The Velvet Underground
New York: Macfadden Books, 1963.
First edition, first issue with dedication to Louis Berg and Rabbi Julius A. Leibert on copyright page rather than table of contents. 192 pp. Wraps. Very Good+ with light wear, small indent to front wrap, faint corner crease. An account of unusual and fringe sexuality published in the tamer half of the '60s. Reputedly avant garde composer and musician Tony Conrad found a copy on the street in New York and then showed it to the musical group that would take their name from it. Lou Reed, in particular, read and enjoyed the book according to biographer Anthony DeCurtis; he liked the idea of the secret "undergound" chronicled herein.
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