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Enough of sorrow

Enough of Sorrow by Jill Emerson (1965). The background is dark brown, with a rectangle containing the image, one-third from the top below the title. The partial face of a woman with brown eyes and bright red lipstick looks directly toward the reader through a slightly blurred window with water droplets. To the bottom centre, partially covering the main face, another figure of a brunette is seen, facing the reader, but with her eyes downcast. Her right arm is raised, bent at the elbow, with her hand buried in her long brown hair. She is wearing a dark brown slip covered by a translucent beige lounging gown. Her left shoulder is exposed. Her left hand is draped towards her right hip.
Karen's journey of self-discovery through love, lust, and alcohol.

Bitter love

Alexandra deals with the fact that her husband is having an affair with another man.

From torment to rapture

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Two of a kind

Frank finds himself torn between his boss Lana and young Gloria after he accepts work on a farm.
A paperback original. This book was published as a mass-market paperback without a hardcover printing.

Flora, Fletcher

Williams, Elaine (Sloan Britton)

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Singer, Sally (March Hastings)

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Edge of twilight

Edge of Twilight front cover. The faces and a torso of two women are drawn in ink and coloured separately, one in pink, the other in light blue, and with the solid black of the background to depict the shadowed areas. In the foreground to the bottom right of the image, only a face is seen, lit with a hard light coming from the right. Her gaze is directed to her bottom right with a calm expression. The other figure can be seen behind her, to the left of the image, face in full profile towards the right, with her eyes closed. Her face and torso are also lit by hard light coming from the top right.

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Third sex syndrome (The)

The Third Sex Syndrome front cover. A woman with long, pink wavy hair undresses (or dresses) in view of the reader. She is wearing panties. Her right arm covers her breasts as she removes (or puts on) her lower garment. In the background, a blond short-haired woman in an orange halter top and dark capri pants reclines on a white bed watching the woman in the foreground.
Sharon's affair with Leda allows her to work out her childhood traumas

Whittington, Harry

Ellis, Julie (Joan Ellis)

Authors Julie Ellis (left) and Ann Bannon (right) at the New York Collectable Paperback Expo in 2004. Photo courtesy of http://www.annbannon.com

Perdue, Pat (Randy Salem)

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Highsmith, Patricia (Claire Morgan)

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Meaker, Marijane (Vin Packer, Ann Aldrich)

Photo of Marijane Meaker in 2007.

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Wilhelm, Gale

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Lesbian / woman

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Journey to fulfillment

Journey to Fulfillment front cover. The cover art is made up of text and solid colour fields. The title is shown in large, green letters, distributed diagonally across the center of the cover. Below the title, and also diagonally distributed, more letters, in a different and smaller font but also green, name the author of the book. At the top left, and also in a different font, more small green letters hint on the topic of the story. At the very bottom, another set of green, small letters describes the story as the first in a series. There is also a logo at the top right, seemingly of the publishing house or imprint. The background is a solid peach framed within a wide, green margin that matches the colour of the text.

Vega

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Rader, Paul

Thanks to Elaine Rader for her permission to use images of her father's work on this website. Please visit Elaine Rader’s website tribute to her father at http://www.paulrader.com/

Bradley, Marion Zimmer (Miriam Gardner, Morgan Ives)

Marion Zimmer Bradley. Rights holder: University of Oregon. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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Fox, Gilbert (Kimberly Kemp, Dallas Mayo, Peter Willow)

MacManus, Yvonne (Paula Christian)

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Young, Velma (Valerie Taylor)

Tee Corinne, photographer. Valerie Taylor Papers, #7627. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Weldy, Ann (Ann Bannon)

Authors Ann Bannon and Julie Ellis at the New York Collectable Paperback Expo, 2004. Photo courtesy of http://www.annbannon.com

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Torrès, Tereska

Popular Library

Detail of the Popular Library logo from the book "The Loving and the Daring".

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Midwood Tower Publications

Detail of the Midwood logo from the book "The Third Street"

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Epic Books (Art Enterprises)

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Dell Paperbacks

Detail of the Dell Paperback logo from the book "Women without Men".

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Bantam

Detail of the Bantam logo from the book "The Price of Salt".

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Avon Books

Detail of the Avon logo from the book "Painted Veils"

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Fawcett Publications

Detail of the Crest logo from the book "Whisper Their Love".

