Stone Butch Blues – rare and collectible book from Deb’s Rare Books
Stone Butch Blues – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
Stone Butch Blues – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
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Stone Butch Blues

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Condition: ["Fine"]

Format: Paperback

Price:
$450.00

Description

Author Leslie Feinberg

Publisher Firebrand Books

Format  Paperback

condition like new +

Summary

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg is one of the most important works of LGBTQ literature of the 20th century—an urgent, unflinching, and profoundly human novel that forever reshaped the conversation around gender, identity, and working-class queer life in America.

First published in 1993 by Firebrand Books, a pioneering feminist and LGBTQ press known for its small print runs, this true first edition paperback has become exceptionally scarce in collectible condition. Feinberg’s narrative follows Jess Goldberg—a butch lesbian and later a transgender figure—through the factories, bars, unions, and underground communities of the 1960s–70s, tracing a journey marked by brutality, solidarity, resistance, and an unforgettable fight for selfhood.

This copy is in remarkably preserved, like-new condition, unusual for a Firebrand first printing. It also contains a thoughtful contemporary gift inscription reflecting the book’s impact: “This is a definite eye opener to the transgender world. I hope you love it as much as I did.”

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the ALA Gay/Lesbian Book Award, Stone Butch Blues stands today as a landmark of queer fiction and an essential text for collectors of LGBTQ history, feminist press publications, and modern first editions. Pristine copies of the Firebrand original are increasingly difficult to find, making this an exceptional offering for the serious collector.

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