With titles like Women in the Shadows, Of Shame and Joy, The Unmarried Ones, The Fourth Sex, and The Third Way, these novels often portray the secretive and dangerous lives of lesbians who have found their way to the bar scene in big cities in search of others like themselves. A number of these novels belong to series, such as Midwood, which also include gay men’s pulps. The Lesbian Popular Fiction Collection contains approximately one hundred pulp novels, primarily from the 1950s and 1960s. George Fisher’s gift contributes significantly to Cornell’s overall holdings in the history of sexuality, and in particular, to its collection of lesbian and gay paperback novels. In operation for two decades, Elysian Fields had become the country’s largest dealer in rare and out-of-print books relating to sexuality. In 1991, the estate of George Fisher donated the entire inventory of his Elysian Fields Booksellers business in New York City. ![]() Gordon Martin, a retired librarian who had been building a personal collection of such paperbacks for years, donated some 1700 volumes in 1989. As a result of two major donations to the Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell now holds a major collection of gay men’s pulp novels and series fiction and has the beginnings of a collection of lesbian pulp novels dating from the 1950s.
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