Giovannis Room by James Baldwin, First Edition (30 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. MINT COND GFT QUALTY.

Paperback. first edition. H-319 very good, creases gay novel paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Very clean. No markings. Ribbon bookmark. Book is in a very good slipcase. Pictures on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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.

First edition. Pictorial card stock wrappers. 144 pp. Wraps rubbed, upper fore-tip creased, text block toned, else quite good. First printing, February 1959, the first reprint of the original hardcover edition published by the Dial Press, as stated. Giovanni's Room is a novel by James Baldwin, published in 1956. It tells the story of David, an American man living in Paris, who struggles with his sexual identity and his feelings for Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets at a gay bar. The novel explores themes of homosexuality, bisexuality, social alienation, and masculinity in a society that rejects same-sex desire. It is considered one of Baldwin's most acclaimed and controversial works, as well as a landmark in LGBTQ+ literature.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Paperback. A lightly worn copy. Apparently unread. Clean and unmarked. First Printing, February, 1959, on copyright page. Age toned pages. Overall a very nice copy. 144 pages.

Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. A very fine, clean and tight copy in slipcase. Stated First Printing, The Library of America-97. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition. As New.

Condition: Very Good. His second novel. HB, 1st Edition , 221pp. Tan cloth, . Lightly Tanned strip and light spotting to endpapers, No Dust jacket A Very Good copy No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. One of the classics of modern gay literature of the 20th Century. An early printing and scarce in jacket. An ex-library copy in black cloth with silver type. Dings to top corners and top of front board. Wear to spine ends, bottom page ends and bottom corners. Front free endpaper cut out with stamp to half-title page and rfep. Adhesive remains to both pastedowns and inked out stamps with notations to title and copyright page. A few short tears to top of rear hinge and bottom of rfep. Binding a little shaken. Jacket is unclipped ($4.50) with edgewear/creasing overall, 3/4 inch tear to top rear flap crease and libary sticker across bottom of front panel. Several pieces of tape to inside of jacket, though no other tears. Jacket design by Seymour Chwast. 9th Printing.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 7inch , in plain sleeve and printed cardboard holder, very slightly soiled and seemingly unplayed very scarce(VV1/3).

Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition, 3rd Printing. First Edition, Third Printing. Ex-library. In Fair, mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First Printing. One of the classics of modern gay literature of the 20th Century. An early printing and scarce in jacket. In patterned pale green boards and black spine cloth with silver type. A little wear with tiny spots of fraying to head of spine. Small dings to top corners and top of rear board with small splits. A couple red scuff/pigment marks to front and rear boards. Previous woner's name to ffep "Library of.". Light tanning to endpapers with spot at rear and page ends. Interior clean and binding solid. In brand new high quality facsimile jacket. Jacket design by Seymour Chwast. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Book in VG+ condition, with no inscriptions, slight marking to front cover. Jacket in very nice bright condition. Not a book club edition or a remainder. Scans available on request.

Hardcover. First British edition. 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 were considered acceptable fodder for literary fiction by mainstream America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First UK Edition; Second Printing. ****Holiday Sale! The current price reflects a 20% discount off the regular price, while the item lasts. Sale ends December 11, 2023*****; 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 lightly foxed. Pages are clean and pristine. Dust jacket is toned with light soiling and worn at extremities and light tattering at corners but in good+ condition. Publisher's price of 15s net on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardcover with original jacket, no markings, first edition with no additional printings mentioned, $3.00 price on jacket, the dustjacket is slightly chipped at edges and has some clear tape inside, no significant losses, some foxing visible on endpapers and outer text block, no markings or writing.

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 creation of an expatriate American whose desires are weighted with ambivalence, shame, and anger, Baldwin proves himself a worthy successor to Henry James. The novel, Baldwin said in a 1980 interview, tells "what happens if you are so afraid that you finally cannot love anybody. That's what the book is about." 7.75'' x 5''. Original brown cloth. In original unclipped (15s) dust jacket designed by William Belcher. 220, [2] pages. Offsetting and faint foxing to endpapers. Light edgewear to dust jacket; short closed tears to rear panel. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. 8vo. Small light stain on fore-edge. Otherwise, near fine. DJ has edge chips, with two conspicuous ones lower front edge. Light soil besides.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. 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 hint of wear at the head of the spine and a little dustiness to the back panel but is overall a lovely copy. NO INSCRIPTIONS. A very nice copy indeed. NB: the First UK edition is considerably scarcer than the Author's first book ("Go Tell it to the Mountain") published 3 years' earlier. Looks very smart in its brodart. A classic of gay literature that recounts a tormented love affair in Paris between David (the narrator) and Giovanni an Italian bartender. It is also true that the book gives rather horrifying voice to David's self-loathing disgust at homosexuality. A landmark novel. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 248 pp. Original boards with black cloth backstrip, silver lettering. Near Fine with a slight lean to the spine, foxing to endsheets and pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and tanning, light staining. Baldwin's second novel, which dealt with gay issues long before they were considered acceptable fodder for literary fiction by mainstream America. Set in Paris and narrated by an expatriate American who becomes smitten with an Italian bartender named Giovanni.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Endpaper and page edges slightly toned, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with light spine-toning, and a triangular chip at the crown near the front panel. The author's controversial and very scarce second novel.

1st edition, first printing, of his second novel SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page Near fine/near fine (price-clipped).

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. Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. â If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one" (Michael Ondaatje).

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. An exceptional example. Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. â If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one" (Michael Ondaatje).