Percival goodman illus (1 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First printing. Trade issue, after 100 signed & numbered copies. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 137,[27]pp; final 24pp blank. Fresh, tight and unmarked; Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3 on front flap), crisp, clean and unworn - very Near Fine. Sgraffito illustrations by the author's older brother, Percival Goodman. A brilliant copy of Goodman's highly controversial novel, based on his own experiences teaching at the progressive Manumit School in upstate New York, and dealing openly with his own same-sex attractions to the students, which eventually got him fired from his position. Finding the book was impossible to publish commercially, Goodman self-published it with the aid of his friend Tony Gran, proprietor of the 5x8 Press. Gran had also published Goodman's earlier poetry collection The Copernican Revolution (1947). A pioneering work of gay literature, rarely seen in this condition. NICELY 206. YOUNG 1025. …