The Gutter in the Sky

Introduction by Jean Cocteau (“Preparatory Notes On an Unknown Sexuality”). Hardback in dust jacket. 256pp. Publisher’s brick-red cloth boards stamped in gilt to front and spine. Illustrated title page. Spine ends bruised. Jacket with loss to spine ends and head of lower panel. *** Early, unauthorized edition of Jean Genet’s The Lady of the Flowers, preceding the true first English edition by almost a decade (it wasn’t published until 1963). Cocteau’s introduction is apocryphal and not written for this edition (if written by him at all). Unnamed translator.