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. (25¢)
AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. Y. (35¢ & 50¢)
BALLANTINE BOOKS Inc., 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y. (35¢)
BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N. Y. (35¢ 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 second-hand 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, (50¢ each) 200 West 34th Street, New York, N. Y.
hardcover publishers
A list of all obtainable addresses of the publishers of hardcover books mentioned in the Checklist. (Paperback publishers listed elsewhere.)
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
BeaconPress, 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 inThe 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.
Introducing the editors and contributors....
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 theLadder, who all know her gay, airy cover drawings.
LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor toVice 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.