The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 54 First Edition Of Isabel Miller’s A Place For Us , 1969, Later Published As Patience And Sarah , Inscribed By Miller 52. MILLER, Isabel, pseudonym of ROUTSONG, Alma. A Place for Us. New York, 1969. Octavo, original pictorial yellow paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $2400. Click for more info First edition of this award-winning work about a lesbian painter and her companion, later published as Patience and Sarah, inscribed: “To Rosemary. Isabel Miller. April 2, 1970.” Isabel Miller (pseudonym of Alma Routsong, who chose it because it was an acronym for “lesbia” combined with her mother’s maiden name) self-published this work in an edition of 1000 copies. The book soon became a LGBT classic after its publication in by McGraw-Hill in 1971 as Patience and Sarah . Winner of the first Stonewall Book Award. Faintest soiling to title page, slight rubbing, mild speckling, and toning to extremities of wrappers. A near-fine copy. Quite scarce. “I began to wonder if what makes men walk so lordlike and speak so masterfully is having the love of women. If that was it, Sarah and I would make lords of each other.”