WHITE, Edmund [Chip Kidd].
A Boy's Own Story; The Beautiful Room is Empty; The Farewell Symphony.
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc.; Alfred A. Knopf , 1982-1997.
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First Editions of A Boy's Own Story Trilogy; Each Signed by Edmund White and Signed Three Times by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd
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. A Boy's Own Story is a first edition, review copy with the original publisher’s slip laid in along with a pre-release article from Dutton News. Each volume is signed by Edmund White with The Beautiful Room is Empty being a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For George lots of love Edmund White." The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony are signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd: on the front panel, on the half-title page, and 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.
$1,200.00
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