EINE ANDERE WELT [ANOTHER COUNTRY]

(Hamburg): Rowohlt, 1970. Fine in near fine jacket.. Early German edition of novel that Baldwin said "makes GIOVANNI seem conservative-almost square." Baldwin's 1962 novel was written over the course of more than a decade, during the author's stays in Greenwich Village, in William Styron's Connecticut guest house, in Paris, and finally in Istanbul: a writing process so long and so spread out over the globe because "I couldn't find the peace of mind-the space free of other people-to write anywhere in America" (Weatherby). The result, banned for obscenity in New Orleans and panned by a petulant Norman Mailer as "abominably written" except for the sex, was also a bestseller second only to Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES. NATIONAL REVIEW, of all places, called it "brilliantly written." First published in Germany in 1965 by Rowohlt, this edition has a new cover design. 7.5'' x 4.5''. Original white paper boards, spine stamped in black. In original color pictorial dust jacket (no price). 456 pages. Jacket with light toning to spine and margins, tiny closed tear. Boards with a hint of toning.