The Thief's Journal lassry 8vo (9 x 6 ins)

8vo (9 x 6 ins)

Gilt and silver laminated black cover housed in Guccissima quilted leather slipcase

and numerous vignette engravings through the text

and embellihsed with 12 Engravings

spine lettered in white

The Thief's Journal lassry 8vo (9 x 6 ins)New York: Grove Press, 1964. First Edition, first printing, in English, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman, with a forward by Jean Paul Satre. Originally published by Gallimard in Paris in 1949 as "Journal du Voleur". Original red cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket, a couple of trivial blemishes, near fine. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A lovely copy of this seminal work of "outsider" literature, first