Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition · Signed
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy to friend and future biographer William Gatz Hjortsberg, signed by Richard Brautigan on the title page and inscribed, This copy is for Gatz Hjortzberg 'wishing him good working days on his novel' with Love from Richard Brautigan August 24, 1976 Pine Creek, Montana. 127 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with silver spine lettering.
- Printing: first
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