(n.p.), Inferno Press, [1957]. Brautigan's first book, a single poem published in a tiny edition of unknown size: one of the two universities that has a copy reports theirs to be "one of 15 extant copies of the author's first book," although their source for that information is unknown. John Barber, Brautigan's bibliographer, reports the edition to have been 100 copies and indicates that it was printed "as a favor for Brautigan by Lesley Woolf Hedley, the owner/publisher of Inferno Press," suggesting that the poem may not have ever been offered for sale, at least not by the press. Signed by Brautigan on the front label, as all copies seem to have been. A single sheet, glued into wrappers. There is a bit of bleed-through from the glue used (one daub per sheet); else fine. Rare; this copy reportedly came from the collection of Brautigan's first wife; we have not seen another copy of this since the 1980s and no copy has appeared at auction since (at least) the 1970s. A true rarity by one of the key poets of the 1960s, closely associated with the San Francisco renaissance and the Sixties counterculture. [#027548] SOLD