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Lot 66
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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Lot Description
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.