Author: Radclyffe Hall
Title: The Well of Loneliness
Description: London, The Falcon Press, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. The first Falcon Press edition of Radclyffe Hall's important and controversial work of lesbian literature. The first impression of the first edition thus of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Initially published in the UK in 1928 by Jonathan Cape, a British court judged the novel obscene because it defended "unnatural practices between women". As a result, it was not published again in England until this 1949 Falcon Press edition, and has been in print continuously ever since.Hall's novel follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose 'sexual inversion' is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection.Former owner's inscription to front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Inscription to front pastedown. Chipping to dust wrapper back strip head, otherwise excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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