The Price of Salt
by Morgan, Claire [Patricia Highsmith]
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good.
- Seller
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Bantam, 1953. First Bantam Edition. Paperback. Very good.. 7 x 4 1/4 inches (18 x 10.5 cm), pictorial cover. Clean copy, wear to extremities, 1 inch wear to spine. First paperback edition. Bantam Book # 1148. Signed on title page "Claire Morgan PH."
Also signed "Marijane Meaker, author of "Highsmith."
The Price of Salt is the first lesbian romance novel that doesn't end in death, suicide, or conversion to heterosexuality. This book was written under a pseudonym by Patricia Highsmith, author of "Strangers on a Train" and the Ripley novels. The Price of Salt was the basis for the movie "Carol."
By signing the novel with the initials PH, she is tipping her hat to those who know who Claire Morgan really was.
Marijane Meaker was a prolific writer of lesbian pulps writing under various pen names, including Ann Aldrich and Vin Packer. In 2003 she wrote "Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's," about a relationship she had with Patricia Highsmith.
249 pp.
Also signed "Marijane Meaker, author of "Highsmith."
The Price of Salt is the first lesbian romance novel that doesn't end in death, suicide, or conversion to heterosexuality. This book was written under a pseudonym by Patricia Highsmith, author of "Strangers on a Train" and the Ripley novels. The Price of Salt was the basis for the movie "Carol."
By signing the novel with the initials PH, she is tipping her hat to those who know who Claire Morgan really was.
Marijane Meaker was a prolific writer of lesbian pulps writing under various pen names, including Ann Aldrich and Vin Packer. In 2003 she wrote "Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's," about a relationship she had with Patricia Highsmith.
249 pp.
Synopsis
The Price of Salt is a romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author - known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, Strangers on a Train - became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1175
- Title
- The Price of Salt
- Author
- Morgan, Claire [Patricia Highsmith]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Bantam Edition
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Patricia Highsmith, Lesbian pulp, Claire Morgan, Marijane Meaker, Carol movie, LGBTQ+
Terms of Sale
Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
30 day return guarantee, with full refund.
About the Seller
Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2020
Atlanta, Georgia
About Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
Member of ABAA/ILAB. On-line sales and the occasional book fair.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...