The Desert of the Heart by JANE RULE SIGNED First Edition 1964 Lesbian 1st

The Desert of the Heart. Signed first American edition, first printing in dust jacket. Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1964.

Signed by Jane Rule on the front free endpaper, inscribed to poet and compuer science pioneer Josephine Miles, "For Jo[,] Probably illegal "skys of [illegible] vision", but there is a "human show. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. One of the first novels to deal with lesbian characters in a literary/ romantic context (rather than pulp or erotic), and published in hardcover rather than paperback.

The basis of a 1985 film.