A Place for Us [Patience and Sarah]
New York: Bleecker Street Press, (1969).
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Softcover. First edition, paperback original. Octavo. 185pp. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. A lesbian novel, based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Willson, about two women living together in Connecticut's Housatonic Valley in 1816. This is the original self-published edition, sold by Routsong at 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.
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