The thief's journal
By: Jean Genet ; with a foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman
Contributors: Frechtman, Bernard, translator; Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980, author of introduction, etc; Genet, Jean, 1910-1986, signer; Olympia Press (Paris, France); John Baxter Olympia Press collection (Columbia University)
Series: Collection Merlin; Collection Merlin
Publisher: Olympia Press
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Work titles: Journal du voleur
Notes: Translation of: Journal du voleur.

Printer from colophon.

"Not to be introduced into the U.K. or the U.S.A."--Back cover.

Issued in blank white wrapper with dust jacket designed by Sven Blomberg; author biography on front flap; back flap with review extracts by Richard Wright, George Slocombe, Janet Flanner, Eric Keown, Times literary supplement, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Thomas Q. Curtiss.

Rare Book copy: Paper slip with the author's autograph pasted onto free front endpaper.

Translation of Journal du voleur.