signed first edition
(1963) · New York
by [LGBTQ]. BURWELL, Basil.
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1963) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by the author, who adds a small sketch of a mouse, at the first blank page. 8vo, 430 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Gunn/ Gay American Novels, 1870–1970: p 104
Upper margin & spine extremities sunned, edges lightly rubbed, text slightly toned & occasionally foxed, about Very Good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with short tears & small losses mostly at the top & bottom of the spine, Good or better.
Partially autobiographical, the novel centers around young Jeff Ramsey & his "unsentimental education" in "the gay, tawdry, amoral, sometimes brutal world of a seedy summer stock company" Author Burwell was himself an actor & director as well as the founder of The Belfast Maskers in Belfast, Maine. (Inventory #: 0000458)
Upper margin & spine extremities sunned, edges lightly rubbed, text slightly toned & occasionally foxed, about Very Good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with short tears & small losses mostly at the top & bottom of the spine, Good or better.
Partially autobiographical, the novel centers around young Jeff Ramsey & his "unsentimental education" in "the gay, tawdry, amoral, sometimes brutal world of a seedy summer stock company" Author Burwell was himself an actor & director as well as the founder of The Belfast Maskers in Belfast, Maine. (Inventory #: 0000458)