Lot 66
DONLEAVY, James Patrick. The Ginger Man. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- Another copy, “Revised Edition.”
DONLEAVY, James Patrick (1926-2017). The Ginger Man. London: Neville Spearman, [1956].
8vo. Original cloth (spine slightly sunned, slight soiling); publisher’s dust jacket (slight toning and soiling, some short tears to head of spine panel with repairs verso and some touch-ups).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. First published in Paris in 1955, The Ginger Man was banned in the United States and Ireland for obscenity.
[With:] DONLEAVY. The Ginger Man. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958. 8vo. Original cloth (slight soiling); publisher’s dust jacket (price-clipped, some short tears and chipping with some repairs verso, some soiling). “Revised Edition,” FIRST ISSUE.