About this title: A gay man and his erotic adventures in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans, based on Rechy's own travels in the 1950s. This picaresque tour of gay culture was a bestseller when it was published in 1963, despite America's conservative attitudes at the time toward homosexuality.
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Edition: Reprint. First Edition, 3rd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Price clipped. Reading Copy, DJ chipped and slightly soiled, foxing throughout. 410 p. 22 cm. Reading copy read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780345271259ISBN:0345271254
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Spine & cover have creases, cover shows wear, pages & inside cover starting to tan, foxing, has a remainder mark on the top edge. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. 0802130836 Copy has been read but remains in nice & clean condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or high-lighting. Spine is tight; a clean read. Shelf wear to the cover. Some stains to the bottom of the book. read more
Edition: Triangle Classics.
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
Date Published: 1994
Description: Good in None as issued jacket. Unmarked pages, spine creases, nioce covers with only light edge wear, light hinge crease and corner crease. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780394171470ISBN:0394171470
Description: Very Good. This book is in very good used condition. The binding is tight and pages are very clean. The cover has wear with bumps, scuffs and rubs. There is creasing on the spine. read more
Edition: Hardcover
Binding: Good
Publisher: Grove, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good to Fair in Fair to Good jacket. Hardcover Fiction Fiction: A novel about the underside of city life where hustlers, tricksters and whores struggle. A hardcover with stains on the cover boards and a dj with edgewear, but still a good reading copy. read more
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780394171470ISBN:0394171470
Description: Very Good. This book has toned some with age and has a previous owner's ink marking on the inside cover. In spite of some edge wear and some stress marks to the cover, it has evidently never been read. Clean, lustrous cover and a square, solid binding-you'll squeal with glee on receipt! ! ! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove (1964)
Description: Fiction. First paperback edition 1964 (stated). Grove 1296. Cover Photo by Richard Seaver. Paperback, 4x7 inches. **flaws: page yellowing. Cover has central spine crease, hinge crease, chipping at spine ends. There are 2 circular tears in center of front cover, Front cover corners peeled, short tear in joint. Worn at bottom end of joints. Edge nicks, corner wear. Solid reading copy, Just good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Very Good Copy. Text is crisp, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Dust Jacket has creasing. and wear. and tearings. 410 p. 22 cm. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press Inc., New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good with no dust jacket; 16mo-6" to 7" tall; 380 pages; Photo cover PB, lightly rubbed at eddges. Text clean and tight. Grove Book # 1296. Bagged for protection. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good in Good + jacket. Soils and spine wear on book; dust jacket has moderate scuffs and edge chips; a readable copy. 410 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good Plus in Fair jacket. Third printing. Light wear and discoloring; tight book. The dj has some wear, a couple tears, yellowing to edges. "Set in the seamy, neon lighted world of honky tonk USA-Times Square in New York, Pershing Square in LA, Hollywood Boulevard, and the French Quarter of New Orleans-and dealing with a little known world of hidden sex...It is not lurid of defensive, it treats its subject squarely and forthrightly, revealing many facets of this subculture in a way they have ... read more
"At first I was hesitant to read a semi-autobiographical book about the 60's gay hustler scene. I found the author's story to be compelling in a way I did not immediately acknowledge."
"A significant novel about male street hustlers. It might have been a better novel if it were shorter, but the length, in addition to reflecting the author's ambitions, probably contributes to the realism. On some levels, reading it is like spending a night in an all-night theatre showing gay porn films."
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