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The Young Have Secrets

Courage, James

£27.50

1st Edition
Hardcover

First edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 270pp. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt to front and spine. Brown top-stain. Bookplate to front paste-down. Foxing to edges of text block and first and last few leaves. Jacket foxed and a little worn. Tears and slight loss to folds. *** Novel set in 1914 in a small New Zealand town by New Zealand born writer James Courage (1930-1963), best-known for his later novel A Way of Love (1959): the first gay novel by a New Zealander, banned for many years in his native country. Scarce in jacket.

Book Details

AuthorCourage, James
PublisherJonathan Cape and The Book Society
Publisher Year1954
Book ConditionVery Good
Jacket ConditionGood
Binding TypeHardcover
Edition1st Edition
LanguageEnglish