My Days with Richard (signed)
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2002. Limited Edition. Beverly Allen's short memoir about her fleeting relationship with novelist Richard Brautigan told through her prose, letters, and photographs. Allen was the model for Brautigan's book Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt and also appeared on the cover of a later edition of A Confederate General from Big Sur. This copy is signed in pencil by Allen on the title page with her penciled corrections to her misspelled name on the copyright page. Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, has penciled the following limitation: "#10 of 15 signed and corrected by the author Peter B. Howard."
Folio size (12 ¼” x 9 ½”), string-bound purple wrappers, 28 pp. A near fine copy. Designed and printed by Alastair Johnson at Poltroon Press, Berkeley using Hiroshige types. Item #14635
Price: $95.00