"Strange Sisters" - Lesbian paperback artwork from the 1950s and 1960s

[Roxanne Appleby]

We've been having fun on Blurt with this, and it really deserves it's own thread. Enjoy!

"Strange Sisters is an online archive of lesbian paperback cover art from the 50's and 60's. This free site has a clean and well-catalogued layout. Some of the covers featured in this impressive collection were an early inspiration for the director of twilightwomen films. Lots of fun, highly recommended."

"He forgot his tramp wife in a depraved lust-nest."
"Young, tender and naive, she was perfect bait for a professional divorcee with perverted desires."

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Copied from blurt:

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/images/crap_shoot.php?photo=xhouseboy.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=60
Is this guy Frank Sinatra???

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Another:

Oh, Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaana? *giggle*

"A bold new look at an old transgression...portraying the frightening spread of lesbianism among the white women of modern-day Africa"

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/images/crap_shoot.php?photo=xleather.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=106

She was saved by her implants.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/images/crap_shoot.php?photo=xleather.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=106

She was saved by her implants.

Here's the rest:

The prison was a hellhole where trustees wore -
LEATHER

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/i...photo=xlendalover.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=113

This looks like a booket for CPR instructions.

 

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[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/i...hoto=xlesbiangang.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=115

A gang of two??

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Carla

To the world--a "Les"
To her lovers--a "Butch"
To herself--"Tramp"

She roamed the world with her belongings tied up in a bandanna?

It was a typo. They meant "tied up in a banana", which was a fashion started not long previously by Kerouac.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/i...=xlesbianhandbook.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=117

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/i...oto=xlesbiannurse.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=131

OMG!! its LUCKY!!!

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/i...oto=xlesbiannurse.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=131

OMG!! its LUCKY!!!

Slurp -

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.strangesisters.com/a-z/i...=xlesbiansorority.jpg&data=g-l.list&start=139

Now its Stella!!!

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

A lot of those wonderful covers were by the immortal (i.e. dead) Eric Stanton.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

A lot of those wonderful covers were by the immortal (i.e. dead) Eric Stanton.

I love retro art.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

I love retro art.

Fuck, for one second I thought you said hetero art.

 

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[Roxanne Appleby]

I had NO idea!

Cheater!

 

[Guest]

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Moi?

*flutters eyelashes at Rox*

"She claimed the photos were untouched, but as in the marital bed, she was a -
Cheater . . ."

 

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[Rumple Foreskin]

If, like me, you think this collection is great, then you may be twisted enough to appreciate a similar collection of cover art from "nurse" books. If you do decide to check it out at: Tiny Pineapple don't miss "Hootenanny Nurse" (no, I'm not making that up)
http://www.tinypineapple.com/bookshelf/nurse_books/c/images/cherry_ames_student_nurse_thumbnail.jpg http://www.tinypineapple.com/bookshelf/nurse_books/j/images/jane_arden_head_nurse_thumbnail.jpg http://www.tinypineapple.com/bookshelf/nurse_books/s/images/sugar_bush_nurse_thumbnail.jpg http://www.tinypineapple.com/bookshelf/nurse_books/s/images/sue_barton_student_nurse_thumbnail.jpg

Rumple Foreskin

 

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[Roxanne Appleby]

Found yours.

"The girls on campus started a little political club, 'Libertarian Ladies' they called it,
but when Roxanne attended her first meeting she learned they weren't libertarian ladies, but
Libertine Lezbos