Brautigan, Richard. Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1976.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed by author on title page. Small octavo (20.5 cm), pp. 127. Gray illustrated wraps featuring author photo on front. Light soiling wraps and reading wear. Brautigan's eighth book of poetry, called "weirdly delicious bullets of ineffable wisdom" by Robert Creeley.

Seller: Elk River Books (ABAA/ILAB), Livingston, MT, U.S.A.

Richard Brautigan. Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork. Simon & Schuster, 1976.

Price: US$4750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, coffee brown. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Fine book even considering very mild bumps to top corners and a small, faint stain to the lower edge of the text block. Not signed, but perhaps the ultimate association copy for this volume. // Wood River Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.