Robert campbell bragg (2 resultados)

First edition, first printing (with latter indicated by publisher's number line upon copyright page) SIGNED BY EDITOR SONNY BREWER AND CONTRIBUTOR JIM DEES. [8], 311 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with slight bumping at edges. Yellow boards. Ink signature of editor Sonny Brewer along with two-line inscription "Jim Dees | Enjoy! 9-17-05" on title page; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features sort stories: "Our Uncle Willem Stanfield" by Howard Bahr; "The good neighbors" by John Boyer; "Dear friend" by Rick Bragg; "Those summer Sundays" by Andrea Hollander Budy; "An explanation" by Andrea Hollander Budy; "In the thirteenth year of the jonquil" by David E. Campbell; "Joe and Sheila" by Marshall Chapman; "Like kudzu" by Ryan Clark; "Pulp fishin'" by Jim Dees; "Taking off from Welty" by Ellen Douglas; "Spleen" by Ann Fisher-Wirth; "Where, beneath the magnolia" by Ann Fisher-Wirth; "Strawberry fizzle" by Kristin Grant; "When the fish don't bite" by Jason Headley; "The beauty seat" by Ingrid Hill; "The thing with feathers" by Suzanne Hudson; "Cicadas" by Cecilia Johnson; "In the tall grass" by Bret Anthony Johnston; "The midwife's son" by Suzanne Kingsbury; "Ghost dance" by Chip Livingston; "Lost, not lost" by Humphreys McGee; "Jimmy the playwright began to slur" by Jeff McNeil; "Talk" by Diane McWhorter; "Broad and Jackson" by Carol Megathlin; "Rehab" by Janet Nodar; "Chicken bone man" by Anna Olswanger; "The cryptograph" by Nic Pizzolatto; "Chitlins" by Robert St. John; "The turkey hunt" by Philip Shirley; "Down there on a visit" by Charles Simic; "Shadow and Solomon" by Mac Walcott; "A full boat" by Daniel Wallace; "The Freddies" by M.O. Walsh; "A map of the forest" by Marly Youmans. ISBN 1596921420.…

Second edition. 137, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good+ with slight roll and some foxing to spine, light wear, pages toned with age; much nicer shape than typically found. Uncommon in all editions.A very collectible novel of cannabis in the Beat era with an iconic cover image of a provocatively-clad blonde lady holding a joint like an antenna at half mast and sitting on the wooden floor, stoned out of her gourd. Very risque for the time, it would be the target of a Congressional Sub-Committee. The pseudonymous author's identity as been the subject of much debate. It ranks at the top of this bookseller's all-time pantheon of laughably implausible pen names, next to X. Sharks de Spot and Raccoona Sheldon.…