Product Description
Octavo, [14], 76pp, [2].
Publisher's original illustrated paperback wrappers, brown and white cover illustration, title and author printed on front cover, title on spine.
Newspaper clipping previously laid in, discoloring two leaves.
From the colophon, this first edition consisted of 1900 paperbound copies, and 100 specially bound and signed by the author.
This copy is inscribed on the half title: "For Charles Whaley / and the interesting meetings at the Macondo.
/ Best Wishes, Harold Norse / 20 November 1993 / San Francisco.
" Harold Norse wrote this experimental novel while living at the Beat Hotel in Paris in 1960, along with William S.
Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
It first appeared in German translation by Carl Weissner from Maro Verlag in 1975, before its English-language publication by Atticus Press in 1983.
The recipient of this copy, Charles Edward Whaley (1928-2025) was a Kentucky journalist and critic whose seven-decade career centered on education, books, theater, and the arts.
Whaley worked for The Louisville Courier-Journal for most of his career.
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