Part 8
THE DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, INC. 165 O'Farrell St, Room 405, San Francisco, Calif. A woman's organization for promoting the integration of the homosexual into society; membership limited to woman. Emphasis on education of the variant to promote adjustment and self-understanding, and education of the public at large through acceptance of the individual. Publishers of:
THE LADDER. Monthly, $4.00 a year, 50c single copy, mailed first class sealed. Editor, Del Martin. Fiction and poetry of special interest, letters from readers, book reviews and a running column of lesbiana managed by Gene Damon, reports on special study and discussion groups, and the conductors of a recent survey on lesbians personally.
THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco, California. Founded 1950, Incorporated 1954; purpose, to conduct projects of education, research and social service in sex problems, particularly those of homosexual adults. Publishers of:
MATTACHINE REVIEW, monthly, offset printed, circulation 2250; $5 a year, 50c single copy, mailed sealed; issued annually in bound volumes, indexed at end of each year. Reflects the policies and purpose of the Mattachine Society with scientific articles, research reports, news of sexological trends, book reviews, letters from readers, a small amount of fiction and annual poetry supplement. Hal Call, Editor.
DORIAN BOOK QUARTERLY. $2 a year, 50c per copy. Primarily concerned with books and periodicals on socio-sexual themes, particularly fiction and non fiction dealing with homosexuality and related themes. Purpose: to fight censorship and encourage publishing in this field. Advertising accepted, reviews and news of books in the field solicited. Controlled circulation. Harold L. Call, Editor.
SEE ALSO FOR COLLECTORS ONLY
collectors only
Every year, following the publication of the Checklist, we receive a number of queries. Where, they want to know, can we buy these books? We can only tell you where we buy books; and have therefore assembled the following list of reputable dealers, mail order, who handle these books and many others.
WINSTON BOOK SERVICE, 250 Fulton Avenue; Hempstead, New York. Successor to the famous Cory Book Service which was founded by Donald Webster Cory, author of "The Homosexual in America". This is perhaps the best American source for current novels in hard covers and non-fiction. They issue catalogs and lists, give a sizable discount for large orders, and will also locate hard-to-find or out-of-print books. Leslie Laird Winston, who is the presiding genius here, is one of the nicest people to deal with that we have ever known. Every month they feature some new or special book in the field, at a special price. Getting on their mailing list is the _best_ thing that can happen to a collector.
DORIAN BOOK SERVICE, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, California. A subsidiary of the Mattachine Review and the Pan-Graphic Press. They publish the Dorian Book Quarterly, dealt with elsewhere, and also a fat, fascinating catalogue listing several hundred titles of current hardcover and paperback fiction. They can also furnish, or will locate, many out-of-print titles. My experience with them: prompt service, fast shipment, up-to-date information on cheap reprints of rare titles.
VILLAGE BOOKS AND PRESS, 114-116 Christopher Street, New York 14, New York. This is the outfit behind the Noel Garde bibliography of Homosexual Literature, mentioned in the editorial. They can still supply this biblio list for $1.50. They also issue lists at frequent intervals, and will search for hard-to-find and out-of-print titles. Prices seem reasonable considering the scarcity of some of the paperbacks he handles. The proprietor, Howard Frisch, is one of the most co-operative dealers in the business.
ONE Magazine, listed in "Related Publications" has published one volume of short stories, and is soon to do more publishing; they also list several dozen books sold by mail order.
THE LADDER, listed in "Related Publications", is soon to set up a book service; their first special release will be Jeannette Howard Foster's "Sex Variant Women in Literature", so keep your eyes open.
THE TENTH MUSE, bookshop managed by Julia Newman, 326 West 15th St, New York 11, New York, also does some mail order business. Write for a list.
A POINTS NORTHE, unusual bookshop at 15 Robinson Street, in Oklahoma City, managed by James Neill Northe, into which your senior editor virtually stumbled during a rainstorm, specializes in very rare, esoteric and scholarly titles, curiosa, etc. He can supply even the most fantastically rare stuff; prices are in line with the rarity of the items wanted. (It was Mr. Northe who, with disinterested kindness, supplied some biblio data on the real rarities on the list; he has our thanks and endorsement.)
BOOKPOST, C. Rogers, Box 3251, San Diego 3, California. This outfit specializes in Americana, but can supply almost anything. The prices here are the most reasonable I've ever encountered; if Rogers quotes you a price, there's no point in shopping around for a lower one.
INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS, P O Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California. These people are the out-of-print bookfinders par excellence. I've ordered many books from them; their prices are reasonable, never exorbitant; their service is good, the books they supply are always of high quality. They're nice to deal with. I've never had a complaint in ten years of bookhunting.
RAYMOND TRANFIELD, Antiquarian Book Dealer, 31 Hart Street, Henley-Upon-Thames, Oxon, England, is probably the best source for older books published in England. His prices are reasonable, his service is fast (he quotes by airmail and sends his parcels insured, which is a blessing for anything which has to travel across the ocean).
paperbacks
Paperbacks. We hate them and we love them. The worst rubbish, and the best literature brought within the reach of a slim budget. If you missed it on the news-stands, all is not lost....
ACE BOOKS Inc., 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York. (25c)
AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. Y. (35c & 50c)
BALLANTINE BOOKS, Inc., 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y.(35c)
BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N. Y. (35c or 3 for one dollar)
BERKLEY Publishing Corp., 146 West 57th St, New York 19, N. Y.
CREST and GOLD MEDAL books; Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, Connecticut.
CARDINAL editions, POCKET BOOKS and PERMABOOKS, Pocket Books, Inc, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Free catalogue on request.
NEWSSTAND LIBRARY EDITIONS, (Magenta Books, and others) 3143 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Free lists sent on request.
BANTAM BOOKS, 25 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y.
DELL BOOKS, Dell Publishing Corp. Inc, 750 Third Avenue, New York 17, NY
PYRAMID BOOKS, 444 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York.
POPULAR LIBRARY, Hillman Books and others, do not print their address in the books and evidently don't want to bother with mail orders. If you miss them on the news-stands, you'll have to root in secondhand stores. Saber and Fabian Books can be ordered through the Dorian Book Service, and some secondhand book dealers will locate paperbacks, including Village Books and Press, above.
BEDSIDE and BEDTIME books, (50c each) 200 West 34th Street, New York, N. Y.
_hardcover publishers_
Compiled by Kerry Dame
A list of all obtainable addresses of the publishers of hardcover books mentioned in the Checklist. (Paperback publishers listed elsewhere.)
Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc--35 W. 32nd St, NYC 1, N. Y.
Arco Publishing Co, Inc.--480 Lexington Ave. NYC 17, NY
Arkham House; Publishers.--Sauk City, Wisconsin.
A. S. Barnes & Co.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY
Barnes & Noble, Inc.--105 Fifth Ave. NYC 3, NY
Beacon _Press_, Inc.--25 Beacon St, Boston 8, Mass.
Blakiston Co.--(see McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc.)
Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.--717 Fifth Avenue, NY 22, NY
Borden Publishing Co.--3077 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles 63, Cal.
Boxwood Press--Box 7171, Pittsburgh 13, Penna.
C. F. Braun & Co.--1000 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, Calif.
Citadel Press--222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY
Clarion Press--510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY
P. F. Collier & Son--Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19
Comet Press Books--200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y.
F. E. Compton & Co.,--1000 N. Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois
Coward-McCann, Inc.--210 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 16, NY
Creative Age Press--(see "Farrar, Straus & Cudahy")
Criterion Books--257 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.--432 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
Crown Publishers, Inc.--419 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
Dial Press, Inc.--461 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
Dodd, Mead & Co.--432 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
Dorrance & Co., Inc.--131 N. 20th St, Philadelphia 3, Penna.
Doubleday & Co., Inc.--mail orders; Garden City, New York.
Dover Publications, Inc.--180 Varick Street, NYC 14, NY
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.--19 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY
E. P. Dutton & Co.,--300 Fourth Avenue, NYC 10, NY
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
Frederick Fell, Inc.--386 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
Fleet Publishing Corp.--70 E. 45th St, NYC 17, NY
Funk & Wagnalls Co.--153 E. 24th St, NYC 10, NY
Greenberg--(see Chilton Co, Book Division, 56th & Chestnut St, Philadelphia 39, Penna.--what became of Greenberg; NY?)
Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.--mail orders; 227 E. Center St, Kingsport, Tennessee.
Grove Press, Inc.--64 University Place, NYC 3, NY
Harper & Brothers--49 E. 33rd St, NYC 16, NY
Hastings House, Publishers--151 E. 50th St, NYC 22, NY
Henry Holt & Co.--383 Madison Ave, NYC 17, NY
Houghton, Mifflin Co.--2 Park St, Boston 7, Mass.
