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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing (complete numberline). SIGNED by author on title page: "Richard Bautigan, March 28, 1980, San Francisco." Remainder mark, hint of foxing to top page edges. $5.95 price prsent on DJ flap; mylar protected. Also includes laid-in an original Dec. 1984 Philadelphia Inquirer article on Brautigan, after his death, entitled "A '60's Hero's Pained Soul Is Finally Bared, In Death". Rare signed copy. NOTE: NO INTERNATIONAL orders for this book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Brautigan, Richard. Willard and His Bowling Trophies. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by the author on the title-page. Light crimp to upper spine, else fine in fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket with some mild toning to rear panel, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Richard Brautigan. Willard and His Bowling Trophies. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
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, a deep navy blue. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. A fine book, without imperfections. Not signed, but perhaps the ultimate association copy for this volume. Unique. // 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.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A significant association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "This copy is for Jim Harrison, with love from Richard Brautigan. August 30, 1975, Pine Creek, Montana." With Brautigan's trademark fish sketch. Jim Harrison, of Legends of the Falls fame, and Brautigan were friends and neighbors as part of the "Montana Gang" that also included Tom McGuane, William Hjortsberg, Russell Chatham, and Jimmy Buffett. Both Brautigan and Harrison deservedly have cult followings. This oddball novel takes place in San Francisco in the early Seventies, and its main character is a papier mache bird, Willard, who cohabitates with a collection of bowling trophies and a few humans. A very near fine copy with a touch of dust soiling to upper text block face in a very good of better jacket with minor rubbing and some browning to inner edges.A centerpiece book for any counterculture or American West collection.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.