The Ginger Man. London: Nevill Spearman, 1956. First UK Edition. Pp, xi, 292. Blue cloth boards with title lettered in black to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

With a seven-page introduction by Arnold Ussher.

Donleavy’s debut & most celebrated novel, first published in France by the Olympia Press in 1955 and subsequently banned for obscenity in the US & Ireland.