Sheeper de Irving Rosenthal - 2004

New York: Grove Press, 1967. 1967, 304pp, illus. chapter headings, blue cloth, slight shelfwear to cove, no dj, contents clean & unmarked.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

Grove Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The spine has a severe lean, but binding remains sound overall. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of light soiling and edge-wear to the covers. The often elusive Rosenthal lived much of his life in San Francisco's Kaliflower Commune and, as editor of the Chicago Review, published portions of Naked Lunch in the late 1950s. This bildungsroman—scarce and long out of print—is decadent, dense, and notable for its design eccentricities: a rear-view drawing of a praying mantis to the half-title, a self-deprecatory ethnic caricature to the title page, and a cover featuring a high-camp author portrait taken by underground filmmaker and drag pioneer Jack Smith.

First edition. Dust jacket designed by Dave Haselwood.Very good with chipping to top edge of dust jacket. Minor evidence of slight age-toning to paste downs. Former owner's name on front free end paper. Scarce book by the editor of Big Table magazine.