Signed, Limited
DONLEAVY, J. P.
The Ginger Man: the sixtieth Anniversary Edition. Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2015.
8vo, pp. [viii], vii–xvi, 372, [12 (‘An iconography’)]; limitation leaf (on lighter paper) inserted between half-title and title-page; a fine copy, in the original orange embossed boards, black cloth spine lettered in silver, orange cloth slipcase.
Deluxe issue of the sixtieth anniversary edition, no. 59 of 226 copies signed by the author.
Originally banned for obscenity, The Ginger Man (Paris, 1955) has since become one of the best-selling books of all time. It follows the life and loves of an American student, Sebastian Dangerfield, at Trinity College in post-war Dublin. Its original publication under the Olympia Press’s pornographic imprint ‘The Traveller’s Library’ embroiled Donleavy in decades of legal cases. This edition included a foreword by Johnny Depp (long rumoured to be interested in producing a film), an introduction by Sean O’Reilly, and some appendices dealing with the book’s publishing history.