Published by Grove Press, New York, 1955
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Sheets, Kermit (illustrator). 1st. 37pp.; SC white w/blk.-pic.cover; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ pink w/blk-pic.cover; some rub&soil w/sun on spine. " .a cheerful handbook for all those who are, everhave been, or would like to be in love." Poems. illus.
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First American Edition. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed slip laid-in) Near fine in pink printed wrappers. (Previous owner's inked sentiments on front endpaper. Hint of faint shelfsoiling at edges) Appears to be the Collection Merlin 500 on offset superieur unnumbered issue, with author's name & pub. date crossed out on copyright page.
Paris, Collection Merlin in cooperation with Olympia Press, 1955, (2),37,(2) pag., printed in a limited edition of 676 copies (500), illustrated title, full-page illustrations and original illustrated overlapping wrappers by Kermit Sheets, untrimmed, 18,3 x 14,1 cm. = Outer overlapping margin frontwrapper sl. frayed; lower joint splitting.