The First Gay American Novel
A Marsh Island.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885.
Price: $375.00
About the item
First edition, first printing. [ii], 292 pp., [1] f. (blank); 12 pp. (ads). 1 vols. 8vo. The First Gay American Novel. Olive green cloth shelfback, titled in gilt, darker green cloth boards, upper cover titled in green. Ends bumped, ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown, lower pastedown with past ghost, circulation slip crudely removed from flyleaf. Good plus, bright clean copy. BAL 10885.
Item #313360
Jewett’s tale of Dick Dale, a watercolor painter and “a girlish fellow”, which is, Don James McLaughlin argues, the first gay American novel.
