A Gradual Joy

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1953

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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

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First edition. Fine in attractive very good price-clipped dust jacket with small nicks and tears, mostly at the spine ends. Author's autobiographical first novel about her seemingly happy hetrosexual married life in the early Fifties, subtitled on the jacket as "A novel about the 'Found' Generation." Routsong, the mother of four daughters, eventually dispensed with her husband and, writing under the pseudonym Isabel Miller, produced the lesbian classic *A Place for Us*. The original edition was self-published in 1969 and sold by Routsong outside the meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version, was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title *Patience and Sarah*. *A Gradual Joy* is exceptionally uncommon, and this is a very nice copy.

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Title
A Gradual Joy
Author
ROUTSONG, Alma (aka Isabel Miller)
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication year
1953
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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