The Beautiful Room is Empty

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 184. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Joe Brainard (priced £9.95 to front flap).

Signed by Author to the title page. Edges and margins of text-block moderately tanned, due to inferior quality paper used, else Fine.

His fifth novel. A semi-autobiographical coming-out novel, charting the unnamed narrator's progress from the repressed atmosphere of 1950s Midwest to the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The second volume in the trilogy which began with A Boy's Own Story (1982), concluding with The Farewell Symphony (1997). "An impressive novel." –Washington Post book World