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1971 · rif. 420994 — New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book club edition. Octavo. 215 3pp. Owner's name on front fly a little cocked else near fine in rubbed very good dustwrapper with some sunning at the spine. 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 edition was self-published in 1969 as A Place for Us and sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. This later hardcover version was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title Patience and Sarah. It won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award in 1971. Any hardcover edition is uncommon. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover