Querelle of Brest

Translated from the French by Gregory Streatham. First UK edition. 320pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Slight bruising and fading to spine ends. Jacket scuffed and with a few small nicks to head of spine and corner tips. A very good copy. *** Originally published anonymously in French in 1947 in a limited edition of 460 copies which was illustrated by Jean Cocteau; the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s last film Querelle (1982).