[LESBIAN PULP FICTION]. BANNON, ANN. Women in the Shadows. San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press, Inc., 2002. Signed by the author, Ann Bannon, on the title page. Paperbound. As new copy in printed wrappers. Contains a new introduction by Bannon written specially for this edition. Ann Bannon is a well-known novelist of the golden age of the sub-genre of lesbian pulp fiction. Ann’s classic novels of the 1950s and 1960s provided many lesbians of the time with a welcome chance to identify with a community, and remain vital reading today.The front panel has a color illustration of a beautiful dark-haired woman smoking a cigarette in the foreground with a pretty blond woman in pink panties glancing back at her in the background.