signed first edition Paperback
1990 · Toulouse
by Lee, Vernon [pseudonym of Violet Paget] translated by Michel Desforges
Toulouse: Éditions Ombres, 1990. Paperback. 101p., text in French, personal inscription to trans horror author Jessica Amanda Salmonson signed by the translator Desforges, mild foxing to top edge otherwise a very good first edition thus trade paperback in pictorial wraps. A French translation of Lee's "A Phantom Lover" from 1886. Paget was a pacifist, feminist and open lesbian who dressed as a man. She was a British expatriate born in France but who lived most of her life in Italy. (Inventory #: 200544)