Signed first Printing of Identity Card by F.M. Esfandiary.

Esfandiary's third novel, describing how a Middle Easterner tries to find his way though the mazes of Iranian society in order to get an identity card and leave the country. The novel, which he wrote while living in Iran, was intercepted and confiscated at a Tehran post office and only made its way to America after being re-typed. It was published there by Grove in 1966.

Grove Press, Hardcover. Sated first printing. Hardcover Near Fine, jacket Fine.