The Thief’s Journal.

NY: Grove Press (1964). First US edition. 268 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the original French by Bernard Frechtman. Clipped photograph of Genet pasted inside the front cover. Poet-publisher Doug Blazek’s copy, SIGNED by him on the first leaf. A present from his father, “Push right to the extreme / and it becomes wrong: / press all the juice from / an orange and it becomes / bitter / Baltasar Gracián / 12/64 / con amore / Dad.”