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Author: Spicer, Jack
Title: Billy the Kid – 5 different issues
Place: [Stinson Beach, CA]
Publisher: [Enkidu Surrogate]
Date: [1959; 69]
Item # : 181697
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   292
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 120
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Description:
With: 4 copies of the first edition, 1 of 750 copies each, tan wrappers, different issues: two copies without “Face” on page 8 (one of which does have “Distributed by White Rabbit – Open Space 24 Allen St. SF” typed on the inside front cover); one copy with black ink “Face” added in fountain pen by Spicer; and one copy with blue ballpoint “Face” added by Jess [Collins]. * And, the 1969 reprint edition of 500 copies in blue wrappers with orange illustration on cover, lettered in white, New Writers’ Press [Dublin]. Together, 5 volumes. Illustrated by Jess [Collins]. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers.
According to Lepper, “priority as listed: 1) One word, ‘Face,’ omitted on page 8, last line; 2) One word, ‘Face,’ added in fountain pen (by author) or ballpoint pen (by illustrator)” - Lepper, p. 379; Dorbin A3.
Condition:
Light edge wear and soiling, else near fine to fine.
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