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THE ADEPT (TYPESCRIPT)

THE ADEPT (TYPESCRIPT)

THE ADEPT (TYPESCRIPT) Hardback - 1970

by McCLURE, Michael

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Used - A couple of pages with some edgewear at the beginning and a few more with a dark ink stain at the outer margin, but generally cl

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n.p., [@1970]. First Edition. Hardcover. A couple of pages with some edgewear at the beginning and a few more with a dark ink stain at the outer margin, but generally clean. The binding with expected wear. Very Good. Typescript of 175 photocopied pages with minor corrections in a black cloth binder of McClure's second and, so far, last novel, "a phantasmagorical adventure story of cocaine and murder." The inside front cover is SIGNED by McClure in block lettering. He's also written his San Francisco address and phone number. He has rather cryptically INSCRIBED it to someone whose name is whited out: "In friendship/for saving/Allen Ginsberg's/The Rise & Fall of America." In 1969 McClure began a collaboration with the legendary singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison, in writing a film script based on this then unpublished novel. The script, titled SAINT NICHOLAS, was completed after many nights of drinking but never published.

McClure gave his first poetry reading at the age of 22 at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first read HOWL. He died in 2020.
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  • Title THE ADEPT (TYPESCRIPT)
  • Author McCLURE, Michael
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - A couple of pages with some edgewear at the beginning and a few more with a dark ink stain at the outer margin, but generally cl
  • Publication date [@1970]
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 019364
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Beat Literature

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