Leeson Park And Belsize Square Poems 1970-1975

San Francisco, CA: Underwood-Miller. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Limited Edition; 1st Prinr. Hardcover. Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author. This is copy number 135. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "After mixed success with two attempts at literary mainstream novels in the mid-1970s (Marriages and Under Venus) , Straub dabbled in the supernatural for the first time with Julia (1975). He then wrote If You Could See Me Now (1977) , and came to widespread public attention with his fifth novel, Ghost Story (1979) , which was a critical success and was later loosely adapted into a 1981 film starring Fred Astaire. Several horror novels followed, with growing success, including The Talisman and Black House, two fantasy-horror collaborations with Straub's long-time friend and fellow author Stephen King. Straub at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival for a panel on how far a writer can go between reality and fantasy. After a fallow period, Straub re-emerged in 1988 with Koko, a nonsupernatural (though horrific) Vietnam novel. Koko was followed in the early '90s by the related novels Mystery and The Throat, which together with Koko make up the "Blue Rose Trilogy". These complex and intertwined novels extended Straub's explorations into metafiction and unreliable narrators. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .