Title: Lay the Marble Tea: twenty-four poems by Richard Brautigan Author: Brautigan, Richard Place: San Francisco Publisher: Carp Press Date: 1959 Description: [16] pp. (8vo) 22x14 cm (8½x5½"), white wrappers illustrated by Kenn Davis. One of 500 copies. First Edition. Very scarce First Edition of the author's second regularly published book. The address for Carp Press, 461 Mississippi Street, was Brautigan's home address at the time. Carp Press was a self-publishing venture by Brautigan and his wife, Virginia. The drawing of the small fish is by Brautigan. Provenance: Anna Savoca. Brautigan met and dated Anna Savoca, then a photographer and a student at San Francisco State University, in 1963. He courted her with poetry, and eight unpublished poems survive. After Savoca ended the relationship, Brautigan cut his wrists superficially, smearing his blood on the walls of her apartment. (Hjortsberg,198-199, 201-202) Lot Amendments Condition: General light wear to wrapper with light toning to edges, some light creasing at spine, a bit of faint spotting, "75¢" in pen at top corner of rear panel; light creasing to bottom corner of last few leaves, a solid copy; very good. Item number: 284556
Title: Lay the Marble Tea: twenty-four poems by Richard Brautigan Author: Brautigan, Richard Place: San Francisco Publisher: Carp Press Date: 1959 Description: [16] pp. (8vo) 22x14 cm (8½x5½"), white wrappers illustrated by Kenn Davis. One of 500 copies. First Edition. Very scarce First Edition of the author's second regularly published book. The address for Carp Press, 461 Mississippi Street, was Brautigan's home address at the time. Carp Press was a self-publishing venture by Brautigan and his wife, Virginia. The drawing of the small fish is by Brautigan. Provenance: Anna Savoca. Brautigan met and dated Anna Savoca, then a photographer and a student at San Francisco State University, in 1963. He courted her with poetry, and eight unpublished poems survive. After Savoca ended the relationship, Brautigan cut his wrists superficially, smearing his blood on the walls of her apartment. (Hjortsberg,198-199, 201-202) Lot Amendments Condition: General light wear to wrapper with light toning to edges, some light creasing at spine, a bit of faint spotting, "75¢" in pen at top corner of rear panel; light creasing to bottom corner of last few leaves, a solid copy; very good. Item number: 284556
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