BALDWIN, James.

Giovanni's Room.

New York: The Dial Press, 1956.

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“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back”: First Edition of Giovanni’s Room; Inscribed by James Baldwin

First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “For Larry Brooks, Peace James Baldwin.” Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Seymour Chwast. Rare and desirable inscribed.

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. “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one” (Michael Ondaatje).