Hardcover

1954

Literature

1st Edition

1st Edition

THE THIEF'S JOURNAL

By Jean Genet

Paris: Olympia Press, 1954. 291 pages. Hardcover, black binder's cloth, with title and author stamped in silver on spine. Original black and white wrappers, with flaps laid down, bound in. Lettering on spine a bit worn and original front wrapper a little rubbed, otherwise tight, square, and clean.

This is the true first printing in English, with "Collection Merlin" on the title page. The work was translated by Bernard Frechtman and with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. One of Genet's best-known books, partly autobiographical, the novel's anti-hero traces a path through the disintegrating Europe of the 1930's and a series of homosexual affairs. This edition was not originally allowed into the US or UK!

Category: Fiction/Literature

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