the blurb announces, 'in the tradition of "The Well of Loneliness"' - in other words, an exploration of lesbianism among the privileged classes. Under her own pseudonym of 'Gene Damon', publisher and coll...more
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