HE AMERICAN EXPRESS, by GREGORY CORSO. With Illustrations by the Author. Corso's first novel.

PARIS: Olympia Press / Traveller's Companion No. 85, 1961. First edition, first printing, with the price of 15 N.F. and no overstamp.

Softcover book in dustjacket, approx 4.5x7 inches (11x14 cm), 241 pages. Illustrated with in-text drawings by Corso.

A novel of Beat life in France and Europe by one of the original Beats.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, slight bump to the bottom corner, a bit of foxing to the top page edges, overall tight, bright, clean and clear; in a GOOD dustjacket that has a sunned / darkened spine and some wear to the spine ends but is otherwise solid and bright. A very presentable copy.