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hardcover with original jacket, no markings, first edition with no additional printings mentioned, $3.00 price on jacket, the dustjacket is slightly chipped at edges and has some clear tape inside, no significant losses, some foxing visible on endpapers and outer text block, no markings or writing.

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.