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This beautiful softcover edition is in fine condition, with no marks or tears and only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, appear unread, and the book is tight, square, and unmarked.

Mass market paperback in fine condition for the pages and text. No creasing to the spine or page edges. Pages are clean, complete, and entirely unmarked throughout, with some natural fading to tan due to the age of the book. The binding shows significant wear and is coming apart at the spine due to age; while the text block remains complete and intact with no loose or missing pages, this is a meaningful structural issue and the book should be handled gently. Sold accordingly, with this defect clearly disclosed. A Laurel Book, published by Dell Publishing, a division of The Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York. This printing dated May 1988. Front cover photograph by Alexander Alland. James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers, born in Harlem, New York, and primarily resident in the south of France in his later years. Baldwin began writing Another Country in Greenwich Village in 1948 and continued working on it in Paris and New York over the following decade, finally completing it in Istanbul in 1962. ISBN 0-440-30200-5.

This beautiful softcover edition is in near fine condition, with no marks or tears and only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, appear unread, and the book is tight, firm, and near fine. Giovanni's Room is widely regarded as one of Baldwin's most important works. The story is set in Paris and follows David, an American man who is grappling with his sexual identity. David is in a relationship with Hella, but he becomes infatuated with Giovanni, an Italian bartender. Baldwin's prose in Giovanni's Room is poetic and deeply emotional, exploring the tension between personal desire and the fear of societal judgment. Ultimately, the novel is a powerful exploration of self-discovery, love, and the consequences of living a life in denial.