The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1974).
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Remainder mark and bumping at the spine ends else near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed and a touch of edgewear. Signed by the author on the title page. With a card laid in from bookseller and bibliographer Michael Hargraves stating this copy of the book was signed by Brautigan at Spec's (a bar in the North Beach section) in San Francisco "the night before he committed suicide."
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Richard Brautigan
birth name: Richard Gary Brautigan
born: 1/30/1933
died: 10/14/1984
Biography
American writer of pastoral, whimsical, often surreal fiction and poetry popular among 1960s and '70s counterculture readers. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore