Amour

Amour — marelibri

Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism FIRST EDITION WITH PROVENANCE

1972Best.-Nr. 17168New York: Stein and Day 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Sappho Was a Right-On Woman comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist theorist activist and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen 1950-2023. The first nonfiction book to discuss lesbianism positively and non-diagnostically and the first to examine the connection between feminism and lesbianism Sappho Was a Right-On Women is the work of two important lesbian feminists influential in the Gay Liberation Movement and both active members of the National Organization of Women NOW: Sidney Abbott 1937-2015 a member of Lavender Menace and Barbara Love 1937-2022 a member of the 1973 presentation persuading the American Psychiatric Association APA to remove homosexuality from the DSM. This is an admittedly worn but complete first edition of this landmark work with notable provenance. Dr. Bette Tallen's copy with her ownership signature to front free endpaper. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 251pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved jacket. Heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket with open tears to edges and extremities including slight loss to author's name at head of spine sunning to spine and surrounding panels creasing and surface wear and foxing to verso. Bound in red paper over boards with author signatures in gilt to upper board spine backed in maroon cloth and lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding with sunning to edges dust soiling and bumping to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block and to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Admittedly a first printing of this landmark work that has a history of its own as evidenced by the detailed physical condition provided above but one with a relevant and meaningful provenance from the collection of the late Lesbian and Women's Studies scholar and activist Dr. Bette S. Tallen. Stein and Day hardcover