The Sweetmeat saga;: The epic story of the sixties by G. F Gravenson ISBN 13: 9780876900338

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 261pp. Owner name and address on front fly partially canceled with black marker, corners and spine ends gently bumped, close to near fine in a price-clipped, about very good dust jacket with toning and soil, shallow loss at the crown, tiny chips and tears, and a vertical crease on the upper flap.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Mylar-protected jacket has some chipping, edge-wear, and soiling. Jacket design by Victoria Dudley. Jacket photo by Marc Miller. Author photo by Walter Giersbach. A tongue-in-cheek attempt at a literary hoax, The Sweetmeat Saga tells the tale of Pookie and Paul Sweetmeat, millionaire rockstar prodigies who draw 'bigger crowds than kennedy or nixon'. Suspected of conspiring with Russia ('unwilling tools of those monsters/ possibly through hypnosis'), the twins disappear on their 21st birthday and mayhem ensues. The book, according to its author, was composed on 'legal-sized paper in a portable non-electric Olympia typewriter', and the published version retains this Kerouac-inspired typesetting. 241 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, [quarto], green cloth boards, white spine titles, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 241 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends gently chipped, edges worn with creases, else light soiling. Cover photo by Marc Miller; jacket design by Victoria Dudley. Work of experimental fiction in manuscript typography. The tale of the 'first post-war babies,' twins, Pookie and Paul Sweetmeat, born on V-E Day. The book tells the story of their last concert held at Big Sur in 1966. The non-linear narrative is written in a collage and cinematic style, splicing together wire taps, commercials, concert announcements with baby boom generation feedback on the cusp of the summer of love.