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Maguire, Robert

Robert Maguire. The photograph is posted with the permission of Lynn Maguire

Westlake, Donald Edwin (Edwin West)

Donald Westlake. Photo credit: Jean-Marie David<br /> Creative Commons 2.5 attribution required
Donald Westlake is better known for his mystery and crime novels but got his start as an author writing for adult book publishers

Weirauch, Anna Elisabet

Of love forbidden

Of Love Forbidden front cover. A naked woman is sitting on the floor facing the viewer with arms and legs crossed, her chin resting on her right, bent knee. The background is a textured turquoise colour field, and the scene is lit from the top right in a hard light.
Paperback reprint of a pre-1950s lesbian-themed novel

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Young and innocent

The heads of two women are centered over a brushstroke stripe of lime green over a solid, light tan background. A blonde in the foreground, a brunette partly behind her. The blonde has her eyes closed and her mouth is slightly open. Her hair is long and curly, and she is wearing earrings. The brunette, whose hair is short and curly, looks at her from behind her on the right of the image with her eyes slightly squinted and lips slightly parted. The scene is lit from the top right in a hard light.

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Twilight women

Two female heads are shown, faces looking straight forward. One face is closer to the foreground, on the left, and partly covers the other one. The face of the one in the foreground is coloured in bright pink and that of the one in the background is coloured in purple. Both have darkened, long straight hair, depicted in solid black ink. Based on the tones of colour used for the faces, and on the use of the black, the artist conveys the light in the scene as a hard light that comes from the front left.
Erotica compiled as psychiatric case studies

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Lesbos jungle

The Lesbos Jungle front cover. Two women in the image seem to attack a single man in what looks like a back street alley. A red brick wall is behind them. A garbage bin is partially shown in the foreground, and a wooden crate is partially revealed to the left. There is a bottle on the ground and a puddle. The blonde on the left of the image is shown ripping off the man's shirt, while the brunette on the right grasps his arm by the bicep. The women are fully dressed while the man wears jeans and boots; his belt is unbuckled, and his jeans are half-unzipped. The blonde is wearing a white, turtle-neck sweater, black leather pants and black leather boots and her hair is long, with bangs across her forehead. The brunette is wearing a white turtle-neck blouse under a black leather jacket, black leather stiletto boots and white pants. Her hair is short and wavy. The man looks surprised and scared, right arm bent, hand in front of his face as if trying to cover his eyes from the light that comes from the front left. His eyes and mouth are wide open.

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Olga

Olga front cover. A naked brunette kneels on her right knee, sideways to the reader, to the left of the image. Her left thigh is horizontal to the view, slightly raised from her pointed foot, and her left arm stretches over it, partly covering her breasts, palm down. She looks slightly upwards over her left shoulder. Her hair is partly up and has adornments, and she is wearing earrings. Behind her and to the right of the image stands, upright, a short-haired blonde, dressed in blue pants, a light-blue silk blouse and black, high heel, leather boots, head bowed looking down at the brunette with a stern expression on her face. Her right boot is perpendicular to her left boot, her left arm hanging over the side of her body. The scene is lit from the front left.

Guerrilla girls

Guerrilla Girls front cover. A group of four women stand or sit in front of military barracks. One is standing upright, to the left of the image, facing the reader, and is fully dressed in military garb, a weapon on her hip, cigarette hanging from her lips. She is a brunette, and her hair is short. Her pose is relaxed. Her gaze is directed at a seated woman to the right of the image, who has short hair and wears a blouse and short skirt and who is, with a slight smile, looking over her right shoulder towards a third woman who is also seated, on a purple cushion on the ground, and dressed in a blouse with rolled sleeves to her elbows, khaki shorts and boots, cleaning a long weapon with her legs crossed. Her hair is dark and curly, and she also seems to smile. Between them sits, her back to the reader, a fourth woman who appears to be fully naked. She has her arms up as if fixing her hair as she looks up toward the standing woman. In the background are two tents with red stripes, and to the left of the image stands a pair of long weapons fixed to a stand. The scene is lit from the front.
An adventure story of a group of European and Muslim female volunteers in a National Liberation Front camp in the Aures mountains, Algeria

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We too are drifting

We Too Are Drifting front cover. Two women occupy most of the visual space. One is standing on the left of the image, her back to the reader, and seen from her calves up. She has blond, short hair and is wearing a white and red-stripped male pajama top with the sleeves rolled up to her forearms. Her legs are slightly spread, shoulder-width. Her gaze is directed downward from her right shoulder toward another woman sitting behind her, a brunette with her hair tied in a bun, neck-high. She is wearing a black negligee and is sitting on her folded legs with hands together between her thighs. She seems to have her eyes closed and, like the other woman, has her face wrapped in a shadow. A beam of warm light illuminates them both partly from the right of the image.

