The Young Have Secrets

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, designed by Dick Hart.