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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket photo after Robert Mapplethorpe (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of striking jacket photo of Edmund White by Robert Mapplethorpe, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 385pp. This book brings together some of Edmund White's essays, articles and reviews from more than 20 years, and presents a portrait of the writer and his time. The book features interviews, profiles and essays which focus on the literary and cultural figures whose work has most influenced White: Nabokov, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tennesse Williams, Michel Foucault, Pasoline, Roland Barthes, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote and Marguerite Yourcenar. Interweaved with these are a series of articles which illuminate Edmund White's response to the political dimensions of homosexual life, a response that centres on the importance of friendship when AIDS enters the scene. Edmund Valentine White III (b.1940), is a gay American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Andrew Dakers "An Epic of the Barren Lands" / Sybil Thorndike "After Ten years" / Hugo Eckener "Zeppelin" / Somerset de Chair "Red Bread" / Malcolm Elwin "Robert Walpole" / Thomas Moult "I Came Here to Work!" / Sidney Dark "Friends & Adventures"/ Max Murray "I went to Russia" / E M Delafield "A Letter to the Publisher" / Alec Brown "Moscow Has a Plan" / Major Phelps Hodge "Long Way to London" / David Garnett "A note on 'Charlotte's row'" / W Walmesley White "Migratory Birds" - there are also photographs of; francis Stuart, Edward Garnett, H E Bates. (U.P.).

Condition: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 26.5 x 17.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Sheet trimmed to or within the plate mark.

Condition: Good. Steel engraving. 28 x 18.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Two pinholes at lower right sheet corner.