Checklist Part 17

J. B. Lippincott Co.-East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Penna.

Little, Brown & Co.-34 Beacon Street, Boston 6, Ma.s.s.

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 a.s.sociates-(see Wm. Morrow & Co)

World Publishing Co.-2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio.

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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.

G.o.dwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably racy stuff, not too badly written.

WILLINGHAM, CALDER. "The Sum of two Angles", ss in _The Gates OF h.e.l.l._ 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 ch.o.r.es 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 cla.s.sical music and the collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over 600 t.i.tles 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 t.i.tle 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 ha.s.sle 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 cla.s.s mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By first cla.s.s 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 cla.s.s mail) or six for a dollar to pa.s.s 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 t.i.tlepage.-And this is it-The End-Marion.