Checklist / A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.

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THE ANCIENT WORLD:

Erinna—only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology and other miscellaneous collections of that type.

Nossis—Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology, Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.

Sappho—The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions available in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard, University of California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive edition is also published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper Press, on display in most bookstores.

Juvenal—Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958, $1.50; also number 997 in Everyman’s Library, $1.85.) The Sixth Satire.

Martial—His “Epigrams” contain various references to lesbians. Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75.

THE MIDDLE AGES:

Ariosto, Ludovico—Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.

Labe, Louise—Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), New Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.

Shakespeare, William—The first 27 of the “Sonnets” are generally adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore of interest to collectors in this field.