Books

First edition. Endpaper and page edges slightly toned, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with light spine-toning, and a triangular chip at the crown near the front panel. The author's controversial and very scarce second novel.

Giovanni's Room is a 1956 novel by James Baldwin. The book focuses on the events in the life of an American man living in Paris and his feelings and frustrations with his relationships with other men in his life, particularly an Italian bartender named Giovanni whom he meets at a Parisian gay bar.