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FIRST EDITION AND FIRST STATE IN TRADE There are press copies of this collection of 62 short stories, with a green-tinted head.
COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

While most of them, including the two chapters added to Trout Fishing in Americaappeared in magazines (TriQuarterly, Mademoiselle, Ramparts, Rolling Stone, Change, Esquire, VogueEvergreen Review, ParallelR. C. Lion, Kaleidoscope-Milwaukee, Kulchur, Jeopardy, Playboy, Nice, Now Now, Sum, Coyote's Journaland New American Review), the book also includes 12 original short stories: The Gathering of a Californian, An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimiter Film, Trick or Treating Down to the Sea in Ships, Blackberry Motorist, Thoreau Rubberband,  44:40,  Perfect California Day,  April in God-damn, One afternoon in 1939, The Correct Time, American Flag Decal and finally "The Scarlatti Tilt, a surprising detective story in three lines.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE (after advanced readers copies with green topstain.)
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Though, most of those 62 short stories, including the two missing chapters from Trout Fishing in Americahad previously been published in magazines (TriQuarterly, Mademoiselle, Ramparts, Rolling Stone, Change, Esquire, VogueEvergreen Review, ParallelR. C. Lion, Kaleidoscope-Milwaukee, Kulchur, Jeopardy, Playboy, Nice, Now Now, Sum, Coyote's Journaland the New American Review), this collection also includes 12 original stories: "The Gathering of a Californian", "An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimiter Film", "Trick or Treating Down to the Sea in Ships", "Blackberry Motorist", "Thoreau Rubberband", "44:40", "Perfect California Day", "April in God-damn", "One afternoon in 1939", "The Correct Time", "American Flag Decal" as well as "The Scarlatti Tilt", a curious three-line crime saga.
Good; good. Light rubbing on the spine and edges. Folds caused by the printing press on two pages. Otherwise a very nice copy.