The Gilda Stories: A Novel [Signed copy]
Jewelle Gomez
Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1991. 1st PB Printing. Signed and inscribed: "Sheila, enjoy the journey! Jewelle Gomez " Illustrated card covers, with a photograph of Gomez's great aunt, Effie Johnson, on the front and of the author on the back. Octavo (21.5x14x1.5cm); 252pp.
Lesbian feminist take on longstanding vampire tropes and tales is by the self-described "foremother of Afrofuturism." Gomez was also, with her partner, one of the litigants who became foremothers of the legal right for same-sex couples to marry in California. The Gilda Stories won the Lamda Award in both the Lesbian Scifi/Fantasy/Horror and Lesbian Fiction categories in 1992.
