The Thief's Journal first world war 8vo (24 x 18 cms)

8vo (24 x 18 cms)

Contemporary gift inscription in period ink hand to first free endpaper

Ends of spine slightly worn

photographer Mike Smith would often hear

14 maps (some coloured and folding) plus numerous text and full page illustrations

The Thief's Journal first world war 8vo (24 x 18 cms)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