![LADY LOVE](/images/headline/3546.png) When girl meets girl sparks fly. ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_01.jpg)
Above and below is a small percentage of some of the thousands of lesbian themed paperback covers that appeared during the mid-century period, with art by Paul Rader, Fred Fixler, Harry Schaare, Rudy Nappi, Charles Copeland, and others, as well as a few interesting photographed fronts. The collection ends with the classic Satan Was a Lesbian, which you’ve probably seen before, but which no collection like this is complete without. Hopefully most of the others will be new to you. Needless to say, almost all were written by men, and in that sense are really hetero books reflecting hetero fantasies (fueled by hetero misconceptions and slander). You can see plenty more in this vein on the website Strange Sisters. ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_48.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_47.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_29.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_30.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_45.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_31.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_32.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_33.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_34.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_35.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_50.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_37.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_51.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_38.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_52.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_39.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_49.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_43.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/lady_love_40.jpg)
![ALL IN VEIN](/images/headline/3532.png) The point of no return. ![](/images/postimg/all_in_vein.jpg)
Most mid-century lesbian fiction was written by men disguised behind pseudonyms. While Sloane Britain was indeed a pseudonym, its owner was actually a woman—Midwood-Tower editor Elaine Williams, who published from 1959 until committing suicide in 1964 at age thirty-three. The Needle concerns a woman who gets hooked on heroin and follows her long and winding road downhill, with the expected stops at dealing, prostitution, withdrawal, and relapse. But there are also a couple of great twists you don't get in typical heroin novels. Considered a classic of the drug sleaze genre, it was published in 1959. This fits nicely with our collection of needle paperback covers from a few years ago, which you can see here.
![BONFILS GOOD](/images/headline/3094.png) You knew that he would. ![](/images/postimg/bonfils_good_01.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/bonfils_good_02.jpg)
Above is another rare double-sided Robert Bonfils paperback cover, this time for Any Man’s Playmate and Strumpet’s Jungle, written by Rubel, aka James Rubel, and Sloane Britain, respectively. See the first example we shared here.
![MARILYN MANSION](/images/headline/3073.png) The most unforgettable party of the year. ![](/images/postimg/marilyn_mansion.jpg)
Above, a nice cover for Sloane Britain’s, aka Elaine Williams’ Meet Marilyn, from Midwood-Tower, 1963. Originally published in 1960, this is sort of an anthology novel, with various characters populating separate chapters before crossing paths at the same decadent Manhattan party, with the whole web really a set-up for assorted steamy hetero and gay encounters. The art is by Al Wagner.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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