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A Boy's Own Story [Author Inscribed, With Als Laid In]
by White, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Author inscribed to title page. Previous owners signature in ink to front free end paper. Very mild soiling to front free end pa
- ISBN 10
- 0525241280
- ISBN 13
- 9780525241287
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dutton, 1982. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Author inscribed to title page. Previous owners signature in ink to front free end paper. Very mild soiling to front free end paper, head and foot of spine. Mild soiling to DJ covers. Mild chipping to head of DJ spine. Very mild rubbing to foot of spine, outer corners of DJ. DJ in archival mylar. 4 cm to bottom edge of back DJ cover. Pages clean and binding tight. Very good(+) in very good(-) DJ.. Hardcover octavo in beige DJ. 217 pages; 22 cm. Author inscription to one James to title page, with an engaging, flirtatious two-page ALS handwritten letter to same laid in. Abstract: At home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self. Teenage boys -- Fiction. Gay youth.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89499
- Title
- A Boy's Own Story [Author Inscribed, With Als Laid In]
- Author
- White, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Author inscribed to title page. Previous owners signature in ink to front free end paper. Very mild soiling to front free end pa
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0525241280
- ISBN 13
- 9780525241287
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
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About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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