Skinny Dynamite
Baptistown, NJ: [Jack Micheline], 1968.
First edition. Signed by Jack Micheline on final leaf bottom margin. 4 pp. with holograph front wrap. Side stapled wraps. Good+ with general light wear and faint creasing; toning and chipping to edges and scattered light foxing; a single staple remaining, loosely holding a few sheets together but last sheet detached. Scarce with a single copy of this edition located in OCLC; none in commerce. The self-published first appearance of Micheline's story, printed chronologically before it appeared in the September issue of Renaissance 2, guest-edited by Charles Bukowski. In 1968 publisher John Bryan was arrested on obscenity charges in connection with "Skinny Dynamite," and the case was dismissed after letters were written by Ginsberg and other well-known writers and representation by civil rights attorney Stanly Fleishman. An important obscenity case and a key work in the overlooked Beat author's oeuvre.
Price: $2,000.00