The Beetle Leg
(New York): New Directions, (1951).
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. First edition, first issue binding. Boards slightly warped, foxing on the front fly, very good or better in a nice, very good dustwrapper with modest toning. Inscribed by the author in 1972. The author's second commercially published book, a surreal parody of pulp westerns.
Item #349646
John Hawkes
birth name: John Hawkes
born: 8/17/1925
died: 5/15/1998
Biography
American author whose novels achieve a dreamlike (often nightmarish) intensity through the suspension of traditional narrative constraints. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore