Giovanni's Room

New York : Apollo Editions/Dial Press, 1962. First Edition Thus/5th Printing. Paperback.. Good/N/A. One of the classics of modern gay literature. An early printing of the first trade paperback edition with same cover as the hardcover edition. A well worn copy with 1/4 inch tear to top of spine, chip at bottom, small moisture stain to bottom inside of front… Read more about this item

New York: The Dial Press, 1956. First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Baldwin on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Seymour Chwast. Rare and desirable signed.

Michael Joseph. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1957. First UK Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0718104757 . ; Maroon cloth cover is sunned with lightly frayed bottom corners and tail cap but clean and in very good condition. Boards are slightly warped and barely noticeable. Spine is straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs very… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. First British edition. Hardcover. First British edition, first printing. 221 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with yellow and white stamping on the spine. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, red rose on spine panel sunned, light wear. Baldwin's second novel, which dealt with gay issues long before they… Read more about this item

New York: The Dial Press, 1956. First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch a shelfwear. Jacket design by Seymour Chwast. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.

New York: New American Library/Signet, 1959. Paperback. 144p., good first paperback printing in original pictorial wraps. The Dial Press first was Young 158* Signet S1559. Baldwin's second novel.

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK edition. Publisher's tan boards with white lettering to the spine. A bookseller's ticket to the front paste-down otherwise a near fine (or better) copy in like dustwrapper priced 15s nett to the inside flap (as called for). The complete dustwrapper has just a… Read more about this item

Paperback. New.

Dell, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good, clean, tight copy. First Dell printing in plastic slipcase. Text is free of marks, underlining, and highlighting. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Delta, 2000-06-13. Paperback. Used: Good. Excellent customer service. Prompt Customer Service.

UsedGood. 5th printing 1966. Cover is lightly creased & has shelfwear. Pages are clean.

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Baldwin's second novel, a story of love and and fear that first revealed Baldwin's full capacities as "the greatest American prose stylist of his generation" (Tóibín). GIOVANNI'S ROOM is one of the great twentieth century studies of masculinity and sexual identity; in his… Read more about this item

New York: Vintage Books/ Random House LLC, 2013. Paperback. Very Good. 169p. A softcover book in very good condition. Like new apart from faint creasing at the bottom corner. A novel set in 1950s Paris by the famous Black author.

Paperback / softback. New. When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities.

Vintage Books, January 2013. Trade Paperback. New. Shipping fee applies to first book, there is no additional shipping fee for addition books from our store. All of our books are in clean, readable condition (unless noted otherwise). Our books generally have a store sticker on the inside cover with our in store pricing. Being used books, some… Read more about this item

Vintage International, 2013. Very Good softcover New. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New York:: Signet,, (1959). Overall very good condition (usual toning to the pages, some rubbing to the covers.). First thus- a pocket paperback. Baldwin's third book, second novel. Set in Paris this story of a love triangle is a major novel on the theme of homosexuality. Vintage paperback edition, Signetl S1559, cover price 35c. 144 pp.

London: Michael Joseph 1957 His second novel. Hardcover book , 1st Edition , 221pp. Tan cloth, . Lightly Tanned strip and light spotting to endpapers, No Dust jacket A Very Good copy No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Corgi Books, 1966. paperback. Good. 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). 1966 reprint. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Paperback / softback. New. Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.