first edition Softcover
1984 · Barcelona, Madrid
by MILLER, Isabel (pseudonym of Alma Routsong)
Barcelona, Madrid: Editorial Egales, 1984. Softcover. Fine. First Spanish edition. Illustrated self-wrappers. Octavo. 197pp. Fine in self-wrappers. A lesbian novel, based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Wilson, about two women living together in Greene County, New York in 1816. The original self-published edition, was sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version, published by McGraw-Hill under the title *Patience and Sarah*, won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award (now called the Stonewall Book Award) in 1971. This edition is uncommon. (Inventory #: 420926)