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GIOVANNI'S ROOM
by Baldwin, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0718104757
- ISBN 13
- 9780718104757
- Seller
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Livonia, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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 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. ) .
Synopsis
Giovanni’s Room was the first published novel by James Baldwin, who hit literary acclaim in 1953 with his semi-autobiographical work Go Tell it on the Mountain . Giovanni’s Room is about a young bisexual American man and his affair with an Italian in Paris. It is one of Baldwin’s only works not to deal with race, focusing instead on the characters’ romantic relationships.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13388
- Title
- GIOVANNI'S ROOM
- Author
- Baldwin, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First UK Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0718104757
- ISBN 13
- 9780718104757
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- 0718104757
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2020
Livonia, Michigan
About Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Sage Rare & Collectible Books specializes in out-of-print, scarce, and rare books as well as signed and First Editions.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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