THE GLASS ARCADE
by Adrian Brooks New York: Pocket Books, (1980). First edition, first printing; paperback original. Statements "First Pocket Books printing July, 1980" and "Another original publication of Pocket Books", and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10. all to the copyright page, and code 829165 and printed $2.75 price to the front cover. A complex novel featuring a boy taken prisoner by the Third Reich and placed in a brothel for the pleasures of elite officers. After the war, when the boy is a man, he faces his horrific past, but also remembers the tenderness of the officer and lord of the glass arcade, and comes to terms with being gay. ELUSIVE in such well-preserved collectible condition. Minute rubbing to the upper and lower spine edges and extreme corner tips, else very nearly fine tight and probably unread in color illustrated stiff-card wraps; code 82916-5 and printed $2.75 price still intact to the front cover. Mass-market paperback; 266 pages. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT PAPERBACK COLLECTIBLE BOOKS THANKS! |