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
Alfred E. Knopf Inc.--501 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
Lane Publishing Co.--Menlo Park, Calif.
J. B. Lippincott Co.--East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Penna.
Little, Brown & Co.--34 Beacon Street, Boston 6, Mass.
Liveright Publishing Corp.--386 Fourth St, NYC 16, NY
Robert M. McBride--235 Fourth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
McDowell, Oblensky, Inc.--219 E. 61st St, NYC (no zone listed)
McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.--330 West 42nd St, NYC 36, NY
David McKay Co., Inc.--119 West 40th St, NYC 18, NY
Macauley Co.--(Book Sales, Inc, 352 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY)
Macmillan Co.--60 Fifth Avenue, NYC 11, NY
Julian Messner, Inc.--8 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY
Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc.--425 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
New Directions--333 Sixth Avenue, NYC 14, NY
Noonday Press, Inc.--80 E. 11th St, NYC 3, NY
Ottenheimer Publishers--4805 Nelson Avenue, Baltimore 15, Md.
Pageant Press, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
G. P. Putnam's Sons--210 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY
Rand McNally & Co.--Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois
Random House, Inc.--457 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
Rinehart & Co, Inc.--232 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY
Simon & Schuster, Inc.--Mail Orders; 136 West 52nd St, NYC 19, NY
Sagamore Press, Inc.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY
St. Martin's Press, Inc.--175 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10, NY
Charles Scribners Sons--597 Fifth Avenue, NYC 17, NY
Tudor Publishing Co.--(Order From; Harlem Book Co, 221 Fourth Ave. NYC 3, NY)
University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif.
Vanguard Press, Inc.--424 Madison Ave. NYC 17, NY
Vantage Press, Inc.--120 West 31st St, NYC 1, NY
Viking Press--625 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
Wm. Sloane Associates--(see Wm. Morrow & Co)
World Publishing Co.--2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio.
ADDENDA
Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed;
BRANDEL, MARC. _The Choice._ New York, Dial, 1950. no data.
CATTO, MAX. _The Killing Frost._ London, Wm. Heinemann, 1950, (m). Tense relationship between two circus performers motivates an unusual, and excellent mystery novel.
RAY, SANFORD. _Satan's Harvest._ Saber Books pbo ca. 1957. Evening waster; a Mexican girl, Lupe, from a broken home, goes--with her older sister--into a brothel, but is "protected" from the advances of the men by the fact that the lesbian madame has taken a fancy to her. Lupe's older sister burns the place down to free Lupe from this fate.
SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud. of Jack Woodford.) _Wife to Trade._ N. Y. Godwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably racy stuff, not too badly written.
WILLINGHAM, CALDER. "The Sum of two Angles", ss in _The Gates OF Hell._ N. Y. Vanguard, 1951.
YOUNG, FRANCES BRETT. _White Ladies._ NY, Harper 1935. A boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher, finally comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emotions of the young.
behind the scenes
Introducing the editors and contributors....
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist, who attends to such minor chores as editorial format and manhandling the mimeograph, is by profession a writer of science fiction. Her work has appeared in virtually every science fiction magazine on the market. She is thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and her other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and mountain climbing.
GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical work for the Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives in the midwest, and is a librarian; she previously worked as a book-keeper and on a large city newspaper. Her chief interests are classical music and the collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over 600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which the senior editor had not read. In general, Damon is the brains of the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn.
KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer's devil, is in her early twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. She is no stranger to the readers of the _Ladder_, who all know her gay, airy cover drawings.
LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to _Vice Versa_, collector of lesbiana, specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the news-stands, lives in California and, under her own name, is a well-known editor and writer.
HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor has just discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA'S TOWER Checklist #3. We thought they'd all been destroyed. This is the last-year's list, containing Royal Drummond's "Digression", and my account of a hassle with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I want to get these things out of my broom closet, and my soul revolts at the thought of tossing the things into the trash burner for the edification of the garbage collector. Therefore, we will make the following offer. Mailing these things out by printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By first class mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost something. If anyone wants these (who knows, they might be valuable as examples of prehistoric lesbiana some day) you can have then for a quarter (first class mail) or six for a dollar to pass around among your friends. Hurry up--I'm going to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get finished with this year's Checklist. You'll find the address on the titlepage.--And this is it--The End--Marion.