Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
New York: Delacorte Press, 1970.
First edition, first printing. A great association copy signed and warmly inscribed with a doodle of a smiling horse on the second blank to the author's girlfriend turned friend, Valerie Estes, "This copy is for Valerie Estes with love from Richard Brautigan June 2, 1970." [xx], 85 pp. Bound in publisher's photo illustrated boards. Near Fine with light offsetting form jacket at endsheets. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with modest rubbing to extremities, light toning and wear. A great copy of the author's poetry collection inscribed to his girlfriend turned friend, Valerie Estes, an active participant in the San Francisco literary scene. She graced the cover of his spoken-word record Listening to Richard Brautigan,1969. The two remained good friends until the author's suicide in 1984.
Price: $2,500