Between the Covers

Softcover. Second French edition. Illustrated wrappers. Octavo. 282, [5]pp. Fine in wrappers. Afterword by Elisabeth Deran (Routsong's partner during the writing of the book). 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. This edition is uncommon.

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