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Strange path (The)

The Strange Path front cover. Two women appear facing the reader, to the right of the image. One, a blonde with long, curly hair wearing a light-blue negligee, is sitting on a bed, legs folded under her body as she gazes at the reader with half-shut eyes and mouth slightly open. Her right-hand plays with a lock of her hair over her chest, the weight of her body on her stretched left arm. The left strap of her negligee hangs over her elbow. The other woman, a brunette with short hair, stands behind her, to the right of the image and facing the reader at a three-quarter angle towards the left. She is dressed in a blue cardigan and what seem to be black pants. Her head is upright, and her gaze is directed downward toward the blonde as she rests her right hand on the blonde's right shoulder. Her left fingers touch the blonde's left shoulder. On the wall behind them, the lights and shadows of window panes are cast, as well as their own shadows, and the light reflected seems like that of morning sunshine.

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Rebel woman

Rebel Woman front cover. A blond, short-haired woman stands behind and gazes at a brunette woman who looks out at the reader. The brunette woman is in the center of the image holding a rifle with both hands, the rifle pointing up to the left of the image. The wind blows on her hair from the right. Both women wear military uniforms and stand in front of a house with lights glowing through its windows, and in front of a palm. The brunette's blouse's collar is half-unbuttoned from the top, showing cleavage. The blonde's pants are rolled to the knees, and she is not wearing boots. The scene is lit from the front right.

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Dark side of Venus (The)

The Dark Side of Venus front cover. The silhouettes of two women's faces, one with short hair the other with long hair, occupy the bottom half of the space. The woman with short hair is in profile in the foreground, looking towards the right of the reader. The one with long hair is facing the reader and is in the background, to the left of the image, and seen from her chest up. Above them is a dark square background to the title and authors' names. The scene is lit from the back right.

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Sex and the armed services

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Fictionalized sexual case studies

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Sexual behavior of the lesbian

Sexual Behaviour of the Lesbian front cover. The cover image is split into two spaces. The space on the left contains a black background with text. The space on the right contains an image of a naked blonde in profile, partly covered with a white cloth which wraps around the right and front part of her body. Her left side, which faces the reader, is partly exposed. She seems to be standing on a field of wildflowers. Her left leg is bent; foot pointed on the ground behind her. Her hands are on her shoulders as she gazes directly at the reader. Her hair is long, and her back is arched towards the back. The background is a texture of green, and the scene is lit from the top right.
Erotica compiled as psychiatric case studies

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Her woman

Her Woman front cover. A woman is shown sitting in profile on a bed in the foreground, towards the bottom of the image. She has short brown hair and is dressed in a light blue, long-sleeved blouse with orange stripes, a red sash around her waist, and red leggings. She holds a cigarette in her left hand, and her right-hand rests on her bent left knee. Her face is slightly turned toward the reader, yet her eyes glance to her left, where another woman stands in the background. The standing woman is blonde with curly hair to her shoulders who stands in profile to the right of the image, her body facing away from the other woman but with her head and eyes turned toward her. She is wearing black lace panties and seems to be either dressing or undressing, the garment covering only part of her head and chest, left hand raised holding it over her head, right hand at chest level. The scene is lit from the front left.

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Loving and the daring (The)

The Loving and the Daring front cover. To the left of the image, a woman, redhead, is shown descending the steps of a stone stairway with a wrought iron railing. She wears a green, knee-high skirt, an orange-red cardigan, and brown, high heel shoes. Her left hand is on the railing, her right arm is stretched over her right side. Her eyes are slightly closed and look toward another woman, whose face and shoulders are seen in the foreground, to the bottom-right of the image. She is a brunette with short, curly hair. Her face is heavily made up and partly faces the reader, slightly bent towards the right bottom corner of the image. Her eyes are slightly closed and look back toward the woman on the stairway but do not look straight at her. Her lips are slightly parted and her eyebrows appear raised. She seems to be wearing an off-shoulders gold and black-trimmed gown, and earrings. The scene is lit from the top left.

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Sex on the odd side

Love on the Odd Side front cover. Two female bodies appear to be naked, one next to the other, in mirrored, standing poses displayed from their ankles up. The image seems to be a photograph-based collage, so parts of their bodies are displayed while others are veiled in films of paint or ink. The women's backs face the reader, and their arms are, one on their hair, the other on their hips, in a mirrored way. The background is a diffused abstraction in oranges, yellows, reds and purples that center on an image that could resemble a uterus.

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