THE GINGER MAN; J.P. Donleavy / Illustrated by Skip Liepke
Franklin Center, Pennslyvinia: The Franklin Library, 1978. Skip Liepke. A Limited Edition. Full Leather with decorative gold-stamping. SIGNED by the Author on a special front endpaper with tissue guard, small quarto (9 1/2" x 6 1/4"), full dark green leather with gold lettering on spine, four raised hubs, and gilt tooling on covers, illustrated by Skip Liepke with several B&W reproductions of pen-&-ink sketches with washes, all page edges gilded [a.e.g.], gold satin page marker, gold silk moiré endpapers, 383 pages. Like New. Item #9540
An ILLUSTRATED LEATHER BOUND HIGH SPOT in EXCEPTIONAL "LIKE NEW" CONDITION! Very tight, bright, and clean. The full-page B&W plates are immaculate. Lacks publisher's "Notes.." pamphlet. No previous owner marks.
The Ginger Man is set in Dublin during 1947. It follows the drunken, often sexual encounters of a law student attending Trinity college, who is married and has a daughter. The sexually explicit quasi-autobiographical novel was immediately banned in Ireland and America due to supposed "obscenity." Nevertheless, Irish-American author Donleavy's humorous rogue Sebastian Dangerfield has joined the canon of the best 20th century literature. It also has become a cult classic selling millions of copies.
The first edition was publshed in Paris during 1955 by Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press. Franklin Library has handsomely reissued the book in leather dress with fine illustrations by "Skip" Liepke.
Malcoln "Skip" T. Liepke (born 1953) is an award winning American illustrator-painter. In addition to paintings, he has also illustrated other books such as Charlotte Brontë's, Wuthering Heights; also Gustav Flaubert's, Madame Bovary for the Franklin Library.
The Ginger Man was named one of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century by the Modern Library in 1998.
Donleavy, born 1926, who died in September of 2017 at age 91, also wrote The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, The Onion Eaters, A Singular Man, and The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms. He was also an accomplished artist.
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