Wind Woman
New York: Woodford Press, 1953. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #46185
New York: Woodford Press, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's boards in blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); 288pp. Jacket margins rather chipped and worn, bottom two inches of front flap fold split, corners bumped; a Very Good copy only.
The author's rather shlocky and controversial novel centering around the plight of a New Orleans lesbian woman named Laurel Dean, who is tormented by her sexuality and her search for the ideal "wind woman." The novel, inspired by the work of Sigmund Freud, follows Laurel closely through her journey seeking psychiatric help, only to find herself seduced by her female psychiatrist. The lesbian pulp novelist Valerie Taylor dismissed it as "sticky, drippy" in her speech to the First Annual Lesbian Writers Conference in 1974.
Price: $200.00