Of Love Forbidden; AKA The Scorpion an Pioneering Novel of Lesbian literature

1960. [Lesbian pulp] Weirauch, Anna Elisbet, translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. New York: Crest Books, 1960. Paperback. 192p., a Crest reprint, uncensored abridgement mass-market paperback in pictorial wraps. Pioneering novel of lesbian literature, first published in 1919. The story, telling the bourgeois upbringing of Metta Rudloff, her early love for Olga Rado, and the suffering Metta must endure. A main theme in the novel is the complexity of lesbian identity, and rejection of the fetishization of female sexuality. In 1926, Der Skorpion was censored in Germany under the guise that it could corrupt the youth. Very good condition,