LONESOME CITIES.

London : Michael Joseph, (1971). First British edition. Signed by McKuen on the half-title. A collection of over forty love poems and lyrics from the Californian singer-songwriter - "The Art of Catching Trains", followed by poems for San Francisco, Paris, Venice, London, Cheyenne, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Gstaad, and two further sequences. Reportedly the best-selling poet in history at that point, with his own television show on the BBC in 1971 - "The masses ate him up with a spoon, while highbrow literary critics roasted him on a spit" (Julia Keller). Interesting now to contrast his reputation with that of his friend and frequent collaborator, Jacques Brel. Demy 8vo (22cm). [viii],(112),[vi]pp. Original fawn cloth, lettered in silver; just a little bruised; top edge spotted, but otherwise a very good copy in the David Nutter dust-jacket - the jacket a little rubbed and worn, but complete and without tears. Contemporary ownership inscription of Yvette Smith of the Wirral.