The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms by J. P. Donleavy, signed

The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to be Rumored About Around New York

J. P. Donleavy
Elliott Banfield, illustrator
Luke Ives Pontifell, publisher

Thornwillow Press 1995

First edition. Half-leather, bound in black Morocco and handmade grey paste paper. Fine, as new. Black cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering, lined in velvet; fine. One of 175 copies printed, of which this #64. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by the illustrator and publisher on the limitation page. The signed limited first edition preceded the trade and it's a truly gorgeous production. Newly divorced, Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones must fend for herself in New York City, where finding a clean restroom will prove to be the least of her concerns. Donleavy's classic wry humor and compassion.