Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet. Stated second printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket ($6.95) designed by Roy Kuhlman, cover photo by Emil Cadoo. Some wear on the spine of jacket, with one inch tear on bottom front jacket.

Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Grove Press, 1963. Ex-Libris sticker on inside flyleaf, with a small black mark. Green cloth with blue writing on spine, 318 pp.

This is Genet's first novel, written while he was in prison. In 1937 he came to Paris, where again he was arrested and imprisoned for vagabondage. The book was first published in France in 1943 as a limited edition. A trade edition, revised by the author, was issued in 1951.

His debut novel vividly portrayed the prewar Montmartre underworld of thugs, pimps, and perverts