Paris, Olympia, (1959). The first edition of his second book, one of the all-time great drug novels and a high spot of Beat and postwar American literature -- one of the three key volumes of the Beat movement, along with Kerouac's On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl. This is the first issue, without the New Franc stamp over the original old franc price on the rear cover. Published only in paperback in Paris by Maurice Girodias' important small press, in an edition of 5000 copies (comprising both "issues"), three years before it could be published in the U.S. This copy has a small, narrow stain to the lower corner of the first 20 pages and a couple of incidental bends to upper page corners; a near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket nicked at the crown. A very nice copy of an important book. [#027182] SOLD