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ADDENDA
Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed;
BRANDEL, MARC. _The Choice._ New York, Dial, 1950. no data.
CATTO, MAX. _The Killing Frost._ London, Wm. Heinemann, 1950, (m).
Tense relationship between two circus performers motivates an
unusual, and excellent mystery novel.
RAY, SANFORD. _Satan's Harvest._ Saber Books pbo ca. 1957. Evening
waster; a Mexican girl, Lupe, from a broken home, goes--with her
older sister--into a brothel, but is "protected" from the advances
of the men by the fact that the lesbian madame has taken a fancy
to her. Lupe's older sister burns the place down to free Lupe from
this fate.
SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud. of Jack Woodford.) _Wife to Trade._ N. Y.
Godwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably racy stuff, not
too badly written.
WILLINGHAM, CALDER. "The Sum of two Angles", ss in _The Gates OF
Hell._ N. Y. Vanguard, 1951.
YOUNG, FRANCES BRETT. _White Ladies._ NY, Harper 1935. A
boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher, finally
comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emotions of the
young.
behind the scenes
Introducing the editors and contributors....
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist, who
attends to such minor chores as editorial format and manhandling the
mimeograph, is by profession a writer of science fiction. Her work
has appeared in virtually every science fiction magazine on the
market. She is thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and
her other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and mountain
climbing.
GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical work for the
Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives in the midwest, and is a
librarian; she previously worked as a book-keeper and on a large
city newspaper. Her chief interests are classical music and the
collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over
600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist
efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this
list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which
the senior editor had not read. In general, Damon is the brains of
the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn.
KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer's devil, is in her early
twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. She
is no stranger to the readers of the _Ladder_, who all know her gay,
airy cover drawings.
LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to _Vice Versa_, collector of lesbiana,
specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the news-stands, lives
in California and, under her own name, is a well-known editor and
writer.
HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor has just
discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA'S TOWER Checklist #3. We
thought they'd all been destroyed. This is the last-year's list,
containing Royal Drummond's "Digression", and my account of a hassle
with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I want to get these things out of my
broom closet, and my soul revolts at the thought of tossing the things
into the trash burner for the edification of the garbage collector.
Therefore, we will make the following offer. Mailing these things out by
printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By first class
mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost something. If anyone
wants these (who knows, they might be valuable as examples of
prehistoric lesbiana some day) you can have then for a quarter (first
class mail) or six for a dollar to pass around among your friends. Hurry
up--I'm going to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get
finished with this year's Checklist. You'll find the address on the
titlepage.--And this is it--The End--Marion.