Description

• A very handsome copy of this highly desirable landmark in Gay Literature
• Baldwin’s second novel, depicting the relationship between a young American [David] and a bartender [Giovanni] he meets in Paris while studying & reassessing his engagement back home
• First UK Edition [Michael Joseph, London, 1957]; 221, [3 blank] pages; brown cloth, white titling with yellow stripes on spine, edges rubbed, slight lean, offsetting to endpapers, an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, unclipped [15s net], spine ends bumped, 1cm tear at base of rear

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception