The Ginger Man. Paris: Olympia Press, 1958. The Travellers Library Companion Series. Pp, 382. Publisher’s pale green flecked cloth with black, gold rimmed title labels to spine and front board, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

The first hardcover edition issued by the publisher of the first edition (1955).

J.P. Donleavy’s debut & most celebrated novel, first published in France by the Olympia Press in 1955 and subsequently banned for obscenity in the US & Ireland.