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Author: Brautigan, Richard
Title: Please Plant This Book
Place Published: San Francisco & Santa Barbara
Publisher:[Privately Printed]
Date Published: [1968]
Description:
Complete, all 8 seed packets each with a poems by Brautigan on one side and instructions for planting on the reverse. 18x16 cm (7x6¼"), pictorial folder with printed sleeves for the seed packets. First Edition.
Brautigan's quirky booklet with native California seeds. Includes: Carrots, Lettuce, Calendula, Parsley, Shasta Daisy, California Native Flowers, Sweet Alyssum Royal Carpet, and Squash. The three pictures on the front wrapper are from photographs by Bill Brach; the typography by J.S. Brooke; printed by Graham Mackintosh. The "book" was not for sale, but given out free. This was Brautigan's last independent publishing venture.
Condition Report: Light wear and a bit of very faint spotting to folder; all poem packets present and still sealed.
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Author: Brautigan, Richard
Title: Please Plant This Book
Place Published: San Francisco & Santa Barbara
Publisher:[Privately Printed]
Date Published: [1968]
Description:
Complete, all 8 seed packets each with a poems by Brautigan on one side and instructions for planting on the reverse. 18x16 cm (7x6¼"), pictorial folder with printed sleeves for the seed packets. First Edition.
Brautigan's quirky booklet with native California seeds. Includes: Carrots, Lettuce, Calendula, Parsley, Shasta Daisy, California Native Flowers, Sweet Alyssum Royal Carpet, and Squash. The three pictures on the front wrapper are from photographs by Bill Brach; the typography by J.S. Brooke; printed by Graham Mackintosh. The "book" was not for sale, but given out free. This was Brautigan's last independent publishing venture.
Condition Report: Light wear and a bit of very faint spotting to folder; all poem packets present and still sealed.