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New York: The Dial Press, 1956. Hardcover. 248p., one dog-eared page, Acres of Books stamp on front pastedown endpaper, very good first edition hardcover bound in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket with long, closed tears at spine fold and rear flap fold. Novel of homosexual love. Young 158*. Second novel by Baldwin.

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.