Brautigan The Octopus Frontier, 1960

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Author: Brautigan, Richard
Title: The Octopus Frontier
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Carp Press
Date Published: 1960
Description:

[20] pp. (12mo) 18x14 cm (7x5"), wrappers illustrated from photograph by Gui de Angulo. First Edition.

A lovely copy of Brautigan's scarce fourth book. Carp Press was a self-publishing venture by Brautigan and his wife, Virginia. The publisher's address noted in the book, 575 Pennsylvania Street, was their own.

This was Brautigan's first utilization of a photographic front cover and featured his bare feet standing on the suckered tentacle of a large octopus. Inspiration for this front cover perhaps came from the first issue of Foot, a literary magazine edited by poet Richard Duerden. Published in September 1959, Foot featured a front cover design of two human feet by poet Robert Duncan.
Condition Report: Just a bit of light wear to wrappers; near fine.