The Desert of the Heart

by Jane Rule

$1,600 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1964. First edition. This, the Canadian edition, preceded all others. Signed by Jane Rule on the title page. 255 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with silver lettering. Very Good with former owners' lesbian-themed bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, a little associated wrinkling; tidemark to rear board along bottom edge; coffee stain to rear panel of dust

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