Giovanni's Room [SECOND PRINTING]
by Baldwin, James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 248pp. Stated second printing, with original price of $3.00 to front flap. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket designed by Seymour Chwast of Push Pin Studios, with small open tears to corners, small neat tears to edges, and chipping to head and tail of spine. Bound in stippled pale green paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in silver. Mild wear to binding, with some rubbing to extremities, particularly at tail of spine, and light dust soiling to bottom edges. Slight lean to spine. Hinges are a touch tender; binding remains quite firm and sound. Pages are gently age-toned, else clean and unmarked. A handsome second printing in admittedly worn but still quite presentable dust jacket of James Baldwin's second novel.
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
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11167
- Title
- Giovanni's Room [SECOND PRINTING]
- Author
- Baldwin, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing, January 1957
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- giftable
Terms of Sale
Underground Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
About Underground Books, ABAA
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...