First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green, white and black card covers. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little rubbing to the extremities and faint vertical creasing to the mildly toned spine. The rear cover with the publisher's printed statement "Special volume / Francs : 1500" as called for. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A decent example.
The author's debut novel, a comic masterpiece which was, like Nabokov's Lolita (published by The Olympia Press, in the same year) subsequently banned in Ireland and the USA under obscenity laws.
Stock code: 24670
£225
Paris: The Olympia Press in The Traveller's Companion Series.
1955