The Thief's Journal lassry pp [x] + 390

pp [x] + 390

and numerous vignette engravings through the text

Bindings slightly soiled

89 plates with text on 49 leaves and final privilege leaf

The Thief's Journal lassry pp [x] + 390New 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