first edition Hardcover
1988 · Santa Rosa
by Fante, John
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated boards in clear mylar dust wrapper. Fine. 178 pages. Limited edition, copy Z of 176 deluxe copies hand bound in boards by Earle Gray with a special marbled board spine. His early semi-biographical novel about Los Angeles in the 1930's, inspired Charles Bukowski and Robert Towne. (Inventory #: 23751)