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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 218 pages. Published in 1982. The first novel in the author's Gay Trilogy. One of the best novels of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Modern Library Commemorative Edition (2002). Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Edmund White's "A Boy's Own Story". The first volume of the author's ground-breaking trilogy. It was followed by "The Beautiful Room Is Empty" (1988) and concluded with "The Farewell Symphony" (1997). The First Edition includes the blurb on the back of the DJ by Susan Sontag, which was deleted in subsequent printings because White and Sontag had a terrible falling-out, never reconciled, and "hell hath no fury" Sontag demanded that her glowing blurb be removed: "Full of pungent observation, wonderful language, and convincing sensuality. This novel about seduction and maturity, about America, and about a 'homosexual fate', is a large and happy accomplishment" (Susan Sontag). The novel has been copied, but never matched much less surpassed, by what are now shelves of gay literature. Written in Edmund White's effortless, supple, and immaculate prose, which serves him well in his luminous novel about the pain and beauty of erotic desire, how the "latent" becomes "overt", and what is "repressed" is suddenly "expressed", liberatedly and adventurously. "One of the three or four most virtuosic living writers of sentences in the English language" (Dave Eggers). An absolute "must-have" title for Edmund White collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Edmund White. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. It is also, by far, White's single most popular title. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing/First-State DJ still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: The true First Edition has the First-State "Sontag blurb" on the Back of the DJ, which was removed in subsequent printings. Copies available online have serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994 for "Genet: A Biography". Anointed by Vladimir Nabokov as his American successor. One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDMUND WHITE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Signed by Author.