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Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1990. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. Scarce first edition of Hell's journals (Hanuman no. 37), originally recorded in a "dimestore lined-page perfect-bound notebook given to me by Patti Smith." Hell's notebooks from the second half of the '70s document his reading (Artaud, Huysmans, Poe); his viewing (Truffaut, Godard, Hitchcock); aphorisms and quotations, his own and others' ("Simpering wimps alone use quotation marks"); his ambitions, ideas, dreams, drug-taking, and music-making. A lovely copy. 4'' x 2.75''. Original chartreuse wrappers. In original gilt-lettered purple pictorial dust jacket. Black and white photographic illustrations. 172 pages. Minor edgewear, faint soil to rear jacket panel. (Inventory #: 52323)