Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1958. First edition. 271pp. Red textured paper over boards; dust jacket. Light shelfwear; boards mild bowed; "Cosmo Book Sales" plate to front pastedown. Unclipped ("$3.75") jacket with small chip at base of front panel, tiny nicks at tips, toning to spine. Very good.
Gay novel about a married couple "driven into the desperate dream world of homosexuality" (jacket); a melodramatic and campy work, "part fiction, part primer on homosexuality" (Gunn), with surprising staying power, having enjoyed multiple early reprints by various publishers (Guild Press, Paperback Library, etc). This first edition somewhat uncommon in the trade. Young 989. Gunn 58.
