first edition Hardcover in Dust Jacket
1929 · New York
by PYKE, Richard
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Mac Harshberger (dust jacket illustration). 8vo. Pp. [2], 3-312. Bound in blue cloth with seafoam green flourishes and lettering on front board and spine. Slight dust soiling to top edge. In the pictorial dust jacket with old tape repairs on the verso head and tail of spine. Price of $2.50 intact on front flap. A fixture in bibliographies of gay literature, Pyke's novel explores the gender dichotomies of the titular character, a "life of a spiritual hermaphrodite, where masculine and feminine are fighting for control" (dust jacket blurb).The striking (truncated)