Our colleague Michael North found the first edition of A Scarlet Pansy (our June 7 selection) in the Library of Congress, and has generously shared these photos of the dust jacket, title page and frontispiece. He also spotlights the publisher's attempt in this liner note to ride the wave created by the publication of a novel that will be familiar to many of you: "The first honest and really complete story of 'one of those men.' What The Well of Loneliness did for the man-woman [!], this unusual tale does for the Woman-Man --only that the latter is a [sic] so much more wayward and more fascinating."
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