WHITE, Edmund [Chip Kidd].
A Boy's Own Story; The Beautiful Room is Empty; The Farewell Symphony.
First Editions of A Boy's Own Story Trilogy; Each Signed by Edmund White and Signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc.; Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-1997.
$950.00
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Item Number: RRB-148482
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First editions of this classic trilogy tracing the coming-of-age story of a gay man across mid-to-late 20th-century America. Octavo, three volumes, original half cloth. Each volume is signed by Edmund White with The Farewell Symphony being a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Everest all my love Edmund White." The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony are signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the title page and again on the rear panel. Each volume is fine in a near fine to fine dust jackets. Jacket design for A Boy's Own Story by Earl Tidwell. Jacket design for The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony by Chip Kidd.
Edmund White is a prominent American novelist, essayist, and cultural critic whose work has been foundational to the development of modern LGBTQ+ literature. Best known for his semi-autobiographical A Boy’s Own Story trilogy, White has chronicled the emotional and sexual lives of gay men with rare candor, lyricism, and psychological depth. His writing, often drawing on personal experience, engages themes of identity, alienation, intimacy, and the shifting social attitudes toward homosexuality, particularly before and during the AIDS crisis. Beyond fiction, White has contributed significantly to literary biography and criticism, including works on Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Parisian cultural life.
A Boy's Own Story; The Beautiful Room is Empty; The Farewell Symphony.
$950.00
Out of Stock