The Ginger Man.
Paris: The Olympia Press, [1955] Stock Code: 130315
His first novel
First edition, first printing (priced 1,500 francs on rear cover), of Donleavy's first novel. Published in the same year as the most famous of all Olympia publications, Nabokov's Lolita, Donleavy's debut novel was issued, to the author's horror, as a pornographic novel in the Traveller's Companion Series. Donleavy went to considerable effort to rescue the novel from association with other works in the series, well-documented in his autobiography The History of the Ginger Man.Description
Octavo. Original green and white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a custom green cloth folding chemise within green half morocco slipcase, spine lettered in gilt.
Condition
Very light creasing to spine and at head of rear cover, else a fine copy.
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