Trout Fishing in America Author: Brautigan, Richard Place: London Publisher: Jonathan Cape Date: 1970 Description: (8vo) pictorial boards, matching pictorial dust jacket. First British Edition. This copy from the Hub Segar collection of Brautigan, an Author Association/Presentation Copy of the highest order, inscribed by Brautigan to Price Dunn on the front free endpaper: "This Copy is for Price Dunn/Richard Brautigan/March 12, 1971". Dunn was a long-time friend of Brautigan, known to be an extravagant misbehaver, their antics together led to Brautigan's first published novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, where Dunn appears as the main character, Lee Mellon. Dunn also appears in two chapters in Trout Fishing in America, the first being "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard" where he is an unnamed friend who purchased an iron roof there for his shack down in Big Sur. He also appears in the chapter titled "Trout Fishing in America Nib," according to writer Keith Abbott, a long-time friend of both Dunn and Brautigan. Abbott described Dunn as literate, well loved, especially by women, and charming. Laid in loosely are two postcards sent to Segur, on one a clip from a Dear Abby column is pasted about mayonnaise (The Mayonnaise Chapter is the last chapter in the book); the other from 1968 has a clip from a Herb Caen column pasted onto it about Brautigan and Trout Fishing in America. Wonderful association copy of Brautigan's breakthrough and most famous book. Dunn moved from job to job and crash pad to crash pad. Born in Alabama in 1934, Dunn was a natural teller of tall tales, full of enthusiasms who fueled Brautigan's creativity, equivalent to Jack Kerouac's Neal Cassady, according to Brautigan's biographer, William Hjortsberg. Abbott describes Dunn as free-spirited, "the most charming, erratic, poetic and haphazard person I'd ever met". Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to jacket extremities; boards with mild toning and rubbing to edges, mild bump to rear bottom corner and spine head; else near fine. Item number: 337753
Trout Fishing in America Author: Brautigan, Richard Place: London Publisher: Jonathan Cape Date: 1970 Description: (8vo) pictorial boards, matching pictorial dust jacket. First British Edition. This copy from the Hub Segar collection of Brautigan, an Author Association/Presentation Copy of the highest order, inscribed by Brautigan to Price Dunn on the front free endpaper: "This Copy is for Price Dunn/Richard Brautigan/March 12, 1971". Dunn was a long-time friend of Brautigan, known to be an extravagant misbehaver, their antics together led to Brautigan's first published novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, where Dunn appears as the main character, Lee Mellon. Dunn also appears in two chapters in Trout Fishing in America, the first being "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard" where he is an unnamed friend who purchased an iron roof there for his shack down in Big Sur. He also appears in the chapter titled "Trout Fishing in America Nib," according to writer Keith Abbott, a long-time friend of both Dunn and Brautigan. Abbott described Dunn as literate, well loved, especially by women, and charming. Laid in loosely are two postcards sent to Segur, on one a clip from a Dear Abby column is pasted about mayonnaise (The Mayonnaise Chapter is the last chapter in the book); the other from 1968 has a clip from a Herb Caen column pasted onto it about Brautigan and Trout Fishing in America. Wonderful association copy of Brautigan's breakthrough and most famous book. Dunn moved from job to job and crash pad to crash pad. Born in Alabama in 1934, Dunn was a natural teller of tall tales, full of enthusiasms who fueled Brautigan's creativity, equivalent to Jack Kerouac's Neal Cassady, according to Brautigan's biographer, William Hjortsberg. Abbott describes Dunn as free-spirited, "the most charming, erratic, poetic and haphazard person I'd ever met". Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to jacket extremities; boards with mild toning and rubbing to edges, mild bump to rear bottom corner and spine head; else near fine. Item number: 337753
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