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[16] pp. 21.5x16.5 cm (8½x6½"), original parchment outer wrapper, inner stiff red wrapper, hand stitched. One of about 200 copies. First Edition.

With a laid in card printed by Alastair Johnston establishing provenance "Loaned by Joanne Kyger". It had been loaned for a 1986 display at the SF Public Library. The author's second book, printed by Brautigan's friend John Dunn of the White Rabbit Press using the printing equipment at the Greyhound Bus Company in San Francisco, where Dunn worked. Cover illustration by Kenn Davis. Joanne Kyger was an American poet and friend to Brautigan for over thirty years, from the late 1950's to the 1980's. The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School.