Brautigan, Lay the Marble Tea, 1959

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Author: Brautigan, Richard
Title: Lay the Marble Tea: twenty-four poems by Richard Brautigan
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Carp Press
Date Published: 1959
Description:

[16] pp. (8vo) 22x14 cm (8½x5½"), white wrappers illustrated by Kenn Davis. One of 500 copies. First Edition.

Very scarce first edition of the author's second regularly published book. The address for Carp Press, 461 Mississippi Street, was Brautigan's home address at the time. Carp Press was a self-publishing venture by Brautigan and his wife, Virginia. The drawing of the small fish is by Brautigan.
Condition Report: Toning to wrapper edges and at spine, small area of faint staining on rear wrapper; about near fine.