Typescript Letter, Signed Senor Fatback , to his friend Paul Semonin Jackalope
$8,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
1 p. 4to. Old folds, rubbing along the edges, uneven edge from being torn open. Item #367615 Thompson writes to his friend Paul Semonin in Senegal, fellow Louisvillian, and member of the Athenaeum Literary Association. Semonin went to Yale and kept in touch with the younger Thompson via letters. In the early 1960s, Semonin would tag along with Thompson in the Caribbean, while Thompson was working on the manuscript of what would become The Rum
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