1949 LIMITED EDITION OF JEAN GENET’S FIRST NOVEL - OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS For Sale

** SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF JEAN GENET’S FIRST NOVEL ** Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet, translated to English by B. Frechtman.Published by Editions Paul Morihien, Paris, 1949. Scarce limited edition, limited to 500 copies, this reportedly being the first English language edition of Jean Genet's celebrated debut, a largely autobiographical novel about the lives of drag queens, petty criminals, and prostitutes in the Parisian underworld. Cover art is Jean Cocteau's portrait of Genet to the front board. Jean-Paul Sartre termed this work "the epic of masturbation". Sartre believed this work made Genet a poster child of existentialism and an embodiment of that philosophy's views on freedom. This volume was bound or re-bound in black and brown leather.