Peyrefitte (Roger) Special Friendships
£325
London, Secker & Warburg, 1958.
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.
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A very good copy; jacket with minor rubbing and creasing, price-clipped, but overall very good.
Jacket design by Michael Ayrton.
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