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Good. First edition. Paperback original. Octavo. 185pp. Illustrated wrappers. Large chip on front wrap, removing much of the author's name, thus good only. A lesbian novel, based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Willson, about two women living together in Greene County, New York in 1816. The original self-published edition was sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version, published by McGraw-Hill under the title *Patience and Sarah*, won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award (now called the Stonewall Book Award) in 1971. Routsong had written two (Now very uncommon) mainstream novels under her own name based on her experience as a wife and mother of four before she entered a relationship with economist Elisabeth Deran. She wrote under the pseudonym in order not to embarrass her four daughters, choosing the name Isabel as an anagram of the word "Lesbia" This edition has become exceptionally uncommon.
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Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Original wraps. Very Good overall. Creased, toned, and cocked spine; typical toning and a little staining to wraps. Gift inscriptions at front and on title page.
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Near Fine. First edition. Paperback original. Octavo. 185pp. Illustrated wrappers. Vertical crease on the far right of the front wrap, else near fine. A lesbian novel, based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Willson, about two women living together in in Greene County, New York in 1816. The original self-published edition, was sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version, published by McGraw-Hill under the title *Patience and Sarah*, won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award (now called the Stonewall Book Award) in 1971. Routsong had written two (Now very uncommon) mainstream novels under her own name based on her experience as a wife and mother of four before she entered a relationship with economist Elisabeth Deran. She wrote under the pseudonym in order not to embarrass her four daughter, choosing the name Isabel as an anagram of the word "Lesbia" This edition has become exceptionally uncommon. An attractive copy.
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Good. First edition. Signed on the title page by author using her real name and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original yellow wraps printed in brown. Good. Soiled and worn, with heavy wear to joints and outer paper layer of spine mostly perished removing spine titles. Lean to binding. Pages sporadically soiled, rusted paperclip impression to preliminary matter and former owner name to title page. This historical novel based on the lives of 19th century American folk artist Mary Ann Willson and her lover Miss Brundidge became an iconic lesbian book of the 1970s when McGraw-Hill republished it as Patience and Sarah. It won the first Stonewall Book Award in 1971.