Description: First hardcover edition, first printing with full number line. Signed in black ink by the author on the half-title. Bound in quarter white cloth with red paper over boards and brown lettering on the spine. In original pictorial dust jacket with price of $13.95. 8.5 x 5.5 inches; [10], 217, [1] pages. Light bumping to one corner of the binding, soiling on pages 3-4, dust jacket with a few closed tears, minor chipping, and remnants of a sticker. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. The first book in a trilogy by Edmund White, this semi-autobiographical novel about a gay teenage boy in the 1950s Midwestern United States is an LGBTQ+ classic.
