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1977 · rif. 58273 — NY: Scribner's Sons 1977. First Edition the author first book. 8vo pp.86. Foredge foxed o/w a fine copy in dj. Signed by the author. Laid in is a note from Ferro to poet William Jay Smith: "Mr. Smith I am indebted to you for your kind words and gratified that you enjoyed the book with my very best wishes. Robert Ferro." Summers page 270. from Wikipedia: "Robert Ferro October 21 1941 – July 11 1988 was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical fiction explored the uneasy integration of homosexuality and traditional American upper middle class values. He died of AIDS a few months after his partner Michael Grumley in 1988 at his father's home in Ho-Ho-Kus New Jersey age 46.35 Grumley and Ferro are buried together under the Ferro-Grumley memorial in Rockland Cemetery Sparkill New York. Following their deaths the Ferro-Grumley Foundation which manages their estate created and endowed the annual Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction in conjunction with Publishing Triangle." Summers notes that Ferro was one of the original members of "The Violet Quill" which came together after the Stonewal Rebellion. l. Scribner's Sons unknown