Gordon, Ian. The Night Thorn. New York: The Dial Press 1952. First edition hardcover, complete with pink-and-black dust jacket. The Night Thorn is the story of a white-passing Black woman who conceals her true identity in order to stay with her lover, a racist Texan whose mind is "inflamed with.....
Gordon, Ian. The Night Thorn. New York: Popular Library 1953. Contains 192 pages, measures about 4.5" x 6.5." Classic pulp cover art by Rafael DeSoto presents a racially ambiguous woman sitting at a piano, while a white man smokes a cigarette and observes her from a distance. Tagline reads, "The.....
[African American][Pulp] Gordon, Ian. The Night Thorn. New York: Popular Library, 1953. First paperback edition. A midcentury pulp exploring race, identity, and forbidden desire, The Night Thorn centers on a light-skinned Black woman passing as white in 1950s Harlem to retain her romantic relationship with a white man. The novel.....
