List of Symbols and Abbreviations pbo—paperbacked original; first published in paperback or first English edition in paperback. pbr—paperbacked reprint. n.d.—no date listed or date unknown. ss—short story. qpb—quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage). tct—title changed to (as, _Torchlight to Valhalla_, pbr tct _The Strange Path_). fco—for completists only; variant content either extremely slight or problematical. + before a title indicates a book of considerable value. Occasionally used to call attention to a fine new release or the discovery of an old title overlooked in previous bibliographies. In general, the plus sign has been reserved for books of honest purpose, sincere if not always entirely favorable treatment of the homosexual theme, and some genuine literary merit. In one or two cases, a plus has been given to a book of little intrinsic worth because of some major and exceptional contribution to thought on the variant theme; or to an occasional book for being extremely good entertainment of its kind, even if no masterpiece. We have tried to avoid including only our favorites. (m) indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homosexuality. A very large proportion of such novels, however, contain some discussion of female variance, or lesbian characters, as well. BAYOR—Buy at your own risk ... either no accurate data is available or the editors find themselves in hopeless disagreement about its relevance. Evening Waster—good solid entertainment and reasonably well-written, though worthless as literature. scv—see editorial for complete discussion of this term. This is the literary ghetto, the gutter books, the commercialized sex trash as distinguished from honest erotic realism. THE COMPLETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST OF LESBIAN FICTION ACKWORTH, ROBERT C. _The Moments Between._ pbo, Hillman Books 1959. Characters in a college novel include an instructor—male—who is homosexual, very sympathetically portrayed. Also a subtle, but sympathetic attachment between an unlovely, unloved student and an older woman; the relationship is shown as constructive for both in the end. + ADAMS, FAY. _Appointment in Paris._ pbo, N. Y., Gold Medal 1952. An American girl in Paris has a brief affair with a French woman and is thereby enabled to break the hold of her old-maid aunt. She later marries. ADDAMS, KAY. _Queer Patterns._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. scv. Trashy shocker about young Nora Card, who briefly forsakes her boy friend, Roger, for a corrupt lesbian employer. _Warped Desires._ pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teen-age Doris goes to a boarding school and is seduced by everyone on the premises, male and female.