Special Friendships by Peyrefitte Roger (6 results)

paperback, good plus condition, reading creases on spine, light diagonal creases on corners. Panther 1663. Pages with age discolouration of paper around edges. 256pp. Sought after title and scarce. Classic gay story set in the forcing-house atmosphere of the boarding school. Young's 3036*.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Hardcover in blue cloth. No dust jacket. Some rubbing and edge wear on the cover cloth. Pages are slightly worn & tanning. Text block is intact and firm. Unmarked text.

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. First edition. 348 pp. Full burgundy cloth with silver lettering to the spine, in an illustrated dustjacket designed by Michael Ayrton. Jacket edgeworn with 1.2cm loss to the head of the spine, a 6cm tear to the front hinge and a 6.7cm tear to the hinge of the front bookflap. Spotting to the book edge and occasionally internally. The first English edition of Peyrefitte's 'Les Amitiàs Particulià res'. First published in French in 1943, this coming-of-age queer love story provides a striking exploration of an intimate relationship between two teenage boys at a Catholic boarding school. Scarce. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton. (illustrator). First UK edition. First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Largely autobiographical, Peyrefitte's famous work on adolescence deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest's will to protect them from homosexuality. An uncommon title, in attractive Ayrton jacket. A very good copy; jacket with minor rubbing and creasing, price-clipped, but overall very good. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. PEYREFITTE's CLASSIC 1943 GAY NOVEL TURNED INTO A FILM Roger Perfrefitte. LES AMITIES PARTICULIERES, Roman, Paris, Jean Vigneau, 1943 (1944), tan wrappers lettered in black & red, large quarto, 380 pp. + printing page notes, book is variously catalogued because printer's note introduces an ambiguity where the printing was done on May 23, 1943 but the legal deposit was not made until 1944 -thus 1944 on the title page for a true first edition; NEAR FINE with a touch of soil and normal age to paper; this copy is #XCIX of the "Sur Papier Edition" issue; this copy is inscribed by Peyrefitte on the flysheet to someone whose name we cannot decipher but he uses the term homage as he does with some other books inscribed to noted authors or film people so that is probably the connection to be de-ciphered; this book was published in USA under title SPECIAL FRIENDSHIPS much later; a largely autobiographical novel of the friendship between two schoolboys and the interference of the school's priest - book was made into a French film by Jean Delannoy which shocked the country in the 1960s; catalogued at Yale under Gay Fiction; reprinted in 1945 by Flammarion and also later Vigneau printings and then wholesale reprinting before and after movie fame; most collections have reprints or an American edition, true first French edition is exceedingly RARE, an excellent candidate for a books-into-film collection. One of the Hors de Commerce copies number HC- XCIX-. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Vanguard Press New York 1950 blue cloth boards are stained. binding tight. vg-.