A novella covering Miller's time living as a struggling writer in Paris during the 1930s, roughly during the same time that he was working on Black Spring. This first edition was published by Olympia Press in 1956 while Miller's work was still being censored in the United States. It would finally see an American release in 1965, after Miller won his obscenity case over the content of Tropic of Cancer. This 1956 edition features black and white photography by Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï (Gyula Halász), who Miller had elsewhere called "the eye of Paris."

10mo., 171 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in yellow, black, and gray wraps with no lettering to spine. Creasing to spine. A notoriously delicate binding, this copy has glue visible along the gutters, gatherings separated from spine at second free end paper, name on second free end paper, pen on rear flap. States 'First and Original Edition' on title-page. Shelved in Case 2.